A running list of the books (fiction and non-fiction) that I’ve been reading (updated December 2024):
Didion & Babitz, by Lili Anolik
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts, by Nigel Slater
English Houses, by Ben Penreath
Gathering of Strangers: Why Museums Matter, by Maria Balshaw
The Position of Spoons And other intimacies, by Deborah Levy
Lifehouse:Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire, by Adam Greenfield
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
About Face: Contemporary portrait painting in Australia and New Zealand, by Amber Creswell Bell
What I Ate in One Year (And related thoughts), by Stanley Tucci
The Place of Tides, by James Rebanks
A Life of My Own, by Claire Tomalin
My Brother Jaz, by Gideon Haigh
A Very Private Eye, by Barbara Pym
Cairn, by Kathleen Jamie
Jane And Prudence, by Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn, by Barbara Pym
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI, by James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant
The Message, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism, by Sebastian Smee
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehman, by Harriet Baker
Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir, by Ben Shewry
Territory of Light, by Yuko Tsushima
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness, by Nathalie Olah
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class, by Catherine Liu
Fi, by Alexandra Fuller
Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout
Turning to Stone, by Marcia Bjornerud
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992, by Tina Brown
Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, by James C. Scott (1936 - 2024)
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir, by Sarah Moss
There are rivers in the sky, by Elif Shafak
History for Tomorrow, by Roman Krznaric
The Middlepause, by Marina Benjamin
Family Lexicon, by Natalia Ginzburg
Scaffolding, by Lauren Elkin
How Infrastructure Works: transforming our shared systems for a changing world, by Deb Chachra
Sandwich, by Catherine Newman
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (with a new introduction by Sheila Heti), by Phyllis Rose
Splinters: another kind of love story, by Leslie Jamison
The Garden Against Time, by Olivia Laing
Blue Sisters, by Coco Mellors
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, by Adam Moss
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, by Hanif Abdurraqib
A Kind of Magic: The Kaleidoscopic World of Luke Edward Hall, by Luke Edward Hall
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm, by Isabella Tree
Parade, by Rachel Cusk
A Vision of the World (stories), by John Cheever
The Coast Road, by Alan Murrin
Affinities, by Brian Dillon
Deep Water: the world in the ocean, by James Bradley
You Are Here, by David Nicholls
Great Expectations, by Vinson Cunningham
A Flat Place, by Noreen Masud
The Vast Extent, by Lavinia Greenlaw
Hagstone, by Sinead Gleeson
Hazzard and Harrower: the letters, edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham,
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood, by Ed Zwick
The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd (introduction by Robert Macfarlane, afterword by Jeanette Winterson)
The Britannias: An Island Quest, by Alice Albinia
Like Love: essays and conversations, by Maggie Nelson
Grief is for People, by Sloane Crosley
Caledonian Road, by Andrew O'Hagan
The End of the Morning, by Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley
Broken Girl: A true story, by Bradley Trevor Greive and Caroline Laner Breure
Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse, by Anahid Nersessian
Clear, by Carys Davies
Limitarianism: the case against extreme wealth, by Ingrid Robeyns
Piglet, by Lottie Hazell
300 Arguments, by Sarah Manguso
1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round, by Jami Attenberg
Private Equity, by Carrie Sun
Alphabetical Diaries, by Sheila Heti
World Within A Song, by Jeff Tweedy
Western Lane, by Chetna Maroo
We All Lived in Bondi Then, by Georgia Blain
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, by Kyle Chayka
In Praise of Shadows, by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
My Friends, by Hisham Matar
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley, by Grace Paley
Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For, by Ella Risbridger
Our Strangers, by Lydia Davis
The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading, by Dwight Garner
Forbidden Notebook, by Alba de Cespedes
A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, by Roland Allen
A Man of Two Faces, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
So Late in The Day, by Claire Keegan
Day, by Michael Cunningham
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion, by Charlie Porter
The Farmer’s Wife, by Helen Rebanks
Politics on the Edge, by Rory Stewart
Blood in the Machine, by Brian Merchant
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, by Sara Ahmed
Ways of Curating, by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Index, A History of The, by Dennis Duncan
The Creative Act: a way of being, by Rick Rubin
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, by Janet Malcolm
The Story of Art without Men, by Katy Hessel
Friendaholic: confessions of a friendship addict, by Elizabeth Day
Small Fires: an epic in the kitchen, by Rebecca May Johnson
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, by Michael Ausiello
How to Build a Boat, by Elaine Feeney
Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton
The English Understand Wool, by Helen Dewitt
August Blue, by Deborah Levy
Thunderclap, by Laura Cumming
Arrangements in Blue, by Amy Key
A Line in the World, by Dorthe Nors
Super-Infinite: the transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell
The Red Tenda of Bologna, by John Berger
Cacophony of Bone, by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Also a Poet, by Ada Calhoun
Stay True, by Hua Hsu
God is an Octopus, by Ben Goldsmith
The Ragged Grace, by Octavia Bright