reading

2024

  • Mr Tompkins in Paperback

    George Gamow

    212pp.

  • Spreadsheet Implementation Technology

    Peter Sestoft

    328pp.

  • When We Cease to Understand the World

    Benjamin Labatut

    193pp.

  • Northern Lights

    Philip Pullman

    399pp.

  • My Name is Red

    Orhan Pamuk

    508pp.

  • Japan Story

    Christopher Harding

    384pp.

  • Money Men

    Dan McCrum

    243pp.

  • In Ascension

    Martin MacInnes

    376pp.

  • The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu

    365pp.

  • Mathematics and the Physical World

    Morris Kline

    514pp.

  • Estrella distante / Distant Star

    Roberto Bolaño

    160pp.

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Richard Rhodes

    890pp.

  • Stories of Your Life and Others

    Ted Chiang

    298pp.

  • The Price is Wrong

    Brett Christophers

    558pp.

  • Super-Infinite

    Katherine Rundell

    236pp.

  • Leo Africanus

    Amin Maalouf

    370pp.

  • Alien Earths

    Lisa Kaltenegger

    221pp.

  • Exhalation

    Ted Chiang

    307pp.

  • Cahokia Jazz

    Francis Spufford

    531pp.

  • The MANIAC

    Benjamin Labatut

    369pp.

  • The Emergence of Probability

    Ian Hacking

    278pp.

  • Building SimCity

    Chaim Gingold

    488pp.

  • Why Machines Learn

    Anil Ananthaswamy

    315pp.

  • Chaos

    James Gleick

    260pp.

  • Orbital

    Samantha Harvey

    126pp.

  • Gamma

    Julian Havil

    292pp.

  • Character Limit

    Kate Conger, Ryan Mac

    391pp.

  • Free

    Lea Ypi

    236pp.

  • The Line of Beauty

    Alan Hollinghurst

    450pp.

  • Revelation Space

    Alastair Reynolds

    469pp.

  • Britain Against Napoleon

    Roger Knight

    757pp.

2023

  • Boom and Bust

    William Quinn, John D. Turner

    297pp.

  • Gideon the Ninth

    Tamsyn Muir

    448pp.

  • Who Are You?

    Alex Custodio

    282pp.

  • The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914

    C. A. Bayly

    540pp.

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Olga Tokarczuk

    274pp.

  • Software Design for Flexibility

    Chris Hanson, Gerald Jay Sussman

    449pp.

  • Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    333pp.

  • The Ego Tunnel

    Thomas Metzinger

    282pp.

  • Grid Systems in Graphic Design

    Josef Müller-Brockmann

    184pp.

  • The Man from the Future

    Ananyo Bhattacharya

    368pp.

  • Introduction to Graph Theory

    Richard J. Trudeau

    242pp.

  • City of Quartz

    Mike Davis

    482pp.

  • Revolutionary Spring

    Christopher Clark

    709pp.

  • Blindsight

    Peter Watts

    388pp.

  • Life in Code

    Ellen Ullman

    286pp.

  • Beginning and Intermediate Algebra

    Tyler Wallace

    490pp.

  • The Radetzky March

    Joseph Roth

    388pp.

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos

    Brian Greene

    788pp.

  • Classical Mechanics

    George Hrabovsky, Leonard Susskind

    169pp.

  • Thomas' Calculus

    Joel Hass, Christopher Heil, George Brinton Thomas, Maurice D. Weir

    1052pp.

  • Kraken

    China Mieville

    555pp.

  • Number Go Up

    Zeke Faux

    322pp.

  • The World of Late Antiquity

    Peter Brown

    216pp.

  • Iron and Blood

    Peter H. Wilson

    976pp.

  • The Universe in a Box

    Andrew Pontzen

    273pp.

  • Ancillary Sword

    Ann Leckie

    400pp.

  • Jellyfish Age Backwards

    Nicklas Brendborg

    263pp.

2022

  • Devil in a Blue Dress

    Walter Mosley

    228pp.

  • I Am Error

    Nathan Altice

    439pp.

  • The Books of Jacob

    Olga Tokarczuk

    892pp.

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    Tracy Kidder

    222pp.

  • The World for Sale

    Javier Blas, Jack Farchy

    264pp.

  • A History of Civilizations

    Fernand Braudel

    628pp.

  • The City & The City

    China Miéville

    352pp.

  • The Light of Italy

    Jane Stevenson

    434pp.

  • Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through

    Duncan Weldon

    339pp.

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

    361pp.

  • The Emigrants

    Winfried Georg Sebald

    237pp.

  • Hitler

    Ian Kershaw

    1459pp.

  • El hobbit

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Tolkien

    288pp.

  • A Philosophy of Software Design

    John K. Ousterhout

    178pp.

  • The Persistence of the Old Regime

    Arno J. Mayer

    367pp.

  • The Silmarillion

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    343pp.

  • Infinite Powers

    Steven Strogatz

    421pp.

  • Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    273pp.

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    109pp.

  • Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stephenson, Robert Louis Stevenson

    324pp.

2021

  • Stalingrad

    Vasily Grossman

    850pp.

  • How to Survive a Plague

    David France

    602pp.

  • 1989

    Mary Elise Sarotte

    370pp.

  • The Committed

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    392pp.

  • A World of Empires

    Edyta M. Bojanowska, Pallada (Ship)

    373pp.

  • The New York Trilogy

    Paul Auster

    322pp.

  • The Jakarta Method

    Vincent Bevins

    320pp.

  • Samarkand

    Amin Maalouf

    309pp.

  • Out of Italy

    Fernand Braudel

    295pp.

  • Age Of Revolution: 1789-1848

    Eric Hobsbawm

    411pp.

  • Age Of Capital: 1848-1875

    Eric Hobsbawm

    430pp.

  • Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

    Eric Hobsbawm

    313pp.

  • The Anarchy

    William Dalrymple

    577pp.

  • The Wages of Destruction

    Adam Tooze

    844pp.

  • The Price of Peace

    Zachary D. Carter

    666pp.

  • In the Long Run We are All Dead

    Geoff Mann

    416pp.

  • Post Captain

    Patrick O'Brian

    504pp.

  • Shutdown

    Adam Tooze

    251pp.

  • Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

    Robert Skidelsky

    209pp.

  • Seeing Like a State

    James C. Scott

    462pp.

  • The Colour Bible

    Laura Perryman

    320pp.

  • The Topeka School

    Ben Lerner

    285pp.

  • Capital is Dead

    McKenzie Wark

    209pp.

  • Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

    John Ashbery

    83pp.

  • Three Victories and a Defeat

    Brendan Simms

    1140pp.