Harper Reed's Blog

Books I’ve Read

I read a lot of books. Here is my read book list.

Reading Stats:

2025 - 22 books, 5610 yearly pages read, ~51 daily pages read
2024 - 58 books, 13440 yearly pages read, ~36 daily pages read
2023 - 49 books, 11180 yearly pages read, ~30 daily pages read
2022 - 70 books, 17020 yearly pages read, ~46 daily pages read
2021 - 64 books, 19962 yearly pages read, ~54 daily pages read
2020 - 54 books, 12881 yearly pages read, ~35 daily pages read
2019 - 75 books, 21400 yearly pages read, ~58 daily pages read
2018 - 45 books, 9625 yearly pages read, ~26 daily pages read
2017 - 24 books, 7387 yearly pages read, ~20 daily pages read
2016 - 23 books, 6077 yearly pages read, ~16 daily pages read
2015 - 33 books, 10950 yearly pages read, ~30 daily pages read
2014 - 31 books, 7797 yearly pages read, ~21 daily pages read

Below you’ll find my recent reads with reviews and thoughts. You can also view this as a grid.

2023-04-01 American War (by Omar El Akkad)
2023-03-27 Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union (by Stephen Budiansky)
2023-03-11 The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture (by Brian Dear)
2023-02-25 The Deluge (by Stephen Markley)
2023-02-17 The Terraformers (by Annalee Newitz)
2023-02-08 Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2) (by Daniel Suarez)
2023-01-31 Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency (by Andy Greenberg)
2023-01-23 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (by Ed Yong)
2023-01-02 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) (by Becky Chambers)
2022-12-30 There Is No Antimemetics Division (by qntm)
2022-12-25 Friday Black (by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)
2022-12-17 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (by Gabrielle Zevin)
2022-12-14 The Key Man (by Simon Clark)
2022-12-06 We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption (by Justin Fenton)
2022-12-03 Lakewood (by Megan Giddings)
2022-11-30 Neom (by Lavie Tidhar)
2022-11-27 Central Station (by Lavie Tidhar)
2022-11-23 Upgrade (by Blake Crouch)
2022-11-21 The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (by Katherine Stewart)
2022-11-18 Hangry: A Startup Journey (by Mike Evans)