Books

This is my digital bookshelf, it contains lists of the books I have read since 2021 and includes a (1-5)⭐ rating for each.

Within each genre, the lists are roughly in the order in which I read them.

Books marked with a 🛸 have been read in the current calendar year.

Fiction¶

Fantasy¶

• The Fellowship of the Ring, John.R.R Tolkien, 4 ⭐

• The Two Towers, John.R.R Tolkien, 4 ⭐

• The Return of the King, John.R.R Tolkien, 4 ⭐

• The Hobbit, John.R.R Tolkien, 5 ⭐

Science Fiction¶

• Dune, Frank Herbert, 5 ⭐

• Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert, 4 ⭐

• Children of Dune, Frank Herbert, 2 ⭐

• The Player of Games, Iain Banks, 4 ⭐

• Earthlight, Arthur C. Clarke, 3 ⭐

• Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 5 ⭐

• Forever War, Joe Haldeman, 4 ⭐

• Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 4 ⭐

• Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov, 3 ⭐

• The Early Asimov - Volume 1, Isaac Asimov, 3 ⭐

• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 3 ⭐

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 4 ⭐

• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 4 ⭐

• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, 5 ⭐

• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein, 4 ⭐

• Foundations Edge, Isaac Asimov, 3 ⭐

• The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin, 5 ⭐

• The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin, 4 ⭐

• Deaths End, Liu Cixin, 4 ⭐

• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 5 ⭐

• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 5 ⭐

• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin, 4 ⭐

• Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds, 5 ⭐

• Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan, 5 ⭐

• Old Mans War, John Scalzi, 3 ⭐

• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 3 ⭐ 🛸

• War of the Worlds, H.G.Wells, 3 ⭐ 🛸

Spy¶

• Damascus Station, David McCloskey, 4 ⭐

• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré, 5 ⭐ 🛸

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré, 5 ⭐ 🛸

Other¶

• Where The Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens, 5 ⭐

• A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines, 4 ⭐

Non-Fiction¶

Science¶

• Life 3.0, Max Tegmark, 4 ⭐

• Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet, George Monbiot, 4 ⭐

• The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli, 3 ⭐

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte, 5 ⭐

Politics¶

• How Civil Wars Start, Barbara F. Walter, 5 ⭐

• How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn’t, Ian Dunt, 5 ⭐

• Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart, 4 ⭐

Economics¶

• Brexitland, Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, 5 ⭐

• Economics: A User’s Guide, Ha-Joon Chang, 5 ⭐

• Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman, 3 ⭐

• How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, Erik Olin Wright, 3 ⭐

• Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth, 4 ⭐

• The Money Machine: How the City Works, Philip Coggan, 3 ⭐

History¶

• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple, 5 ⭐

Data¶