Reading log
This is written in reverse chronological order. So what I'm reading now is at the top.
2024
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan by Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Gibbons brothers
- Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
- Shy by Max Porter
- Lanny by Max Porter
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2023
- The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
- Foundation: The History of England Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- The Looking Glass War by John le Carré
- The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2022
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow
- A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
- Call for the Dead by John le Carré
- Why You Should be a Trade Unionist by Len McCluskey
- Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig
- The Enemy Within by Seumas Milne
- The Return of the King - The Lord of the Rings, book 3 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
- Meditations and other Metaphysical Writings by René Descartes
- Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent by David Spangler
- Pompeii by Robert Harris
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
2021
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
- Jillian by Halle Butler
- The Two Towers - The Lord of the Rings, book 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
- The Fellowship of the Ring - The Lord of the Rings, book 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide To British Birds by Bill Bailey
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
2020
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- The Chain of Curiosity by Sandi Toksvig
- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
- Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era edited by Grace Blakeley
- The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
- The Life of Dad: The Making of a Modern Father by Dr. Anna Machin
- The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- I've Lived in East London for 86½ Years by Joseph Markovtch and Martin Usborne
- The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
- Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- Red at the Bone by Jacquline Woodson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
- Post Office by Charles Bukowski
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquéz
- The Sun Also Rises (Siesta) by Ernest Hemingway
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald E. Purser
- Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
- The New Me by Halle Butler
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
2019
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
- Star of the North by D.B. John
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom by Monty Don
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- Gun Love by Jennifer Clement
- Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
- Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
- Excalibur by Bernard Cornwell
2018
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell
- The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
- A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left by Simon Hannah
- How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb
- A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
- Toast on Toast: Cautionary Tales and Candid Advice by Steven Toast
- Angry White People by Hsiao-Hung Pau
- A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner