Luke Hansford
Reading List
Books I've read or am currently reading. This is page is a work in progress - I have a more complete list of books I've read available here in the meantime.
2023
February
January
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Wayfarers #4
Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Wayfarers #3
Becky Chambers
A Closed And Common Orbit
Wayfarers #2
Becky Chambers
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Wayfarers #1
Becky Chambers
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Wayfarers #1
Becky Chambers
Babel
Or the Necessity of Violence
R.F. Kuang
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Brandon Sanderson
2022
December
Do Nothing
Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
The Golden Enclaves
The Scholomance #3
Naomi Novik
Nona the Ninth
The Locked Tomb #3
Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth
The Locked Tomb #2
Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth
The Locked Tomb #1
Tamsyn Muir
Mistborn - Secret History
Brandon Sanderson
November
The Lost Metal
Mistborn #7
Brandon Sanderson
Site Reliability Engineering
Betsy Byer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff & Niall Murphy
The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn #6
Brandon Sanderson
Shadows of Self
Mistborn #5
Brandon Sanderson
The Alloy of Law
Mistborn #4
Brandon Sanderson
The Hero of Ages
Mistborn #3
Brandon Sanderson
The Well of Ascension
Mistborn #2
Brandon Sanderson
The Final Empire
Mistborn #1
Brandon Sanderson
How To Make The Best Coffee At Home
James Hoffman
October
August
Locklands
The Founders Trilogy #3
Robert Jackson Bennett
The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
July
May
Observability Engineering
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda
Shape up
Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
Ryan Singer
April
January
2021
December
September
The Last Graduate
The Scholomance #2
Naomi Novik
Four Thousand Weeks
Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkman
Hero of Two Worlds
The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan
August
July
The Verge
Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Patrick Wyman
Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
June
The Relentless Moon
Lady Astronaut #3
Mary Robinette Kowal
A Desolation Called Peace
Teixcalaan #2
Arkady Martine
April
7 Principles of Becoming a Leader
The definitive guide for starting and building your management career
Riku Vuorenmaa
Assassin's Fate
Fitz and the Fool #3
Robin Hobb
Fool's Quest
Fitz and the Fool #2
Robin Hobb
Fool's Assassin
Fitz and the Fool #1
Robin Hobb
Fool's Fate
The Tawny Man #3
Robin Hobb
The Golden Fool
The Tawny Man #2
Robin Hobb
Fool's Errand
The Tawny Man #1
Robin Hobb
Assassin's Quest
The Farseer Trilogy #3
Robin Hobb
March
Royal Assassin
The Farseer Trilogy #2
Robin Hobb
Assassin's Apprentice
The Farseer Trilogy #1
Robin Hobb
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
2020
December
November
October
September
August
June
Redshirts
John Scalzi
The Last Emperox
The Interdependency #3
John Scalzi
The Consuming Fire
The Interdependency #2
John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire
The Interdependency #1
John Scalzi
Atomic Habits
James Clear
April
Ninefox Gambit
Yoon Ha Lee
A Memory Called Empire
Teixcalaan #1
Arkady Martine
Shorefall
The Founders Trilogy #2
Robert Jackson Bennett
Front-end Style Guides
Anna Debenham
March
January
2019
December
The Last Wish
The Witcher Saga #1
Andrzej Sapkowski
Ruined By Design
How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
Mike Monteiro
November
September
The Fated Sky
Lady Astronaut #2
Mary Robinette Kowal
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
The Dragon Republic
The Poppy War #2
R. F. Kuang
August
June
Summer Knight
Dresden Files #4
Jim Butcher
Grave Peril
Dresden Files #3
Jim Butcher
Fool Moon
Dresden Files #2
Jim Butcher
Storm Front
Dresden Files #1
Jim Butcher
May
The Calculating Stars
Lady Astronaut #1
Mary Robinette Kowal
High Growth Handbook
Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Elad Gil
The Poppy War
The Poppy War #1
R.F. Kuang
April
March
We're Pregnant!
The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook
Adrian Kulp
Tiamat's Wrath
The Expanse #8
James S.A. Corey
The Republic of Thieves
Gentleman Bastards #3
Scott Lynch
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Gentleman Bastards #2
Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Gentleman Bastards #1
Scott Lynch
February
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Last Argument of Kings
The First Law Trilogy #3
Joe Abercrombie
Before They Are Hanged
The First Law Trilogy #2
Joe Abercrombie
The Blade Itself
The First Law Trilogy #1
Joe Abercrombie
January
Player's Handbook (Dungeons & Dragons)
Wizards of the Coast
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons)
Wizards of the Coast
2018
December
City of Miracles
The Divine Cities #3
Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Blades
The Divine Cities #2
Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Stairs
The Divine Cities #1
Robert Jackson Bennett
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Foundryside
The Founders Trilogy #1
Robert Jackson Bennett
Skyward
Skyward #1
Brandon Sanderson
Let The Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist
October
September
A Memory of Light
Wheel of Time #14
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
Towers of Midnight
Wheel of Time #13
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
August
The Gathering Storm
Wheel of Time #12
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
Knife of Dreams
Wheel of Time #11
Robert Jordan
Crossroads of Twilight
Wheel of Time #10
Robert Jordan
Winter's Heart
Wheel of Time #9
Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers
Wheel of Time #8
Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords
Wheel of Time #7
Robert Jordan
July
Lord of Chaos
Wheel of Time #6
Robert Jordan
Fires of Heaven
Wheel of Time #5
Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising
Wheel of Time #4
Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
Wheel of Time #3
Robert Jordan
The Great Hunt
Wheel of Time #2
Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World
Wheel of Time #1
Robert Jordan
June
May
2017
May
March
Underground
The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psych
Haruki Murakami
The Problem with Music in New Zealand
Ian Jorgensen
February
2016
December
November
September
July
Vanishing Kingdoms
The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Norman Davies
Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts
June
May
April
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy
Japrocksampler
How the Post-war Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll
Julian Cope
March
January
Between The World And Me
Ta-nehisi Coates
Lost Enlightenment
Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
S. Frederick Starr
2015
December
September
July
On Revolution
Hanah Arendt
Acceptance
The Southern Reach Trilogy #3
Jeff VanDerMeer
Season Of The Witch
How The Occult Saved Rock and Roll
Peter Berbergal
Authority
The Southern Reach Trilogy #2
Jeff VanDerMeer
CSS3 for Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
June
April
March
February
January
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Ancillary Sword
Imperial Radch #2
Ann Leckie
On Liberty & Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
2014
December
November
Pre-2014 / No date recorded
Throne of the Crescent Moon
Saladin Ahmed
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Unwinding
An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Magicians
The Magicians #1
Lev Grossman
The Magician's Land
The Magicians #3
Lev Grossman
The Magician King
The Magicians #2
Lev Grossman
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
Speaker for the Dead
Ender Sextet #2
Orson Scott Card
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
Bruce Tate
In The Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Steven Levy
Hild
Nicola Griffith
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Ender's Game
Ender Sextet #1
Orson Scott Card
Death Masks
Dresden Files #5
Jim Butcher
Dead Beat
Dresden Files #7
Jim Butcher
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Blue Mars
The Mars Trilogy #3
Kim Stanley Robinson
Blood Rites
Dresden Files #6
Jim Butcher
Ancillary Justice
Imperial Radch #1
Ann Leckie
A Guide To the Good Life
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William Irvine