Sci-Fi Reading

I read a lot of science fiction -- mostly space opera, hard sci-fi, and the occasional military SF binge. My Kindle is never empty and my to-read list never gets shorter.

These are the books I tracked from 2012 to 2015. Some are great, some are forgettable, and a few completely changed how I think about technology and the future. The lists are unfiltered -- every book I finished that year, in the order I read them.

2015: 33 books 2014: 63 books 2013: 53 books 2012: 69 books

Total: 218 books in four years.

By year

• 2015 -- 33 books -- The Three-Body Problem, Code Breakers series, Vaughn Heppner
• 2014 -- 63 books -- Hyperion Cantos, Blindsight, Scrapyard Ship, Ark Royal
• 2013 -- 53 books -- Hyperion, Koban series, Steel World, Dark Space
• 2012 -- 69 books -- Wool, Ender's Game, The Forever War, House of Suns, Area 51 series

Standouts

A few that stuck with me across those years:

• Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons -- still the benchmark
• Blindsight by Peter Watts -- the most unsettling take on consciousness I've read
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu -- before it was everywhere
• Wool by Hugh Howey -- indie sci-fi at its best
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman -- timeless
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds -- galactic-scale and beautiful