2025 Reading (Most Recent First)
Abundance: How we Build a Better Future, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, Ian Leslie
The Struggle for Taiwan, Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
Living the Asian Century, Kishore Mahbubani
More Than A Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting, Thomas A. King
Henry James: A Very Short Introduction, Susan Mizruchi
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Biography, Karl Popper
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, Patchen Barss
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, Frank Close
Beyond a Boundary, C.L.R. James
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time and Mathematical Transformation, Robyn Arianrhod
Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Susan Blackmore
The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest Business in Sport, Jonathan Clegg
Fidelity's World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant, Diana B. Henriques
The Caesar’s Palace Coup, Max Frume and Sujeet Indap
The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, Michael Cox
The Shortest History of Japan, Lesley Downer
The Smartest Kids in the World And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life, Sonia Purnell
2024 Reading
Who’s Afraid of Romanee-Conti?: A Shortcut to Drinking Great Wines, Dan Keeling
Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone, Tim Shipman
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Why Machines Learn, Anil Ananthaswamy
Checkmate in Berlin, Giles Milton
The Stalin Affair, Giles Milton
Question 7, Richard Flanagan
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutut
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: A Biography of Randy Newman, Robert Hilburn
The NVIDIA Way, Tae Kim
The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut
Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst
Stoner, John Williams
The Third Man, Graham Greene
The Comedians, Graham Greene
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
How to Steal a Presidential Election, Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
The War Below, Ernest Scheyder
A Guide to the Professional Interview, Asbjorn Rachlew & Geir-Egil Loken & Svein Tore Bergestuen
The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders-in-Chief and Titans of Industry, Tevi Troy
A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy, Daniel Clery
Reentry: Space X, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F. Vogel
Chernobyl Roulette, Serhii Plokhy
So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Supremacy: AI, Chat GPT and the Race That Will Change the World, Parmy Olson
Numbers Don’t Lie, Vaclav Smil
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, Neil Sheehan
Blue Machine, Helen Czerski
The Corporation in the 21st Century, John Kay
Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
In Gratitude, Jenni Diski
The Racket, Conor Niland
Focus: The ASML Way - Inside the Power Struggle Over the Most Complex Machine on Earth, Marc Hijink
Monolithic Undertow, Harry Sword
A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Benvenuto Cellini
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Benjamin M. Friedman
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, Jan Morris
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, Roland Allen
Open, Andre Agassi
A Short History of England, Simon Jenkins
A History of Britain, Simon Schama
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy
Cunning Folk, Tabitha Stanmore
Downfall, Anna Arutunyan & Mark Galeotti
Pondlife: A Swimmer’s Journal, Al Alvarez
Groupthink, Christopher Booker
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon
Heroes of Progress, Alexander C. Hammond
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Lillian Hoddeson & Michael Riordan
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
The Struggle for Taiwan, Sulmaan Wasif Khan
Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
Practicing History, Barbara W. Tuchman
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking, Cecilia Hayes
The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich
The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb
Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Fein, Aoife Moore
Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East 1979 - 2003, Steve Coll
The Tiger, John Vaillant
Delight, J.B. Priestly
The Full English, Stuart Maconie
Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish
Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?, Fred Schwed
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
How Life Works, Philip Ball
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (rr)
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut (rr)
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (rr)
The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
Keir Starmer, Tom Baldwin
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, Olivia Cheung and Steve Tsang
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government, David Torrance
Another Green World, Brian Eno (33 1/3 series), Geeta Dyal
For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug, Nathan Vardi
Invitation to a Banquet, Fuchscia Dunlop
Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets, Clair Wills
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats, Jonathan Bate
The Measure of Reality, Alfred W. Crosby
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth, Adam Zamoyski
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles, Bernard Cornwell
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
Owning the Earth, Andro Linklater (rr)
Tago Mago, Can (33 1/3 series), Alan Warner
Talleyrand, Duff Cooper
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Nixon Agonistes, Gary Wills
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis, Richard Whatmore
Vines in a Cool Climate, Henry Jeffreys
2023 Reading (most recent first)
Poor Charlie’s Almanack, Charles T. Munger
Scotland, Murray Pittock
World Order, Henry Kissinger
Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
Waverley, Walter Scott
Updike, Adam Begley
Chocolate Wars, Deborah Cadbury
The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World, William Eggington
GOAT: Who Is The Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, Tyler Cowen
A Year of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller
Going Infinite, Michael Lewis
Molloy, Samuel Beckett
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, Rob Copeland
Coffin, Scarcely Used, Colin Watson
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, Bernie Taupin
Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes, Richard Davenport-Hines
Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry
Stay True, Hua Hsu
Toast, Nigel Slater
Time Regained: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 7 , Marcel Proust
I’ve Been Thinking, Daniel C. Dennett
I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter
Hearing Secret Harmonies: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 12, Anthony Powell
Temporary Kings: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 11, Anthony Powell
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of J.M. Keynes, Zachary D. Carter
The Fugitive: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 6, Marcel Proust
War and Punishment, Mikhail Zygar
The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Sergei Medvedev
Books do Furnish a Room: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 10, Anthony Powell
Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart
The Military Philosophers: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 9, Anthony Powell
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin, Pulak Prasad (rr)
The Captive: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 5, Marcel Proust
The Soldier’s Art: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 8, Anthony Powell
The Valley of Bones: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 7, Anthony Powell
Sodom & Gomorrah: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 4, Marcel Proust
The Kindly Ones: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 6, Anthony Powell
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 5, Anthony Powell
The Guermantes Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 3, Marcel Proust
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes
At Lady Molly’s: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 4, Anthony Powell
The Acceptance World: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 3, Anthony Powell
In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 2, Marcel Proust
A Buyer’s Market: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 2, Anthony Powell
A Question of Upbringing: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 1, Anthony Powell
Swann’s Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1, Marcel Proust
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
Revolutionary Spring, Christopher Clark
Stuff Matters, Mark Miodowink
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
Material World, Ed Conway
Nick Drake, Richard Morton Jack
Thunderclap, Laura Cumming
Faith, Hope & Carnage, Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan
The Wager, David Grann
Why Information Grows, Cesar Hidalgo (rr)
What I Learned About Investing From Darwin, Pulak Prasad
Revolutionary Spring, Christopher Clark
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
On Quality, Robert Pirsig & Wendy M. Pirsig
Masters of Doom, David Kushner
Chip War, Chris Miller (rr)
Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
Palo Alto, Malcom Harris
Scaling People, Claire Hughes Johnson
Hands of Time, Rebecca Struthers
Michael Jordan, Roland Lazenby
Parfit, David Edmonds
Working, Robert Caro
The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
A Guide to the Professional Interview, Asbjorn Rachlew & Geir-Egil Loken
The Last Party, John Harris
The Murder of Professor Schlick, David Edmonds
The Fabric of Civilisation, Virginia Postrel
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.2), Robert Caro
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.1), Robert Caro
What’s Our Problem, Tim Urban
Beyond Measure, James Vincent
Genius Makers, Cade Metz
The Romance of Reality, Bobby Azarian
Dark, Salt, Clear, Lamorna Ash
The Pursuit of Power, William H. McNeill
Soft City, Jonathan Raban
Dune, Frank Herbert
A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon, Brian Clegg
The Rise of the West, William H. McNeill
Bibi, Benjamin Netanyahu
The Genetic Age, Matthew Cobb
The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich
We Don’t Know Ourselves, Fintan O’Toole
The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook
Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year, Eleanor Parker
The McCartney Legacy, Allan Kozin & Adrian Sinclair
2022 Reading
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown, Anna Keay
Like, Comment, Subscribe: YouTube’s Chaotic Journey to World Domination, Mark Bergen
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Dark, Salt, Clear, Lamorna Ash
Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green (rr)
Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution, Duncan Campbell-Smith
Pyramid of Lies, Duncan Mavin
The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
The Song of the Cell, Siddharta Mukherjee
Putin’s Wars, Mark Galeotti
China’s Economy, Arthur R. Kroeber
A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller
Slouching Towards Utopia, Brad DeLong
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
Money Men, Dan McCrum
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life & Times of Brian Eno, David Sheppard
The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism, Matthew Continetti
Invested, Charles Schwab
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar
The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
Northline, Willy Vlautin
Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Thomas Brothers
The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, Neal Gabler
The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Deirdre McKloskey & Art Carden
The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
MBS, Ben Hubbard
John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883 - 1920, Robert Skidelsky
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro, Richard Lapper
The Metaverse, Matthew Ball
The Dream Machine, Mitchell Waldrop (rr)
The Intel Trinity, Michael S. Malone
The Islander, Chris Blackwell
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Talent, Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
The World For Sale, Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell
The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
Nazi Billionaires, David de Jong
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man, Claire Tomalin
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built and Empire and Lost it All, Mary Childs
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright (rr)
The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman
Rock Me on the Water, Ronald Brownstein
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took back Russian Then Turned on the West, Catherine Belton (rr)
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, John M. Barry
A Century of Investing: Baillie Gifford’s First 100 Years, Richard Burns
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of War, Nicholas Mulder
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Jimmy Soni
Accidental Gods, Anna Della Subin
Rome, Robert Hughes
Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life, William Green
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar & Bill Carr (rr)
The Great Mental Models vol.3: Systems & Mathematics, Farnam Street
America’s First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts
Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers, Fred Reicheld
Barca: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club, Simon Kuper
The Future of Money, Ewar S. Prasad
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, Mary Elise Sarotte
A Life of My Own, Claire Tomalin
The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
How to Decide, Annie Duke
Lessons From the Titans, Scott Davis & Melius Research Principals
Capital Without Borders: Brooke Harrington
Consilience, E.O. Wilson
How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil
The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich
Very Important People: Status & Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears
Men, Machines & Modern Times, Elting E. Morison
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (vol.2), Charles Moore
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth, Frank Slootman
Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, Richard D. White Jr
Germinal, Emile Zola
Scientist: E.O. Wilson, A Life in Nature, Richard Rhodes
2021 Reading
Tom Stoppard: A Life, Hermione Lee
Spy Line, Len Deighton
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, Michela Wrong
Spy Hook, Len Deighton
London Match, Len Deighton
Mexico Set, Len Deighton
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker (rr)
Berlin Game, Len Deighton
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Sally Rooney
The Asian Financial Crisis, Russell Napier
Vassily Grossman & The Soviet Century, Alexandra Popoff
Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy, Adam Tooze
The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
Unnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers
The Trials of Rumpole. John Mortimer
The Beatles, Hunter Davies
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Nicole Perlroth
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Sanders
Railroader, Howard Green
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win, Jeff Lawson
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906, David Cannadine (rr)
Red Roulette: An Insider’s Story of Wealth, Power, and Corruption in Today’s China, Desmond Shum
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, Tom Reiss
The Man from the Future: The Visonary Life of John von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya
Digital Cash, Finn Brunton
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick
The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Paige Harden
Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald, Carole Angier
The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
Shift Into Freedom, Loch Kelly
Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli
The Great Depression and the New Deal, Eric Rauchway
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain's Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again, Duncan Weldon
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955, Harald Jahrer
The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand
Vaxxers, Sarah Gilbert & Catherine Green
Index: A History of The, Dennis Duncan
My Phantoms, Gwendoline Riley
Grow the Pie, Alex Edmans
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Bewilderment, Richard Powers
Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman
Freedom, Sebastien Junger
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, vol.11), Will & Ariel Durant
Rousseau & Revolution (The Story of Civilization, vol.10), Will & Ariel Durant
Rumpole for the Defence, John Mortimer
The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, vol.9), Will & Ariel Durant
The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization, vol.8), Will & Ariel Durant
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, Jonathan Conlin
100 Baggers, Christopher W. Mayer (rr)
The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories & Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, Michael Taylor
Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, John Preston
Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman & the Ways of American Power, Zachary Karabell
The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson
Rumpole on Trial, John Mortimer
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti
The Last London, Iain Sinclair
The Peregrine, J.A. Baker
Lost in Thought, Zena Hitz
The Razor’s Edge, Somerset Maugham
The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilisation, vol.7), Will & Ariel Durant
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters, Adam Nicholson
The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb
Saturday, Ian McEwan
This Sovereign Isle, Robert Tombs
The Thirty Years’ War, C.V. Wedgwood
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Benjamin M. Friedman
Written in Bone, Professor Sue Black
The Reformation (The Story of Civilisation, vol. 6), Will Durant
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Adam Tooze (rr)
Freedom from Fear (Oxford History of the United States), David M. Kennedy
From Colony to Superpower (Oxford History of the United States), George C. Herring
The Creation of the American Republic (Oxford History of the United States), Gordon S. Wood
The Artful Dickens, John Mullan
Grand Expectations (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
London in the Eighteenth Century, Jerry White
Restless Giant (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
Monsoon, Robert D. Kaplan (rr)
2020 Reading
Rise of the Data Cloud, Frank Slootman
Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974, James T. Patterson
Berlin Game, Len Deighton
London Match, Len Deighton
The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
George F. Kennan: An American Life, John Lewis Gaddis
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World, Barry Gewen
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.3), Jan Morris
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.2), Jan Morris
Heaven’s Command (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.1), Jan Morris
The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
The Bridge, Thane Gustafson
The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
Samsung Rising, Geoffrey Cain
Billion Dollar Loser, Reeves Wiedeman
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand (rr)
The Story of China, Michael Wood
Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns
MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang, Steven Dudley
Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
A Concise History of the Arabs, John McHugo
My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich (rr)
Inside Story, Martin Amis
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
World Order, Henry Kissinger
The Renaissance (The Story of Civilisation, vol. 5), Will Durant
Radical Uncertainty, Mervyn King & John Kay
Why We Don’t Learn From History, B.H. Liddell Hart
Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
Left Out, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, Stephen Kotkin
Intimations, Zadie Smith
At Swim Two Birds, Flann O’Brien
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilisation, vol. 4), Will Durant (rr)
Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation, Anton Howes
How to Write Like Tolstoy, Richard Cohen
Facebook: The Inside Story, Steven Levy
Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn, Graeme Thompson
One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time, Craig Brown
Coffeeland, Augustine Sedgewick
Self Care, Leigh Stein
Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson (rr)
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics, Anthony Aguirre
Why Spencer Perceval had to Die, Andro Linklater
Embracing Defeat, John W. Dower
Summer Lightning, P.G. Wodehouse
Heavy Weather, P.G. Wodehouse
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander (rr)
Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis
Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott (rr)
How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley
Money, Martin Amis (rr)
Gandhi Before India, Ramachandra Guha
The Innovation Stack, Jim McKelvey
The Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, & the Life of J.M. Keynes, Zachary D. Carter
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership, Andro Linklater
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West, Catherine Belton
Men at Arms, Evelyn Waugh
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the the Music of Time, Hilary Spurling
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White (rr)
The Great Mental Models (Volume 2), Shane Parrish & Farnam Street
The Ratline, Phillipe Sands
These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore
Hearing Secret Harmonies, (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 12), Anthony Powell
Temporary Kings, (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 11), Anthony Powell
Books Do Furnish a Room, (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 10), Anthony Powell
The Military Philosophers, (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 9), Anthony Powell
The Soldier’s Art, (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 8), Anthony Powell
The Valley of Bones (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 7), Anthony Powell
Red Plenty, Francis Spufford (rr)
The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 6), Anthony Powell
Globalists, Quinn Slobodian
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 5), Anthony Powell
Sea People, Christina Thompson
At Lady Molly’s (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 4), Anthony Powell
The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 3), Anthony Powell
A Buyer’s Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 2), Anthony Powell
A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol. 1), Anthony Powell
Confessions, Jean-Jaques Rousseau
A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman
The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilisation, vol. 4), Will Durant
Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess (rr)
Deep Work, Cal Newport (rr)
The Patriarch, David Nasaw
The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier
Black Wave, Kim Ghattas
A Short History of London, Simon Jenkins
The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
Kraftwerk, Uwe Schutte
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, Brendan Simms
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro (rr)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, Robert Kanigel
The Economists’ Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum
The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, Charles Fishman
The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital: 1848 - 1875, Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Revolution: 1789 - 1848, Eric Hobsbawm
The Odyssey, Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman
The Pursuit of Power, William H. McNeill
Organizing Genius, Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biedermann
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St Clair
Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
My Early Life, Winston Churchill
The Shareholder Value Myth, Lynn Stout
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis
Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800-1906, David Cannadine
Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer
On Photography, Susan Sontag
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of my Years at Lockheed, Ben R. Rich
Extreme Economies, Richard Davies
What It Takes, Stephen Schwarzman
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, Eric Foner
The AI Does Not Hate You, Tom Chivers
The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Heinrich
The Light That Failed, Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books, Elif Batuman
Yoga For People Who Can’t be Bother to Do It, Geoff Dyer
The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
Liquid, Mark Miodownik
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Winners Take All, Anand Ghiridharas
Life at the Speed of Light, J. Craig Venter
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut (rr)
Maoism, Julia Lovell
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
2019 Reading
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman (rr)
The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
What You Do is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz
The Regency Revolution, Robert Morrison
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
Looking for Transwonderland, Noo Saro-Wiwa
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Somewhere Becoming Rain, Clive James
My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa, Paul Kenyon (rr)
The Ride of a Lifetime, Bob Iger
Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky
The Blair Years, Alastair Campbell
Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
Talking to Strangers, Malcom Gladwell
Educated, Tara Westover
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, Chris Arndade
A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar
One Day in the Life of Alexander Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How Fascism Works, Jason Stanley
The Value of Everything: Makers & Takers in the Global Economy, Mariana Mazzucato
Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization, pt.3), Will Durant
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Last Leonardo, Ben Lewis
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un, Anna Fifield
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
Means of Ascent, Robert Caro (rr)
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Thomas Philippon
The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
No Such Thing as Society, Andy McSmith
Capital Account, Marathon Asset Management ed. Edward Chancellor (rr)
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens (rr)
The Man Who Solved the Market, Gregory Zuckerman
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, Stephen Kotkin
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
Your Duck is my Duck, Deborah Eisenberg
The History of Physics, J.L Heilbron (rr)
To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, Emilio Segre
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Simple But Not Easy, Richard Oldfield
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
Nine Lives, Aimen Dean
Kochland, Christopher Leonard
The Little Book that Builds Wealth, Pat Dorsey (rr)
The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Nothing is Real, David Hepworth
This is Not Propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Philip Fisher
Me, Elton John
The Boy with the Topknot, Sathnam Sanghera
Quality Investing, Lawrence Cunningham, Torkell Eide & Patrick Hargreaves (rr)
The Beautiful Struggle, Ta Nehisi-Coates
The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, pt.2), Will Durant
The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic, Alfred Lansing
The Art of Execution, Lee Freeman-Stor
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
Everything is Horrible and Wonderful, Stephanie Wittels Wachs
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli (rr)
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon, Brian Clegg
The Overstory, Richard Powers
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe, Arthur Koestler
Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon
Wilding, Isabella Tree
Exterminate All The Brutes, Sven Lindqvist (rr)
Genius, James Gleick (rr)
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
American Cosmic, D.W. Paskula
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Bill Janeway
Made in America, Sam Walton
The Battle for Sky: The Murdochs, Disney, Comcast and the Future of Entertainment, Christopher Williams
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Life of Three American Families, J. Anthony Lukas
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs, Gina Keating
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, Sonia Purnell
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
Science: A History: 1534-2001, John Gribbin
The Demon in the Machine, Paul Davies
Seinfeldia: How A Show About Nothing Changed Everything, Jennifer Armstrong
The Nature of Technology, Brian Arthur (rr)
Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No-one’s Land, Sven Lindqvist
My Life and Work, Henry Ford (rr)
The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
The Frayed Atlantic Edge, David Grange
1931: Debt, Crisis and the Rise of Hitler, Tobias Straumann
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
Talking to Terrorists, Jonathan Powell
Not in My Neighborhood, Antero Pietila
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr & The Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar
Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, Paul Barrett
Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook, Edward Luttwak
Stars: A Very Short Introduction, Andrew King
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood
The End of Accounting, Baruch Lev
The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction, J.L. Heilbron
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson
Unraveling the Double Helix: The Story of DNA, Gareth Williams
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves, Emilio Segrè
Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
Personal History, Katharine Graham
Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and why America Might Miss It, Susan Crawford
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, Natasha Dow-Schull (rr)
Capital Returns, Marathon Asset Management (ed. Edward Chancellor) (rr)
Loonshots, Safi Bahcall
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, pt.1), Will Durant
Keynes: Universal Man, Richard Davenport-Hines (rr)
The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke
Led Zeppelin IV, Barney Hoskyns
Born Standing Up, Steve Martin (rr)
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
Deep Work, Cal Newport (rr)
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport (rr)
Born to Run, Christopher Macdougall
Origin Story, David Christian
The Second Mountain, David Brooks
Antifragile, Nasim Taleb
Exterminate all the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, Rana Mitter
The Secret Barrister, Anonymous
This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus, Stephen Strogatz
Cataloging the World, Alex Wright
Working, Robert Caro
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Jason Stearns
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane
Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr
The Great Economists, Linda Yueh
The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
The Debatable Land, Graham Robb
Creating the 20th Century, Vaclav Smil
High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil
Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, Emily Maitlis
The Fun Stuff: and Other Essays, James Wood
American Nations, Colin Woodard
Persuasion, Jane Austen (rr)
The Age of Eisenhower, William Hitchcock
Life 3.0, Max Tegmark
Exactly, Simon Winchester
The Complacent Class, Tyler Cowen
Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age, Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin
A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, John Berger
Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See, Robert Kurson (wnf)
A Political History of the World, Jonathan Hoslag
Lone Star: A History of Texas, T.R. Fehrenbach
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Reality Is Not What it Seems, Carlo Rovelli (rr)
Power, Pleasure and Profit, David Wootton (rr)
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Diarmaid McCullough
AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli (rr)
The Greatest Story Ever Told, Lawrence Krauss
Failure: Why Science is Successful, Stuart Firestein
Who is Michael Ovitz?, Michael Ovitz
When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead, Jerry Weintraub
The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore
The Corporation That Changed the World, Nick Robins
Hello World, Hannah Fry
Triumphs of Experience, George E. Vaillant
Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia, Jurgen Osterhammel
Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
Valley of Genius, Adam Fisher
Zucked, Roger MacNamee
The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick
The Beatles, All These Years (Vol.1), Mark Lewisohn (rr)
Quench Your Own Thirst, Jim Koch
Chocolate Wars, Deborah Cadbury
The Gene Machine, Venki Ramakrishnan
The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (rr)
Behemoth: A History of the Factory, Joshua Freeman
Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse, 1960-2000
Moonwalking With Einstein, Joshua Foer
Nonzero, The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright
The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran
Bourgeois Dignity, Deirdre McCloskey
Bourgeois Equality, Deirdre McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues, Deirdre McCloskey
Essentialism, Greg McKeown
100 Baggers, Christopher Mayer
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Has The West Lost It?, Kishore Mahbubani
Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy
The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy
Becoming, Michelle Obama
1944, Jay Winik
The Myth of Capitalism, Jonathan Tepper
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph, Albert Hirschman
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
Bring it on Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager, Mark Blake
‘rr’ = re-read