Terrence Dorsey

Writer. Editor. Nerd.

Reading List

I've started keeping this list of the books I'm reading each month. It's not everything I pick up. Just the books I enjoy and actually finish. Maybe there's something here you'll enjoy, too.

I recommend supporting your local independent booksellers by purchasing your books there if at all possible. Mine is the fantastic Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT. Stop in and check it out if you're in the neighborhood.

5/2013

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

4/2013

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

The Witches, Roald Dahl

3/2013

Matilda, Roald Dahl

Danny the Champion of the World, Roald Dahl

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl

Microserfs, Douglas Coupland

2/2013

Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut

1/2013

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner

iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass

10/2012

The Racing Porsches. Paul Frère - The book is long out of print, but the author was a legend.

9/2012

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight, David A. Mindell

8/2012

The Unredeemed Captive, John Putnam Demos

7/2012

James Madison and the Making of America, Kevin Gutzman

6/2012

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, William Doyle

James Madison, Richard Brookhiser (I don't recommend this one.)

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

The Dellorto Superformance Tech Book, Bob Tomlinson

5/2012

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis

4/2012

John Adams, David McCullough

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

2/2012

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (with my daughter)

Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

Reamde: A Novel, Neal Stephenson

1/2012

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (with my daughter)

The Bob Wilkins Scrapbook, Tom Wyrsch

Buying, Driving and Enjoying the Porsche 911 and 912, 1965-1973, James E. Schrager

Porsche 911 Performance Handbook, Bruce Anderson

1974-1989 911, 912E and 930 Porsche, Mark S. Haab

Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s, Robert Cohen

Vic Elford: Reflections on a Golden Age in Motorsports, Vic Elford

12/2011

Just a Geek, Wil Wheaton

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Trenton Lee Stewart

11/2011

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling (yes, again)

The Rule of Law, Tom Bingham

Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Aaron Hillegass

10/2011

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

Makers, Cory Doctorow

9/2011

The Long Ships, Frans G. Bengtsson

Ready Player One, Ernst Cline

8/2011

Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture, Stephen Segal

The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein

The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart

6/2011

Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes

The Paleo Solution, Robb Wolf


Full disclosure: some of the links on this page are Amazon associate links and I could receive a payment from Amazon for any purchases you make during a shopping session initiated via these links. I encourage you to shop locally whenever possible.