Books #
List of books I read #
2024 #
- Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks
2023 #
- Carr - A Month in the Country
- Knausgaard and Ekelund - Writing the Beautiful Game
2022 #
- McElreath - Statistical Rethinking
- Maisel - Why Smart People Hurt
- Safran - Puff Piece
2021 #
- Odell - How to Do Nothing
- Nystrom - Crafting Interpreters
2020 #
- Sattouf - The Arab of the Future
- Hari - Lost Connections
- Turnbull - A Bigger Picture
- James - Beyond a Boundary
- Corey - Leviathan Wakes
- Hofstader - Godel, Escher, Bach
2019 #
- Balaskas - Active Birth
- Tolstoy - War and Peace
- Jemisin - The Stone Sky
- de Botton - Religion for Atheists
- Graves - Hypnobirthing
- Oster - Expecting Better
- Wilson - First We Make the Beast Beautiful
- Perry - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
- Nichols - Real Food Pregnancy
- Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
- Smith - White Teeth
- Jemisin - The Fifth Season
2018 #
- Knausgaard - My Struggle I
- Herbert - Dune
- Franzen - Purity
Technical bookshelf #
- Hartshorne - Algebraic Geometry
- Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman - The Elements of Statistical Learning
- Kablik and Nichols - The Rust Programming Language
- McElreath - Statistical Rethinking
- Rudin - Real and Complex Analysis
- Sedgewick and Wayne - Algorithms
Books to read #
Reading right now #
- Safran - Depends What You Mean By Extremist
- Hobb - Assassin’s Apprentice
- Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan - Faith, Hope and Carnage
Ongoing #
- Wallace - Infinite Jest
- Schalansky - Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands
Next (already own) #
- Fong and Spivak - Seven Sketches in Compositionality
- Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks
- M.E. de Montaigne - The Complete Essays
- Simmons - Hyperion
- Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
- Doyle - Blessed
- Corey - Caliban’s War
- O’Connell - Notes from an Apocalypse
- Knaussgard - My Struggle 2
- Kravitz - Ha Kelev haYehudi
- Dostoyevky - Crime and Punishment
- Yudkowsky - Rationality
- Rowling - The Casual Vacancy
Next (need to buy) #
- Mod - Things Become Other Things
- Baker - The Business of Expertise
- Taniguchi - A Walking Man
- Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
- Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Eno - A Year with Swollen Appendices
- McCall Smith - Portuguese Irregular Verbs
- Garth Marenghi - TerrorTome
- Rooney - Normal People
- Marsh - And Finally…
- Petzold - Code
- Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
- Alexander et al - A Pattern Language
- Bell - Refuse to be Done
- Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Pera - A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape
- Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- Thoreau - Walden
- Lish - Preparation for the Next Life
- Jung - Personality Types
- Meisel - Bilingual Children: A Parents’ Guide
- LeGuin - The Wizard of Earthsea
- Landau - Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
- Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
- Salinger - Franny and Zooey
- Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
- Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Walker - Why We Sleep
- Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog
- Pamuk - Snow
- Nabokov - Lolita
- Richard Flanagan - The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- Lucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women
- Annie Ernaux - The Years
- Hägglund - This Life
- Memmi - The Pillar of Salt
- Diaz - In the Distance
- Winton - Breath
- Prescott - The Town
- Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
- Knausgaard - My Struggle 6
- Burns - Milkman
- Franzen - The Corrections
- Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
- Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow
- Hume - History of Britain
- White - Voss
- Proust - A la recherche de temps perdu
- Saunders - Pastoralia
- Winton - The Shepherd’s Hut
- Stead - The Man Who Loved Children
- Hurimaki - 1Q84
- McCarthy - The Road
- McCarthy - Blood Meridian
- Majahan - Street Fighting Mathematics
Tim Price book list #
Fiction #
- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote (1605-1615)
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Herman Melville - Moby-Dick (1851)
- Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (1856)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment (1866)
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889)
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
- George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (1912)
- E.M. Forster - A Room with a View (1908)
- Robert Walser - Jakob von Gunten (1909)
- Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way (1913)
- W. Somerset Maugham - Moon and Sixpence (1919)
- James Joyce - Ulysses (1922)
- Herman Hesse - Siddhartha (1922)
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (1927)
- William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)
- Flann O’Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
- Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
- Stefan Zweig - Chess Story (1941)
- Albert Camus - The Stranger (1942)
- George Orwell - 1984 (1949)
- Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)
- Flannery O’Connor - Wise Blood (1952)
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (1952)
- Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (1954)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (1955)
- Antonio Di Benedetto - Zama (1956)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin (1957)
- Patrick White - Voss (1957)
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard (1958)
- Oakley Hall - Warlock (1958)
- John Williams - Butcher’s Crossing (1960)
- Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
- J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey (1961)
- Joseph Heller - Catch-22 (1961)
- Walker Percy - The Moviegoer (1961)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (1962)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle (1963)
- Thomas Pynchon - V. (1963)
- John Williams - Stoner (1965)
- Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
- Flann O’Brien - The Third Policeman (1967)
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita (1967)
- Charles Portis - True Grit (1968)
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
- John Williams - Augustus (1973)
- Cormac McCarthy - Child of God (1973)
- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
- Italo Calvino - If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler.. (1979)
- J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country (1980)
- Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping (1980)
- John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
- Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children (1981)
- Stefan Zweig - The Post-Office Girl (1982)
- Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
- Thomas Bernhard - Woodcutters (1984)
- Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian (1985)
- Don DeLillo - White Noise (1985)
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day (1989)
- W.G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn (1995)
- David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (1996)
- George Saunders - Civilwarland in Bad Decline (1996)
- Philip Roth - American Pastoral (1997)
- Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives (1998)
- J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace (1999)
- Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
- Enrique Vila-Matas - Bartleby & Co. (2000)
- W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz (2001)
- Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections (2001)
- Tobias Wolff - Old School (2003)
- David Foster Wallace - Oblivion: Stories (2004)
- Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go (2005)
- Zadie Smith - On Beauty (2005)
- Magda Szabo - The Door (2005)
- Steve Erickson - Zeroville (2007)
- Teju Cole - Every Day is for the Thief (2007)
- Chuck Klosterman - Downtown Owl (2008)
- Sergio de la Pava - A Naked Singularity (2008)
- Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice (2009)
- Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle series (2009-2011)
- Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (2010)
- Denis Johnson - Train Dreams (2011)
- Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011)
- Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (2011)
- Teju Cole - Open City (2012)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah (2013)
- George Saunders - Tenth of December (2013)
- Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (2013)
- Rachel Cusk - Outline (2014)
- Ben Lerner - 10:04 (2014)
- John Darnielle - Wolf in White Van (2014)
- Michel Houllebecq - Submission (2015)
- Paul Beatty - The Sellout (2015)
- Jonathan Franzen - Purity (2015)
- Zadie Smith - Swing Time (2016)
- Gibbons, Gibbons & Coogan - Alan Partridge: Nomad (2016)
- George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)
- Ottesa Moshfegh - Homesick for Another World (2017)
- Sergio de la Pava - Lost Empress (2018)
Non-fiction #
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (unknown)
- George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
- Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
- Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory (1951)
- George Orwell - Essays (1963)
- Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (1966)
- Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts (1977)
- Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death (1984)
- David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (1997)
- Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (1997)
- Alain de Botton - The Consolations of Philosophy (2000)
- Javier Marias - Written Lives (2000)
- David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
- Michael Azzerad - Our Band Could Be Your Life (2001)
- Alain de Botton - Status Anxiety (2004)
- David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
- David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and other Essays (2005)
- Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live (2005)
- Simon Reynolds - Rip it Up and Start Again (2005)
- Carl Wilson - Let’s Talk About Love (2007)
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals (2009)
- Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009)
- Barbara Demick - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009)
- John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead (2011)
- Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs (2011)
- Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens (2011)
- Simon Reynolds - Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past (2011)
- David Hunt - Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia (2013)
- Bob Stanley - Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncè (2014)
- Mark Greif - Against Everything: Essays (2016)
- Rob Sheffield - On Bowie (2016)
- Simon Reynolds - Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (2016)
- Lizzy Goodman - Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in NYC 2001-2011 (2017)
- Zadie Smith - Feel Free: Essays (2018)