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