I keep this page fairly current; it was last updated on March 5, 2023.

• The section for each year includes all the books I read that year (including the current year), in the order I finished the books.
• Books are marked “(new)” if this was the first time I read them, or “(reread)” otherwise.
• I separate out fiction and non-fiction not because I value them differently, but because they just are very different.
• Links on the books themselves are affiliate links to Alibris or Bookshop.org!

Quick links:

• Planned
• Started
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018

Planned

These are books I am actively planning to read — not just volumes I’m vaguely interested in, but texts I am committed to reading for some reason.

Non-fiction

• A Time to Keep, Ephraim Radner (new)

• Created in God’s Image, Anthony Hoekema (new)

Fiction

• Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)

Started

These are books I have actually begun reading. (You will see items move from Planned down here if you watch this page!)

Non-fiction

• Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, David H. Kelsey (new)

  • posts on the book

• The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.10 and 8.11

• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Bruce A. Tate (new)

• Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares, Stephen Boyd (new)

• Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian, John Webster (new)

• We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God, David T. Koyzis (new)

• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais

• The Orthodox Way, Kallistos Ware (new)

• The Doctrine of Scripture, Brad East (new)

• What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World, Jake Meador (new)

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk (new)

• Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects, Baldur Bjarnason (new)

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson (new)

Fiction

• Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)

• Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (new)

• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, J. R. R. Tolkien (new)

2023

Nonfiction

• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Stuart Russell

• The Anglican Way: A Guidebook, Thomas McKenzie (new)

Fiction

• Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (new)

• Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)

• Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Tad Williams (new)

  • The Dragonbone Chair

2022

Nonfiction

• Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination, William G. Witt (new)

• The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder (new)

• The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, Richard Sennett (new)

• Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen (new)

• Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky (new)

• The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, a warning, Justin E. H. Smith (new)

• The Halo Effect… and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers, Phil Rosenzweig (new)

• The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya (new)

• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott (new)

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear (new)

Fiction

• The Galactic Cold War, Dan Moren (new)

  • The Bayern Agenda: The Galactic Cold War, Book I
  • The Aleph Extraction: The Galactic Cold War, Book II
  • The Nova Incident: The Galactic Cold War, Book III

• The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan (reread)

  • The Great Hunt
  • The Dragon Reborn

• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)

• Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)

• Battle of the Linguist Mages, Scotto More (new)

  No full review for this one, because I’m not going to dignify it with that. It wasn’t worth the time I spent on it. It could have been, because the ideas were good, but… it wasn’t. The main character was too much a Mary Sue, a stand-in for young millennials and older Gen Z types who want their video game obsessions to mean something. The very interesting high concept doesn’t get its due as a result, and there’s no interesting characterization to make up for it. Ugh.

• Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold (new)

• Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)

• Age of Swords: Book Two of the Legends of the First Empire, Michael J. Sullivan (new)

• The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (reread with my younger daughter)

2021

Nonfiction

• Holiness, John Webster (new)

  • posts on the book

• Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez (new)

• Dogmatics in Outline, Karl Barth (new)

  • posts on the book

• Word and Church, John Webster (new)

  • posts on the book

• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim (new)

• God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: Volume I: God and the Works of God, John Webster (new)

  • posts on the book

• Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger (new)

• God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: Volume II: Virtue and Intellect, John Webster (new)

Fiction

• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with older my daughter!)

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (new reread, continued from 2020, in prep for reading the excellent conclusion):

  • Cibola Burn (reread)
  • Nemesis Games (reread)
  • Babylon’s Ashes (reread)
  • Persepolis Rising (reread)
  • Tiamat’s Wrath (reread)
  • Leviathan Falls, James S. A. Corey (new)

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)

• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (new)

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)

• The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (reread)

• Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (new)

2020

Non-fiction

• Phaedrus, Plato (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.02 and 8.03

• The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.04 and 8.05

• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.12 and 8.13

• The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.14 and 8.15

• Evolution as Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears, Mary Midgley (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly episodes 8.16 and 8.17
  • posts on the book

• The Culture of Theology, John Webster (new)

  • posts on the book

• Shape Up, Ryan Singer (new)

• Politics & the Order of Love, Eric Gregory (new)

  • posts on the book
  • review

• Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much, Ashley Hales (new)

  • review

• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (also available for free from the author here), Zeynep Tüfeçki (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly episoes 8.20 and 8.21

Fiction

• The Expanse (reread, continued from 2019), James S. A. Corey

  • Babylon’s Ashes
  • Persepolis Rising
  • Tiamat’s Wrath
  • Auberon (short fiction) (new)
  • Gods of Risk (short fiction)

• The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil (new)¹

  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.06 and 8.07

• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (new)

  • review
  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.08 and 8.09

• The Lost World, Michael Crichton (new)

  • review

• Sourdough, Robin Sloan (new)

  • review

• The Orphans Trilogy, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)

  • Echoes of Earth
  • Orphans of Earth, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)
  • Heirs of Earth, Sean Williams and Shane Dix (new)

• Delta-V, Daniel Suarez (new)

• Contact, Carl Sagan (new)

  • discussed on Winning Slowly episodes 8.18 and 8.19

• Age of Myth: Book One of the Legends of the First Empire, Michael J. Sullivan (new)

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (new reread):

  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Caliban’s War
  • Abaddon’s Gade

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (new)

  • review
  • discussed on Winning Slowly 8.22

• Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (new)

• Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson (reread)

2019

Non-Fiction

• All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment, Hannah Anderson (new) — review

• Retrieving Eternal Generation, edited by Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain (new) — review

• What is An Evangelical, Thomas Kidd (new) — review

• In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World, Jake Meador (new) — discussed in an interview with Jake on Winning Slowly

• The Year of Our Lord 1943, Alan Jacobs (new)

Fiction

• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)

  • review

• Beowulf (new)

  • review

• The Martian, Andy Weir (reread)

• The Themis Files, Sylvain Neuvel (new):

  • Sleeping Giants
  • Waking Gods
  • Only Human

  review

• Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)

  • review

• Recursion, Blake Crouch (new)

  • review

• Dark Matter, Blake Crouch (new)

  • review

• The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (reread):

  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Caliban’s War
  • Abaddon’s Gade
  • Cibola Burn
  • Nemesis Games

2018

Fiction

• Agent of Change, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (new)

  • review

• The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)

  • review

• The Fated Sky, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)

  • review

• Ringworld, Larry Niven (new)

  • review

• The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemison (new)

• The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemison (new)

• The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemison (new)

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Notes

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