Bookshelf

Permanent Residents

Books that stay permanently fixed on my shelf.

• A Sand County Almanac ~ Aldo Leopold
• Seven Fallen Feathers ~ Tanya Taladega
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~ Robert M. Persig
• Lila ~ Robert M. Pirsig
• Suttree ~ Cormac McCarthy
• The Summer Book ~ Tove Jannson
• Where the Sidewalk Ends ~ Shel Silverstein

Currently Reading

• System Sustainment: Acquisition And Enginerering Processes for the Sustainment of Critical and Legacy Systems ~ Peter Sandborn, William Lucyshyn
• Burning Questions ~ Margaret Atwood
• The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten ~ Julian Baggini
• Out of the Crisis ~ W. Edwards Deming

To Read

• No Time to Spare ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• Words Are My Matter ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness ~ Carlo Revolli
• Snow Country ~ Yosunari Kawabata
• Invisible Cities ~ Italo Calvino
• Small Things Like These ~ Claire Keegan
• How To ~ Randall Munroe

2026 Read

• The Myst Reader ~ Rand Miller, David Wingrove
• Piranesi ~ Susanna Clarke
• The Essential Deming
• The Book of the New Sun ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Shadow of the Torturer ~ Gene Wolfe
• Shadow & Claw ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Claw of the Conciliator ~ Gene Wolfe
• Sword & Citadel ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Sword of the Lictor ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Citadewl of the Autarch ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Urth of the New Sun ~ Gene Wolfe
• The Jeep Bible ~ Granville King
• Granta 174: Therapy
• Maintenance: Of Everything ~ Stewart Brand
• Lila ~ Robert M. Pirsig
• A Whole Life ~ Robert Seethaler
• Chulthu ~ Various
• Sculptures of the Eskimo ~ Swinton

2025 Read

• The Book of the New Sun Vol. 2 ~ Gene World [reread]
• The Book of the New Sun Vol. 1 ~ Gene Wolfe [reread]

Archives

• A
• Horus Rising ~ Dan Abnett
• Xenos ~ Dan Abnett
• Malleus ~ Dan Abnett
• Hereticus ~ Dan Abnett
• Graphics Programming Black Book ~ Michael Abrash
• Life, the Univers and Everything ~ Douglas Adams
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ~ Douglas Adams
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ~ Douglas Adams
• The Black Cauldron ~ Lloyd Alexander
• Not a River ~ Selva Almada
• The Secret of Skeleton Island ~ Robert Arthur
• Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature ~ Margaret Atwood
• B
• Python Essential Reference ~ David Beazley
• Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World ~ Anne-Emanuelle Birn
• The Truth: Stage Adaptation ~ Stephen Briggs
• Business Adventures ~ John Brooks
• The Master and Margarita ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
• C
• Canada ~ Wiliam Wilfred Campbell
• The Kitchen Readings ~ Michael Cleverly
• Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout ~ Phillip Connors
• Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad
• D
• E
• The Essential Writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• F
• The Sound and the Fury ~ William Faulkner
• Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! ~ Richard Feynman
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ~ Richard Feynman
• G
• Stardust ~ Neil Gaiman
• Anansi Boys ~ Neil Gaiman
• Neverwhere ~ Neil Gaiman
• Betrayal of Trust: Collapse of Global Public Health ~ Laurie Garrett
• The Coming Plaque ~ Laurie Garrett
• Neuromancer ~ Wiliam Gibson
• The Minimum Description Length Principle ~ Peter D. Grunwald
• H
• The Histories ~ Herodotus
• (title unknown) ~ James Herriott
• Assassins Apprentice ~ Robin Hobb
• The Pragmatic Programmer ~ Andy Hunt
• The Shackleton Voyages ~ Roland Huntford
• I
• Klara and the Sun ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
• J
• Fair play ~ Tove Jansson
• A Winter Book ~ Tove Jansson
• Notes from an island ~ Tove Jansson
• Travelling Light ~ Tove Jansson
• K
• The UNIX Programming Environment ~ Briann W. Kernighan
• Flight, Volume Four ~ Kazu Kibuishi
• Flight, Volume Two ~ Kazu Kibuishi
• Flight, Volume One ~ Kazu Kibuishi
• Programming in Objective-C ~ Stephen G. Kochan
• L
• A Wizard of EarthSea ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Disposessed ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Left Hand of Darkness ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Other Wind ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Word for World is Forest ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Farthest Shore ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Toms of Atuan ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
• Canada ~ Stephen Leacock
• To Hold Up the Sky ~ Cixin Liu
• Taran Wanderer ~ Alexander Lloyd
• The Book of Three ~ Alexander Lloyd
• The High King ~ Alexander Lloyd
• The Black Cauldron ~ Alexander Lloyd
• The Call of the Wild ~ Jack London
• The Complete Works ~ H.P. Lovecraft
• M
• Island: The Complete Stories ~ Alastair MacLeod
• The Weird of the White Wolf ~ Michael Moorcock
• Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way ~ Lars Mytting
• N
• O
• P
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined ~ Steven Pinker
• C++ Primer Plus ~ Stephen Prata
• Men at Arms ~ Terr Pratchett
• Moving Pictures ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents ~ Terry Pratchett
• Lords and Ladies ~ Terry Pratchett
• Jingo ~ Terry Pratchett
• Guards! Guards! ~ Terry Pratchett
• Soul Music ~ Terry Pratchett
• Raising Steam ~ Terry Pratchett
• Equal Rites ~ Terry Pratchett
• Eric ~ Terry Pratchett
• Hogfather ~ Terry Pratchett
• Making Money ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Last Hero ~ Terry Pratchett
• Carpe Jugulum ~ Terry Pratchett
• Maskerade ~ Terry Pratchett
• Nation ~ Terry Pratchett
• Pyramids ~ Terry Pratchett
• Sourcery ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Color of Magic ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Dark Side of the Sun ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Fifth Elephant ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Last Continent ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Light Fantastic ~ Terry Pratchett
• The Wee Free Men ~ Terry Pratchett
• Thief of Time ~ Terry Pratchett
• Thud! ~ Terry Pratchett
• Witches Abroad ~ Terry Pratchett
• Q
• R
• S
• Wind, Sand and Start ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A Light in the Attic ~ Shel Silverstein
• The Joke's Over ~ Ralph Steadman
• T
• Screwjack ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• Fear and Loating in America ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• Generation of Swine ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• Kingdom of Fear ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• The Curse of Lono ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• The Great Shark Hunt ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• The Proud Highway ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• The Rum Diary ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• The Hobbit ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Silmarillion ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves ~ Lynne Truss
• U
• V
• W
• Hacker's Delight ~ Henry S. Warren Jr.
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes ~ Ralph Watterson
• Mountain of Black Glass ~ Tad Williams
• River of Blue Fire ~ Tad Williams
• Stone of Farewell ~ Tad Williams
• The Dragonbone Chair ~ Tad Williams
• The City of Golden Shadow ~ Tad Williams
• Shadow & Claw ~ Gene Wolfe
• Sword & Citadel ~ Gene Wolfe
• X
• Y
• Z