Reading

In my free time, I enjoy reading books, primarily (but, by no means, exclusively) fantasy, science fiction, and historical non-fiction. Here are some of my favourites, in no particular order:

• J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin, and Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth)
• The Wheel of Time series, by Robert Jordan
• Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga
• Andy Weir’s works (The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary)
• Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
• Hamlet and Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
• Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
• Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• Metternich: Strategist and Visionary, by Wolfram Siemann
• The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Second World War: A Complete History, by Martin Gilbert
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert Caro
• Becoming, by Michelle Obama
• A Promised Land, by Barack Obama

I’m currently reading:

• Snow & Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944–45, by Peter Caddick-Adams
• Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie