Bookshelf

Genres include: personal development, productivity, sport/ adventure and (auto)biographies:

* Favourite & Suggested Reads

2024

  • Do I Know You? – Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
  • We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson – Mitch Albon *
  • Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing – Matthew Perry
  • Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity – Justin Baldoni
  • Know My Name – Chanel Miller *
  • The Longest Race: Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping and Deception on Nike’s Elite Running Team – Kara Goucher, Mary Pilon *
  • Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World – Kilian Jornet
  • The Little Book of Psychology – Caroline Riggs and Emily Ralls

2023

  • The Art of Gathering: how we meet and why it matters – Priya Parker
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity – Liz Plank
  • The Diary of a CEO: 33 Laws of Business and Life – Steven Bartlett
  • Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World – Admiral William H. McRaven
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin *
  • The Comfort Book – Matt Haig
  • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body – Ross Edgley
  • Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah *
  • The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments – Meik Wiking
  • Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds – Carmine Gallo *
  • On Connection – Kae Tempest
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness – Eric Jorgenson *
  • Swell Lines: A Surfer’s Journey – Tom Anderson
  • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter, and How To Make the Most of Them Now – Meg Jay
  • Maybe You Should Talk To Someone – Lori Gottlieb
  • Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World – Lauren Fleshman *
  • Bravey: Chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas – Alexi Pappas
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World – Cal Newport
  • Storyworthy: engage, teach, persuade, and change your life through the power of storytelling – Matthew Dicks
  • The Art of Misadventure: the outtakes and mistakes of an adventurous photographer – Dave Brosha
  • Atomic Habits – James Clear (Audiobook)
  • Be More Human – Tony Riddle
  • You’re not listening: What you’re missing and why it matters – Kate Murphy
  • Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan (fiction re-read)
  • Kobe: Laker for Life
  • Ikigai: The Japanese secret for a long and happy life – Hector Garcia *

2022

  • Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho (re-read)
  • Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordon (fiction re-read.)
  • Not a Life Coach – James Smith
  • Greenlights – Matthew McMonaughey *
  • Twas the nightshift before Christmas – Adam Kay
  • The unexpected joy of being single – Catherine Gray
  • The year of living Danishly – Helen Russell
  • Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig
  • Mud, Sweat and Tears – Bear Grylls *

2021

  • Happy Sexy Millionaire – Steven Bartlett
  • A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner – Chris Atkins
  • The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
  • Beautiful World, Where are you – Sally Rooney
  • Game On: The unstoppable rise of women’s sport – Sue Anstiss *
  • The unexpected joy of being sober – Catherine Gray
  • Order From Chaos: the everyday grind of staying organised with adult ADHD – Jaclyn Paul

2020

  • Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo *
  • Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire – Akala
  • I can’t make this up: Life Lessons – Kevin Hart
  • First Man In, Leading from the Front – Ant Middleton
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  • Narconomics: How To Run A Drug Cartel – Tom Wainwright
  • Born To Run – Christopher McDougall *
  • Be More Pirate – Sam Conniff Allende
  • Normal People – Sally Rooney
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
  • 5am Club – Robin Sharma
  • Becoming – Michelle Obama
  • The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch *
  • Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
  • The Body – Bill Bryson
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years – Donald Miller
  • The Way of The Runner – Adharanand Finn

2019

  • Lost Connections – Johann Hari
  • Finding Ultra – Rich Roll
  • Behind The Mask – Tyson Fury
  • The Culture Map – Erin Meyer *
  • This Is Going To Hurt – Adam Kay *
  • The Secret Race – Daniel Coyle and Tyler Hamilton
  • Endure – Alex Hutchinson *
  • Perfect Sound Whatever – James Acaster
  • Surrounded By Idiots – Thomas Erikson
  • Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life – Katherine Ormerod
  • Blink – Malcom Gladwell
  • Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon – Dr Rahul Jandial
  • Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker *
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson

2018

  • Shoe Dog – Phil Knight *
  • The Journey Home – Radhanath Swami
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari – Robin Sharma
  • Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
  • The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  • 7 years In Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
  • Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer *
  • Touching The Void – Joe Simpson
  • This Game of Ghosts – Joe Simpson
  • View From the Summit – Sir Edmund Hillary
  • Touching My Fathers Soul – Jamling Tenzing Norgay
  • Jony Ive Biography – Leander Kahney
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking