Bookshelf // John Philpin

Currently Reading

Books I am really trying to read. Really!

Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5) by Robert Galbraith

Want to Read

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

Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff

Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving

Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation by Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It by Al Ries

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

The Fourth Industrial Revolution-Hardcover by Klaus Schwab

Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Schwab

Fairness and Freedom by David Hackett Fischer

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

Matter by Iain M

Strategic Doing by Edward Morrison

Snow Crash: A Novel by Neal Stephenson

The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball

The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway

Adrift by Scott Galloway

You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most by Leonard J. Marcus

Klara and the Sun: A novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller

Hawaii Pono : A Social History by Lawrence H. Fuchs

Atomised by Michel Houellebecq

World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat

I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment by Xavier Francisco Amador

John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) by David Wong

Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Years by George Cooper

The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

The Fifth Element of Love (While I Was Learning to Become God) by Roxana Jones

While I Was Learning to Become God by Roxana Jones

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

British Counterinsurgency by John Newsinger

The Assault on Reason by Al Gore

Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits by Debbie Millman

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

Live Wire (Myron Bolitar, #10) by Harlan Coben

The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett

Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

The Books of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1-6) by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) by Terry Pratchett

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse

Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel by Sally Rooney

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 New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan

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

Daniel Martin by John Fowles

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The English by Jeremy Paxman

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

East of Eden: (Penguin Orange Collection) by John Steinbeck

The Plague by Albert Camus

Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) by Robert M. Pirsig

The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III

Life by Keith Richards

Cannery Row (Cannery Row #1) by John Steinbeck

The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) by C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by C.S. Lewis

Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis

The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) by C.S. Lewis

The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) by C.S. Lewis

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan

Daniel Martin by John Fowles

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore

Playing in the Unified Field: Raising and Becoming Conscious, Creative Human Beings by Carla Hannaford

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores by Greg Palast

Young Philby by Robert Littell

For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Why Killer Products Don't Sell: How to Run Your Company to a New Set of Rules by Ian Gotts

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul by Douglas R. Hofstadter

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James

The United States Constitution by Founding Fathers

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment by Sangeet Paul Choudary

Breakthrough by David C.M. Carter

The Drop (Harry Bosch, #15; Harry Bosch Universe, #23) by Michael Connelly

Toys by James Patterson

Working Class Boy (Working Class Boy, #1) by Jimmy Barnes

Now You See Her by James Patterson

Silverview by John le Carré

Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci

The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving

Right, Ho Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works by Adam Lashinsky

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

Email Marketing Rules: How to Wear a White Hat, Shoot Straight, and Win Hearts by Chad White

Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love by Linda Carroll

The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts

Credibility Nation: For Professionals Who Want to Be Seen as Credible by Mitchell Levy

For Business Leaders Slapped in the Face by a World They Thought They Knew: A Human's Guide To Our New World - And How To Make It Work For Us by John Philpin

Success Secrets for Wellbeing by Penny Power

Success Secrets of Entrepreneurs by Penny Power

My Addiction & Recovery: Just Because You're Done With Drugs Doesn't Mean Drugs Are Done With You by Ed Kressy

I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions by Shirley MacLaine

The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

A Song for the Dark Times (Inspector Rebus #23) by Ian Rankin

A Song for the Dark Times

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