25 Books to Read in 2018

You know it's that time of the year when you start preparing best-of-year lists. Here is me kicking it off with the some of the favourite books I read this year in no particular order...

1. How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
2. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life - David Quammen
3. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
4. The Witch Elm - Tana French
5. Flights - Olga Tokarczuk
6. The Third Hotel - Laura van den Berg
7. Florida - Lauren Groff
8. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin
9. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
10. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age - Tim Wu
11. Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
12. Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
13. Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances that Flow Through Our Lives - Mark Miodownik
14. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden - Denis Johnson
15. The Good Son - You-jeong Jeong
16. A State of Freedom - Neel Mukherjee
17. Neon in Daylight - Hermione Hoby
18. There There - Tommy Orange
19. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
20. AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee
21. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future - James Bridle
22. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - Menno Schilthuizen
23. The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
24. A Terrible Country - Keith Gessen
25. Gnomon - Nick Harkaway