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📚 Books

“The point of science fiction […] is the same as the point of any other fiction: to take the world and reimagine it, to refresh our understanding of human beings by imagining ourselves in a different place or time.

from How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb1

A list of books I’m currently reading

This may be the only list on this page that’s vaguely complete.

Books

  • Cloud Atlas – by David Mitchell

Audiobooks

  • The Midlife Cyclist: The Road Map for the +40 Rider Who Wants to Train Hard, Ride Fast and Stay Healthy – by Phil Cavell
  • Becoming Bulletproof: Lessons in Fearlessness from a Former Secret Service Agent – by Evy Poumpouras

An incomplete list of books I possess and am yet to read – my tsondoku pile

Books

Audiobooks

  • 24 Hours in Ancient Athens – by Philip Matyszak
  • Advice from Strangers: Everything I Know from People I Don’t Know – by Rachel Parris
  • Yearbook – by Seth Rogen
  • Humankind: A Hopeful History – by Rutger Bregman
  • The Elements of Eloquence – by Mark Forsyth
  • Everyday Sexism – by Laura Bates
  • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity – by Quincy Jones
  • The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature – by Robert Greene
  • Beastie Boys Book – by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz

A list of books I remember reading that is embarrasingly incomplete

Books

Finished reading in 2023

Finished in 2022

  • Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture – by Adam Buxton

Finished before 2022

  • A Little Life – by Hanya Yanigahara
  • Catcher in the Rye – by J. D. Salinger

Audiobooks

Finished in 2022

  • No Shame – by Tom Allen
  • A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world – by Rob Beckett
  • How Not to Be a Boy – by Robert Webb
  • Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture – by Adam Buxton

Finished before 2022

  • Out of Time – by Miranda Sawyer
  • Alan Partridge: Nomad – by Alan Partridge

Abandoned – books I’ve tried but failed to complete

Audiobooks

  • Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry

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