Woodland Wizard
Books
Reading list broken down by year.
bold = favourite
Reading
- Echopraxia - Peter Watts
- The Paper Menagerie Collection - Ken Liu
- Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari
2025
- Acceptance: Southern Reach, Book 3 - Jeff VanderMeer
- 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
- Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
- On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
- In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
- The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
- The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
- The Tainted Cup - Robert Bennett
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
- Absolution: Southern Reach, Book 4 - Jeff VanderMeer
- Blindsight - Peter Watts
- What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
- A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
- Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
- Composite Creatures - Caroline Hardaker
2024
- Pirate Enlightenment - David Graeber
- Miniatures - John Scalzi
- How not to Age - Michael Greger
- The Narrow Road between Desires - Patrick Rothfuss
- Starting Forth (programming) - Lee Brodie
- Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Indistracible
- How much land does a man need? - Leo Tolstoy
- What men live by - Leo Tolstoy
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Exordia - Seth Dickinson
- Enlightenment now - Steven Pinker
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
- The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber (2nd read)
- Lessons from History - Durant
- The Transparency Society - Byung-Chul Han
- The Final Empire (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- The Well of Ascension (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- The Hero of Ages (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett
- Authority: Southern Reach, Book 2 - Jeff VanderMeer
- How Not to Age - Michael Greger (partial read)
- Ultralearning - Scott H. Young
2023
- Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Murr
- Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
- Leviathan Wakes: The Expanse, Book 1 - James S. A. Corey
- The Star - Arthur C Clarke
- The Upstarts - Brad Stone
- The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
Older
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber
- Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
- Debt - Updated and Expanded - David Graeber
- Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright
- The Interdependency Series - John Scalzi
- The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Series
- Anathem - Neal Stephenson
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
- Lock In - John Scalzi
- Lying - Sam Harris
- Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation - Grace Blakeley
- The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien (partial read)
- A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
- Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis - Jared Diamond
Queue
- The origins of totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown
- Raft - Stephen Baxter
- Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
- Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
- Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Murr
- Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
- Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
- Edie Investigates: A Short Story - Nick Harkaway
- A Conventional Boy - Charles Stross
- Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi
- Jade City - Fonda Lee
- The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
- The garden of delights - Amal Singh
- The Demon Princes - Jack Vance (5 books)
- Circe - Madeline Miller
- The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
- The Redemption of Time - Baoshu
- Book of essays - Mark Fisher
- Daemon - Daniel Suarez
- The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
- Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
- A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie
- Hold Up the Sky - Cixin Liu
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
- The Precipice - Noam Chomsky
- Foundryside - Robert Bennett
- Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
- How the Railways Will Fix the Future - Gareth Dennis
- How the World Made the West - Josephine Quinn
- Silo series - Hugh Howey
- Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons