063. ...keeping annual reading lists...
(Not really a post)
I’ve been keeping annual reading lists on Trello since 2019. It was originally about trying to build a strong reading habit, then it became about remembering. I’m not sure what it’s for now. These are the books I’ve read this year.
What is existentialism?
Simone de Beauvoir.
The Anthropocene Unconscious.
Mark Bould.
The Psychopath Test.
Jon Ronson.
Nobody wants to read your shit.
Steven Pressfield
Up Until Now.
Molly Aitkin Sheridan.
The Power.
Naomi Alderman
Fup.
Jim Dodge
On Bullshit.
Frankfurt, Harry G
How to be Perfect.
Mike Schur
Small Pleasures.
The School of Life
Other Minds.
Peter Godfrey Smith
Happiness.
Richard Layard
The Life You Can Save.
Peter Singer.
The Leviathan.
James S. A. Corey
How To Spot A Fascist.
Umberto Eco
Caliban's War.
James S. A. Corey
At Home.
Bill Bryson
Abbadon's Gate.
James A. Corey
Creativity.
Kae Tempest.
I may be wrong.
Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad
How to write one song.
Jeff Tweedy
The Fourfold Remedy.
John Sellars
Cibola Run.
James S. A. Corey
Happiness.
Derren Brown
Side Splitter.
Phil Wang
How to be a Stoic.
Massimo Pigliucci
Regenesis.
George Monbiot
The Outrun.
Amy Liptrot
The Instant.
Amy Liptrot
The death of Ivan Ilyich.
Leo Tolstoy
Race for tomorrow.
Simon Mundy
Sea of Tranquility.
Emily St John mandel
Babylon's Ashes.
James S. A. Corey
Mind Over Muscle.
Jigoro Kano
Enchiridion.
Epectitus
Great Thinkers.
School of Life
Animal.
Sara Pascoe
The Inseparables.
Simone De Bouvoire
Meantime.
Frankie Boyle
Empireland.
Sathnam Sanghera
The Fine Art of Invisible Detection.
Robert Goddard
Scattered Minds.
Gabor Maté
What we owe the future.
Will Macaskill
The Remains of the Day.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Fight Club.
Chuck Palahniuk
Anxious People.
Frederick Backman
The Bullet That Missed.
Richard Osman
Letters.
Seneca
Weasels in the Attic.
Hiroko Oyamada
Persepolis Rising.
James A. Corey
Freedom.
Sebastian Junger.
The Precipice.
Toby Ord
Elect Mr Robinson for a better world.
Donald Antrim
(in progress)
What have you been reading? What was your favourite book of 2022.
My Top Five are probably…
What we owe the future. Will Macaskill
The Remains of the Day. Kazuo Ishiguro
Fup. Jim Dodge
The Life You Can Save. Peter Singer.
Letters. Seneca
Not in that order. Or any order. And in fact if I made a top five tomorrow, or in half an hour it would probably be a bitty different. Anxious People might nudge out Fup. But actually, there have been so many great reads this year and each one shaped the ways I’ve thought.
Want to let me know what you’ve been reading?
Wow. My list would be just a books started & never finished list. I resolve to finish some and then let you know 😂
Bloody hell that reading list is HUGE. I am down to maybe two books a year these days. Pretty sure even at uni I was not such a prolific reader. Well done. Great idea to record them. That could be motivating.