Inspired by Tom MacWright's self-hosted book reviews as an alternative to GoodReads. This page contains brief reviews as a way to record my thoughts and reflect on an activity that has been a trusted companion to me for much of my life.
The book reviews here begin in April of 2022 when I began to read fiction again regularly after a long time away caused by a combination of overwork and the attention-span-killing trap of smart phones. There will be very little or nothing here about software engineering.
A bonus for me in creating this page is that if I lose my reading habit again, visiting here and seeing big gaps without a review may shame me into putting my phone away, letting work go in the evenings, and picking up a book. Perhaps you'll find something interesting to read here, or use this as inspiration to start your own place to share book reviews with the world.
Parker Palmer
05-04-2025
Kim Stanley Robinson
05-03-2025
Paul Millerd
05-03-2025
Anthony Brandt
04-29-2025
Christina Thompson
04-20-2025
Charlee Dryoff
04-14-2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
04-08-2025
Robert MacFarlane
03-29-2025
Peter Pomerantsev
03-13-2025
Stephen Greenblatt
03-13-2025
Lev Grossman
03-02-2025
Patrick Radden Keefe
01-25-2025
Anthony Bourdain
01-15-2025
Corey Pein
01-11-2025
Fredrik Backman
01-04-2025
Alex Hutchinson
01-01-2025
Ursula K. Le Guin
12-26-2024
Ursula K. Le Guin
12-16-2024
Will Larson
12-14-2024
Ursula K. Le Guin
12-06-2024
Rob Copeland
11-28-2024
Calvin Kasulke
11-13-2024
Oliver Burkeman
11-09-2024
Isaac Asimov
11-03-2024
Helen Tworkov and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
10-18-2024
John Steinbeck
10-05-2024
Kazuo Ishiguro
09-19-2024
Ursula K. Le Guin
09-19-2024
Ray Bradbury
09-08-2024
Virginia Woolf
09-05-2024
Michael Pollan
08-20-2024
Karen Armstrong
08-17-2024
Joseph Campbell
08-07-2024
Jacqueline Harpman
08-03-2024
Cal Newport
08-01-2024
Chris van Tulleken
07-26-2024
Virginia Woolf
07-20-2024
Edith Hamilton
07-13-2024
Natalie Haynes
07-01-2024
Andrea Lankford
06-21-2024
Ann Leckie
06-19-2024
Johann Hari
06-01-2024
Adam Grant
03-30-2024
Peter Attia & Bill Gifford
10-27-2023
Seth Godin
10-21-2023
Ann Leckie
10-15-2023
Adam Frank
09-22-2023
Jaime Green
08-06-2023
Ann Leckie
07-10-2023
Kazuo Ishiguro
04-22-2023
Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
04-09-2023
Siddharth Kara
04-06-2023
Evy Poumpouras
03-05-2023
Akil Kumarasamy
02-28-2023
Sylvia Townsend Warner
02-18-2023
Bill Perkins
01-21-2023
John Darnielle
01-12-2023
Leonard Koren
01-07-2023
Chinua Achebe
12-31-2022
Susanna Clarke
12-27-2022
Mark Kurlansky
12-25-2022
Emily St. John Mandel
10-30-2022
Joel F. Harrington
10-16-2022
Shoshana Zuboff
10-05-2022
William MacAskill
09-30-2022
Stanley McChrystal
09-18-2022
Eugene Lim
09-17-2022
Ian Urbina
09-12-2022
Cal Newport
09-10-2022
Douglas Rushkoff
09-10-2022
Emily St. John Mandel
09-04-2022
Adrian Tchaikovsky
08-29-2022
Andy Weir
08-21-2022
Jacob Ward
08-20-2022
Simon Winchester
08-16-2022
Adrian Tchaikovsky
08-13-2022
Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
08-05-2022
Ursula K. Le Guin
07-29-2022
Carl Sagan
07-26-2022
Patricia Lockwood
07-14-2022
Erik Larson
07-03-2022
Kazuo Ishiguro
06-29-2022
Kazuo Ishiguro
06-25-2022
Chang-Rae Lee
06-19-2022
Hilary Mantel
06-09-2022
Kazuo Ishiguro
06-01-2022
Patricia Lockwood
05-20-2022
Anthony Bourdain
05-20-2022
David Graeber & David Wengrow
05-20-2022
John Darnielle
05-14-2022
Charles Portis
05-11-2022
Cormac McCarthy
05-09-2022
Cormac McCarthy
05-06-2022
Hilary Mantel
05-03-2022
Stephen King
04-30-2022
Kim Stanley Robinson
04-30-2022
Jennifer Egan
04-25-2022
Cormac McCarthy
04-21-2022
Peter Kalmus
04-18-2022
Emily St. John Mandel
04-14-2022