Bunch of books I’ve read and haven’t documented…
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett (EW March 2025 Book Club)
A dystopian future? past? alternate history? where a society sends girls out into the woods at 16 for a year to burn out their “magic powers”. I thought this was a somewhat ridiculous premise until I recently read a book (Proto) that mentioned a past society that did this with their boys for more like 4 years. Truth/Fiction… stranger.
Boo by Neil Smith [Audiobook, paper] – Grove strongly recommended
Excellent novel about an afterlife for teens that my youngest son hounded me to read for a year. I’m awfully glad he did– funny, interesting and thoughtful with a whodunnit built in– I really enjoyed this.
Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin – book of the month selection from Nowhere Book Shop.
Spoiler alert, the main character is not a little alien, but rather just someone who feels out of place in the world. So if you ever have, this is a delightful, heartwarming and amusing read.
Song of Blood & Stone by L. Penelope [EW book club, bookshop.org, abandoned]
Didn’t grab me. Fantasy. My coworker is really enthusiastic about the series, though. May need to give it a second chance.
Actively Reading:
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle [Audible]
- Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky [bookshop.org]
- Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni [bookshop.org]
- The Accidental Alchemist: An Accidental Alchemist Mystery by Gigi Pandian [eBook]
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders
Stalled Out But Still Might Finish
- Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters by Jeremy Utley, Perry Klebahn [audiobook] rec by coworker
- Executive Presence by Syvlia Ann Hewlett
- The Five Disfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Crucial Conversations by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory [eBook, Audio book]
- The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne by Jonathan Stroud [ebook, audiobook]
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear [ebook]
- God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopaulou [ebook] – rec by Data vs. Dogma podcast
- Marriage in the Bible: What Do the Texts Say? by Jennifer Bird – was a guest on Data Vs. Dogma podcast
- How to Avoid Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell
- Buckaroo Banzai: Against the World Crime League et al., by E.M. Rauch
On Deck
- Dinosaur Brains by Albert J. Bernstein & Sydney Craft Rozen [bookshop.org]
- Now is Not The Time to Panic [eBook]
- Congratulations, the Best is Over!: Essays [Paper, Audiobook] – Stacey recommended
- Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver [audiobook]
- The New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman (ebook)
- The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
- Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker
- The Madwoman and the Roomba by Sandra Tsing Loh
- Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson
- Our Biggest Experiment by Alice Bell
- Ada and the Engine by Lauren Gunderson
- Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire