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A few photographs and a reading list
Film photos and some books I've read. I mostly read fiction, with non-fiction left to news and work. My best photos are all portraits and pictures of family, friends, and above all, my wife, but I like to keep those to myself; what's left I only hope isn't terrible.
Section 01
Photographs
Film, 35mm, scanned and no edits. Random selection, excluding any photos with visible friends and family (largely landscapes remain). Note: images compressed due to hosting requirements, happy to share original quality images if interested.
Section 02
Reading
Some books I've read in rough chronological order. Largely just memorable fiction books I've read in the past two or three years.
2026
- MayA Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
- MayThe Trial, Franz Kafka
- MayEnsaio sobre a Cegueira, José Saramagoy
- AprilFor Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- MarchAll Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- MarchDoktor Glas, Hjalmar Söderberg
- FebruaryThe Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
- FebruaryThe Loser, Thomas Bernhard
- FebruaryA Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr.
- JanuaryBerlin Game, Len Deighton
- JanuaryGulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
2025
- DecemberGoodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
- DecemberDeath and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov
- DecemberBeware of Pity, Stefan Zweig
- NovemberSommarboken, Tove Jansson
- OctoberThe Quiet American, Graham Greene
- OctoberHerzog, Saul Bellow
- SeptemberThe Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- AugustBreakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories, Truman Capote
- AugustBrighton Rock, Graham Greene
- JulyMémoires d'Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar
- JuneMoscow Stations, Venedikt Yerofeyev
- JuneInspector Imanishi Investigates, Seichō Matsumoto
- MayThe Light of Day (Topkapi), Eric Ambler
- MayAlone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
- AprilThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
- AprilWaiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
- AprilChess, Stefan Zweig
- AprilThe Witcher: The Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski
- MarchThe Lagoon, Typhoon, The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
- MarchKim, Rudyard Kipling
- FebruaryThe Cyberiad, Stanisław Lem
- FebruaryMetamorphosis and Other Stories, Franz Kafka
- JanuaryDisgrace, J.M. Coetzee
2024
- DecemberLe Colonel Chabert, Honoré de Balzac
- DecemberThe War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
- NovemberPale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
- NovemberCat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- NovemberTokyo Express, Seichō Matsumoto
- OctoberThe Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- OctoberRobinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- OctoberI, Robot, Isaac Asimov
- SeptemberThe Witcher: The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski
- SeptemberThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré
- SeptemberMy Grammar and I, Caroline Taggart & J.A. Wines
- AugustTinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
- JulyThe Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
- JuneCosmicomics, Italo Calvino
- MayLord of the Flies, William Golding
- AprilCatch-22, Joseph Heller
- AprilA Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
- MarchHeart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- MarchThe Year of the Hare, Arto Paasilinna
- FebruaryThe Wager, David Grann
- JanuaryLa Peste, Albert Camus
2023
- DecemberNew Finnish Grammar, Diego Marani
- DecemberOryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
- DecemberHow to Spot a Fascist, Umberto Eco
- NovemberSecond Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- NovemberFoundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
- NovemberFoundation, Isaac Asimov
- OctoberThe Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
- OctoberThe Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- SeptemberBrave New World, Aldous Huxley
- AugustThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
- JulyThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
- JuneThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
- MayDune, Frank Herbert