Reading &c.
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
These are the books I have read in 2025 (so far!)
Fiction
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. 1922
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. 1925
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. 1962
- Love Story by Erich Segal. 1970
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. 1970
- Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills. 1982
An Artist of the Floating World. 1986
Remains of the Day. 1989
Never Let Me Go. 2005
Klara and the Sun. 2021 - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood. 1987
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. 1995
Kafka on the Shore. 2002
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. 2007 - Robert Jordan — The Wheel of Time trilogy
The Eye of the World. 1990
The Great Hunt. 1990
The Dragon Reborn. 1991 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 2001
Non-fiction
- A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton by John McPhee. 1965
- Oranges by John McPhee. 1967
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. 1980
- London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. 2000
- Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
by Avner Ash and Robert Gross. 2012 - Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by Christopher Voss, Tahl Raz. 2016 - Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence
by Samuel Wilkinson. 2024 - The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg. 2024