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reading list.

NOTE: This page is now obsolete as I am tracking my reading habits using Goodreads. I am only keeping it around so there aren’t dead links on previous reading list entry posts.


I am determined to begin reading anew and I think that making a list of the books I’ve read will encourage me to read more of them. Therefore, here is a continuously updated list of the books I have read (latest at the top). Happy reading!


currently reading (in the order they were begun)

  1. Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  2. Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture by Stephen H. Segal, Zaki Hasan, N. K. Jemisin, Eric San Juan, and Genevieve Valentine; Edited by Stephen H. Segal

finished in 2013 (in order of completion)

  1. The Crystal Shard (The Icewind Dale Book 1) by R. A. Salvatore



finished in 2012 (in order of completion)

  1. Rage of a Demon King (The Serpentwar Saga Book 3) by Raymond E. Feist
  2. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 2 - Suspicion by Mike McQuay
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
  6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
  7. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  8. Isaaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 3 - Cyborg by William F. Wu

finished in 2011 (in order of completion)

  1. Rise of a Merchant Prince (The Serpentwar Saga Book 2) by Raymond E. Feist
  2. More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 1 - Odyssey by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
  4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  5. Bone by Jeff Smith
  6. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum



waiting to be read (alphabetical by title)

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  • The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs by Alan Ken Thomas (Editor)
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • A Century of British Mystery and Suspense by Various Authors, Edited by Anne Perry
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson
  • Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
  • Exile (The Dark Elf Book 2) by R. A. Salvatore
  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  • Fundamentals of Project Management by James P. Lewis
  • God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
  • The Halfling’s Gem ( by R. A. Salvatore
  • Homeland (The Dark Elf Book 1) by R. A. Salvatore
  • I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words by George Beahm (Editor)
  • Ideas and Men: The Story of Western Thought by Crane Brinton
  • In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat by John R. Gribbin
  • In the Beginning… was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
  • Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 4 - Prodigy by Arthur Byron Cover
  • Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 5 - Refuge by Rob Chilson
  • Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Book 6 - Perihelion by William F. Wu
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber
  • No Deals, Mr. Bond by John Gardner
  • No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber
  • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Shards of a Broken Crown (The Serpentwar Saga Book 4) by Raymond E. Feist
  • The Shunned House by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
  • The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sojourn (The Dark Elf Book 3) by R. A. Salvatore
  • Streams of Silver (The Icewind Dale Book 2) by R. A. Salvatore
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
  • The Truce at Bakura (Part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe) by Kathy Tyers
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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