Wishlist

Disclaimer

I don’t want more things - on the opposite, I’m actively trying to get rid of stuff I don’t use. Having said that, there are a few things I would enjoy having or trying out.

Books

I like books on politics, sociology, philosophy (especially post-modern, but preferrably less dense than Derrida…), history (I’d love a book about the history of the burger!) But honestly, any good non-fiction will make me happy. Below are things that I plan to read at some point:

• Theory of Literature (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Paul H. Fry
• Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition by Richard M. Weaver, Roger Kimball
• Gaza: Past. Present. Future. by Donald Macintyre
• War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler, Henry David Thoreau
• Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
• Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
• Wankernomics: A Deep-Dive Into Workplace Bullsh*ttery by James Schloeffel, Charles Firth
• The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius, Tom Holland
• Talking about Machines: An Ethnography of a Modern Job by Julian E. Orr
• 1066 and All That by W C Sellar
• Slavery by Another Name
• The Hammer Blow: How 10 Women Disarmed a War Plane by Andrea Needham
• A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott PhD, Blackstone Publishing
• Economics: The User’s Guide: A Pelican Introduction by Ha-Joon Chang
• The Awakening Body by Reginald A. Ray
• On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
• Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder, George Newbern
• Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
• Zoobiquity: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
• Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci, Paul Hecht
• Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes
• Doubt Is Their Product by MICHAELS
• The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Martina Slajerova, Thomas DeLauer
• Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Sean Patrick Hopkins, Rob Dunn
• Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
• Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz
• Don’t Be Such a Scientist, Second Edition: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of Our Insatiable Appetite by David A. Kessler
• Dostadning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
• Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous by Gillian Anderson
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Scott Brick, Michael Pollan
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
• Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art) by C. Thi Nguyen
• Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
• The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
• Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? by Professor Steve Keen
• How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• Patterns, Thinking and Cognition: A Theory of Judgement by Howard Margolis
• Unwinding Anxiety: Train Your Brain to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer, Penguin Audio
• To Hell With Culture by Sir Herbert Edward Read
• The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E P Evans
• Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell
• Watching the English by Kate Fox
• Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
• Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Chris Harper
• Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Karin Dufner
• My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
• Suffrage by Cynthia Farrell, Ellen Carol DuBois
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI by Anil Ananthaswamy
• The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk
• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg
• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
• The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
• Code by Charles Petzold
• Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
• Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson
• A History of Private Life V 1 – From Pagan Rome to Byzantium by A Veyne
• Understanding Computation by Tom Stuart
• The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel, Timothy Snyder
• Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War by Peter Kemp
• The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
• Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild
• Defending the Indefensible by McCulloch & Tweedale
• The Toxic Truth by Diana Lugova
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
• The Dreams of Reason by Heinz R. Pagels
• The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller
• Sadly, Porn by Edward Teach
• Watch What You Hear by Edward Teach
• The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet
• Deconstruction: A Reader by Martin McQuillan
• The Goodness Paradox: by Richard Wrangham
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

• The Power Broker by Robert A Caro
• Beauty by David Konstan
• Beauty and the Gods by Hugo Shakeshaft
• The Consecration of the Writer by Paul Bénichou

• Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl
• The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin

• Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly
• Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods by Michael J. Silverstein

• The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
• The Greeks and the Irrational by E R Dodds

• Alexander to Actium by Peter Green

• The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax by Geoffrey K. Pullum
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
• The Concise Book of Trigger Points by Simeon Niel-Asher

Stuff

I like stuff that makes life a bit easier. If you have a good recommendation, sharing it with me is as good as buying!

• Waterproof reversible blanket - £40
• Adult bib (I’m a pig)
• Tea infuser - £20
• Fogless shower mirror - £20
• Spirulina powder - £10
• BYOMA Melting Balm Facial Cleanser - £20
• First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream - £40
• Body Retinol
• Biossance Squalane + Marine Algae Eye Cream
• Sunscreen applicator - £20
• The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream - £10
• Food storage containers - £30
• Under-shelf spice rack - £20
• TVP chunks - £10
• Mini salad spinner - £20
• Personalized cat collar - £10
• Digestive enzyme supplement
• Fancy adjustable dumbbell - £130
• USB-C MagSafe charging station - £80
• Feather cat toy replacements - £10