Below is a record of books read in date order, where they have sparked thoughts or comments.
Reading List 2026
So I started off strong in 2025 - but it tailed off a bit as the year wore on. Starting off strong again - might be a pattern.
- The Art Thief - Michael Finkel (22.1.26)
- Nuclear War: A Scenario - Annie Jacobsen (2.2.26)
- Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green (4.2.26)
- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (11.2.26)
- Perfume - Patrick Süskind (17.2.26)
- Sea of Tranquility - Emily John St Mandel (20.2.26)
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (9.3.26)
Reading List 2025
1. Abroad in Japan - Chris Broad
2. All that Glitters - Orlando Whitfield
3. The House of Hidden Meanings - Ru Paul
4. Points and Lines / Tokyo Express - Seichõ Matsumoto
5. I am Bob - Dennis E. Taylor
6. A City on Mars - Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
7. Insomniac City - Bill Hayes
8. Moral Ambition - Rutger Bregman
9. Good Pop Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker
10. A Waiter in Paris - Edward Chisholm
11. The Cultural Tutor - Sheehan Quirke
12. The Hour of the Predator - Giuliano da Empoli
13. The Will of the Many - James Islington
14. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History - Nellie Bowles.