I like physical books, and I want to keep track of my reading and make it easy for others to buy me gifts.
Last Updated 20 December 2022
Books I want to own
Bold: High priority read
Italic: I have read it, but want to own and/or reread it.
Fiction
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time
- Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
- Carl Sagan, Contact
- Charles Stross, Accelerando
- China Mievelle
- Embassytown
- The City & The City
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
- Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Iain M Banks, All the Culture books, except listed below
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Saga
- James S.A. Corey, The Expanse series (I’ve read them all except Leviathan Falls, which I want most)
- Jo Walton, Among Others
- Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (all of them)
- Joe Abercrombie, All of them, except listed below
- John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Green Mars
- Blue Mars
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Martha Wells, All Systems Red
- Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars
- Mira Grant, Parasite (Mira Grant is Seanan McGuire)
- Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man
- Neale Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- N.K. Jemison, The Fifth Season (Broken Earth trilogy)
- Philip K Dick, The Man in the High Castle
- Seanan McGuire, Middlegame
- Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth
- Terry Pratchett, All the Discworld books, except listed below
- Terry Pratchett + Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth
- Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Books for children
- Alice Oseman, Heartstopper
- Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- Dianne Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
- Dr Seuss, Any
- EB White, Charlotte’s Web
- Matthew Cherry, Hair Love
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
- Nicole Yoon
- The Sun is also a Star
- Everything, Everything
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Theresa Thorn, It Feels Good to be Yourself
Manga and Graphic Novels
- Akira
- Ancestral, by Charlie Human
- Berserk, from issue 9 onwards
- Bitch Planet
- From Hell
- Hellboy
- Immortal Hulk
- Kill Six Billion Demons
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
- Little Bird
- Maus
- Nimona
- Persopolis
- Remina
- Triangulum
- Understanding Comics
- Vinland Saga
- Watchmen
Non-Fiction
- Carl Sagan
- Cosmos
- The Demon Haunted World
- David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs
- Davies Smelser, Myth of the Eastern Front
- Derecke Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists
- Dominic Losurdo
- Non-violence
- Class Struggle
- Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns
- Stalin, History and Critique
- War and Revolution
- Fredric Jameson, Archeologist of the Future
- J Sakai, Settlers
- Janet Smith, Hani
- Jay Naidoo, Change
- Katherine Angel, Daddy Issues
- Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasie
- Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-colonialism
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- Michael Parenti
- Blackshirts and Reds
- Inventing Reality
- Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine
- Olufe mi O Taiwo, Elite Capture
- Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
- Randall Munroe, What If?
- Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
- Stephan Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
- Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method
- Walter Rodney
- Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Wu Jie, On Deng Xiaoping Thought
Books I Own
Fiction
- China Mievelle
- Perdido Street Station
- Cixin Liu
- Hold Up The Sky
- Dan Simmons
- Hyperion
- David Brin, Earth
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Iain M Banks
- Surface Detail
- The Business
- Joe Abercrombie
- A Little Hatred
- The Wisdom of Crowds
- The Trouble With Peace
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
- Terry Pratchett
- Feet of Clay
- Going Postal
- Hogfather
- Interesting Times
- Jingo
- Lords and Ladies
- Making Money
- Monstrous Regiment
- Small Gods
- Snuff
- The Colour of Magic
- The Last Continent
- Thud!
Manga and Graphic Novels
- All You Need Is Kill
- Berserk 1-8
- Fashion Beast
- Nemo Trilogy
- Sandman 1-10
- Trigun/Maximum 1-14
- Uzumaki
Non-Fiction
- Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
- Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
- Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
- Joseph Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism
- Karl Marx, Capital
- Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects
- Steve Biko, I Write What I Like
- Thula Simpson, History of South Africa
- Vladimir Lenin
- What is To Be Done?
- State & Revolution
- Imperialism: The Highest Stage Of Capitalism
Self Help
- Amee Severson, How to Raise an Intuitive Eater
- Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
- Jane Nelsen, Positive Discipline
- Meg Faure, Baby Sense
- Meg Faure, Sleeping Sense
- Meg Faure, Weaning Sense
Books I don’t want
Often because I’ve read them, don’t want to own them, the author is bad, or because I don’t like the genre.
- Biographies
- I just don’t like biographies for some reason
Any books by
- Christopher Hitchens
- J D Vance
- Jared Diamond
- Jonathan Haidt
- Jordan Peterson
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Nassim Taleb
- Niall Ferguson
- Richard Dawkins
- Sam Harris
- Steven D Levett
- Steven Pinker
- Wilbur Smith
- Yuval Noah Harari