2025

Jimmy
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What I Read

15 books

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Published 2005
Read June 2025
Rated 4/5

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of peop...

The Silent Patient

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides

Published 2019
Read June 2025
Rated 2/5

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desir...

The Girl on the Train
Published 2015
Read June 2025
Rated 2/5

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who l...

The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
Published 1987
Read June 2025
Rated 4/5

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia—and so begins the greatest manhunt in California hist...

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Published 2018
Read June 2025
Rated 3/5

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the wo...

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
Published 2007
Read February 2025
Rated 5/5

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When t...

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Published 2005
Read February 2025
Rated 5/5

Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusadi...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Published 1926
Read February 2025
Rated 4/5

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest and also, most controversial mysteries. 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd' breaks the rules of traditional mystery. The peaceful English village of King’...

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Published 2019
Read December 2024
Rated 4/5

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth...

Sharp Objects

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Published 2006
Read December 2024
Rated 4/5

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappea...

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Published 2019
Read December 2024
Rated 5/5

There’s a saying that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Getting to the good sol...

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
Published 2014
Read December 2024
Rated 4/5

A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making   Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, a...

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Published 2023
Read September 2023
Rated 5/5

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. Th...