For my own record, a list of the books I’ve read; with finish dates, formats, and star ratings.
Currently Reading
- 臺北人, 白先勇 (PB, Used)
- Cold, Ranulph Fiennes (EB)
- Around The World By Bike, Alastair Humphreys (AB)
- The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson (HB, Used)
Read
2024
- 04/25: Saluton! Esperanto Aŭtodidakte, Audrey Childs-Mee ★★★★★
- 04/24: Tahiti: Isle of Dreams, Robert Keable (HB, Used) ★★★★
- 04/15: Antarctic Photographs, 1910-1916: Scott, Mawson and Shackleton Expeditions (HB, Used) ★★★★
- 04/10: There Are Other Rivers, Alastair Humphreys (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 04/05: The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz (EB) ★★★★★
- 04/04: The Antidote, Oliver Burkeman (EB) ★★★★
- 04/02: The Art of Invisibility, Kevin Mitnick (PB) ★★★
- 03/31: In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 03/17: Making It So, Patrick Stewart (AB) ★★★
- 03/08: Moonwalk, Michael Jackson (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 03/01: Deep, James Nestor (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 02/22: Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 02/21: Dune, Frank Herbert (AB) ★★★★
- 02/03: A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (PB, Used) ★★★
- 02/02: Deep Descent, Kevin F. McMurray (PB, Used) ★★★
- 01/23: Ultra-Processed People, Chris van Tulleken (AB) ★★★★★
- 01/21: Ice Bird, David Lewis (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 01/01: Shackleton’s Boat Journey, F. A. Worsley (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
2023
- 12/31: The Lost Men, Kelly Tyler-Lewis (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 12/17: Pitcairn’s Island, Nordhoff/Hall (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 12/13: Men Against The Sea, Nordhoff/Hall (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 12/07: Mutiny on the Bounty, Nordhoff/Hall (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 11/29: Shackleton, Ranulph Fiennes (AB) ★★★★
- 10/26: Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 10/15: The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank (PB, Used) ★★★
- 10/06: Vecinos del Infierno, Juan Fernandez (EB) ★★★
- 10/03: The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 08/31: Tahiti, Dora Hort (HB, Used) ★★★★
- 08/06: Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick (PB, New) ★★★★★
- 07/15: The Three-Body Problem, Ci-Xin Liu (AB, Library) ★★
- 07/13: They Called Us Enemy, George Takei (HB, Used) ★★★★
- 07/10: The Road to Station X, Sarah Baring (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 07/04: Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence (PB, Used) ★★★
- 07/01: Games People Play, Eric Berne (PB, Used) ★★★
- 06/21: On a Chinese Screen, W. Somerset Maugham (PB, Used) ★★★
- 06/02: Master of Go, Yasunari Kawabata (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 05/30: The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, Mark Seal (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 05/29: The Bridge Over The River Kwai, Pierre Boulle (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 05/22: The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thomson (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 05/20: My Life and Times, Jerome K. Jerome (PB, Used) ★★★
- 05/05: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 05/02: How Much Land Does A Man Need, Leo Tolstoy (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 05/01: All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (AB, Library) ★★★
- 04/30: The Happy Island, Bengt Danielsson (HB, Used) ★★★★
- 03/07: Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 02/25: Gerda Malaperis!, Claude Piron (EB) ★★★
- 02/14: Walk With Me in Sound, Thich Nhat Hanh (AB, Library) ★★★★★
- 02/06: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 01/29: My Father’s Island, Johanna Angermeyer (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 01/07: Man on his Island, James S. Rockefeller Jr (HB, Used) ★★★★★
2022
- 12/26: My Midsummer Morning, Alastair Humphreys (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 12/12: Tinkerbelle, Robert Manry (HB, Used) ★★★★★
- 12/10: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 12/02: Geniuses at War, David A. Price (AB, Library) ★★★
- 11/10: The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (AB, Library) ★★★★★
- 11/05: Teach Yourself Esperanto, Cresswell & Hartley (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 10/31: Chastise, (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 10/18: Absolute Friends, John Le Carré (AB, Library) ★★★
- 10/12: The Governor, Vanessa Frake (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 10/04: October, October, Katya Balen (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 09/19: The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 09/13: Surviving the Storms, The RNLI (PB, Used) ★★★
- 09/10: The Autobiography of a Thief, Bruce Reynolds (PB, Used) ★★★
- 09/08: The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 08/31: Call of the Wild, Jack London (AB, Library) ★★★★★
- 08/29: Fastnet, Force 10, John Rousmaniere (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 08/27: Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 08/18: The Lives of Nansen and Amundsen, Hans Olav Thyvold (HB) ★★★★
- 08/17: The Way Home, Mark Boyle (AB, Library) ★★★
- 08/13: An Unsung Hero, Michael Smith (PB) ★★★★
- 08/12: Do No Harm, Henry Marsh (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 08/04: Walking Home, Clare Balding (AB, Library) ★★★
- 07/31: The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 07/26: An African in Greenland, Tété-Michel Kpomassie (PB) ★★★★
- 07/23: Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (AB, Library) ★★★
- 07/18: The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 07/16: Between Silk and Cyanide, Leo Marks (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 07/11: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 07/04: Afloat, Guy de Maupassant (HB, Used) ★★
- 07/02: Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 06/27: A Time to Keep Silence, Patrick Leigh Fermor (PB, Used) ★★
- 06/26: Alone on the Ice, David Roberts (AB, Library) ★★★★★
- 06/21: Big Fish, Daniel Wallace (PB, Loan) ★★
- 06/17: Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming (AB, Library) ★★★
- 06/14: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse, Charlie Mackesy (HB, Loan) ★★★★
- 06/13: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (PB, Used) ★★
- 06/10: The Tree, John Fowles (HB, Loan) ★★★
- 06/08: Killing Floor, Lee Child (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 06/03: Slow Horses, Mick Herron (PB) ★★★
- 05/29: South: The Endurance Expedition, Ernest Shackleton (PB) ★★★
- 05/13: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson (EB, Library) ★★★★
- 05/07: The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson (AB, Library) ★★★
- 04/08: The Stolen Bicycle, Wu Ming-Yi (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 03/20: Watching the Tree, Adeline Yen Mah (PB, Loan) ★★
- 03/15: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (AB, Library) ★★★★
- 03/12: A Whole Life, Robert Seethaler (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 03/10: From Far Formosa, George Leslie MacKay (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 03/04: FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, Michael W Lucas (EB) ★★★★
- 02/23: FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, Michael W Lucas (EB) ★★★★
- 02/04: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (PB, Used) ★★★
- 01/30: Quiet, Susan Cain (PB, Loan) ★★★½
- 01/20: The Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie Jaku (EB) ★★★★
- 01/16: Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 01/13: The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 01/03: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
2021
- 12/26: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 12/17: Lord of the Flies, William Golding (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 12/11: Touching the Void, Joe Simpson (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 12/06: The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Guevara (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 11/29: The Journey to the East, Hermann Hesse (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 11/27: Casino Royale, Ian Fleming (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 11/24: In Search of Tusitala, Gavin Bell (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 11/14: Solaris, Stanislaw Lem (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 11/09: The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (AB) ★★★
- 11/06: La Maratón, Paco Ardit (EB) ★★★
- 10/18: Frankenstein Mary Shelley (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 10/13: Dune, Frank Herbert (AB) ★★★★
- 10/12: Perro que habla no muerde, Paco Ardit (EB) ★★★★
- 09/11: Climate Change in Simple Spanish, Olly Richards (EB) ★★★★
- 08/15: Permanent Record, Edward Snowden (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 07/31: Pioneering in Formosa, William A. Pickering (HB, Loan) ★★★★
- 07/12: 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff (PB) ★★
- 07/05: Dances With Wolves, Michael Blake (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 06/28: Perfume, Patrick Süskind (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 06/20: F2F, Phillip Finch (PB, Used) ★★★
- 06/16: Intimacy, Hanif Kureishi (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 06/15: Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 06/10: Out of China, Macabe Keliher (HB, Loan) ★★★★
- 06/09: Fatu-Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 05/31: Race to Dakar, Charley Boorman (PB, Used) ★★★
- 05/27: Berserk, David Mercy (HB, Loan) ★★★★
- 05/16: Coasting, Jonathan Raban (PB, Used) ★★★
- 05/09: No Place For Men, Peter Mulgrew (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 05/05: Hole In My Life, Jack Gantos (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 04/06: Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 04/05: ‘Utulei, Patricia Ledyard (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 03/23: Friendly Island, Patricia Ledyard (PB, Used) ★★★
- 01/03: Beyond the West Horizon, Eric Hiscock (PB, Used) ★★★
2020
- 12/29: In the beginning… was the command line, Neal Stephenson (PB) ★★★
- 12/28: Around the world in Wanderer III, Eric Hiscock (PB, Used) ★★★★★
- 12/18: Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive, Gordon Smith-Durán (EB) ★★★★
- 12/18: Una Chica Triste, Juan Fernandez (EB) ★★★★
- 12/06: Raising the Dead, Phillip Finch (PB) ★★★★★
- 11/30: Snow Petrel, Jon Tucker (PB) ★★★★★
- 11/26: No Law, No God, Mike Golding (PB, Used) ★★★
- 11/20: Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 11/12: Historia del Año, Juan Fernandez (EB) ★★★★
- 10/22: Silence, Shūsaku Endō (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 10/19: Illustrated History of Taiwan, Wan-Yao Chou (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 09/25: Martin Eden, Jack London (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 09/10: Año Nuevo, Vida Nueva, Juan Fernandez (EB) ★★★★
- 08/24: Stepping into Freedom, Thich Nhat Hanh (PB) ★★★★
- 08/19: The Long Valley, John Steinbeck (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 08/17: Anger, Thich Nhat Hanh (EB) ★★★
- 08/15: The Taming of the Crew, Michael Brown (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 08/08: The Pearl, John Steinbeck (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 08/08: An Island to Myself, Tom Neale (HB, Used) ★★★★★
- 08/02: Fantasmas del Pasado, Juan Fernandez (EB) ★★★
- 08/02: The Art of Living, Thich Nhat Hanh (EB) ★★★★
- 07/26: The Greatest Race in the World, J. R. L. Anderson (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 07/23: Journey Through Europe, John Hillaby (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 07/17: Journey Through Britain, John Hillaby (PB, Used) ★★★
- 07/13: Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 07/11: Stig of the Dump, Clive King (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 07/09: The Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 07/06: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 07/05: Hard Times, Charles Dickens (PB, Loan) ★★
- 06/14: Animal Farm, George Orwell (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 06/01: Conversations with My Gardener, Henri Cueco (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 01/11: Allons Enfants, Linda Burgess (PB, Loan) ★★
- 01/08: The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 01/01: The Cuckoo’s Egg, Clifford Stoll (PB, Loan) ★★★★
2019
- 12/25: The Midnight Line, Lee Child (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 12/18: Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein (PB) ★★★★★
- 12/08: The World Peace Journals, Ben Gilbert (PB) ★★★★
- 11/25: Sailing Alone Around The World, Captain Joshua Slocum (PB) ★★★★★
- 11/17: Behind The Wall, Colin Thubron (PB) ★★★★
- 11/09: Flash Boys, Michael Lewis (HB, Loan) ★★★★
- 11/05: Walking, Erling Kagge (EB) ★★★★★
- 11/04: Emotional Blackmail, Susan Forward (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 10/30: When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön (EB) ★★★
- 10/29: Historias de México, Genevieve Barlow (PB) ★★★★
- 10/20: A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (EB) ★★★★★
- 10/16: The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell (PB, Loan) ★★★★
- 10/13: Looking for the Lost, Alan Booth (PB) ★★★★
- 09/23: Waking Up, Sam Harris (EB) ★★★
- 09/20: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (EB) ★★★★
- 09/30: Trans-Siberian Adventures, Matthew Woodward (EB) ★★★
- 09/07: The Road, Cormac McCarthy (EB) ★★★★★
- 08/31: Jupiter’s Travels, Ted Simon (EB) ★★★★
- 08/20: 1984, George Orwell (PB, Loan) ★★★
- 08/12: The Black Echo, Michael Connelly (EB) ★★★★
- 06/25: Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (EB) ★★★★
- 06/20: Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin (EB) ★★★★
- 06/20: The Roads to Sata, Alan Booth (PB) ★★★★★
- 05/16: Down and Out in Paris and London (PB, Loan) ★★★★★
- 05/12: Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly (PB) ★★★★
- 04/05: Foundation, Isaac Asimov (PB) ★★★★
- 03/31: Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott (PB) ★★★★
- 03/23: Illusions, Richard Bach (PB) ★★★★★
- 03/20: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (PB) ★★★★★
- 03/09: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (PB, Used) ★★★★
- 02/17: Happy, Derren Brown (EB) ★★★★★
- 02/09: La Profe de Español, Juan Fernández (EB) ★★★★
- 02/08: Goodbye Things, Fumio Sasaki (EB) ★★★★
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