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2023–2025years
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What Hacker News says
- I tried to read a mix of things, especially "classics I never got around to." I didn't meet my personal target of 30 books (got sidetracked writing my blog), but definitely read things that stuck with me.
Notable and beautiful
- "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead
- "Blind Sight" by Meg Howrey
- "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin
Non-fiction
- "Workflow"
- "Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D"
- "Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems"
The rest (all first-time reads)
- "Absolution" by Jeff Vandermeer (I enjoyed it but it was kind of unnecessary)
- "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (I don't get the fascination with it)
- "Strange Pictures" by Uketsu (odd)
- "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein
- "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke
- "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick
- "Mickey 7" by Edward Ashton
- "Fugitive Telemetry" and "System Collapse" by Martha Wells
- "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson (I was surprisingly into it)
- "Glass Houses" by Madeline Ashby
- "Cover Her Face" by P.D.James
- "The Crystal Shard" by R.A.Salvatore (I needed to see what Drizzt is all about)
- "James" by Percival Everett (maybe my biggest disappointment of the year)
- "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh
- "Sea of Rust" by C. Robert Cargill
- 'God Human Animal Machine' by Meghan O'Gieblyn was a very interesting read. Her background in an evangelical seminary->physics obsessed naturalist->ponderer of AI consciousness made for a very interesting voice and perspective.
Blind Sight by Peter Watts is some amazing fiction, a gripping First Contact story
The Body Keeps the Score and My Grandmother's Hands are two excellent books to assist at recognizing and processing the generational habits and traumas that impact us deeper than we realize
