Paperback writer. 12 years of reading

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