I really like independent bookshops. Paperback Books is my favourite bookshop in Melbourne. It’s fun to walk around in the store, there are always interesting new books, and the bookshop staff are lovely, helpful, and supportive. Big fan.
Academic reading
2026
2025 and previous
Cloud Ethics, Louise Amoore
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper
The Capacity Contract, Stacy Clifford Simplican
Postphenomenology and Technoscience: The Peking University Lectures, Don Ihde
Heidegger’s Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives, Don Ihde
Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations, Ed: Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek
Personal reading
2026
Currently reading
Katabasis – R. F. Kuang
Paladin’s Grace – T. Kingfisher
A different kind of power – Jacinda Ardern
Blue machine – Helen Czerski
The passengers on the Hankyu line – Hiro Arikawa
Translating myself and others – Jhumpa Lahiri
The science question in feminism – Sandra Harding (this one’s quite academic actually!)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab
2025
Completed
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
The Deep Sky – Yume Kitase
The Naked Sun – Isaac Asimov
To be taught, if fortunate – Becky Chambers
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
The Summer War – Naomi Novik