books i've read

2025 📚

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Antony Beevor, Stalingrad
Elizabeth Smither, The Commonplace Book
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
David Grann, The Wager
Maurice Shadbolt, Monday’s Warriors
Hunter S Thompson, Hell’s Angels
Stephen King, Salem’s Lot (again)

2024 📚

George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords I
Wilbur Smith, When the Lion Feeds (again)
George Orwell, Animal Farm (again)

2023 📚

Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander
George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings
George RR Martin, A Game of Thrones
Michael Malice, The White Pill

2022 📚

Michael Malice, The New Right
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (again)
Michael Malice, Dear Reader
Jack Carr, Savage Son
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2021 📚

Jack Carr, True Believer
Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
Jack Carr, The Terminal List
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Junji Ito, Uzumaki
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking

2020 📚

Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
SC Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel

2019 📚

Sebastian Junger, Tribe
Lukianoff & Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now
Stephen King, The Outsider
Carrie Tiffany, Exploded View
Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds
Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
O’Donnell & Romero, Modesty Blaise: The Puppet Master

2018 📚

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Elle Russ, The Paleo Thyroid Solution
Stephen King, The Stand (again)
Mary Holm, Rich Enough?
DB John, Star of the North
Beth Macy, Dopesick
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
O’Donnell & Romero, Modesty Blaise: Children of Lucifer
Maurice Shadbolt, The House of Strife
Frank McLynn, Genghis Khan
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (again)
Andre Agassi, Open
O’Donnell & Romero, Modesty Blaise: The Gallows Bird
McCullum & McGee, Declared
Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

2017 📚

Christopher Hitchens, And Yet
George Orwell, 1984 (again)
Donelly & Toscano, The Woman Who Fooled the World
Konrad Marshall, Yellow and Black: A Season with Richmond
William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Stephen King, The Long Walk (again)
Gordon Ramsay, Humble Pie
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Anya Von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Ian McGuire, The North Water
Mary Beard, SPQR

2016 📚

Philipp Meyer, The Son
Joy Williams, State of Grace
JM Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
Wilbur Smith, Assegai
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies
Robert Harris, Fatherland
Robb Wolf, The Paleo Solution
Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
Stephen King, Mr Mercedes
Stephen King, Finders Keepers
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
Noah Hawley, Before the Fall