Reading log

This is written in reverse chronological order. So what I'm reading now is at the top.

2025

Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell

2024

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
All Of This Unreal Time by Max Porter
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
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