I made a conscious effort to read more, and read widely, in recent years. The books I’ve read are listed here, spanning back to some unknown time (which I believe to be c.2011).
⭐️ denotes a favourite.
Jump to a year:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, Pre-2017
2023
10 books completed
Fiction
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub ⭐️
- Rabbits by Terry Miles ⭐️
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler ⭐️
Non-Fiction
- Outlive by Peter Attia
- What Doesn’t Kill Us by Scott Carney
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
2022
23 books completed
Fiction
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ⭐️
- The Suitcase Clone by Robin Sloan
- Reap3r by Eliot Peper ⭐️
- Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
- Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ⭐️
- First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu ⭐️
Non-Fiction
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Build by Tony Fadell⭐️
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Breath by James Nestor ⭐️
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Replacing Guilt: Minding Our Way by Nate Soares
2021
28 books completed
Fiction
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- LaserWriter II: A Novel by Tamara Shopsin
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ⭐️
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ⭐️
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch ⭐️
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiguro
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ⭐️
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline ⭐️
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Heroes by Stephen Fry
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Non-Fiction
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- No Easy Day by Mark Owen
- Red Notice by Bill Browder ⭐️
- Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
- Nudge by Thaler & Sustein
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller
- Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
2020
29 books completed
Fiction
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman ⭐️
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Annabel Scheme by Robin Sloan
- Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate by Robin Sloan
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
- New Waves by Kevin Nyugen
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Dune by Frank Herbert ⭐️
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Non-Fiction
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight ⭐️
- In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
- Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman
- The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong ⭐️
- Kissa by Kissa by Craig Mod
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Write to the Point by Sam Leith
- The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- The Upstarts by Brad Stone
- Disney U by Doug Lipp
- Guns Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond ⭐️
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
- The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
2019
18 books completed
Fiction
- Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- China Dream by Ma Jian
- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
- Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang ⭐️
- Desire by Haruki Murakami
- Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
Non-Fiction
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
- How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
- Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
- Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- Atomic Habits by James Clear ⭐️
2018
3 books completed
Fiction
- Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami ⭐️
- These Days by Jack Cheng
Non-Fiction
- Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery by Public.Digital
2017
7 books completed
Fiction
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan ⭐️
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
Non-Fiction
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ⭐️
- The Establishment by Owen Jones
Pre-2017
Fiction
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
- Division By Zero by Ted Chiang
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ⭐️
- The Martian by Andy Weir
Non-Fiction
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Liars Poker by Michael Lewis ⭐️
- Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
- Human Universe by Brian Cox
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel ⭐️
- How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ⭐️
- Enough by Patrick Rhone
- Minimal Mac by Patrick Rhone
- The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
- Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
- Things a Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone
- Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Age of Context by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis ⭐️