1. Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park
2. Master the Marathon by Ali Nolan
3. The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
4. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne
5. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt
6. A Feast for Starving Stone by Beth Cato
7. A Pocketful of Happiness: A Memoir by Richard E. Grant
8. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culure by Kyle Chayka
9. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
10. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
11. He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan
12. The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being by Lily Bernheimer
13. Keywords for Capitalism: Power, Society, Politics by John Patrick Leary
14. There Is No Wall by Allie Bailey
15. You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Joe Dispenza
16. Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deana Kastor
17. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
18. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam
19. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
20. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson (trans. Agnes Broomé)
21. Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
22. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food that Isn’t Food by Chris Van Tulleken
23. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
24. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
25. The Menopause Brain: New Science Empowers Women to Navigate the Pivotal Transition with Knowledge and Confidence by Lisa Mosconi
26. Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
27. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
28. A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles Spencer
29. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
30. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
31. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
32. Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change: A Guide for Families by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke, and Stephanie Higgs
33. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
34. Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness by Karen Throsby
35. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright
36. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian
37. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
38. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
39. He, She, and They: How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar
40. Nautilus: The Lost Empire of Arthur Jones by William Edgar Jones
41. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
42. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters
43. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger
44. Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
45. Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know about Women by Maggie Mertens
46. Translation State by Ann Leckie
47. Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
48. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
49. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
50. The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier
51. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox
52. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
53. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli
54. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
55. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by MJ Wassmer
56. There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari
57. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
58. Love, Pamela: A Memoir by Pamela Anderson
59. The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville
60. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
61. Just Kids: An Autobiography by Patti Smith
62. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
63. Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
64. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
65. Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham
66. An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence: Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age by David W Bates
67. More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner (blurbed)
68. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
69. The Theory that Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
70. Moonbound by Robin Sloan
71. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan
72. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
73. Perceptrons by Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert
74. How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
75. The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
76. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
77. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
78. The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science by Gary Marcus
79. Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Hayes
80. Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky
81. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
82. The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford Jr.
83. The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking by Theodore Roszak (reread)
84. Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum by Dave Cormier
85. Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
86. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (reread)
87. Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Dan McQuillan
88. Brothers by Alex Van Halen
89. The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin
90. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (reread)
91. Plug and Play Education: Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Platforms and Artificial Intelligence by Carlo Perrotta
92. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
93. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (reread)
94. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
95. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
96. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
97. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
98. Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
99. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
100. The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology by Anne Trumbore (blurbed)
101. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle (reread)
102. Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication by Arik Kershenbaum
103. Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The Future of Education for the 21st Century by Rosemary Luckin
104. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard
105. Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich

Over on Goodreads, I set myself a goal this year to read 50 books -- a number that I’ve more than doubled. (I should note: my problem with Goodreads isn’t just that it’s owned by Amazon, a company that has a near monopoly on bookselling and as such an outsized influence on book publishing and book reading. It’s also that it doesn’t really encourage you to reread -- a book is either read or unread. Books, as such, are commodities rather than experiences -- something to be bought, something to tick off a wishlist. I take issue too with an obsession with tracking, yet here I am, on Goodreads.)

I do read a lot; it’s my job. I’m always balancing several at once: a book in print, a book on my Kindle, and two audiobooks -- Kin and I listen to audiobooks in the evenings in lieu of TV, and I listen to audiobooks while running and lifting weights at the gym.

You can see in this list how my interests have changed over the year, as I’ve moved away from thinking and writing about bodies and technology towards thinking and writing about artificial intelligence and education. I still find time for fiction and for my favorite genre, memoir.

I’ve got more thoughts on reading in tomorrow's Second Breakfast newsletter -- on reading in general, particularly in light of all this summarization technology we’re being sold. I've also got some recommendations from this long list.

Many of the links here are to Bookshop.org, a site that makes it easy for you buy from independent booksellers rather than from Bezos.