These are some of the books I'm reading (since 2016), with the year's favourites in italic.
2025
But What Can I Do? by Alastair Campbell
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
2024
Ghost Town by Kevin Chen
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Free For All by Gavin Francis
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
Breast and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
2023
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
11 Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds
But What If We're Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Into the Woods by John Yorke
On Writing by Stephen King
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
Memoirs of a Space Traveler by Stanislaw Lem
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
2022
The Broken Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (and other short stories) by Leo Tolstoy
Solitude by Ursula K. Le Guin
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
Invisible Planets by Ken Liu
Press Reset by Jason Schreier
2021
My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick and David McVea
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Martin Eden by Jack London
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Broken Lives by Konrad H. Jarausch
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2020
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin
Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Practical Common Lisp by Peter Siebel
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Through the Woods by Emily Carrol
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2019
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talking To My Daughter About The Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
The Wandering Earth (and other short stories) by Liu Cixin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2018
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Gene by Siddharta Mukherjee
The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Ukridge's Accident Syndicate by P.G. Wodehouse
Ukridge's Dog College by P.G. Wodehouse
Goodbye to All Cats by P.G. Wodehouse
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
Developer's Dilemma by Casey O'Donnell
Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asmiov
Colorless Tsukuru and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
2017
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
American Psycho By Bret Ellis
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
Phantoms In The Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Neurotribes by Steve Silberman
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2016
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
The Elements of UX by Jesse Garrett
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Landlady by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Gentle Creature by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
Norweigan Wood by Haruki Murakami