Vincennes Big List of Books 2022

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Key:

* = Excellent, highly recommend

~ = Actively bad, do not recommend

First reads

The Dinner — Herman Koch
Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
Naples ’44 — Norman Lewis
How to Kidnap the Rich — Rahul Raina
The Trip to Echo Spring — Olivia Laing
Machines for Living — Victoria Rosner
A Drinkable Feast — Philip Greene
Modernism, Time and Everyday Life — Bryony Randall
Ulysses and Us — Declan Kiberd
Joyce’s Voices — Hugh Kenner
The Imposter — Javier Cercas *
Resilient Management — Lara Hogan
Circles & Squares — Caroline Maclean
Three Mothers — Anna Malika Tubbs
Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research — Phil Dee
Dare to Lead — Brené Brown
The Knowing-Doing Gap — Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton
Grove — Esther Kinsky ~
Good Boss, Bad Boss — Robert I. Sutton *
The Space Between Worlds — Micaiah Johnson
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt
One Thing — Xanthi Barker
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
The Inseparables — Simone de Beauvoir
Austerlitz — W. G. Sebald *
Weird Ideas That Work — Robert I. Sutton
The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s World of Ideas — Ronald Berman
Edge of the Grave — Robbie Morrison
Greenwich Park — Katherine Faulkner
Free — Lea Ypi
Assembly — Natasha Brown
Shitstorm — Fernando Sdrigotti ~
ReOrg — Stephen Heidari-Robinson & Suzanne Heywood
Exiles from Paradise — Sara Mayfield
The Real Cool Killers — Chester Himes
Deacon King Kong — James McBride
Nobody Move — Denis Johnson
How to Kill Your Best Friend — Lexie Elliot ~
The Heights — Louise Candlish
Luster — Raven Lelani *
Solar Bones — Mike McCormack *
Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint — Russell Davies
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot *
The Incendiaries — R. O. Kwon
Here is Where — Morgan Omotoye
Scaling Up Excellence — Robert I. Sutton & Huggy Rao *
The Art of War — Sun-Tzu
American Tabloid — James Ellroy *
Libra — Don DeLillo *
The Stranger Diaries — Elly Griffiths
When We Were Bad — Charlotte Mendelson
Those People — Louise Candlish *
Rivals — Jilly Cooper
The Night Hawks — Elly Griffiths ~
Daughters of Jerusalem — Charlotte Mendelson *
Our Country Friends — Gary Shteyngart *
The Asshole Survival Guide — Robert I. Sutton
The Names — Don DeLillo
Vaxxers — Sarah Gilbert & Catherine Green with Deborah Crewe
Profit from the Core — Chris Zook with James Allen
Influence — Robert B. Cialdini
Drive — Daniel Pink ~
Christmas Holiday — W. Somerset Maughm
Up the Organisation — Robert Townsend
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 — Samuel Pepys

Rereads

The No Asshole Rule — Robert I. Sutton
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
The Art Of Fiction — David Lodge
Lucky Jim — Kingsley Amis
Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov ~
Personal — Lee Child
The Prince — Niccolo Machiavelli
Our Man In Havana — Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
A Room With A View — E. M. Forster
Wonder Boys — Michael Chabon *
The Line Of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst *
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half Truths And Total Nonsense — Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton *
The Bible (New International Version) *

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Lists of books read: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004