Reading

Here I keep track of what I’m reading and what I’m planning to read. There’s more info on my Goodreads, though starting January 2026 I’m not updating that anymore.

Last updated: January 17th, 2026. Previous version.

Currently reading

Audiobooks

Just finished The Shadow of What Was Lost. What an ending. Now continuing with Wool, and enjoying it, but I’m really missing Michael Kramer’s voice. He has quite a way of changing his voice to suit characters, I’m really impressed.

E-books

Reading In Onze Tijd by Tim Fransen on my e-reader. On my phone I stumbled into The Castle by Kafka. Both are tough reads in their own way. On my tablet I’m reading, very slowly, The Comfort Crisis. The nice thing about it is that it still makes sense and is enjoyable even after not reading it for a month.

Dead-tree copies

Beren op de Weg, Spinsels in je Hoofd.

Plans

These books are already in my (electronic) bookcase, and I’m actively considering to read them next. While it might take me a few years to get to them, it’s extremely rare for books to get kicked off this list.

If I told you I was going to read a certain book, and it’s not on this list, I owe you a hot or cold beverage of your choice 😉.

In no particular order:

The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
Frege Explained
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
De Foundation en het Imperium
Prince of Milk
The Chosen by Chaim Potok.
What We Can Know
Lessons
Openbaring
Isles of Emberdark. I accidentally got the fancy hardcover edition. What a treat!
The Whispering Dark
An Echo of Things To Come (Licanius, book 2). Listening to book 1 was such a great experience because of the narrator. But, the book also requires really paying attention, and going back a few paragraphs or even a few pages doesn’t work well for an audiobook. So not sure yet if I’ll listen to this one.
Blood of the Chosen (Burningblade & Silvereye, book 2)

Books of 2025

Log

2026

2026-01-17: The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington
2026-01-04: De vreemdeling by Albert Camus
2026-01-02: Ashes of the Sun (Burningblade & Silvereye, #1) by Django Wexler

2025

2025-12-07: The Game Master’s Handbook of Proactive Roleplaying by Jonah Fishel and Tristan Fishel
2025-10-31: The Fifth Science by Exurb1a
2025-10-05: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
2025-08-30: Shampoo by Bert Moerman
2025-08-28: Tales from the Cafe: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2025-02-15: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
2025-02-01: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
2025-01-12: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
2025-01-09: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
2025-01-05: White Sand by Brandon Sanderson

2024

2024-11-01: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
2024-10-30: The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon
2024-10-03: Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
2024-09-03: The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson
2024-08-04: Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
2024-08-03: Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson
2024-07-29: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
2024-07-25: Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb
2024-05-20: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
2024-05-10: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
2024-05-10: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb
2024-04-20: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

2023

2023-12-16: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
2023-12-07: Meesters in het hier en nu by Frank Meester and Maarten Meester
2023-12-07: Pages to Fill by Travis Baldree
2023-12-06: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
2023-11-20: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
2023-09-17: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
2023-09-11: Dit zijn de namen by Tommy Wieringa
2023-09-07: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
2023-08-09: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
2023-08-05: Het aapje dat geluk pakt by Arnon Grunberg
2023-08-03: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
2023-07-31: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
2023-07-28: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
2023-07-03: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
2023-06-30: DRIVE: Train je stoïcijnse mindset by Mark Tuitert
2023-06-20: Vriend & vijand by Arnon Grunberg
2023-06-13: Magnus by Arjen Lubach
2023-05-20: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
2023-05-03: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
2023-04-09: Wat is ruimte waard by Marjolijn van Heemstra
2023-03-26: Socrates op sneakers by Elke Wiss
2023-03-25: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson
2023-02-09: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
2023-02-09: The Hope of Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

2022

2022-12-27: The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
2022-12-10: Dit kan niet waar zijn by Joris Luyendijk
2022-12-07: Wetenschap als nieuwe religie by Ronald Meester
2022-10-24: De belofte van Pisa by Mano Bouzamour
2022-10-12: Grip by Rick Pastoor
2022-10-10: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
2022-10-05: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
2022-09-27: A Human History of Emotion by Richard Firth-Godbehere
2022-09-19: De stenen goden by Jeroen Windmeijer
2022-09-05: De zeven vinkjes by Joris Luyendijk
2022-08-23: Lies of the Beholder by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-17: Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-14: Legion by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-11: The Original by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-10: The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-05: Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes by Brandon Sanderson
2022-08-03: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
2022-07-30: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
2022-07-17: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
2022-06-16: A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon
2022-05-12: Blondjes beleggen beter by Janneke Willemse
2022-05-10: De bekentenissen van Petrus by Jeroen Windmeijer
2022-04-12: Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
2022-03-27: The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
2022-03-14: Meneer Ibrahim en de bloemen van de koran by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
2022-03-10: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
2022-01-08: Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

2021

2021-12-23: Voorwaardelijke liefde by Thierry Baudet
2021-11-14: Met angst en beven by Amélie Nothomb
2021-11-11: Vacuüm by Oscar Spaans
2021-11-07: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
2021-10-03: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
2021-09-27: Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
2021-09-24: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
2021-08-25: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
2021-07-28: Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
2021-07-18: De goede zoon by Rob van Essen
2021-07-08: Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives by David Eagleman
2021-07-06: Het Pilgrim Fathers complot by Jeroen Windmeijer
2021-05-15: Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
2021-03-22: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
2021-02-28: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
2021-01-19: The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey

2020

2020-12-08: Vreemdeling in het paradijs by Isaac Asimov
2020-10-20: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson
2020-10-06: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
2020-09-22: In het water by Paula Hawkins
2020-09-10: The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
2020-06-23: Zwarte schuur by Oek de Jong
2020-05-04: When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean
2020-04-08: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
2020-03-21: Verknocht by Lisette Jonkman
2020-03-18: Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
2020-03-02: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
2020-01-31: Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
2020-01-22: Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson
2020-01-21: Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
2020-01-11: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
2020-01-10: Verslingerd by Lisette Jonkman

2019

2019-12-13: Reisverslag van een kat by Hiro Arikawa
2019-10-06: Het talent uit Twente by Claus Brockhaus
2019-09-24: Digitale Dementie by Manfred Spitzer
2019-09-14: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
2019-08-24: Nightfall Two by Isaac Asimov
2019-08-10: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
2019-08-08: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki
2019-08-06: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
2019-07-31: “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” by Richard P. Feynman
2019-07-26: A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
2019-06-11: De Kathedraal by Ken Follett
2019-04-21: Jas van belofte by Jan Siebelink
2019-04-21: Pawn by Timothy Zahn
2019-04-15: Nightfall One by Isaac Asimov
2019-04-03: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
2019-03-05: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson
2019-01-22: Haaienkoorts by Morten A. Strøksnes

2018

2018-12-03: Plussen en minnen: wiskunde en de wereld om ons heen by Stefan Buijsman
2018-12-03: Spelunky by Derek Yu
2018-10-16: The Long War by Terry Pratchett
2018-09-15: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
2018-09-08: Jungle by Joost Vandecasteele
2018-08-29: Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson
2018-08-15: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
2018-08-06: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
2018-07-02: The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
2018-04-30: Het Pauluslabyrint by Jeroen Windmeijer

Low-key to-read list

This is basically the list I look through for birthday present ideas ☺️ Many books have been on this list for years, and I’ve long forgotten the context of why I put them on the list. So please don’t draw too many conclusions from a particular book being on this list.

80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
A Closed and Common Orbit
A Deadly Education
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
A Little Hatred
Adem
Alarmfase rood
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Alkibiades
An Infinite Descent into Pure Mathematics
Anathema
And Then There Were None
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Caffeine Blues: Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America’s #1 Drug
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Computation, Proof, Machine: Mathematics Enters a New Age
Dark Theory
De boekbinder
De depressie-epidemie
De glazen stolp
De herontdekking van het lichaam: over de burn-out
De kracht van familieopstellingen: Leuker leven door inzicht in onbewuste patronen (Dutch Edition)
De ontdekking van de hemel
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Domweg gelukkig, in de Dapperstraat: De bekendste gedichten uit de Nederlandse literatuur
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Echopraxia
En ze filosofeerden nog lang en gelukkig
Enchiridion
Engineering a Compiler
Flesh (Booker prize winner)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems)
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing
Het groene vuur (Taragon Trilogie, #1)
Het psalmenoproer
Homage to Catalonia
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
How To Judge Architecture
How to Listen to Music: Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art
How to look at pictures.
In de ban van burn-out
In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
Investigations of a Dog
Katabasis
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House, #1)
Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)
Klara and the Sun
La Horde du Contrevent
Laziness Does Not Exist
Lentz: de man achter het persoonsbewijs
Leuk!: Pleidooi voor plezier
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Meditations
Meesters in de filosofie
Mevrouw mijn moeder
Normal People
Ontwikkel je talenten (Maven Lifehacks)
Oracle (Robert Grim #2)
Paradise Lost
Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
Practical Zen: Meditation and Beyond
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books)
Real-Time Strategy Game Programming Using MS DIRECTX 6.0 (Wordware Game Developer’s Library)
Reamde
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So You Want To Be A Game Master: Everything You Need to Start Your Tabletop Adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, and Other
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Surreal Numbers
Tales of the Dying Earth
The Archive In Between Compendium - Volume 1
The Aztlanian (Rithmatist, #2)
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Gambler
The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters
The Great Gatsby
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
The Light of Other Days
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
The Magic Mountain
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
The March North (Commonweal #1)
The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)
The Metamorphosis
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM
The Mote in God’s Eye (Moties, #1)
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
The Parade
The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir
The Soul of a New Machine
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Unwritten Rules of Ph.D. Research
Theft of Fire (Orbital Space #1)
Things Not Seen (Things, #1)
Unsouled (Cradle, #1)
Untitled (Elantris, #2)
Untitled (Elantris, #3)
Version Control with Git
Wabi-sabi (Dutch Edition)
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
Zo hadden we het niet bedoeld: De tragedie achter de toeslagenaffaire

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