- Ones and Zeroes by Dan Wells
- Children of the Divide by Patrick S. Tomlinson
- The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
- The Higgs Boson and Beyond by Sean Carroll (The Great Courses)
- The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World by Bart Ehrman
- Republic, Lost: Version 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
- The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
- Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers
- Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg
- NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
- The Sword-Edged Blonde by Alex Bledsoe
- Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe
- Dark Jenny by Alex Bledsoe
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James. P. Carse
- The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (black Barbadian woman)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (African-American woman)
- I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi (Pakistani Muslim woman)
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (caucasian transgender woman)
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (caucasian lesbian woman)
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (caucasian lesbian woman)
- A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray (caucasian woman)
- Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (caucasian woman)
- A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray (caucasian woman)
Breakdown
Format:
And for anyone who is interested in looking into the past to see some of my previous book lists...
Prior to 2008, I didn't keep a precise running record of the books that I read.
Format:
- Audiobooks: 16
- Audio courses: 1
- Kindle: 5
- Dead tree books: 7
Subjects:
- Total Fiction: 13
- Science Fiction: 8
- Fantasy: 5
- Non-Fiction: 12
- Science: 3
- Physics: 1
- Psychology: 2
- Religion: 2
- History: 5
- Politics: 7
- Business/Economics: 1
- Philosophy: 5
These numbers don't quite match up, because some books cover multiple areas, and so I've included them in all relevant categories. So, for example, a book on free will would fall in both Psychology and Philosophy (and possibly even Religion) categories. And a book on Politics might drift enough into the realm of Philsophy (or vice versa) that I count them as both, or both might explore enough historical groundwork that I feel the need to include it as a History book.
Similarly, some books I read using Whispersynch-for-Voice to jump between the Amazon Kindle and Audible audiobook versions of the books, so they got double-counted in the format section if I read them in both formats. I've also included The Great Courses audios that I listen to through Audible.com. Though not actually books, I figure that a 10+ hour course on a subject contains about the same informational content, if not presented structurally in quite the same way as it would take in a written book.
The HistorySimilarly, some books I read using Whispersynch-for-Voice to jump between the Amazon Kindle and Audible audiobook versions of the books, so they got double-counted in the format section if I read them in both formats. I've also included The Great Courses audios that I listen to through Audible.com. Though not actually books, I figure that a 10+ hour course on a subject contains about the same informational content, if not presented structurally in quite the same way as it would take in a written book.
Podcasts
In addition to listening to audiobooks, my intake of thinking consists enough of podcasts that it seems worth including them as a category. Here are the podcasts that I have listened to in 2018 on a fairly regular basis:- Writing Excuses
- You Are Not So Smart
- Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris
- History of Philosophy
- History of Africana Philosophy
- Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
- Very Bad Wizards
- What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
- The Lawfare Podcast
- The Cyberlaw Podcast
- Rational Security
- The Phil Ferguson Show
- Hidden Brain
- Stuff You Should Know
- Stuff to Blow Your Mind
And for anyone who is interested in looking into the past to see some of my previous book lists...
Prior to 2008, I didn't keep a precise running record of the books that I read.
