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