A list of books I would like. Non-exhaustive, but hopefully well categorised.
Cookbooks/Food Books
Food Fights and Culture Wars, Tom Nealon
The New Vegetarian, Alice Hart
Just Soup, Henrietta Clancy
Deep South: New Southern Cooking, Brad McDonald
Pride and Pudding: the History of British Puddings Savoury and Sweet, Regula Ysewijn
Desserts from the Famous Loveless Café, Alisa Huntsman
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb Perelman
Flavour, Ruby Tandoh
Eat, Nigel Slater
The Kitchen Diaries (vols. I, II and III), Nigel Slater
Kitchen, Nigella Lawson
Feast, Nigella Lawson
Classic fiction
The Book and the Brotherhood, Iris Murdoch
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
All as-yet-unread Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
The Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope
Essais, Michel de Montaigne
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
The History of the Rebellion, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
Nothing Like the Sun, Anthony Burgess
The Female Man, Joanna Russ
According to Queeney, Beryl Bainbridge
Hester, Margaret Oliphant
Passing, Nella Larsen
Another Marvelous Thing, Laurie Colwin
History
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
The Common Stream, Rowland Parker
Merchants of Culture, John Brookshire Thompson
City of Laughter, Vic Gatrell
Against the Law, Peter Wildeblood
SF/F
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M Miller Jr
The Alteration, Kingsley Amis
Pavane, Keith Roberts
Temeraire, Naomi Novik
Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
Erebos, Ursula Poznanski
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
The Execution Channel, Ken McLeod
The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
What Sunny Saw in the Flames, Nnedi Okorafor
Computers an’ tha’
Coding Freedom, E. Gabriella Coleman
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, E. Gabriella Coleman
Americana
Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon
Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Soldier Girls, Helen Thorpe
Black Girl Dangerous, Mia McKenzie
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, Linda Tirado
Dreamland, Sam Quinones
Contemporary lit-fic
The Sellout, Paul Beatty
Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, Ben Fountain
Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell
The Emperor’s Babe, Bernardine Evaristo
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O’Neill
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Tom Rachman
In the Wolf’s Mouth, Adam Foulds
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, and St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves, all by Karen Russell
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
Upstairs at the Party, Linda Grant
Infidelities, Kirsty Gunn
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The Hollow Land, Jane Gardam
Neverhome, Laird Hunt
Beside the Sea, Véronique Olmi
Where the Line Bleeds, Jesmyn Ward
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markam
The Heavenly Table, Donald Ray Pollock
We Are Called to Rise, Laura McBride
Journals/letters
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Poetry
The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems, John Berryman
Music at Midnight: the Life and Poetry of George Herbert, John Drury
Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds
Theology/religion
Living With a Wild God, Barbara Ehrenreich
Unapologetic, Francis Spufford
Damaged Goods, Dianna Anderson
God Is No Thing, Rupert Shortt
General non-fiction
To the River, Olivia Laing
On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison
Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez
Stiff, Mary Roach
The Unraveling, Emma Sky
Chasing the Scream, Johann Hari
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson
How to Ruin Everything, George Watsky
Kathmandu, Thomas Bell
