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<h1>What I'm reading.</h1>
A diary with (most) of the (non-technical) books I've read since 2007 and the date (month and year) that I finished reading it.
<ul>
<li>The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman. July 2024 </li>
<li>The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. July 2024.</li>
<li>Hyperion by Dan Simmons. July 2024.</li>
<li>Dead Air by Iain Banks July 2024. </li>
<li>Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. July 2024. </li>
<li>The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor. July 2024. </li>
<li>Poor Charlie's Almanack The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Peter D. Kaufman. July 2024. </li>
<li>From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra. July 2024. </li>
<li>The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. June 2024.</li>
<li>Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog. May 2024. </li>
<li>The Measure by Nikki Erlick. May 2024.</li>
<li>Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregmann. April 2024</li>
<li>Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. March 2024. </li>
<li>Wool by Hugh Howey. March 2024.</li>
<li>The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin. February 2024.</li>
<li>The Wager by David Grann. February 2024.</li>
<li>Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck. January 2024.</li>
<li>Going Infinite by Michael Lewis. January 2024.</li>
<li>Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck. January 2024.</li>
<li>The 1000-year-old Boy by Welford Ross. December 2023.</li>
<li>Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. December 2023.</li>
<li>Elon Musk by <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/about-walter-isaacson">Walter Isaacson</a>. November 2023.</li>
<li>Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. October 2023.</li>
<li>The Expanse by James S.A. Corey. September 2023.</li>  
<li>The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan by Michael Hastings. August 2023.</li>
<li>Spare by Prince Harry. May 2023.</li>
<li>Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (Product-Led Growth Series) by Wes Bush. May 2023.</li>
<li>Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. April 2023.</li>
<li>All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. March 2023.</li>
<li>Termination Shock by <a href="http://www.nealstephenson.com/">Neal Stephenson</a>. March 2023.</li>
<li>Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman. Feb 2023.</li>
<li>Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera. February 2023.</li>
<li>For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose. January 2023.</li>
<li>Things to Make and do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker. January 2023. </li>
<li>The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. November 2022.</li>
<li>Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. October 2022.</li>
<li><a href="https://7powers.com/">7 powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy</a> by Hamilton Helmer. October 2022.</li>
<li>Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. September 2022.</li>
<li>Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood. September 2022.</li>
<li>Ringworld by Larry Niven. August 2022.</li>
<li>Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. July 2022.</li>
<li>Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones. May 2022.</li>
<li>Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. February 2022.</li>
<li>Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet. February 2022.</li>
<li>The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. January 2022.</li>
<li><a href="https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/">Invisible Women</a> by Caroline Criado Perez. January 2022.</li>
<li>The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by <a href="https://www.charliemackesy.com/">Charlie Mackesy</a>. December 2021.</li>
<li>V2 by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. December 2021.</li>
<li>Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke. December 2021.</li>
<li>The Lady Austronaut Series by <a href="https://maryrobinettekowal.com/">Mary Robinette Kowal</a>. November 2021.</li>
<li>High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. November 2021.</li>
<li>What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by <a href="https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/">Ben Horowitz</a>. October 2021.</li>
<li>The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. October 2021.</li>
<li>How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. October 2021.</li>
<li>Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss. September 2021.</li>
<li>The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by <a href="https://www.dancarlin.com/">Dan Carlin</a>. September 2021.</li>
<li>The Rampart Trilogy by M.R. Carey. August 2021.</li>
<li>Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. August 2021.</li>
<li><a href="https://sandimetz.com/99bottles">99 Bottles of OOP</a> by Sandi Metz. August 2021.</li>
<li>The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson. August 2021.</li>
<li>Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland by Jo Kerrigan. July 2021.</li>
<li>House on Fire: The Fight to Eridacate Smallpox by William H. Foege. July 2021.</li>
<li>Capital in the Twenty-First Century by <a href="http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fr/">Thomas Piketty</a>. July 2021.</li>
<li>Upheaval by <a href="http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/About_Me.html">Jared Diamond</a>. June 2021.</li>
<li><a href="https://lethain.com/staff-engineer/">Staff Engineer</a> by Will Larson. May 2021.</li>
<li>Problems and Other Solutions by Allie Brosh. May 2021.</li>
<li><a href="https://timharford.com/books/worldaddup/">How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers</a> by Tim Harford. April 2021.</li>
<li>MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood. March 2021.</li>
<li>The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. March 2021.</li>
<li>Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. February 2021.</li>
<li>The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars. February 2021.</li> 
<li>Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. February 2021.</li> 
<li>The Quarry by Iain Banks. February 2021.</li> 
<li>The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz. January 2021.</li> 
<li>Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton. January 2021.</li> 
<li>Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh. January 2021.</li>
<li>A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. November 2020.</li>
<li>Only Human by Martin Parr. November 2020.</li>
<li>Neuromancer by William Gibson. October 2020.</li>
<li>The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim. October 2020.</li>
<li>The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. September 2020.</li>
<li>Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter. September 2020.</li>
<li>Accelerate:  The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. July 2020.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Collapse.html">Collapse</a> by <a href="http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/About_Me.html">Jared Diamond</a>. June 2020.</li>
<li>The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. June 2020.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.withouthotair.com/">Sustainable Energy - without the hot air</a> by David MacKay. May 2020.</li>
<li>Archangel by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. May 2020.</li>
<li><a href="https://basecamp.com/books/remote">REMOTE: Office Not Required</a> by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. April 2020.</li>
<li><a href="https://scottberkun.com/yearwithoutpants/">The Year without Pants</a> by Scott Berkun. April 2020.</li>
<li>Ordinary Joe by Joe Schmidt. March 2020.</li>
<li>Tess of d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy. March 2020.</li>
<li><a href="https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle/">An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management</a> by Will Larson. February 2020.</li>
<li>Thinking in Systems by <a href="http://donellameadows.org/staff/">Donella H. Meadows</a>. January 2020.</li>
<li>Me by <a href="https://www.eltonjohn.com/">Elton John</a>. January 2020.</li>
<li><a href="http://pullman.davidficklingbooks.com/publication?pubID=262">The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth</a> by <a href="http://www.philip-pullman.com/">Philip Pullman</a>. January 2020.</li>
<li>The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton. November 2019.</li>
<li>The Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton. September 2019.</li>
<li>The Power by <a href="http://www.naomialderman.com/about/">Naomi Alderman</a>. August 2019.</li>
<li>Boot by Shane Hegarty. August 2019.</li>
<li><a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/books/">Site Reliability Engineering</a> by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy (eds.). August 2019.</li>
<li>The Sudden Appearance of Hope</a> by Claire North. August 2019.</li>
<li>Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow. July 2019.</li>
<li>The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. June 2019.</li>
<li>Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy. June 2019.</li>
<li>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. June 2019.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/The+Ocean+at+the+End+of+the+Lane/">The Ocean at the End of the Lane</a> by <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a>. May 2019.</li>
<li>Raising Boys in the 21st Century by Steve Biddulph. May 2019.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel.html">Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies</a> by <a href="http://www.jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/About_Me.html">Jared Diamond</a>. April 2019</li>
<li>The Undercover Economist (2013 ed.) by <a href="http://timharford.com/etc/biography/">Tim Harford</a>. January 2019.</li>
<li>Managing Humans by <a href="http://randsinrepose.com/about/">Michael Lopp</a>. January 2019.</li>
<li>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/about/">Yuval Noah Harari</a>. December 2018.</li>
<li>After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by <a href="https://after-on.com/about-rob/">Rob Reid</a>. November 2018.</li>
<li>The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker. October 2018.</li>
<li>Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer. October 2018.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Anansi+Boys/">Anansi Boys</a> by <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a>. October 2018.</li>
<li>Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin. September 2018.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/on-the-move/">On the Move</a> by <a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm">Oliver Sacks</a>. August 2018.</li>
<li>Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland. August 2018.</li>
<li>The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey. August 2018.</li>
<li>Reamde by <a href="http://www.nealstephenson.com/">Neal Stephenson</a>. June 2018.</li>
<li>I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. June 2018.</li>
<li><a href="http://pullman.davidficklingbooks.com/publication?pubID=192">La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One</a> by <a href="http://www.philip-pullman.com/">Philip Pullman</a>. May 2018.</li>
<li>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by <a href="https://www.ynharari.com/about/">Yuval Noah Harari</a>. May 2018.</li>
<li>Munich by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. April 2018.</li>
<li>A Song of Ice and Fire (Books 1-5) by George R. R. Martin. January 2018.</li>
<li>Norse Mythology</a> by <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a>. August 2017.</li>
<li>The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey. August 2017.</li>
<li>Alice by <a href="http://www.christinahenry.net/">Christina Henry</a>. August 2017.</li>
<li>The Outsider by Albert Camus. August 2017.</li>
<li>Man's Search For Meaning by <a href="http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/lifeandwork.html">Viktor E. Frankl</a>. July 2017.</li>
<li>Epic by <a href="http://www.obrien.ie/conor-kostick">Conor Kistick</a>. July 2017.</li>
<li>The Book of Lost Things by <a href="http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/about-john.php">John Connolly</a>. June 2017.</li>
<li>The Hard Thing About Hard Things by <a href="https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/">Ben Horowitz</a>. June 2017.</li>
<li>Conclave by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. January 2017.</li>
<li>Seveneves by <a href="http://www.nealstephenson.com/">Neal Stephenson</a>. December 2016.</li>
<li>The Baroque Cycle by <a href="http://www.nealstephenson.com/">Neal Stephenson</a>. November 2016.</li>
<li>Whit by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain Banks</a>. July 2016.</li>
<li>The Colonization Trilogy and Homeward bound by Harry Turtledove. April 2016.</li>
<li>Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton. February 2016.</li>
<li>Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. January 2016.</li>
<li>What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by <a href="http://xkcd.com/about/">Randal Munroe</a>. December 2015.</li>
<li>Pirate Latitudes by <a href="http://www.michaelcrichton.com/">Michael Crichton</a>. December 2015.</li>
<li>Dictator by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. October 2015.</li>
<li>Stardust - the cosmic recycling of stars, planets and people by <a href="http://www.johngribbinbooks.com/">John Gribbin</a>. June 2015.</li>
<li>State of Fear by <a href="http://www.michaelcrichton.com/">Michael Crichton</a>. June 2015.</li>
<li>Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. June 2015.</li>
<li>A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young. May 2015.</li>
<li><a href="http://craphound.com/category/rotn/">The Rapture of the Nerds</a> by <a href="http://craphound.com/bio/">Cory Doctorow</a>. May 2015.</li>
<li><a href="http://craphound.com/category/littlebrother/">Little Brother</a> by <a href="http://craphound.com/bio/">Cory Doctorow</a>. April 2015.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/books/bleachers/">Bleachers</a> by <a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/bio/">John Grisham</a>. March 2015.</li>
<li>The Accidental Scientist by Graeme Donald. February 2015. </li>
<li>The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore. February 2015</li>
<li>The Test by Brian O'Driscoll. January 2015.</li>
<li>An Officer and a Spy by <a href="http://www.robert-harris.com/">Robert Harris</a>. January 2015 (best guess).</li>
<li>How to think like Steve Jobs by Daniel Smith. December 2014.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/island-colorblind/">The Island of the Colorblind</a> by <a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm">Oliver Sacks</a>. December 2014.</li>
<li>Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. June 2014.</li>
<li>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. April 2014.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.johnboyne.com/fiction/adult-fiction/the-absolutist-2/">The Absolutist</a> by <a href="http://www.johnboyne.com/about/">John Boyne</a>. April 2014.</li>
<li>Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by <a href="http://www.davidkushner.com/">David Kushner</a>. February 2014.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lilliputpress.ie/book/144232506/donal_ryan-the_spinning_heart.html">The Spinning Heart</a> by Donal Ryan. February 2014</li>
<li><a href="http://sirkenrobinson.com/?page_id=15">The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything</a> by <a href="http://sirkenrobinson.com/?page_id=10">Ken Robinson</a> with Lou Aronica. January 2014.</li>
<li>The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future by Richard L. Rubenstein. December 2013.</li>
<li>The Wood Fire Handbook: The Complete Guide to a Perfect Fire by Vincent Thurkettle. December 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://shakespearebyanothername.com/">"Shakespeare" By Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare</a> by Mark Anderson. December 2013.</li>
<li>The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde. November 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-crow-road/">The Crow Road</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain Banks</a>. October 2013.</li>
<li>A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. September 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/the-confession/">The Confession</a> by <a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/bio/">John Grisham</a>. September 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.roddydoyle.ie/?p=63">The Guts</a> by <a href="http://www.roddydoyle.ie/?page_id=5">Roddy Doyle</a>. August 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/books/info/?t=Life-After-Life">Life After Life</a> by <a href="http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/kate/">Kate Atkinson</a>. August 2013</li>
<li>The Trial by Franz Kafka. August 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/American+Gods/">American Gods</a> by <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a>. June 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://craphound.com/?p=2859">For the Win</a> by <a href="http://craphound.com/?page_id=1638">Cory Doctorow</a>. June 2013</li>
<li>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.  May 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-hydrogen-sonata/">The Hydrogen Sonata</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain M. Banks</a>. May 2013.</li>
<li>The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.  April 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/surface-detail/">Surface Detail</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain M. Banks</a>.  February 2013.</li>
<li>The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle. January 2013.</li>
<li>Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist by Paul Kimmage. January 2013.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Crossing-the-Chasm-Geoffrey-A-Moore?isbn=9780060517120&HCHP=TB_Crossing+the+Chasm">Crossing the Chasm</a> by <a href="http://www.geoffreyamoore.com/bio-geoffrey-moore/">Geoffrey A. Moore</a>. October 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/Castles-in-the-Sky">The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest</a> by <a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/">Stieg Larsson</a>. September 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/The-Girl-Who-Played-with-Fire">The Girl who Played with Fire</a> by <a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/">Stieg Larsson</a>. September 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/books/the-minds-eye/">The Mind's Eye</a> by <a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm">Oliver Sacks</a>. August 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/background/publications/covenant01.php"> The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever</a> by <a href="http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com">Stephen R. Donaldson</a>. July 2012.</li>
<li>The Uncommon Reader by <a href="http://literature.britishcouncil.org/alan-bennett">Alan Bennett</a>. June 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.ie/books?id=V9dZ5eh13zUC&lpg=PP1&dq=earth%20abides&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=earth%20abides&f=false?id=uA2x4uZ63VEC&redir_esc=y">Earth Abides</a> by <a href="http://www.georgerstewart.com/">George R. Stewart</a>. June 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Stardust/">Stardust</a> by <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/About_Neil">Neil Gaiman</a>. May 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bramstoker.org/novels/05dracula.html">Dracula</a> by <a href="http://www.bramstoker.org/">Bram Stroker</a>. May 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://pages.simonandschuster.com/stevejobs/about">Steve Jobs</a> by <a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/about-walter-isaacson">Walter Isaacson</a>. March 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.michaelcrichton.com/books-micro.html">Micro</a> by <a href="http://www.michaelcrichton.net/">Michael Crichton </a> & <a href="http://richardpreston.net/">Richard Preston</a>. January 2012.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/">The Art of Unix Programming</a> by <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric R. Raymond</a>. December 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.billbryson.co.uk/books_athome.html">At Home</a> by <a href="http://www.billbryson.co.uk/">Bill Bryson</a>. December 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/The-Girl-With-The-Dragon-Tattoo">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</a> by <a href="http://www.stieglarsson.com/">Stieg Larsson</a>. September 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780192861986.do">The Emperor's New Mind</a> by <a href="http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/contact/details/rouse">Roger Penrose</a>.  August 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://craphound.com/?p=2371">Makers</a> by <a href="http://craphound.com/?page_id=1638">Cory Doctorow</a>.  July 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/use-of-weapons/">Use of Weapons</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain M. Banks</a>.  June 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://thegoodmanjesusandthescoundrelchrist.co.uk/">The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ</a> by <a href="http://www.philip-pullman.com/">Philip Pullman</a>. May 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/9616/the-diving-bell-and-the-butterfly-by-jean-dominique-bauby">The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly</a> by Jean-Dominique Bauby. May 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300108656">The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma</a> by Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart. May 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-state-of-the-art/">The State of the Art</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain M. Banks</a>. March 2011.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/matter/">Matter</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain M. Banks</a>. December 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://shitmydadsays.com/book">Sh*t My Dad Says</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Halpern">Justin Halpern</a>. October 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780375708084">The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=3166">Piers Brendan</a>. September 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://mitchalbom.com/books/node/3856">Tuesdays with Morrie</a> by <a href="http://mitchalbom.com/">Mitch Albom</a>. September 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye">The Mote in God's Eye</a> by <a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/larry-niven/">Larry Niven</a> and <a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/jerry-pournelle/">Jerry Pournelle</a>. June 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sfsite.com/02b/emp75.htm">Emphyrio</a> by <a href="http://www.jackvance.com/">Jack Vance</a>. June 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/gregory-benford/timescape.htm">Timescape</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford">Gregory Benford</a>. May 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/books/uncle-tungsten/">Uncle Tungsten</a> by <a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm">Oliver Sacks</a>. May 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/11/lustrum-robert-harris">Lustrum</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=12040">Robert Harris</a>. March 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.superfreakonomicsbook.com/">Superfreakonomics</a> by <a href="http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/home.html">Steven D. Levitt</a> and <a href="http://stephenjdubner.com/bio.html">Stephen J. Dubner</a>. February 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/transition/">Transition</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/">Iain Banks</a>. February 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.trickortreatment.com/">Trick or Treatment?</a> by <a href="http://www.simonsingh.net/">Simon Singh</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edzard_Ernst">Edzard Ernst</a>. January 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/david-gibbins/last-gospel.htm">The Last Gospel</a> by <a href="http://www.davidgibbins.com/David%20Web%20Biography.htm">David Gibbins</a>. January 2010.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/mars.htm">An Anthropologist on Mars</a> by <a href="http://www.oliversacks.com/about.htm">Oliver Sacks</a>. November 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_%28novel%29">Perfume. The Story of a Murderer</a> by <a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/patrick-suskind/">Patrick S&uuml;skind</a>. October 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tom-holland.org/books/rubicon.html">Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic</a> by <a href="http://www.tom-holland.org/biography.html">Tom Holland</a>. September 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=5580286">The Man Who Knew Too Much - Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer</a> by <a href="http://web.english.ufl.edu/faculty/dleavitt/">David Leavitt</a>. August 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/HB-26273/pushing-ice.htm">Pushing Ice</a> by <a href="http://www.alastairreynolds.com/">Alastair Reynolds</a>. August 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month">The Mythical Man-Month</a> by <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</a> July 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://mitchalbom.com/books/node/3874">The Five People You Meet in Heaven</a> by <a href="http://mitchalbom.com/">Mitch Albom</a>. July 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ivoandric.org.yu/html/the_bridge_on_the_drina.html">The Bridge Over the Drina</a> by <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html">Ivo Andrić</a>. July 2009.</li>
<li>Closing Time by <a href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/heller.htm">Joseph Heller</a>. July 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_on_Zanzibar">Stand on Zanzibar</a> by <a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-brunner/">John Brunner</a>. June 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9637">The Myth of the Paperless Office</a> by <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/asellen/">Abigail J. Sellen</a> and <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/r.harper/">Richard H. R. Harper</a>. March 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=8377">Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology</a> by <a href="http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/chesbrough.html">Henry Chesbrough</a>. March 2009.</li>
<li>Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. January 2009.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grass-S-F-Masterworks-Sheri-Tepper/dp/1857987985">Grass</a> by <a href="http://www.sheri-s-tepper.com/">Sherri S. Tepper</a>. December 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/Rasputin/9780753810804/006a6090224a34c81a/">Rasputin: The Last Word</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=24817">Edvard Radzinsky</a>. December 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/playing-for-pizza/">Playing for Pizza</a> by <a href="http://www.jgrisham.com/bio/">John Grisham</a>. December 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780804115483.html">Enigma</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=12040">Robert Harris</a>. November 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/robert-charles-wilson/spin.htm">Spin</a> by <a href="http://www.robertcharleswilson.com/">Robert Charles Wilson</a>. November 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099283360">Atomised</a> by <a href="http://www.rbooks.co.uk/author.aspx?id=12518">Michel Houellebecq</a>. November 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/classic/sfw18793.html">A Fall of Moondust</a> by <a href="http://www.arthurcclarke.net/?scifi=2">Arthur C. Clarke</a>. October 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/minisites/pompeii/">Pompeii</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=12040">Robert Harris</a>. September 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road">On the Road</a> by <a href="http://www.beatmuseum.org/kerouac/jackkerouac.html">Jack Kerouac</a>. September 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780812979275.html">Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=18165">Roger Lowenstein</a>. September 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&BookID=368602">Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw</a> by <a href="http://www.normandavies.com/">Norman Davies</a>. August 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.philip-pullman.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=36">His Dark Materials</a> by <a href="http://www.philip-pullman.com/">Philip Pullman</a>. July 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk/afterdark.html">After Dark</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/murakami/site.php">Haruki Murakami</a>. June 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/fiction/the-bridge/">The Bridge</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/about/">Iain Banks</a>. June 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.jpdonleavycompendium.org/ginger_man_all.html">The Ginger Man</a> by <a href="http://www.jpdonleavycompendium.org/">J. P. Donleavy</a>. June 2008.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6483">At Swim Two Birds</a> by <a href="http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/obrien.html">Flann O'Brien</a>. May 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://michaelwhite.com.au/books.php#mach">Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood</a> by <a href="http://michaelwhite.com.au/">Michael White</a>. April 2008.</li>
<li>Time Added On by <a href="http://unhooked.wordpress.com/">George Hook</a>. March 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/fiction/the-steep-approach-to-garbadale/">The Steep Approach to Garbadale</a> by <a href="http://www.iain-banks.net/about/">Iain Banks</a>. March 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/title.htm?command=Search&db=/catalog/main.txt&eqisbndata=0099518473">Brave New World</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/author.htm?authorID=4818">Aldous Huxley</a>. March 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=search&db=twmain.txt&eqisbndata=0552773808">The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas</a> by <a href="http://www.johnboyne.com/whoami.htm">John Boyne</a>. February 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_(novel)">Post Office</a> by <a href="http://bukowski.net/">Charles Bukowski</a>. February 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=main.txt&eqisbndata=0099289520">Disgrace</a> by <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2003/coetzee-bio.html">J. M. Coetzee</a>. February 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/MP-40624/stalin-The-Court-of-the-Red-Tsar.htm">Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar</a> by <a href="http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/">Simon Sebag Montefiore</a>. January 2008.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/title.htm?command=Search&db=/catalog/main.txt&eqisbndata=0099286084">Our Man in Havana</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/vintage/vintageclassics/author.htm?authorID=904">Graham Greene</a>. December 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780425176429,00.html">What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been</a> by Robert Cowley. October 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe:_A_History">Europe: A History</a> by <a href="http://www.normandavies.com/">Norman Davies</a>. October 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060740221/Shakespeare/index.aspx">Shakespeare: The World as Stage</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/flat/about.php">Bill Bryson</a>. September 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/books/persecution/mengele.htm">I was Doctor Mengele's assistant</a> by <a href="http://www.auschwitz.dk/Nyiszli.htm">Miklos Nyiszli</a>. September 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/bb_title/display.pperl?isbn=9780767919364">The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/billbryson/flat/about.php">Bill Bryson</a>. August 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.obrien.ie/book632.cfm">The Stolen Village - Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates</a> by <a href="http://www.obrien.ie/author.cfm?authorid=147">Des Ekin</a>. July 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/curious/">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</a> by <a href="http://www.markhaddon.com">Mark Haddon</a>. July 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385339582">The Testament</a> by <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/grisham/">John Grisham</a>. July 2007.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/static-187">Himalaya</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Palin">Michael Palin</a>. March 2007.</li>
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