Reading 2024

January

  • River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads, Cat Jarman
  • Draft No.4: On the Writing Process, John McPhee
  • Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
  • The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander (audio)
  • Sharpe’s Command, Bernard Cornwell
  • Prophet Song, Paul Lynch (audio)
  • Atomic Habits, James Clear (audio)

February

  • The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
  • Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain, Amy Jeffs

March

  • Home, Marilynn Robinson
  • Remembrance of Things Past: Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust, narrated by John Rowe, translation Scott Moncrieff (audio)

April

  • Slow Productivity, Cal Newport

May

  • Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain, Amy Jeffs
  • The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

June

  • The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology, Otto Rank
  • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success, Scott Galloway
  • The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday
  • Elite Performance for Managers, Talbot Stark

July

  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
  • Novelist As a Vocation, Haruki Murakami

August

  • Anima: A Wild Pastoral, Kapka Kassabova
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
  • The Way of the Champion, Paul Rabil (audio)

September

  • The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff (audio)
  • Blue Ocean Strategy, W.Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (audio)

October

  • Lost Realms: Histories of Britain From the Romas to the Vikings, Thomas Williams

November

  • The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han
  • I, Julian, Claire Gilbert

December

  • Essex Dogs, Dan Snow
  • The Kingdom and the Garden, Giorgio Agamben
  • Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling, Philip Pullman