Books Read in 2016

The value in posting this list is not only that it preserves the work it took to compile it, but also that it provides me with some hint as the sources I took this year’s passages from.

Fiction

• Home Fires by Wolfe, Gene
• The Forever War by Haldeman, Joe
• Far North by Theroux, Marcel
• The Last Wish by Sapkowski, Andrzej
• The Dark Forest by Liu, Cixin
• The Killing Machine by Vance, Jack
• Star King by Vance, Jack
• Castle of the Otter by Wolfe, Gene
• The Lions of al-Rassan by Kay, Guy Gavriel
• The Weird by VanderMeer, Jeff
• Rendezous with Rama by Clarke, Arthur C.

Non-Fiction

• The Art of Philosophizing and other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
• But What if We’re Wrong? by Klosterman, Chuck
• Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Corbett, Jim
• Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects by Stevens, Wallace
• The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
• The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays by Auden, W. H.
• The Old Patagonian Express by Theroux, Paul
• Too High and Too Steep by Williams, David B
• In Defense of Sanity by Chesterton, G. K.
• Commonplace Book by Forster, E. M.
• Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Roosevelt, Theodore
• By Design by Caplan, Ralph
• Interaction of Color by Albers, Josef
• Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down by Gordon, J. E.
• Atlas of Cursed Places by Le Carrer, Olivier
• The Inevitable by Kelly, Kevin
• Wind, Sand, and Stars by Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
• Code by Petzold, Charles
• Rats by Sullivan, Robert
• Cradle to Cradle by Braungart, Michael
• A Certain World by Auden, W. H.
• Atlas of Remote Islands by Schalansky, Judith
• Wayfinding by Arthur, Paul
• A Burglar’s Guide to the City by Manaugh, Geoff
• The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell by Russell, Bertrand
• On Bullshit by Frankfurt, Harry G.
• Consilience by Wilson Edward Osborne
• Interdisciplinary Interaction Design by Pannafino, James
• The Food Lab by López-Alt, J. Kenji
• Architecture: Form, Space, and Order by Ching, Francis D. K.
• Nothing to Envy by Demick, Barbara
• Trillion Year Spree by Aldiss, Brian W, editor.
• The Big Con by Maurer, David
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Weinschenk, Susan
• At Ease by Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Playing at the World by Peterson, Jon
• The Progress Paradox by Easterbrook, Gregg
• Too Big to Know by Weinberger, David
• The Knowledge by Dartnell, Lewis
• Data and Goliath by Schneier, Bruce
• Cubed by Saval, Nikil
• Good-Bye to All That by Graves, Robert
• Gunfighter Nation by Slotkin, Richard
• Symbol by Bateman, Steven
• A Time of Gifts by Fermor, Patrick Leigh
• Steering the Craft by Le Guin, Ursula K.
• How to Lie with Maps by Monmonier, Mark
• Uncanny Valley by Weschler, Lawrence
• Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design by Bierut, Michael

Rereads

• 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories by Asimov, Isaac