Recommendations, please
This is the page where I ask you to post recommendations for books that I’d love to read, or really ought to read before I die, or really should be embarrassed about getting to the age I have without having read already. So the page doesn’t look embarrassingly blank, here’s a list I’ve been keeping since the start of the year:
- Hunting the Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Winter in Madrid - CJ Sansom
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
- The Secret Life of Houdini - William Kalush and Larry Ratso Sloman
- House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory - Deborah Lipstadt
- Roofworld - Christopher Fowler
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- American Gods, Coraline and Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
- Signs of Life - Dave Askwith and Alex Normanton
- Saint Morrissey - Mark Simpson
- The Roots of Coincidence - Arthur Koestler
- Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- Farewell My Lovely - Philip Marlowe
- The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
- The Body-brokers - Annie Cheney
- On Writing - Stephen King
- Just Law and Eve was Framed - Helena Kennedy
- Senseless - Paul Golding
- The Thought Gang - Tibor Fischer
- Jar City, Silence of the Grave, Tainted Blood - Arnaldur Indridason
- In the Land of White Death - Valerian Albanov
- Metro Maps of the World - Mark Ovenden and Lise Amy Hansen
- The Search for the Panchen Lama - Isabel Hilton
- Austerlitz - WG Sebald and Anthea Bell
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Timewaster Letters - Robin Cooper
- Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
- The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
- Watchdogs of Democracy - Helen Thomas
- His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
- Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs
- Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
- Ghost Map - Steven Berlin Johnson
- Bush’s Brain and The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power - by James Moore and Wayne Slater.
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Now, what else should I be reading? And what did you think of these books? Comments and suggestions to
recommendations@myweeklybook.net…