(yes, yes, game design related posting will resume soon-ish, I think, but I needed to put this somewhere so I put it here.)
This is a list of 80 books I read in the last ~18 to 24 months. I was going to do just 2024, but due to Audible’s actively user-hostile UX I can’t. So I’m sure some of these I read in 2023, but I can’t for the life of me figure out which. Ratings are super subjective, purely my own enjoyment. A starred rating means I’m still thinking about this book and you should ask me about it.
Wexler, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying 4/5
Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey 5/5
Brust, The Incrementalists 2/5 DNF
Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead 5/5
Kowal, Glamour in Glass, 4/5
Moreno-Garcia, Silver Nitrate, 5/5
Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic, 5/5
Reynolds, Eversion, 5/5*
Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night, 4/5
Morgenstern, The Starless Sea, 2/5 DNF
Stover, Revenge of the Sith, 3/5
Kingfisher, Paladin’s Strength, 5/5*
Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni, 4/5
Kingfisher, Paladin’s Hope, 5/5
Kingfisher, Paladin’s Faith, 5/5
Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones, 4/5
Mieville, Perdido Street Station, 3/5
Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, 4/5
Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, 4/5
Kim, The Cabinet, 3/5 DNF
VanderMeer, Annihilation, 3/5
Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys, 4/5
Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine, 4/5
Kingfisher, Thornhedge, 5/5
Miller, Circe, 5/5*
Sloan, Moonbound, 5/5*
Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones, 4/5
Grossman, You, 2/5 DNF
Wells, Exit Strategy, 4/5
Wells, Network Effect, 4/5
Wells, Fugitive Telemetry, 4/5
Wells, System Collapse, 4/5
Tingle, Bury Your Gays, 5/5*
Kingfisher, A Sorceress Comes to Call, 4/5
Corey, The Mercy of Gods, 4/5
Wells, Witch King, 2/5 DNF
Kowal, The Calculating Stars, 4/5
Kowal, The Fated Sky, 4/5
Kowal, The Relentless Moon, 4/5
Clarke, Piranesi, 5/5*
Hopkinson, Blackheart Man, 2/5 DNF
Coates, The Message, 5/5*
Schreier, Play Nice, 4/5
Woodward, War, 3/5
Butler, Dawn, 5/5
Tchaikovsky, Day of Ascension, 4/5
Straczynski, The Glass Box, 5/5*
Lavin, Wild Faith, 5/5
Konger and Mac, Character Limit, 4/5
Clark, Boy Parts, 2/5 DNF
Robinson, Responding to the Right, 4/5
Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls, 4/5
Scalzi, Constituent Service, 4/5
Powell, Stars and Bones, 3/5
Kahneman, Noise, 4/5
Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay, 5/5
Kingfisher, Swordheart, 5/5
Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone, 5/5
Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 5/5*
Baldree, Legends & Lattes, 4/5
Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust, 4/5
Egan, The Arrows of Time, 5/5
Egan, The Eternal Flame, 4/5
Egan, The Clockwork Rocket, 3/5
Kostova, The Historian, 5/5*
Stross, Season of Skulls, 5/5
Hurley, The Light Brigade, 4/5
Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few, 5/5
Kowal, The Spare Man, 4/5
Scalzi, Starter Villain, 5/5*
Tchaikovsky, Shards of Earth, 5/5
Tchaikovsky, Eyes of the Void, 5/5
Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation, 5/5*
Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy, 4/5
Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 5/5
Kuang, Babel, 5/5*
Christie, Greenwood, 5/5*
Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, 5/5
Tingle, Camp Damascus, 5/5
Chambers, The Galaxy and the Ground Within, 5/5*