What I've Been Reading

Murray Keogh · August 26, 2020

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A list of books I am currently reading or have read. Think of this as a virtual bookshelf, as much for myself as you. One day, I may get around to adding in some simple notes about each book. I will try to keep this list updated throughout the years.

2022

  1. The Magicians Lev Grossman
  2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
  3. A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
  4. The Divide Matt Taibbi

2021

  1. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ Giulia Enders’
  2. The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson
  3. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
  4. The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
  5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami
  6. Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner
  7. Beloved Toni Morrison
  8. Watership Down Richard Adams
  9. The Plague Albert Camus
  10. Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman
  11. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
  12. Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
  13. The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein
  14. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
  15. The Long Sleep Raymond Chandler
  16. Reaper Man Terry Pratchett
  17. Cathedral Raymond Carver
  18. Small Gods Terry Pratchett
  19. Tokyo Vice Jake Adelstein
  20. Call of the Dead John le Carre
  21. Anathem Neal Stephenson
  22. Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer
  23. The Constant Gardener John le Carre
  24. The Falcon of Sparta Conn Iggulden
  25. Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  26. When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
  27. The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  28. Humankind Rutger Bregman
  29. Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
  30. Hard To Be a God Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  31. Sundiver David Brin
  32. Startide Rising David Brin
  33. The Uplift War David Brin
  34. The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
  35. Dark Star Safari Paul Theroux
  36. V For Vendetta Alan Moore and David Lloyd
  37. A Canticle For Leibowitz Walter Miller Jr.
  38. The Mote in God’s Eye Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  39. Blindsight Peter Watts
  40. The Winter of our Discontent John Steinbeck
  41. A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

2020

  1. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
  2. Atonement Ian McEwan
  3. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
  4. Freedom Jonathan Franzen
  5. Poland James Michener
  6. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
  7. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
  8. Chasm City Alastair Reynolds
  9. Mexico James Michener
  10. The Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein
  11. Educated Tara Westover
  12. Hidden Empire Kevin J Anderson
  13. Essays on Wilderness and Risk Jon Krakauer
  14. The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu
  15. Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson
  16. Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier
  17. The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood
  18. Voss Patrick White
  19. Cannery Row John Steinbeck
  20. The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
  21. The Dark Forest Cixin Liu
  22. Taiko Eiji Yoshikawa
  23. Rendezvous With Rama Arthur C Clarke
  24. Death’s End Cixin Liu
  25. Factulness Hans Rosling
  26. God Help the Child Toni Morrison
  27. Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
  28. The Dispossessed Ursula Le Guin
  29. A Man Called Ove Frederik Backman
  30. Never Split the Difference Christopher Voss and Tahl Rax
  31. The Earthsea Quartet Ursula Le Guin
  32. Exhalation Ted Chiang
  33. The Beach Alex Garland
  34. The Rift Nina Allan
  35. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein
  36. Solaris Stanislaw Lem
  37. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov