My uncle has kept a list of every book he's read, for near enough his entire life. So I thought I'd try. It seems useful to be able to see the patterns - and sometimes to change them.
2020
1. The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust vol. 2), by Philip Pullman (2019)
2. Turkestan Solo, by Ella K. Maillart (1938)
3. The Travels of Ibn Battutah, edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (c. 1355 / this edition 2002)
4. The Longing For Less: Living With Minimalism, by Kyle Chayka (2020)
5. Agency, by William Gibson (2020)
6. Gossip From The Forest: the Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales, by Sara Maitland (2012)
7. How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell (2019)
8. Bluets, by Maggie Nelson (2009)
9. Tentacle, by Rita Indiana (2015 / trans. 2018)
10. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A., by Eve Babitz, (1974)
11. Isabelle: The Life of Isabel Eberhardt, by Annette Kobak (1988)
12. The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City, by William M. Cavert (2016)
13. The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf, by Jesse Oak Taylor (2016)
14. The Marsh Arabs, by Wilfred Thesiger (1964)
15. Altai, by Wu Ming (2009 / trans. 2013)
16. Aphorisms on Love and Hate, by Friedrich Nietzsche (1878 / this edition 2015)
17. Winner Take Nothing, by Ernest Hemingway (1939)
18. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
19. Sex & Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, by Eve Babitz (1979)
20. Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (1925)
21. Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, by Lauren Elkin (2016)
22. The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness, by Anne Boyer (2019)
23. The Mirror and the Light, by Hillary Mantel (2020)
24. The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk (1990)
25. Left In The Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human Environmental Tragedy in L.A., by Karen Piper (2006)
25. A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
26. Woods Etc, by Alice Oswald (2005)
27. English Pastoral: An Inheritance, by James Rebanks (2020)
28. On Beauty And Being Just, by Elaine Scarry (2000)
29. Blue of Noon, by Georges Bataille (1957 / trans. 1986)
30. Apocalypse Burlesque, by Supervert (2018)
31. The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller (2011)
32. Iron Council, by China Mieville (2004)
33. This Census-Taker, by China Mieville (2016)
34. What is Gender Nihilism? A Reader, by various (2016)
35. The Rider, by Tim Krabbe (1978 / trans. 2002)
36. Signs Preceding The End of the World, by Yuri Herrera (2009 / trans. 2015)
37. Boy Parts, by Eliza Clarke (2020)
2019
1. The Hunters, by James Salter (1956)
2. China Dream, by Ma Jian (2018)
3. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
4. The Dust Of Empire: The Race for Supremacy in the Asian Heartland, by Karl Meyer (2004)
5. Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, by Justin Marozzi (2014)
6. Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh (1930)
7. A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh (1934)
8. White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey Into the Heart of the Arctic, by Stephen R. Brown (2015)
9. Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell, by Spitzenprodukte aka Huw Lemmey, (2019)
10. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North, by Blair Braverman (2015)
11. The Oblivion Seekers, by Isabelle Eberhardt (c. 1904 / trans. 1975)
12. Infinite Detail, by Tim Maughan (2019)
13. Broken Angels, by Richard Morgan (2003)
14. A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré (2008)
15. West, by Carys Davies (2018)
16. Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane (2019)
17. Secrets of the Ice: Antarctica's Clues to Climate, the Universe, and the Limits of Life, by Veronika Meduna (2012)
18. Estuary: Out from London to the Sea, by Rachel Lichtenstein (2017)
19. Wasting Time on the Internet, by Kenneth Goldsmith (2016)
20. Uzbekistan: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, by Alex Ulko (2017)
21. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace Wells (2019)
22. Out of the Woods: A Memoir, by Luke Turner (2019)
23. The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey, by William Atkins (2018)
24. The Road to Oxiana, by Robert Byron (1937)
25. Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, by William Davies (2018)
26. A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carre (1986)
27. The Moor: A Journey into the English Wilderness, by William Atkins (2014)
28. White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, by Geoff Dyer (2016)
29. Gods And Kings:The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, by Dana Thomas (2015)
30. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino (2019)
31. The Constant Gardener, by John Le Carre (2001)
32. On The Rez, by Ian Frazier (2000)
33. America, by Jean Baudrillard (1986 / trans. 2010)
2018
1. The Book of Dust volume 1: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman (2017)
2. The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Tsing (2015)
3. Women and Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard (2017)
4. [redacted]
5. [redacted]
6. After Method: Mess in Social Science Research, by John Law (2004)
7. When Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century, by Fred Pearce (2006)
8. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee (2017)
9. How To Murder Your Life, by Cat Marnell (2017)
10. Post Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back, by Matthew d'Ancona (2017)
11. Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan (2002)
12. Boundless: Adventures in the Northwest Passage, by Kathleen Winter (2015)
13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mass Culture, by Whitney Phillips (2015)
14. This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein (2014)
15. Living Complex: From Zombie City to the New Communal, by Niklas Maak (2015)
16. Xenofeminism, by Helen Hester (2018)
17. Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Erica Benner (2017)
18. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, by Dan Hancox (2018)
19. To The River, by Olivia Laing (2011)
20. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, by Afua Hirsch (2018)
21. Now, by the Invisible Committee (2017)
22. New Dark Age, by James Bridle (2018)
23. Mr Norris Changes Trains, by Christopher Isherwood (1935)
24. Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (1939)
25. Instructions for Autonomy, by Inhabit Global (2018)
26. Platform Capitalism, by Nick Srnicek (2016)
27. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1899)
28. The Turn of the Screw, and other stories, by Henry James (1898)
29. Death in the Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway (1932)
30. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, by Sara Schulman (2012)
31. Christopher And His Kind, by Christopher Isherwood (1976)
32. Perfumes: The Guide 2018, by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez (2018)
33. Carceral Capitalism, by Jackie Wang (2018)
34. Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan (2013)
35. Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion (1970)
36. [redacted]
37. Hotel, by Joanne Walsh (2015)
38. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)
39. Lights in the Distance: Exile and refuge at the borders of Europe, by Daniel Trilling (2018)
2017
1. Water and Power: The Conflict Over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley, by William L. Karhl
2. Off the Map: Lost Space, Feral Places and Invisible Cities, by Alastair Bonnett
3. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by Colin Woodard
4. Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and found in the Mississippi Delta, by Richard Grant
5. The West Without Water, by B. Lynn Ingram & Frances Malamud-Roam
6. The Anthrobscene, by Jussi Parikka
7. [redacted]
8. Virtual Light, by William Gibson
9. [redacted]
10. [redacted]
11. All Tomorrow's Parties, by William Gibson
12. 111 Places in San Francisco that you Must Not Miss
13. [redacted]
14. Games People Play, by Eric Berne (1964)
15. Thinking In Systems, by Donella H. Meadows (2008)
16. Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse (1986)
17. The Last Days of New Paris, by China Mieville
18. Between the Sunset and the Sea, by Simon Ingram
19. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
20. The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
21. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, by Winona Laduke
22. Twitter And Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci
23. [redacted]
24. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle
25. Into The Woods: How stories work and why we tell them, by John Yorke
26. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit
27. Glass, by John Garrison
28. [not recorded]
29. [not recorded]
30. Storming The Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for politics, by Rebecca Solnit
31. [not recorded]
32. Waste, by Brian Thill
33. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, by Paul B. Preciado
34. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal (2nd reading)
35. The Private Life: Why We Remain In The Dark, by Josh Cohen (3rd reading)
36. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Venus As A Boy, by Luke Sutherland
38. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, by Timothy Morton
39. Red Dust, by Ma Jian
40. [not recorded]
41. The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World, by Evgeny Morozov
42. West With The Night, by Beryl Markham (1942)
2016
1. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davies
2. Survival City: Adventures Among The Ruins of Atomic America, by Tom Vanderbilt
3. Dust, by Xenia Nikolskaya
4. Dust, by Michael Marder
5. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, by Robert Macfarlane
6. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisener
7. Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown
8. Britannia Obscura, by Joanne Parker
9. Great Plains, by Ian Frazier
10. Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
11. Writing for Story, by Jon Franklin
12. Where I Was From: A Memoir, by Joan Didion
13. Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic, by Sarah Wheeler (2009)
14. Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads, by Richard Grant
15. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, by Gretel Ehrlich
16. Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer
17. Zero K, by Don Delillo
18. Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexeivich
19. Eskimo Folk Tales, by Knud Rasmussen
20. Extreme Landscapes: The Lure of Mountain Spaces, ed. Bernadette McDonald (2002)
21. Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, by Jack Hart (2012)
22. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing (2016)
24. Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vay Watkins (2016)
25. Normal, by Warren Ellis (2016)
26. The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher
27. What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier's Story, by Emily Chappell
28. On Trails, by Robert Moor
29. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity & the Urban Imagination, by Matthew Gandy
30. Three Moments of An Explosion, by China Mieville
31. Alexei Parschikov, trans. Michael Palmer & Wayne Chambliss
31a. The Travelling Salesman Project, by Wayne Chambliss
31. The Architecture of Failure, by Douglas Murphy
32. Treacherous Transparencies, by Herzog & de Meuron
33. The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
& 3-4 anon.
2015
1. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History, by Angela Carter
2. Atomised, by Michael Houllebecq
3. Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, by Douglas Rushkoff
4. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
5. Wild: An Elemental Journey, by Jay Griffiths
6. Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, by Supervert
7. Horror In Architecture, by Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing
8. The Shepherd's Life, by James Rebanks
9. The Information Capital, by James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti
10. In The Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy, vol. 1, by Eugene Thacker
11. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
12. The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
13. Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, by Gretchen Rubin
14. I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996, by Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
15. Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, by Cheryl Strayed
16. [unknown]
17. The Private Life: Why We Remain In The Dark, by Josh Cohen (2nd reading)
18. Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)
19. Fetishism In Fashion, ed. Lidewij Edelkoort (2013)
20. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, by Zygmunt Bauman (2003)
21. [unknown]
22. [unknown]
23. Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane
24. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker
25. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendel
26. Post-Depravity, by Supervert
27. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion
28. The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett (2015)
29. Americanah, by Chimanda Ngozie Adichie (2013)
30. To Our Friends, by The Invisible Committee
31. Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness, by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
32. Western USA, by Lonely Planet
33. A Field Guide To Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
34. [unknown]
35. Cyclonopaedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, by Reza Negarestani
36. Team of Teams: New rules of engagement for a complex world, by General Stanley McChrystal
37. Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers by Jan Chipchase
38. Slime Dynamics, by Ben Woodard (2012)
39. The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
40. Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics & Art in the Changing West, by Lucy Lippard
2020
1. The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust vol. 2), by Philip Pullman (2019)
2. Turkestan Solo, by Ella K. Maillart (1938)
3. The Travels of Ibn Battutah, edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (c. 1355 / this edition 2002)
4. The Longing For Less: Living With Minimalism, by Kyle Chayka (2020)
5. Agency, by William Gibson (2020)
6. Gossip From The Forest: the Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales, by Sara Maitland (2012)
7. How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell (2019)
8. Bluets, by Maggie Nelson (2009)
9. Tentacle, by Rita Indiana (2015 / trans. 2018)
10. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A., by Eve Babitz, (1974)
11. Isabelle: The Life of Isabel Eberhardt, by Annette Kobak (1988)
12. The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City, by William M. Cavert (2016)
13. The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf, by Jesse Oak Taylor (2016)
14. The Marsh Arabs, by Wilfred Thesiger (1964)
15. Altai, by Wu Ming (2009 / trans. 2013)
16. Aphorisms on Love and Hate, by Friedrich Nietzsche (1878 / this edition 2015)
17. Winner Take Nothing, by Ernest Hemingway (1939)
18. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
19. Sex & Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time, by Eve Babitz (1979)
20. Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (1925)
21. Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, by Lauren Elkin (2016)
22. The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness, by Anne Boyer (2019)
23. The Mirror and the Light, by Hillary Mantel (2020)
24. The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk (1990)
25. Left In The Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human Environmental Tragedy in L.A., by Karen Piper (2006)
25. A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
26. Woods Etc, by Alice Oswald (2005)
27. English Pastoral: An Inheritance, by James Rebanks (2020)
28. On Beauty And Being Just, by Elaine Scarry (2000)
29. Blue of Noon, by Georges Bataille (1957 / trans. 1986)
30. Apocalypse Burlesque, by Supervert (2018)
31. The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller (2011)
32. Iron Council, by China Mieville (2004)
33. This Census-Taker, by China Mieville (2016)
34. What is Gender Nihilism? A Reader, by various (2016)
35. The Rider, by Tim Krabbe (1978 / trans. 2002)
36. Signs Preceding The End of the World, by Yuri Herrera (2009 / trans. 2015)
37. Boy Parts, by Eliza Clarke (2020)
2019
1. The Hunters, by James Salter (1956)
2. China Dream, by Ma Jian (2018)
3. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)
4. The Dust Of Empire: The Race for Supremacy in the Asian Heartland, by Karl Meyer (2004)
5. Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, by Justin Marozzi (2014)
6. Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh (1930)
7. A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh (1934)
8. White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey Into the Heart of the Arctic, by Stephen R. Brown (2015)
9. Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell, by Spitzenprodukte aka Huw Lemmey, (2019)
10. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North, by Blair Braverman (2015)
11. The Oblivion Seekers, by Isabelle Eberhardt (c. 1904 / trans. 1975)
12. Infinite Detail, by Tim Maughan (2019)
13. Broken Angels, by Richard Morgan (2003)
14. A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré (2008)
15. West, by Carys Davies (2018)
16. Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane (2019)
17. Secrets of the Ice: Antarctica's Clues to Climate, the Universe, and the Limits of Life, by Veronika Meduna (2012)
18. Estuary: Out from London to the Sea, by Rachel Lichtenstein (2017)
19. Wasting Time on the Internet, by Kenneth Goldsmith (2016)
20. Uzbekistan: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture, by Alex Ulko (2017)
21. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace Wells (2019)
22. Out of the Woods: A Memoir, by Luke Turner (2019)
23. The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey, by William Atkins (2018)
24. The Road to Oxiana, by Robert Byron (1937)
25. Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, by William Davies (2018)
26. A Perfect Spy, by John Le Carre (1986)
27. The Moor: A Journey into the English Wilderness, by William Atkins (2014)
28. White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, by Geoff Dyer (2016)
29. Gods And Kings:The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, by Dana Thomas (2015)
30. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, by Jia Tolentino (2019)
31. The Constant Gardener, by John Le Carre (2001)
32. On The Rez, by Ian Frazier (2000)
33. America, by Jean Baudrillard (1986 / trans. 2010)
2018
1. The Book of Dust volume 1: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman (2017)
2. The Mushroom at the End of the World, by Anna Tsing (2015)
3. Women and Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard (2017)
4. [redacted]
5. [redacted]
6. After Method: Mess in Social Science Research, by John Law (2004)
7. When Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century, by Fred Pearce (2006)
8. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, by John McPhee (2017)
9. How To Murder Your Life, by Cat Marnell (2017)
10. Post Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back, by Matthew d'Ancona (2017)
11. Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan (2002)
12. Boundless: Adventures in the Northwest Passage, by Kathleen Winter (2015)
13. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mass Culture, by Whitney Phillips (2015)
14. This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein (2014)
15. Living Complex: From Zombie City to the New Communal, by Niklas Maak (2015)
16. Xenofeminism, by Helen Hester (2018)
17. Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Erica Benner (2017)
18. Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, by Dan Hancox (2018)
19. To The River, by Olivia Laing (2011)
20. Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, by Afua Hirsch (2018)
21. Now, by the Invisible Committee (2017)
22. New Dark Age, by James Bridle (2018)
23. Mr Norris Changes Trains, by Christopher Isherwood (1935)
24. Goodbye to Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood (1939)
25. Instructions for Autonomy, by Inhabit Global (2018)
26. Platform Capitalism, by Nick Srnicek (2016)
27. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (1899)
28. The Turn of the Screw, and other stories, by Henry James (1898)
29. Death in the Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway (1932)
30. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, by Sara Schulman (2012)
31. Christopher And His Kind, by Christopher Isherwood (1976)
32. Perfumes: The Guide 2018, by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez (2018)
33. Carceral Capitalism, by Jackie Wang (2018)
34. Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan (2013)
35. Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion (1970)
36. [redacted]
37. Hotel, by Joanne Walsh (2015)
38. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)
39. Lights in the Distance: Exile and refuge at the borders of Europe, by Daniel Trilling (2018)
2017
1. Water and Power: The Conflict Over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley, by William L. Karhl
2. Off the Map: Lost Space, Feral Places and Invisible Cities, by Alastair Bonnett
3. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by Colin Woodard
4. Dispatches From Pluto: Lost and found in the Mississippi Delta, by Richard Grant
5. The West Without Water, by B. Lynn Ingram & Frances Malamud-Roam
6. The Anthrobscene, by Jussi Parikka
7. [redacted]
8. Virtual Light, by William Gibson
9. [redacted]
10. [redacted]
11. All Tomorrow's Parties, by William Gibson
12. 111 Places in San Francisco that you Must Not Miss
13. [redacted]
14. Games People Play, by Eric Berne (1964)
15. Thinking In Systems, by Donella H. Meadows (2008)
16. Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse (1986)
17. The Last Days of New Paris, by China Mieville
18. Between the Sunset and the Sea, by Simon Ingram
19. The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd
20. The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
21. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, by Winona Laduke
22. Twitter And Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci
23. [redacted]
24. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle
25. Into The Woods: How stories work and why we tell them, by John Yorke
26. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit
27. Glass, by John Garrison
28. [not recorded]
29. [not recorded]
30. Storming The Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for politics, by Rebecca Solnit
31. [not recorded]
32. Waste, by Brian Thill
33. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, by Paul B. Preciado
34. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal (2nd reading)
35. The Private Life: Why We Remain In The Dark, by Josh Cohen (3rd reading)
36. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. Venus As A Boy, by Luke Sutherland
38. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World, by Timothy Morton
39. Red Dust, by Ma Jian
40. [not recorded]
41. The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World, by Evgeny Morozov
42. West With The Night, by Beryl Markham (1942)
2016
1. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davies
2. Survival City: Adventures Among The Ruins of Atomic America, by Tom Vanderbilt
3. Dust, by Xenia Nikolskaya
4. Dust, by Michael Marder
5. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, by Robert Macfarlane
6. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, by Marc Reisener
7. Daring Greatly, by Brene Brown
8. Britannia Obscura, by Joanne Parker
9. Great Plains, by Ian Frazier
10. Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
11. Writing for Story, by Jon Franklin
12. Where I Was From: A Memoir, by Joan Didion
13. Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic, by Sarah Wheeler (2009)
14. Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads, by Richard Grant
15. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, by Gretel Ehrlich
16. Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer
17. Zero K, by Don Delillo
18. Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexeivich
19. Eskimo Folk Tales, by Knud Rasmussen
20. Extreme Landscapes: The Lure of Mountain Spaces, ed. Bernadette McDonald (2002)
21. Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction, by Jack Hart (2012)
22. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing (2016)
24. Gold Fame Citrus, by Claire Vay Watkins (2016)
25. Normal, by Warren Ellis (2016)
26. The Man Who Walked Through Time, by Colin Fletcher
27. What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier's Story, by Emily Chappell
28. On Trails, by Robert Moor
29. The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity & the Urban Imagination, by Matthew Gandy
30. Three Moments of An Explosion, by China Mieville
31. Alexei Parschikov, trans. Michael Palmer & Wayne Chambliss
31a. The Travelling Salesman Project, by Wayne Chambliss
31. The Architecture of Failure, by Douglas Murphy
32. Treacherous Transparencies, by Herzog & de Meuron
33. The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin
& 3-4 anon.
2015
1. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History, by Angela Carter
2. Atomised, by Michael Houllebecq
3. Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, by Douglas Rushkoff
4. Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
5. Wild: An Elemental Journey, by Jay Griffiths
6. Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish, by Supervert
7. Horror In Architecture, by Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing
8. The Shepherd's Life, by James Rebanks
9. The Information Capital, by James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti
10. In The Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy, vol. 1, by Eugene Thacker
11. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers
12. The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
13. Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, by Gretchen Rubin
14. I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996, by Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark
15. Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found, by Cheryl Strayed
16. [unknown]
17. The Private Life: Why We Remain In The Dark, by Josh Cohen (2nd reading)
18. Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)
19. Fetishism In Fashion, ed. Lidewij Edelkoort (2013)
20. Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, by Zygmunt Bauman (2003)
21. [unknown]
22. [unknown]
23. Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane
24. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker
25. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons, by George Pendel
26. Post-Depravity, by Supervert
27. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion
28. The Shepherd's Crown, by Terry Pratchett (2015)
29. Americanah, by Chimanda Ngozie Adichie (2013)
30. To Our Friends, by The Invisible Committee
31. Edgelands: Journeys into England's True Wilderness, by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts
32. Western USA, by Lonely Planet
33. A Field Guide To Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
34. [unknown]
35. Cyclonopaedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, by Reza Negarestani
36. Team of Teams: New rules of engagement for a complex world, by General Stanley McChrystal
37. Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers by Jan Chipchase
38. Slime Dynamics, by Ben Woodard (2012)
39. The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan
40. Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics & Art in the Changing West, by Lucy Lippard