Reading list

  • Sad by Design by Geert Lovink
  • Network without a Cause by Geert Lovink
  • If… Then. Algorithmic Power and Politics by Taina Bucher
  • Facebook by Taina Bucher
  • Cloud Ethics. Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others by Louise Amoore
  • How We Became Data. A Genealogy of the Informational Person by Colin Koopman
  • The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World by J. van Dijck, T. Poell and M. De Waal
  • The black Box Society. The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information by Frank Pasquale
  • Weapons on Math Destruction. How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
  • Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
  • A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
  • Network Propaganda. Manipulation, Disinformation, And Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts
  • Computational Propaganda. Political Parties, Politicians and Political Manipulation on Social Media by S.C. Wooley and P. N. Howard
  • We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik
  • Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives by Deborah Lupton
  • The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederström
  • A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term by Bronislaw Malinowski
  • The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
  • Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser

Currently reading

  • Adventures of a Mathematician by S. M. Ulam
  • Slavic Gods and Heroes by Judith Kalik and Alexander Uchitel
  • The Liars’ Gospel by Naomi Alderman
  • How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in 21st Century by Frank Furedi
  • Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman
  • Był Świat by Inka Wajsbort
  • Nadzieja aż po horyzont by Barbara Goralczyk
  • Czerwone Niebo nad Wołyniem by Barbara Iskra Kozińska
  • The Light that Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

2024

  • Modern Scholar: God: A History by Ilan Stavans
  • The Modern Scholar: Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: Foundations of Western Civilization by Timothy Shutt
  • I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
  • The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
  • Chłopki: Opowieść o naszych babkach by Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
  • What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
  • How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
  • A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
  • The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
  • Klątwa Sprzeczności – Sylwetki Dwudziestowiecznych Pisarzy by Krzysztof Masłoń
  • Ptak Dodo czyli co Mówią do nas Politycy by Michał Rusinek
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • Ubik by Philip K. Dick

2023

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  • Old Folk Tales of Malta and Gozo by Manwel Magri S. J.
  • The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
  • The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman
  • Disinformation by Ronald Rychlak and Mihai Pacepa
  • Damascus Station by David McCloskey
  • Alethea by Katrina Day and Philomena Polefrone
  • A History of Japan by R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger
  • Needle in a Timestack and Other Stories by Robert Silverberg
  • Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children by Giorgio Agamben
  • Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
  • Chłopcy. Idą po Polskę by Kącki Marcin
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • Q by Christina Dalcher
  • Bzik kolonialny. II Rzeczpospolitej przypadki zamorskie by Grzegorz Łyś
  • The Supernova Era by Cixin Liu
  • The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
  • Odwieczny PiS czyli Historia Polski by Andrzej Romanowski
  • Oskarżam Auschwitz: Opowieści rodzinne by Mikolaj Grynberg
  • The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
  • The Modern Scholar: Jerusalem: The Contested City by Professor Frank E. Peters
  • The Modern Scholar: Stranger Than Fiction: The Art of Literary Journalism by William McKeen
  • The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
  • The Modern Scholar: The Anglo-Saxon World by Prof. Michael D. C. Drout
  • The Modern Scholar: The Second Oldest Profession, Part 1: A World History of Espionage by Prof. Jeffrey Burds
  • Commandaria: The Wine of the Kings by William Woys Weaver
  • Divina Cypria: Discovering the symbols of Christianity in Cyprus by Furio Morroni
  • Adieu Varsovie by Janka Kaempfer Louis
  • Dzienniki 1956-1958 by Agnieszka Osiecka
  • My Wife Hates Time Travel, and Other Stories by Adam-Troy Castro
  • Poland by Victoria Varga
  • A Mind of Her Own by Paula McLain
  • When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell by Joseph Campbell
  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
  • The Modern Scholar: Medieval Mysteries: The History Behind the Myths of the Middle Ages by Thomas F. Madden
  • The Modern Scholar: A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas by Thomas F. Madden
  • After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama by Francis Fukuyama and Mathilde Fasting
  • The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
  • Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
  • Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
  • Brud by Bartosz Kurek
  • Little Lost Robot by Isaac Asimov
  • Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
  • Breeds There a Man…? by Isaac Asimov
  • Hostess by Isaac Asimov
  • Sally by Isaac Asimov
  • Strikebreaker by Isaac Asimov
  • The Machine that Won the War by Isaac Asimov
  • Eyes Do More Than See by Isaac Asimov
  • The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov
  • Franchise by Isaac Asimov
  • Jokester by Isaac Asimov
  • The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
  • Does a Bee Care? by Isaac Asimov
  • Light Verse by Isaac Asimov
  • The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov
  • Spell My Name with an S by Isaac Asimov
  • The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov
  • The Billiard Ball by Isaac Asimov
  • True Love by Isaac Asimov
  • The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov
  • Lest We Remember by Isaac Asimov
  • The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti
  • The Signalman by Charles Dickens
  • Cham i Pan. A nam, prostym, zewsząd nędza? by Andrzej Chwalba and Wojciech Harpula
  • Reverie by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Awakening by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Whacky by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Loophole by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Technical Error by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Castaway by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Fires Within by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Inheritance by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Nightfall by Arthur C. Clarke
  • History Lesson by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Transience by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Wall of Darkness by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Lion of Comarre by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Hide-and-Seek by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Breaking Strain by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Travel by Wire! by Arthur C. Clarke
  • How We Went to Mars by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Retreat from Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Evening and the Morning: Kingsbridge by Ken Follett
  • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple

2022

  • Identity Crisis by Ben Elton
  • Science for Sale: How the US Government Uses Powerful Corporations and Leading Universities to Support Government Policies, Silence Top Scientists, Jeopardize Our Health, and Protect Corporate Profits by David L. Lewis PhD
  • Propaganda by Edward Bernays
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • Domain by James Herbert
  • The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  • The Crowd – Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon
  • Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit by Philip Stephens
  • The Book of the Tree: Trees in Art by Angus Hyland and Kendra Wilson
  • Marlow Moss by Lucy Howarth
  • Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
  • The Spear by James Herbert
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene
  • The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
  • The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
  • The Russia House by John le Carré
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
  • The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
  • The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
  • The Clash of Civilizations? by Samuel P. Huntington
  • The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
  • The Book of the Tree: Trees in Art by Angus Hyland
  • Rothko by Jacob Baal-Teshuva
  • Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
  • Claudius the God by Robert Graves
  • The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
  • America’s Secret War: Inside the Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies by George Friedman
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • Lock In by John Scalzi
  • Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  • Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  • Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka by Swiatłana Aleksijewicz
  • Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
  • The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
  • The Human Factor by Graham Greene
  • The Drought by J. G. Ballard
  • The Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard
  • Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • ‘48 by James Herbert
  • Call for the Dead by John le Carré
  • Reward System by Jem Calder
  • Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
  • The Destructors by Graham Greene
  • The End of the Party by Graham Greene
  • Under the Garden by Graham Greene
  • A Discovery in the Woods by Graham Greene
  • May We Borrow Your Husband by Graham Greene
  • Mortmain by Graham Greene
  • The Invisible Japanese Gentleman by Graham Greene
  • Two Gentle People by Graham Greene
  • Murder for the Wrong Reason by Graham Greene
  • The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower by Graham Greene
  • The Set-up by Vladimir Volkoff
  • Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham
  • The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Wild Shore: The Three Californias Triptych, Book 1 by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Prima Belladonna by J. G. Ballard
  • Escapement by J. G. Ballard
  • The Concentration City by J. G. Ballard
  • Venus Smiles by J. G. Ballard
  • Manhole 69 by J. G. Ballard
  • Track 12 by J. G. Ballard
  • The Waiting Grounds by J. G. Ballard
  • Now: Zero by J. G. Ballard
  • The Sound-Sweep by J. G. Ballard
  • Zone of Terror by J. G. Ballard
  • Chronopolis by J. G. Ballard
  • The Voices of Time by J. G. Ballard
  • The Last World of Mr Goddard by J. G. Ballard
  • Studio 5, The Stars by J. G. Ballard
  • Deep End by J. G. Ballard
  • The Overloaded Man by J. G. Ballard
  • Mr F. is Mr F. by J. G. Ballard
  • Billennium by J. G. Ballard
  • The Gentle Assassin by J. G. Ballard
  • The Insane Ones by J. G. Ballard
  • The Garden of Time by J. G. Ballard
  • The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista by J. G. Ballard
  • Thirteen to Centaurus by J. G. Ballard
  • Passport to Eternity by J. G. Ballard
  • Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
  • John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
  • AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet by Klaus Schwab
  • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
  • China by Edward Rutherfurd
  • China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Moving Testament to the Human Spirit by Christy Lefteri
  • The Time Machine by HG Wells
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
  • The Village Teacher by Cixin Liu
  • The Time Migration by Cixin Liu
  • 2018-04-01 by Cixin Liu
  • Fire in the Earth by Cixin Liu
  • Contraction by Cixin Liu
  • Mirror by Cixin Liu
  • Ode to Joy by Cixin Liu
  • Full Spectrum Barrage Jamming by Cixin Liu
  • Sea of Dreams by Cixin Liu
  • Cloud of Poems by Cixin Liu
  • The Thinker by Cixin Liu
  • The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
  • A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
  • Ryszard Kapuściński: Biografia pisarza by Zygmunt Ziątek and Beata Nowacka
  • The Devil’s Atlas: An Explorer’s Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds by Edward Brooke-Hitching
  • The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan
  • High-Opp by Frank Herbert
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  • To Save Time is to Lengthen Life by Sahadeva Dasa
  • Life Is Nothing But Time by Sahadeva Dasa

2021

  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  • Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham
  • The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
  • Lying by Sam Harris
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  • The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
  • The Monsters by Robert Sheckley
  • Cost of Living by Robert Sheckley
  • The Altar by Robert Sheckley
  • Shape by Robert Sheckley
  • The Impacted Man by Robert Sheckley
  • Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley
  • The King’s Wishes by Robert Sheckley
  • Warm by Robert Sheckley
  • The Demons by Robert Sheckley
  • Specialist by Robert Sheckley
  • Seventh Victim by Robert Sheckley
  • Ritual by Robert Sheckley
  • Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley
  • The Game of X by Robert Sheckley
  • Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
  • The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi
  • The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
  • We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
  • NEED: The Northern European Enclosure Dam for if Climate Change Mitigation Fails by Sjoerd Groeskamp and Joakim Kjellsson
  • English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by Lacey Baldwin Smith
  • The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Utopia by Thomas More
  • My Ear at His Heart by Hanif Kureishi
  • The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi
  • Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
  • New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
  • Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim
  • A Piece of String by Guy de Maupassant
  • The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd Sherbowitz-Wetzor
  • Vaccine: How the Breakthrough of a Generation Fought Covid-19 by Joe Miller, Ugur Sahin , Özlem Türeci
  • The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
  • Araby by James Joyce
  • The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  • An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
  • Letters by C. S. Lewis
  • The Church by C. S. Lewis
  • Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
  • The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein
  • Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land by Henry Kamm
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  • Z dziejów Narwi i okolic : w 480 rocznicę nadania prawa chełmińskiego 1514-1994 by Dorota Michaluk
  • New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
  • Malczewski Malarstwo/Painting by Dorota Suchocka
  • Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang
  • Rendezvous with Rama: Rama Series, Book 1 by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rama II: Rama Series, Book 2 by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
  • Tomorrow I’m Dead: How a 17-Year-Old Killing Field Survivor Became the Cambodian Freedom Army’s Greatest Soldier by Bun Yom
  • Hayek: His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time by Eamonn Butler
  • Upodobanie. Małżeństwa i związki nieformalne na wsi polskiej XVII–XVIII wieku by Tomasz Wiślicz
  • Mitologia słowiańska by Jakub Bobrowski and Mateusz Wrona
  • The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
  • What I Believe: 3 Complete Essays on Religion by Bertrand Russell
  • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
  • Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe: Design Manifesto by Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink
  • Picasso Portraits by Elizabeth Cowling
  • Picasso: Masters of Art by Rosalind Ormiston
  • A Change of Plans: A Short Story by Dennis E. Taylor
  • Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
  • Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly
  • Polactwo by Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
  • Michnikowszczyzna. Zapis choroby by Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
  • Glitch by Hugh Howey
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
  • The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People by Michael Wood
  • No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
  • Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre
  • 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
  • Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
  • American War by Omar El Akkad
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Inni Ludzie by Dorota Masłowska
  • The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History by Peter Millar
  • Why Borders Matter by Frank Furedi
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  • Wroniec by Jacek Dukaj
  • Taking Care of God by by Cixin Liu
  • With Her Eyes by by Cixin Liu
  • Cannonball by by Cixin Liu
  • The Micro-Era by by Cixin Liu
  • Devourer by by Cixin Liu
  • Curse 5.0 by by Cixin Liu
  • For the Benefit of Mankind by by Cixin Liu
  • Sun of China by Cixin Liu
  • 500 Zdań Polskich by Jerzy Bralczyk
  • Mountain by Cixin Liu
  • Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu
  • The Rats by James Herbert
  • Lair by James Herbert
  • The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon by Solomon Maimon
  • Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
  • The Survivor by James Herbert
  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Cixin Liu
  • God is disappointed in you by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
  • Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
  • The Children of Men by P. D. James
  • Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Vox by Kristina Delcher
  • SPQR by Mary Beard
  • The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

2020

  • Nie zdążę by Olga Gitkiewicz
  • The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
  • Shogun by James Clavell
  • The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
  • The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
  • What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami
  • Stuck by Heidi Larson
  • Cain by Jose Saramago
  • Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 
  • Shetl by Eva Hoffman 
  • Anthem by Ayn Rand
  • The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
  • Diary of Somebody by Brian Bilston
  • The Wall by John Lanchester
  • This is not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev

2019

  • Virtual Light by William Gibson
  • Siódemka by Ziemowit Szczerek
  • Noblista z Nowolipek by Marek Górlikowski
  • Submission by Michel Houellebecq
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
  • Hard-boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami
  • Semper Fidelis: Pamiętnik Polaka Wyznania Mojżeszowego Z Lat 1926-1939 by Wiktor Chajes
  • Dreams of my Father by Barak Obama
  • Burial rites by Hannah Kent
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
  • The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
  • Hitler by Ian Kershaw
  • Solaris by Stanisław Lem
  • When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Belonging by Simon Schama
  • Polanim. Z Polski do Izraela by Karolina Przewrocka-Aderet 
  • Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
  • Searchable Talk by Michele Zappavigna
  • Discourse of Twitter and Social Media by Michele Zappavigna

2018

  • Zakonnice odchodzą po cichu by Marta Abramowicz
  • Młyny Boże by Jacek Leociak
  • Koronkowa Robota, Sprawa Gorgonowej by Cezary Łazarewicz
  • Król by Szczepan Twardoch
  • Morfina by Szczepan Twardoch
  • How to Write a lot by Paul Silvia
  • Death’s End by Cixin Liu
  • The 480 by Eugene Burdick
  • Moonwalking with Einstain by Joshua Foer
  • The Power by Naomi Alderman
  • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
  • The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
  • Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
  • The Lights Remain by Alison Moore in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Nightswimming by Alex Preston in Short Fiction vol 8
  • The Castle by Robert Boucheron in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Critical State by Osama Ammar in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Il Torre Di Veriata by William Telford in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Bismillah Your Old Self by Adnan Mahmutovic in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Afterlife by Theodora Ziolkowski in Short Fiction vol 8
  • from The Hurt Country by Harriet Moore in Short Fiction vol 8
  • The Glover by Graham Mort in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Adieu, Mon Doux Rivage by Catherine McNamara in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Identity Politics by Andrew Neilson in Short Fiction vol 8
  • The American Way of Housekeeping by Mariko Nagai in Short Fiction vol 8
  • Recalculating by Deborah Eisenberg in Short Fiction vol 8
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  • The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray
  • Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli tajna historia Słowian by Ziemowit Szczerek
  • The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
  • The Last Question by  Isaac Asimov
  • Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams

2017

  • Caligula by Suetonius
  • Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo
  • Cockcrow by Guy de Maupassant
  • Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant
  • Hautot and Son by Guy de Maupassant
  • Laid to Rest by Guy de Maupassant
  • Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Hashtag Publics by Nathan Rambukkana
  • The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich
  • Small Memories by Jose Saramago

2016

  • A Meditation upon a Broomstick by Jonathan Swift
  • A Description of a City Shower by Jonathan Swift
  • A Short View of the State of Ireland by Jonathan Swift
  • A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
  • An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities, in the City of Dublin by Jonathan Swift
  • Does this Meme Prove Donald Trump is a White Supremacist? by Scott Wark
  • The Surveyors by Mary Jo Salter in Ambit Magazine, Issue 226, Autumn 2016
  • The Lights Remain by Alison  Moore in Short Fiction, Issue 8
  • Waterboarding Mrs Elephant by Fridrik Solnes Jonsson in Short Fiction, Issue 10
  • Cousins by Sean Gilbert in Short Fiction, Issue 10
  • Blue Limitless Emptiness by Lania Knight in Short Fiction, Issue 10
  • Patient Grizelda by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Saga of Gunnlaung Serpent-tongue by Anonymous
  • On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincet
  • Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche

We must think of men who are cruel today as stages of earlier cultures, which have been left over (…). They are backward men, whose brains, because of various possible accidents of heredity, have not yet developed much delicacy or versatility. They show us what we all were, and frighten us. But they themselves are as little responsible as a piece of granite for being granite. (p. 7)

  • Traffic by John Ruskin

What we like determines what we are, and is a sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. (p. 5)

  • The Roots of Honour by John Ruskin

The tendency of all modern mercantile operations is to throw both wages and trade into the form of lottery, and to make the workman’s pay depend on intermittent exertion, and the principal’s profit on dexterously used chance. (p. 46)

  • The Troll by Pu Songling
  • The Monster in the Buckwheat by Pu Songling
  • Stealing a Peach by Pu Songling
  • The masculinity paradox: facial masculinity and beardedness interact to determine women’s ratings of men’s facial attractiveness by Dixson B. J. W. et al
  • Growing Pears by Pu Songling
  • The Golden Goblet by Pu Songling
  • Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
  • Scorched Moth the Taoist by Pu Songling
  • The Giant Turtle by Pu Songling
  • A fatal Joke by Pu Songling
  • A Prank by Pu Songling
  • King of the Nine Mountains by Pu Songling
  • Butterfly by Pu Songling
  • The Black Beast by Pu Songling
  • The Stone Bowl by Pu Songling
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Arrangements by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Andreuccio’s da Perugia’s Neapolitan adventures by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Ricciardo da Chinzica loses his wife by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Patient Griselda by Giovanni Boccaccio

2015

  • Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • Tales About the Motherland by Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • The Order of Things by Michael Foucault
  • From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski
  • Cesarz by Ryszard Kapuściński
  • Bezcenny by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

2014

  • Blindness by José Saramago
  • Seeing by José Saramago
  • The Stone Raft by José Saramago
  • A Winter in Mallorca by George Sand
  • Uwikłanie by Zygmunt Miłoszewski
  • Ziarno Prawdy by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

2013

  • Being There Together by Ralph Schroeder
  • Kochanie, zabiłam nasze koty by Dorota Masłowska
  • A Poetic Vision: The Photography of Yip Cheong-Fun by Andrew W. K. Yip
  • Kadazan Folklore by Rita Lasimbang
  • Off the rails in Phnom Penh by Amit Gilboa

2012

  • First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
  • The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
  • The Killing Fields by Christopher Hudson
  • Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot by David P. Chandler
  • Burmese Days by George Orwell
  • A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

2011

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
  • Makers by Cory Doctorov
  • No Logo by Naomi Klein
  • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreisler
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Ja, Dago (Dagome Iudex, #1) by Zbigniew Nienacki
  • Ja, Dago Piastun (Dagome Iudex, #2) by Zbigniew Nienacki
  • Ja, Dago Władca (Dagome Iudex, #3) by Zbigniew Nienacki
  • The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas

2010

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
  • The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
  • Room at the Top by John Braine
  • The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

Earlier

  • Pod Mocnym Aniołem by Jerzy Pilch
  • Wojna polsko ruska pod flagą biało czerwoną by Dorota Masłowska
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Paris, London, Dachau by Agnieszka Drotkiewicz