Sitting on the bed on NYE 2000, reading a trashy paperback , I decided to record what I read, at least for a while.
In some ways I wish I’d kept more details, but then I would have stopped sooner. It’s fun to see them in the order they were read, to see the clusters and so on. Maybe one day, I’ll map them against the course of my life, jobs, homes, family events, and so on. Or not 🙂
2001
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Idoru – William Gibson
About a Boy – Nick Hornby
East and West – Chris Patten
The Last Precinct – Patricia Cornwall
Riding the Rap – Elmore Leonard
In Good Company – Cohen and Prusak
The Mile High Club – Kinky Friedman
Starship Titanic – Terry Gilliam
The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
Faster – James Gleick
7 Habits of highly effective people – Stephen Covey
Area 7 – Matthew Riley
Speed – James Gleick
Chaos – James Gleick
Visual display of quantitative information – Edward R Tufte
Dead white males (play) – David Williamson
Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C Clarke
How to be good – Nick Hornby
2002
USSA – David Maddsen
Word of honour – Nelson DeMille
Detox – Penelope Sachs
Plan your work, work your plan – James Sheridan
The true history of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey
Greenwich killing time – Kinky Friedman
The Bear and the Dragon – Tom Clancy
The Trusted Advisor – David Maister
The Book of Excellence – Byrd Bagget
Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
Steppin on a Rainbow – Kinky Friedman
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
French country cooking – Elizabeth David
Selected poems – Robert Lowell
Soul on ice – Eldridge Cleaver
The springboard – Stephen Denning
The Shadow Man – John Katzenbach
Among equals – David Maister
History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
History of Australia – Manning Clark
2003
That ole ace in the hole – Annie Proulx
The Spike – Damian Broderick
The Charisma Effect – Desmond Guilfoyle
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Consilience – Edward O Wilson
How to win friends and influence people – Dale Carnegie
Postmodernism for beginners – Jim Powell
Love song of J Edgar Hoover – Kinky Friedman
Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman – Richard Feynman
Red Rabbit – Tom Clancy
Blast from the past – Kinky Friedman
Harry Potter & the philosophers stone – JK Rowling
Zero Space – Frank Lepanne Deprez & Rene Tissen
Harry Potter & the chamber of secrets – JK Rowling
Brideshead revisted – Evelyn Waugh
Harry Potter & the prisoner of Azkeban – JK Rowling
Winning is kids’ stuff – Denis Baker
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
Teaching soccer fundamentals – Nelson McAvoy
Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix – JK Rowling
Contact – Carl Sagan
Soccer skills – Michael Owen
The Universe – DK Books
God Bless John Wayne – Kinky Friedman
A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson
2004
The teeth of the tiger – Tom Clancy
Mind of a manager, soul of a leader – Craig Hickman
The knowledge web – James Burke
The Silmarillion – JRR Tolkien
Zarafa – Michael Allin
Equation for evil – Philip Caputo
The wisdom of crocodiles – Paul Hoffman
The Da Vinci code – Dan Brown
Catcher in the rye – JD Salinger
For Esme – With love and squalor – JD Salinger
31 songs – Nick Hornby
Armadillos and old lace – Kinky Friedman
Going solo – Roald Dahl
Weapons of choice – John Birmingham
Conversations with Feynman – Leonard Mlodinow
Past Mortem – Ben Elton
In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
2005
Bridget Jones Edge of Reason – Helen Fielding
Designated Targets – John Birmingham
Notes from a big country – Bill Bryson
2006
The Last Empire – Gore Vidal
Maximum Bob – Elmore Leonard
Zodiac – Neal Stephenson
Imperial Ambitions – Noam Chomsky
Inventing a nation – Gore Vidal
Dis Information – Dr Karl Kruszenicki
Freakonomics – Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Harry Potter and the half blood prince – JK Rowling
Unconscious civilisation – John Ralston Saul
Tintin in South America – Herge
Everything bad is good for you – Tony Johnston
Consulting Demons – Lewis Pinault
Political ideas – David Thomson (ed)
Final Conflict WW2.3 – John Birmingham
A long way down – Nick Hornby
The Riders – Tim Winton
A midsummer night’s dream – William Shakespeare
Ice station – Matthew Reilly
The business – Iain Banks
Things fall apart – Chinua Achebe
The Time Travellers – Simon Guerrier
Tricky business – Dave Barry
Our days are few – Martin Godleman
Revolution in the revolution – Regis Debray
2007
The Google Story – David Vise & Mark Malseed
Chronicles – Bob Dylan
Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Statistics without tears – Derek Rowntree
Clockers – Richard Price
Willie’s Bar and Grill – Rob Hirst
Dr Who: Venderkerken’s Children – Christopher Bulis
Contact Zero – David Wolstencroft
1776 – David McCullough
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
Light in August – William Faulkner
Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
Jingo – Terry Pratchett
The New CIO Leader – Marianne Broadbent
The Bourne Legacy – Eric Von Lustbader
Making Money – Terry Pratchett
My Place – Sally Morgan
Carpentaria – Alexis Wright
Beach Road – James Patterson
2008
Blind Faith – Ben Elton
Jack and Jill – James Patterson
Odd One Out – Monica McInerny
H+ – Edward de Bono
Do I get a drop? – Doug Anderson
Flawless Consulting – Peter Block
The Big Bad Wolf – James Patterson
Cross – James Patterson
The Ambler Warning – Robert Ludlum
2009
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gadwell
Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud – Jonathan Safran Foer
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
The Meeting of the Waters –
Caisal Mor
The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Nifenegger
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
State of Fear – Michael Crichton
City of Falling Angels – John Berendt
Breath – Tim Winton
The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Saturday – Ian McEwan
Bombproof – Michael Robotham
The household guide to dying – Deborah Adelaide
The Leopard – Tomasi da Lapadusa
No 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
The white tiger – Aravinda Adiga
Surveillence – Jonathan Raban
The pleasures and sorrows of work – Alain De Botton
The missing symbol – Dan Brown
The meaning of recognition – Clive James
High Voltage RocknRoll – Christie Elezer
The complete polysyllabic spree – Nick Hornby
Lost in translation – screenplay – Sofia Coppola
Into the wild – Jon Krakauer
Shakespeare – Bill Bryson
Clive James – North Face of Soho
Hamlet & Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead Study Guide – Lloyd Cameron & Rebecca Barnes
Life’s a pitch – Stephen Bailey & Roger Mavity
Juliet Naked – Nick Hornby
A Week At The Airport – Alain De Botton
The lost continent – Bill Bryson
2010
More than a game – John Major
Not a star – Nick Hornby
How Proust can change your life – Alain De Botton
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The Art of Travel – Alain De Botton
In a sunburned country – Bill Bryson
An Education – Nick Hornby
Dance, Dance, Dance – Huraki Murikami
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
My Favourite Year – Nick Hornby (Ed)
Cosmopolis – Don DeLillo
Through the Land of Fire – Ben Pester
Beautiful Evidence – Edward Tufte
Memory of Running – Ron McLarty
Imperium – Robert Harris
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf in 90 mins – Paul Strathern
Ancient Rome – Peter Ackroyd
The other hand – Chris Cleave
History of Philosophy – Bryan Magee
Mix Tape – Thurston Moore
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks
State building – Francis Fukayama
Consolations of Philosophy -Alain De Botton
Trim – Matthew Flinders
On Reading – Marcel Proust
Enough Rope 2 – Andrew Denton
And Another Thing – Eoin Colfer
Social Media 101 – Chris Brogan
Confederates in the Attic – Tony Horwitz
Norwegian Wood – Huraki Murikami
Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemier Hansson
Bon Appetit – Peter Mayle
Solar – IanMcEwan
On Chesil Beach – IanMcEwan
Life studies – Robert Lowell
The Boat – Nam Le
Red Dog – Louis de Bernieres
The World Is Flat – Thomas L Friedman
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Zero History – William Gibson
Click – Various
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
HBR: On Creativity, Innovation and Renewal – Hesselbien and Johnston (EDS)
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Romulus My Father – Raimond Gaita
Design Thinking – Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
When Managers Rebel – David Courpasson & Jean-Claude Theonig
2011
Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneurs
The back of the napkin – Dan Roam
Captain’s Innings – Keith Fletcher
Devil May Care – Sebastian Faulkes (as Ian Fleming)
Star Trek Mission’s End – Ty Templeton and Stephen Molnar
Away – Michael Gow
Brand Media Strategy – Antony Young
Ten Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Hell Island – Matthew Reilly
Atlantic – Simon Winchester
After Dark – Huraki Murikami
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Philip K Dick
Homage to Barcelona – Colm Toibin
Gaudi – Yukio Futagawa
Javier Mariscal – Designing the New Spain – Emma Dent Coad
Essays In Love – Alain de Botton
Phuket Encounter – Adam Skolnick
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist – Rachel Cohn and David Leviston
Heroes of a Texas Childhood – Kinky Friedman
Generation A – Douglas Coupland
Bossypants – Tina Fey
Mythology – Edith Hamilton
The Information – James Gleick
Without Warning – John Birmingham
The Arrivals – Meg Mitchell Moore
A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush – Eric Newby
Reamde – Neal Stephenson
2012
Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid – Chuck Ware
11.22.63 – Stephen King
On bullshit – Harry G Frankfurt
The Seed – Kate Mulvany
Hela – the Henrietta Lacks story – Rebecca Skloot
Spice – Ian Hemphill
Song lines – Bruce Chatwin
The Paris Option – Robert Ludlum
Truth – Peter Temple
The Bicycle Book – Bella Bathurst
Marching Powder – Rusty Young
Death of a cruise ship – Tom O’Connor
