Norman Mailer – The Deer Park
Mike Walsh – Futuretainment
Charles Jackson – The Lost Weekend
John Falk – Hello To All That
Russell Banks – Affliction
Lao Tsu – Tao Te Ching
Bill Carter – The War for Late Night
Paul Buckley – Penguin Designers 75
Dick Lehr & Gerard O’ Neill – Black Mass
Bruce Chatwin – What Am I Doing Here?
Jay McInerny – Bright Lights, Big City
Robert S. Boynton – The New New Journalism
Granta 101 – Sex
Tom Rachman – The Imperfectionists
Charles Emmerson – The Future History of the Arctic
Arthur Koestler – Darkness At Noon
Charles Bukowski – Women
Patrick Dewitt – The Sisters Brothers
William Styron – The Suicide Run
Ronen Bergman - The Secret War With Iran
Steven Lukes – Moral Relativism
Matt Ridley – The Red Queen
Lee Hill – The Art & Life of Terry Southern
Jack Kerouac – The Dharma Bums
John Banville – The Sea
Pratap Chaterjee – Haliburton
Primo Levi – The Wrench
Omar Nasri – Inside the Jihad
Routledge – 50 Major Philosophers
Saul Bellow – Herzog
Jerry Weintraub – When I Stop Talking You’ll Know I’m Dead
Martin Meredith – The State of Africa
Christopher Hitchens – Hitch 22
Jonathan Ames – The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Writer
Naguib Mahfouz – Autumn Quail
Chip & Dan Heath – Made to Stick
Rebecca Shannonhouse – Under The Influence
Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
John Steinbeck – Travels With Charley
Martin Ewans – Afghanistan
Robert Byron – First Russia, Then Tibet
James Cook – Hunt for the Southern Continent
Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist
Charles Bukowski – Ham on Rye
Andrey Kurkov – A Matter of Death and Life
Raymond Carver – What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Other Essays
Bill Buford – The Best Travel Writing 2010
Greg Lyndsay – Aerotropolis
Paul Bowles – The Delicate Prey
Roderic Braithwaite – Afgansty
F Scott Fitzgerald – Babylon Revisited
Charles Bukowski – Post Office
Chinua Achebe – A Man of The People
Anton Chekhov – A Journey to the end of the Russian Empire
Raymond Chandler – Killer in the Rain
George Orwell – A Homage to Catalonia
Jason Elliot – Mirrors of the Unseen
Harold Evans – My Paper Chase
Nick Flynn – Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Jeremy Scahill – Blackwater
Hunter S. Thompson – Screwjack
Ernest Hemingway – The Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories
Mark Twain – The Innocents Abroad
The excellent MagCulture blog took part in an interesting 24-hour experiment earlier this week, posting a different magazine every hour for 24 hours. Some of the covers are above, but we recommend you take a look at the site for yourself. Ignore the dross you see on the shelves, there is a host of quality magazines out there. Speaking of quality magazines, we are a week away from sending the new issue of Open Skies to press. Emirates Airline’s inflight magazine has been given a revamp and I am looking forward to the reaction it gets. We have some outstanding writers in the March issue (Chuck Thompson, Pico Iyer, Laura Mullane, Michael Palin, Mark Twain). If you are so inclined, you may follow us on Twitter.
Seth G Jones – In the Graveyard of Empires
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
Sebastian Junger – War
Jonathan Powell – The New Machiavelli
Rory MacLean – Magic Bus
Paul Smith – Twitchhiker
David Ogilvy – Confessions of an Advertising Man
Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
Rory Stewart – The Places In Between
Bill Clegg – Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
Marc Almond – In Search of the Pleasure Palace
A goal has been reached. It was my aim to read 100 books in 2010, and the last day of December saw me finish book 106. This probably means my limited social skills have dwindled even further, but I would rather knowledge than social skills anyways. My aim for next year is 150 books and with my daily metro commute, this will be reached. Other non-book goals in 2011 include visiting Socotra, Tehran, Damascus, Eritrea and the volcanoes of Java.This coming year should also be a successful one for URBN with a number of projects about to be launched. I will also aim to post more regularly here – with the crapulence of local media expanding each week, this should not be difficult.
1. Alain De Botton – The Art of Travel
2. Ahmed Rashid – Taliban
3. Robert Byron – The Road to Oxiana
4. Martin Lindstrom – Buyology
5. Tom Shales & James Miller – Live From New York
6. Jerry Hopkins – Thailand Confidential
7. Tim Ferris – The Four Hour Body
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