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Associated notes
The other meta notes about my reading habits are:
What is an antilibrary? To put it simply, an antilibrary is a private collection of unread books. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.
Inspired by this page.
Non-fiction
- Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- Das elegante Universum by Brian Greene
- Humble Pi by Matt Parker
- Bald! by Zach Weinersmith
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- …
Fiction
My list
This section contains books I want to read, partially because they received some kind of award.
Notable awards and lists include Hugo, Nebula, their joint winners, or Locus Award, and possibly other awards.
Some come also from the Goodreads Choice Awards, mainly for ScienceFiction in 2023 and earlier.
- Charles Stross
- Accelerando
- Glasshouse
- The Concrete Jungle (short novel)
- Palimpsest (short novel)
- Halting State (Halting State #1)
- The Atrocity Archives (The Laundry Files #1)
- Saturn’s Children (Saturn’s Children #1)
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Ministry for the Future
- The Years of Rice and Salt
- Mars (series)
- China Miéville
- Embassytown
- The City & the City
- Perdido Street Station
- Neal Stephenson
- Anathem
- The Baroque Cycle (series)
- Cryptonomicon
- Ann Leckie
- Imperial Radch (series)
- Translation State
- qntm
- Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
- There Is No Antimemetics Division
- Ra
- Fine Structure
- Ed
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Children of Time
- Shards of Earth
- Peter Clines
- Ex-Patriots (Ex-Heroes #2)
- Terminus (Threshold #4)
- Paradox Bound
- The Broken Room
- Neal Asher
- Gridlinked (Agent Cormac #1)
- …
- Vernor Vinge
- Rainbow’s End
- A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought #2)
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune
- Babel by R. F. Kuang
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Death’s End (Three Body Problem #3) by Cixin Liu
- Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
- Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
- Ilium (Ilium/Olympos #2) by Dan Simmons
- The Atlas Six (The Atlas #1) by Olivie Blake
- Dark Side (Sam Dryden #3) by Patrick Lee
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
- Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes
- All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet
- https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/a0248u/sci_fi_short_stories_or_short_story_collections/
Not yet released
- Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) by Dennis E. Taylor (~Sep 2024)
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (25th Mar 2025)
- Old Man’s War #7 by John Scalzi (late 2025)
- Pandemonium (Bequin #3) by Dan Abnett (TBA)
- Folly by Naomi Novik (TBA)
- Revenant-X (Red Space #2) by David Wellington (5th Nov 2024)
- Cold Eternity by S. A. Barnes (8th Apr 2025)
- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (4th Mar 2025)
- The Horusian Wars #3 by John French (maybe cancelled?)
Recommendations from friends
Books
- Cradle (series) by Will Wight
- Rivers of London (series) by Ben Aaronovitch
- Black Bird Academy by Stella Tack
- Book of Night Holly Black
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Webseries
- The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand
- Mother of Learning by nobody103
- Worm by Wildbow
- Super Supportive by Sleyca (ongoing series)
Warhammer 40K
- Grey Knights (series) by Ben Counter
A list of physical books I own but haven’t read yet:
- Assasinorum by Robert Rath (german)
- Fear the Alien by Christian Dunn & VA (german)
- Lupercal’s War by VA
- Flesh and Iron by Henry Zou (german)
- Salamander by Nick Kyme (german)
- Crusade & Other Stories by VA (german)
- Ragnar Blackmane, Arjac Rockfist by Aaron Dembski-Bowden & Ben Counter (german)
- Grim Repast by Marc Collins (german)
- Blackstone Fortress by Darius Hinks (german)
- Traitor Rock by Justin D Hill (german)
- The Wicked and the Damned by Josh Reynolds, Phil Kelly & David Annandale (german)
- Born of Flame by Nick Kyme (german)
- Valdor: Birth of the Imperium by Chris Wraight (german)
- Hunt for Voldorius by Andy Hoare (german)
- The Purge of Kadillus by Gav Thorpe (german)
Comic & Manga
- Junji Ito
- Comic books by Simon Stålenhag
- Tales from the Loop
- Things from the Flood
- The Electric State
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