Some books I’d like, in case you need to get me a gift.

• Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age, Max Adams.
• At the Existentialist Cafe, Sarah Bakewell.
• The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes.
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein.
• The Ashtray: (Or the Man Who Denied Reality), Errol Morris.
• Backroom Boys, Francis Spufford.
• The Black Death (Manchester Medieval Sources), Rosemary Horrox.
• Black Teacher, Beryl Gilroy.
• Blindsight, Peter Watts.
• A Brief History of Neoliberalism, David Harvey.
• Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher.
• The Centaur, John Updike.
• The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict.
• The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America, David A. Banks.
• Climbers, M. John Harrison.
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky.
• CoDex 1962: A Trilogy, Sjón.
• The Compleat Strategyst, J.D. Williams.
• A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.
• Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen.
• Crow Court, Andy Charman.
• The Cry of the Owl, Patricia Highsmith.
• Cuddy, Benjamin Myers.
• The Currency of Politics, Stefan Eich.
• Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips.
• Dispatches, Michael Herr.
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin.
• A Divine Language, Alec Wilkinson.
• Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell.
• The Drowned World, J. G. Ballard.
• The Earth Dies Streaming, A. S. Hamrah.
• Elite Capture, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
• The Embrace of the Fourth Dimension, Mark Blacklock.
• Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, Jorge Almazan.
• Erasure, Percival Everett.
• Error of Judgement, Chris Mullin.
• Essays (Penguin Modern Classics), George Orwell.
• The Essential Turing, B. Jack Copeland (ed.).
• The European Eel, Steve Ely.
• Evil Men, James Dawes.
• Fat City, Leonard Gardner.
• The First American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin, H. W. Brands.
• First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan.
• First You Write a Sentence, Joe Moran.
• The Fish Can Sing, Halldór Laxness.
• Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman.
• The Friendly Young Ladies, Mary Renault.
• From Hell, Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell.
• Fuccboi, Sean Thor Conroe.
• Full Tilt, Dervla Murphy.
• Future Sex, Emily Witt.
• The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers.
• Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand, George Gibbs.
• The Golden Bough, James Frazer.
• The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, Paul Theroux.
• Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
• The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin.
• Hiroshima, John Hersey.
• The Honest Rainmaker: The life and times of Colonel John R. Stingo, A. J. Liebling.
• How Animals Work, Knut Schmidt-Nelson.
• How To Be Depressed, George Scialabba.
• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein.
• I Must Go, Yiyun Li.
• The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vessas.
• Icelandic Folk Tales, Hjörleifur Helgi Stefánsson.
• Idoru, William Gibson.
• Imaginary Museums, Nicolette Polek.
• Impro (Performance Books), Keith Johnstone.
• In My Own Time: thoughts and afterthoughts, Jane Miller.
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Louisa Lim.
• Infinitesimal, Amir Alexander.
• An Instinct for Dragons, David E. Jones.
• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin E.H. Smith.
• It, Stephen King.
• The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf, Mariusz Wilk.
• Journey to the Edge of Reason: The life of Kurt Gödel, Stephen Budiansky.
• Kepler, Max Caspar.
• Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki.
• K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, Mark Fisher.
• Kusamakura, Natsume Sōseki.
• The Lady Tasting Tea, David Salsburb.
• The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins.
• Lint, Steve Aylett.
• Luminous, Greg Egan.
• Madam Bovary, Gustave Flaubert.
• Making “Nature”, Melinda Baldwin.
• The Melancholia of Class, Cynthia Cruz.
• Miles from Nowhere, Nami Mun.
• Mill, David Macaulay.
• More Trees to Climb, Ben Moor.
• Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto.
• My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir.
• Naming Infinity, Loren Graham & Jean-Michel Kantor.
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong.
• The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke.
• The Nineties, Chuck Kloosterman.
• Njal’s Saga (Penguin Classics), Anonymous.
• The Norton Introduction to Philosophy, Gideon Rosen, Alex Byrne, Joshua Cohen & Seana Shiffrin (Eds.).
• On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt.
• On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, Thomas de Quincey.
• One Way and Another: new and selected essays, Adam Phillips.
• Once a Runner, John L. Parker Jr.
• Once They Were Hats, Frances Backhouse.
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, John McWhorter.
• Perdido Street Station, China Miéville.
• Picture This, Molly Bang.
• Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, David Bordwell.
• The Planets, Dava Sobel.
• Poor, Caleb Femi.
• Private Revolutions, Yuan Yang.
• Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit.
• The Reinvention of Humanity, Charles King.
• Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac & Molly Smith.
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: a new history of a lost world, Steve Brusatte.
• RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, Phillip Hoare.
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard.
• The Ruin of all Witches, Malcolm Gaskill.
• The Sarah Book, Scott McClanahan.
• A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science, Alexander Boxer.
• Seventh Day, Yu Hua.
• Seven Games: a human history, Oliver Roeder.
• Silence, Endō Shūsaku.
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson.
• Something in Disguise, Elizabeth Jane Howard.
• Stubborn Attachments, Tyler Cohen.
• The Souls of Yellow Folk, Wesley Yang.
• Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language, James Griffiths.
• Stephen King, Stephen King, William Walsh.
• The Strangest Man: The hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius, Graham Farmelo.
• Tales from the Loop, Simon Stålenhag.
• Ten Great Ideas About Chance, Persi Diaconis & Brian Skyrms.
• Territory of Light, Yuko Tsushima.
• That Reminds Me, Derek Owusu.
• Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, Kyoko Nakajima.
• Things The Grandchildren Should Know, Mark Oliver Everett.
• Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata.
• The Time Machine, H.G. Wells.
• Travels in Alaska, John Muir.
• The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens.
• Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri.
• The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, Soji Shimada.
• The Topeka School, Ben Lerner.
• The Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi.
• The Tyranny of Merit, Michael J. Sandel.
• Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener.
• The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro.
• A Universal History of Infamy, J.L. Borges.
• Unix: a history and a memoir, Brian W. Kernighan.
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Ursula K. LeGuin.
• Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell.
• Urne Burial, Thomas Browne.
• Very Important People, Ashley Mears.
• Virtual Light, William Gibson.
• Watching the English, Kate Fox.
• Waves, Bei Dao.
• We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ.
• What Artists Wear, Charlie Porter.
• What’s Your Pronoun, Dennis Baron.
• The What, Why and How of Assessment, Simon Child & Paul Ellis.
• White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings, Iain Sinclair.
• White is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi.
• The Women Are Up to Something, Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb.
• Yes Yes More More, Anna Wood.
• You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman.