What I'm reading.

A diary with (most) of the (non-technical) books I've read since 2007 and the date (month and year) that I finished reading it.

• The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. October 2024.
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. October 2024.
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt. September 2024.
• Culture: the Drawings by Iain M. Banks. August 2024.
• The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman. July 2024.
• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. July 2024.
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons. July 2024.
• Dead Air by Iain Banks July 2024.
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. July 2024.
• The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor. July 2024.
• Poor Charlie's Almanack The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D. Kaufman. July 2024.
• From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra. July 2024.
• The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. June 2024.
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog. May 2024.
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick. May 2024.
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregmann. April 2024
• Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. March 2024.
• Wool by Hugh Howey. March 2024.
• The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. February 2024.
• The Wager by David Grann. February 2024.
• Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck. January 2024.
• Going Infinite by Michael Lewis. January 2024.
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. January 2024.
• The 1000-year-old Boy by Welford Ross. December 2023.
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. December 2023.
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. November 2023.
• Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. October 2023.
• The Expanse by James S.A. Corey. September 2023.
• The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings. August 2023.
• Spare by Prince Harry. May 2023.
• Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (Product-Led Growth Series) by Wes Bush. May 2023.
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. April 2023.
• All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. March 2023.
• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. March 2023.
• Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman. Feb 2023.
• Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera. February 2023.
• For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose. January 2023.
• Things to Make and do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker. January 2023.
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. November 2022.
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. October 2022.
• 7 powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer. October 2022.
• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. September 2022.
• Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood. September 2022.
• Ringworld by Larry Niven. August 2022.
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. July 2022.
• Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones. May 2022.
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. February 2022.
• Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet. February 2022.
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. January 2022.
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. January 2022.
• The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy. December 2021.
• V2 by Robert Harris. December 2021.
• Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke. December 2021.
• The Lady Austronaut Series by Mary Robinette Kowal. November 2021.
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. November 2021.
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz. October 2021.
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. October 2021.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. October 2021.
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss. September 2021.
• The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin. September 2021.
• The Rampart Trilogy by M.R. Carey. August 2021.
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. August 2021.
• 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz. August 2021.
• The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson. August 2021.
• Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland by Jo Kerrigan. July 2021.
• House on Fire: The Fight to Eridacate Smallpox by William H. Foege. July 2021.
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. July 2021.
• Upheaval by Jared Diamond. June 2021.
• Staff Engineer by Will Larson. May 2021.
• Problems and Other Solutions by Allie Brosh. May 2021.
• How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford. April 2021.
• MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood. March 2021.
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. March 2021.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. February 2021.
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars. February 2021.
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. February 2021.
• The Quarry by Iain Banks. February 2021.
• The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz. January 2021.
• Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton. January 2021.
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh. January 2021.
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. November 2020.
• Only Human by Martin Parr. November 2020.
• Neuromancer by William Gibson. October 2020.
• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. October 2020.
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. September 2020.
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. September 2020.
• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. July 2020.
• Collapse by Jared Diamond. June 2020.
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. June 2020.
• Sustainable Energy - without the hot air by David MacKay. May 2020.
• Archangel by Robert Harris. May 2020.
• REMOTE: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. April 2020.
• The Year without Pants by Scott Berkun. April 2020.
• Ordinary Joe by Joe Schmidt. March 2020.
• Tess of d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy. March 2020.
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson. February 2020.
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows. January 2020.
• Me by Elton John. January 2020.
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman. January 2020.
• The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton. November 2019.
• The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton. September 2019.
• The Power by Naomi Alderman. August 2019.
• Boot by Shane Hegarty. August 2019.
• Site Reliability Engineering by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy (eds.). August 2019.
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North. August 2019.
• Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow. July 2019.
• The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. June 2019.
• Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy. June 2019.
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. June 2019.
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. May 2019.
• Raising Boys in the 21st Century by Steve Biddulph. May 2019.
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. April 2019
• The Undercover Economist (2013 ed.) by Tim Harford. January 2019.
• Managing Humans by Michael Lopp. January 2019.
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. December 2018.
• After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid. November 2018.
• The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker. October 2018.
• Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer. October 2018.
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. October 2018.
• Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin. September 2018.
• On the Move by Oliver Sacks. August 2018.
• Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland. August 2018.
• The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey. August 2018.
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson. June 2018.
• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. June 2018.
• La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman. May 2018.
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. May 2018.
• Munich by Robert Harris. April 2018.
• A Song of Ice and Fire (Books 1-5) by George R. R. Martin. January 2018.
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. August 2017.
• The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey. August 2017.
• Alice by Christina Henry. August 2017.
• The Outsider by Albert Camus. August 2017.
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl. July 2017.
• Epic by Conor Kistick. July 2017.
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. June 2017.
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. June 2017.
• Conclave by Robert Harris. January 2017.
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. December 2016.
• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. November 2016.
• Whit by Iain Banks. July 2016.
• The Colonization Trilogy and Homeward bound by Harry Turtledove. April 2016.
• Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton. February 2016.
• Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. January 2016.
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randal Munroe. December 2015.
• Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton. December 2015.
• Dictator by Robert Harris. October 2015.
• Stardust - the cosmic recycling of stars, planets and people by John Gribbin. June 2015.
• State of Fear by Michael Crichton. June 2015.
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. June 2015.
• A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. May 2015.
• The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow. May 2015.
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. April 2015.
• Bleachers by John Grisham. March 2015.
• The Accidental Scientist by Graeme Donald. February 2015.
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore. February 2015
• The Test by Brian O'Driscoll. January 2015.
• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris. January 2015 (best guess).
• How to think like Steve Jobs by Daniel Smith. December 2014.
• The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks. December 2014.
• Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. June 2014.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. April 2014.
• The Absolutist by John Boyne. April 2014.
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner. February 2014.
• The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan. February 2014
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica. January 2014.
• The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future by Richard L. Rubenstein. December 2013.
• The Wood Fire Handbook: The Complete Guide to a Perfect Fire by Vincent Thurkettle. December 2013.
• "Shakespeare" By Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare by Mark Anderson. December 2013.
• The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde. November 2013.
• The Crow Road by Iain Banks. October 2013.
• A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. September 2013.
• The Confession by John Grisham. September 2013.
• The Guts by Roddy Doyle. August 2013.
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. August 2013
• The Trial by Franz Kafka. August 2013.
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman. June 2013.
• For the Win by Cory Doctorow. June 2013
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. May 2013.
• The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks. May 2013.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. April 2013.
• Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks. February 2013.
• The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle. January 2013.
• Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist by Paul Kimmage. January 2013.
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore. October 2012.
• The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson. September 2012.
• The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. September 2012.
• The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks. August 2012.
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson. July 2012.
• The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. June 2012.
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. June 2012.
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman. May 2012.
• Dracula by Bram Stroker. May 2012.
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. March 2012.
• Micro by Michael Crichton & Richard Preston. January 2012.
• The Art of Unix Programming by Eric R. Raymond. December 2011.
• At Home by Bill Bryson. December 2011.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. September 2011.
• The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose. August 2011.
• Makers by Cory Doctorow. July 2011.
• Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks. June 2011.
• The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman. May 2011.
• The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. May 2011.
• The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart. May 2011.
• The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks. March 2011.
• Matter by Iain M. Banks. December 2010.
• Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern. October 2010.
• The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s by Piers Brendan. September 2010.
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. September 2010.
• The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. June 2010.
• Emphyrio by Jack Vance. June 2010.
• Timescape by Gregory Benford. May 2010.
• Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks. May 2010.
• Lustrum by Robert Harris. March 2010.
• Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. February 2010.
• Transition by Iain Banks. February 2010.
• Trick or Treatment? by Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst. January 2010.
• The Last Gospel by David Gibbins. January 2010.
• An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. November 2009.
• Perfume. The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. October 2009.
• Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. September 2009.
• The Man Who Knew Too Much - Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt. August 2009.
• Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds. August 2009.
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. July 2009.
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. July 2009.
• The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andrić. July 2009.
• Closing Time by Joseph Heller. July 2009.
• Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner. June 2009.
• The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper. March 2009.
• Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology by Henry Chesbrough. March 2009.
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. January 2009.
• Grass by Sherri S. Tepper. December 2008.
• Rasputin: The Last Word by Edvard Radzinsky. December 2008.
• Playing for Pizza by John Grisham. December 2008.
• Enigma by Robert Harris. November 2008.
• Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. November 2008.
• Atomised by Michel Houellebecq. November 2008.
• A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke. October 2008.
• Pompeii by Robert Harris. September 2008.
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac. September 2008.
• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein. September 2008.
• Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies. August 2008.
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. July 2008.
• After Dark by Haruki Murakami. June 2008.
• The Bridge by Iain Banks. June 2008.
• The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy. June 2008.
• At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien. May 2008.
• Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood by Michael White. April 2008.
• Time Added On by George Hook. March 2008.
• The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks. March 2008.
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. March 2008.
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. February 2008.
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski. February 2008.
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee. February 2008.
• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore. January 2008.
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. December 2007.
• What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley. October 2007.
• Europe: A History by Norman Davies. October 2007.
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. September 2007.
• I was Doctor Mengele's assistant by Miklos Nyiszli. September 2007.
• The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. August 2007.
• The Stolen Village - Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin. July 2007.
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. July 2007.
• The Testament by John Grisham. July 2007.
• Himalaya by Michael Palin. March 2007.