I like to keep track of all the books I finish reading in a year. I do not count re-reads or the books I haven't consumed cover-to-cover.
Finished in 2021
- ★★★★★ Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki [Verso]
- ★★★★☆ Dune by Frank Herbert [Orion]
- ★★★☆☆ Northern Lights by Philip Pullman [Scolastic]
Finished in 2020
- ★★★★★ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas [Balzer + Bray]
- ★★★★★ 17716 - What football will look like in the future by Jon Bois [SBNation]
- ★★★★☆ How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. by Cory Doctorow [OneZero]
- ★★★★☆ How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, ... by Sönke Ahrens [Self-published]
- ★★★☆☆ Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right by Michael Brooks [Zero Books]
- ★★★☆☆ Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers [Penguin Books]
- ★★★☆☆ Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley [Bloomsbury]
- ★★★☆☆ Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch ... by Sophie Poldermans [BookBaby]
- ★★★☆☆ The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski [Gollancz]
- ★★★☆☆ Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality ... by Cathy O'Neil [Broadway Books]
- ★★☆☆☆ Getting Started With SaltStack by Ben Hosmer [Self-published]
- ★★☆☆☆ Stand Firm: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze by Svend Brinkmann [Polity]
Finished in 2019
- ★★★★★ Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport [Portfolio]
- ★★★★★ Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk [Owl Books]
- ★★★★☆ Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang [Knopf]
- ★★★★☆ Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah [Mariner Books]
- ★★★★☆ Fullstack Data Visualization With D3 by Amelia Wattenberger [Newline]
- ★★★★☆ How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff [W. W. Norton]
- ★★★★☆ Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman [W. W. Norton]
- ★★★★☆ On Writing and Worldbuilding: Volume I by Timothy Hickson [Self-published]
- ★★★★☆ The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative ... by James Griffiths [Zed Books]
- ★★★★☆ Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday [Portfolio]
- ★★★☆☆ Brain Droppings by George Carlin [Hyperion]
- ★★★☆☆ How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell [Melville House]
- ★★★☆☆ The Art of War by Sun Tzu [Oxford University Press]
- ★★★☆☆ The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells by Ben Bova [Writer's Digest Books]
- ★★★☆☆ Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman [Bloomsbury]
- ★★☆☆☆ Prez: The First Teen President by Ed Brubaker & Joe Simon [DC Comics]
- ★★☆☆☆ Propaganda by Edward Bernays & Mark Crispin Miller [Ig Publishing]
Finished in 2018
- ★★★★★ Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari [Bloomsbury]
- ★★★★☆ Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart ... by Ben Coates [Nicholas Brealey]
- ★★★★☆ Ready Player One by Ernest Cline [Arrow]
- ★★★☆☆ American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark ... by Nick Bilton [Virgin Digital]
- ★★★☆☆ Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari [Signal]
- ★★★☆☆ The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google by Scott Galloway [Random House]
- ★★★☆☆ The Threatened Net: How the Web Became a Perilous Place by Craig Timberg [Diversion Books]
- ★★★☆☆ Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente [Gallery / Saga Press]
- ★★☆☆☆ We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham [Riverhead Books]
Finished in 2017
- ★★★★★ Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's ... by Kim Zetter [Crown]
- ★★★★★ The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good ... by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita [PublicAffairs]
- ★★★★★ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari [Signal]
- ★★★★★ Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [Small Beer Press]
- ★★★★☆ The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang [Subterranean]
- ★★★★☆ Comics for a Strange World: A Book of Poorly Drawn Lines by Reza Farazmand [Plume]
- ★★★★☆ Fahrenheit 451: A Novel by Ray Bradbury [Simon & Schuster]
- ★★★★☆ Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age by Cory Doctorow [McSweeney's]
- ★★★☆☆ As I Was Saying . . .: The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson [Penguin Books]
- ★★★☆☆ Cyberterrorism After Stuxnet by Thomas M. Chen [United States Army War College Press]
- ★★★☆☆ Enemies of the People by Sam Jordison [HarperCollins]
- ★★★☆☆ Information Security for Journalists by Silkie Carlo & Arjen Kamphuis [Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ)]
- ★★★☆☆ Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: (eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt) by Sam Esmail & Courtney Looney [Abrams]
- ★★★☆☆ Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box by Ryan Russell & Timothy Mullen & Dan Kaminsky & Mark Burnett [Syngress]
- ★★★☆☆ The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait but Why by Tim Urban [Lioncrest Publishing]
- ★★★☆☆ The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose [HarperCollins]
- ★★★☆☆ What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]
- ★★☆☆☆ A Spy's Guide to Thinking by John Braddock [Self-published]
- ★★☆☆☆ The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You by J. Truant [Self-published]
Finished in 2016
- ★★★★★ 1984 by George Orwell [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]
- ★★★★★ The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz by Aaron Swartz & Lawrence Lessig [Verso]
- ★★★★★ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams [Del Rey]
- ★★★★★ The Last Question by Isaac Asimov [Ziggurat Productions]
- ★★★★☆ Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War by Joe Bageant [Crown]
- ★★★★☆ Little Brother by Cory Doctorow [Tor Books]
- ★★★★☆ Prava istorija sveta by Njuz.net & Marko Dražić & Nenad Milosavljević & Miroslav Vujović & Viktor Marković & Darko Crnogorac & Bojan Savić & Bane Grković & Dejan Nikolić [Laguna]
- ★★★★☆ The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing ... by Eli Pariser [Penguin Books]
- ★★★★☆ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams [Del Rey]
- ★★★☆☆ A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac by Eric Schulman [St. Martin's Press]
- ★★★☆☆ A Bug Hunter's Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software ... by Tobias Klein [No Starch Press]
- ★★★☆☆ Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection by Sarah Andersen [Andrews McMeel Publishing]
- ★★★☆☆ Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [The Dial Press]
- ★★★☆☆ The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong [Forbes Media]
- ★★★☆☆ Zen to Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System by Leo Babauta [WAKING LION Press]
- ★★☆☆☆ Funscreen by Craig A. Falconer [Self-published]
- ★★☆☆☆ Linux Is Badass by Bryan Lunduke [Self-published]
- ★★☆☆☆ Why We Work by Barry Schwartz [Simon & Schuster]
- ★☆☆☆☆ Vim for Humans by Vincent Jousse [Self-published]
Finished in 2015
- ★★★★★ You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day [Simon & Schuster]
- ★★★★☆ Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, ... by Cory Doctorow [Tachyon Publications]
- ★★★★☆ Goodbye Sarajevo by Atka Reid & Hana Schofield [Bloomsbury]
- ★★★★☆ The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins [Mariner Books]
- ★★★★☆ V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd [Vertigo]
- ★★★★☆ Zajedno sami by Marko Šelić (Marčelo) [Laguna]
- ★★★☆☆ I, Robot by Cory Doctorow [Feedbooks]
- ★★★☆☆ Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, ... by Andrew Keen [Constable]
- ★★★☆☆ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson [Orb Books]
- ★★★☆☆ The Mind Readers by Lori Brighton [Smashwords]
- ★★★☆☆ The Foundation for an Open Source City by Jason Hibbets & Dave Maki & Jen Wike & Pam Chestek & Andrew Krzmarzick & Guy Martin [lulu.com]
- ★★☆☆☆ 2030 - Will Computers Become Human? by Peter A Bornstein [Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
- ★★☆☆☆ Facebook Logout - Experiences and Reasons to Leave It by Ivo Quartiroli [Silens]
- ★★☆☆☆ How to Get More From Life by Scott H. Young [Self-published]
- ★★☆☆☆ The Mind Thieves by Lori Brighton [Smashwords]
- ★☆☆☆☆ Immune Web: What Makes the Internet Safe? by Uday Veer Singh [Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
- ★☆☆☆☆ Productivity Hacks Unleashed by Alex Wild [Self-published]