Reading list, 2024
- Dinotopia, James Gurney (fantasy)
- A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (sci-fi)
- The complete works of Emily Dickinson (poetry)
- A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (sci-fi)
- The Odyssey, Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (classical)
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty (fantasy)
- The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick (nonfiction)
- The Stardust Thief, Chelsea Abdullah (fantasy)
- Monstress, Book One, Marjorie Lie and Sana Takeda (fantasy)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstader (nonfiction)
- Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat, Neng-Fa Zhou, Håkan Kjellerstrand, and Jonathan Fruhman (nonfiction)
- Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick (nonfiction)
- The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- Tales from Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Anna Tsing (nonfiction)
- The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin (fantasy)
- The left hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin (sci-fi)
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge (sci-fi)
- Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, R. F. Kuang (fantasy)
- To Mock a Mockingbird, Raymond Smullyan (logic)
- This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (sci-fi)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke (fantasy)
- Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison (fantasy)
- Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (nonfiction)
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (sci-fi)
- Radiance, Catherynne M. Valente (sci-fi)
- Moonbound, Robin Sloan (sci-fi)
- The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (sci-fi)
- The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (fantasy)
- The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (sci-fi)
- Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey (fantasy)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (fiction)
- The Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (fiction)
- A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart (nonfiction)
- The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd (fiction)
- The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (fantasy)
- The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (fantasy)
- Villette, Charlotte Brontë (Romance novel)
- Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology, Aaron Trammell (games philosophy)