Currently Reading

Books I am really trying to read. Really!

A Song for the Dark Times
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney
In Defense of a Liberal Education by Fareed Zakaria
The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality by Geoffrey Moore
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving

Want to Read

Some of the books I haven’t yet got round to buying or borrowing, but seem like books I might enjoy

A Good Hard Kick in the Ass by Rob Adams
Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
Brand Manners: How to Create the Self-Confident Organisation to Live the Brand by Hamish Pringle
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Incumbent by Brian McGrory
Hawaii Pono : A Social History by Lawrence H. Fuchs
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat
British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger
Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Years by George Cooper
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits by Debbie Millman

Not Finished

Books that I gave up on, not because they were necessarily bad - but maybe overlong and repetitive - or just books I want to keep around for reference.

The People Centered Economy: The New Ecosystem For Work by Vint Cerf

Finished Reading

Some of the books I have actually read. Since this list is (for now) the longest list - I set it to pop up last.

The Cellist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon Book 21) by Daniel Silva
Playing in the Unified Field: Raising and Becoming Conscious, Creative Human Beings by Carla Hannaford
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
Sapiens Graphic Novel by Yuval Noah Harari
The Old Enemy by Henry Porter
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Four Laws That Drive the Universe by Peter Atkins
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Waterland by Graham Swift
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
The Magus by John Fowles
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (by a Square) by Edwin A. Abbott
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The 158-Pound Marriage by John Irving
Setting Free the Bears by John Irving
The Water-Method Man by John Irving
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
Young Philby by Robert Littell
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James
Working Class Boy (Working Class Boy, #1) by Jimmy Barnes
Toys by James Patterson
The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #23) by Michael Connelly
Now You See Her by James Patterson