These are the books on the list, in no particular order. They are not all in English; I will provide a translated title if one exists in English. I bought many of these books. Some of these were started but never finished, often because some life event happened. I think for some of them I just wasn’t into it at the time. Some were gifted our found, and a few are actually Declan’s books in our shared Kindle library. I know I have in fact read a few of these but since I have no memory of them at all, not even of reading them, I have included them on the list. I hope to give them all a fair chance this time.
Physical books
- Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
- Classic Cat Stories by Becky Brown
- Parábola del Náufrago by Miguel Delibes
- A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
- Farándula by Marta Sanz
- La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
- En busca del unicornio by Juan Eslava Galán
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- L’Ingratitude by Ying Chen
- El prisionero del cielo by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Thirty-two words for field by Manchán Magan
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
- El último catón by Matilde Asensi
- Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
- Return from the dead by David Stuart Davies
- Letter to my younger self by Jane Graham
- Nada by Carmen Laforet
- The faster I walk, the smaller I am by Kjersti A Skomsvold
- Molloy by Samuel Beckett
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- A game of thrones by George R.R. Martin
- The travelling cat chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- I am a cat by Natsume Soseki
- Salmon fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
- The sinner by Tess Gerritsen
- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea by Yukio Mishima
- The horizontal instrument by Christopher Wilkins
- An imaginative experience by Mary Wesley
- The dark fields by Alan Glynn
- Emprise by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Ícaro by Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa
- O caçador de pipas by Khaled Hosseini
- The last templar by Raymond Khoury
- China by Edward Rutherfurd
Digital books
- The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
- Memorias póstumas de Braz Cubas by Machado de Assis
- Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Journey to the centre of the earth by Jules Verne
- Notes of a naïve traveler by Jennifer S. Alderson
- Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno
- Three men in a boat by Jerome J Jerome
- A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
- Candide by Voltaire
- Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
- La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas
- The choice by Edith Eger
- The 5:2 diet by Kate Harrison
- Stranger in a strange land by Robert A Heinlein
- Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
- The unwomanly face of war by Svetlana Alexievich
- Women & Power by Mary Beard
- On the shortness of life by Seneca the Younger
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall
- Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman by Richard P Feynman
- God is not great by Christopher Hitchens
- The rise and fall of the great powers by Paul Kennedy
- The reason for God by Timothy Keller
- His dark materials by Philip Pullman
- The ten types of human by Dexter Dias
- Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood
- First they killed my father by Loung Ung
- Into the black by Rowland White
- Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- The book thief by Markus Zusak
- The road by Cormac McCarthy
- The virgin suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Ready player one by Ernest Cline
- Diversify by June Sarpong
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
- The cider house rules by John Irving
- The poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The second world war by Antony Beevor
- The lollipop shoes by Joanne Harris
- A house for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul
- A people’s history of the United States by Howard Zinn
- 2001: A space odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
- Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
- The butchering art by Lindsey Fitzharris
- I’m absolutely fine! by Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan
- Games people play by Eric Berne
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Algorithms to live by by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
- The ragged edge of night by Olivia Hawker
- The hate u give by Angie Thomas
- Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K Dick
- Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
- Seven years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
- The darkening age by Catherine Nixey
- Blitzed by Normal Ohler
- On tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
- Collaborative Intelligence by Dawna Markova and Angie McArthur
- Turn the ship around! by L David Marquet
- Belonging by Simon Schama
- Sing, unburied, sing by Jesmyn Ward
- The city of brass by S A Chakraborty
- Sprint by Jake Knapp
- In the days of rain by Rebecca Stott
- The miracle of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
- The secret speech by Tom Rob Smith
- The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The meaning of pain by Nick Potter
- Time to think by Nancy Kline
- A man on the moon by Andrew Chaikin
- I remember nothing by Nora Ephron
- Essays by George Orwell
- The four tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
- The lovely bones by Alice Sebold
- Papillon by Henri Charrière
- The Great Mental Models Vol I by Shane Parrish
- Exponential by Azeem Azhar
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Girl, interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
- Animal vegetable criminal by Mary Roach
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Rubicon by Tom Holland
- Electrified sheep by Alex Boes
- Men who hate women by Laura Bates
- A vindication of the rights of woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Bad Signs by R J Ellory
- Replaceable you by Mary Roach
- Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
- Chernobyl 01:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow
- Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Audiobooks
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- A column of fire by Ken Follett
- Permanent record by Edward Snowden
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The power of habit by Charles Duhigg
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J R R Tolkien