I just finished my 11th book this year. That makes me on track to read at least 100 books this year! Can I do it?
1/100
I knew about this book for a long time and was reminded of it after I read the Three-Body Problem. A lot of what’s in there wouldn’t be new from a 2026 perspective, but considering it was written in 1962, it was very forward looking. The chapter about cancer was hard to read, and it’s unfortunate that Carson herself would die from it.
2/100
This one has become one of my favorites, a tale of two idealistic lovers from Iran, torn apart by social expectations, and political upheaval.
3/100
It reads more like a memoir than a political commentary. It wasn’t the first book that dismantled the facade of Western democracy in my mind, so none of it came as a surprise, but I’d still recommend it.
4/100
A firsthand account from someone who fought on the opposite side of the war - the diary of a Viet Cong surgeon who was killed by American forces.
5/100
A worthwhile read but, but not as good as the movie. It didn’t connect me emotionally to the protagonists as much as I thought it would.
6/100
It got really gnarly towards the end.
7/100
This book was an amazing read. It reminded me of how exciting the rapid pace of technological advancement was in the 90s, and, would inspire anyone to go quit their job and start their own company.
8/100
It wasn’t quite as engaging as Masters of Doom, but still a worthwhile read.
9/100
It didn’t quite live up to the hype. Excellent world-building (enough for me to want to read the other two books in the trilogy), but the plot got too weird towards the end.
10/100
A short, but good intro to those wanting to know more about the profession.
11/100
An excellent book for those wanting to know more about what happened in Rwanda and the Congo in the 90s and early 2000s.
Let me help you out. At the end, it turns out that the main protagonist actually LIKES green eggs and ham. Book Count = Book Count + 1
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SPOILER ALERT!!!
Who you calling the main protagonist? You aren’t reading this from the right perspective. you think it’s all about, “hey kids, listen to your parents. Try food they give you because you’ll end up liking it” But no, it is just a crypto-anarchist instruction manual that if you bug your parents enough they will cave! Don’t do it!
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That’s really impressive. I’m a pretty slow reader and shooting for 50 this year. Currently at 5.
12/100
This is an excellent book. I think most education about WW2 in focuses more on the US war in the pacific rather than what was going on in China at the time. This book covers the three main authority figures (Mao Zedong, Chaing Kai–shek, and Wang Jingwei) and the difficult decisions each of them had to make during an extremely desperate time in China’s history.
13/100
This is a wonderful story about a pair of orphans who find each other during the Syrian Civil War.
Number of title typo’s fixed this year: 1.
I’ll probably buy 100 books this year, but no way that I read them all. Some books, I really don’t intend to, I’m just grabbing a small part or getting a sense of what it’s about.
Good luck.