BOOKS & Links

A record of my reading since 2019. Most recent books listed first.

2026

  1. The Brain from Inside Out, György Buzsáki
  2. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, Rana Mitter
  3. The Next China is Still China, Joe Ngai and Nick Leung
  4. A Tale of Three Cities: The Life & Times of Lord Daer 1763-1794, Bob Harris
  5. The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted Microchip, Stephen Witt
  6. John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920, Robert Skidelsky
  7. The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  8. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
  9. Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
  10. What Is Life?, Addy Pross
  11. The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch (rr)
  12. The Making of a Permabear, Jeremy Grantham and Edward Chancellor
  13. The Infinity Machine, Sebastian Mallaby
  14. London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth, Patrick Radden Keefe
  15. Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein, Abraham Pais
  16. Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult, Jonathan Cheng
  17. Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer
  18. Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Lillian Hoddeson & Michael Riordan
  19. The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre
  20. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagosawa
  21. Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Quest for Global Power, Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
  22. The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Horace Freeland Judson
  23. The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald
  24. HDFC Bank 2.0, Tamal Bandyopadhyay
  25. Roller Coaster, Tamal Bandyopadhyay
  26. Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition, Lulu Yilun Chen
  27. Being You, Anil Seth (rr)
  28. Dilla Time, Dan Charnas
  29. How Africa Works, Joe Studwell
  30. The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgaard
  31. Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence, Ben Wardle
  32. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, Eric R. Kandel
  33. Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun, Keza MacDonald
  34. Mockingbird, Walter Tevis

2025

  1. In the Footsteps of Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet, Michael Wood
  2. Charles Dickens: A Life, Claire Tomalin
  3. Vertigo, W.G. Sebald
  4. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket, Felix White
  7. Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs, Miranda Sawyer
  8. The Enigma of Arrival, V.S. Naipaul
  9. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai
  10. The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future, Joel J. Miller
  11. Crick, Matthew Cobb
  12. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. The Land Trap, Mike Bird
  14. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church, Peter Ross
  15. Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia, Michael Crawley
  16. The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief, Richard Holmes
  17. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
  18. Without Reservation: A Life in Restaurants, Jeremy King
  19. Boater, Jo Bell
  20. The Alignment Problem, Brian Christian
  21. The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us What we Are, Michael Pye
  22. The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs, Jonny Steinberg
  23. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, Anil Seth
  24. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  25. King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, The 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East, Scott Anderson
  26. Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks, James A. Anderson & Edward Rosenfeld
  27. Practice, Rosalind Brown
  28. The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook
  29. The Quantum Story, Jim Baggott
  30. The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb
  31. The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
  32. The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
  33. Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945 - 2016, Tom McTague
  34. Shamanism: The Timeless Religion, Manvir Singh
  35. The Hidden Spring, Mark Solms
  36. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a new Science of Mind, Eric Kandel
  37. Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines, Miguel Nicolelis
  38. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  39. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Anne Fadiman
  40. China's Last Empire: The Great Qing, William T. Rowe
  41. A Brief History of Intelligence, Max Bennett
  42. The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
  43. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, Peter Hessler
  44. The Deep Learning Revolution, Terrence Sejnowski
  45. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Sutton and Barto
  46. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, Stephen R. Platt
  47. Lost and Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude and Happiness, Kathryn Schulz
  48. The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia, Peter Hopkirk
  49. Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Dan Wang
  50. The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It, Neil Bascomb
  51. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford, 1900-1960, Nikhil Krishnan
  52. Montaigne, Stefan Zweig
  53. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
  54. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, Orlando Figes
  55. Just Kids, Patti Smith
  56. Sing Backwards and Weep, Mark Lanegan
  57. The Rise of Superman, Stephen Kotler
  58. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story in Music Lessons, Jeremy Denk
  59. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and its Lessons for the Age of the Internet, Jeff Jarvis
  60. The Iliad, Homer
  61. Bulls, Bears and other Beasts: A Story of the Indian Equity Market, Santosh Nair
  62. The IndiGo Story: Inside the Upstart that Redefined Indian Aviation, Shelley Vishwajeet
  63. The House of Huawei, Eva Dou
  64. The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping, Joseph Torigian
  65. Our Dollar, Your Problem, Kenneth Rogoff
  66. To Run the World: The Kremlin's Bid for Global Power, Sergey Radchenko
  67. Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg
  68. Made to Stick, Chip & Dan Heath
  69. The British Imagination, Peter Watson
  70. I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally
  71. Apple in China, Patrick McGee
  72. Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (vol.2), Robert Caro
  73. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created, William J. Bernstein
  74. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
  75. Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green
  76. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (vol.1), Robert Caro
  77. A Brief History of Intelligence: How the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI, Max S. Bennett
  78. Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, John D. Clark
  79. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region, Joe Studwell
  80. The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life, Clare Carlisle
  81. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the Economy Bigger, Mark Levinson
  82. The Horse, the Wheel and Language, David W. Anthony
  83. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of the Age of AI, Fei-Fei Li
  84. Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
  85. Abundance: How we Build a Better Future, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
  86. John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, Ian Leslie
  87. The Struggle for Taiwan, Sulmaan Wasif Khan
  88. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
  89. Living the Asian Century, Kishore Mahbubani
  90. More Than A Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting, Thomas A. King
  91. Henry James: A Very Short Introduction, Susan Mizruchi
  92. Unended Quest: An Intellectual Biography, Karl Popper
  93. The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, Patchen Barss
  94. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, Frank Close
  95. Beyond a Boundary, C.L.R. James
  96. Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time and Mathematical Transformation, Robyn Arianrhod
  97. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Susan Blackmore
  98. The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest Business in Sport, Jonathan Clegg
  99. Fidelity's World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant, Diana B. Henriques
  100. The Caesar's Palace Coup, Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap
  101. The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, Michael Cox
  102. The Shortest History of Japan, Lesley Downer
  103. The Smartest Kids in the World And How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley
  104. Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life, Sonia Purnell

2024

  1. Who's Afraid of Romanee-Conti?: A Shortcut to Drinking Great Wines, Dan Keeling
  2. Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone, Tim Shipman
  3. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  4. Why Machines Learn, Anil Ananthaswamy
  5. Checkmate in Berlin, Giles Milton
  6. The Stalin Affair, Giles Milton
  7. Question 7, Richard Flanagan
  8. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
  9. A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: A Biography of Randy Newman, Robert Hilburn
  10. The NVIDIA Way, Tae Kim
  11. The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut
  12. Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst
  13. Stoner, John Williams
  14. The Third Man, Graham Greene
  15. The Comedians, Graham Greene
  16. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
  17. How to Steal a Presidential Election, Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman
  18. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  19. The War Below, Ernest Scheyder
  20. A Guide to the Professional Interview, Asbjorn Rachlew & Geir-Egil Loken & Svein Tore Bergestuen
  21. The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders-in-Chief and Titans of Industry, Tevi Troy
  22. A Piece of the Sun: The Quest for Fusion Energy, Daniel Clery
  23. Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age, Eric Berger
  24. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F. Vogel
  25. Chernobyl Roulette, Serhii Plokhy
  26. So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard
  27. AI Supremacy: ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, Parmy Olson
  28. Numbers Don't Lie, Vaclav Smil
  29. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, Neil Sheehan
  30. Blue Machine, Helen Czerski
  31. The Corporation in the 21st Century, John Kay
  32. Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
  33. In Gratitude, Jenny Diski
  34. The Racket, Conor Niland
  35. Focus: The ASML Way - Inside the Power Struggle Over the Most Complex Machine on Earth, Marc Hijink
  36. Monolithic Undertow, Harry Sword
  37. A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti
  38. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Benjamin M. Friedman
  39. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, Jan Morris
  40. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, Roland Allen
  41. Open, Andre Agassi
  42. A Short History of England, Simon Jenkins
  43. A History of Britain, Simon Schama
  44. The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
  45. Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy
  46. Cunning Folk, Tabitha Stanmore
  47. Downfall, Anna Arutunyan & Mark Galeotti
  48. Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal, Al Alvarez
  49. Groupthink, Christopher Booker
  50. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, Gustave Le Bon
  51. Heroes of Progress, Alexander C. Hammond
  52. Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Lillian Hoddeson & Michael Riordan
  53. A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean
  54. The Struggle for Taiwan, Sulmaan Wasif Khan
  55. Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
  56. Practicing History, Barbara W. Tuchman
  57. Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking, Cecilia Heyes
  58. The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich
  59. The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
  60. The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb
  61. Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel
  62. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Fein, Aoife Moore
  63. Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell
  64. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East 1979-2003, Steve Coll
  65. The Tiger, John Vaillant
  66. Delight, J.B. Priestley
  67. The Full English, Stuart Maconie
  68. Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish
  69. Where Are the Customers' Yachts?, Fred Schwed
  70. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein
  71. Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams
  72. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
  73. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  74. How Life Works, Philip Ball
  75. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  76. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
  77. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  78. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
  79. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  80. This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
  81. Keir Starmer, Tom Baldwin
  82. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, Olivia Cheung and Steve Tsang
  83. The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain's First Labour Government, David Torrance
  84. Another Green World, Geeta Dayal
  85. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug, Nathan Vardi
  86. Invitation to a Banquet, Fuchsia Dunlop
  87. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets, Clair Wills
  88. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats, Jonathan Bate
  89. The Measure of Reality, Alfred W. Crosby
  90. Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth, Adam Zamoyski
  91. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles, Bernard Cornwell
  92. When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
  93. Owning the Earth, Andro Linklater
  94. Tago Mago, Alan Warner
  95. Talleyrand, Duff Cooper
  96. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  97. Nixon Agonistes, Gary Wills
  98. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

2023

  1. Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T. Munger
  2. Scotland, Murray Pittock
  3. World Order, Henry Kissinger
  4. Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
  5. Waverley, Walter Scott
  6. Updike, Adam Begley
  7. Chocolate Wars, Deborah Cadbury
  8. The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World, William Egginton
  9. GOAT: Who Is The Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, Tyler Cowen
  10. A Year of Reading Dangerously, Andy Miller
  11. Going Infinite, Michael Lewis
  12. Molloy, Samuel Beckett
  13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, Rob Copeland
  14. Coffin, Scarcely Used, Colin Watson
  15. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, Bernie Taupin
  16. Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes, Richard Davenport-Hines
  17. Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell
  18. The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
  19. Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry
  20. Stay True, Hua Hsu
  21. Toast, Nigel Slater
  22. Time Regained: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 7, Marcel Proust
  23. I've Been Thinking, Daniel C. Dennett
  24. I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter
  25. Hearing Secret Harmonies: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 12, Anthony Powell
  26. Temporary Kings: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 11, Anthony Powell
  27. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy and the Life of J.M. Keynes, Zachary D. Carter
  28. The Fugitive: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 6, Marcel Proust
  29. War and Punishment, Mikhail Zygar
  30. The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Sergei Medvedev
  31. Books do Furnish a Room: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 10, Anthony Powell
  32. Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart
  33. The Military Philosophers: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 9, Anthony Powell
  34. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin, Pulak Prasad
  35. The Captive: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 5, Marcel Proust
  36. The Soldier's Art: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 8, Anthony Powell
  37. The Valley of Bones: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 7, Anthony Powell
  38. Sodom & Gomorrah: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 4, Marcel Proust
  39. The Kindly Ones: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 6, Anthony Powell
  40. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 5, Anthony Powell
  41. The Guermantes Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 3, Marcel Proust
  42. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes
  43. At Lady Molly's: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 4, Anthony Powell
  44. The Acceptance World: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 3, Anthony Powell
  45. In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 2, Marcel Proust
  46. A Buyer's Market: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 2, Anthony Powell
  47. A Question of Upbringing: A Dance to the Music of Time, Book 1, Anthony Powell
  48. Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 1, Marcel Proust
  49. Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead
  50. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
  51. Revolutionary Spring, Christopher Clark
  52. Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik
  53. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut
  54. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
  55. Material World, Ed Conway
  56. Nick Drake, Richard Morton Jack
  57. Thunderclap, Laura Cumming
  58. Faith, Hope & Carnage, Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan
  59. The Wager, David Grann
  60. Why Information Grows, Cesar Hidalgo
  61. What I Learned About Investing From Darwin, Pulak Prasad
  62. Revolutionary Spring, Christopher Clark
  63. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
  64. On Quality, Robert Pirsig & Wendy M. Pirsig
  65. Masters of Doom, David Kushner
  66. Chip War, Chris Miller
  67. Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
  68. Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris
  69. Scaling People, Claire Hughes Johnson
  70. Hands of Time, Rebecca Struthers
  71. Michael Jordan, Roland Lazenby
  72. Parfit, David Edmonds
  73. Working, Robert Caro
  74. The Evolution of God, Robert Wright
  75. A Guide to the Professional Interview, Asbjorn Rachlew & Geir-Egil Loken
  76. The Last Party, John Harris
  77. The Murder of Professor Schlick, David Edmonds
  78. The Fabric of Civilisation, Virginia Postrel
  79. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
  80. The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
  81. The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
  82. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.2), Robert Caro
  83. The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
  84. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.1), Robert Caro
  85. What's Our Problem, Tim Urban
  86. Beyond Measure, James Vincent
  87. Genius Makers, Cade Metz
  88. The Romance of Reality, Bobby Azarian
  89. Dark, Salt, Clear, Lamorna Ash
  90. The Pursuit of Power, William H. McNeill
  91. Soft City, Jonathan Raban
  92. Dune, Frank Herbert
  93. A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
  94. Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon, Brian Clegg
  95. The Rise of the West, William H. McNeill
  96. Bibi, Anshel Pfeffer
  97. The Genetic Age, Matthew Cobb
  98. The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich
  99. We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole
  100. The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook
  101. Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year, Eleanor Parker
  102. The McCartney Legacy, Allan Kozinn & Adrian Sinclair

2022

  1. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown, Anna Keay
  2. Like, Comment, Subscribe: YouTube's Chaotic Journey to World Domination, Mark Bergen
  3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
  4. Dark, Salt, Clear, Lamorna Ash
  5. Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green
  6. Jet Man: The Making and Breaking of Frank Whittle, Genius of the Jet Revolution, Duncan Campbell-Smith
  7. Pyramid of Lies, Duncan Mavin
  8. The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal
  9. The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  10. Putin's Wars, Mark Galeotti
  11. China's Economy, Arthur R. Kroeber
  12. A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor
  13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller
  14. Slouching Towards Utopia, Brad DeLong
  15. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
  16. Money Men, Dan McCrum
  17. On Some Faraway Beach: The Life & Times of Brian Eno, David Sheppard
  18. The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism, Matthew Continetti
  19. Invested, Charles Schwab
  20. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar
  21. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
  22. Northline, Willy Vlautin
  23. Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism, Thomas Brothers
  24. The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
  25. Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin
  26. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, Neal Gabler
  27. The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor
  28. Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich, Deirdre McCloskey & Art Carden
  29. The Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
  30. MBS, Ben Hubbard
  31. John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920, Robert Skidelsky
  32. Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro, Richard Lapper
  33. The Metaverse, Matthew Ball
  34. The Dream Machine, Mitchell Waldrop
  35. The Intel Trinity, Michael S. Malone
  36. The Islander, Chris Blackwell
  37. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  38. Talent, Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
  39. The World For Sale, Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
  40. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
  41. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell
  42. The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
  43. Nazi Billionaires, David de Jong
  44. Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man, Claire Tomalin
  45. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire and Lost it All, Mary Childs
  46. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright
  47. The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman
  48. Rock Me on the Water, Ronald Brownstein
  49. Putin's People: How the KGB Took back Russia Then Turned on the West, Catherine Belton
  50. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, John M. Barry
  51. A Century of Investing: Baillie Gifford's First 100 Years, Richard Burns
  52. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of War, Nicholas Mulder
  53. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Jimmy Soni
  54. Accidental Gods, Anna Della Subin
  55. Rome, Robert Hughes
  56. Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life, William Green
  57. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
  58. The Great Mental Models vol.3: Systems & Mathematics, Farnam Street
  59. America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts
  60. Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers, Fred Reichheld
  61. Barca: The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Football Club, Simon Kuper
  62. The Future of Money, Eswar S. Prasad
  63. The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, Mary Elise Sarotte
  64. A Life of My Own, Claire Tomalin
  65. The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
  66. How to Decide, Annie Duke
  67. Lessons From the Titans, Scott Davis & Melius Research
  68. Capital Without Borders, Brooke Harrington
  69. Consilience, E.O. Wilson
  70. How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil
  71. The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich
  72. Very Important People: Status & Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears
  73. Men, Machines & Modern Times, Elting E. Morison
  74. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (vol.2), Charles Moore
  75. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth, Frank Slootman
  76. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, Richard D. White Jr
  77. Germinal, Emile Zola
  78. Scientist: E.O. Wilson, A Life in Nature, Richard Rhodes

2021

  1. Tom Stoppard: A Life, Hermione Lee
  2. Spy Line, Len Deighton
  3. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, Michela Wrong
  4. Spy Hook, Len Deighton
  5. London Match, Len Deighton
  6. Mexico Set, Len Deighton
  7. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien
  8. The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker
  9. Berlin Game, Len Deighton
  10. White Noise, Don DeLillo
  11. Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Sally Rooney
  12. The Asian Financial Crisis, Russell Napier
  13. Vasily Grossman & The Soviet Century, Alexandra Popoff
  14. Stalingrad, Anthony Beevor
  15. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
  16. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, Adam Tooze
  17. The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
  18. Unnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers
  19. The Trials of Rumpole, John Mortimer
  20. The Beatles, Hunter Davies
  21. This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Nicole Perlroth
  22. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
  23. Railroader, Howard Green
  24. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  25. Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win, Jeff Lawson
  26. Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906, David Cannadine
  27. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, and Corruption in Today's China, Desmond Shum
  28. The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, Tom Reiss
  29. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann, Ananyo Bhattacharya
  30. Digital Cash, Finn Brunton
  31. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
  32. Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb
  33. Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick
  34. The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Paige Harden
  35. Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald, Carole Angier
  36. The Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
  37. Shift Into Freedom, Loch Kelly
  38. Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli
  39. The Great Depression and the New Deal, Eric Rauchway
  40. Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain's Economy from Boom to Bust and Back Again, Duncan Weldon
  41. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955, Harald Jähner
  42. The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand
  43. Vaxxers, Sarah Gilbert & Catherine Green
  44. Index: A History of The, Dennis Duncan
  45. My Phantoms, Gwendoline Riley
  46. Grow the Pie, Alex Edmans
  47. The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
  48. Bewilderment, Richard Powers
  49. Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman
  50. Freedom, Sebastian Junger
  51. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
  52. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
  53. The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, vol.11), Will & Ariel Durant
  54. Rousseau & Revolution (The Story of Civilization, vol.10), Will & Ariel Durant
  55. Rumpole for the Defence, John Mortimer
  56. The Age of Voltaire (The Story of Civilization, vol.9), Will & Ariel Durant
  57. The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization, vol.8), Will & Ariel Durant
  58. Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, Jonathan Conlin
  59. 100 Baggers, Christopher W. Mayer
  60. The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
  61. Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone
  62. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories & Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
  63. The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery, Michael Taylor
  64. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, John Preston
  65. Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman & the Ways of American Power, Zachary Karabell
  66. The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
  67. The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson
  68. Rumpole on Trial, John Mortimer
  69. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
  70. Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
  71. Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie
  72. A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti
  73. The Last London, Iain Sinclair
  74. The Peregrine, J.A. Baker
  75. Lost in Thought, Zena Hitz
  76. The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham
  77. The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilisation, vol.7), Will & Ariel Durant
  78. The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters, Adam Nicolson
  79. The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb
  80. Saturday, Ian McEwan
  81. This Sovereign Isle, Robert Tombs
  82. The Thirty Years' War, C.V. Wedgwood
  83. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Benjamin M. Friedman
  84. Written in Bone, Professor Sue Black
  85. The Reformation (The Story of Civilisation, vol.6), Will Durant
  86. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Adam Tooze
  87. Freedom from Fear (Oxford History of the United States), David M. Kennedy
  88. From Colony to Superpower (Oxford History of the United States), George C. Herring
  89. The Creation of the American Republic (Oxford History of the United States), Gordon S. Wood
  90. The Artful Dickens, John Mullan
  91. Grand Expectations (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
  92. London in the Eighteenth Century, Jerry White
  93. Restless Giant (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
  94. Monsoon, Robert D. Kaplan

2020

  1. Rise of the Data Cloud, Frank Slootman
  2. Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974, James T. Patterson
  3. Berlin Game, Len Deighton
  4. London Match, Len Deighton
  5. The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
  6. George F. Kennan: An American Life, John Lewis Gaddis
  7. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World, Barry Gewen
  8. Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.3), Jan Morris
  9. Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.2), Jan Morris
  10. Heaven's Command (Pax Britannica Trilogy vol.1), Jan Morris
  11. The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
  12. The Bridge, Thane Gustafson
  13. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
  14. Samsung Rising, Geoffrey Cain
  15. Billion Dollar Loser, Reeves Wiedeman
  16. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
  17. How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
  18. The Story of China, Michael Wood
  19. Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns
  20. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang, Steven Dudley
  21. Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
  22. A Concise History of the Arabs, John McHugo
  23. My Promised Land, Ari Shavit
  24. The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich
  25. Inside Story, Martin Amis
  26. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
  27. World Order, Henry Kissinger
  28. The Renaissance (The Story of Civilisation, vol.5), Will Durant
  29. Radical Uncertainty, Mervyn King & John Kay
  30. Why We Don't Learn From History, B.H. Liddell Hart
  31. Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake
  32. Left Out, Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
  33. The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
  34. The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady
  35. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
  36. Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman
  37. Exhalation, Ted Chiang
  38. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, Stephen Kotkin
  39. Intimations, Zadie Smith
  40. At Swim Two Birds, Flann O'Brien
  41. The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
  42. The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilisation, vol.4), Will Durant
  43. Arts & Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation, Anton Howes
  44. How to Write Like Tolstoy, Richard Cohen
  45. Facebook: The Inside Story, Steven Levy
  46. Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn, Graeme Thomson
  47. One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time, Craig Brown
  48. Coffeeland, Augustine Sedgewick
  49. Self Care, Leigh Stein
  50. Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
  51. Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics, Anthony Aguirre
  52. Why Spencer Perceval had to Die, Andro Linklater
  53. Embracing Defeat, John W. Dower
  54. Summer Lightning, P.G. Wodehouse
  55. Heavy Weather, P.G. Wodehouse
  56. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
  57. Miles: The Autobiography, Miles Davis
  58. Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott
  59. How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley
  60. Money, Martin Amis
  61. Gandhi Before India, Ramachandra Guha
  62. The Innovation Stack, Jim McKelvey
  63. The Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko
  64. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, & the Life of J.M. Keynes, Zachary D. Carter
  65. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  66. Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership, Andro Linklater
  67. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Turned on the West, Catherine Belton
  68. Men at Arms, Evelyn Waugh
  69. Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time, Hilary Spurling
  70. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Richard White
  71. The Great Mental Models (Volume 2), Shane Parrish & Farnam Street
  72. The Ratline, Philippe Sands
  73. These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore
  74. Hearing Secret Harmonies (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.12), Anthony Powell
  75. Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.11), Anthony Powell
  76. Books Do Furnish a Room (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.10), Anthony Powell
  77. The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.9), Anthony Powell
  78. The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.8), Anthony Powell
  79. The Valley of Bones (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.7), Anthony Powell
  80. Red Plenty, Francis Spufford
  81. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.6), Anthony Powell
  82. Globalists, Quinn Slobodian
  83. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.5), Anthony Powell
  84. Sea People, Christina Thompson
  85. At Lady Molly's (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.4), Anthony Powell
  86. The Acceptance World (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.3), Anthony Powell
  87. A Buyer's Market (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.2), Anthony Powell
  88. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol.1), Anthony Powell
  89. Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  90. A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman
  91. The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilisation, vol.4), Will Durant
  92. Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess
  93. Deep Work, Cal Newport
  94. The Patriarch, David Nasaw
  95. The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
  96. Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
  97. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
  98. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier
  99. Black Wave, Kim Ghattas
  100. A Short History of London, Simon Jenkins
  101. The Great Influenza, John M. Barry
  102. Kraftwerk, Uwe Schütte
  103. Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, Brendan Simms
  104. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro
  105. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  106. Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, Robert Kanigel
  107. The Economists' Hour, Binyamin Appelbaum
  108. The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich
  109. One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, Charles Fishman
  110. The Age of Extremes: 1914-1991, Eric Hobsbawm
  111. The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, Eric Hobsbawm
  112. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875, Eric Hobsbawm
  113. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848, Eric Hobsbawm
  114. The Odyssey, Homer
  115. How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman
  116. The Pursuit of Power, William H. McNeill
  117. Organizing Genius, Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biederman
  118. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, Kassia St Clair
  119. Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday
  120. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  121. My Early Life, Winston Churchill
  122. The Shareholder Value Myth, Lynn Stout
  123. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
  124. Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium, Lucy Inglis
  125. Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener
  126. Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800-1906, David Cannadine
  127. Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer
  128. On Photography, Susan Sontag
  129. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of my Years at Lockheed, Ben R. Rich
  130. Extreme Economies, Richard Davies
  131. What It Takes, Stephen Schwarzman
  132. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, Eric Foner
  133. The AI Does Not Hate You, Tom Chivers
  134. The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich
  135. The Light That Failed, Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes
  136. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books, Elif Batuman
  137. Yoga For People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer
  138. The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
  139. Liquid, Mark Miodownik
  140. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
  141. Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas
  142. Life at the Speed of Light, J. Craig Venter
  143. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  144. Maoism, Julia Lovell
  145. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
  146. Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport

2019

  1. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
  2. The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
  3. What You Do is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz
  4. The Regency Revolution, Robert Morrison
  5. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
  6. Looking for Transwonderland, Noo Saro-Wiwa
  7. The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  8. Somewhere Becoming Rain, Clive James
  9. My Life in Middlemarch, Rebecca Mead
  10. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa, Paul Kenyon
  11. The Ride of a Lifetime, Bob Iger
  12. Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson
  13. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky
  14. The Blair Years, Alastair Campbell
  15. Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
  16. The Great British Dream Factory, Dominic Sandbrook
  17. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
  18. Grand Union, Zadie Smith
  19. Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
  20. Educated, Tara Westover
  21. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, Chris Arnade
  22. A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar
  23. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  24. How Fascism Works, Jason Stanley
  25. The Value of Everything: Makers & Takers in the Global Economy, Mariana Mazzucato
  26. Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization, pt.3), Will Durant
  27. Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
  28. The Last Leonardo, Ben Lewis
  29. The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un, Anna Fifield
  30. The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
  31. Means of Ascent, Robert Caro
  32. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Thomas Philippon
  33. The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
  34. No Such Thing as Society, Andy McSmith
  35. Capital Account, Marathon Asset Management ed. Edward Chancellor
  36. A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
  37. Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
  38. The Man Who Solved the Market, Gregory Zuckerman
  39. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, Stephen Kotkin
  40. Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
  41. Your Duck is my Duck, Deborah Eisenberg
  42. The History of Physics, J.L. Heilbron
  43. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  44. From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, Emilio Segrè
  45. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  46. Simple But Not Easy, Richard Oldfield
  47. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
  48. Nine Lives, Aimen Dean
  49. Kochland, Christopher Leonard
  50. The Little Book that Builds Wealth, Pat Dorsey
  51. The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
  52. Nothing is Real, David Hepworth
  53. This is Not Propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev
  54. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Philip Fisher
  55. Me, Elton John
  56. The Boy with the Topknot, Sathnam Sanghera
  57. Quality Investing, Lawrence Cunningham, Torkell Eide & Patrick Hargreaves
  58. The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  59. The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
  60. The Life of Greece (The Story of Civilization, pt.2), Will Durant
  61. The Order of the Day, Éric Vuillard
  62. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic, Alfred Lansing
  63. The Art of Execution, Lee Freeman-Shor
  64. Cosmos, Carl Sagan
  65. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful, Stephanie Wittels Wachs
  66. The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
  67. Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon, Brian Clegg
  68. The Overstory, Richard Powers
  69. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Arthur Koestler
  70. Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon
  71. Wilding, Isabella Tree
  72. Exterminate All The Brutes, Sven Lindqvist
  73. Genius, James Gleick
  74. Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin
  75. Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
  76. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
  77. American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka
  78. Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Bill Janeway
  79. Made in America, Sam Walton
  80. The Battle for Sky: The Murdochs, Disney, Comcast and the Future of Entertainment, Christopher Williams
  81. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Life of Three American Families, J. Anthony Lukas
  82. Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs, Gina Keating
  83. Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
  84. Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, Sonia Purnell
  85. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
  86. Science: A History: 1534-2001, John Gribbin
  87. The Demon in the Machine, Paul Davies
  88. Seinfeldia: How A Show About Nothing Changed Everything, Jennifer Armstrong
  89. The Nature of Technology, Brian Arthur
  90. Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No-one's Land, Sven Lindqvist
  91. My Life and Work, Henry Ford
  92. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
  93. The Frayed Atlantic Edge, David Gange
  94. 1931: Debt, Crisis and the Rise of Hitler, Tobias Straumann
  95. The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
  96. Talking to Terrorists, Jonathan Powell
  97. Not in My Neighborhood, Antero Pietila
  98. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr & The Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar
  99. Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, Paul Barrett
  100. Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Edward Luttwak
  101. Stars: A Very Short Introduction, Andrew King
  102. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
  103. Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood
  104. The End of Accounting, Baruch Lev
  105. The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction, J.L. Heilbron
  106. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson
  107. Unraveling the Double Helix: The Story of DNA, Gareth Williams
  108. From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves, Emilio Segrè
  109. Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
  110. Personal History, Katharine Graham
  111. Fiber: The Coming Tech Revolution and why America Might Miss It, Susan Crawford
  112. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, Natasha Dow Schüll
  113. Capital Returns, Marathon Asset Management (ed. Edward Chancellor)
  114. Loonshots, Safi Bahcall
  115. Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, pt.1), Will Durant
  116. Keynes: Universal Man, Richard Davenport-Hines
  117. The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke
  118. Led Zeppelin IV, Barney Hoskyns
  119. Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
  120. Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey
  121. Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
  122. Deep Work, Cal Newport
  123. So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport
  124. Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
  125. Origin Story, David Christian
  126. The Second Mountain, David Brooks
  127. Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
  128. Exterminate all the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist
  129. Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, Rana Mitter
  130. The Secret Barrister, Anonymous
  131. This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
  132. This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
  133. Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus, Steven Strogatz
  134. Cataloging the World, Alex Wright
  135. Working, Robert Caro
  136. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Jason Stearns
  137. The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
  138. The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane
  139. Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle
  140. The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr
  141. The Great Economists, Linda Yueh
  142. The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
  143. The Debatable Land, Graham Robb
  144. Creating the 20th Century, Vaclav Smil
  145. High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil
  146. Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, Emily Maitlis
  147. The Fun Stuff: and Other Essays, James Wood
  148. American Nations, Colin Woodard
  149. Persuasion, Jane Austen
  150. The Age of Eisenhower, William Hitchcock
  151. Life 3.0, Max Tegmark
  152. Exactly, Simon Winchester
  153. The Complacent Class, Tyler Cowen
  154. Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
  155. The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang
  156. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  157. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age, Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
  158. A Mathematician's Apology, G.H. Hardy
  159. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor, John Berger
  160. Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See, Robert Kurson
  161. A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag
  162. Lone Star: A History of Texas, T.R. Fehrenbach
  163. Normal People, Sally Rooney
  164. Reality Is Not What it Seems, Carlo Rovelli
  165. Power, Pleasure and Profit, David Wootton
  166. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Diarmaid MacCulloch
  167. AI Superpowers, Kai-Fu Lee
  168. The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
  169. The Greatest Story Ever Told, Lawrence Krauss
  170. Failure: Why Science is Successful, Stuart Firestein
  171. Who is Michael Ovitz?, Michael Ovitz
  172. When I Stop Talking You'll Know I'm Dead, Jerry Weintraub
  173. The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore
  174. The Corporation That Changed the World, Nick Robins
  175. Hello World, Hannah Fry
  176. Triumphs of Experience, George E. Vaillant
  177. Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia, Jürgen Osterhammel
  178. Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
  179. Valley of Genius, Adam Fisher
  180. Zucked, Roger McNamee
  181. The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick
  182. The Beatles, All These Years (Vol.1), Mark Lewisohn
  183. Quench Your Own Thirst, Jim Koch
  184. Chocolate Wars, Deborah Cadbury
  185. The Gene Machine, Venki Ramakrishnan
  186. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill
  187. Behemoth: A History of the Factory, Joshua Freeman
  188. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1960-2000, Stephen Kotkin
  189. Moonwalking With Einstein, Joshua Foer
  190. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright
  191. The Color of Money, Mehrsa Baradaran
  192. Bourgeois Dignity, Deirdre McCloskey
  193. Bourgeois Equality, Deirdre McCloskey
  194. The Bourgeois Virtues, Deirdre McCloskey
  195. Essentialism, Greg McKeown
  196. 100 Baggers, Christopher Mayer
  197. Atomic Habits, James Clear
  198. Has The West Lost It?, Kishore Mahbubani
  199. Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy
  200. The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy
  201. Becoming, Michelle Obama
  202. 1944, Jay Winik
  203. The Myth of Capitalism, Jonathan Tepper
  204. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
  205. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph, Albert Hirschman
  206. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
  207. Bring it on Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond, Mark Blake