My reading list
Non-fiction and fiction books I’ve actually finished since ca 2020.
Does not include the Ladybird books, textbooks, reference works etc.
Recently finished books on top.
| Title | Author | First published (en) | Did I like it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Con | Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington | 2023 | ★★★★☆ |
| AI Ethics | Mark Coeckelbergh | 2020 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Your Life is Manufactured | Tim Minshall | 2025 | ★★★★☆ |
| Representations of the Intellectual | Edward W. Said | 1994 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Returning to Reims | Didier Eribon | 2013 | ★★★★☆ |
| East West Street | Philippe Sands | 2016 | ★★★★★ |
| Kidnap | Anja Shortland | 2019 | ★★★★☆ |
| Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico | 2025 | ★★★★☆ |
| If Russia Wins | Carlo Masala | 2025 | ★★★★☆ |
| Aftermath | Harald Jahner | 2021 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Berlin 1936 | Oliver Hilmes | 2018 | ★★★★☆ |
| The Ratline | Philippe Sands | 2020 | ★★★★★ |
| Stoner | John Williams | 1965 | ★★★★★ |
| Advice to a Young Scientist | Peter Medawar | 1979 | ★★★★☆ |
| Advice for a Young Investigator | Santiago Ramon y Cajal | 1999 | ★★★★☆ |
| The Illegals | Shaun Walker | 2025 | ★★★★★ |
| The File | Timothy Garton Ash | 1997 | ★★★★☆ |
| Cafe Europa | Slavenka Drakulic | 1996 | ★★★★★ |
| Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | 1957 | ★★★★★ |
| Parallel Lives | Iain Pears | 2024 | ★★★★★ |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E Frankl | 1959 | ★★★★☆ |
| My Life | Marc Chagall | 1965 | ★★★★☆ |
| The Men With the Pink Triangle | Heinz Heger | 1980 | ★★★★☆ |
| The Cafe with No Name | Robert Seethaler | 2024 | ★★☆☆☆ |
| Feeding the Machine | James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant | 2024 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Eurotrash | Christian Kracht | 2024 | ★★☆☆☆ |
| Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris | 2021 | ★★★★★ |
| Last Days in Old Europe | Richard Bassett | 2019 | ★★★★☆ |
| Into the War | Italo Calvino | 2011 | ★★★★☆ |
| Naples’44 | Norman Lewis | 1978 | ★★★★☆ |
| Hillbilly Elegy | JD Vance | 2016 | ★★★★★ |
| Staziland | Anna Funder | 2021 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Slow Productivity | Cal Newport | 2024 | ★★★★★ |
| We Need to Talk About Putin | Mark Galeotti | 2019 | ★★★★☆ |
| Second-Hand Time | Svetlana Alexievich | 2016 | ★★★★☆ |
| Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | 2019 | ★★★★☆ |
| Thinking in Systems | Donella H. Meadows | 2008 | ★★★★☆ |