reading

2025

  • The Nature of Matter

    John H. Mulvey

    pp.

  • Gay Bar

    Jeremy Atherton Lin

    pp.

  • A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

    Jeremy Kun

    pp.

  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

    pp.

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

    Italo Calvino

    pp.

  • Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem

    Dwight E. Neuenschwander

    pp.

  • Linear Algebra Done Right

    Sheldon Axler

    pp.

  • Annihilation

    Jeff VanderMeer

    pp.

  • The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment

    Reinout Heijungs and Sangwon Suh

    pp.

  • The Crisis of Narration

    Byung-Chul Han

    pp.

  • The Map of Knowledge

    Violet Moller

    pp.

  • Probably Approximately Correct

    Leslie Valiant

    pp.

  • Red Plenty

    Francis Spufford

    pp.

  • The Unaccountability Machine

    Dan Davies

    pp.

  • The Deep Learning Revolution

    Terrence J. Sejnowski

    pp.

  • Supremacy

    Parmy Olson

    pp.

2024

  • Mr Tompkins in Paperback

    George Gamow

    pp.

  • Spreadsheet Implementation Technology

    Peter Sestoft

    pp.

  • When We Cease to Understand the World

    Benjamin Labatut

    pp.

  • Northern Lights

    Philip Pullman

    pp.

  • My Name is Red

    Orhan Pamuk

    pp.

  • Japan Story

    Christopher Harding

    pp.

  • Money Men

    Dan McCrum

    pp.

  • In Ascension

    Martin MacInnes

    pp.

  • The Three-Body Problem

    Liu Cixin

    pp.

  • Mathematics and the Physical World

    Morris Kline

    pp.

  • Estrella distante

    Roberto Bolaño

    pp.

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Richard Rhodes

    pp.

  • Stories of Your Life and Others

    Ted Chiang

    pp.

  • The Price is Wrong

    Brett Christophers

    pp.

  • Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Dunne

    Katherine Rundell

    pp.

  • Leo the African

    Amin Maalouf

    pp.

  • Alien Earths

    Lisa Kaltenegger

    pp.

  • Exhalation

    Ted Chiang

    pp.

  • Cahokia Jazz

    Francis Spufford

    pp.

  • The Maniac

    Benjamin Labatut

    pp.

  • The Emergence of Probability

    Ian Hacking

    pp.

  • Building SimCity

    Chaim Gingold

    pp.

  • Why Machines Learn

    Anil Ananthaswamy

    pp.

  • Chaos

    James Gleick

    pp.

  • Orbital

    Samantha Harvey

    pp.

  • Gamma

    Julian Havil

    pp.

  • Character Limit

    Kate Conger & Ryan Mac

    pp.

  • Free

    Lea Ypi

    pp.

  • The Line of Beauty

    Alan Hollinghurst

    pp.

  • Revelation Space

    Alastair Reynolds

    pp.

  • Britain against Napoleon

    Roger Knight

    pp.

2023

  • Boom & Bust

    William Quinn & John D. Turner

    pp.

  • Gideon the Ninth

    Tamsin Muir

    pp.

  • Who Are You?

    Alex Custodio

    pp.

  • The Birth of the Modern World

    C. A. Bayly

    pp.

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Olga Tokarczuk

    pp.

  • Software Design for Flexibility

    Chris Hanson, Gerald Sussman

    pp.

  • Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    pp.

  • The Ego Tunnel

    Thomas Metzinger

    pp.

  • Grid Systems in Graphic Design

    Josef Müller-Brockmann

    pp.

  • The Man From the Future

    Ananyo Bhattacharya

    pp.

  • Introduction to Graph Theory

    Richard Trudeau

    pp.

  • City of Quartz

    Mike Davis

    pp.

  • Revolutionary Spring

    Christopher Clark

    pp.

  • Blindsight

    Peter Watts

    pp.

  • Life in Code

    Ellen Ullman

    pp.

  • Beginning and Intermediate Algebra

    Tyler Wallace

    pp.

  • The Radetzky March

    Joseph Roth

    pp.

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos

    Brian Greene

    pp.

  • Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

    Leonard Susskind

    pp.

  • Thomas's Calculus

    George B. Thomas

    pp.

  • Kraken

    China Mieville

    pp.

  • Number Go Up

    Zeke Faux

    pp.

  • The World Of Late Antiquity

    Peter Brown

    pp.

  • Iron and Blood

    Peter H. Wilson

    pp.

  • The Universe in a Box

    Andrew Pontzen

    pp.

  • Ancillary Sword

    Ann Leckie

    pp.

  • Jellyfish Age Backwards

    Nicklas Brendborg

    pp.

2022

  • Devil in a Blue Dress

    Walter Moseley

    pp.

  • I Am Error

    Nathan Altice

    pp.

  • The Books of Jacob

    Olga Tokarczuk

    pp.

  • The Soul of a New Machine

    Tracy Kidd

    pp.

  • The World for Sale

    Javier Blas & Jack Farchy

    pp.

  • A History of Civilizations

    Fernand Braudel

    pp.

  • The City and the City

    China Mieville

    pp.

  • The light of Italy

    Jane Stephenson

    pp.

  • 200 Years of Muddling Through

    Duncan Weldon

    pp.

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

    pp.

  • The Emigrants

    W.G. Sebald

    pp.

  • Hitler

    Ian Kershaw

    pp.

  • El Hobbit

    JRR Tolkien

    pp.

  • A Philosophy of Software Design

    John Ousterhout

    pp.

  • The persistence of the old regime

    Arno Mayer

    pp.

  • The Silmarillion

    JRR Tolkien

    pp.

  • Infinite Powers

    Steven Strogatz

    pp.

  • Piranesi

    Susannah Clark

    pp.

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Rainier Maria Rilke

    pp.

  • Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stephenson

    pp.

2021

  • Stalingrad

    Vasily Grossman

    pp.

  • How to Survive a Plague

    David France

    pp.

  • 1989

    Mary Sarotte

    pp.

  • The Committed

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    pp.

  • A World of Empires

    Edyta M. Bojanowska

    pp.

  • The New York Trilogy

    Paul Austor

    pp.

  • The Jakarta Method

    Vincent Bevins

    pp.

  • Samarkand

    Amin Maalouf

    pp.

  • Out of Italy

    Fernand Braudel

    pp.

  • The Age of Revolutions

    Eric Hobsbawm

    pp.

  • The Age of Capital

    Eric Hobsbawm

    pp.

  • The Age of Empire

    Eric Hobsbawm

    pp.

  • The Anarchy

    William Dalrymple

    pp.

  • The Wages of Destruction

    Adam Tooze

    pp.

  • The Price of Peace

    Zachary D. Carter

    pp.

  • In the Long Run We Are All Dead

    Geoff Mann

    pp.

  • Post Captain

    Patrick O'Brian

    pp.

  • Shutdown

    Adam Tooze

    pp.

  • Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

    Robert Skidelsky

    pp.

  • Seeing Like a State

    James C. Scott

    pp.

  • The Colour Bible

    Laura Perryman

    pp.

  • The Topeka School

    Ben Lerner

    pp.

  • Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse?

    McKenzie Wark

    pp.

  • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

    John Ashbery

    pp.

  • Three Victories and a Defeat

    Brendan Simms

    pp.