Each year I put together a reading list to record what I’ve read in the past 12 months. Here are the lists for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The goal is to have a quick reference guide of what I’ve been reading - and how it has shaped my worldview.
The list includes both paperbacks and audiobooks.
| Title | Author | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
The World As It Is | Ben Rhodes | PoliticsBiography | 4 |
Outlive | Peter Attia | Health | 5 |
After the Fall | Ben Rhodes | PoliticsGlobal affairs | 3 |
Writing Down the Bones | Natalie Goldberg | Self-help | 3 |
Monkey Grip | Helen Garner | Fiction | 4 |
The Golden Country | Tim Watts | PoliticsGlobal affairs | 4 |
Discipline is Destiny | Ryan Holiday | Self-helpHistory | 4 |
Crucial Conversations | Joseph Grenny et al | LeadershipSelf-help | DNF |
Good Economics for Hard Times | Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Economics | |
Civilization | Niall Ferguson | History | DNF |
How Proust can Change Your Life | Alan De Button | Philosophy | |
On Writing Well | William Zinsser | Self-help | 5 |
Everywhere I Look | Helen Garner | Essays | |
The Big Switch | Saul Griffiths | TechnologyEconomics | 5 |
This Divided Island | Samanth Subramanian | Global affairsHistory | |
Voices of Us | Tim Dunlop | Politics | 4 |
Solved | Andrew Wear | EconomicsGlobal affairs | 4 |
Every Man for Himself and God Against All | Werner Herzog | Biography | DNF |
Slow Productivity | Cal Newport | Self-helpLeadership | 5 |
Honest Chat | Dylan Buckley | Biography | DNF |
The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | HealthSelf-help | 4 |
QE 93: Bad Cop | Lech Blaine | BiographyPolitics | 5 |
The Echidna Strategy | Sam Roggeveen | PoliticsGlobal affairs | 5 |
Unreasonable Hospitality | Will Guidara | BiographyLeadership | DNF |
Chinaman | Shehan Karunatilaka | Fiction | 3 |
Plans For Your Good | Scott Morrison | BiographyPolitics | 4 |
Hearts & Minds | Chris Bowen | BiographyPolitics | |
The FIve Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | Leadership | 5 |
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | Fiction | |
Hilbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance | Biography | 3 |
QE 86: Sleepwalk to War | Hugh White | Global affairs | 3 |
Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | Health | 3 |
Bad Therapy | Abigail Shrier | HealthSelf-help | 3 |
Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | EconomicsGlobal affairs | 3 |
A Place of Greater Safety | Hilary Mantel | Fiction |