Reading

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, To read

2023

• Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan ★
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane ★
• Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
• The President's Room by Ricardo Romero
• Neurotribes by Steve Silberman ★
• Nuclear Folly by Serhii Plokhy
• What If? by Randall Munroe
• New Dark Age by James Bridle
• The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich
• The Man who Made Things out of Trees by Robert Penn
• A World Without Email by Cal Newport
• Pure Invention by Matt Alt
• The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

2022

• Why I Write by George Orwell
• An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
• King Richard by Michael Dobbs ★
• Room to Dream by David Lynch
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
• Shady Characters by Keith Houston
• The One Device by Brian Merchant
• Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
• Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint by Russell Davies
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
• At The Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell ★
• Boomerang by Michael Lewis
• Reporter by Seymour Hersh ★
• The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
• The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
• Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
• To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi and Deborah Bragan-Turner ★
• Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick
• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer ★
• Novacene by James Lovelock
• Wired for War by P.W Singer
• The Great Firewall of China by James Griffiths
• Things that can and cannot be said by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy
• Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie ★
• First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami ★
• No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai ★
• The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian ★
• To Be a Machine by Mark O'Connell
• Uzamaki by Junji Ito
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
• Expert by Roger Kneebone
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ★
• Calling Bullsh*t by Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau ★
• Walking by Henry David Thoreau
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• Virtually Amish by Linsay Elms
• Hacking Life by Joseph Michael Reagle ★
• What Was Artificial Intelligence? by Sue Curry Jensen
• The Boy Who Could Change the World by Aaron Swartz ★
• Coffeeland by Augustine Sedgewick
• Alan M. Turing by Sara Turing
• Androids by Chet Haase
• The Quest for Artificial Intelligence by Nils J. Nilsson ★
• I am Dynamite by Sue Prideaux
• The Death of Grass by John Christopher
• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ★
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• Working by Robert Caro ★
• Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
• The Machine Stops by E.M Forster
• Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford ★
• The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
• The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell
• The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
• Undercover by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
• Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker
• 12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson
• An Editor's Burial by David Brendel

2021

• What Are Universities for? by Stefan Collini ★
• Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima ★
• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal ★
• The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
• What is Populism? by Jan-Werner Müller
• The Headspace Diet by Andy Puddicombe
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster ★
• Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
• Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell
• Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Algorithms to Live by Brain Christian
• No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings
• MindF~ck by Christopher Wylie
• Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman
• No Filter by Sarah Frier
• Explaining Humans by Camilla Pang
• This is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev ★
• Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg
• The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tavis
• Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
• Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
• Why the Germans Do it Better by John Kampfner ★
• The Lost Art of Running by Shane Benzie
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton
• Q by Christina Dalcher
• Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• The Unknown Orwell by Peter Stransky
• Breath by James Nestor
• House of Leaves by Markus Danielewski ★
• A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter Salus
• Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
• Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Bird Box by Josh Malerman Pretty
• The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
• Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump
• The Watcher by David Maclean
• You Are What You Read by Jodie Jackson
• We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso ★
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★
• Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
• The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett
• How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★
• The Panama Papers by Bastian Obermayer
• My Morning Routine by Benjamin Spall
• The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett
• Radicals by Jamie Bartlett
• On the Road by James Naughtie
• Misery by Stephen King
• On Writing by Stephen King
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• We Have Been Harmonised by Kai Strittmatter
• The Cyber Effect by Mairy Aiken
• The Man Without A Face by Masha Gessen
• Going Dark by Julia Ebner ★
• The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey ★
• TikTok Boom by Chris Stokel-Walker ★
• Collusion by Luke Harding
• Shadow State by Luke Harding
• How to be Right by James O'Brien
• The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ★
• An Inconvenient Death by Miles Goslett
• The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
• Shooting Hipsters by Christiana Spens
• Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
• A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding ★
• Navalny by Jan Matti Dollbaum
• Foxcatcher by Mark Schultz
• Utopia for Realists by Rutget Bregman
• Bad News by Anjan Sundaram
• From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
• The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
• Social Media for Academics by Diane Rasmussen Neal
• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom ★
• Writing for Academic Journals by Rowena Murray
• The Productive Researcher by Mark Reed
• A Simple Introduction to Data Science by Noreen Burlingame
• A Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
• Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke ★
• Money: A Users Guide by Laura Whateley ★
• The PhD Grind by Philip Guo
• Dark Academia by Peter Fleming
• User Friendly by Cliff Kuang ★
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
• Essayism by Brian Dillon
• A Lonely Man by Chris Power
• But What If We're Wrong? By Chuck Klosterman
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

2020

• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
• What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou ★
• The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
• I am Legend by Richard Matheson ★
• Stoner by John Willaims ★
• Them! by Jon Ronson
• The New Me by Halle Butler
• The Pigeon By Simon Suskind ★
• Star By Yukio Mishima
• Desire By Haruki Murakami
• Lord of the Flies By William Golding
• Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
• Elon Musk By Ashlee Vance
• Shoe Dog By Phil Knight ★
• No Longer Human By Junji Ito ★
• Close to the Machine By Ellen Ullman
• No Country for Old Men By Cormack McArthy ★
• So You've Been Publicly Shamed By Jon Ronson
• The Vegetarian By Han Kang
• The Memory Police By Yoko Ogawa
• The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Ring by Koji Suzuki
• Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles ★
• A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
• The Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Siddartha by Herman Hesse
• The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
• The Man who fell to Earth by Walter Tavis
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski
• Chess Story By Stefan Zweig
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid ★
• Foe by Iain Reid ★
• Dead Execs Don't Get Bonuses by Joel Kahn
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• A Man Becomes Himself by Mathijs Koenraadt
• In The Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami
• The Devil all the time by Donald Pollock Ray ★
• Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
• A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
• Limbo by Marko Pandza
• The Ridge by John Rector
• Blitzed by Norman Ohler ★
• One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady Strugatsky
• Writing to Learn By William Zinsser
• Deep Work By Cal Newport ★
• The Future of Feeling by Kaitlin Phillips

To Read

• The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
• Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb
• Cheap Land Colorado by Ted Conover
• The Power Broker by Robert Caro
• True Story by Danielle Lindemann
• Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin
• To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Muñoz Molina
• Americanon by Jess McHugh
• A Divine Language by Alec Wilkinson
• Fake Accounts by Lauren Oylero
• Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
• The Declassification Engine by Matthew Connelly
• Concorde by Mike Bannister
• Reality+ by David Chalmers
• Palo Alto by Malcom Harris
• The Wandering Mind by Jamie Kreiner
• G-Man by Beverly Cage
• Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri