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Read in 2024

Fiction

True Grit
Charles Portis   

Under The Skin
Michel Faber  

Non-fiction

The Railway Traveller’s Handy Book: Hints, Suggestions and …
Anonymous  

Read in 2023

Fiction

A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr  

Blindsight
Peter Watts  

My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley  

The Lonely Londoners
Sam Sevlon  

True Grit
Charles Portis   

Classics

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy  

Non-fiction

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Hilary Mantel  

Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher  

Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham  

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Grea…
Adam Higginbotham  

Non-Stop Inertia
Ivor Southwood  

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt  

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt  

Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
Peter Apps  

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion  

Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an…
Nathalie Olah  

The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson  

Memoir/biography

Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Joanne McNeil  

Read in 2022

Fiction

Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx  

Leaving Las Vegas
John O'Brien  

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov  

Luster
Raven Leilani  

Mona
Pola Oloixarac  

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante  

Out There: Stories
Kate Folk  

Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead  

Solaris
Stanislaw Lem  

The Story of a New Name
Elena Ferrante  

The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante  

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Elena Ferrante  

Classics

A Room With A View
E. M. Forster  

Howards End
E. M. Forster  

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell  

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford  

The Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa  

Non-fiction

Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern S…
Edward Lazarus  

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze  

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism …
Adam Hochschild  

Longitude
Dava Sobel  

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Adam Tooze  

Stolen Focus
Johann Hari  

The Great War and Modern Memory
Paul Fussell  

The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan  

The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commod…
Dana Heller  

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Paul Fussell  

Ways of Seeing
John Berger  

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing t…
Louise Richardson  

Memoir/biography

Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Johny Pitts  

Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit  

The Disaster Artist
Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell  

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Roisin Kiberd  

The Prime Ministers
Steve Richards  

Read in 2021

Fiction

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin  

Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel  

Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy  

Bodies of Light
Sarah Moss  

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski  

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis  

Milkman
Anna Burns  

Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris  

Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel  

The Complete Adventures of Tintin
Hergé  

The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin  

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North  

The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt  

The Only Story
Julian Barnes  

The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro  

The Road
Cormac McCarthy  

The Wall
John Lanchester  

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks  

Classics

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess  

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad  

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell  

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky  

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier  

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald  

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy  

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde  

Non-fiction

A Little History of Poetry
John Carey  

Class: A Guide to the American Status System
Paul Fussell  

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
The Secret Barrister  

Hidden Valley Road
Robert Kolker  

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn  

K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fish…
Mark Fisher  

One Dimensional Woman
Nina Power  

Scoff
Pen Vogler  

Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
Ruth Ben-Ghiat  

The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O. Paxton  

The Decadent Society
Ross Douthat  

The Unusual Suspect
Ben Machell  

Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum  

What Good are the Arts?
John Carey  

Memoir/biography

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Laura Tunbridge  

George Orwell: A Life
Bernard Crick  

Sea State
Tabitha Lasley  

The Man in the Red Coat
Julian Barnes  

Read in 2020

Fiction

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel  

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro  

No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy  

Running the Light
Sam Tallent  

Summerwater
Sarah Moss  

The Children of Men
P. D. James  

The Fault in Our Stars
John Green  

The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel  

The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel  

The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead  

The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht  

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré  

True Grit
Charles Portis   

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler  

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel  

Classics

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell  

The Plague
Albert Camus  

Non-fiction

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber  

Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher  

Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class
Owen Jones  

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson  

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Yo…
Nir Eyal  

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
James Bridle  

On the Internet
Hubert L. Dreyfus  

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield  

The Algebra of Happiness
Scott Galloway  

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume 1
George Orwell  

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume 2
George Orwell  

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume 3
George Orwell  

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume 4
George Orwell  

The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker  

The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us
Nicholas Carr  

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
Ewan Clayton  

Memoir/biography

Inside Story
Martin Amis  

No Encore for the Donkey
Doug Stanhope  

Read in 2017

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks  

Read in 2012 (incomplete)

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel  

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