Emo's Reading List

Live reading list since January 2020.

2025

February

• The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey — currently reading

• Psalm For The Wild-Built by Becky Chambers — currently reading

2024

December

• Excession by Iain M. Banks(reread)

November

• Initial Sequencing And Analysis Of The Human Genome — currently reading

• Endymion by Dan Simmons

October

• The State of The Art by Iain M. Banks

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

• Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod

• The Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks(reread)

September

• Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Artemis by Andy Weir

• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

• The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov

August

• The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

July

• Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

June

• Getting To Yes by Roger Fisher

• The Door of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov(reread)

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel(reread)

• The Fountain Of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

May

• The City And Stars by Arthur C. Clarke

• The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Pebble In The Sky by Isaac Asimov

April

• The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov

• The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov

• Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson

• Blindsight by Peter Watts

• Foundation and Empire by Issac Asimov(reread)

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

March

• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

February

• Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel (reread)

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (reread)

• The Good Life by Marc Shultz & Robert Waldinger

• Provenance by Ann Leckie

• Translation State by Ann Leckie

• Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

• Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

• The Contrarian by Max Chafkin

• Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

January

• Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel (reread)

• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

• Culture: Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks

2023

December

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

• Culture: Excession by Iain M. Banks

November

• Culture: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (reread)

October

• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

September

• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

July

• Angel By Jason Calcanis (reread)

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant(reread)

• Fundraising by Ryan Breslow(reread)

June

• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson(did not finish)

May

• The End of All Things by John Scalzi

April

• The Human Division by John Scalzi

• The Last Colony by John Scalzi

• Redshirts by John Scalzi

• The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

• Death’s End by Cixin Liu

March

• The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

• Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

• Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton

• The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

February

• A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

• Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton

• Culture: Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (reread)

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel (reread)

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (reread)

January

• Angel by Jason Calcanis(reread)

• Culture: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks

• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

• Contact by Carl Sagan(reread)

• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

2022

December

• Calculating God by Robert Sawyer(reread)

October

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

September

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

August

• Contact by Carl Sagan(reread)

July

• The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen(reread)

• Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

June

• Culture: Matter by Iain M. Banks

• Culture: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

• Culture: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks

• Hyperion by Dan Simmons

• Americana by Bhu Srinivasa

• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

May

• Foundation & Earth by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov

• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Culture: Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks

• Culture: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

April

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel(reread)

• Venture Capital Deal Terms by Harm De Vries, Menno van Loon, Sjoerd Mol

• Fundraising by Ryan Breslow

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

March

• The Founders by Jimmy Suni

• Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos by Walter Isaacson

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

February

• The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel(reread)

• Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert

• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert

January

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

2021

October

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

September

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel

August

• God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

• Dune by Frank Herbert

July

• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg

• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People

  Elad Gil

• Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger

May

• Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman

April

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

March

• Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

February

• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings

January

• Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Calculating God by Robert Sawyer

2020

December

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

August

• Angel by Jason Calcanis

July

• Shut Up and Listen! by Tilman Fertitta

May

• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

• The Fifth Vital by Mike Majlak

April

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

March

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph