End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken – and how We Can Fix it Book
James Plunkett
★★★★★
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West
Peter Hessler
★★
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
★★★★
The City & The City
China Miéville
★★★★
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
★★★★
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
★★★★
A Psalm for the Wild Built
Becky Chambers
★★★★
How the World ran out of everything: Inside the global supply chain
Peter S. Goodman
★★★★
Livesuit
James S. A. Corey
★★★
The Essays
George Orwell
★★★
A Place of Greater Safety
Hillary Mantel
★★★★
The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
★★★★★
The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway
★★★★
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
★
Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon
★★★★★
Economics: A user guide
Ha-Joon Chang
★★★★★
The Mercy of Gods
James S. A. Corey
★★★★
The New Age of Sexism
Laura Bates
★★★★
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Sarah Drasner
★★★
Crack up captialism
Quinn Slobodian
★★★★
Demography: A Very Short Introduction
Sarah Harper
★★★
David Attenborough's Life Stories
David Attenborough
★★★★★
The Burning God
R. F. Kuang
★★
The Dragon Republic
R. F. Kuang
★★★
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
★★★★★
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
★★★★★
The Wager
David Grann
★★★★
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
★★★★
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
★★★
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
★★★★★
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
★★★
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
★★★★★
System Collapse
Martha Wells
★★
Feeding Britain
Tim Lang
★★★★
The Bear
Andrew Krivak
★★★★★
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
★★★★★
Fugitive Telemetry
Martha Wells
★★★
Network Effect
Martha Wells
★★★
Exit Strategy
Martha Wells
★★★★
Rogue Protocol
Martha Wells
★★★★
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
★★★★
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
★★★★
The Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec
★★★
The Art of Uncertainty
David Spiegelhalter
★★★★
2024
Trials of Life
David Attenborough
★★★
Unmasked
Ellie Middleton
★★★★
The Voyage Home
Pat Barker
★★★★
Clean Coder
Robert C. Martin
★★★
Yellowface
R. F. Kuang
★★★
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf
Derek Gow
★★★
Clean Architecture
Robert C. Martin
★★★
The Women of Troy
Pat Barker
★★★★
We Are Free to Change the World
Lyndsey Stonebridge
★★★★★
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
★★★★
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
★★★
Lie of the Land
Guy Shrubsole
★★★★
What Does Jeremy Think?
Suzanne Heywood
★★★
Nature's Ghosts
Sophie Yeo
★★★★★
The Book of Wilding
Isabella Tree
★★★
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
★★★★
Natives
Akala
★★★★
Accelerate
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
★★★★
Babel
R. F. Kuang
★★★★★
Underland
Robert Macfarlane
★★★★
Failed State
Sam Freedman
★★★★
Imaginary Friend
Stephen Chbosky
★
Ancestors
Alice Roberts
★★★★
The Looking Glass War
John le Carré
★★★
The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
★★★★★
We Are Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins
★★★
Team Topologies
Matthew Skelton
★★★★★
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
★★★★
A Murder of Quality
John le Carré
★★★★
Call for the Dead
John le Carré
★★★★
Every man against himself and god against all
Werner Herzog
★★★★★
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Ken Liu
★★★★
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
★★★★
The Making of the English Working Class
E. P. Thompson
★★★★
These Bodies of Water
Sabrina Mahfouz
★★★
Children of Ash and Elm
Neil Price
★★★★
The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane
★★★★★
Not the end of the world
Hannah Richie
★★★★
Cinema Speculation
Quentin Tarintio
★★★★
Wilding
Isabella Tree
★★★★
Back to nature
Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
★★
2023
Rebirding
Benedict Macdonald
★★★★
Ultra-Processed People
Chris van Tulleken
★★★
Hydrogen Sonata
Ian M Banks
★★★★★
These Burning Stars
Bethany Jacobs
★★★
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
★★★★
The Internet Con
Cory Doctorow
★★★★
Reflections
Dr. Mark Avery
★★★★★
How to blow up a pipeline
Andreas Malm
★★★★
Material World
Ed Conway
★★★★
Journeys in the Wild
Gavin Thurston, Sir David Attenborough
★★★★
Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
★★★★
Nature in focus
P. S. Crowson
★★
The BBC Naturalist
Desmond Hawkins, Peter Scott, H. Gwynne Vevers, G. K. Yeates, Walter J. C. Murray, Earnest Neal, Humphrey Hewer, James Fisher, W. S. Bristowe, John Barlee, Walter Flesher, Ralph Whitlock, Douglas Wilson, Philip Brown, John Clegg, E. A. R. Ennion, Bruce Campbell, Leo Harrison Matthews, Desmond Hawkins, Maxwell Knight, Frances Pitt, Ralph Wightman, Field marshal Lord Alanbrooke
★★★
Regenesis
George Monbiot
★★★★
Green and Prosperous Land
Dieter Helm
★★★★
Feral
George Monbiot
★★★★
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Guy Shrubsole
★★★★
Translation State
Ann Leckie
★★★
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
★★★
Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
★★★★
The Secret Barrister
The Secret Barrister
★★★
Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
★★★
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
★★★
Migraine
Oliver Sacks
★★★
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
Radical Help
Hilary Cottam
★★
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★
How to Be Animal
Melanie Challenger
★★★
Everyday Utopia
Kristen Ghodsee
★★★
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
Why Politics Fails
Ben Ansell
★★★★
The Big Con
Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
★★★
Why We Get The Wrong Politicians
Isabel Hardman
★★★★
Burn
Herman Pontzer
★★★★
Follow the Money
Paul Johnson
★★★★
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Meghan O'Gieblyn
★★★
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine
★★★★★
2022
The Data-centric Revolution
David McComb
★★★★
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
★★★★★
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
★★★★
Moon Witch, Spider King
Marlon James
★★★
The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
★★★★★
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★
Country Driving
Peter Hessler
★★★
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★
Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
★★★
The Entrepreneurial State
Mariana Mazzucato
★★★★
Watching the English
Kate Fox
★★★
Butler to the World
Oliver Bullough
★★★★★
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot
★★★★
Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler
★★★
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Lea Ypi
★★★★★
Surface Detail
Ian M Banks
★★★★
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
★★★
Season of Storms
Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - translator
★★★★
River Town
Peter Hessler
★★★
Remote
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
★★★★★
The Lady of the Lake
Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - translator
★★★
The Tower of the Swallow
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★★
Baptism of Fire
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★
Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★★
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
★★★★
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★★★
2021
Time of Contempt
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★★
Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski
★★★
Leviathan Falls
James S.A. Corey
★★★★
Matter
Iain M. Banks
★★★★
The Peregrine
J. A. Baker
★★★★★
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
★★★★★
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
★★★★★
Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler - translator