The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

John Wooden

Books finished in 2025

21-01-2025: Talking with Tech Leads by Patrick Kua

16-01-2025: Too Many Women by Rex Stout

Books finished in 2024

31-12-2024: The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

14-12-2024: Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout

04-12-2024: Black Orchids by Rex Stout

14-11-2024: Akira - Complete Collection (Vol. 1-38) by Katsuhiro Otomo

05-11-2024: The Known World by Edward P Jones

08-10-2024: Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry

16-07-2024: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

14-07-2024: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

04-06-2024: Testrit in Moskou by Dick Francis (Translated to Dutch by P H Ottenhof)

10-05-2024: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

05-05-2024: Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman

01-05-2024: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh

23-04-2024: Here is New York by E B White

22-04-2024: Where There's a Will by Rex Stout

09-04-2024: Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

31-03-2024: Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo

03-02-2024: Very Good, Jeeves! by P G Wodehouse

01-02-2024: Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy Sayers

13-01-2024: Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout

05-01-2024: Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout

Books finished in 2023

30-12-2023: Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout

19-12-2023: Carry on, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

27-11-2023: The Red Box by Rex Stout

22-11-2023: Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S Grant

20-11-2023: The Rubber Band by Rex Stout

21-10-2023: Anna of all the Russias: The life of Anna Akhmatova by Elaine Feinstein

02-09-2023: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

28-07-2023: The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout

09-07-2023: Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

06-06-2023: La Nuit du Carrefour by Georges Simenon

12-04-2023: Cœur Brûle et Autres Romances by J M G le Clézio

28-02-2023: Le Chien Jaune by Georges Simenon

04-02-2023: La Tête d'un Homme by Georges Simenon

19-01-2023: The Civil War by Julius Caesar (Translated to English by Jane F Gardner)

Books finished in 2022

28-12-2022: Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

13-12-2022: The Connoisseur by Evan S Connell

16-10-2022: Time and Again by Jack Finney

10-10-2022: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

06-09-2022: At Mrs Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor

26-08-2022: The War With Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation, Books 21-30 by Livy (Translated to English by Aubrey de Sélincourt)

01-08-2022: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

18-07-2022: Call For the Dead by John Le Carré

10-07-2022: The Stone Sky by N K Jemisin

02-07-2022: The Obelisk Gate by N K Jemisin

11-06-2022: The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin

31-05-2022: Dune by Frank Herbert

07-04-2022: Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

17-03-2022: Runaway by Alice Munro

14-02-2022: The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

09-02-2022: The Machine Stops by E M Forster

29-01-2022: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace

29-01-2022: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

16-01-2022: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

12-01-2022: Journey to the Edge of Reason - The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky

Books finished in 2021

28-12-2021: Based on a True Story_A Memoir by Norm MacDonald

23-12-2021: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryū Suzuki

02-12-2021: The Cows by Lydia Davis

04-10-2021: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins

10-08-2021: Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo

08-08-2021: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

28-07-2021: Drunk - How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland

14-07-2021: Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

02-07-2021: Old Man's War by John Scalzi

20-06-2021: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D H Lawrence by Geoff Dyer

15-05-2021: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

09-05-2021: In a Narrow Grave by Larry McMurtry

02-05-2021: Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry

31-03-2021: Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

28-03-2021: Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry

17-03-2021: Why I Don't Write by Susan Minot

08-03-2021: Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

02-03-2021: The World Crisis, Volume I 1911-1914 by Winston S Churchill

14-02-2021: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

13-02-2021: The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively

10-02-2021: Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

04-02-2021: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

03-02-2021: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

30-01-2021: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

27-01-2021: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

21-01-2021: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

10-01-2021: French and Germans, Germans and French by Richard Cobb

08-01-2021: Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward

06-01-2021: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Books finished in 2020

30-12-2020: Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan

28-12-2020: The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan

27-12-2020: Averno by Louise Glück

14-12-2020: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

11-10-2020: The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

10-10-2020: Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Questlove

27-09-2020: Time Waits for Winthrop (Winthrop was Stubborn) by William Tenn

25-09-2020: Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon

12-09-2020: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

31-08-2020: The Ten, Make that Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make that Ten. by Steve Martin

30-08-2020: Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers

22-08-2020: On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony

22-08-2020: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

15-08-2020: There There by Tommy Orange

26-07-2020: Cicero - The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt

08-07-2020: Lost Property - Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy by Ben Sonnenberg

28-06-2020: The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck

14-06-2020: Wayside School gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar (Read to the kids)

08-06-2020: Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

05-06-2020: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

31-05-2020: Native Son by Richard Wright

30-05-2020: Walking by Henry David Thoreau

28-05-2020: The Complete Stories, Volume 1 by Isaac Asimov

16-05-2020: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller

10-05-2020: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H P Lovecraft

05-05-2020: You Must Remember This by Robert Coover

06-04-2020: My Man Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

05-04-2020: The First World War by John Keegan

15-03-2020: The Night at Chancellorsville by F Scott Fitzgerald

08-03-2020: The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman

05-03-2020: Here by Wislawa Szymborska

16-02-2020: Wide Open by Nicola Barker

10-02-2020: Clouds of Witness by Dorothy Sayers

02-02-2020: Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins

04-01-2020: Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans edited by Dave Eggers

Books finished in 2019

15-12-2019: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

09-12-2019: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

04-12-2019: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

01-12-2019: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

25-11-2019: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

19-11-2019: The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem

07-11-2019: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Read to the kids)

04-11-2019: Tinkers by Paul Harding

27-10-2019: Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol, Mrs. Fox by Sarah Hill

23-10-2019: Then we Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

14-10-2019: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers by Jules Verne

21-07-2019: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

11-07-2019: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

10-07-2019: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

09-07-2019: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Read to the kids)

23-06-2019: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

15-06-2019: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

01-06-2019: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

20-05-2019: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

11-05-2019: The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman

07-05-2019: Monsieur Gallet, Décédé by Georges Simenon

24-04-2019: Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

11-04-2019: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

06-04-2019: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

30-03-2019: Silas Marner by George Eliot

28-03-2019: Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers

24-03-2019: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

23-03-2019: The Call of the Wild by Jack London

22-03-2019: The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson

16-03-2019: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

26-02-2019: Leroy Ninker Saddles Up by Kate DiCamillo (Read to the kids)

24-02-2019: My Year of Meats by Ruth L Ozeki

13-02-2019: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

06-02-2019: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

01-02-2019: Neuromancer by William Gibson

27-01-2019: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro

23-01-2019: Persuasion by Jane Austen (Read to the kids)

16-01-2019: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

09-01-2019: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

03-01-2019: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

01-01-2019: Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

Books finished in 2018

23-12-2018: The Aeneid by Virgil (Translated to English by Robert Fagles)

04-12-2018: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

01-12-2018: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

25-11-2018: Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K Dick

16-11-2018: Post Office by Charles Bukowski

14-11-2018: Les Dimanches d'un Bourgeois de Paris by Guy de Maupassant

10-11-2018: Factfulness by Hans Rosling

04-11-2018: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

01-11-2018: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

21-10-2018: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

14-10-2018: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

08-10-2018: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

04-10-2018: My Ántonia by Willa Cather

28-09-2018: Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton

16-09-2018: The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton

10-08-2018: Lincoln by Gore Vidal

30-07-2018: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

15-07-2018: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

30-06-2018: Maigret et l'Homme Tout Seul by Georges Simenon

01-05-2018: Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) by Philip Pullman

Books finished in 2016

23-02-2016: Maigret Voyage by Georges Simenon

06-01-2016: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard Feynman

Books finished in 2015

06-10-2015: Les Vacances de Maigret by Georges Simenon

15-09-2015: JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

06-06-2015: Le Charretier de la Providence by Georges Simenon

Books finished in 2014

23-12-2014: A Brief History of Death by Douglas J. Davies

14-10-2014: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller

24-06-2014: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

19-06-2014: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge

28-05-2014: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss

20-05-2014: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society by Norbert Wiener

15-03-2014: Trois Contes by Gustave Flaubert

07-03-2014: Big Data Now (2011) by O'Reilly Press

28-02-2014: Maigret Chez le Ministre by Georges Simenon

Books finished in 2013

01-12-2013: La Première Enquête de Maigret by Georges Simenon

19-10-2013: Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

10-09-2013: Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar

27-07-2013: Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

27-05-2013: Chez les Flamands by Georges Simenon

16-05-2013: The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

09-05-2013: The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science by John Henry

04-04-2013: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

17-03-2013: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman

15-03-2013: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

09-02-2013: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Khaneman

Books finished in 2012

03-11-2012: The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease

20-08-2012: Retourtje Hato by René Appel

24-05-2012: Elfstedentocht by Sietse Van der Hoek

21-03-2012: Droomzomers by Youp van 't Hek

05-03-2012: De Heilige Antonio by Arnon Grunberg

16-01-2012: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour - An Introduction by J.D. Salinger

Books finished in 2011

08-01-2011: Maigret et la Jeune Morte by Georges Simenon

Books finished in 2010

12-12-2010: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

03-08-2010: Solaris by Stanislav Lem

07-06-2010: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

22-03-2010: Pietr le Letton by Georges Simenon

25-02-2010: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

19-02-2010: Life and Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee

09-02-2010: The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

11-01-2010: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

Books finished in 2009

14-11-2009: La Position du Tireur Couché by Jean-Patrick Manchette

01-10-2009: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

20-08-2009: Les Confessions - Livres I à VI by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

17-05-2009: Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

06-04-2009: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

08-03-2009: Foe by J M Coetzee

15-02-2009: Culture Smart! Netherlands: A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Sheryl Buckland

Books finished in 2008

14-09-2008: The Name of the World by Denis Johnson

25-07-2008: La Pipe de Maigret by Georges Simenon

10-07-2008: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

30-06-2008: Der Mensch Erscheint im Holozän by Max Frisch

01-03-2008: Montauk by Max Frisch

02-02-2008: L'Ombre chinoise by Georges Simenon

20-01-2008: ...trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen by Viktor E. Frankl

Lost Book Info 2006-2007 (Oh well) The following is a list of the ones I recall

Le Port des Brumes by Georges Simenon

Verwirrung der Gefühle by Stefan Zweig

Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig

Der Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Die Taube by Patrick Süskind

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

The Mission Song by John Le Carré

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P Brooks

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

Books finished in 2005

01-10-2005: La Patience de Maigret by Georges Simenon

19-07-2005: Les Jeux Sont Faits by Jean-Paul Sartre

Books finished in 2004

08-10-2004: Maigret et son Mort by Georges Simenon

02-09-2004: Maigret et Monsieur Charles by Georges Simenon

23-08-2004: Maigret by Georges Simenon

22-08-2004: Raising Bilingual Children by Carey Myles

25-05-2004: L'Étranger by Albert Camus

26-04-2004: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

26-04-2004: Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik

12-03-2004: French or Foe by Polly Platt

19-01-2004: L'Immoraliste by André Gide

Books finished in 2003

20-11-2003: Pays Sans Chapeau by Dany Laferrière

02-11-2003: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss

19-07-2003: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

10-07-2003: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

29-06-2003: The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

26-05-2003: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

11-05-2003: Night Train by Martin Amis

26-01-2003: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

11-01-2003: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Books finished in 2002

18-10-2002: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

05-09-2002: King Lear by William Shakespeare

20-07-2002: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie

12-07-2002: About a Boy by Nick Hornby

01-07-2002: Giles Goat Boy by John Barth

15-06-2002: Anton Chekhov's Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

05-05-2002: Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

22-02-2002: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

05-02-2002: Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyon

10-01-2002: On Writing by Stephen King

05-01-2002: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Books finished in 2001

15-12-2001: Pure Drivel by Steve Martin

02-11-2001: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

06-10-2001: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

16-09-2001: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

28-08-2001: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

15-07-2001: The Choice by Og Mandino

07-06-2001: The Plague by Albert Camus

25-05-2001: The Clouds by Aristophanes

11-05-2001: Burr by Gore Vidal

29-04-2001: King Richard the Third by William Shakespeare

01-04-2001: In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

12-03-2001: The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

07-03-2001: Franny and Zooey by J D Salinger

24-02-2001: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

03-02-2001: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Books finished in 2000

23-10-2000: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

12-10-2000: The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman

29-08-2000: The Double Helix by James D Watson

07-08-2000: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

30-07-2000: Java 2 Exam Prep by Bill Brogden

20-07-2000: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

05-07-2000: Just Java 2 by Peter van der Linden

30-05-2000: Semper Fi by Dan Cubias

27-05-2000: Othello by William Shakespeare

19-03-2000: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Rosemary Edmonds

22-02-2000: Flying Finish by Dick Francis

03-01-2000: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Books finished in 1999

15-12-1999: The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

13-12-1999: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

11-12-1999: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

03-12-1999: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

27-11-1999: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle



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