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Years in reading

One door open, one door closed.

Each year’s first finish and last finish, with the count between.

Ratings, over time

60 rated · avg 4.75 · 2.0–5.0
123452011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — 4.0 ★ — 2010-01-01Unseen Academicals — 3.0 ★ — 2010-01-01A Fraction of the Whole — 5.0 ★ — 2010-09-10Ender's Shadow — 5.0 ★ — 2012-09-01Snow Crash — 4.0 ★ — 2014-09-11Count Zero — 3.0 ★ — 2014-09-13Cryptonomicon — 4.0 ★ — 2017-08-18Babylon's Ashes — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12Caliban's War — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12Cibola Burn — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12Pyramids — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12Red Rising — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12The Magician King — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12The Magician's Land — 4.0 ★ — 2017-09-12The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories — 5.0 ★ — 2017-09-12Zodiac — 5.0 ★ — 2018-01-03The Three-Body Problem — 5.0 ★ — 2018-08-12For We Are Many — 5.0 ★ — 2018-10-25Children Of The Deterrent — 5.0 ★ — 2018-12-28Halfheroes — 5.0 ★ — 2019-01-12Mistborn: The Final Empire — 5.0 ★ — 2019-07-01The Hero of Ages — 5.0 ★ — 2019-09-04The Bands of Mourning — 5.0 ★ — 2019-10-16Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation — 5.0 ★ — 2020-08-03Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — 5.0 ★ — 2020-08-03Shadows of Self — 5.0 ★ — 2020-11-06The Alloy of Law — 5.0 ★ — 2020-11-06The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories — 5.0 ★ — 2020-11-06The Slow Regard of Silent Things — 5.0 ★ — 2020-11-06Red Seas Under Red Skies — 5.0 ★ — 2021-02-24The Republic of Thieves — 5.0 ★ — 2021-02-24The Way of Kings — 5.0 ★ — 2021-05-07Oathbringer — 5.0 ★ — 2021-10-03Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters — 4.0 ★ — 2021-11-02The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet — 4.0 ★ — 2021-11-02A Closed and Common Orbit — 5.0 ★ — 2021-11-15Record of a Spaceborn Few — 5.0 ★ — 2021-12-02Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City — 5.0 ★ — 2022-04-27The Lost Metal — 5.0 ★ — 2023-01-14A Deadly Education — 5.0 ★ — 2023-02-03The Last Graduate — 5.0 ★ — 2023-04-01Babel — 5.0 ★ — 2023-06-25The Thursday Murder Club — 5.0 ★ — 2023-11-28The Eye of the Bedlam Bride — 5.0 ★ — 2024-04-23All Systems Red — 5.0 ★ — 2024-04-24The Player of Games — 5.0 ★ — 2025-02-03Blackflame — 5.0 ★ — 2025-05-29Underlord — 5.0 ★ — 2025-05-29Uncrowned — 5.0 ★ — 2025-05-31Wintersteel — 5.0 ★ — 2025-06-06A Practical Guide to Conquering the World — 5.0 ★ — 2025-07-09Golden Son — 5.0 ★ — 2025-07-09Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch — 5.0 ★ — 2025-07-09Legends & Lattes — 5.0 ★ — 2025-07-09Leviathan Wakes — 5.0 ★ — 2025-07-09Can't Spell Treason Without Tea — 2.0 ★ — 2025-07-14Reaper — 4.0 ★ — 2025-07-21Waybound — 5.0 ★ — 2025-08-18The Will of the Many — 5.0 ★ — 2026-02-10Ra — 4.0 ★ — 2026-04-23
each finished bookrolling avg (8-book window)

A record of taste calibration more than absolute quality — I mostly log books I expect to love, so the line drifts upward over time as I’ve gotten better at picking. Read it as “what I’ve learned about my own taste,” not “how good the books were.”

  1. 20263 finished
    First
    The Will of the Many
    James Islington
    ★★★★★2026-02-10
    Last
    Ra
    qntm
    ★★★★2026-04-23
  2. 202545 finished
    First
    The Player of Games
    Iain M. Banks
    ★★★★★2025-02-03
    Last
    This Inevitable Ruin
    Matt Dinniman
    2025-08-30
  3. 20245 finished
    First
    Dungeon Crawler Carl
    Matt Dinniman
    2024-01-15
    Last
    He Who Fights with Monsters
    Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
    2024-08-23
  4. 20235 finished
    First
    The Lost Metal
    Brandon Sanderson
    ★★★★★2023-01-14
    Last
    The Thursday Murder Club
    Richard Osman
    ★★★★★2023-11-28
  5. 20226 finished
    First
    A Hat Full of Sky
    Terry Pratchett
    2022-02-18
    Last
    Shades of Grey
    Jasper Fforde
    2022-08-28
  6. 202114 finished
    First
    Red Seas Under Red Skies
    Scott Lynch
    ★★★★★2021-02-24
    Last
    Record of a Spaceborn Few
    Becky Chambers
    ★★★★★2021-12-02
  7. 20206 finished
    Last
    The Slow Regard of Silent Things
    Patrick Rothfuss
    ★★★★★2020-11-06
  8. 201912 finished
    First
    Halfheroes
    Ian W. Sainsbury
    ★★★★★2019-01-12
    Last
    Exhalation
    Ted Chiang
    2019-11-27
  9. 201817 finished
    First
    Zodiac
    Sam Wilson
    ★★★★★2018-01-03
    Last
    The World Walker
    Ian W. Sainsbury
    2018-12-28
  10. 20179 finished
    First
    Cryptonomicon
    Neal Stephenson
    ★★★★2017-08-18
    Last
    The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories
    Philip K. Dick
    ★★★★★2017-09-12
  11. 20142 finished
    First
    Snow Crash
    Neal Stephenson
    ★★★★2014-09-11
    Last
    Count Zero
    William Gibson
    ★★★2014-09-13
  12. 20121 finished
    First
    Ender's Shadow
    Orson Scott Card
    ★★★★★2012-09-01
  13. 20104 finished
    First
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
    Italo Calvino, William Weaver
    ★★★★2010-01-01
    Last
    A Fraction of the Whole
    Steve Toltz
    ★★★★★2010-09-10

Plus an unlinked 263 Kindle sessions (~72h) reading send-to-Kindle personal documents and samples — real time, but nothing in the vault to pin it to.