Data through 5 May 2025
Much of my library was added in 2014, assembled with abandon from very old to-read lists I have been keeping my whole life.
To help slowly chip away at books on my list that no longer pique my interest, here is a reverse ranking of books to look at for deletion or better classification:
| Title | ranking | shelves | Average Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions | 0 | 7 | 3.57 |
| Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World | 0 | 7 | 3.91 |
| In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash | 1 | 4 | 3.88 |
| Fatally Flawed - The Quest to be Deepest | 1 | 6 | 3.89 |
| Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist’s View of the Crisis We Face | 1 | 6 | 3.91 |
| The Mist | 1 | 6 | 3.94 |
| Robin Hood: The Prince of Thieves | 1 | 6 | 3.99 |
| Letters to a Young Scientist | 2 | 5 | 3.90 |
Now let’s reverse that. There are many books I don’t have that may be worth buying or looking harder for.
Here is a ranking of books to find a way to get access to:
| Title | ranking | shelves | Average Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Dwellers: The Humor, Drama, and Tragedy of the U.S. Navy Sealab Programs | 3 | 11 | 4.30 |
| Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia | 3 | 9 | 4.32 |
| Deep Into Deco: The Diver’s Decompression Textbook | 3 | 8 | 4.40 |
| Deco for Divers | 3 | 7 | 4.64 |
| Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival | 3 | 6 | 4.29 |
| The Death and Life of the Great Lakes | 2 | 6 | 4.34 |
| The Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing and Keeping Attention | 2 | 5 | 4.41 |
| Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need | 2 | 5 | 4.18 |
| Caverns Measureless to Man | 1 | 7 | 4.51 |
| Setting the Hook: A Diver’s Return to the Andrea Doria | 1 | 6 | 4.08 |
| The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire, #6) | 1 | 5 | 4.40 |
| Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything | 0 | 7 | 4.34 |
| Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space | 0 | 7 | 4.34 |
| Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) | 0 | 7 | 4.26 |
| The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration | 0 | 7 | 4.11 |
| Ice Age | 0 | 7 | 4.06 |
| The Unnatural History of the Sea | 0 | 6 | 4.33 |
| Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey | 0 | 6 | 4.20 |
| Disturbing the Universe | 0 | 6 | 4.19 |
| The Limits to Growth | 0 | 6 | 4.18 |