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
bookworm@myweeklybook.net…