Books
These books I'm reading, or have read recently. If you want to chat about books or recommend something you think I'd enjoy, tweet @albanbrooke
Reading
- Let my people go surfing by Yvon Chouinard
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
Recently finished
2025 05-07: Dungeon Crawler Carl (series) by Matt Dinniman
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Carl's Doomsday Scenario
- The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook
- The Gate of the Feral Gods
- The Butcher's Masquerade
- The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- This Inevitable Ruin
2025 05 12: Transition by Iain M. Banks
2025 03 13: Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey
2025 02 05: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
2024
2024 12 12: Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
2024 12 10: Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
2024 11 xx: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
2024 xx xx: Echopraxia by Peter Watts
2024 08 xx: On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
2024 08 14: Excession by Iain M. Banks
2024 07 xx: Dracula by Bram Stoker
2024 05 28: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
2024 05 25: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
2024 05 01: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
2024 04 24: State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
2024 04 16: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
4/5: Exceptional introduction to working with AI tool, specifically LLMs like ChatGPT. Combines practical advice, like how to improve prompts, with philosophical questions about the purpose of work.
2024 04 13: Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
One of the best books in The Culture series.
2024 04 03: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
5/5: Absolutely ambitious novel with a complicated structure. It would prob be considered literary fiction if it wasn't science fiction. I'd love to write an in-depth review with a graphic depicting the structure of the novel.
2024 03 20: Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick
2/5: I read this account of Powell’s expedition down the Colorado River while on vacation in Sedona and the Grand Canyon. It was pretty rough, I only finished because it was an audiobook and we had a lot of driving around Arizona.
2024 03 10: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
2024 02 17: Blindsight by Peter Watts
2024 02 07: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
2024 01 31: The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
2023
2023 07 05: Matter by Iain M. Banks
2023 05 22: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
2023 02 21: Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
2023 02 01: The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
2023 01 17: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2023 01 08: The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge
2022
2022 12 04: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
2022 11 23: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
2022 10 01: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
2022 10 01: A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
2022 10 01: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
2022 06 12: Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
2022 05 22: The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
2022 02 09: Tribe by Sebastian Junger
2022 01 28: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
2021
2021 11 16: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
2021 06 20: Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
2021 06 09: Atmosphæra Incognita by Neal Stephenson
2021 03 10: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
2021 03 10: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
2021 02 13: Ten Drugs by Thomas Hager
2021 02 07: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
2021 02 01: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
2020
2020 09 08: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
2020 09 02: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
2020 08 15: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2020 06 21: The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
2020 06 20: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
2020 06 12: Positioning by Al Ries
2020 06 01: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
2020 04 20: On Having No Head by Douglas E. Harding
2020 01 26: Seven Years a Sailor by Bob Settles
2020 01 12: Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2020 01 07: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
2020 01 01: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
2019
2019 12 19: The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism by Matthew Van Natta
2016
2016 11 27: The Enchiridion by Epictetus
2016 09 07: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
2016 08 17: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2015
2015 08 05: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell