Books 2019

One of the things I wanted to do in 2019 was to carve out time to read more books again – especially since I had a three month sabbatical over the Spring. To that end, I kept track of what I read. It’s a mishmash of music bios, fiction, and non. I’ve only included books that I actually finished, and left out anything that was purely for academic purposes.

  1. Crucial Conversations – Kerry Paterson.
  2. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying – Marie Kondo.
  3. Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The Words of Karl Pilkington.
  4. Karl Pilkington – An Idiot Abroad.
  5. Subtle art of not giving a fuck – Mark Manson.
  6. Come as you are – Michael Azerrad – A biography of Nirvana.
  7. The Last – Hanna Jameson.
  8. Green Day – Nobody Likes You – Marc Spitz.
  9. Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet – Andrew Blum.
  10. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography – Limmy (Brian Limmond).
  11. Daft Wee Stories – Limmy.
  12. That’s your lot – Limmy.
  13. Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata.
  14. Broadcast – Liam Brown.
  15. In the miso soup – Ryu Murakami.
  16. The Passengers – John Marrs.
  17. HWFG – Chris McQueer.
  18. Lucky You – Carl Hiaasen.
  19. Hings – Chris McQueer.
  20. Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang.
  21. Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet – David Kaye.
  22. The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet – Jeff Kosseff.
  23. Hatching Twitter – Nick Bilton.
  24. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language – Gretchen McCulloch.
  25. Smashing Pumpkins – Tales of a Scorched Earth – Amy Hanson.
  26. Tokyo Vice – J. Adelstein.
  27. 10% Happier – Dan Harris.
  28. Kevin Sampson – Powder.
  29. Gotta get Theroux this – Louis Theroux.
  30. Unfollow – Megan Phelps-Roper.
  31. Psychopath Test – Jon Ronson.
  32. the Hunting Party – Lucy Foley.

3 thoughts on “Books 2019

    1. The sabbatical helped! And ooh interesting question. I liked… 21 and 22 for Internet law stuff. The former is more accessible and shorter. I liked 24 as it had some really interesting insights into how language develops online. For fiction I liked 7 and 32… A few of the short story books were great too, like the one from Limmy… too many to list! If there’s any specific genre you like I can recommend from that maybe ha

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