Books I've loved

It only took me 30ish years to forgive myself for being a slow and distracted reader and learn to love reading.

It turns out that looking back over the books you’ve read, and want to read, and have started reading but haven’t finished reading (yet) is a really satisfying exercise! In the same brilliant way people post a "/now" page, I’ve decided to make a list and keep it up to date.

📚 What should I read next? Let me know!

Books I’m reading now

• The ADHD Effect on Marriage
• Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
• The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard
• Driven to Distraction by Dr. John Ratey and Dr. Edward M. Hallowell Will I ever finish it? 😉

Books I want to read

• Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
• Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• The Google SRE book
• Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
• The Psychology of Pricing
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

Books I read and enjoyed

2025

• FLESH by David Szalay – Spare, engrossing, and deeply moving—like Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver writing about modern London.
• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be by Paul Arden - Brief but useful. Worthy of flipping through and gleaning some important lessons.
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir –  I loved The Martian and this one is even better.
• Things: a story of the 60s by Georges Perec – Funky, funny, stylish, and wickedly philosophical. The more things you own the more your things own you.
• Design as Art by Bruno Munari – A playful, poignant commentary on design, style, art, and society.
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt – A lean classic.
• The Art of the Straight Line by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson
• How to Winter by Kari Leibowitz – here’s how I winter.
• Species of Spaces and other Pieces by Georges Perec
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
• Busy Being Free by Emma Forrest – Bold, playful, reflective
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – A ribald gutsy classic. It’s touching and perfectly written to explore a very difficult topic with both humour and candor.

2024

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
• goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki
• Seamless Wellbeing by Ajahn Amaro and Joseph Kappel
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Beyond The Wall by Katja Hoyer
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!
• Show your work By Austin Kleon
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• Getting to Yes – A classic and so much more than a business book.
• The Agile Comms Handbook by Giles Turnbull - more to say about this one! Stay tuned…
• ADHD 2.0 by Drs. Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein

2023

• Drive by Daniel Pink
• Radical Candor by Kim Scott
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• A Gentleman in Moscow
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Four Thousand Weeks
• Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
• Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
• The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré
• Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• All the Light we Cannot See (unfinished)

Pre-2023

I cant remember when I read these but they were all sometime before 2023. Dates in brackets are roughly when I read them. Sorry to be so vague 😜

Non-fiction

• Build by Tony Fadell
• Building Successful Communities of Practice by Emily Webber (2021)
• Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins
• Finite & Infinite Games by James P. Carse (2022)
• Guns Germs and Steel (unfinished)
• Accelerate by Nicole Fosgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim (2019)
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr
• Nonviolent Communication by Marshal Rosenberg (2017?)
• Tao: the Watercourse Way by Alan Watts
• Joy Inc. by Richard Sheridan
• Peace is a Simple Step by Ajahn Sumedho (2019)
• The Prophet by Kalil Gibran
• Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke (2015)
• Measure what Matters by John Doerr (2015)
• The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
• Turn the Ship Around by David Marquette
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass (2018)
• The Tao te Ching - translated by Stephen Mitchell
• The Bagavad Gita - translated by Stephen Mitchell
• The Upanishads

Arty books

• S,M,L,XL by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas
• MMM…Skyscraper I love you by Tomato / Underworld

Fiction

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (2015)
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
• Piranese by Susanna Clarke (2021?)
• The Great Gatbsy (2018?)
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (2012)
• Ready player One by Ernst Kline
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (2016)
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2012)
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (2021)
• Revelation Space by Alistair Reynolds (2021?)
• The Catcher in the Rye (years ago, need to re-read)
• Lamb: A Novel by Christopher Moore (2015)
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• High-rise by J.G. Ballard

Childhood & adolescence

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
• Richard Hittleman’s Guide to Yoga Meditation
  Discovered in my parent’s bookshelf.
• Winnie-the-Pooh

Miscellaneous book covers

Because they look nice.