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2026 Everything I've read in 2026 (so far) → On Character: Choices That Define a Life - General Stanley McChrystal President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman - William Lee Miller Chess - Stefan Zweig The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W. E. Bowman Moral Ambition - Rutger Bregman The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna Head North - Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama Becoming - Michelle Obama Galatea - Madeline Miller The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The River of Doubt - Candice Millard Eisenhower in War and Peace - Jean Edward Smith More Tales From Shakespeare - Michael Morpurgo The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Courage is Calling - Ryan Holiday The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer The Secret History - Donna Tartt A Year of Living Simply - Kate Humble Montaigne - Stefan Zweig William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction - Stanley Wells Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara Hitler's Secret - Rory Clements Nemesis - Rory Clements Nucleus - Rory Clements Corpus - Rory Clements A Night to Remember: Sinking of the Titanic - Walter Lord 2025 Everything I've read in 2025 → The Cry of the Owl - Patricia Highsmith Someone from the Past (British Library Crime Classics) - Margot Bennett Death in Ambush (British Library Crime Classics) - Susan Gilruth A Cold Wind From Moscow - Rory Clements The Boleyn Traitor - Philippa Gregory Death Makes a Prophet (British Library Crime Classics) - John Bude The Cheltenham Square Murder (British Library Crime Classics) - John Bude Sussex Downs Murders (British Library Crime Classics) - John Bude The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics) - John Bude The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie Marble Hall Murders - Anthony Horowitz Where Angels Fear to Tread -- EM Forster Steve Jobs -- Walter Isaacson The Fifth Risk -- Michael Lewis The Ride of a Lifetime -- Bob Iger James -- Percival Everett Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens Hillbilly Elegy -- JD Vance Revenge of the Tipping Point -- Malcolm Gladwell The Grand Babylon Hotel -- Arnold Bennett The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo -- Taylor Jenkins Reid Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier A Promised Land - Barack Obama Less - Andrew Sean Greer Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams Looking Glass War - John Le Carre A Murder of Quality - John Le Carre The Human Factor - Graham Greene Call for the Dead - John Le Carre The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon Effortless - Greg Mckeown Little Dribbling - Bill Bryson Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel The Vegetarian - Han Kang Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 2024 📚 Everything I read in 2024 → Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson The Rainbow - DH Lawrence Tunnel 29 - Helena Merriman Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling Civil War: The History of England Volume III - Peter Akroyd Parliament: The Biography - Chris Bryant Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler Murder on Lake Garda - Tom Hindle Tribes - Sebastian Junger The Night Manager - John le Carre Forever and a Day - Anthony Horowitz Incident in Vichy - Arthur Miller The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Deep Work - Cal Newport The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman Slow Productivity - Cal Newport East of Eden - John Steinbeck 2023 Books I read this year: 2023 edition → Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson A Month in the Country - JL Carr Seveneves - Neal Stephenson But what can I do? - Alistar Campbell The Making of the Modern Middle East - Jeremy Bowen Roads to Sata - Alan Booth Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman No More Mr Nice Guy - Dr Michael Parisier Agent Sonya - Ben Macintyre How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates Politics on the Edge Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx Diary of a CEO - Stephen Bartlett Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler Staff Engineer's Path - Tanya Reilly The Blunderer - Patricia Highsmith That Will Never Work: Founding Netflix - Marc Randolph Facebook: Inside Story - Steven Levy Ripely Under Water - Patricia Highsmith Shoe Dog - Phil Knight The Boy Who Followed Ripley - Patricia Highsmith Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith Alchemy - Rory Sutherland Amazon Unbound - Brad Stone This is Marketing - Seth Godin Key Person of Influence - Daniel Priestley Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Zero to One - Peter Thiel Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson Banking on It - Anne Boden Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis P-Marc - Marc Andreesen The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Marc Andreesen The Greatest Trade Ever - Gregory Zuckerman What They Teach You at Harvard Business School - Philip Delves Broughton Smartest Guys in the Room - Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie The Guest List - Lucy Foley The Hollow Man - John Dickson Carr One by One - Ruth Ware A walk in the woods - Bill Bryson Any Human Heart - William Boyd Miss-Adventures South America Roman Mysteries (all titles, 3000+ pages) - Caroline Lawrence Super Human Social Skills 2022 The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai The Moustache - Emmanuel Carrère A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal - Ben Macintyre "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2) - Patricia Highsmith Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard P. Rumelt Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson The Lessons of History - Will Durant Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen W. Hawking The Rules Of Work: The Unspoken Truth About Getting Ahead In Business - Richard Templar Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track - Will Larson Unleashing Demons: The inspiration behind Channel 4 drama Brexit: The Uncivil War - Craig Oliver The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations - Gene Kim QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard Feynman Ishmael (Ishmael, #1) - Daniel Quinn Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity - John Gribbin 2021 So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Cal Newport The Spy & The Traitor - Ben Macintyre Six Pillars of Self-Esteem - Nathaniel Branden Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger - Peter Bevelin The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) - Patricia Highsmith Summer Crossing - Truman Capote Journey into Fear - Eric Ambler Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles Circe - Madeline Miller The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Dr. Johnson's London - Liza Picard Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller Dark Days - James Baldwin The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood We Were Liars - E. Lockhart Walden or, Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles Stillness Is the Key - Ryan Holiday The War of Art - Steven Pressfield Anything You Want - Derek Sivers Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World - Adam M. Grant How to Take Smart Notes - Sönke Ahrens White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney Previous Years "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway Animal Farm - George Orwell Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell Brighton Rock - Graham Greene Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance Epitaph for a Spy - Eric Ambler Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Michael Lewis Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl Meditations in an Emergency - Frank O'Hara Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck On the Road - Jack Kerouac Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Stoner - John Williams The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10) - Philippa Gregory The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Count of Monte Cristo The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7) - Philippa Gregory The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #15) - Philippa Gregory The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #13) - Philippa Gregory The Stranger - Albert Camus This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald Wait and Hope - The Count's Parting Message Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer - Wendell Berry

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