Woodland Wizard
books
reading list broken down by year. bold = favourite
2025
- DONE. Acceptance: Southern Reach, Book 3 - Jeff VanderMeer
- DONE. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
- DONE. Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
- DONE. On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
- DONE. In Praise of Idleness - Bertrand Russell
- DONE. The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
- DONE. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
- DONE. The Tainted Cup - Robert Bennett
- DONE. On Writing - Stephen King
- DONE. Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
- DONE. Absolution: Southern Reach, Book 4 - Jeff VanderMeer
- PROG. Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
- PROG. The Paper Menagerie Collection - Ken Liu
- PROG. Blindsight - Peter Watts
- A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown
- Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
- Tao Te Ching - John Minford
- Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
- Composite Creatures - Caroline Hardaker
- Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Murr
- Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi
- Jade City - Fonda Lee
- The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman
- Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
- 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
- Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari
- 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
2024
- DONE. Pirate Enlightenment - David Graeber
- DONE. Miniatures - John Scalzi
- DONE. How not to Age - Michael Greger
- DONE. The Narrow Road between Desires - Patrick Rothfuss
- DONE. Starting Forth (programming) - Lee Brodie
- DONE. Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- DONE. Indistracible
- DONE. How much land does a man need? - Leo Tolstoy
- DONE. What men live by - Leo Tolstoy
- DONE. Deep Work - Cal Newport
- DONE. Exordia - Seth Dickinson
- DONE. Enlightenment now - Steven Pinker
- DONE. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
- DONE. The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber (2nd read)
- DONE. Lessons from History - Durant
- DONE. The Transparency Society - Byung-Chul Han
- DONE. The Final Empire (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- DONE. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- DONE. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn) - Brandon Sanderson
- DONE. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett
- DONE. Authority: Southern Reach, Book 2 - Jeff VanderMeer
- DONE. How Not to Age - Michael Greger (partial read)
- DONE. Ultralearning - Scott H. Young
2023
- DONE. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Murr
- DONE. Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
- DONE. Leviathan Wakes: The Expanse, Book 1 - James S. A. Corey
- DONE. The Star - Arthur C Clarke
- DONE. The Upstarts - Brad Stone
- DONE. The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber
- DONE. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- DONE. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- DONE. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
Older
- DONE. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber
- DONE. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
- DONE. Debt - Updated and Expanded - David Graeber
- DONE. Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright
- DONE. The Interdependency Series - John Scalzi
- DONE. The Remembrance of Earth’s Past Series
- DONE. Anathem - Neal Stephenson
- DONE. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- DONE. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- DONE. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- DONE. The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
- DONE. Lock In - John Scalzi
- DONE. Lying - Sam Harris
- DONE. Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation - Grace Blakeley
- DONE. The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien (partial read)
- DONE. A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- DONE. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
- DONE. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis - Jared Diamond