reading
2021
Top Five
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures – Merlin Sheldrake
- Underland: A Deep Time Journey – Robert McFarlane
- Children of Time – Adrian Tchiakovsky
- Bewilderment – Richard Powers
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell
Everything Else
- The Things They Carried – Tim O'Brien
- Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
- This Is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan
- Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations – Nicole Forsgren
- Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life – Ayelet Waldman
- All Systems Red – Martha Wells
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer – Donella H. Meadows
- Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader – Rob Goffee
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management – Will Larson
- Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future – Elizabeth Kolbert
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo
- The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
- Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
- The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty – Peter Singer
- Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities – Amy Stewart
- On Writing Well – William Zinsser
2020
Top Five
- The Overstory – Richard Powers
- Exhalation – Ted Chiang
- Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- The Shining – Stephen King
- So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Everything Else
- This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Equal Rites – Terry Pratchet
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows – Melanie Joy
- Man's Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
- Made in the Water – Tracy K. Smith
2019
Top Five
- The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism – Robin DiAngelo
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming – David Wallace-Wells
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Recursion – Blake Crouch
