Reading

2025

• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
• Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann (Notes)
• Sink the Bismarck! - C.S. Forester
• Wages of Guilt - Ian Buruma (Notes)
• The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Recoding America - Jennifer Pahlka (Notes)
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? - Agatha Christie
• Nuclear War - Annie Jacobsen (Notes)
• The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison

2024

• The Dark Side - Jane Mayer (Notes)
• The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire - Chris Kempshall
• Everyday Utopia - Kristen R. Ghodsee (Notes)
• Old Man's War - John Scalzi
• Redshirts - John Scalzi
• The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
• The Art of Power - Nancy Pelosi (Notes)
• Beyond the Big Lie - Bill Adair (Notes)
• The Atrocity Archives - Charles Stross
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory - Tim Alberta (Notes)
• The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories - Agatha Christie
• Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann (Notes)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
• The Slave's Cause - Manisha Sinha (Notes)
• Emperor of Rome - Mary Beard (Notes)
• Starter Villain - John Scalzi
• An Immense World - Ed Yong (Notes)
• Shogun - James Clavell
• The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander (Notes)
• The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
• All Systems Red - Martha Wells
• The Great Post Office Scandal - Nick Wallis (Notes)
• A City on Mars - Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
• Babel - R. F. Kuang
• The Restless Republic - Anna Keay (Notes)
• How Not to Be a Politician - Rory Stewart (Notes)

2023

• The Iliad - Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
• The Singapore Story - Lee Kuan Yew (Notes)
• Troy - Stephen Fry
• Interview With History - Oriana Fallaci
• G-Man - Beverly Gage (Notes)
• The Doctor and the Saint - Arundhati Roy (Notes)
• Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar, trans. Grace Frick
• De Gaulle - Julian Jackson (Notes)
• Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
• Blowout - Rachel Maddow (Notes)
• Tarkin - James Luceno
• Watergate - Garrett M. Graff (Notes)
• The Burning God - R.F. Kuang
• China's Gilded Age - Yuen Yuen Ang (Notes)
• Consider Phlebas - Ian M. Banks
• The End of Everything - Katie Mack (Notes)
• The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang
• Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
• Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis (Notes)

2022

• What If? 2 - Randall Munroe
• The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang
• The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
• The Patient Assassin - Anita Anand (Notes)
• The Final Cut - Michael Dobbs
• To Play the King - Michael Dobbs
• House of Cards - Michael Dobbs
• American Bonds - Sarah L. Quinn (Notes)
• Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
• Debt - David Graeber (Notes)
• The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison
• The Chancellor - Kati Marton (Notes)
• The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
• The Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett M. Graff (Notes)
• The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt (Notes)
• Bring the War Home - Kathleen Belew (Notes)
• Imagining India - Nandan Nilekani (Notes)
• Return of a King - William Dalrymple (Notes)

2021

• Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham (Notes)
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
• The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson (Notes)
• How Long 'til Black Future Month - N.K. Jemisin
• A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin