Aman Sanger

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

Robert A. Caro

2024-10

Work in progress

Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card

2024-10

Ender is a perpetual deus ex machina

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

2024-08

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

2024-08

Neuromancer

William Gibson

2024-06

The cyberpunk-speak felt a bit forced

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

2024-05

Sci-fi indulgance

Dealers of Lightning

Michael A. Hiltzik

2024-05

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

2024-05

Should have stopped at the first

Wild Swans

Jung Chang

2024-03

I cannot believe they used to bind feet.

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

2024-02

The following month, I worked 100 hour weeks

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

2024-02

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

2024-01

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

2024-01

Didn't feel like a cohesive story.

Open

Andre Agassi

2023-12

Incredible first chapter

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

2023-12

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

2023-11

I'm too competitive to relate

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

2023-10

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

2023-08

Convinced me short-term AR/VR will be very compelling

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

2023-06

Very boring. Didn't finish

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

2023-04

Cried a lot

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu

2023-02

Also cried a lot

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

2022-12

Ted Chiang is one of my favorites

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

2022-11

The ghostwriter for shoe dog and open is excellent

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

2022-11

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

2022-11

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

2022-10

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

2022-07

Normally not a fan of non-biographical nonfiction. Surpised me.

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

2022-06

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu

2022-06

Death's End

Cixin Liu

2022-06

Foundation Trilogy

Isaac Asimov

2022-04 to 2022-06

Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth

Isaac Asimov

2022-03

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

2022-01

Cambridge winter nights didn't feel so bad after reading this.

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

2018-05

Memory from high school

Dune

Frank Herbert

2018-03 and 2022-09

The only book I've read multiple times.