I read a lot of fiction and try to keep learning interesting things. I also listen to a load of music, mainly on the darker end of the spectrum. Inspired by various blogs I decided to track what I’ve been consuming in 2025, mainly in case I find it interesting later. Then, I discovered you can export Kindle and Audible data, and merged that in too, giving a relatively decent record going back to 2018.

Also see my projects page, which is a giant jumble of projects I’ve either done or started.

Favourites

In no particular older…

April 2026

Fiction

March 2026

Fiction

February 2026

Fiction

Music

  • The Broken Oar - WEFT
  • Normal Isn’t - Puscifer
  • CONFLICT DLC - HEALTH

Learning

January 2026

December 2025

November 2025

October 2025

September 2025

August 2025

July 2025

Fiction

Podcasts

  • Mac Power Users
  • 404 Media

June 2025

Fiction

Podcasts

Watching

April/May 2025

Fiction

Non-fiction

Watching

Learning

March 2025

Speaking

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Listened: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
  • Listened: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Learning

February 2025

Fiction

Non-fiction

Learning

Music

  • Dream Theater - Parasomnia
  • Antimatter - Parallel Matter
  • Pothamus - Abur
  • Wyatt E. - Zamzaru ultu qereb…
  • Saor - Amidst the Ruins
  • Anciients - Beyond the Reach of the Sun

Late 2024 - January 2025

I can’t actually remember how far back this goes, probably from Autumn 2024. I’ve tried to list them in reverse chronological order.

Fiction

Non-fiction

  • Read: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
  • Reading: The Business-Minded CISO by Bryan C. Kissinger
  • Still Reading: CISSP Official Study Guide

Learning

September 2024

August 2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024

February 2024

January 2024

December 2023

Fiction

Non-fiction

November 2023

October 2023

September 2023

August 2023

July 2023

June 2023

May 2023

April 2023

March 2023

  • Read: Needle by Linda Nagata
  • Read: The Bohr Maker by Linda Nagata
  • Listened: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
  • Listened: It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

November 2022

October 2022

September 2022

August 2022

July 2022

June 2022

  • Listened: Life Time by Russell Foster

May 2022

April 2022

March 2022

February 2022

January 2022

December 2021

  • Listened: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  • Listened: Blood Rites by Jim Butcher

November 2021

  • Listened: The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
  • Listened: Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

October 2021

  • Read: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  • Read: Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds
  • Listened: Mars Rover Curiosity by Rob Manning, William L. Simon

September 2021

August 2021

July 2021

June 2021

May 2021

April 2021

March 2021

February 2021

January 2021

December 2020

November 2020

September 2020

August 2020

July 2020

May 2020

April 2020

March 2020

February 2020

January 2020

December 2019

November 2019

September 2019

June 2019

May 2019

April 2019

March 2019

February 2019

January 2019

November 2018

October 2018

September 2018

August 2018

Earlier

Ada Palmer

  • Perhaps the Stars
  • Seven Surrenders
  • The Will to Battle
  • Too Like the Lightning

Adrian Tchaikovsky

  • Children of Memory
  • Children of Time
  • Dogs of War
  • The Hungry Gods

Alastair Reynolds

  • Absolution Gap
  • Blue Remembered Earth
  • Chasm City
  • On the Steel Breeze
  • Redemption Ark
  • Doctor Who
  • Poseidon’s Wake
  • The Medusa Chronicles
  • The Revelation Space eBook Collection

Aldous Huxley

  • Brave New World

Alfred Price

  • Instruments of Darkness

Amber C. Gardner

  • Air Fryer Cookbook UK 2021

Andy Kirkpatrick

  • Nutcraft - The Climbing Nut Bible

Andy Weir

  • The Martian

Ann Leckie

  • Ancillary Justice
  • Ancillary Mercy
  • Ancillary Sword

Arthur C. Clarke

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 2010: Odyssey Two

Becky Chambers

  • A Closed and Common Orbit
  • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Bill Meara

  • SolderSmoke – Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics

Bram Stoker

  • Dracula

Bruce A. Tate

  • Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Bruce Hood

  • The Self Illusion

Bruce Schneier

  • Liars and Outliers

C. Robert Cargill

  • Sea of Rust

Charles Stross

  • Accelerando
  • The Annihilation Score
  • The Apocalypse Codex
  • The Atrocity Archives
  • The Clan Corporate
  • Equoid
  • The Family Trade
  • The Fuller Memorandum
  • Glasshouse
  • Halting State
  • The Hidden Family
  • Iron Sunrise
  • The Jennifer Morgue
  • The Merchants’ War
  • Neptune’s Brood
  • The Rhesus Chart
  • Rule 34
  • Saturn’s Children
  • Singularity Sky
  • Wireless
  • Dark State
  • Empire Games
  • The Bloodline Feud
  • The Delirium Brief
  • The Nightmare Stacks
  • The Revolution Trade
  • The Traders’ War

Cherie Priest

  • Boneshaker
  • Jacaranda

China Miéville

  • The City & the City
  • Kraken
  • Railsea
  • Un Lun Dun
  • Embassytown
  • Iron Council
  • King Rat
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Scar
  • This Census-Taker

Chris Beckett

  • Mother of Eden
  • Dark Eden
  • Daughter of Eden

Christian Cantrell

  • Containment

Cixin Liu

  • The Dark Forest
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • Death’s End

Connie Willis

  • All Clear
  • Blackout
  • Fire Watch (Collection)
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog
  • Inside Job

Cory Doctorow

  • Little Brother
  • Pirate Cinema

Dan Simmons

  • The Fall of Hyperion
  • Hyperion
  • Muse of Fire

David Mitchell

  • Cloud Atlas

Deviant Ollam

  • Practical Lock Picking

Douglas Adams

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Preston

  • Still Life With Crows
  • The Cabinet of Curiosities

Ernest Cline

  • Armada
  • Ready Player One

Frank Herbert

  • Children of Dune
  • Dune

Fritz Leiber

  • Gather, Darkness!

Gareth L. Powell

  • Ack-Ack Macaque
  • Hive Monkey
  • Embers of War

Gene Wolfe

  • A Borrowed Man

George Orwell

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

Greg Bear

  • Hull Zero Three

H. G. Wells

  • The Time Machine
  • The Time Machine and the War of the Worlds
  • The War of the Worlds

H. P. Lovecraft

  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
  • H. P. Lovecraft

Hannu Rajaniemi

  • The Fractal Prince
  • The Quantum Thief
  • The Causal Angel

Hermann Hesse

  • The Glass Bead Game

Hugh Howey

  • Wool

Hunt

  • Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Iain Cameron

  • The Vanishing Ice

Iain M. Banks

  • Against a Dark Background
  • The Bridge
  • Transition
  • The Wasp Factory
  • Stonemouth
  • The Crow Road

Ian Hocking

  • Déjà Vu

Isaac Asimov

  • Foundation
  • The Foundation Trilogy
  • Foundation’s Edge

J. G. Ballard

  • The Drowned World

J. K. Rowling

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

J. R. R. Tolkien

  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Hobbit
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Two Towers

James Bradley

  • Clade

James Clear

  • Atomic Habits

James Gleick

  • The Information

James S. A. Corey

  • Abaddon’s Gate
  • Caliban’s War
  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Cibola Burn
  • Nemesis Games
  • The Butcher of Anderson Station
  • The Churn

Jeff VanderMeer

  • Acceptance
  • Annihilation
  • Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
  • Authority

Jennifer Foehner Wells

  • Fluency

Jo Walton

  • Among Others

John Connolly

  • A Song of Shadows
  • The Burning Soul
  • The Children of Eve
  • The Wolf in Winter
  • The Wrath of Angels

John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey

  • THE END IS NIGH

John Long

  • Climbing Anchors, 3rd

John Meaney

  • Absorption
  • Transmission
  • New Jerusalem
  • Resonance

John Scalzi

  • The Last Colony
  • Lock In
  • Old Man’s War
  • Redshirts
  • Zoe’s Tale
  • The Collapsing Empire
  • The End of All Things
  • The Ghost Brigades
  • The Human Division

Jonathan Strahan

  • Engineering Infinity

Jonathan Trigell

  • Genus

Joseph Brassey

  • Katabasis

Joseph Fink

  • Welcome to Night Vale

Joshua Duffney

  • How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian

Jules Verne

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth

Kage Baker

  • After the End

Kameron Hurley

  • The Light Brigade
  • The Stars Are Legion

Karen Lord

  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

Kim Stanley Robinson

  • 2312
  • Shaman
  • Blue Mars
  • Green Mars

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  • Consequences
  • Extremes
  • The Disappeared

Kurt Vonnegut

  • Galapagos
  • The Sirens of Titan
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Galápagos

L.A. Weatherly

  • Broken Sky

Larry Niven

  • Ringworld
  • The Ringworld Engineers

Lars Kepler

  • The Hypnotist

Lauren Beukes

  • Zoo City

Leonard Richardson

  • Constellation Games

Lewis Carroll

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Shards of Honor

Madeline Ashby

  • Company Town
  • iD
  • ReV
  • vN

Margaret Atwood

  • The Handmaid’s Tale
  • Maddaddam
  • Oryx and Crake
  • The Year of the Flood

Martha Wells

  • All Systems Red
  • Artificial Condition

Mary Shelley

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Meg Elison

  • The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Megan E. O’Keefe

  • Catalyst Gate

Michael Crichton

  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Sphere

Michal Zalewski

  • Silence on the Wire
  • The Tangled Web

N. K. Jemisin

  • The Fifth Season
  • The Killing Moon
  • The Obelisk Gate
  • The Shadowed Sun
  • The Stone Sky

Nancy Kress

  • After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Neal Asher

  • The Departure
  • Jupiter War
  • Orbus
  • The Skinner
  • The Voyage of the Sable Keech
  • Zero Point

Neal Stephenson

  • Cryptonomicon
  • The Mongoliad: Book One
  • The Mongoliad: Book Three
  • The Mongoliad: Book Two
  • Seveneves

Neil Gaiman

  • American Gods
  • Anansi Boys
  • Good Omens
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Neverwhere
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • Stardust

Nina Allan

  • The Rift

Nnedi Okorafor

  • Binti
  • The Book of Phoenix

Paolo Bacigalupi

  • The Drowned Cities
  • Ship Breaker
  • The Water Knife
  • The Windup Girl
  • Pump Six and Other Stories
  • The Alchemist
  • Tool of War

Paul Antony Jones

  • Extinction Point

Peter F. Hamilton

  • Mindstar Rising
  • The Nano Flower
  • A Quantum Murder
  • The Naked God
  • The Neutronium Alchemist
  • The Reality Dysfunction

Peter V. Brett

  • Brayan’s Gold

Peter Watts

  • Blindsight
  • Echopraxia
  • Firefall

Philip K. Dick

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • The Man in the High Castle
  • Ubik

Rachel Abbott

  • Nowhere Child

Randall Munroe

  • What If?

Ray Mears

  • My Outdoor Life

Rhik Samadder

  • I Never Said I Loved You

Richard Kadrey

  • Aloha from Hell
  • Kill the Dead
  • Sandman Slim
  • Devil Said Bang
  • Kill City Blues
  • Killing Pretty
  • The Getaway God

Richard Matheson

  • I Am Legend

Richard Phillips

  • Immune

Richard Sanders

  • The Phoenix Conspiracy
  • The Phoenix Crisis
  • The Phoenix Rising

Robert Charles Wilson

  • Axis
  • Vortex
  • Spin

Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Reed

  • The Greatship
  • The Memory of Sky

Roger Zelazny

  • Damnation Alley

Rosa Montero

  • Tears in Rain

Ryan North

  • Machine of Death

S.G. Redling

  • Damocles

Suw Charman-Anderson

  • Argleton

Terry Goodkind

  • Wizard’s First Rule

Terry Pratchett

  • Carpe Jugulum
  • The Color of Magic
  • Dodger
  • Equal Rites
  • Feet of Clay
  • The Fifth Elephant
  • Going Postal
  • Guards! Guards!
  • A Hat Full of Sky
  • Hogfather
  • I Shall Wear Midnight
  • Interesting Times
  • Jingo
  • The Last Continent
  • The Last Hero
  • The Light Fantastic
  • Lords and Ladies
  • Making Money
  • Maskerade
  • Men at Arms
  • Monstrous Regiment
  • Mort
  • Moving Pictures
  • Night Watch
  • Pyramids
  • Reaper Man
  • Small Gods
  • Snuff
  • Soul Music
  • Sourcery
  • Thief of Time
  • Thud!
  • The Truth
  • The Wee Free Men
  • Wintersmith
  • Witches Abroad
  • Wyrd Sisters
  • The Long Earth

Thomas Harris

  • Hannibal
  • Red Dragon
  • The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Marcinko

  • Astronauts and Heretics

Tobias S. Buckell

  • The Executioness

Tricia Sullivan

  • Occupy Me

William Gibson

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties
  • Burning Chrome
  • Count Zero
  • The Difference Engine
  • Idoru
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Spook Country
  • Virtual Light
  • Zero History

William Golding

  • Lord of the Flies

Yann Martel

  • Life Of Pi

Yoon Ha Lee

  • Ninefox Gambit
  • Raven Stratagem

Zack Parsons

  • Liminal States

  1. This is a YA series, which reminds me a bit of Revenger, except it’s maybe a bit more kiddy. Overall pretty good fun but not amazing - I’ll read the next installment when it’s out. ↩︎