Summer 2026 – Reading and Listening List

a field of sunflowers on the outskirts of Vienna. Cropped in such a way that there is only a tiny bit of the shot that doesn't show sunflowers. Deliberately about 2° off horizontal. I'm a human after all!
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This summer I have put down the following books to read, as well as a number of podcasts to listen to. I have expanded by original reading list as I have found that I also need to listen to audio content on quiet days to make the auditory shock of leaving the office less pronounced.

As part of my intention to spend less time on social media, I have loaded my Kindle with many of the books ahead of my summer holiday. In addition, the Pagnol book will accompany me as a paperback – to read in a café over breakfast in Cannes, once I have finished reading the current edition of Le Monde Diplomatique. The Lee Onhwa book is one that I will be reading to solve a geocache in Vienna.

Reading List

Alex Baratta, How to Read and Write Critically

Eva Dou, House of Huawei

Seth Godin, The Dip

Sam Illingworth, Slow AI

Duncan Mavin, Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse

Cal Newport, So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Sarah O’Connor, We are not machines: The Fight for the Future of Work

Lee Onhwa, A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang / Kleine Wunder in der Mitternachtskonditorei

Marcel Pagnol, Le château de ma mère

Alok Sama, The Money Trap

Nina Sattler-Hovdar, Transcreation, The all-in-one Handbook and Workbook


Listening List

Cyber Hack, BBC World Service

Endgame: Can we live with Artificial General Intelligence, The Observer

Everything is Fake, BBC Radio 4

Nicht zu fassen: der Investigativpodcast, Profil

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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