2025 - 2026 WRP

September 25, 2025: the autumn equinox -- the official end of summer and the beginning of winter -- September 21, 2025. The days are now growing shorter, the nights longer, until March, 2026. 

Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983.
The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why, Arthur Benjamin, c. 2015. 

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The List

Winter reading program: 2025 - 2026

• AI reading program (pulled forward from summer reading program, with additions):

• Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges, c. 1983.
• The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2015.  
• The Story of Semiconductors, John Orton, c. 2004. Incredible resource.  Link here.
• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World, Simo Winchester, c. 2018. 
• Chip War: The Fight For the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller, c. 2022.

•  Travel
•  Coastal Oregon with Portland, Moon, no copyright / publishing date; probably 2025.

• British 
• The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings -- JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski, c. 2015. Reading bits and pieces off and on at the library.
• The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England, Joanne Paul, c. 2023. 
• really, really good history of how the Dudley family survived crisis after crisis, and became part of the royal family during Queen Elizabeth's reign; Shakespeare's era 
• Journey to the Hebrides, Johnson and Boswell,  
• Favorites
• Fear and Loathing, Part 1, Hunter S Thompson, letters
• I've read this or parts of it several times; one of my favorite books
• Louisville, KY; jail; USAF; Puerto Rico; 
• Biography
• Lewis Carroll  
• Hunter S Thompson, His Letters, The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume I; and, The Gonzo Letters, Volume II.
• Literature
• Tristram Shandy, Laurance Sterne,  
• Investing / Retirement
• Complete Retirement Guidebook: How To Plan It, Live It, and Enjoy It -- The Wall Street Journal, Glenn Ruffenach & Kelly Greene, c. 2007.