Books of the year: Salon dinner recommendations

Last week, I shared a post with my favourite books of the year.

Those of you that follow me on LinkedIn will probably know that I regularly host "salon" dinners where I bring together an interesting mix of people within our broader Milltown Partners network.

Earlier this year, I started asking my guests to share their own recommendations of what to read, watch, or listen to. Over the course of the last six months, people have recommended nearly fifty different books, so I thought I'd share the full list in one place.

This is a really interesting set of novels and non-fiction books, so there really should be something for everyone.

Fiction

• All Fours, by Miranda July
• Artemis, by Andy Weir
• The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
• The Boy and His Friend the Blizzard, by Gregory Marton
• Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks
• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
• Judgment on Deltchev, by Eric Ambler
• The Lagos Wife, by Vanessa Walters
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
• A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
• The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
• The Safekeep, by Yael van der Wouden
• Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
• Tokyo Express, by Seicho Matsumoto
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Garielle Zevin
• Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
• Trespasses, by Louise Kennedy
• Yellowface, by Rebecca Kuang

Non-fiction

• The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron
• Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
• The Book of Chai: History, stories and more than 60 recipes, by Mira Manek
• Chip War, by Chris Miller
• Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI, by Madhumita Murgia
• Cork Dork, by Bianca Bosker
• Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity, by Robert Hannigan
• Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World, by Gary Vaynerchuk
• Dealing with China, by Hank Paulson
• Decoded, by Jay Z
• Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology, by Laura Coffey
• The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
• Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition, by Francis Fukuyama
• The Irish Diaries, by Alastair Campbell
• Maurice and Maralyn, by Sophie Elmhirst
• The Racket, by Conor Niland
• The Score Takes Care of Itself, by Bill Walsh
• The Song Machine, by John Seabrook
• Think Again, by Adam Grant
• The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance, by Africa Brooke
• Ultra Processed People, by Chris Van Tulleken
• The Unfinished Revolution: How New Labour Changed British Politics Forever, by Philip Gould
• Unflattening, by Nick Sousanis (the first PhD written in the form of a graphic novel)
• Unscripted: Sex and Lies in a Hollywood Media Empire, by James Stewart
• Will, by Will Smith
• Wintering, by Katherine May
• The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House, by Ben Rhodes