Not every book I’ve ever written, but starting from a few years ago. And some of these took years – I’m a slow reader.
| Format | Rating (1=terrible, 10=brilliant) | ||
| Homo Faber (German!) | Max Frisch | Blue fire | 5 |
| The Blind Watchmaker | Richard Dawkins | Paperback | 7 |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | Paperback | 6 |
| The End Of Faith | Sam Harris | Hardback | 8 |
| The Quantum Universe | Jeff Forshaw and That Brian Cox | Hardback | 8 |
| How Very Interesting (Peter Cook anthology) | Ed. Paul Hamilton | Paperback | 7 |
| Defending The Realm | Mark Hollingsworth & Nick Fielding | Hardback | 7 |
| Life (autobiography) | Keith Richards | Kindle | 8 |
| We-think | Charles Leadbetter | Paperback | 1 |
| Ian Fleming’s Commandos | Nicholas Rankin | Hardback | 7 |
| Kurosawa | Peter Wild | Paperback | 6 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Peter Ackroyd | Hardback | 8 |
| Blink | James Gleick | Hardback | 5 |
| Stoner | John Williams | Kindle | 7 |
| The Two Cultures | C.P. Snow | Kindle | 6 |
| Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide | David Vose | Hardback | 6 |
| Crash | J.G. Ballard | Kindle | 2 |
| Superforecasting | Albert Tetlock | Kindle | 4 |
| QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter | Richard Feynmann | Kindle | 6 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Kindle | 2 (also hilariously bad) |
| News from Nowhere | William Morris | Kindle | 3 (bad but hilarious) |
| Legacy: 15 Lessons In Leadership | James Kerr | Paperback | 1 |
| The Ipcress File Horse Under Water Funeral in Berlin Billion Dollar brain | Len Deighton | Kindle | 7 6 7 6 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | Kindle | 8 |
| Solar | Ian McEwan | Kindle | 8 |
| The White Spider (English translation) | Heinrich Harrer | Kindle | 9 |
| Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Kindle | 5 |
| Captain Hornblower: Hornblower and the Atropos The Happy Return A Ship Of The Line | C.S. Forester | Kindle | 9 9 8 |
| The Strangest Man (Paul Dirac biography) | Graham Farmelo | Kindle | 9 |
| Harpoon at a Venture | Gavin Maxwell | Kindle | 8 |
| Science In The Soul | Richard Dawkins | Hardback | 8 |
| The Open Society and Its Enemies | Karl Popper | Kindle | 7 |
| And the weakest…? | Yannis Varifakis | Paperback | 4 |
| Death of Homo Economicus | Peter Fleming | Paperback | 2 |
| Dead Lagoon | Michael Dibdin | Kindle | 8 |
| The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets | Simon Singh | Paperback | 7 |
| The Geek Gap | Bill Pfleging | Kindle | 6 |
| The Man Without a Face (The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin) | Masha Gessin | Kindle | 8 |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neil | Paperback | 8 |
| R for Data Science | Garrett Grolemund | Paperback | 7 |
| A Short History Of England | Simon Jenkins | Paperback | 8 |
| Thunderball | Ian Fleming | Paperback | 7 |
| Rebel Prince (Charles, Prince of Wales biography) | Tom Bower | Hardback | 6 |
| The Road To Unfreedom | Timothy Snyder | Paperback | 6 |
| The Art Of Thinking Clearly | Rolf Dobelli | Kindle | 7 |
| Demand Based Forecasting | Charles Chase | Hardback | 3 (given up…) |
| An Outline History Of Switzerland | Dieter Fahrni | Paperback | 4 |
| The Night Comers | Eric Ambler | Hardback | 9 |
| Quantum of Solace (James Bond short stories) | Ian Fleming | Paperback | 9 |
| The Tyranny of Metrics | Jerry Z Muller | Hardback | 7 |
| A Brief History Of Time | Stephen Hawking | Paperback | 7 |
| Democracy and Truth: A Short History | Sophia Rosenfeld | Hardback | 4 |
| Our Iceberg is melting | John Kotter | Hardback | 3 |
| Humboldt | M.Z. Thomas | Hardback | 8 |
| The Collini Case | Ferdinand von Schirach | Paperback | 8 |
| The Mask Of Dimitrios | Eric Ambler | Paperback | 8 |
| Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry | B.S. Johnson | Kindle | 10 |
| Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain | Fintan O’Toole | Kindle | 6 |
| The Island of Dr Moreau | H.G. Wells | Paperback | 7 |
| Shadowplay | Tim Marshall | Paperback | 5 |
| The Comedians | Graham Greene | Paperback | 6 |
| As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning | Laurie Lee | Kindle | 8 |
| New Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan | Paperback | 3 (gave up) |
| Infinite Powers | Steven Strogatz | Hardback | 7 |
| State Of Secrecy | Richard Norton-Taylor | Kindle | 4 |
| 1066 and All That | Sellar & Yeatman | Paperback | 10 |
| Peter Duck | Arthur Ransome | Hardback | 6 |
| Money land | Oliver Bullough | Kindle | 8 |
| Posh Boys – How English Public Schools Ruin Britain | Robert Verkaik | Kindle | 7 |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | Kindle | 9 |
| Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | Paperback | 3 |
| Why The Germans Do It Better | John Kampfner | Kindle | 6 |
| The Potter’s Field | Andrea Camilleri | Paperback | 7 |
| Junky | William Burroughs | Paperback | 7 |
| A Brief History of Europe | Simon Jenkins | Paperback + Hardback | 7 |
| The Lonely Ski-er | Hammond Innes | Paperback | 7 |
| The Handmaid’s tale | Margaret Attwod | Paperback | 6 |
| Parallel Universes | Fred Wolf | Paperback | 6 |
| The Little Red Chairs | Edna O’Brien | Paperback | 7 |
| The New Populism | Marco Revelli | Paperback | 5 |
| The Quantitative Supply Chain (part 1 only) | Joannes Vermorel | Hardback | 7 (stopped at his software) |
| Noise | Kahnemann et al | Paperback | 5 (didn’t finish it) |
| Business Acumen | Kevin Cope | Kindle | 5 (didn’t finish it) |
| The Data Centric Revolution | Dave Mccomb | Kindle | 6 |
| A Confederacy Of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Kindle | 8 |
| Gen Z, Explained | Roberta Katz et al | Kindle | 6 |
| Ring Of Bright Water | Gavin Maxwell | Paperback | 8 |
| Butler To The World | Oliver Bullough | Kindle | 7 |
| The Age Of The Strongman | Gideon Rachman | Kindle | 7 |
| A High Wind In Jamaica | Richard Hughes | Kindle | 5 |
| The Night Interns | Austin Kelly | Kindle | 8 |
| In Patagonia | Bruce Chatwin | Kindle | 5 |
| Under Western Eyes | Joseph Conrad | Paperback | 6 |
| When McKinsey Comes to Town | Bogdanovich & Forsythe | Kindle | 5 |
| Sieben Jahre in Tibet (German!) | Heinrich Harrer | Hardback | 7 (ignoring German…) |
| The Order Of Time | Carlo Rovelli | Paperback | 8 |
| Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Albania) | Lea Ypi | Paperback | 9 |
| The Lessons Of History | Will & Ariel Durant | Paperback | 5 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Hardback | 9 |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Paperback | 4 |
| Journey To The Edge Of Reason (life of Kurt Gödel) | Stephen Budiansky | Kindle | 7 |
| Tower Of Basel (the BIS) | Adam LeBor | Kindle | 6 |
| Nicholas Nickelby | Charles Dickens | Kindle | 6 |
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