Books

A place to keep track of what I want to read and what I've read

To Read

Title Author
Dune Frank Herbert
On Photography Susan Sontag
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan
Detroit: An American Autopsy Charlie LeDuff
Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It David M Ewalt
The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War Heather Brooke
Raising the Dead: A True Story of Death and Survival
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte
The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? Paul Davies
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century Simson Garfinkel
Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty John Kampfner
What Price Liberty?: How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost Ben Wilson
Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain George Monbiot
Underland Robert McFarlane
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age Astra Taylor
Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine...and Fighting It Mark Klein
Japan’s Longest Day, The Pacific War Research Society
Battle Royale Koushun Takami
The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones
How to be Nowhere Tim Macgabhann
The Search Party Simon Leic
The Hunted Gabriel Bergmoser
Essentialism Greg McKeown
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg
Above the Clouds Kílian Jornet
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
In the Miso soup Ryu Murakami
Wake in fright Kenneth cook
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Ring of hell mark ranadzzo
Days of Distraction Alexandra Chang
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health—and How We Must Adapt Sinan Aral
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing Sarah Brayne
They are already here Sarah Scoles
Blood and oil Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck
Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry Anne Boden
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley Antonio Garcia Martinez
Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe

Have Read

# Title Author Page Count Start Date End Date Type
01 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 231 EB
02 Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote 142 EB
03 Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis 208 EB
04 The Black Dahlia James Ellroy 348 EB
05 Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson 204 PB
06 The Catcher In The Rye J D Salinger 277 PB
07 The Outsider Albert Camus 119 PB
08 Post Office: A Novel Charles Bukowski 162 EB
09 Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler 292 EB
10 The High Window Raymond Chandler 265 EB
11 Exquisite Corpse Poppy Z Brite 240 EB
12 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou 339 AB
13 Carrie Stephen King 253 AB
14 Crux Ramez Naam 624 AB
15 Pet Sematary Stephen King 580 AB
16 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Michelle McNamara 352 AB
17 Bird box Josh Malerman 262 AB
18 The Girl on The Train Paula Hawkins 323 AB
19 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 194 EB
20 11-22-63 Stephen King 849 AB
21 The Shining Stephen King 659 AB
22 Scrappy Little Nobody Anna Kendrick 275 AB
23 The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler 266 EB
24 Countdown to Zero Day Kim Zetter 406 AB
25 The Little Sister Raymond Chandler 250 EB
26 Apex Ramez Naam 608 AB
27 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 379 EB
28 Playback Raymond Chandler 176 EB
29 Metro 2034 Dmitry Glukhovsky 526 AB
30 Alaskan Retreater’s Notebook Ray Ordorica 248 AB
31 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 288 PB
32 The Haunting of Hill house Shirley Jackson 208 AB
33 The Big Nowhere James Ellroy 472 EB
34 Ring Koji Suzuki 282 EB
35 Spiral Koji Suzuki 283 EB
36 Loop Koji Suzuki 283 EB
37 Metro 2035 Dmitry Glukhovsky 497 AB
38 God Save Texas Lawrence Wright 329 PB
39 A Killing Winter Tom Callaghan 312 PB
40 Fishbowl Bradley Somer 304 PB
41 Stalin’s Meteorologist Olivier Rolin 192 HB
42 Foley is Good Mick Foley 592 PB
43 Blood River Tim Butcher 363 PB
44 The Tobacconist Robert Seethaler 234 19/07/19 22/07/19 PB
45 A Spring Betrayal Tim Callaghan 320 23/07/19 26/07/19 PB
46 Manual for Survival Kate Brown 432 27/07/19 01/08/19 PB
47 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 311 30/07/19 01/08/19 PB
48 Feral George Monbiot 256 03/08/19 07/08/19 PB
49 Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis 546 08/08/19 19/08/19 EB
50 Site Reliability Engineering Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy 552 07/08/19 20/08/19 EB
51 World War Z Max Brooks 342 20/08/19 27/08/19 EB
52 American Prison Shane Bauer 318 21/08/19 28/08/19 AB
53 Crash J.G. Ballard 224 27/08/19 29/08/19 EB
54 Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Stephen King 231 30/08/19 01/10/19 AB
55 Alien III William Gibson 28/08/19 28/08/19 AB
56 Imperial Bedrooms Bret Easton Ellis 256 01/09/19 04/09/19 EB
57 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 193 04/09/19 10/09/19 EB
58 The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe Douglas Adams 250 10/09/19 15/09/18 EB
59 The Lost Night Andrea Bartz 314 15/09/19 17/09/19 EB
60 Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark Cecelia Watson 213 17/09/19 19/09/19 EB
61 Deep Work Cal Newport 304 19/09/09 23/09/19 EB
62 Requiem for a Dream Hubert Selby Jr. 279 20/09/19 25/09/19 EB
63 L.A. Confidential James Ellroy 496 26/09/19 03/10/19 EB
64 Next Michael Crichton 495 04/10/19 08/10/19 PB
65 Doctor Sleep Stephen King 499 08/10/19 17/10/19 PB
66 Shadowplay Tim Marshall 294 18/10/19 26/10/19 PB
67 Diary Chuck Palahniuk 262 26/10/19 30/10/19 EB
68 White Jazz James Ellroy 368 31/10/19 09/11/19 EB
69 The Cockroach Ian McEwan 100 10/11/19 11/11/19 PB
70 Snuff Chuck Palahniuk 208 11/11/19 13/11/19 EB
71 Jaws Peter Benchley 320 11/11/19 13/11/19 AB
72 American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century Maureen Callahan 285 13/11/19 16/11/19 EB
73 Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan Jake Adelstein 335 13/11/19 02/12/19 AB
74 Drive - Expanse Series James S A Corey 30 16/11/19 16/11/19 EB
75 My Lovely Wife Samantha Downing 374 16/11/19 17/11/19 EB
76 A Summer Revenge Tim Callaghan 336 17/11/19 18/11/19 EB
77 Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail Hunter S Thompson 481 18/11/19 06/01/20 EB
78 Invisible Monsters Chuck Palahniuk 297 20/11/19 21/11/19 EB
79 The Churn - Expanse Series James S A Corey 57 21/11/19 22/11/19 EB
80 The Butcher of Anderson - Expanse series James S A Corey 40 22/11/19 22/11/19 EB
81 Leviathan Awakes - Expanse Series James S A Corey 561 22/11/19 28/11/19 EB
82 Caliban's War - Expanse Series James S A Corey 595 28/11/19 11/12/19 EB
83 AWOL on the Appalachian Trail David Miller 222 03/12/19 10/12/19 AB
84 The Demon Hubert Selby Jr. 312 11/12/19 17/12/19 EB
85 The first 90 days Michael D Watkins 304 17/12/19 04/11/20 EB
86 An Autumn Hunting Tom Callaghan 324 21/12/19 26/12/19 PB
87 The Wall John Lanchester 276 27/12/19 29/12/19 PB
88 Black Klansman Ron Stallworth 190 29/12/19 02/01/20 PB
89 God of Risks - Expanse Series James S A Corey 76 02/01/20 03/01/20 EB
90 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 320 02/01/20 06/01/20 EB
91 Good Omens Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 410 06/01/20 12/01/20 HB
92 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the nighttime Mark Haddon 268 12/01/20 16/01/20 PB
93 Warm Bodies Isaac Marion 239 16/01/20 20/01/20 PB
94 The cabin at the end of the world Paul Tremblay 272 20/01/20 25/01/20 EB
95 Survivor: A Novel Chuck Palahniuk 304 25/01/20 30/01/20 EB
96 Shark Drunk Morten Stroksnes 290 31/01/20 05/02/20 HB
97 The Suspect Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen 334 06/02/20 11/02/20 PB
98 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 251 12/02/20 17/02/20 PB
99 The Rules of Attraction Bret Easton Ellis 283 17/02/20 25/02/20 EB
100 The New Spy Masters Stephen Grey 299 25/02/20 05/03/20 PB
101 The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert 276 05/03/20 08/03/20 HB
102 Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams 162 08/03/20 13/03/20 PB
103 Women Charles Bukowski 298 13/03/20 15/03/20 EB
104 Do You Dream of Terra-Two Temi Oh 520 17/03/20 24/03/20 PB
105 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northen Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe 441 24/03/20 31/03/20 EB
106 Abaddon’s Gate - Expanse Series James SA Corey 539 31/03/20 07/04/20 EB
107 Tale from the Loop Simon Stalenhag 128 03/04/20 03/04/20 HB
108 Full Throttle: Stories Joe Hill 480 06/04/20 17/04/20 AB
109 Red Sparrow Jason Matthews 431 07/04/20 14/04/20 EB
110 Palace of Treason Jason Matthews 496 14/04/20 26/04/20 EB
111 Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow 464 19/04/20 23/04/20 AB
112 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture David Kushner 368 23/04/20 27/04/20 AB
113 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 208 26/04/20 08/05/20 PB
114 Ayoade on Top Richard Ayoade 240 27/04/20 28/04/20 AB
115 The Magicians Nephew C S Lewis 221 28/04/20 30/04/20 AB
116 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis 208 30/04/20 01/05/20 AB
117 On Writing Stephen King 320 03/05/20 05/05/20 AB
118 The Running Man Stephen King 317 05/05/20 06/05/20 AB
119 Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death Jim Frederick 464 06/05/20 11/05/20 AB
120 A Whole Life Robert Seethaler 160 09/05/20 10/05/20 PB
121 Burning Chrome William Gibson 224 11/05/20 23/05/20 EB
122 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 374 11/05/20 13/05/20 AB
123 Catching Fire Suzanne Collins 391 13/05/20 14/05/20 AB
124 Mockingjay Suzanne Collins 391 15/05/20 27/05/20 AB
125 Cherry Nico Walker 317 23/05/20 26/05/20 PB
126 The Kermlin's Candidate Jason Matthews 448 26/05/20 06/06/20 EB
127 Silent Warrior Charles Henderson 336 01/06/20 17/06/20 AB
128 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 188 06/06/20 10/06/20 PB
129 The Camera Ansel Adams 190 11/06/20 15/07/20 PB
130 Tropic Of Cancer Henry Miller 318 15/06/20 17/06/20 PB
131 Black Code Ronald J. Deibert 320 17/06/20 22/06/20 AB
132 The Last Hillwalker John D Burns 314 22/06/20 14/07/20 AB
133 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 226 23/06/20 28/6/20 PB
134 Dandy in the underworld Sebastian Horsley 328 28/06/20 03/07/20 PB
135 Tokyo Cyberpunk Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture Steven T Brown 192 04/07/20 08/07/20 EB
136 Inglorious Empire Shashi Tharoor 288 08/07/20 23/07/20 EB
137 Feck Perfection James Victore 160 09/07/20 18/07/20 PB
138 Accelerando Charles Stross 448 14/07/20 24/07/20 EB
139 Call Him Mine Tim Macgabhann 246 23/07/20 25/07/20 PB
140 So Long and Thanks for all the Fish Douglas Adams 190 25/07/20 30/07/20 PB
141 The Power Napoli Alderman 330 30/07/20 02/08/20 PB
142 America Gods Neil Gaiman 640 02/08/20 09/08/20 PB
143 The Monarch of the Glenn Neil Gaiman 128 10/08/20 13/08/20 PB
144 The Things They Carry Tim O’Brien 254 13/08/20 18/08/20 PB
145 Out Natsuo Kirino 520 19/08/20 27/08/20 PB
146 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami 386 29/08/20 05/09/20 PB
147 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 419 07/09/20 13/09/20 EB
148 Coraline Neil Gaiman 186 13/09/20 13/09/20 EB
149 Beneath the Neon Matthew O’Brein 292 14/09/20 15/09/20 EB
150 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson 204 15/09/20 20/09/20 EB
151 Dracula Bram Stoker 440 20/09/20 05/10/20 PB
152 The horse and his boy C S Lewis 224 25/09/20 02/10/20 AB
153 Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World Haruki Murakami 400 05/10/20 15/10/20 PB
154 Survivor On the River Kwai Reg Twigg 336 14/10/20 07/11/20 AB
155 The Paper Menagerie Ken Liu 435 15/10/20 22/10/20 PB
156 Convenience Store Woman Ginny Tapley Takemori, Sayaka Murata 163 21/10/20 24/10/20 EB
157 Dopesick Beth Macy 384 24/10/20 28/10/20 EB
158 Horns Joe Hill 370 29/10/20 02/11/20 EB
159 From Hell Alan Moore 576 02/11/20 14/11/20 CB
160 Quiet Susan Cain 333 07/11/20 15/11/20 EB
161 Pure Invention Matt Alt 352 08/11/20 19/11/20 AB
162 Unreasonable Behaviour Don McCullin 285 15/11/20 22/11/20 PB
163 Jurassic Park Michael Crichton 466 20/11/20 28/11/20 AB
164 The Lost World Michael Crichton 448 28/11/20 08/12/20 AB
165 Rave Rainald Goetz 262 05/12/20 10/12/20 EB
166 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 320 08/12/20 10/12/20 AB
167 Altered Carbon Richard Morgan 404 10/12/20 15/12/20 PB
168 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 559 11/12/20 26/12/20 AB
169 The Hunting Party Lucy Foley 388 15/12/20 16/12/20 PB
170 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 75 17/12/20 30/12/20 PB
171 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick 193 18/12/20 21/12/20 HB
172 The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides 339 21/12/20 22/12/20 PB
173 Hell’s Angels Hunter S Thompson 326 22/12/20 24/12/20 PB
174 Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland 311 24/12/20 28/12/20 PB
175 Heaven's River Dennis E. Taylor 500 26/12/20 30/12/20 AB
176 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace Yukio Mishima 192 30/12/20 32/12/20 AB
177 Uncanny Valley Anna Weiner 288 01/01/21 03/01/21 EB
178 Mythos Stephen Fry 352 02/01/21 14/01/21 AB
179 Barbarian Days William Finnegan 447 03/01/21 10/01/20 EB
180 Che Guevara Jon Lee Anderson 814 10/01/21 PB
181 Undeniable Bill Nye 309 14/01/21 AB