A list of the books I’ve finished since August 20th 2018, replacing my older blog posts. I’m increasingly using these lists as a way to jog my memory and the fragmented blog posts aren’t very useful for that.
- Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class And How They Got There by David Brooks
- Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Advertising Industry by Ken Auletta
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas by Daniel Drezner
- Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill
- The Road by Cormack McCarthy
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway
- Fear: Trump in the Whitehouse by Bob Woodward
- Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over The World by Will Davies
- Crudo: A Novel by Olivia Laing
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
- Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman
- Left Hemisphere: Mapping Contemporary Theory by Razmig Keucheyan
- Stand Out Of Our Light by James Williams
- Like A Thief In Broad Daylight by Slavoj Zizek
- Stars and Bars by William Boyd
- He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
- Moneyland by Oliver Bullough
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online by Crystal Abidin
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Becoming by Michelle Obama (to the bewilderment of some in my life)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- The Future That Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed
- The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
- Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
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