Reading List


Each year I set myself a goal to read fifty books (roughly one per week, with a little bit of wiggle room), though I don't always succeed. The lists below combine my efforts across three formats: physical books, e-books (Kindle) and audiobooks (Audible).



Read in 2024


  1. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
  2. Double Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  3. Mr Einstein's Secretary - Matthew Reilly
  4. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
  5. The Sword and the Shield - Christopher Andrew & Vasilli Mitrokhin
  6. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens
  7. Killing Zone - Harry McCallion
  8. God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
  9. Dexter's Final Cut - Jeff Lindsay
  10. The End of Faith - Sam Harris
  11. Solider 'I' - Michael Paul Kennedy, Pete Winner & Andy McNab
  12. Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
  13. Weapons Grade - Don Bentley

Currently Reading


  • The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
  • Dexter is Dead - Jeff Lindsay
  • Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
  • The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  • Just and Unjust Wars - Michael Walzer
  • Napoleon: The Song of Departure - Max Gallo
  • The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
  • Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  • Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • Middlemarch - George Elliot
  • Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  • Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  • On War - Carl von Clausewitz
  • Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
  • Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
  • Vanished Kingdoms - Norman Davies
  • Strategy: A History - Lawrence Freedman
  • The Iliad - Homer
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • The Lottery & Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
  • The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton
  • Wizard - Marc J. Seifer
  • The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
  • Iran: A Modern History - Abbas Amanat
  • Napoleon the Great - Andrew Roberts
  • The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  • The Nuremberg Trial - John Tusa & Ann Tusa
  • Lost Enlightenment - S. Frederick Starr
  • Foundation - Peter Ackroyd
  • The Arabs - Eugene Rogan
  • Site Reliability Engineering - Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff & Niall Richard Murphy

Read in 2023


  1. Leave No Man Behind - Tony Brooks
  2. We Were One - Patrick K. O'Donnell
  3. Black Wave - Kim Ghattas
  4. The Gun - C. J. Chivers
  5. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  6. Delta Force - Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox
  7. Black Ops - Ric Prado
  8. Milk Blood Heat - Dantiel W. Moniz
  9. Glock - Paul M. Barrett
  10. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
  11. Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
  12. Capitalism and Freedom - Milton & Rose Friedman
  13. The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy
  14. Gray Work - Jamie Smith
  15. Hunting the Jackal - Billy Waugh & Tim Keown
  16. The Art of Intelligence - Henry A. Crumpton
  17. The Craft of Intelligence - Allen W. Dulles
  18. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  19. Red Rabbit - Tom Clancy
  20. War Without Rules - BG Robet Spalding (USAF Ret.)
  21. The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin
  22. Red Winter - Tom Clancy
  23. Psychology of Intelligence Analysis - Richards J Heuer, Jr.
  24. Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
  25. Ibn Saud - Michael Darlow & Barbara Bray
  26. SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam - John L. Plaster
  27. Woke Racism - John McWhorter
  28. Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
  29. Chip War - Chris Miller
  30. The Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy
  31. Road to Jonestown - Jeff Guinn
  32. The Star-Child - Oscar Wilde
  33. The Future of Strategy - Colin S. Gray
  34. The Price of Peace - Zachary D. Carter
  35. Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy & Grant Blackwood
  36. Under Fire - Grant Blackwood
  37. Duty and Honor - Grant Blackwood
  38. Gun Barons - John Bainbridge, Jr.
  39. Inside Delta Force - CSM Eric L. Haney, USA (Ret.)
  40. Point of Contact - Mike Maden
  41. The History of the Medieval World - Susan Wise Bauer
  42. Line of Sight - Mike Maden
  43. Martin Luther - Eric Metaxas
  44. Enemy Contact - Mike Maden
  45. Nazi Billionaires - David de Jong
  46. Firing Point - Mike Maden
  47. The Party - Richard McGregor
  48. Target Acquired - Don Bentley
  49. Zero Hour - Don Bentley
  50. Flash Point - Don Bentley
  51. A Promised Land - Barack Obama
  52. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  53. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  54. The Origins of Political Order - Francis Fukuyama
  55. Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay
  56. Skunk Works - Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
  57. Dexter by Design - Jeff Lindsay
  58. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms - Amy B. Zegart
  59. Stealth - Peter Westwick
  60. Hunter Killer - T. Mark McCurley, Kevin Maurer
  61. The Madness of Crowds - Douglas Murray
  62. Inferno - Dante Alighieri
  63. The Strange Death of Europe - Douglas Murray
  64. Dexter is Delicious - Jeff Lindsay
  65. Pipeline to Power - Vicky Ward
  66. Blackwater - Jeremy Scahill
  67. Rise and Kill First - Ronen Bergman
  68. Bloody Sunday - Douglas Murray
  69. The War That Made the Roman Empire - Barry Strauss
  70. The Four Horsemen - Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris & Daniel Dennett

Read in 2022


  1. A Very Punchable Face - Colin Jost
  2. A History of Japan - R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger
  3. Scipio Africanus - B. H. Liddell Hart
  4. Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
  5. 36 Righteous Men - Steven Pressfield
  6. The Strategy of Conflict - Thomas C. Schelling
  7. An American Jew - Steven Pressfield
  8. The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta - Paul A. Rahe
  9. American Sniper - Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen & Jim DeFelice
  10. SSN -Tom Clancy & Martin H. Greenberg
  11. On Killing - Lt. Col. (Ret) David Grossman
  12. Slavery & Islam - Jonathan A. C. Brown
  13. Long Range Shooting Handbook - Ryan M. Cleckner
  14. Lone Survivor - Marcus Luttrell
  15. Imperial Twilight - Stephen R. Platt
  16. The Anglo-Saxons - Marc Morris
  17. Misquoting Muhammad - Jonathan A. C. Brown
  18. A Man At Arms - Steven Pressfield
  19. Divinity - Prateek Srivastava
  20. Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead
  21. Ancient Rome - Thomas R. Martin
  22. Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece - Paul Cartledge
  23. Undercover War - Harry McCallion
  24. Cursed Victory - Ahron Bregman
  25. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
  26. Against All Enemies - Tom Clancy & Peter Telep
  27. Death in Florence - Paul Strathern
  28. The Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly
  29. World War Two - Norman Stone
  30. The Five Greatest Warriors - Matthew Reilly
  31. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account - Miklos Nyiszli
  32. The Four Legendary Kingdoms - Matthew Reilly
  33. The Teeth of the Tiger - Tom Clancy
  34. The Three Secret Cities - Matthew Reilly
  35. Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy & Grant Blackwood
  36. The Two Lost Mountains - Matthew Reilly
  37. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
  38. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
  39. The One Impossible Labyrinth - Matthew Reilly
  40. Lost Kingdom - Serhii Plokhy
  41. Locked On - Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney
  42. Threat Vector - Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney
  43. Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition - David Nirenberg
  44. The Portrait of a Mirror - A. Natasha Joukovsky
  45. Rome's Last Citizen - Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
  46. Command Authority - Tom Clancy & Mark Greaney
  47. The Clockwork Universe - Edward Dolnick
  48. New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
  49. Quantum Computing - Brian Clegg
  50. Hannibal - Philip Freeman
  51. Alexander the Great - Norman F. Cantor
  52. Full Force and Effect - Mark Greaney
  53. The Enemy at the Gate - Andrew Wheatcroft
  54. Commander In Chief - Mark Greaney
  55. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  56. True Faith & Allegiance - Mark Greaney
  57. A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman
  58. Power and Empire - Marc Cameron
  59. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  60. Oath of Office - Marc Cameron
  61. Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  62. Cobalt Blue - Matthew Reilly
  63. Code of Honor - Marc Cameron
  64. Modern Monopolies - Alex Moazed & Nicholas L. Johnson
  65. Shadow of the Dragon - Marc Cameron
  66. Chain of Command - Marc Cameron
  67. The Economic Weapon - Nicholas Mulder
  68. Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
  69. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  70. Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
  71. Persian Fire - Tom Holland
  72. The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy
  73. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
  74. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
  75. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  76. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  77. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
  78. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  79. The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
  80. His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle
  81. Firepower - Paul Lockhart
  82. Rubicon - Tom Holland
  83. American Spartan - Ann Scott Tyson
  84. The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
  85. The War on the West - Douglas Murray
  86. Why We're Polarized - Ezra Klein
  87. The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg - Elandor Randolph
  88. Not One Inch - M. E. Sarotte
  89. Case Study - Graeme Macrae Burnet
  90. The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
  91. Reset - Stephen Kinzer
  92. The Habsburgs - Martyn Rady
  93. Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy
  94. The Avoidable War - Kevin Rudd
  95. Future War and the Defence of Europe - John R. Allen, Frederick B. Hodges & Julian Lindley-French
  96. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  97. Empire - Niall Ferguson
  98. Gentlemen Bastards - Kevin Maurer
  99. The Guns of John Moses Browning - Nathan Gorenstein
  100. First SEALs - Patrick K. O'Donnell
  101. Candide - Voltaire
  102. The Wars of the Green Berets - Robin Moore & Michael Lennon

Read in 2021


  1. Taliban - Ahmed Rashid
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
  3. The Last Days of Stalin - Joshua Rubenstein
  4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
  6. Hannibal - Ernle Bradford
  7. The Sultans - Noel Barber
  8. The Accursed Tower - Roger Crowley
  9. The Age of Entitlement - Christopher Caldwell
  10. 1453 - Roger Crowley
  11. Empires of the Sea - Roger Crowley
  12. City of Fortune - Roger Crowley
  13. The War of the Three Gods - Peter Crawford
  14. Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
  15. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
  16. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
  17. In God's Path - Robert G. Hoyland
  18. Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
  19. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
  20. Medieval Europe - Chris Wickham
  21. Conquerors - Roger Crowley
  22. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  23. The Twilight War - David Crist
  24. Conquistadors - Michael Wood
  25. Ancient Greece (2nd Edition) - Thomas R. Martin
  26. Destiny Disrupted - Tamim Ansary
  27. Troy - Stephen Fry
  28. The Shia Revival - Vali Nasr
  29. Babylon - Paul Kriwaczek
  30. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
  31. Lost Islamic History - Firas Alkhateeb
  32. The Hundred Years War - Desmond Seward
  33. Muhammad - Martin Lings
  34. Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
  35. Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
  36. Area 7 - Matthew Reilly
  37. Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
  38. Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
  39. Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves - Matthew Reilly
  40. The Big Stick - Eliot A. Cohen
  41. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
  42. The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis
  43. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
  44. Hannibal - Thomas Harris
  45. Crouching Tiger - Peter Navarro
  46. Alanna: The First Adventure - Tamora Pierce
  47. In The Hand of the Goddess - Tamora Pierce
  48. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man - Tamora Pierce
  49. Lioness Rampant - Tamora Pierce
  50. Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce
  51. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
  52. Supreme Command - Eliot A. Cohen
  53. Wolf-Speaker - Tamora Pierce
  54. Misbehaving - Richard Thaler
  55. Emperor Mage - Tamora Pierce
  56. Is This Anything? - Jerry Seinfeld
  57. Realms of the Gods - Tamora Pierce
  58. Napoleon: A Life - Andrew Roberts

Read in 2020


  1. Henry V - Ian Mortimer
  2. The Anarchy - William Dalrymple
  3. Revolutionary Iran - Michael Axworthy
  4. A Great & Terrible King - Marc Morris
  5. Francis I - Leonie Frieda
  6. The Dictator's Handbook - Alastair Smith & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  7. Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
  8. The Ayatollah Begs to Differ - Hooman Majd
  9. Brotopia - Emily Chang
  10. A Little History of Economics - Niall Kishtainy
  11. Whistleblower - Susan Fowler
  12. Reset - Ellen Pao
  13. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
  14. Facebook: The Inside Story - Steven Levy
  15. Ten Caesars - Barry Strauss
  16. Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
  17. Five Presidents - Lisa McCubbin & Clint Hill
  18. Deep Work - Cal Newport
  19. The Ministry of Guidance Invites You Not to Stay - Hooman Majd
  20. The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
  21. Mr. Putin - Fiona Hill & Clifford G. Gaddy
  22. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J. K. Rowling
  23. Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
  24. The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
  25. Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
  26. Area 7 - Matthew Reilly
  27. Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
  28. The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite - Duff McDonald
  29. Contest - Matthew Reilly
  30. The Economics of Inequality - Thomas Piketty & Arthur Goldhammer
  31. Temple - Matthew Reilly
  32. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly
  33. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance - Lou Gerstner
  34. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammad bin Salman - Ben Hubbard
  35. The Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly
  36. The Five Greatest Warriors - Matthew Reilly
  37. The Four Legendary Kingdoms - Matthew Reilly
  38. The Three Secret Cities - Matthew Reilly
  39. Hover Car Racer - Matthew Reilly
  40. Hell Island - Matthew Reilly
  41. The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
  42. October - China Mieville
  43. The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly
  44. Troll Mountain - Matthew Reilly
  45. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  46. Artemis Fowl and the Artic Incident - Eoin Colfer
  47. Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor
  48. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
  49. Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
  50. The Unicorn Project - Gene Kim
  51. Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
  52. Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
  53. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
  54. Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex - Eoin Colfer
  55. Understanding Iran - William R. Polk
  56. Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian - Eoin Colfer
  57. Artificial Intelligence - Melanie Mitchell
  58. The Tournament - Matthew Reilly
  59. Prediction Machines - Avi Goldfarb, Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans
  60. Money - Jacob Goldstein
  61. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X & Alex Haley
  62. Mythos - Stephen Fry
  63. The Fall of Heaven - Andrew Scott Cooper
  64. The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton
  65. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republic of Turkey - Charles River Editors
  66. The Fall of the Ottomans - Eugene Rogan
  67. The Two Lost Mountains - Matthew Reilly
  68. Inside Iran - Medea Benjamin
  69. Billion Dollar Loser - Reeves Wiedeman
  70. The House of Kennedy - James Patterson
  71. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
  72. The Great Siege - Ernle Bradford
  73. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
  74. The French Revolution - Ian Davidson
  75. The Republic of Pirates - Colin Woodward
  76. Alexander the Great - Paul Cartledge
  77. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
  78. Heroes - Stephen Fry
  79. Caesar's Legion - Stephen Dando-Collins
  80. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling

Read in 2019


  1. The Three Secret Cities - Matthew Reilly
  2. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geeks and Geniuses Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Isaacson
  3. Creativity Inc. - Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
  4. Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician - Anthony Everitt
  5. Conspiracy: Peter Theil, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue - Ryan Holiday
  6. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill - Michael Shelden
  7. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, How to Build the Future - Peter Theil
  8. Socrates: A Man For Our Times - Paul Johnson
  9. Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians - Ian Stewart
  10. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss
  11. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
  12. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - Dan Jones
  13. The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
  14. Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
  15. The Rise of Athens - Anthony Everitt
  16. The Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield
  17. Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
  18. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies & Three Battles - Bernard Cornwell
  19. The Profession - Steven Pressfield
  20. Empire of Dragons - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
  21. Killing Rommel - Steven Pressfield
  22. The Afghan Campaign - Steven Pressfield
  23. The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War - Steven Pressfield
  24. Augustus: First Emperor of Rome - Adrian Goldsworthy
  25. Tides of War - Steven Pressfield
  26. Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes - Alan Hirshfeld
  27. Bitwise: A Life In Code - David Auerbach
  28. The Fall of Carthage - Adrian Goldsworthy
  29. The Secret Runners of New York - Matthew Reilly
  30. Caesar - Adrian Goldsworthy
  31. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - Walter Isaacson
  32. The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
  33. Last of the Amazons - Steven Pressfield
  34. Legion Versus Phalanx - Myke Cole
  35. How to Hide an Empire - Daniel Immerwahr
  36. Tempests and Slaughter - Tamora Pierce
  37. Alanna: The First Adventure - Tamora Pierce
  38. In The Hand of the Goddess - Tamora Pierce
  39. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man - Tamora Pierce
  40. Lioness Rampant - Tamora Pierce
  41. Desert Fox: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel - Samuel Mitcham
  42. Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce
  43. Wolf Speaker - Tamora Pierce
  44. The Emperor Mage - Tamora Pierce
  45. Realms of the Gods - Tamora Pierce
  46. First Test - Tamora Pierce
  47. Page - Tamora Pierce
  48. Squire - Tamora Pierce
  49. Lady Knight - Tamora Pierce
  50. Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
  51. Trickster's Choice - Tamora Pierce
  52. The Borgias: Power and Fortune - Paul Strathern
  53. Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce
  54. The Magic in the Weaving - Tamora Pierce
  55. The Power in the Storm - Tamora Pierce
  56. The Fire in the Forging - Tamora Pierce
  57. The Healing in the Vine - Tamora Pierce
  58. The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance - Paul Strathern
  59. Magic Steps - Tamora Pierce
  60. Street Magic - Tamora Pierce
  61. Cold Fire - Tamora Pierce
  62. Shatterglass - Tamora Pierce
  63. The Will of the Empress - Tamora Pierce
  64. Melting Stones - Tamora Pierce
  65. Battle Magic - Tamora Pierce
  66. The Crusades: the Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land - Thomas Asbridge
  67. Terrier - Tamora Pierce
  68. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
  69. Bloodhound - Tamora Pierce
  70. The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England - Marc Morris
  71. Mastiff - Tamora Pierce
  72. The Storm Before the Storm - Mike Duncan
  73. Edward III: The Perfect King - Ian Mortimer

Read in 2018


  1. Women & Power - Mary Beard
  2. All the President's Men - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
  3. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
  4. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
  5. Elanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
  6. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Samantha Irby
  7. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
  8. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  9. Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual - John Sonmez
  10. The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
  11. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business - Duff McDonald
  12. What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
  13. A Higher Loyalty - James Comey
  14. Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover
  15. Chemistry - Weiki Wang
  16. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
  17. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama
  18. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
  19. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
  20. American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
  21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
  22. Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright
  23. What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman & Ralph Leighton
  24. The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
  25. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of Curious Character - Richard Feynman & Ralph Leighton
  26. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
  27. Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie
  28. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
  29. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
  30. The Last Interview - Christopher Hitchens
  31. My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  32. A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History - Lyn Webster Wilde
  33. The Big Four - Agatha Christie
  34. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
  35. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  36. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
  37. Circe - Madeline Miller
  38. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  39. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
  40. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie
  41. Einstein: His Life & Universe - Walter Isaacson
  42. Three Act Tradgedy - Agatha Christie
  43. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - Scott Galloway
  44. My Oxford Year - Julia Whelan
  45. Origin - Dan Brown
  46. Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
  47. The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
  48. How Google Works - Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
  49. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself - Harvard Business Review
  50. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone
  51. The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M. Christensen
  52. Reality is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli
  53. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
  54. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward
  55. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionised Time and Reality - Paul Halpern
  56. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age - David N. Schwartz
  57. The Ides of March - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
  58. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson
  59. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom - Graham Farmelo
  60. Moonraker - Ian Fleming
  61. A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
  62. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
  63. Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming

Read in 2017


  1. Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves - Matthew Reilly
  2. The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, George Spafford & Kevin Behr
  3. Four Legendary Kingdoms - Matthew Reilly
  4. The One World Schoolhouse - Salman Khan
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  6. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
  8. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  9. Where are the Customer's Yachts? - Fred Schwed Jr.
  10. Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  11. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  12. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard
  13. Misery - Stephen King
  14. Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
  15. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  16. Deep Work - Cal Newport
  17. Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
  18. Production Ready Microservices - Susan Fowler Rigetti
  19. Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
  20. The Trial - Franz Kafka
  21. Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
  22. Mr Mercedes - Stephen King
  23. Let Me Tell You - Shirley Jackson
  24. The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite - Duff McDonald
  25. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  26. The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
  27. Quantum Chance: Nonlocality, Teleportation and Other Quantum Marvels - Nicolas Gisin