Books
An ongoing list of books I’ve read (stats).
📚 indicates that I have a physical copy that is lendable, if you want.
🎧 indicates that I listened to an audiobook version.
2025 (20)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien | 22nd Nov | 🎧 |
| Call for the Dead by John le Carré | 19th Nov | 📚 |
| Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott | 13th Nov | 📚 |
| The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | 29th Oct | |
| Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo and S.M. Barrett | 22nd Sep | |
| Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz | 6th Sep | |
| Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells | 15th Aug | |
| Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte | 19th Jun | |
| How to See by George Nelson | 11th Jun | |
| Network Effect by Martha Wells | 23rd May | |
| Writing to Learn by William Zinsser | 7th May | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce | 26th Apr | |
| The PARA Method by Tiago Forte | 12th Mar | |
| Exit Strategy by Martha Wells | 25th Feb | |
| Forward (collection) by Various | 20th Feb | |
| Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut | 10th Feb | |
| Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman | 1st Feb | |
| Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells | 25th Jan | |
| Kissa by Kissa by Craig Mod | 19th Jan | 📚 |
| An Immense World by Ed Yong | 15th Jan | 📚 |
2024 (17)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho | 13th Dec | |
| Artificial Condition by Martha Wells | 6th Dec | |
| All Systems Red by Martha Wells | 30th Nov | |
| The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar | 27th Nov | |
| Hawa Hawa by Nabarun Bhattacharya and Subha Prasad Sanyal | 27th Oct | 📚 |
| Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers | 2nd Oct | 📚 |
| The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin | 17th Sep | |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | 2nd Sep | 📚 |
| Sum by David Eagleman | 11th Jun | |
| Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - And Other Strange Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson | 24th May | |
| The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande | 11th May | |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | 18th Apr | |
| Slow Productivity by Cal Newport | 28th Mar | 📚 |
| The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin | 10th Mar | |
| English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee | 27th Feb | 📚 |
| Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein | 10th Feb | |
| The Creative Act by Rick Rubin | 27th Jan | 📚 |
2023 (5)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Saving Time by Jenny Odell | 23rd Nov | |
| Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram | 18th Oct | |
| Welsh’s Synthesizer Cookbook by Fred Welsh | 2nd Jul | |
| Patch and Tweak by Kim Bjørn and Chris Meyer | 30th Apr | 📚 |
| The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin | 28th Mar |
2022 (6)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | 26th Dec | |
| Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman | 24th Jun | |
| Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel | 10th Jun | |
| Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin | 21st May | |
| Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson | 30th Apr | |
| On Photography by Susan Sontag | 26th Feb |
2021 (8)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero | 20th Dec | 📚 |
| Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | 5th Sep | |
| Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles | 21st Aug | |
| The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | 11th Apr | |
| A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | 20th Mar | |
| The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack | 9th Mar | |
| Rembrandt by Typex | 14th Feb | 📚 |
| How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren | 7th Feb |
2020 (10)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin | 27th Dec | |
| The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin | 13th Dec | |
| Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla | 22nd Oct | |
| Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport | 22nd Aug | |
| The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | 19th Jun | 📚 |
| Keep Going by Austin Kleon | 25th May | 📚 |
| Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson | 24th May | |
| There There by Tommy Orange | 15th Mar | |
| Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob | 27th Feb | 📚 |
| Deep Work by Cal Newport | 12th Jan | 📚 |
2019 (9)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell | 28th Dec | 📚 |
| Atomic Habits by James Clear | 12th Oct | 📚 |
| The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin | 11th Aug | |
| Rework by Jason Fried | 24th Jul | |
| How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston | 20th Jul | |
| The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod | 2nd Jul | |
| Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright | 3rd Mar | |
| When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | 1st Mar | |
| An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green | 17th Feb |
2018 (4)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli | 3rd Nov | |
| March: Book One by John Lewis | 30th Aug | |
| The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | 30th Aug | 📚 |
| The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe | 30th Aug |
2017 (2)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey | 6th Oct | |
| Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson | 16th Sep |
2016 (3)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Death’s End by Cixin Liu | 9th Oct | |
| The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu | 31st Jan | |
| Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie | 17th Jan |
2015 (8)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| On Being a Photographer by David Hurn | 31st Dec | |
| The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu | 12th Sep | |
| Ready Player One by Ernest Cline | 17th Aug | |
| The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck | 10th Aug | 📚 |
| The Martian by Andy Weir | 2nd Jul | |
| Seveneves by Neal Stephenson | 23rd Jun | |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | 2nd Apr | 📚 |
| Light, Gesture, and Color by Jay Maisel | 16th Mar | 📚 |
2014 (1)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury | 19th Dec | 📚 |
2013 (2)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Garry Winogrand by Garry Winogrand | 15th May | 📚 |
| A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge | 15th May |
2012 (3)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Life of Pi by Yann Martel | 2nd Dec | |
| The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges | 24th Nov | |
| Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card | 14th Oct |
2011 (2)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Reamde by Neal Stephenson | 23rd Oct | |
| Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana | 6th Sep | 📚 |
2010 (6)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Absolute Superman by Brian Azzarello | 6th Jun | |
| Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | 12th Apr | |
| A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge | 14th Mar | |
| Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke | 11th Feb | |
| Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov | 9th Feb | |
| Food Rules by Michael Pollan | 17th Jan |
2009 (14)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | 29th Oct | |
| Zodiac by Neal Stephenson | 13th Oct | |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway | 13th Oct | |
| Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov | 9th Sep | |
| Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov | 31st Aug | |
| The Stranger by Albert Camus | 29th Aug | |
| Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov | 23rd Jul | |
| Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov | 8th Jul | |
| Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov | 22nd Jun | |
| Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov | 18th Jun | |
| Foundation by Isaac Asimov | 5th Jun | |
| The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan | 1st Jun | |
| Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell | 19th Feb | |
| Anathem by Neal Stephenson | 3rd Jan |
2008 (4)
| Title & Author | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut | 15th Sep | |
| The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | 31st Jul | |
| Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut | 18th Jul | 📚 |
| Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton | 12th May | 📚 |