Reading List

This page contains a reading list that I've decided to keep track of since the end of 2017. Since I've enjoyed and found inspiration in other people's reading lists, I thought it might be fun to keep track of my own reading for a while.

I also find that it motivates me to spend more time reading, and suggestions from other people are nice because they fall outside of the filter bubble of inspiration that usually greets you on the homepage of your favorite digital bookstore.

2020

• Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games (Sid Meier)

• Men and the Fields (Adrian Bell)

• Project Mars (Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun)

• Masters of Doom (David Kushner)

• The 480 (Gene Burdick)

• Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)

• This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm (Ted Genoways)

• Underland (Robert Macfarlane)

2019

• Where Wizards Stay Up Late - The Origins of The Internet (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon)

• Valley of Genius - The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (Adam Fisher)

• Climate Change - What Everyone Needs to Know (Joseph Romm)

• Dune (Frank Herbert)

• Journeys in the Wilderness - A John Muir Reader (John Muir)

• Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)

• The Living Mountain (Nan Shepherd)

• De Wereld Gaat aan Vlijt Ten Onder (Max Dendermonde)

• The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe (Michael Pye)

• The Wild Places (Robert Macfarlane)

• Notes From A Small Island (Bill Bryson)

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

• Landmarks (Robert Macfarlane)

2018

• The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads (Tim Wu)

• The Old Ways (Robert Macfarlane)

• Travels with Charley (John Steinbeck)

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone)

• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahnemann)

• Tell Tale (Jeffrey Archer)

• Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park (Jerry Roberts)

• Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken From Nature (Vaclav Smil)

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Marc Reisner)

• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (John Gertner)

2017

• Apollo: The Race to the Moon (Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox)

• One Summer: America 1927 (Bill Bryson)