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This is a list of all the books I have read over the last few years. Most are just a record of what I’ve read but some of them I’ll put a link in for some thoughts and a brief review.

2024

  • The Night Manager - John le Carré
  • Dopamine Nation - Dr Anna Lembke
  • Open Secret - Stella Rimington
  • Joy in the Morning - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Not the End of the World - Hannah Ritchie
  • Knife - Salman Rushdie
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • The Gulag Archipelago- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Nuclear War - Annie Jacobsen
  • Slough House - Michael Herron
  • Tripped - Norman Ohler
  • The Stalin Affair - Giles Milton
  • Something Fresh - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
  • The Lonely Londoners - Sal Selvon
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
  • The Lion and the Unicorn - George Orwell
  • Summer Lightning - P.G. Wodehouse
  • Washed - Geoff White
  • The Founders - Jimmy Soni
  • The Patient Equation - Glen Dr Vries
  • Co-intelligence - Ethan Mollick
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
  • Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
  • Can science explain everything - John C. Lennox
  • On The Edge - Nate Silver

2023

  • The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • Carry On Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Shortest History of Germany - James Hawes
  • Stamboul Train - Graham Greene
  • Stasiland - Anna Funder
  • Tunnel 29 - Helena Merriman
  • Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  • Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid - Thor Hanson
  • Very good, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
  • The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall
  • Attack Warning Red! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War - Julie McDowall
  • Killing Thatcher - Rory Carroll
  • Breaking History - Jared Kushner
  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  • Thank you Jeeves - P.G.Wodehouse
  • Hitler and Stalin - Laurence Rees
  • American Prometheus - Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Oblivion or Glory - David Stafford
  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  • Politics on The Edge - Rory Stewart
  • Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré
  • Call for the Dead - John le Carré
  • The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  • Enlightenment Now - Stephen Pinker
  • The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman
  • Lawrence of Arabia - Ranulph Fiennes
  • A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  • Hiroshima - John Hersey
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • The Man From The Future: The visionary life of John von Neumann - Ananyo Bhattacharya

2022

  • An Unsung Hero Tom Crean Antarctic Survivor - Michael Smith
  • God is not Great - Christopher Hitchens
  • Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan
  • Klara and The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Space: 10 Things You Should Know - Dr Becky Smethurst
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  • Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • Midnight library - Matt Haig
  • An instance of the finger post - Iain pears
  • Spoon fed - Tim Spector
  • Lessons in stoicism - John Sellars
  • Supermac: The Life of Harold MacMillan - D.R.Thorpe
  • 24 hours in Ancient Athens - Philip Matyszak
  • What I Believe - Bertrand Russell
  • Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
  • A Clergyman’s Daughter - George Orwell
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
  • How the World Thinks - Julian Baggini
  • Hitch 22 - Christopher Hitchens
  • Coming up for air - George Orwell
  • The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Heartbeat of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
  • Endurance - Alfred Lansing
  • The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
  • Blitzed - Norman Ohler
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Know my name - Chanel Miller
  • Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
  • Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
  • The Inimitable Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse

2021

  • A Life on Our Plane - David Attenborough
  • Soldier - Jay Morton
  • The Wim Hof Method - Wim Hof
  • The Art of Resilienc - Ross Edgley
  • Beyond Possible - Nimsdai Purja
  • Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
  • The Lost Art of Running - Shane Benzie
  • The Way of the Runner - Adharanand Finn
  • Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
  • Atomic Habits - James Clear
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • Out of Thin Air - Michael Crawley
  • The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
  • Exercised - Daniel Lieberman
  • Destined for War - Graham Allison
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Hiking with Nietzsche - John kaag
  • The book of why - Judea Pearl
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • A promised land - Barack Obama
  • The education of an idealist - Samantha Power
  • The shortest history of England - James Hawes
  • Indistractable - Nir Eyal
  • 7 ways to change the world - Gordon Brown
  • Troy - Stephen Fry
  • Blueprint - Ross Edgley
  • The murder on the links - Agatha Christie
  • Dr No - Ian Fleming
  • Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  • Invention: A life - James Dyson
  • Shackleton - Ranulph Fiennes
  • Shackleton By Endurance We Conquer - Michael Smith
  • CoffeeLand - Augustine Sedgewick

2020

  • Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction - Philip Tetlock
  • Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
  • How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West
  • The Black Door
  • Why Spy? - Brian Stewart
  • Hit Refresh - Satya Nadella
  • Running with the Kenyans - Adharanand Finn
  • Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • Feeding Britain
  • Who Rules the World? - Noam Chomsky
  • The Uninhabitable Earth
  • How to Run a Government
  • The Prime Ministers
  • The Theory That Would Not Die
  • The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama
  • The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
  • Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
  • The Road to Conscious Machines - Michael Woolridge
  • How Democracies Die
  • Burma ‘44 - James Holland
  • Line in the Sand - James Barr
  • Humble Pie - Gordon Ramsay

2019

  • Conservativism - Roger Scruton
  • Bad blood
  • Blockchain - The Next Everything
  • Charlie, Meg and Me
  • The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
  • Factfulness - Hans Rosling
  • Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe - Roger McNamee
  • Utopia for Realists
  • 21 lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harrari
  • For the Record - David Cameron
  • Targeted - Brittany Kaiser
  • Occupational Hazards - Rory Stewart
  • World Without Mind
  • Dinner with Churchill
  • The Marches - Rory Stewart
  • There is No Planet B - Mike Berners Lee
  • Big Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawkins
  • Digital Minimalism - Cal Neport