Now Reading

A chronologcial list of the books I am reading and enjoying.
The date where given is the date I started the book; I often read more than one book simultaneously, and not every book is listed.
I should have done this sooner.

29/06/10 Metcalf, Barbara Daly (2002). A concise history of India.

29/06/10 Kureishi, Hanif (2004). My ear at his heart.

29/06/10 Smith, Stevie (1975). Selected Poems.

29/06/10 Thaler, Richard (2008). Nudge.

29/06/10 Banks, Iain.M (2008). Matter.

24/06/10 Palmer, Philip (). Red Claw.

27/06/10 Fuchs, Michael Stephen (). Manuscript.

Bryson, Bill (). Shakespeare: the world as a stage.

Warwick, Alexandra (). More nation’s favourite poems.

Forsyth, Frederick (). The Afghan.

Jerome, Jerome.K. (). Three men in a boat.

Brooke, Keith(ed) (). Infinity Plus: Anthology.

Crumey, Andrew (). Sputnik Caledonia.

Hage, Rawi (). De Niro’s game.

Housman, A.E. (). Shropshire lad.

Grayling, A.C (). Thinking of answers; questions in philosophy.

Ligotti, Thomas (). My work is not yet done.

Dahl, Roald (). Going solo.

Hart, Josephine (). Words that burn.

le Carre, John (). Mission Song.

Grayling, A.C. (). Ideas that matter: a personal guide for the 21st century.

Mosley, Walter (). Man in my basement.

Lukyanenko, Segei (). The Last Watch.

le Carre, John (). Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.

Roberson, Chris (). Book of secrets.

Narayan, R.K. (). Swami and friends.

Cotton, Nick (). National Cycle Network.

le Carre, John (). Most wanted man.

Hemingway, Ernest (). The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Hemingway, Ernest (). The Green Hills of Africa.

Banks, Iain. M (). Against a dark background.

Swainston, Steph (). Above the snowline.

Coen, Ethan (). Gates of Eden.

Welsh, Irvine (). Bedroom secrets of the master chefs.

Heinlein, Robert. A (). Stranger in a strange land.

McEwan, Ian (). Black Dogs.

Haldeman, Joe.W (). Peace and War.

Bear, Greg (). Blood music.

McEwan, Ian (). Amsterdam.

Gaiman, Neil (). Stardust.

Gribbin, John (). Science: A history 1534-2001

Sagan, Carl (). Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Connection.

Duffy, Carol Ann (). Stopping for death.

Dahl, Roald (). Completely Unexpected Tales.

Watson, Julia (ed) (). Poems and readings for funerals.

Bennett, Sue (). Which? Guide to changing careers.

Berger, John (). Hold Everything Dear.

Parker, K.J. (). Company.

Benson, Gerard (). New Poems on the Underground 2006.

Lukyanenko, Sergei (). Twilight Watch.

Lukyanenko, Sergei (). Day Watch

Stross, Charles (). Halting State.

Reynolds, Alastair (). Galactic North.

McNabb, Andy (). Crossfire.

07/11/09 Herbert, Brian (). Hunters of Dune.

07/11/09 Pratchett, Terry (). The truth.

19/10/09 Welsh, Irvine (). Filth.

19/10/09 Reading, Mario (). Nostradamus prophecies.

19/10/09 Crichton, Michael (). Next.

19/10/09 Lukianenko, Sergei (1998). Night watch

24/09/09 McDevitt, J. (). Polaris.

24/09/09 Foer, Jonathan Safran (). Extremely loud & incredibly close.

15/09/09 McDevitt, Jack (). Omega.

20/07/09 Wight, Jim (). The Real James Herriott.

20/07/09 Maclean, Fitzroy, Sir, Bart (). Eastern approaches.

20/07/09 Pratchett, Terry (). Sourcery.

20/07/09 Ellison, Herbert J. (). Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s democratic transformation.

20/07/09 Jack, Andrew (). Inside Putin’s Russia.

11/07/09 Banks, Iain M. (). Inversions.

11/07/09 Amis, Martin (). House of Meetings.

11/07/09 Coetzee, J. M. (). Youth.

11/07/09 Dunton-Downer, Leslie (). Essential Shakespeare handbook.

04/07/09 Funke, Cornelia Caroli (). Inkheart.

04/07/09 Gaiman, Neil (). American gods.

20/06/09 Machiavelli, Niccolo (). The prince.

20/06/09 Coetzee, J. M. (). Disgrace.

13/06/09 Clarke, Stephen (). Year in the merde.

13/06/09 Silverberg, Robert (). Dying inside.

16/05/09 Duffy, Carol Ann (). Selected poems.

16/05/09 Gould, Stephen Jay (). Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history.

16/05/09 Bekerian, Debra Anne (). Applied psychology: putting theory into practice.

02/05/09 Banks, Iain (). State of the art.

02/05/09 Warwick, Alexandra (). More nation’s favourite poems.

02/05/09 Milligan, Spike (). Bible according to Spike Milligan.

06/03/09 Stross, Charles (). Glasshouse.

15/02/09 Banks, Iain B (). The Algebraist.

02/02/09 Dennett, Daniel C (). Darwin’s dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life.

02/02/09 Wilson, Robin J (). Lewis Carroll in Numberland: his fantastical mathematical world.

09/01/09 Gaiman, Neil (). Fragile things

09/01/09 McGevitt, Jack (). Chindi.

19/12/08 Banks, Iain B (). Excession.

03/12/08 Clancy, Tom (). Debt of honour.

27/11/08 Year’s best SF 13

27/11/08 Goodall, Chris (2008). Ten technologies to save the planet.

27/11/08 Sandford, John (). Night Crew.

13/11/08 Merry, Tony (). Invitation to person centred psychology.

13/11/08 Moody, Rick (). Omega force: three novellas.

11/11/08 Ryan, Chris (). Strike back.

11/11/08 Silverberg, Robert (). Roma eterna.

05/11/08 Hopkinson / Nalo (). So long been dreaming: postcolonial science fict

05/11/08 Preston, Douglas J. (). Tyrannosaur Canyon.

05/11/08 Foster, Alan Dean (). Dinotopia Lost.

01/11/08 Pratchett, Terry (). Equal rites.

01/11/08 Hall, Steven (). Raw shark texts.

01/11/08 Young, Barbara (). This man from Lebanon: a study of Kahlil Gibran.

01/11/08 Ryan, Chris (). Ultimate weapon.

17/09/08 Pohl, Frederik (1977). Gateway.

11/09/08 Pratchett, Terry (2007). Making Money.

22/08/08 McKillip, Patricia (1976-77-79). Riddle-master: The complete trilogy.

22/08/08 Ransome, Arthur (1930). Swallows and Amazons.

01/08/08 Pacek, Nenad & Thorniley, Daniel (2007). The Economist. Emerging Markets: Lessons for business success and the outlook for different markets.

31/07/08 Swainston, Steph (2007). The Modern World.

14/07/08 Amis, Martin (2003). Yellow Dog.

10/07/08 Voltaire (19??). Candice.

03/07/08 Herbert, Brian (). Race for God

03/07/08 McNab, Andy (20??). Recoil.

26/06/08 Niven, Larry (1968). A Gift from Earth.

31/04/08 Swainston, Steph (2005). No Present like Time.

23/02/08 Meredith, Robyn (2007). The Elephant and The Dragon: The rise of India and China and what it means for all of us.

22/01/08 Palin, Michael (1989). Around the World in 80 Days.

19/01/08 Greenspan, Alan (2007). The Age of Turbulence.

12/01/08 Foer, Jonathan Safran (2002). Everything is Illuminated.

20/11/07 Shipman, Alan (). The globalization myth.

20/11/07 Chomsky, Noam (). Interventions.

20/11/07 Lipovetsky, Gilles (). Hypermodern times.

03/11/07 Gates, Bill (). Business @ the speed of thought.

04/10/07 Harford, Tim (). Undercover economist.

19/06/07 Pamuk, Orhan (). My name is Red.

22/03/07 Forrester, John (). Truth games: lies, money, and psychoanalysis.

13/03/07 Pilger, John (). Tell me no lies: investigative journalism.

05/03/07 Swainston, Steph (2004). The Year of our War.