books
Books are listed in reverse chronological order. I've bolded my favorites from each year.
2026
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things by Paulino Calderon, Fotios Chantzis, and Ioannis Stais
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
2025
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South by Mike Selby
- Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
- Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
- We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020 edited by C.L. Clark and Charles Payseur
- The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life by Jessa Crispin
- The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals - And Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley
- The Raven Boys: The Graphic Novel by Sas Milledge, Maggie Stiefvater, and Stephanie Williams
- Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking by Peter Yaworski
- The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- El Mundo Natural by A.J. Wood and Mike Jolley
- The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley
- The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
- Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy by Ronald J. Diebert
- The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
- Securing Devops: Security in the Cloud by Julien Vehent
- The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov
- Catnip by Vyria Durav
- Exordia by Seth Dickinson
- Nimona (Spanish Edition) by ND Stevenson
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (reread)
- Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More by Julien Danjou
- Watching Birds: An Introduction to Ornithology by Roger F. Pasquier
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) by Becky Chambers
- Gravity Lost (Ambit's Run #2) by L.M. Sagas
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
2024
- Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software by Andrew Honig and Michael Sikorski
- Radical Tarot: Queer the Cards, Liberate Your Practice, and Create the Future by Charlie Claire Burgess
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
- The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Game (TAZ #6) by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
- Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run #1) by L.M. Sagas
- The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers by Debbie Berne
- The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
- The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour (TAZ #5) by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
- The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom (TAZ #4) by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
- System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7) by Martha Wells
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal (TAZ #3) by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
- High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans by Micha Gorelick and Ian Ozsvald
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
- Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries #6) by Martha Wells
- Babel by R.F. Kuang
- Identity and Data Security for Web Development: Best Practices by Tim Messerschmidt and Jonathan LeBlanc
- The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! (TAZ #2) by Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Carey Pietsch
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
- Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells
- How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiki Busch
- Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn
- Knowing What We Know: From the First Encyclopedia to Wikipedia by Simon Winchester
- The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity by Andrew Gelwicks
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #1) by Seth Dickinson
- My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
- Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries #4) by Martha Wells
- Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
- Essential Cat by Caroline Davis
- Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
- Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells
- The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power #1) by V.E. Schwab
- How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
- Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells
- Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
- Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness by Pooja Lakshmin
- All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
- The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle #3) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle #2) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource by Alex Wrekk
- The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
