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Books Read in 2025
| # | Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rider | Tim Krabbé | Kinetic, breathless, absorbing, arrogant and vulnerable - amazing portrayal of the drive to race. |
| 2 | Parade | Rachel Cusk | Glimpses of deep truths, big webs of load-bearing ideas. |
| 3 | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin | Touching, engrossing and compelling. The importance of work and of creative partnership. It reminded me how much I wanted to make a computer game when I was a kid. |
| 4 | Beastmaking | Ned Featherby | Inspiring, sensible advice. Learned a fair bit about grip types. |
| 5 | Seascape | Matthew Yeomans | Redoubled my desire to walk the coast path. |
| 6 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | Honestly not that good, why did it win so many awards? At least it's short. |
| 7 | Burning Chrome | William Gibson | Excellent high-res vignettes, burning with colour and energy. |
| 8 | Mirrorshades | Ed. Bruce Sterling | Some real gems - especially the title story and the drug artist one. |
| 9 | Assignment in Eternity | Robert A. Heinlein | Fascistic and kitsch, not a good book, but sufficiently slim to take in my pack when cycle touring. |
| 10 | Radical Product Thinking | Radhika Dutt | A solid set of ideas for vision-based product management. |
| 11 | Soft Apocalypse | Will McIntosh | Fun, easy to read and possibly how it's going to go down — nice to have a heads up. |
| 12 | Agile Product Ownership | Roman Pichler | Great recap and synthesis of core agile concepts. |
| 13 | The Book of English Magic | Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate | Interesting but containing a strangely incomplete feeling selection of topics. |
| 14 | The Lost Paths | Jack Cornish | Kind of a slog to read, but with some interesting path facts. Made me want to walk some of the ancient paths in Dorset. |
| 15 | The Inhabited Island | Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | An interesting read, but less of a thrilling yarn than their other books — more clearly political wrangling required to get this one published. |
| 16 | Hot Milk | Deborah Levy | Great style, precise and disorienting. A relatable breakdown - so what does that say, eh? |