Alan Porter's minimal net presence

What I am reading...

2024-03 The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz
2024-03 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
2024-01 Come as You Are Emily Nagoski
2024-01 Lost in the Beehive Michele Young-Stone
2023-12 The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
2023-11 A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) David Sedaris
2023-11 Buddhism, Plain and Simple
Steve Hagen
2023-11 Mating in Captivity
Esther Perel
2023-11 Men without women : stories
Haruki Murakami
2023-09 Outlive
The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia with Bill Gifford
2023-08 Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty
2023-06 Mexico: Stories Josh Barkan
2023-05 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
2023-04 Take Your Breath Away Linwood Barclay
2023-03 Maranatha Road Heather Bell Adams
2023-02 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr
2023-01 How To Change Katy Milkman
2022-12 The Story Hour Thrity Umrigar
2022-11 The Goal Eliyahu Goldratt
2022-09 Nobody, Somebody, Anybody Kelly McClorey
2022-08 Nine Inches Tom Perrotta
2022-08 This is Ear Hustle Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods
2022-07 The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
2022-06 Beautiful Country Qian Julie Wang
2022-06 The Woman in the Purple Skirt Natsuko Imamura
2022-04 The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green
2022-03 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
2022-02 Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell
2022-02 An Island To Oneself Tom Neale
2022-01 Land of Big Numbers Te-Ping Chen
2022-01 Dear Girls Ali Wong
2021-12 The Best of Me David Sedaris
2021-12 Underground Will Hunt
2021-12 Mr. Mercedes Stephen King
2021-10 Sigh, Gone
A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
Phuc Tran
2021-10 Liar's Bench Kim Michele Richardson
2021-08 Severance Ling Ma
2021-07 Wanderers Chuck Wendig
2021-06 The Second Chance Club
Hardship and Hope After Prison
Jason Hardy
2021-05 Goodbye, Again Jonny Sun
2021-05 The Tao of Pooh Benjamin Hoff
2021-03 Artemis Andy Weir
2021-02 Three Wishes Liane Moriarty
2021-01 Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
2021-01 Humble Pi
When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Matt Parker
2021-01 The Body
A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson
2020-11 The 99% Invisible City Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
2020-09 A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
2020-08 The Dutch House Ann Patchett
2020-06 Great Expectations Charles Dickens
2020-04 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
2020-02 A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
2020-01 How To Set A Fire And Why Jesse Ball
2019-12 The World in a Grain Vince Beiser
2019-12 The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman
2019-10 A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
2019-10 Little Women Louisa May Alcott
2019-07 The Time Keeper Mitch Albom
2019-07 The Wright Brothers David McCullough
2019-05 The Good Liar Nicholas Searle
2019-05 Peter Pan J. M. Barrie
2019-04 Joyland Stephen King
2019-03 Gut: The Inside Story of our Body's Most Underrated Organ Giulia Enders
2019-01 The Late Starters Orchestra Ari Goldman
2018-12 Midlife: A Philosophical Guide Kieran Setiya
2018-11 Armada Earnest Cline
2018-10 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
2018-08 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
2018-08 Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson
2018-07 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
2018-07 Fishbowl Bradley Somer
2018-07 The Ultimate Gift Jim Stovall
2018-07 Big Fish
A Novel of Mythic Proportions
Daniel Wallace
2018-06 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
2018-06 Alex & Me
How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence
— and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Irene M. Pepperberg
2018-06 Stiff
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
2018-06 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
2018-05 The Magician's Lie Greer Macallister
2018-04 Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) David Sedaris
2018-04 Wind / Pinball
Hear The Wind Sing & Pinball, 1973
Haruki Murakami
2018-03 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
2018-03 How Music Works John Powell
2018-01 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Mark Manson
2017-12 The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick
2017-10 Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
2017-09 The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
2017-09 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
2017-08 Hearts In Atlantis Stephen King
2017-07 Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? Alyssa Mastromonaco
2017-07 Seveneves Neal Stephenson
2017-06 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
2017-05 The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty
2017-04 The Psychopath Test
A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson
2017-04 Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
(popularly known as Fanny Hill)
John Cleland (1748)
2017-03 Salem's Cipher Jess Lourey
2017-02 A Burglar's Guide to the City Geoff Manaugh
2017-01 REAMDE Neal Stephenson
2016-12 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
2016-12 The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle Book 3) Neal Stephenson
2016-10 Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
2016-09 Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
2016-09 The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle Book 2) Neal Stephenson
2016-07 Packing for Mars
The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
2016-07 When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris
2016-06 Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle Book 1) Neal Stephenson
2016-04 Naked David Sedaris
2016-04 The Fault in Our Stars John Green
2016-04 This Is Where I Leave You Jonathan Tropper
2016-03 In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware
2016-03 Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls David Sedaris
2016-03 Hausfrau Jill Alexander Essbaum
2016-02 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
2016-01 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
2016-01 Ghost Boy
The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
Martin Pistorius
2015-12 Shanghai Girls Lisa See
2015-12 Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
2015-11 The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
2015-11 Dune Frank Herbert
2015-11 The Sculptor Scott McCloud
2015-11 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins
2015-10 The Martian Andy Weir
2015-10 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2015-10 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
2015-07 Prank the Monkey
The ZUG Book of Pranks
Sir John Hargrave
2015-06 The School for Good and Evil Soman Chainani
2015-02 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson
2014-12 The Racketeer John Grisham
2014-12 The Silkworm Robert Galbraith
(J.K. Rowling)
2014-12 The Lost Symbol Dan Brown
2014-11 The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith
(J.K. Rowling)
2014-08 The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart
2014-07 Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
2014-06 The Godfather Mario Puzo
2014-05 Water for Elephants Sara Gruen
2014-05 Flawless
Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Scott Andrew Selby
and Greg Campell
2014-05 The Answer to the Riddle Is Me
A Memoir of Amnesia
David Stuart MacLean
2014-04 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
2014-04 Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Garrison Keillor
2014-03 Practical Vim
Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
Drew Neil
2014-02 The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling
2013-12 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
2013-11 Angels and Demons Dan Brown
2013-11 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
2013-09 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson
2013-08 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2013-07 Designed for Use
Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web
Lukas Mathis
2013-04 The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson
2013-03 Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes Jonathan Auxier
2013-03 The Journal of Best Practices
A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome,
and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
David Finch
2013-03 Life of Pi Yann Martel
2013-02 Blackbirds Chuck Wendig
2013-02 Ready Player One Earnest Cline
2013-01 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
2012-12 Half Empty David Rakoff
2012-12 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
2012-12 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
2012-11 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
2012-11 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
2012-10 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
2012-09 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
2012-09 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling
2012-09 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
2012-08 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster
2012-08 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
2012-07 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
2012-07 Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
2012-07 Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
Meg Meeker
2012-06 One Way Forward
The Outsider's Guide to Fixing the Republic
Lawrence Lessig
2012-05 The Internet is a Playground David Thorne
2012-05 The Help Kathryn Stockett
2012-04 700 Sundays Billy Crystal
2012-03 The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje
2012-02 On The Road Jack Kerouac
2012-02 Sh*t My Dad Says Justin Halpern
2012-01 Little Brother Cory Doctorow
2012-01 Roots
The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
2012-01 The Dip
A little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick)
Seth Godin
2011-10 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
2011-10 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
2011-10 Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Patton Oswalt
2011-10 Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger
2011-10 Failure is not an Option Gene Kranz
2011-09 Bonk
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
2011-07 The Bible Salesman Clyde Edgerton
2011-02 Rework Jason Fried and
David Heinemeier Hansson
(37 Signals)
2011-01 The Long Tail Chris Anderson
2011-01 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
2010-12 The Teddy Bear Habit James Lincoln Collier
2010-12 Money for Nothing
One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
Edward Ugel
2010-12 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
2010-11 Linchpin
Are you indispensable?
Seth Godin
2010-10 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
2010-10 What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
2010-09 Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
2010-08 Up in the Air Walter Kirn
2010-05 Scratch Beginnings
Me, $25, and the search for the American dream
Adam Shepard
2010-04 Pridictably irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
2010-03 21: Bringing Down the House
The inside Story of Six MiT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
Ben Mezrich
2009-10 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
2008-11 Secrets and Lies
Digital Security in a Networked World
Bruce Schneier
2008-05 Changing Places David Lodge
2008-04 October Sky Homer Hickam
2007-11 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson


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