Though I’m not a voracious reader by any means, once stuck into a book, I’m always glad for it and it definitely has helped me develop my thinking. I’m hoping that by tracking my books read and posting my progress publicly that I can get myself to read more…
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 2025 | |
| Kim | R. Kipling |
| The Bonfire of the Vanities | T. Wolfe |
| The God of Small Things | A. Roy |
| Life of Johnson | S. Boswell |
| One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest | K. Kesey |
| Emma | J. Austen |
| Robinson Crusoe | D. Dafoe |
| L’étranger | A. Camus |
| Caledonian Road | A. O’Hagan |
| 2024 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | C. Dickens |
| Kaput | W. Münchau |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | J. Verne |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | A. Dumas |
| Swann’s Way | M. Proust |
| Zero to One | P. Thiel, B. Masters |
| The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test | T. Wolfe |
| Bleak House | C. Dickens |
| Gulliver’s Travels | J. Swift |
| 2023 | |
| The Idiot | F. Dostoevsky |
| A Scanner Darkly | P.K. Dick |
| Treasure Island | R.L. Stevenson |
| The Metamorphosis | F. Kafka |
| The Silk Roads | P. Frankopan |
| Jude the Obscure | T. Hardy |
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | R. Sapolsky |
| Post-Soviet Armenia | I. Ghaplanyan |
| Inherent Vice | T. Pynchon |
| Slouching Towards Utopia | J.B. DeLong |
| The Crying of Lot 49 | T. Pynchon |
| The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | P.K. Dick |
| Siddhartha | H. Hesse |
| The Name of the Rose | U. Eco |
| Ivan’s Misadventure | L. Leonov |
| Fellow-Countrymen | V. Kataev |
| The Child | V. Ivanov |
| The Letter | I. Babel |
| The Man You Couldn’t Kill | S. Sergeyev-Tsensky |
| A Werewolf of the Steppe | M. Prishvin |
| On the Day of the Crucifixion | L. Andreyev |
| The Gentleman from San Francisco | I. Bunin |
| A Slav Soul | A. Kurpin |
| The Hoop | F. Sologub |
| My Life | A. Chekov |
| Twenty-Six Men and a Girl | M. Gorky |
| Four Days | V. Garshin |
| The Sentry | N. Lysekov |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | L. Tolstoy |
| Bobok | F. Dostoevsky |
| A Quiet Backwater | I. Turgenev |
| Taman | M. Lermontov |
| The Overcoat | N. Gogol |
| The Queen of Spades | A. Pushkin |
| 2022 | |
| Berlin, Alexanderplatz | Alfred Döblin |
| The Martian Time-Slip | P.K. Dick |
| Lifespan | D. Sinclair, M.D. LaPlante |
| In the First Circle | A. Solzhenitsyn |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | F. Nietzsche |
| I am a Strange Loop | D. Hofstadter |
| The Sound of Waves | Y. Mishima |
| Notes from the Underground | F. Dostoevsky |
| 2021 | |
| Red Plenty | Francis Spufford |
| Forward the Foundation | I. Asimov |
| Foundation | I. Asimov |
| Prelude to Foundation | I. Asimov |
| The Stars, Like Dust | I. Asimov |
| The Currents of Space | I. Asimov |
| The Beginning of Infinity | D. Deutsch |
| The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood | D. Simon |
| Under the Wave at Waimea | P. Theroux |
| 2020 | |
| Lords of Finance | L. Ahamed |
| The Smartest Guys in the Room | B. McLean |
| A Random Walk Down Wall Street | B. Malkiel |
| Bailout Nation | B. Ritholtz |
| Stay the Course | J. Bogle |
| Little Book of Common Sense Investing | J. Bogle |
| Algebra of Happiness | S. Galloway |
| In a Free State | V.S. Naipaul |
| On the Shortness of Life | Seneca |
| The Prince | N. Machiavelli |
| Crime and Punishment | F. Dostoevsky |
| Heart of a Dog | M. Bulgakov |
| Class: A Guide Through the American Status System | P. Fussell |
| 2019 | |
| Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | R. Pirsig |
| Meditations | M. Aurelius |
| A Bend in the River | V.S. Naipaul |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | E. Hemingway |
| A Farewell to Arms | E. Hemingway |
| Green Hills of Africa | E. Hemingway |
| A Moveable Feast | E. Hemingway |
| The Old Man and the Sea | E. Hemingway |
| Unterwegs | Jack Keroauc |
| The Brothers Karamazov | F. Dostoevsky |
| Der Archipel GULAG | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| The War with Hannibal | Livy |
| Wem die Stunde Schlägt | Ernest Hemingway |
| Der Prozess | F. Kafka |
| Ubik | P.K. Dick |
| The Man in the High Castle | P.K. Dick |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | P.K. Dick |
| Unlimited Horizons: Design and Development of the U-2 | P. Merlin |
| NASA’s Contributions to Aeronautics | R. Hallion |
| Ask The Dust | J. Fante |
| Women | H. Bukowski |
| Post Office | H. Bukowski |
… and any further back, I haven’t tracked or can’t remember!