Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age by Susan Neiman (philosophy)
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick (physics, philosophy & literature)
The Trial of Roger Casement – Fiona Doran (graphic novel)
A Field Guide to Reality – Joanna Kavenna (pretentious, pseudo-intellectual and hollow)
The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle (science fiction!)
Journey’s End – R. C. Sherriff (play)
IDP: 2043 – collaborative graphic novel by Barroux, Mary Talbot & Kate Charlesworth, Pat Mills & Hannah Berry, Irvine Welsh & Dan McDaid, Adam Murphy & Will Morris. Story editor: Denise Mina. (graphic novel)
A Philosophy of Tragedy – Christopher Hamilton
Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God – Peter Watson (history of atheism since Nietzsche, recommended!)
Moon Cop – Tom Gauld (graphic novel, recommended)
The Ask and the Answer – Patrick Ness
The Undiscovered Self – Carl Jung
The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
Playthings – Alex Pheby (recommended!)
Playing to the Gallery – Grayson Perry
A Whole Life – Robert Seethaler (Wanted to like it, couldn’t. Felt forced & contrived.)
The Gifts of Reading – Robert Macfarlane
Both – Tom Gauld and Simone Lia (graphic novel)
The Human Front – Ken MacLeod
On Reading Writing and Living with Books (Pushkin Press/The London Library)
Seveneves – Neal Stephenson (Gave up on p. 326. Generally readable, but appallingly written characters — zero understanding of human nature.)
Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth (Pushkin Press/The London Library — recommended)
True West (play) – Sam Shepard
Green Tea – Sheridan Le Fanu
German Literature (Oxford VSI) – Nicholas Boyle
Death in Rome – Wolfgang Koeppen (translated by Michael Hofmann)
Campo Santo – W.G. Sebald
Philoktetes – Sophocles (translated by James Scully)
Burning Paradise – Robert Charles Wilson
Faber New Poets: No. 16 – Rachel Curzon
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison (recommended)
The Diary of a Provincial Lady – E.M. Delafield
Medea – Euripides – translated by Robin Robertson (recommended)
The cover image captures the feeling perfectly.
The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming (recommended)
A Sleep and a Forgetting – William Dean Howells
A Descent into the Maelström – Edgar Allan Poe
The Noise of Time – Julian Barnes
The Gods Themselves – Isaac Asimov
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters – Adam Nicolson (*recommended!*)
