“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 Webb
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