This is my incomplete reading history, roughly in reserve chronological order. Linked titles lead to either Amazon, or reviews. The date is the date of completion.
2024
- October 2024
- Failed State by Sam Freedman
- September 2024
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- August 2024
- But You Don’t Look Autistic at All by Bianca Toeps
- Code of Conduct by Chris Bryant
- Knife by Salman Rushdie
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- July 2024
- Becoming Myself by Irvin D. Yalom
- June 2024
- Kleptopia by Tom Burgis
- The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer
- My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- May2024
- Life Support by Jim Down
- There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
- Carmageddon by Daniel Knowles
- Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
- April 2024
- Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
- March 2024
- And How Does That Make You Feel? by Joshua Fletcher
- Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
- Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash
- February 2024
- Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
- Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
- The Other Significant Others by Rhaina Cohen
- But What Can I Do? by Alastair Campbell
- Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
- January 2024
- Engineering in Plain Sight by Grady Hillhouse
2023
- December 2023
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
- November 2023
- Wilding by Isabella Tree
- Starter Villain by John Scalzi
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- October 2023
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- August 2023
- Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- July 2023
- Ace by Angela Chen
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
- It Gets Better by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
- What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
- June 2023
- Slow Time Between the Stars by John Scalzi
- Toton Depot and Yards by Paul Robertson
- Meadowland by John Lewis-Stempel
- The Railway Adventures by Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall
- The Big British Railway Puzzle Book by the National Railway Museum
- January 2023
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair
2022
- December 2022
- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
- The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Savage Love from A to Z by Dan Savage
- November 2022
- World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters
- The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
- October 2022
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- More Than Two by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert
- July 2022
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Ramble Book by Adam Buxton
- Intimations by Zadie Smith
- Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
- June 2022
- Proof by Induction by José Pablo Iriarte
- May 2022
- Consolations by David Whyte
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- Right of Way by Angie Schmitt
- Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
- How To by Randall Munroe
- April 2022
- Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
- March 2022
- The Doctor Who Fooled the World by Brian Deer
- February 2022
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot by John Lloyd
- Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
- January 2022
- Trauma by Paul Conti
2021
- December 2021
- Attachment Theory by Thais Gibson
- October 2021
- My Friend, Jane by Megan Ravenhall
- Models by Mark Manson
- June 2021
- The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
- May 2021
- Stasiland by Anna Funder
- February 2021
- Staring at the Sun by Irvin D. Yalom
- State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben
- This Is Me Letting You Go by Heidi Priebe
2020
- August 2020
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
- July 2020
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Growing Pains by Gwynne Dyer
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
- I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
- This Morning I Met a Whale by Michael Morpurgo
- June 2020
- Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
- Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle [Goodreads review]
- Don’t Be Evil by Rana Foroohar [Goodreads review]
- Miniatures by John Scalzi
- Hitler: Downfall by Volker Ullrich [Goodreads review]
- May 2020
- The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
- April 2020
- Pilot Error by Dan Moren
- Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin
- March 2020
- Skunk Works by Ben Rich
- February 2020
- Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
- January 2020
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
- Missoula by Jon Krakauer
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Egg by Andy Weir
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
2019
- December 2019
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- Love’s Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
- Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
- November 2019
- Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
- In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris
- October 2019
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- September 2019
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Head On by John Scalzi
- July 2019
- Harry’s Last Stand by Harry Leslie Smith
- June 2019
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
- May 2019
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- April 2019
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
- Service Included by Phoebe Damrosch
- First Time by Kate Monro
- March 2019
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
- February 2019
- Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- January 2019
- The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
- Many Ways to Say I Love You by Fred Rogers
- Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling
- Guns by Stephen King
2018
- December 2018
- She Commands Me and I Obey by Ann Leckie
- Night’s Slow Poison by Ann Leckie
- The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
- November 2018
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
- September 2018
- The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy
- August 2018
- Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
- June 2018
- Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
- May 2018
- Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
- February 2018
- The Gift of the Gab by David Crystal
- January 2018
- My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- Chess Tactics by Paul Littlewood
- Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
2017
- November 2017
- All Over The Place Geraldine DeRuiter
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- September 2017
- Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach
- August 2017
- Representation Theory of Finite Groups by Benjamin Steinberg
- Kind of Blue by Ken Clarke
- July 2017
- The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
- June 2017
- The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- PHP for Absolute Beginners by Jason Lengstorf
- The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy
- May 2017
- Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
- It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh
- Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
- April 2017
- Sum by David Eagleman
- March 2017
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- February 2017
- What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Müller
- January 2017
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
2016
- October 2016
- Russian Roulette by Anthony Horowitz
- Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham
- Paper Towns by John Green
- The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
- September 2016
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- August 2016
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
- A Handbook of Scotland’s Trees by Fiona Martynoga
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany
- Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays
- Shrill by Lindy West
- July 2016
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Human Transit by Jerrett Walker
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
- Symmetric Inverse Semigroups by Stephen Lipscomb
- Starship Troopers by by Robert A. Heinlein
- June 2016
- EU Referendum 2016: A Guide to Voters by David Torrance
- The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
- I Think You’ll Find it’s a Bit More Complicated Then That by Ben Goldacre
- May 2016
- The Manual, Volume 5 by Andy McMillan
- The File by Timothy Garton Ash
- Stagecoach by Christiam Wolmar
- April 2016
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- March 2016
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- February 2016
- On Either Side – the East Coast Main Line by David Dunning
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- January 2016
- Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
- What If? by Randall Munroe
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2015
- December 2015
- How to Count by Steven Frank
- Disunited Kingdom by Iain Macwhirter
- October 2015
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- July 2015
- This Hollow Union by John Scalzi
- Can Long Endure by John Scalzi
- To Stand or Fall by John Scalzi
- Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life by David Torrance
- The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
- Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
- The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan Koerner
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- June 2015
- Marcurial: The Definitive Guide by Bryan O’Sullivan
- The Second Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
- Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
- Hack Attack by Nick Davies
- The Life of the Mind by John Scalzi
- May 2015
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- April 2015
- The Dream Shall Never Die by Alex Salmond
- Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender
- March 2015
- The Magazine: The Book by Glenn Fleishman
- Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
- February 2015
- Cockpit Confidential by Patrick Smith
- Double Header by Diphallic Dude
- January 2015
- 100 Days of Hope and Fear by David Torrance
- Worrisome Wilf’s Beastly Bedtime by Sean Baldwin
- Whiffy Wilson by Caryl Hart
- Scottish Independence by Gavin McCrone
- Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
- The Three Monarchs by Anthony Horowitz
- Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
- The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith
- The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World by Alexander Armstrong
2014
- December 2014
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- OS X YosemiteL The Ars Technica Review by John Siracusa
- Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
- The People’s Referendum by Peter Goeghegan
- The 45% Hangover by Stuart MacBride
- October 2014
- Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie
- September 2014
- Blood, Iron and Gold by Christian Wolmar
- Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
- August 2014
- Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton
- The Box by Marc Levinson
- It’s Only a Movie by Mark Kermode
- What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel
- Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz
- I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker
- The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- July 2014
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ranson
- The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle
- Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait
- The Big Necessity by Rose George
- Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
- An Economist Gets Lunch by Tyler Cowen
- June 2014
- The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
- Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull
- The Little Book of Contentment by Leo Babauta
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
- Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- May 2014
- Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George
- Unlocked by John Scalzi
- The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing You Who Are by Alan Watts
- March 2014
- The Subterranean Railway by Christian Wolmar
- Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
- Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
- February 2014
- Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future by Michael J. Fox
- January 2014
- The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Both Flesh and Not: Essays by David Foster Wallace
- The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
- I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern
- Bacon: A Love Story by Heather Lauer
- The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
- Why Can’t Elephants Jump? by New Scientist Magazine
2013
- October 2013
- A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
- Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
- David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
- September 2013
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- August 2013
- The Human Division by John Scalzi
- The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence M. Krauss
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off by John Lloyd
- July 2013
- The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? by New Scientist Magazine
- June 2013
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
- Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
- April 2013
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
- February 2013
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
- January 2013
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
- Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
- Why Do Men Have Nipples? by Mark Leyner
- Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
2012
- December 2012
- Steak by Mark Schatzker
- Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCain
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- November 2012
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- October 2012
- A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
- September 2012
- A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace
- August 2012
- The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
- The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
- Life Itself by Roger Ebert
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- July 2012
- Economyths by David Orrell
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- June 2012
- Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz
- God, No! by Penn Jillette
- Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
- Redshirts by John Scalzi
- Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
- May 2012
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The God Engines by John Scalzi
- March 2012
- The Corner by David Simon & Ed Burns
- The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- February 2012
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- January 2012
- His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
- Do You Think You’re Clever? by John Farndon
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge
- Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon
2011
- December 2011
- The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- October 2011
- World War Z by Max Brooks.
- September 2011
- The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux
- Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien.
- August 2011
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- July 2011
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- June 2011
- A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor
- March 2011
- Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
- Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- February 2011
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
- January 2011
- The Last Theorem by and
- That Was The Millennium That Was by John Scalzi [available on Whatever]
2010
- December 2010
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- October 2010
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- August 2010
- I Drink for a Reason by David Cross
- July 2010
- Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Unfinished Murder: The Capture of a Serial Rapist by James Neff
- Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi
- June 2010
- Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
- May 2010
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Last Colony by John Scalzi
- This Bleeding City by Alex Preston
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
- April 2010
- A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
- March 2010
- The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
- 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- February 2010
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- On Writing by Stephen King
- January 2010
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman
2009
- November 2009
- Screen Burn by Charlie Brooker
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- October 2009
- Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- September 2009
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Sex Crimes by Alice Vachss
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- August 2009
- July 2009
- Friends Like These by Danny Wallace
- Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
- June 2009
- Content by Cory Doctorow ((The first eBook which I ever read. I used Stanza on my iPod to read it.))
- Why I Write by George Orwell
- May 2009
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- April 2009
- Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
- March 2009
- I am America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
- February 2009
- Did You Spot The Gorilla? by Richard Wiseman
- Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
- January 2009
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot – and Other Observations by Al Franken
- The Wisdon of Crowds by James Suriowiecki