Recent Reading

I try to keep reading all the time, despite the distractions of modern life, and its always-on temptations.

This is far from a comprehensive list, just some of what I can remember reading recently as of 2024, and much of it is Australia-specific. It’s also not a correct biblography format!

2024

• Less (novel) - Sean Greer
• ❤️ The man from the future: the visionary life of John von Neumann - Ananyo Bhattacharya;
• Be Useful - Arnold Schwarzenegger;
• The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull - Robert M. Utley;
• ❤️ The War of Art - Stephen Pressfield;
• Retirement Made Simple - Noel Whittaker;
• Legal and Taxation Aspects of Your Small Business - Ian Birt;
• ❤️ The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté
• Open - Andre Agassi;
• How Music Works - David Byrne (back for a 2nd time!)
• Working Class Boy - Jimmy Barnes
• Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes

2023

• Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
• Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
• ❤️ The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes - Zachary D. Carter
• ❤️ Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World - David J Epstein
• Radio Girl: the Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and Wartime Legend - David F. Dufty
• Superannuation Made Simple - Noel Whittaker
• The Secret History of the Five Eyes: the Untold Story of the International Spy Network - Richard Kerbaj
• Traitors and spies : espionage and corruption in high places in Australia, 1901-50 - John Fahey

2022

• Me - Elton John
• The Economics of Just About Everything, Leigh, Andrew
• Freedom on the Fatal Shore: Australia’s First Colony John Bradley Hirst
• ❤️ Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, Edward Frenkel
• Atomic Habits - James Clear

2021

• Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman