I read a record 52 books this year, including a return to reading fiction as well as a streak of business books.
Fiction (20)
- Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
- Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
- Ice - Anna Kavan
- Beast in the Shadows - Edogawa Rampo
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories - Tim Burton
- Burning Chrome - William Gibson
- Grief Is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
- Passing - Nella Larsen
- Mr. Palomar - Italo Calvino
- Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
- Elizabeth & Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Blue Fox - Sjón
- Weasels in the Attic - Hiroko Oyamada
- Lessons - Ian McEwan
- The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carré
- Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Business (11)
- The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek
- Start with Why - Simon Sinek
- Find Your Why - Simon Sinek
- Pattern Breakers - Mike Maples Jr
- 7 Powers - Hamilton Wright Helmer
- The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
- Self-Awareness - Harvard Business Review
- Focus - Harvard Business Review
- Virtual EI - Harvard Business Review
- Resilience - Harvard Business Review
Other non-fiction (18)
- Spider Woman - Lady Hale
- The Elephant in the Room - Jon Ronson
- The Tyranny of Merit - Michael J. Sandel
- Jerusalem: The Biography - Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
- Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie - Jon Ronson
- The Art of War - Sun Tzu
- Every Man for Himself and God Against All - Werner Herzog
- Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
- The Descent of Man - Grayson Perry
- Seven Ways to Change the World - Gordon Brown
- Why Wall Street Matters - William D. Cohan
- Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
- No Logo - Naomi Klein
- The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin
- Unruly - David Mitchell
- Outlive - Peter Attia
Poetry (3)
- Ritual Lighting: Laureate Poems - Carol Ann Duffy
- Chapters - Tim Key
- Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney