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
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
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A Time to Keep, Ephraim Radner (new)
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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
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Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, David H. Kelsey (new)
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein (new)
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Bruce A. Tate (new)
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Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares, Stephen Boyd (new)
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Confronted by Grace: Meditations of a Theologian, John Webster (new)
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We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God, David T. Koyzis (new)
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
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The Orthodox Way, Kallistos Ware (new)
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The Doctrine of Scripture, Brad East (new)
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What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World, Jake Meador (new)
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk (new)
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Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects, Baldur Bjarnason (new)
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson (new)
Fiction
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Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)
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Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (new)
2023
Nonfiction
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Stuart Russell
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The Anglican Way: A Guidebook, Thomas McKenzie (new)
Fiction
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Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (new)
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Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Tad Williams (new)
2022
Nonfiction
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Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination, William G. Witt (new)
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The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder (new)
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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, Richard Sennett (new)
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Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen (new)
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Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky (new)
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The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, a warning, Justin E. H. Smith (new)
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The Halo Effect… and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers, Phil Rosenzweig (new)
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya (new)
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott (new)
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear (new)
Fiction
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The Galactic Cold War, Dan Moren (new)
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The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan (reread)
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Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)
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Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)
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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.
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Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold (new)
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Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (new)
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Age of Swords: Book Two of the Legends of the First Empire, Michael J. Sullivan (new)
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The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (reread with my younger daughter)
2021
Nonfiction
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Holiness, John Webster (new)
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Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez (new)
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Dogmatics in Outline, Karl Barth (new)
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Word and Church, John Webster (new)
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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim (new)
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God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: Volume I: God and the Works of God, John Webster (new)
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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger (new)
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God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology: Volume II: Virtue and Intellect, John Webster (new)
Fiction
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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with older my daughter!)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)
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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)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)
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Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (new)
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread… with my older daughter!)
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The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (reread)
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Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (new)
2020
Non-fiction
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Phaedrus, Plato (new)
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The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard (new)
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Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne (new)
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The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin (new)
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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
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The Culture of Theology, John Webster (new)
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Shape Up, Ryan Singer (new)
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Politics & the Order of Love, Eric Gregory (new)
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Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much, Ashley Hales (new)
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (also available for free from the author here), Zeynep Tüfeçki (new)
Fiction
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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)
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The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil (new)1
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Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (new)
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The Lost World, Michael Crichton (new)
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Sourdough, Robin Sloan (new)
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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)
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Delta-V, Daniel Suarez (new)
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Contact, Carl Sagan (new)
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Age of Myth: Book One of the Legends of the First Empire, Michael J. Sullivan (new)
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The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (new reread):
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (new)
- review
- discussed on Winning Slowly 8.22
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Rhythm of War, Brandon Sanderson (new)
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Mistborn: Secret History, Brandon Sanderson (reread)
2019
Non-Fiction
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All That’s Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment, Hannah Anderson (new) — review
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Retrieving Eternal Generation, edited by Fred Sanders and Scott R. Swain (new) — review
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What is An Evangelical, Thomas Kidd (new) — review
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In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World, Jake Meador (new) — discussed in an interview with Jake on Winning Slowly
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The Year of Our Lord 1943, Alan Jacobs (new)
Fiction
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The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
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Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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Beowulf (new)
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The Martian, Andy Weir (reread)
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The Themis Files, Sylvain Neuvel (new):
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Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (new)
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Recursion, Blake Crouch (new)
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Dark Matter, Blake Crouch (new)
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The Expanse, James S.A. Corey (reread):
2018
Fiction
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Agent of Change, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (new)
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The Calculating Stars, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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The Fated Sky, Mary Robinette Kowal (new)
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Ringworld, Larry Niven (new)
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The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemison (new)
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The Obelisk Gate, N. K. Jemison (new)
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The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemison (new)
Notes
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