- The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
- 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)

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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!*)
- Brand New Ancients – Kate Tempest
- The Encyclopedia of the Dead – Danilo Kiš
- Penguin Island – Anatole France
- The Interpreter – Diego Marani
- Levels of Life – Julian Barnes
- The Philosopher’s Apprentice – James Morrow
- The Enlightenment (Oxford VSI) – John Robertson