Lists

Timelines of the things I am reading, watching and listening to.

Currently Reading

Politics on the Edge

Rory Stewart

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

M Mitchell Waldrop

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I particularly liked items highlighted in yellow

2023

5 books

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

Heatwave

Victor Jestin

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

2022

12 books

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Influence Empire: The Story of Tecent and China's Tech Ambition

Lulu Chen

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

The Power of Geography

Tim Marshall

Klara and The Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

1984

George Orwell

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Alexander McCall Smith

2021

12 books

Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

Never let me go

Kazuo Ishiguro

All that man is

David Szalay

The Three-body Problem

Liu Cixin

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard Hamming

Masters of Doom

David Kushner

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

The Backyard Adventurer

Beau Miles

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs

Daniel Coyle and Tyler Hamilton

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

Andrew Miller

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

2020

16 books

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Christy Lefteri

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Educated

Tara Westover

The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Milkman

Anna Burns

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Roger Fisher

How Not To Be a Boy

Robert Webb

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

Phil Knight

The Martian

Andy Weir

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

Anne-Marie Slaughter

2019

12 books

In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law

Sarah Langford

The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Graeme Macrae Burnet

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

City of Strangers

Louise Millar

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Vagrants

Yiyun Li

The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

John E. Sarno

2018

6 books

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy

Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung

Josef Müller-Brockmann

The Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson

The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac