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
- The Playbook by Jennifer Jacquet
- Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Zen Buddhism and Its Relation to Art by Arthur Waley
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
- My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman ★
- Sabotage by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan
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