Books I've Read

A collection of books I've read over the years, organized by year.

2025

  • The Lord of the Flies

    by William Golding

  • Lincoln

    by Gore Vidal

  • Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!

    by Richard Feynman

  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  • The Technological Republic

    by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

  • The War of the Worlds

    by H.G. Wells

  • Zero to One

    by Peter Thiel

2024

  • The Night Manager

    by John le Carré

  • Dopamine Nation

    by Dr Anna Lembke

  • Open Secret

    by Stella Rimington

  • Joy in the Morning

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • Freakonomics

    by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

  • Not the End of the World

    by Hannah Ritchie

  • Knife

    by Salman Rushdie

  • 1984

    by George Orwell

  • The Gulag Archipelago

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Nuclear War

    by Annie Jacobsen

  • Slough House

    by Michael Herron

  • Tripped

    by Norman Ohler

  • The Stalin Affair

    by Giles Milton

  • Something Fresh

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • The End of the Affair

    by Graham Greene

  • The Lonely Londoners

    by Sal Selvon

  • The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    by J.D. Vance

  • The Lion and the Unicorn

    by George Orwell

  • Summer Lightning

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • Washed

    by Geoff White

  • The Founders

    by Jimmy Soni

  • The Patient Equation

    by Glen Dr Vries

  • Co-intelligence

    by Ethan Mollick

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    by Douglas Adams

  • Elon Musk

    by Ashlee Vance

  • Uneasy Money

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • Can science explain everything

    by John C. Lennox

  • On The Edge

    by Nate Silver

  • The Mating Season

    by P.G. Wodehouse

2023

  • The Old Man and The Sea

    by Ernest Hemingway

  • Carry On Jeeves

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • The Shortest History of Germany

    by James Hawes

  • Stamboul Train

    by Graham Greene

  • Stasiland

    by Anna Funder

  • Tunnel 29

    by Helena Merriman

  • Casino Royale

    by Ian Fleming

  • Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid

    by Thor Hanson

  • Very good, Jeeves

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • The Brothers Karamazov

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Homage to Catalonia

    by George Orwell

  • The Future of Geography

    by Tim Marshall

  • Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

    by Julie McDowall

  • Killing Thatcher

    by Rory Carroll

  • Breaking History

    by Jared Kushner

  • Steve Jobs

    by Walter Isaacson

  • Thank you Jeeves

    by P.G.Wodehouse

  • Hitler and Stalin

    by Laurence Rees

  • American Prometheus

    by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

  • Oblivion or Glory

    by David Stafford

  • Brideshead Revisited

    by Evelyn Waugh

  • Politics on The Edge

    by Rory Stewart

  • Elon Musk

    by Walter Isaacson

  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

    by John le Carré

  • Call for the Dead

    by John le Carré

  • The Quiet American

    by Graham Greene

  • Enlightenment Now

    by Stephen Pinker

  • The Coming Wave

    by Mustafa Suleyman

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    by Ranulph Fiennes

  • A Murder of Quality

    by John le Carré

  • On the Road

    by Jack Kerouac

  • Hiroshima

    by John Hersey

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • The Man From The Future: The visionary life of John von Neumann

    by Ananyo Bhattacharya

2022

  • An Unsung Hero Tom Crean Antarctic Survivor

    by Michael Smith

  • God is not Great

    by Christopher Hitchens

  • Machines Like Me

    by Ian McEwan

  • Klara and The Sun

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Space: 10 Things You Should Know

    by Dr Becky Smethurst

  • I, Robot

    by Isaac Asimov

  • Piranesi

    by Susanna Clarke

  • Anna Karenina

    by Leo Tolstoy

  • Midnight library

    by Matt Haig

  • An instance of the finger post

    by Iain Pears

  • Spoon fed

    by Tim Spector

  • Lessons in stoicism

    by John Sellars

  • Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan

    by D.R.Thorpe

  • 24 hours in Ancient Athens

    by Philip Matyszak

  • What I Believe

    by Bertrand Russell

  • Down and Out in Paris and London

    by George Orwell

  • A Clergyman's Daughter

    by George Orwell

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    by Oscar Wilde

  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying

    by George Orwell

  • How the World Thinks

    by Julian Baggini

  • Hitch 22

    by Christopher Hitchens

  • Coming up for air

    by George Orwell

  • The House of the Dead

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Heartbeat of Trees

    by Peter Wohlleben

  • Endurance

    by Alfred Lansing

  • The Road to Wigan Pier

    by George Orwell

  • Blitzed

    by Norman Ohler

  • Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Know my name

    by Chanel Miller

  • Decline and Fall

    by Evelyn Waugh

  • Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves

    by P.G. Wodehouse

  • The Inimitable Jeeves

    by P.G. Wodehouse

2021

  • A Life on Our Planet

    by David Attenborough

  • Soldier

    by Jay Morton

  • The Wim Hof Method

    by Wim Hof

  • The Art of Resilience

    by Ross Edgley

  • Beyond Possible

    by Nimsdai Purja

  • Born to Run

    by Christopher McDougall

  • The Lost Art of Running

    by Shane Benzie

  • The Way of the Runner

    by Adharanand Finn

  • Can't Hurt Me

    by David Goggins

  • Atomic Habits

    by James Clear

  • Deep Work

    by Cal Newport

  • Out of Thin Air

    by Michael Crawley

  • The Laws of Human Nature

    by Robert Greene

  • Exercised

    by Daniel Lieberman

  • Destined for War

    by Graham Allison

  • Brave New World

    by Aldous Huxley

  • 1984

    by George Orwell

  • Hiking with Nietzsche

    by John Kaag

  • The book of why

    by Judea Pearl

  • Animal Farm

    by George Orwell

  • A promised land

    by Barack Obama

  • The education of an idealist

    by Samantha Power

  • The shortest history of England

    by James Hawes

  • Indistractable

    by Nir Eyal

  • 7 ways to change the world

    by Gordon Brown

  • Troy

    by Stephen Fry

  • Blueprint

    by Ross Edgley

  • The murder on the links

    by Agatha Christie

  • Dr No

    by Ian Fleming

  • Casino Royale

    by Ian Fleming

  • Invention: A life

    by James Dyson

  • Shackleton

    by Ranulph Fiennes

  • Shackleton By Endurance We Conquer

    by Michael Smith

  • CoffeeLand

    by Augustine Sedgewick

2020

  • Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

    by Philip Tetlock

  • Superintelligence

    by Nick Bostrom

  • How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West

    by Catherine Belton

  • The Black Door

    by Richard Aldrich

  • Why Spy?

    by Brian Stewart

  • Hit Refresh

    by Satya Nadella

  • Running with the Kenyans

    by Adharanand Finn

  • Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    by Giles Milton

  • Feeding Britain

    by Tim Lang

  • Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky

  • The Uninhabitable Earth

    by David Wallace-Wells

  • How to Run a Government

    by Michael Barber

  • The Prime Ministers

    by Steve Richards

  • The Theory That Would Not Die

    by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

  • The Audacity of Hope

    by Barack Obama

  • The Signal and the Noise

    by Nate Silver

  • Life 3.0

    by Max Tegmark

  • The Road to Conscious Machines

    by Michael Woolridge

  • How Democracies Die

    by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

  • Burma '44

    by James Holland

  • Line in the Sand

    by James Barr

  • Humble Pie

    by Gordon Ramsay

2019

  • Conservativism

    by Roger Scruton

  • Bad blood

    by John Carreyou

  • Blockchain

    by The Next Everything

  • Charlie, Meg and Me

    by Gregor Ewing

  • The Places in Between

    by Rory Stewart

  • Factfulness

    by Hans Rosling

  • Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe

    by Roger McNamee

  • Utopia for Realists

    by Rutger Bregman

  • 21 lessons for the 21st Century

    by Yuval Noah Harrari

  • For the Record

    by David Cameron

  • Targeted

    by Brittany Kaiser

  • Occupational Hazards

    by Rory Stewart

  • World Without Mind

    by Franklin Foer

  • Dinner with Churchill

    by Robin Hawdon

  • The Marches

    by Rory Stewart

  • There is No Planet B

    by Mike Berners Lee

  • Big Answers to the Big Questions

    by Stephen Hawkins

  • Digital Minimalism

    by Cal Neport