Book Journal
An attempt to keep a record of some of the books I’ve been reading. I know I’m missing a lot - books I tend to dip into rather than read from cover to cover (mainly volumes of poetry) and a number of ebooks I’ve read but lost track of the dates of when I finished them.
On this site you can also see my Micro.blog posts about books and a page of books I am currently reading đ
You can also find me on Goodreads.
October 2024
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton
- Reflections on a Marine Venus by Lawrence Durrell
- Magritte by Alex Danchev
- Deathâs End by Cixin Liu
September 2024
- Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
August 2024
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- Don’t Be a Jerk by Brad Warner
- Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
July 2024
- The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
- The Box Man by KĆbĆ Abe
June 2024
- The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs
May 2024
- Buried by Alice Roberts
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
April 2024
- The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
- Turning Over the Pebbles by Mike Brearley
March 2024
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
January 2024
- Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller
- Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht
December 2023
- Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
- Julian of Norwich by Janina Ramirez
October 2023
- Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil by James Swallow
September 2023
- Star Trek: Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack
- Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
- Every House is Haunted by Ian Roberts
- Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
- The Internet Con - How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow
- Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D. D. Johnson
August 2023
- The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by Andy Miller
- Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow
July 2023
- Tales From The Loop by Simon StÄlenhag
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
June 2023
- The Trial of Julian Assange by Nils Melzer
- Tomorrow by Chris Beckett
May 2023
- Two-Way Mirror by Fiona Sampson
March 2023
- Absolutely On Music Haruki Murakami & Seiji Ozawa
- Meru by S. B. Divya
February 2023
- Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Randell
January 2023
- The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza edited by John Daido Loori
December 2022
- The Whistleblower by Robert Peston
October 2022
- Lessons by Ian McEwan
August 2022
- The Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
July 2022
- Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton
- Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
- Three Philosophies and One Reality & NHK Radio Talks by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
- Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
- Burning Man: The Ascent of D. H. Lawrence By Frances Wilson
May 2022
- Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk by DBC Pierre
- Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture by Matt Goulding
- Erewhon by Samuel Butler
March 2022
- The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
- Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
February 2022
- Homo Irrealis by André Aciman
January 2022
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust Volume Two) by Philip Pullman
December 2021
- Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
November 2021
- Justine by Lawrence Durrell
- La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust Volume One) by Philip Pullman
October 2021
- Letters to a Dead Friend about Zen by Brad Warner
- Anarchism is Movement by Tomås Ibåñez
- Sissy by Ben Borek
September 2021
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Do Earth by Tamsin Omond
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories by Ernest Hemingway
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Introducing Buddha by Jane Hope & Borin Van Loon
August 2021
- How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
July 2021
- Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
June 2021
- Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats by Barry Miles
April 2021
- Medical Grade Music by by Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi
March 2021
- The Beats: A Graphic Guide by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor et al
- Modern Mindfulness by Rohan Gunatillake
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
February 2021
- Jews Donât Count by David Baddiel
- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
January 2021
- The Ruins by Mat Osman
- The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry (audiobook rereading)
October 2020
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
- Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson
September 2020
- Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
August 2020
- Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher
July 2020
- The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
- The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Blythell
June 2020
- My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson
May 2020
- The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction edited by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich
- Whatever by Michel Houellebecq
April 2020
- We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Ascension by Gregory Dowling
- The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
March 2020
- Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
- The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel
January 2020
- Baudelaire by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler
October 2019
- Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
September 2019
- The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
- Artemis by Andy Weir
July 2019
- A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- Circe by Madeline Miller
June 2019
- Dr James Barry - A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Perez & Jeremy Dronfield
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- No Spin by Shane Warne
May 2019
- The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell
- The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
April 2019
- Vengeance in Venice by Philip Gwynne Jones
- The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell
March 2019
- Snap by Belinda Bauer
- Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
February 2019
- The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis
- Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Mythos by Stephen Fry (audiobook)
January 2019
- Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
December 2018
- Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein
November 2018
- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
October 2018
- Opening Up by Mike Atherton
- Percy Bysshe Shelley â Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen
- Are you experienced? by William Sutcliffe
- The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
September 2018
- The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo
- The Devilâs Star by Jo Nesbo
August 2018
- An Endangered Species by David Gower
- The Complete Short Stories of Raffles by E. W. Hornung
- Terror and terroir â The winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France by Andrew W. M. Smith
- Monteverdiâs Unruly Women â The Power of Song in Early Modern Italy by Bonnie Gordon
- Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
July 2018
- Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014 by Clive James
- Jesusâ Son by Denis Johnson
- Islam for the Politically Incorrect by Khaled Diab
June 2018
- Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody (author) and Howard Read (illustrator)
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Gyles Brandreth
May 2018
- Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall
- Instrumental by James Rhodes
- Red Gas by Edward Topol
April 2018
- The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison
- The Executor by Blake Morrison
March 2018
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- The Bat by Jo Nesbo
February 2018
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
January 2018
- D. H. Lawrence - The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen
November 2017
- The First Bad Man by Miranda July
October 2017
- The Dry by Jane Harper
July 2017
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
- Night Without Stars by Peter F. Hamilton
- Revolution by Russell Brand
June 2017
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
May 2017
- The Strings are False by Louis MacNeice
- Rebel with a Cause by Ann Clwyd
April 2017
- Dinosaurs on Other Planets by Danielle McLaughin
March 2017
- The Humans by Matt Haig
- Exit West by Moshin Hamid
- Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor
February 2017
- Sanctuary by Robert Edric
January 2017
- Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
December 2016
- Cricket: The Game of Life by Scyld Berry
November 2016
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
October 2016
- Feral by George Monbiot
September 2016
- The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler (audiobook rereading)
- Epiphany Jones by Michel Grothaus
- In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
- The Book of Seventy by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (audiobook rereading)
August 2016
- I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
- Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
- Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
- Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (audiobook rereading)
- The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
July 2016
- The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
June 2016
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
April 2016
- Rivers of London by David Aaronovitch
- Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice by Ken Bruen
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Vagabondâs Breakfast by Richard Gwyn
- Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
February 2016
- Latest Readings by Clive James
- KP: The Autobiography by Kevin Pieterson
January 2016
- Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
November - December 2015
- The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
August 2015
- Normal by Graeme Cameron
- An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell
- Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Warlord’s Legacy by Ari Marmell
- The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell
July 2015
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
June2015
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
May 2015
- Ashoka by Charles Allen
- The Fly Guy by Colum Sanson-Regan
April 2015
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- The Divine Comedy by Craig Raine
March 2015
- Wake Up by Jack Kerouac
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
January 2015
- Anger is an Energy by John Lydon
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
November 2014
- Spiderland by Scott Tennent
October 2014
- Duende by Jason Webster
August 2014
- RubĂĄiyĂĄt of Omar KhayyĂĄm by Edward FitzGerald, impressive introduction and notes by Daniel Karlin
July 2014
- Fatlands by Sarah Dunant
June 2014
- The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
May 2014
- Guerra by Jason Webster
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Boredom by Alberto Moravia
October 2013
- Adiamante by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
August 2013
- Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
January 2010
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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