Ben Bartosik
Reading Log
Roughly in order, dates when finished.
Currently reading
On Pilgrimage: The Sixties
Dorothy Day
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Roland Allen
2026
Elinor Ostrom
Dense but important book looking at what enables collective action around shared resources
Stewart Brand
The lost art of taking care of things and why we should
The Ritual
Adam Nevill
Survival horror meets folk horror when four hikers take a wrong turn deep in a north Sweden forest.
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow
The AI future we are being sold is not inevitable. How—and whether—we use it is up to us.
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
70s folk horror that left me feeling I should have just rewatched the Wicker Man
The Fisherman
John Langan
Cosmic, lovecraftian horror via fishing yarn
Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson
A bloody vampire revenge roadtrip
Grace
A.M. Shine
Surprisingly boring Irish folklore horror. His last book was better.
Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Everything is getting worse and this is why.
Red Rising (books 1-3)
Pierce Brown
Not normally a sci-fi guy, but I'm always down for an anti-imperial/let's tear down the corrupt system story. Main character was a bit of a downer.
The Keeper
Tana French
Tana French has become one of my favourite authors but this third entry in her current trilogy landed a bit weak for me in comparison to her other works
Dungeon Crawler Carl (1-8)
Matt Dinnaman
The most fun I've had reading in decades
Shoshana Zuboff
We are not the customers, we are a raw material to be extracted
Dorothee Soelle
The life and thought behind the theology of one of the 20th centuries greatest saints