Books I have read + ones I want to read

• A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal — Anthony Bourdain
• Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years — Bruce Sterling
• From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want — Rob Hopkins
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre — Keith Johnstone
• Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy — Jonathan Chapman
• The Beauty of Everyday Things — Soetsu Yanagi
• The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard
• Ways of Seeing — John Berger
• Design as Art — Bruno Munari
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman — Yvon Chouinard

• Ottolenghi SIMPLE — Yotam Ottolenghi, with Tara Wigley and Esme Howarth
• Who’s There?: Travels in Place and Time — Simon Loftus
• River Cafe Cook Book Easy — Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
• All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now — Ruby Tandoh
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking — Samin Nosrat
• Ultra-Processed People — Chris van Tulleken
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
• From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want — Rob Hopkins
• Ottolenghi FLAVOUR — Yotam Ottolenghi
• Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews — Robert Adams
• Who Moved My Cheese? — Dr Spencer JohnsonIn the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life — Juliet Annan
• Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya — Anuradha Roy
• Who’s There?: Travels in Place and Time — Simon Loftus
• Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships — James Muldoon
• Duty Free Art — Hito SteyerlHow to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy — Jenny Odell
• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design — Frank Wilczek
• Understanding Media: The Extension of Man — Marshall McLuhan
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction — Walter Benjamin
• The Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord
• THAI: Anywhere and Everywhere — Nat ThaipunBarons: 
• Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry — Austin Frerick
• The Flavour Thesaurus — Niki Segnit
• Rosa’s Thai Cafe: The Cookbook — Saiphin MooreRatio: 
• The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking — Michael Ruhlman
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World — Mark Pendergrast
• The Noma Guide to Fermentation — David Zilber
• The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects — Marshall McLuhan
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
• Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Practice — Carolyn Strauss
• What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion — Silvio Lorusso
• The Gourmand’s Egg: A Collection of Stories and Recipes — The Gourmand
• All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now — Ruby Tandoh
• Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish — Patrick Grant
• Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World — Thomas Heatherwick
• The Council House — Jack Young
• Let’s Eat — Tom Parker Bowles
• The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science — J. Kenji López-Alt
• Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
• Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City — Jorge Almazán
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life — Bill Burnett
• Easy Wins — Anna Jones
• Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet — Chris Dixon
• Flour Water Salt Yeast — Ken ForkishTo Sell Is Human — Daniel H. Pink
• I Didn’t Do the Thing Today — Madeleine DoreThe Art of Noticing — Rob Walker
• The Sausage of the Future — Carolien Niebling
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking — Samin Nosrat
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs — Ken Kocienda
• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products — Leander Kahney
• Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays — Robin Evans
• How to Travel — The School of Life
• Regarding the Pain of Others — Susan Sontag
• On Photography — Susan Sontag
• Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary — Dan Hill
• Good Material — Dolly Alderton
• The God of Small Things — Arundhati RoyShantaram — Gregory David Roberts
• Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World — Paul Stamets
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making — Tony Fadell
• The Quiet American — Graham Greene
• Unbuilt: Radical Visions of a Future That Never Arrived — Christopher Beanland
• Being Salmon, Being Human — Martin Lee Mueller
• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
• A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance — Hanif Abdurraqib
• Tokyo Express — Seicho Matsumoto
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
• Fatal Conveniences — Darin Olien
• The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis — Tim Smedley
• When the Mountains Dance — Christine Toomey
• World Travel: An Irreverent Guide — Anthony Bourdain
• Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians — Tara Isabella Burton
• The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World — Johan Norberg
• Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon — Virginia Tassinari
• In Praise of Shadows — Junichiro Tanizaki
• Finding Sisu: The Finnish Way — Katja Pantzar
• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything — Graham Harman
• Ornament and Crime — Adolf Loos
• Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green — Henry Sanderson
• Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams — Matthew Walker
• Deep Work / So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport
• The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources — Javier Blas