I love reading! Below are books I've read, with thoughts where I deem it appropriate. **Spoilers are likely.** ### 2025 ##### [Apple in China](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL42444717W/Apple_in_China?edition=key:/books/OL57594946M) ##### [Eversion](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27139150W/Eversion?edition=key%3A/books/OL39564067M) An interesting book that had me watching animations of eversion and being lost, the parts of the book that dive into various historic periods carried a fun sense of mystery and camaraderie. Once the mystery reveals itself, the book ends with a creepy, but satisfying, conclusion. For once -- I didn't mind that we don't find out about the humans. The ending feels correct. My biggest complaint -- in line with the author's mathematician background, it leans a little too hard on its eversion "gimmick". ##### [Service Model](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL37576633W/Service_Model?edition=key:/books/OL59424202M) ##### [Lonesome Dove](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL134601W/Lonesome_Dove?edition=key:/books/OL7660473M) ##### [A Drop of Corruption](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL42983060W/A_Drop_of_Corruption?edition=key%3A/books/OL58559296M) ##### [The Tainted Cup](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL37628730W/The_Tainted_Cup?edition=key%3A/books/OL50732795M) ##### [Ancillary Mercy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17358701W/Ancillary_Mercy?edition=key%3A/books/OL27194297M) ##### [Ancillary Sword](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17062642W/Ancillary_Sword?edition=key%3A/books/OL25631967M) ##### [Ancillary Justice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17062644W/Ancillary_Justice?edition=key%3A/books/OL25631969M) Ann Leckie's world-building in this novel is superb. The genderless vocabulary takes a few pages to adjust to, but flows nicely by 1/3rd into the book. The storyline is intriguing, and the winding of backstories with present is well done. ##### [Last Emperox](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20732627W/The_last_Emperox?edition=key%3A/books/OL30192606M) This book, and the previous two in this series, are page-turners. It's relatively predictable, but the characters are compelling, and the writing wraps you into their personalities. The love story is touching, if predictable. The ending was, to me, unsatisfying -- I spent multiple days after being unhappy with it, and still (months later) don't particularly love how it ended. It doesn't ruin the rest of the series, but did leave a poor taste in an otherwise fun series. ##### [The Consuming Fire](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19754718W/The_consuming_fire?edition=key%3A/books/OL28700396M) ##### [The Collapsing Empire](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19332006W/The_Collapsing_Empire_(The_Interdependency)?edition=key%3A/books/OL27228423M) ##### [Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture Book 3)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL35711390W/Lords_of_Uncreation?edition=key%3A/books/OL50636181M) Easily my favorite set of Tchaikovsky books, I enjoyed this much more than the *Children of Time* series. The space opera world is a delight to swim in, and it brings together tropes from various series into a compelling storyline, with memorable characters. This last book pays off the previous two very nicely -- a hard feat to achieve. ##### [Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture Book 2)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26518910W/Eyes_of_the_Void?edition=key:/books/OL37490608M) ##### [Shards of Earth (The FInal Architecture Book 1)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24481122W/Shards_of_Earth?edition=key%3A/books/OL37485654M) ##### [The Mercy of Gods](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL36898401W/The_Mercy_of_Gods?edition=key:/books/OL49835371M) ### 2024 ##### The Wood at Midwinter ##### Children of Ruin ##### Children of Time ##### The Firm ##### Pachinko ##### A Desolation Called Peace ##### A Memory Called Empire ##### Rainbows End ##### A Deepness in the Sky ##### A Fire Upon the Deep This book, and the book above it, combine to make one of the most interesting "series" I've ever read. I would recommend reading this one first, and then *A Deepness in the Sky*. Unlike most series, you can read these in either order, but I think this order makes for one of the most intriguing -- and tragic -- realizations I've ever had while reading. These two books continue to be something I think back on years later. ### 2023 ##### The Forever War ##### Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage ##### Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ##### Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations ##### The Three Body Problem ##### Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 4) ### 2022 ##### Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 3) ##### The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 2) ##### Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1) ##### Memory's Legion ##### Leviathan Falls (The Expanse Book 9) ##### Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse Book 8) ##### Persepolis Rising (The Expanse Book 7) ##### Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse Book 6) ##### Nemesis Games (The Expanse Book 5) ##### Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book 4) ##### Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse Book 3) ##### Caliban's War (The Expanse Book 2) ##### Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1) ##### Piranesi ### 2021 ##### How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer ##### The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden ##### A Scanner Darkly ##### Project Hail Mary ##### Carrying the Fire ### 2020 ##### Chapterhouse: Dune ##### Heretics of Dune ##### God Emperor of Dune ##### Children of Dune ##### Dune Messiah ##### Dune ##### The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine ##### The Right Stuff