Bookshelf
This is a work-in-progress page that is pulling in data from my Notion books database. The content and design of this page will change.
Inspiration for this page is:
- daverupert.com/bookshelf
- hidde.blog/books - although this seems to be currently offline for some reason.
October 2025
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
Finished: on 06 Oct 2025
The Trading Game: a Confession
Gary Stevenson
Finished: on 01 Oct 2025
September 2025
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
Finished: on 08 Sep 2025
August 2025
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Finished: on 22 Aug 2025
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Finished: on 30 Aug 2025
May 2025
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J K Rowling
Finished: on 10 May 2025
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Finished: on 10 May 2025
Empire of the Sun
JG Ballard
Finished: on 19 May 2025
April 2025
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Finished: on 06 Apr 2025
Artemis
Andy Weir
Finished: on 26 Apr 2025
Riverman: An American Odyssey
Ben McGrath
Finished: on 27 Apr 2025
March 2025
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Finished: on 22 Mar 2025
February 2025
Rewild Yourself
Simon Barnes
Finished: on 05 Feb 2025
Foe
Iain Reid
Finished: on 08 Feb 2025
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Finished: on 20 Feb 2025
January 2025
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Finished: on 28 Jan 2025
Mr Breakfast
Jonathan Carroll
Finished: on 09 Jan 2025
Dear Dickhead
Virginie Despentes
Finished: on 14 Jan 2025
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn
J K Rowling
Finished: on 19 Jan 2025
November 2024
Walking the Great North Line
Robert Twigger
Finished: on 01 Nov 2024
Mr Geography
Tim Parks
Finished: on 12 Nov 2024
World Without End
Jean-Marc Jancovici, Christophe Blain
Finished: on 05 Nov 2024
An Italian Education
Tim Parks
Finished: on 30 Nov 2024
October 2024
Machines Like Me
Ian McEwan
Finished: on 10 Oct 2024
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
Finished: on 04 Oct 2024
You Are Here
David Nicholls
Finished: on 18 Oct 2024
August 2024
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Mark Manson
Finished: on 08 Aug 2024
The Weatherman vol.1
Jody LeHeup, Nathan Fox and Dave Stewart
Finished: on 13 Aug 2024
July 2024
The Last Devil to Die
Richard Osman
Finished: on 06 Jul 2024
June 2024
Paris Echo
Sebastian Faulks
Finished: on 24 Jun 2024
April 2024
Village of Stone
Xiaolu Guo
Finished: on 27 Apr 2024
Abroad in Japan
Chris Broad
Finished: on 11 Apr 2024
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J K Rowling
Finished: on 08 Apr 2024
Stay True
Hua Hsu
Finished: on 14 Apr 2024
March 2024
Big Swiss
Jen Beagin
Finished: on 31 Mar 2024
In Ascension
Martin Macinnes
Finished: on 24 Mar 2024
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
Finished: on 26 Mar 2024
February 2024
Early Riser
Jasper Fforde
Finished: on 28 Feb 2024
Snow Country
Sebastian Faulks
Finished: on 19 Feb 2024
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Dorthe Nors
Finished: on 03 Feb 2024
January 2024
438 Days
Jonathan Franklin
Finished: on 19 Jan 2024
The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy
Finished: on 17 Jan 2024
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J K Rowling
Finished: on 03 Jan 2024
The Premonition
Banana Yoshimoto
Finished: on 07 Jan 2024
Greek Lessons
Han Kang
Finished: on 04 Jan 2024
December 2023
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Werner Herzog
Finished: on 21 Dec 2023
November 2023
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
Catrina Davies
Finished: on 28 Nov 2023
October 2023
The Twilight World
Werner Herzog
Finished: on 31 Oct 2023
September 2023
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Finished: on 19 Sep 2023
August 2023
France on Two Wheels
Adam
Finished: on 07 Aug 2023
Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet
Jenny Graham
Finished: on 21 Aug 2023
July 2023
Mountains of the Mind
Robert Macfarlane
Finished: on 30 Jul 2023
June 2023
The Road Headed West
Leon McCarron
Finished: on 28 Jun 2023
May 2023
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Finished: on 28 May 2023
April 2023
Silo: Nomad's Revenge
Jay J Falconer
Finished: on 24 Apr 2023
What Goes Around: A London Cycle Courier's Story
Emily Chappell
Finished: on 01 Apr 2023
The New American Road Trip Mixtape
Brendan Leonard
Finished: on 24 Apr 2023
Love in the Big City
Sang Young Park
Finished: on 03 Apr 2023
March 2023
Silo: Summer's End
Jay J Falconer
Finished: on 17 Mar 2023
Silo: Hope's Return
Jay J Falconer
Finished: on 28 Mar 2023
February 2023
The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
Austin Kleon
Finished: on 21 Feb 2023
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
Finished: on 27 Feb 2023
January 2023
The Place In Between
Rory Stewart
Finished: on 07 Jan 2023
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Finished: on 16 Jan 2023
December 2022
Paddling North
Audrey Sutherland
Finished: on 15 Dec 2022
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Finished: on 25 Dec 2022
The Every
Dave Eggers
Finished: on 15 Dec 2022
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner
Finished: on 15 Dec 2022
September 2022
The Anomaly
Hervé Le Tellier
Finished: on 14 Sep 2022
January 2022
The Manager’s Path
Camille Fournier
Finished: on 05 Jan 2022
March 2020
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Finished: on 18 Mar 2020
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
Finished: on 01 Mar 2020
Cabin Porn: Inside
Zach Klein
Finished: on 15 Mar 2020
February 2020
To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway
Finished: on 16 Feb 2020
The Best Interface is No Interface
Golden Krishna
Finished: on 16 Feb 2020
The Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Finished: on 01 Feb 2020
