all about books

last updated: 09/08/2024

currently reading

Parallel Text Short Stories in Spanish / Cuentos en Español

things I've read

Books I've read since the start of 2022, in the order that I finished them.

I also recently re-started using my goodreads but I'm not very good at keeping it up to date, this list is likely to be more accurate.

2024

A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K Dick
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
The Penguin History of Modern Spain - Nigel Townson
Naming Things - Tom Benner
The Return of the King - JRR Tolkien (audiobook)
The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Canal Dreams - Ian Banks
The Alchemist - Paul Coehlo
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
On Bullshit - Harry Frankfurt
Red Roulette - Desmond Shum
The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien (audiobook)
Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Algebraist - Ian M Banks
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (audiobook)
Chavs - Owen Jones
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Player of Games - Ian M Banks
Whit - Ian Banks
Esctasy - Irvine Welsh
The Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndham
Identity - Milan Kundera
On Earth we are Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Short Stories in Spanish (beginner) - Olly Richards
Immortality - Milan Kundera
The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
The Lasker Method - Gerard Welling and Steve Giddins

2023

Nausea - Sartre
Myth of Sysphus - Camus
Demian - Herman Hesse
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Crow Road - Ian Banks
The Hydrogen Sonata - Ian M Banks
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
The Alignment Problem - Brian Christian
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
Another Country - James Baldwin
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
The Fall - Camus
Entangled life - Merlin Sherdrake
Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang
War of the Worlds - H G Wells
Consider Phlebas - Banks
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Feersum Enjinn - Banks
Chums - Simon Kuper
Howards End - E. M. Forster
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Heroes - Stephen Fry
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift
Through the Language Lens - Guy Deutscher
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad - George Orwell
Troy - Stephen Fry
Filth - Ervine Welsh

2022

The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Surface Detail - Ian M Banks
The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
Matter - Ian M Banks
Inversions - Ian M Banks
Excession - Ian M Banks
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
100 Years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Raegan Revolution: A very short introduction - Gil Troy
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
Doors of Perception (& Heaven and Hell) - Aldous Huxley
The Castle - Kafka
Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Second Foundation - Asimov
Foundation and Empire - Asimov
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguri
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
In the Kitchen - Various Authors
Three daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak
Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
A very short introduction to The French Revolution - William Doyle
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Jung: A Very Short Introduction - Anthony Stevens
On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
Hiking with Nietzsche - John Kaag
1984 - George Orwell
Dune - Frank Herbert
Mythos - Stephen Fry
Stoner - John Williams
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
The Island of Dr Moreau - H.G. Wells
Race Marxism - James Lindsay
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K Dick
Stolen Focus - Johann Hari
Against a Dark Background - Ian M Banks
Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche