Kevin Anderson — Reading Books I'm reading and have finished. https://anderskev.com/reading.xml 2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 Finished: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-97-orchard:-an-edible-history-of-five-immigrant-families-in-one-new-york-tenement-2026-07-23 2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 253 pages; Tags: food, history Now reading: Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) by Sebastian Raschka https://anderskev.com/reading/#started-build-a-large-language-model-(from-scratch)-2026-07-20 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 Tags: deep_learning, llm, machine_learning Now reading: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry https://anderskev.com/reading/#started-lonesome-dove-2026-05-10 2026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 Tags: fiction, western Now reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin https://anderskev.com/reading/#started-tomorrow,-and-tomorrow,-and-tomorrow-2025-07-27 2025-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 Tags: fiction Finished: The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-sum-of-small-things:-a-theory-of-the-aspirational-class-2025-07-27 2025-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 272 pages; Tags: capitalism, psychology Finished: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-all-the-colors-of-the-dark-2025-07-26 2025-07-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 595 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-how-to-do-nothing:-resisting-the-attention-economy-2025-07-06 2025-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 232 pages; Tags: philosophy, productivity Finished: Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-reading-the-waves:-a-memoir-2025-06-28 2025-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 224 pages; Tags: memoir/biography Finished: Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-blood-over-bright-haven-2025-06-26 2025-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 527 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-paper-menagerie-and-other-stories-2025-06-24 2025-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 450 pages; Tags: science_fiction Finished: Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand by Jeff Chu https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-good-soil:-the-education-of-an-accidental-farmhand-2025-06-11 2025-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 314 pages; Tags: memoir/biography Finished: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-demon-of-unrest:-a-saga-of-hubris,-heartbreak,-and-heroism-at-the-dawn-of-the-civil-war-2025-06-07 2025-06-07T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★☆☆☆; 592 pages; Tags: history Finished: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-project-hail-mary-2025-06-04 2025-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 482 pages; Tags: science_fiction Finished: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-all-about-love:-new-visions-2025-05-26 2025-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★★; 240 pages; Tags: feminism, philosophy Finished: Audition by Katie Kitamura https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-audition-2025-05-26 2025-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 205 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Ender's Game (The Ender Saga # 1) by Orson Scott Card https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-ender's-game-(the-ender-saga-#-1)-2025-05-26 2025-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 253 pages; Tags: science_fiction Finished: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-uncanny-valley-2025-05-19 2025-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 281 pages; Tags: memoir/biography Finished: Think Like a Street Photographer by Derren Brown https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-think-like-a-street-photographer-2025-05-18 2025-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 121 pages; Tags: art Finished: Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation – A Cultural Critique of Capitalism, Debt, Hustle Culture, and Exhaustion by Anne Helen Petersen https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-can't-even:-how-millennials-became-the-burnout-generation-–-a-cultural-critique-of-capitalism,-debt,-hustle-culture,-and-exhaustion-2025-05-16 2025-05-16T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 246 pages; Tags: capitalism, political_science Finished: The Attachment Theory Workbook: Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability, and Build Lasting Relationships by Annie Chen https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-attachment-theory-workbook:-powerful-tools-to-promote-understanding,-increase-stability,-and-build-lasting-relationships-2025-05-12 2025-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 194 pages; Tags: psychology Finished: Hunger by Knut Hamsun https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-hunger-2025-05-07 2025-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 273 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-creation-lake-2025-05-06 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 416 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-attached:-the-new-science-of-adult-attachment-and-how-it-can-help-you-find—and-keep—love-2025-05-02 2025-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 303 pages; Tags: psychology Finished: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-disappearing-spoon:-and-other-true-tales-of-madness,-love,-and-the-history-of-the-world-from-the-periodic-table-of-the-elements-2025-05-01 2025-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 394 pages; Tags: science Finished: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-around-the-world-in-eighty-days-2025-04-26 2025-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 252 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-elements-of-fiction-writing---characters-&-viewpoint-2025-04-26 2025-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 242 pages; Tags: study_skills, writing Finished: 1984 by George Orwell https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-1984-2025-04-22 2025-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 368 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-fahrenheit-451-2025-04-21 2025-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 249 pages; Tags: science_fiction Finished: Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story by John Yorke https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-into-the-woods:-a-five-act-journey-into-story-2025-04-19 2025-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 309 pages; Tags: art, writing Finished: James by Percival Everett https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-james-2025-04-19 2025-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 303 pages; Tags: fiction, slavery Finished: Yesterday by Juan Emar https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-yesterday-2025-04-19 2025-04-19T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 144 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-a-short-history-of-nearly-everything-2025-04-14 2025-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 544 pages; Tags: science Finished: I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America by Rebecca Little and Colleen Long https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-i'm-sorry-for-my-loss:-an-urgent-examination-of-reproductive-care-in-america-2025-04-12 2025-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 496 pages; Tags: health, political_science Finished: The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-dream-hotel-2025-04-09 2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 336 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Book Lovers by Emily Henry https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-book-lovers-2025-04-05 2025-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★☆☆☆☆; 377 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-homegoing-2025-04-05 2025-04-05T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 313 pages; Tags: fiction, slavery Finished: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-notes-from-underground-2025-03-29 2025-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 136 pages; Tags: fiction, russia Finished: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-hamnet-2025-03-26 2025-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★☆☆; 305 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Hell Bent (Alex Stern, #2) by Leigh Bardugo https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-hell-bent-(alex-stern,-#2)-2025-03-16 2025-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 484 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-remarkably-bright-creatures-2025-03-09 2025-03-09T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 360 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-revolutionary-suicide-2025-03-08 2025-03-08T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 384 pages; Tags: civil_rights, memoir/biography Finished: Beginner's Guide to Jungian Psychology by Robin Robertson https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-beginner's-guide-to-jungian-psychology-2025-03-04 2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 288 pages; Tags: psychology Finished: Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses 'No, But' Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City by Kelly Leonard https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-yes,-and:-how-improvisation-reverses-'no,-but'-thinking-and-improves-creativity-and-collaboration--lessons-from-the-second-city-2025-03-03 2025-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★☆☆☆; 240 pages; Tags: business Finished: The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-the-theatre-of-the-absurd-2025-03-02 2025-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 480 pages; Tags: art Finished: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-no-longer-human-2025-02-26 2025-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★★; 177 pages; Tags: fiction, japan Finished: Psychology of the Unconscious by C.G. Jung https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-psychology-of-the-unconscious-2025-02-23 2025-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 624 pages; Tags: psychology Finished: Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-damned-to-fame:-the-life-of-samuel-beckett-2025-02-17 2025-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 832 pages; Tags: memoir/biography Finished: Lion by Sonya Walger https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-lion-2025-02-17 2025-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★★; 176 pages; Tags: fiction Finished: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters by Richard P. Rumelt https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-good-strategy/bad-strategy:-the-difference-and-why-it-matters-2025-02-09 2025-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 322 pages; Tags: business Finished: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg https://anderskev.com/reading/#completed-white-trash:-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-2025-02-09 2025-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 Rating: ★★★★☆; 460 pages; Tags: history