2022
- The Positive Birth Book: A New Approach to Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Weeks, Milli Hill ⭐️
2021
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt ⭐️
- Piano for Dummies, Blake Neely ⭐️
- The Eighth Life, Nino Haratischwili ⭐️
- I contain multitudes, Ed Yong ⭐️
- Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
- The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
- Nothing But Blue Sky, Kathleen MacMahon ⭐️
- Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold, Stephen Fry ⭐️
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson ⭐️
- The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
- The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, Esther Perel ⭐️
- The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf
- Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker ⭐️
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery ⭐️
- Girl Made of Stars, Ashley Herring Blake
- Home Body, Rupi Kaur
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind ⭐️
- The Vegetarian, Han Kang
2020
- The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck ⭐️
- Waking up, Sam Harris
- Normal people, Sally Rooney
- An emotional education, The School of Life ⭐️
- The tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
- Promising young women, Caroline O’Donoghue
- The Woman Who Thought too Much, Joanne Limburg ⭐️
- Little fires everywhere, Celest Ng
- OCD sucks!, Jeremy Nickel
- The OCD stories, Stuart Ralph
- How to Deal with OCD, Elizabeth Forrester
- Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, Gail Honeyman
- Jony Ive, Leander Kahney
- Dark places, Gillian Flynn
- Unnatural Causes, Richard Shepherd ⭐️
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️
- The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
- Maya Angelou: Complete Poetry, Maya Angelou (DNF)
- Needing to know for sure, Martin N. Seif
- In America, Susan Sontag
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid ⭐️
- Design Is Storytelling, Ellen Lupton ⭐️
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks ⭐️
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
- The Empathy Effect, Helen Riess ⭐️
- Specimen Days, Michael Cunningham ⭐️
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- Calypso, David Sedaris ⭐️
- The man who couldn’t stop, David Adam
- Radio Silence, Alice Oseman
- Someone at a Distance, Dorothy Whipple ⭐️
- B is for Bauhaus, Deyan Sudjic ⭐️
- The Photograph, Penelope Lively
- The Grace Year, Kim Liggett
- Pillow Thoughts, Courtney Peppernell
- Atomic Habits, James Clear ⭐️
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson ⭐️
- Everyday Information Architecture, Lisa Maria Martin ⭐️
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett ⭐️
- Holes, Louis Sachar ⭐️
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey, Yeonmi Park ⭐️
- Content Design, Sarah Richards
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- Persuasion, Jane Austen ⭐️
- I’ve been meaning to tell you, David Chariandy
- I capture the castle, Dodie Smith ⭐️
- Red at the bone, Jacqueline Woodson
- Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
- Antifragile, Nassim Taleb ⭐️
2019
- Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins ⭐️
- Roman Republic, Isaac Asimov (DNF)
- Ulysses and the weasel, Georg von Wallwitz
- Planning for Everything, Peter Morville ⭐️
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf ⭐️
- Circe, Madeline Miller
- Skin in the Game, Nicholas Nassim Taleb
- The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer ⭐️
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely ⭐️
- Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton ⭐️
- My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Christina Lauren (DNF)
- Universal Principles of Design, William Lidwell
- They Were Sisters, Dorothy Whipple ⭐️
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Timothy Samara ⭐️
- A Little History of Philosophy, Nigel Warburton ⭐️
- Pure, Rose Bretécher
- Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
- Magallanes, Stefan Zweig ⭐️
- All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven
- Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed ⭐️
- Educated, Tara Westover ⭐️
- The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo ⭐️
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Unrequited, Lisa A. Phillips
- The courage to be disliked, Ichiro Kishimi ⭐️
- The Language of Things, Deyan Sudjic
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark
- A guide to psychotherapy, Gerald Amada
- How to relax, Thích Nhất Hạnh ⭐️
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Steven Hayes
- How to love, Thích Nhất Hạnh
- How to see, Thích Nhất Hạnh
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, Sarah Bakewell ⭐️
- The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chödrön
- No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering, Thích Nhất Hạnh ⭐️
2018
- The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante ⭐️
- Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
- Creative Confidence, Tom & David Kelley
- Start with why, Simon Sinek ⭐️
- Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham ⭐️
- The opposite of loneliness, Martina Keegan
- Atomic Design, Brad Frost ⭐️
- Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic
- Why Grow Up?, Susan Neiman ⭐️
- The problem that has no name, Betty Friedan ⭐️
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli ⭐️
- Mental Healers, Stefan Zweig ⭐️
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson ⭐️
- Sprint, Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Brad Kowitz
- The Nature of Software Development, Ron Jeffries ⭐️
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott ⭐️
- Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott ⭐️
- Messy, Tim Harford ⭐️
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People, Susan M. Weinschenk ⭐️
- Design Systems, Alla Kholmatova ⭐️
- Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck ⭐️
- Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters ⭐️
- Montaigne, Stefan Zweig ⭐️
- The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
- Hormonal, Martie Haselton
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson ⭐️
- Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig ⭐️
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante
- The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante ⭐️
- Articulating Design Decisions, Tom Greever
- He comes next, Ian Kerner
- Digital Color And Type, Rob Carter ⭐️
- Sketching User Experiences, Bill Buxton, Saul Greenberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Nicolai Marquardt
- The Vignelli Canon, Massimo Vignelli ⭐️
- Radical Candor, Kim Malone Scott
- Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson ⭐️
- The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis
- Olivia, Dorothy Strachey
- Design as Art, Bruno Munari ⭐️
- Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried ⭐️
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fxck, Mark Manson ⭐️
- Mark Manson on Relationships, Mark Manson
- Factfulness, Hans Rosling ⭐️
- Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig
2017
- The power of now, Eckhart Tolle
- The gifts of imperfection, René Brown
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns
- Love yourself like your life depends on it, Kamal Ravikant
- Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobbs
- A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine
- Nina is Not OK, Shappi Khorsandi
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl
- The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig ⭐️
- Poke the Box, Seth Godin
- But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline Loridan-Ivens
- Mindwise, Nicholas Epley ⭐️
- The Little Book of Talent, Daniel Coyle
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott ⭐️
- Essentialism, Gref McKeown ⭐️
- Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski ⭐️
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (re-read) ⭐️
- When Breat Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi ⭐️
- The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg ⭐️
- The Priory, Dorothy Whipple ⭐️
- Emotional Design, Donald A. Norman
- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, Matthew Frederick
- Intertwingled, Peter Morville ⭐️
- Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
- Search Patterns, Peter Morville
- The Sketchnote Handbook, Mike Rohde ⭐️
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante ⭐️
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse ⭐️
- It’s Okay to Laugh, Nora McInerny Purmort ⭐️
2016
- Winter, Marissa Meyer
- Pebbles of perception, Laurence Endersen
- The art of fiction, David Lodge ⭐️
- Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh ⭐️
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The last act of love, Cathy Rentzenbrink ⭐️
- Sostiene Pereira, Antonio Tabuchi
- To sell is human, Daniel H. Pink
- Write, The Guardian
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen ⭐️
- The News, Alain de Botton
- Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
- Outliers, Malcom Gladwell
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath ⭐️
- Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
- Zero degrees of empathy, Simon Baron-Cohen
- Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner ⭐️
- To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Room, Emma Donoghue ⭐️
- Time in Fiction
- Thirteen reasons why, Jay Asher
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari ⭐️
- Growth Hacker, Ryan Holiday
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K Rowling
- A little life, Hanya Yanagihara ⭐️
- Thinking fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman ⭐️
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
2015
- The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
- A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
- Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys
- The Aftermath, Rhidian Brook
- Wonder, R.J. Palacio
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Patrick Hamilton ⭐️
- Breaking Away, Anna Gavalda
- The Tiny Wife, Andrew Kaufman
- Me and You, Niccolò Ammaniti
- Academy Street, Mary Costello
- May We Be Forgiven, A.M. Homes
- Only Ever Yours, Louise O’Neill
- Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively ⭐️
- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov ⭐️
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐️
- The kiss, Anton Chekhov
- Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays, Siri Hustvedt ⭐️
- Writer´s Diary, Virginia and Leonard Woolf ⭐️
- Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5), Marissa Meyer
- The story of the night, Colm Toibín
- All the light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr
- Far from the madding crowd, Thomas Hardy ⭐️
- On writing, Stephen King ⭐️
2014
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
- Estupor y temblores, Amélie Nothomb
- Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Winifred Watson ⭐️
- The Years, Virginia Woolf ⭐️
- Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3), Marissa Meyer
- Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto
- Las vidas privadas de Pippa Lee, Rebecca Miller
- Before I go to sleep, S.J. Watson
- The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith
- Sweet tooth, Ian McEwan
- Every Day, David Leviathan
- Z: Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Anne Fowler ⭐️
- One step too far, Tina Seskis
- Annabel, Kathleen Winter ⭐️
- The girl with all the gifts, M.R. Carey
- Jack, A.M Homes
- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
- The Summer Without Men, Siri Hustvedt
- The Spectacular Now, Tim Tharp
- The Illusion of Separateness, Simon Van Booy
- The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
- Metroland, Julian Barnes
- White Horse, Yan Ge
- Thirst for Love, Yukio Mishima
- Stoner, John Williams ⭐️
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- You’re not proper, Tariq Mehmood
- The silent striker, Peter Khalu
- We are all completely beside ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler ⭐️
- The Virgins, Pamela Erens
- If I stay, Gayle Forman
- Where she went, Gayle Forman
- Brewster, Mark Slouka
- Being Me, Peter Khalu
- The misunderstanding, Irène Némirovsky
- The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
- The shock of the fall, Nathan Filer
- Under the skin, Michel Faber
- Bound to secrecy, Vamba Sherif
2013
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky ⭐️
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood ⭐️
- Apples, Richard Milward ⭐️
- The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
- The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
- The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
- What I loved, Siri Hustvedt ⭐️
- Scarlet, Marissa Meyer
- The gathering, Anne Enright
- A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
- La Carte et le Territoire, Michel Houellebecq
- Donde los Árboles cantan, Laura Gallego
- Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
- Questa storia, Alessandro Baricco
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk ⭐️
- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
- El hombre sentimental, Javier Marías
- 50 Sombras de Grey, E.L. James
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
- By Nightfall, Michael Cunningham
- The heart is a lonely hunter, Carson McCullers
- El curioso caso del perro a medianoche, Mark Haddon
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
- In One Person, John Irving ⭐️
- The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn ⭐️
- El cel de Lisboa, Marina Rubio i Martori
- The sorrows of an American, Siri Hustvedt
2012
- Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray ⭐️
- The age of innocence, Edith Wharton
- Cinder, Marissa Meyer
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1), Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2), Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3), Suzanne Collins
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ⭐️
- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Pact, Jodi Picoult
- Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith ⭐️
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf ⭐️
- The Hours, Michael Cunningham
- The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro ⭐️
- When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- 1984, George Orwell
- Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown #1), Josh Bazell
- Forgotten, Cat Patrick
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- La voz dormida, Dulce Chacón ⭐️
- Esta noche dime que me quieres, Federico Moccia
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
- I Am the Messenger, Markus Zusak