An ongoing list of books I’ve read.

2023

• 23rd Nov – ★★★★☆ – Saving Time by Jenny Odell

• 18th Oct – Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

• 2nd Jul – ★★★★☆ – Welsh’s Synthesizer Cookbook by Fred Welsh

• 30th Apr – ★★★★★ – Patch and Tweak by Kim Bjørn and Chris Meyer

• 28th Mar – ★★★☆☆ – The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

2022

• 26th Dec – ★★★★★ – Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• 24th Jun – ★★★★★ – Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

• 10th Jun – ★★★★★ – Mirror Made of Rain by Naheed Phiroze Patel

• 21st May – ★★★★★ – Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

• 30th Apr – ★★★★☆ – Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

• 26th Feb – ★★★★☆ – On Photography by Susan Sontag

2021

• 20th Dec – ★★★★☆ – The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

• 5th Sep – ★★★★☆ – Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• 21st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

• 11th Apr – ★★★★★ – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

• 20th Mar – ★★★★☆ – A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

• 9th Mar – ★★★★★ – The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

• 14th Feb – ★★★★★ – Rembrandt: Art Masters Series by Typex

• 7th Feb – ★★★★★ – How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

2020

• 27th Dec – ★★★★★ – The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

• 13th Dec – ★★★★★ – The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

• 22nd Oct – ★★★★★ – Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla

• 22nd Aug – ★★★★★ – Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

• 19th Jun – ★★★★★ – The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

• 25th May – ★★★★★ – Keep Going by Austin Kleon

• 24th May – ★★★☆☆ – Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson

• 15th Mar – ★★★★☆ – There There by Tommy Orange

• 27th Feb – ★★★★★ – Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

• 12th Jan – ★★★★☆ – Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

2019

• 28th Dec – ★★★★★ – How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

• 12th Oct – ★★★★★ – Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• 11th Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin

• 24th Jul – ★★★★☆ – Rework by Jason Fried

• 20th Jul – ★★★★★ – How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston

• 2nd Jul – ★★★☆☆ – The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM by Hal Elrod

• 3rd Mar – ★★★★☆ – Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

• 1st Mar – ★★★★★ – When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• 17th Feb – ★★★☆☆ – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, #1) by Hank Green

2018

• 3rd Nov – ★★★★★ – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

• 30th Aug – ★★★★★ – March: Book One (March, #1) by John Lewis

• 30th Aug – ★★★★☆ – The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

• 30th Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe

2017

• 6th Oct – ★★★★☆ – Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

• 16th Sep – ★★★★☆ – Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) by Neal Stephenson

2016

• 9th Oct – ★★★★★ – Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) by Liu Cixin

• 31st Jan – ★★★★★ – The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) by Liu Cixin

• 17th Jan – ★★★☆☆ – Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) by Ann Leckie

2015

• 31st Dec – ★★★★★ – On Being a Photographer by David Hurn

• 12th Sep – ★★★★☆ – The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) by Liu Cixin

• 17th Aug – ★★★★☆ – Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline

• 10th Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck

• 2nd Jul – ★★★★★ – The Martian by Andy Weir

• 23rd Jun – ★★★★☆ – Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

• 2nd Apr – ★★★★★ – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• 16th Mar – ★★★★★ – Light, Gesture, and Color by Jay Maisel

2014

• 19th Dec – ★★★★☆ – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

2013

• 15th May – ★★★★★ – Garry Winogrand by Garry Winogrand

• 15th May – ★★★☆☆ – A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge

2012

• 2nd Dec – ★★★★★ – Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• 24th Nov – ★★★★★ – The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

• 14th Oct – ★★★★☆ – Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card

2011

• 23rd Oct – ★★★★☆ – Reamde by Neal Stephenson

• 6th Sep – ★★★★★ – Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana

2010

• 6th Jun – ★★★★☆ – Absolute Superman: For Tomorrow by Brian Azzarello

• 12th Apr – ★★★★☆ – Siddhartha: An Indian Poem by Hermann Hesse

• 14th Mar – ★★★★☆ – A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought #2) by Vernor Vinge

• 11th Feb – ★★★★☆ – Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke

• 9th Feb – ★★★★☆ – Robot Dreams (Robot #0.4) by Isaac Asimov

• 17th Jan – ★★★★☆ – Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan

2009

• 29th Oct – ★★★☆☆ – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

• 13th Oct – ★★★★★ – Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

• 13th Oct – ★★★★☆ – The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway

• 9th Sep – ★★★★☆ – Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #2) by Isaac Asimov

• 31st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• 29th Aug – ★★★☆☆ – The Stranger by Albert Camus

• 23rd Jul – ★★★★★ – Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5) by Isaac Asimov

• 8th Jul – ★★★★★ – Foundation’s Edge (Foundation #4) by Isaac Asimov

• 22nd Jun – ★★★★★ – Second Foundation (Foundation #3) by Isaac Asimov

• 18th Jun – ★★★★★ – Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) by Isaac Asimov

• 5th Jun – ★★★★★ – Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov

• 1st Jun – ★★★★★ – The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

• 19th Feb – ★★★★☆ – Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

• 3rd Jan – ★★★★★ – Anathem by Neal Stephenson

2008

• 15th Sep – ★★★★☆ – Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom

• 31st Jul – ★★★★☆ – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• 18th Jul – ★★★★☆ – Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• 12th May – ★★★★☆ – Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

2007

• 22nd Sep – ★★★★☆ – Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

• 1st Aug – ★★★★★ – The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #1-5 + short story) by Douglas Adams

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – On Art and Life by John Ruskin

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) by William Gibson

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, #1) by Ansel Adams

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

• 1st Aug – ★★★★☆ – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

• 1st Aug – ★★★★★ – Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

• 1st Aug – ★★★★★ – Winogrand: Figments from the Real World by Garry Winogrand

• 1st Aug – ★★★☆☆ – A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson