I like to read and maintain a [goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/159575811-michael-cooper) account. However Goodreads is owned by Amazon and that makes me slightly nervous about my data should Goodreads ever stop existing. This is a more in depth accounting of everything that Im reading. I have four "shelves". 1. Reading: Books that I have started and intend to finish - though I may not be making active progress on all of these 2. TBR - Books that I own or would like to buy but have not started reading yet 3. DNF - Just couldn't do it. Im trying to get better about quitting books early. 4. Read ## Reading | Title | Author | Start Date | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ---------- | | Children Of Ruin | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 10/12/24 | | Lightbringer | Pierce Brown | 1/13/25 | | Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself | David Lipsky | 7/25/24 | ## TBR | Title | Author | | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------ | | Will Of The Many | James Islington | | The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store | James McBride | | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | | Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt | | Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | | On The Edge | Nate Silver | | Thomas Harris | The Silence Of The Lambs | | The Last Of His Kind | Andy McCullough | | Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | | David and Goliath | Malcolm Gladwell | | Rust In Action | Tim McNamara | | Good Inside | Dr Becky Kennedy | | Determined | Robert Sapolsky | | Einstein | Walter Isaacson | ## DNF | Title | Author | Reason | | ---------------------------------------- | ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Americas War for the Greater Middle East | Andrew J Bacevich | Too stressful for the hours when I am normally reading. Well written though. Would consider revisiting. | ## Read | Title | Author | Start Date | End Date | Rating (Out of 5) | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ---------- | -------- | ----------------- | | The Algebra Of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security | Scott Galloway | 12/26/24 | 1/4/25 | 3.8 | | Dark Age | Pierce Brown | 12/26/24 | 1/13/25 | 4 | | Iron Gold | Pierce Brown | 11/14/24 | 12/11/24 | 4 | | Morning Star | Pierce Brown | 10/26/24 | 11/12/24 | 4 | | Golden Son | Pierce Brown | 10/8/24 | 10/26/24 | 5 | | Red Rising | Pierce Brown | 9/1/24 | 10/8/24 | 5 | | Berserk Volume 1 | Kentaro Miura | 8/26/24 | 8/26/24 | 3 | | The Creative Act: A Way Of Being | Rick Rubin | 7/25/24 | 9/16/24 | 3.8 | | Table For Two | Amor Towles | 6/26/24 | 7/24/24 | 4 | | Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout | Cal Newport | 6/10/24 | 9/1/24 | 3 | | The Maniac | Benjamin Lebatut | 4/28/24 | 6/9/24 | 4.2 | | The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman | 4/23/24 | 4/28/24 | 3.5 | | How To Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 2/19/24 | 5/14/24 | 4 | | The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 2/17/24 | 4/23/24 | 3.8 | | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2/15/24 | 9/16/24 | 3 | | Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | 1/23/24 | 3/17/24 | 2 | | Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things | Adam Grant | 1/1/24 | 2/15/24 | 2.5 | | The Wager | David Grann | 12/31/23 | 1/22/24 | 4 | | Foundation #1 | Isaac Asimov | 12/22/23 | 12/31/23 | 3.6 | | How To Avoid a Climate Disaster | Bill Gates | 12/10/23 | 12/22/23 | 4 | | Children Of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 11/18/23 | 12/10/23 | 4.3 | | The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | 10/25/23 | 10/30/23 | 3.4 | | Going Infinite | Michael Lewis | 10/11/23 | 10/24/23 | 3.5 | | Wool (Silo #1) | Hugh Howey | 9/28/23 | 11/10/23 | 4.6 | | Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson | 9/26/23 | 10/11/23 | 4.2 | | A Damn Near Perfect Game | Joe Kelly | 9/14/23 | 9/25/23 | 3 | | The Saturday Night Ghost Club | Craig Davidson | 8/5/23 | 9/13/23 | 3.2 | | You Need A Budget | Jesse Mecham | 6/14/23 | 7/3/23 | 2.8 | | Children Of Dune | Frank Herbert | 3/12/23 | 5/12/23 | 4 | | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weird | 3/22/23 | 3/30/23 | 5 | | Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert | 3/14/23 | 3/23/23 | 4.5 | | Starting Strength | Mark Rippetoe | 2/11/23 | 2/14/23 | 1 | | Efficient Go: Data Driven Performance Optimization | Bartlomiej Plotka | 2/7/23 | 4/27/23 | 3 | | Dune | Frank Herbet | 1/30/23 | 2/25/23 | 5 | | Financial Feminist | Tori Dunlap | 1/21/23 | 2/2/23 | 2.8 | | Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software | Charles Petzold | 1/6/23 | 1/14/23 | 3.6 | | White Noise | Don Delilo | 12/27/22 | 1/1/23 | 3.6 | | Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | 12/27/22 | 2/25/23 | 3.4 | | Build | Tony Fadell | 12/27/22 | 1/29/23 | 4.2 | | Atomic Habits | James Clear | 12/27/22 | 2/8/23 | 3.8 | | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S Thompson | 12/27/22 | 1/5/23 | 1 | | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 12/27/22 | 4/12/23 | 2 | | A Game Of Thrones | George RR Martin | 12/27/22 | 1/26/23 | 3.4 | | Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | 12/16/22 | 1/20/23 | 3.4 | | Inherent Vice | Thomas Pynchon | 12/16/22 | 12/27/22 | 3.8 | | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemmingway | 12/16/22 | 12/17/22 | 4 | | Google SRE | Google | 12/16/22 | 1/11/23 | 3 | | What the Dog Saw | Malcolm Gladwell | 12/16/22 | 3/11/23 | 3.4 | | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison | 12/16/22 | 1/20/23 | 2.8 | | Travels With Charlie | John Steinbeck | 12/16/22 | 3/1/23 | 4 | | Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 12/16/22 | 12/17/22 | 4.2 |