This is a running list of the books I’ve read this year. Anything I near-universally recommend is marked with a star and I linked to any reading notes I published.

You can also find lists from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

  • There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm.
  • The Score by C. Thi Nguyen.
  • Making A Life by Sarah Austin Casson.
  • The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
  • Us by Terrence Real.
  • The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth.
  • The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
  • My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier.
  • Proof of Life by Jennifer Pastiloff.
  • Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? by Harriet Beveridge and Ben Hunt-Davis.
  • The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss.
  • The End by Karl Ove Knausgård.
  • Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda.
  • Some Rain Must Fall by Karl Ove Knausgård.
  • Work Like a Monk by Shoukei Matsumoto.
  • Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgård.

I’m Andrew, the Head of Customer Experience at Automattic, where we make great products for the web. I'm an avid reader, runner, and traveler.