My reading list
I love reading and sharing books with my friends, so thought I would start a public reading list! Books that I especially loved are marked with an asterisk (*).
2026
Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing*
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath*
Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan*
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
The Great Gatsby, by Scott F. Fitzgerald*
Small Country, by Gaël Faye
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber, by Susan Fowler
Black Dogs, by Ian McEwan
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde*
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen
Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot*
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
““Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~ T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
2025
Quantum Computing Since Democritus, by Scott Aaronson
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R Tolkien
Letters to a Young Contrarian, by Christopher Hitchens*
Careless People: A Cautionary tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
You Like It Darker, by Stephen King
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: The shocking true story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal, by John Carreyrou
The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson*
Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson*
Oathbringer, by Brandon Sanderson
Dawnshard, by Brandon Sanderson
At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine, by Hannah Fry
Rhythm of War, by Brandon Sanderson
Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson
Atonement, by Ian McEwan*
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes*
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro*
Books vs. Cigarettes, by George Orwell
This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web, by Tim Berners-Lee
“You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it’s not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south, they bypass it altogether. For that reason, it’s a peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But it’s also something of a lost corner.
Someone claimed after the lesson that Miss Emily had said Norfolk was England’s ‘lost corner’ because that was were all the lost property found in the country ended up”
~ Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
2024
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything, by Douglas Adams
Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris
Shiver: Selected Stories, by Junji Itō
Uzumaki, by Junji Itō
Needful Things, by Stephen King
The Undercover Economist, by Tim Harford
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller
Venus in the Blind Spot, by Junji Itō
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie, by Richard Dawkins
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
2023
Money, by Martin Amis
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin*
Mortality, by Christopher Hitchens*
Einstein’s Monsters, by Martin Amis
Heavy Water and Other Stories, by Martin Amis
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better than You Think, by Hans Rosling
“I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.”
~ Christopher Hitchens, Mortality