Kristian Cleworth - A Bradfordian Blog

Below is a record of books read in date order, where they have sparked thoughts or comments.

• 30 Jan, 2025 Coraline Cancellation - What do we do with Great Art by Bad People?
• 09 Jan, 2025 The Glitter and the Grit: Thoughts Sparked by All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield

Reading List 2026

So I started off strong in 2025 - but it tailed off a bit as the year wore on. Starting off strong again - might be a pattern.

1. The Art Thief - Michael Finkel (22.1.26)
2. Nuclear War: A Scenario - Annie Jacobsen (2.2.26)
3. Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green (4.2.26)
4. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke (11.2.26)
5. Perfume - Patrick Süskind (17.2.26)
6. Sea of Tranquility - Emily John St Mandel (20.2.26)
7. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (9.3.26)
8. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (2.4.26)
9. 1984 - George Orwell (28.4.26)
10. Eurotrash - Christian Kracht (29.4.26)
11. Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer (6.5.26)
12. The Strength of the Few - James Islington (26.5.26)
13. A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck (28.5.26)
14. Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (1.6.26)
15. Murder in Paris 68 - Edward Chisholm (7.6.26)
16. The Hike - Drew Magary (13.6.26)
17. Why Populists Are Winning: and How to Beat Them - Liam Byrne (19.6.26)
18. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie (25.6.26)
19. All Systems Red - Martha Wells (2.7.26)
20. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (5.7.26)
21. Head North - Andy Burnham (13.7.26)
22. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells (14.7.26)
23. What if Reform Wins - Peter Chappell (19.7.26)
24. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino (25.7.26)
25. Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre (30.7.26)
26. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells (1.8.26)
27. Unmasked - Andrew Lloyd Webber (15.8.26)
28. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (16.8.26)
29. Babel - RF Kuang (19.8.26)
30. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (25.8.26)
31. No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (4.9.26)
32. The Castle - Jon Ronson (7.9.26)
33. The Expanded Earth - Mikey Please (10.9.26)
34. Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart (14.9.26)
35. Just Kids - Patti Smith (25.9.26)
36. I Deliver Parcels in Bejing - Hu Anyan (1.10.26)

Reading List 2025

1. Abroad in Japan - Chris Broad
2. All that Glitters - Orlando Whitfield
3. The House of Hidden Meanings - Ru Paul
4. Points and Lines / Tokyo Express - Seichõ Matsumoto
5. I am Bob - Dennis E. Taylor
6. A City on Mars - Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
7. Insomniac City - Bill Hayes
8. Moral Ambition - Rutger Bregman
9. Good Pop Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker
10. A Waiter in Paris - Edward Chisholm
11. The Cultural Tutor - Sheehan Quirke
12. The Hour of the Predator - Giuliano da Empoli
13. The Will of the Many - James Islington
14. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History - Nellie Bowles.