Reading record 📚

This is where I record the books I read each year and the books I might like to read in the future.

Currently reading 📖

• Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns - Diggle
• Klara and The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

TBR ⏲️

• How to do nothing - Jenny Odell
• Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
• Something wicked this way comes - Ray Bradbury
• The Hole - Hye-Young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell (Translator)
• Gender swapped fairytales - Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett
• Luster - Rven Leilani
• In the house in the dark of the woods - Laird Hunt
• Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

TBR-ish ⏰❓

• Meanwhile in Dopamine City - DBC Pierre
• Tyll - Daniel Kemlmann
• How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
• The Mr Porter guide to a better day
• Professor Higgins’s Problem Collection - Peter M Higgins
• The discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
• Blood and guts in high school - Kathy Acker
• The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
• The Need - Helen Phillips
• The silence of the girls - Pat Barker
• The ginger child - Patrick Flanery
• Bonjour Tristesse - Francois Sagan
• The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton
• Micro Avdentures - Alastair Humphreys
• Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

2022 - 2023

1. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
2. Data Science Ethics - David Martens
3. Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil
4. Either/Or - Elif Batuman
5. Goodbye, things - Fumio Sasaki
6. Four thousand weeks - Oliver Burkeman
7. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
8. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
9. The Elements of Academic Style - Eric Hayot
10. …

2021 - 2022

1. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
3. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
4. On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
5. Wow, no thank you - Samantha Irby
6. Math without numbers - Milo Beckman
7. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
8. Introduction to Statistical Learning
9. Boy Parts - Eliza Clark
10. How to take smart notes - Sonke Ahrens
11. If we were villians - M. L. Rio
12. The Windup Bird Chronicle, Book 1- Haruki Murakami
13. The Windup Bird Chronicle, Book 2 - Haruki Murakami
14. The Windup Bird Chronicle, Book 3 - Haruki Murakami
15. Treacle Walker - Alan Garner
16. Immune - Philipp Dettmer (DNF)
17. The Beauty of Everyday Things - Seotsu Yanagi
18. Better Data Visualizations - Jonathan Schwabish
19. Scientifically Speaking - Jo Filshie Browning
20. The Effect - Nick Huntington-Klein
21. …

2020 - 2021

1. The authenticity project - Clare Pooley ♣️
2. Dune - Frank Herbert
3. How to make the world add up: Ten rules for thinking differently about numbers - Tim Harford
4. The Thursday murder club - Richard Osman ♣️
5. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
6. Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney
7. The housekeeper and the professor - by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator)
8. The dice man - Luke Rhinehart ♣️
9. Introduction to statistical modelling of extreme values - Stuart Coles
10. Stories of the law and how it is broken - The Secret Barrister
11. College Science Teaching - Terry McGlynn (2021-04-07)
12. In the dream house - Carmen Maria Machado ♣️
13. Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
14. Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone - Stefan Kiesbye
15. Nick and Charlie - Alice Oseman
16. Solaris - Stanisław Lem ♣️
17. Show your work - Austin Kleon
18. Circe - Madeline Miller (2021-06-19)
19. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
20. On being different - Merle Miller
21. Eating Animals - Jonathan Saffran Foer
22. Piranesi - Susan Clarke
23. Happy git with R - Jenny Bryan
24. The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai ♣️
25. Why I am no longer talking (to white people) about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
26. Reputation - Lex Croucher ♣️ (2021-08-24)
27. The Ethical Algorithm - Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth (2021-09-02)
28. Everything I never told you - Celeste Ng
29. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
30. Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
31. The Best of Me - David Sedaris
32. Wicked - Gregory Maguire

2019-2020

1. What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami
2. Guys knit - Sockmatician
3. Brit(ish) - Afua Hirsch
4. Semicolon - Cecilia Watson
5. The conscious closet - Elizabeth L. Cline
6. A little book of language - David Crystal
7. Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world - Haruki Murakami
8. The Topeka school - Ben Lerner
9. Normal people - Sally Rooney
10. Show your work - Austin Kleon
11. 1Q84 (Book 1) - Haruki Murakami
12. 1Q84 (Book 2) - Haruki Murakami
13. 1Q84 (Book 3) - Haruki Murakami
14. The body - Bill Bryson
15. You too can have a body like mine - Alexandra Kleeman
16. I’m thinking of ending things - Iain Reed
17. Supper club - Lara Williams
18. Girl, woman, other - Bernadine Evaristo ♣️
19. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ♣️
20. Severance - Ling Ma
21. The school of life - Alain de Botton
22. …

2018-2019

1. Have you eaten Grandma? - Giles Brandreth
2. An edited life - Anna Newton
3. Weight expectations - Dave Chawner
4. Spirits of the season - Tanya Kirk
5. Killing Comendatore - Haruki Murakami
6. Happy ever after - Paul Dolan
7. Dress your family in corduroy and denim - David Sedaris
8. Hear the wind sing - Haruki Murakami
9. Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami
10. Call me by your name - Andre Aciman
11. The visual display of quantitative information - Edward R. Tufte
12. The elephant vanishes - Haruki Murakami
13. A brave new world - Aldous Huxley
14. The missing piece - Shell Silverstein
15. The joy of work - Bruce Daisley
16. Joined up writing -Roger McGough
17. The idiot - Elif Batuman
18. The slow professor - Maggie Berg & Barbara Seeber
19. The history boys - Alan Bennett
20. The handmaid’s tale - Margaret Atwood
21. Classical mechanics - Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
22. Indistractable - Nir Eyal
23. Are you experienced - William Sutcliffe
24. Calypso - David Sedaris
25. No one is too small to make a difference - Greta Thunberg

2017-2018

1. Bridget Jones’ diary - Helen Fielding
2. The mathematics of Christmas - Hannah Fry
3. Call me by your name - Andre Aciman
4. Talking to my daughter about the economy - Yanis Varoufakis
5. Irresistable - Adam Alter
6. Sympathy - Olivia Sudjic
7. Moranifesto - Caitlin Moran
8. iGen - Jean Twenge
9. Hagseed - Margaret Atwood
10. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
11. Upper North Tynedale - Beryl Charlton
12. Talk like TED - Carmine Gallo
13. The boy on the Bridge - Mike Carey
14. Men without women - Haruki Murakami
15. South of the border, West of the sun - Haruki Murakami
16. Queer city - Peter Ackroyd
17. Less - Andrew Sean Greer
18. Why the Dutch are different - Ben Coates
19. Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
20. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
21. Women and power - Mary Beard
22. Girls will be girls - Emer O’Toole
23. The boy in the striped pajamas - John Boyne
24. :heavy_multiplication_x:

2016-2017

1. The throwback - Tom Sharpe
2. Seven brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Circle - Dave Eggers
4. Five on brexit island - Bruno Vincent
5. You too can have a body like mine - Alexandra Kleeman
6. The wish - Bill Griffin
7. Happy - Derren Brown
8. A little gay history - R.B. Parkinson
9. Nina is not OK - Shappi Khorsandi
10. The life-changing magic of tidying - Marie Kondo
11. The vegetarian - Han Kang
12. Respectable - Lyndsey Hanley
13. The great indoors - Ben Highmore
14. Solitude - Michael Harris
15. Icecream for breakfast - Laure Jane Williams
16. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
17. Bossy pants - Tina Fey
18. Quiet - Susan Cain
19. Harry Potter and the philospoher’s stone - J.K. Rowling
20. Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets - J.K. Rowling
21. Gerald’s game - Stephen King
22. The handmaid’s tale - Margaret Atwood
23. Not working - Lisa Owens
24. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami