I’m on pace this year to read 40 books this year. Here’s a quick snapshot of the list so far, in rough order from beginning to end of year. I’m looking forward to writing up a week’s worth of posts this year on my favorites by genre.

• Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
• The Stone Sky — N.K. Jemisin
• Elements of Eloquence — Mark Forsyth
• Robot Visions — Isaac Asimov
• Scale — Geoffrey West
• Artemis — Andy Weir
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
• Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer
• Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein
• The Innovator’s Dilemma — Clay Christensen
• Authority — Jeff VanderMeer
• Acceptance — Jeff VanderMeer
• The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
• Norse Mythology — Neil Gaiman
• Who — Geoff Smart
• Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb
• Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
• Deep Work — Cal Newport
• Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
• Caldé of the Long Sun — Gene Wolfe
• Factfulness — Hans Rosling
• Jurassic Park — Michael Chrichton
• Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker
• A Conflict of Visions — Thomas Sowell
• Cosmos — Carl Sagan
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
• The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli
• The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene
• Suicide of the West — Jonah Goldberg
• Chaos — James Gleick
• Energy: A Human History — Richard Rhodes