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| Year | Title | Author | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | ★★★★★ |
| 2024 | Who Really Owns Ireland? | Matt Cooper | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2024 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness | Jonathan Haidt | ★★★★★ |
| 2024 | Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1) | Dashiell Hammett | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | The Explorer | Katherine Rundell | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop | David Hepworth | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2024 | Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World | Thomas Heatherwick | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2024 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) | J.K. Rowling | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind | David Vandermeulen | ★★★★☆ |
| 2024 | The Player of Games (Culture, #2) | Iain M. Banks | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2023 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2023 | Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) | Neil Gaiman | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | David Grann | ★★★★★ |
| 2023 | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann | ★★★★★ |
| 2023 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | ★★★★☆ |
| 2023 | Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) | Michael Crichton | ★★★★☆ |
| 2023 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King | ★★★★☆ |
| 2023 | How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back | Jeff Tweedy | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2023 | Plays 1: The Beauty Queen of Leenane / A Skull in Connemara / The Lonesome West | Martin McDonagh | ★★★★☆ |
| 2023 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2023 | Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Radden Keefe | ★★★★☆ |
| 2022 | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | ★★★★☆ |
| 2022 | Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand | John Markoff | ★★★★☆ |
| 2022 | The Impossible Dream: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Steorn, the Celtic Tiger’s most Audacious Start-Up | Barry J. Whyte | ★★★★☆ |
| 2022 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) | John le Carré | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2022 | When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamín Labatut | ★★★★☆ |
| 2022 | Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand | John Markoff | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2022 | Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint | Russell Davies | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2022 | No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2022 | Maus | Art Spiegelman | ★★★★☆ |
| 2021 | Alight, Alright, Alright: an Oral History of Dazed and Confused | Melissa Maerz | ★★★★☆ |
| 2021 | How to do Nothing | Jenny Odell | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2021 | An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management | Will Larson | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2021 | Lurking: How a Person Became a User | Joanne McNeil | ★★★★☆ |
| 2021 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2021 | Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties | Ian MacDonald | ★★★★★ |
| 2021 | The Mezzanine (re-read) | Nicholson Baker | ★★★★★ |
| 2021 | The Year of the French | Thomas Flanagan | ★★★★★ |
| 2020 | Testimony | Robbie Robertson | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | The Little Book of Galway | Helen Lee | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2020 | Notes from an Apocalypse | Mark O’Connell | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993 | Jordan Mechner | ★★★★★ |
| 2020 | Making Comics | Lynda Barry | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2020 | User Friendly | Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2020 | The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack | Nicholas Gurewitch | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | Dreaming in Code | Scott Rosenberg | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | Sex at Dawn | Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2020 | Uncanny Valley | Anna Weiner | ★★★★★ |
| 2020 | Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock | Steven Hyden | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | Farsighted | Steven Johnson | ★★★★☆ |
| 2020 | Born Standing Up | Steve Martin | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2019 | Tenth of December | George Saunders | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | Capitalist Realism | Mark Fisher | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2019 | Why Dylan Matters | Richard F. Thomas | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2019 | Two for the Road | Roddy Doyle | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert Caro | ★★★★★ |
| 2019 | Stories of Your Life and others | Ted Chiang | ★★★★★ |
| 2019 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing | Robert Caro | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | Let It Be | Steve Matteo | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2019 | How to Make Sense of Any Mess | Abby Covery | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | Remote | Jason Fried & DHH | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2019 | Normal People | Sally Rooney | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | In the Distance | Hernán Díaz | ★★★★☆ |
| 2019 | The Dirt | Neil Strauss | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2018 | Bird by Bird | Anne Lamott | ★★★★☆ |
| 2018 | The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids | Alexandra Lange | ★★★★☆ |
| 2018 | A Man on the Moon | Andrew Chaikin | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2018 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | ★★★★☆ |
| 2018 | The Creative Habit | Twyla Tharp | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2018 | Designing with the Mind in Mind | Jeff Johnson | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2018 | Designing your Life | Bill Burnett & Dave Evans | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2017 | Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s | Tom Doyle | ★★★★☆ |
| 2017 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | ★★★★☆ |
| 2017 | The Inevitable | Kevin Kelly | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2017 | Rogue Male | Geoffrey Household | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2016 | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2016 | The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2016 | A Technique for Producing Ideas | James Webb Young | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2016 | How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia | Moshin Hamid | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2016 | Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2016 | The Martian | Andy Weir | ★★★★☆ |
| 2015 | Product Design for the Web | Randy J. Hunt | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2015 | A Clash of Kings | George R. R. Martin | ★★★★☆ |
| 2015 | A Game of Thrones | George R. R. Martin | ★★★★☆ |
| 2015 | The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | John Valiant | ★★★★★ |
| 2015 | Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution | Fred Volgelstein | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2015 | The Circle | Dave Eggers | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2014 | Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood | Drew Magary | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2014 | Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made | Andy Hertzfeld | ★★★★☆ |
| 2014 | Close to the Machine | Ellen Ullman | ★★★★☆ |
| 2014 | A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting | Guy Delisle | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2014 | Feynman | Jim Ottaviani | ★★★★☆ |
| 2014 | Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China | Guy Delisle | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2014 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2014 | What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry | John Markoff | ★★★★☆ |
| 2013 | This Wheel’s on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band | Levon Helm | ★★★★☆ |
| 2013 | In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing | Walter Murch | ★★★★★ |
| 2013 | The Shape of Design | Frank Chimero | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2013 | Jerusalem | Guy Delisle | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2013 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Steig Larsson | ★☆☆☆☆ |
| 2013 | Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter | Tom Bissell | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2013 | Consider the Lobster | David Foster Wallace | ★★★★★ |
| 2012 | Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! | Douglas Coupland | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2012 | In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam | Robert S. McNamara | ★★★★☆ |
| 2012 | The Tao of Travel | Paul Theroux | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2012 | Self-Reliance | Ralph Waldo Emerson | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2012 | Eating the Dinosaur | Chuck Klosterman | ★★★★☆ |
| 2012 | The Photographer | Emmanuel Guibert | ★★★★★ |
| 2012 | A Little History of the World | E.H. Gombrich | ★★★★★ |
| 2011 | Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2011 | Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea | Guy Delisle | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2011 | Burma Chronicles | Guy Delisle | ★★★★★ |
| 2011 | Reports From Beyond | Patrick Richardson | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2011 | Jupiter’s Travels | Ted Simon | ★★★★☆ |
| 2011 | Proficient Motorcycling | David L. Hough | ★★★★☆ |
| 2011 | In the Plex | Steven Levy | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 2011 | At Swim-Two-Birds | Flann O’Brien | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2011 | The Book of Illusions | Paul Auster | ★★★☆☆ |
| 2011 | Annabel Scheme | Robin Sloan | ★★★☆☆ |