My list for the year, ordered by similarity. All are physical prints already on the bookshelf, just waiting to be snubbed for whatever else catches my attention.
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- That We May Live by various authors
- Liberation Day by George Saunders
- You Should Come With Me Now by M. John Harrison
- Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein
- False Dawn by John Gray
- A Theater of Envy by René Girard
- Philosophy and the Real World by Bryan Magee
- Order Without Design by Alain Bertaud
- Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
- Toxic Exposure by Chadi Nabhan
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- A Man of Iron by Troy Senik
- The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Metamathematics by Stephen Wolfram
- Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Taleb
- Towards a Theoretical Biology by C.H. Waddington
- Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin
- Seeing with Fresh Eyes by Edward Tufte
- A Guide for the Perplexed by Werner Herzog
- Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Here are the wishlists for 2022 and 2023, and the respective outcomes.