Reading

I like reading, books^* are great. I aim for about a book a week, every week. Here are a few I've read recently:

Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon by Lesley Adkins cover image

Empires of the Plain:
Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of BabylonLesley Adkins

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The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona A. Hathaway cover image

The Internationalists:
And Their Plan to Outlaw WarOona A. Hathaway

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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett cover image

The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett

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Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon cover image

Wonder BoysMichael Chabon

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Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Simon Singh cover image

Trick or Treatment?:
Alternative Medicine on TrialSimon Singh

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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay cover image

This is Going to Hurt:
Secret Diaries of a Junior DoctorAdam Kay

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DodgersBill Beverly

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High-RiseJ.G. Ballard

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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess cover image

A Clockwork OrangeAnthony Burgess

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GreenmantleJohn Buchan

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Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada cover image

Alone in BerlinHans Fallada

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The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3) by Raymond Chandler cover image

The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)Raymond Chandler

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Brain School: Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their Cogn by Howard Eaton cover image

Brain School:
Stories of Children with Learning Disabilities and Attention Disorders Who Changed Their Lives by Improving Their CognHoward Eaton

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The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell cover image

The Aye-Aye and IGerald Durrell

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann cover image

The Lost City of Z:
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the AmazonDavid Grann

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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby cover image

Headstrong:
52 Women Who Changed Science-and the WorldRachel Swaby

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood cover image

The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid cover image

The Reluctant FundamentalistMohsin Hamid

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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams cover image

The Salmon of Doubt:
Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last TimeDouglas Adams

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The Elephant Whisperer: The Extraordinary Story Of One Man's Battle To Save His Herd by Lawrence Anthony cover image

The Elephant Whisperer:
The Extraordinary Story Of One Man's Battle To Save His HerdLawrence Anthony

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Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-And How We Can, Too by George Lakey cover image

Viking Economics:
How the Scandinavians Got It Right-And How We Can, TooGeorge Lakey

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler cover image

Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)Raymond Chandler

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Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality by Brian Clegg cover image

Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of RealityBrian Clegg

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Dead Souls (Inspector Rebus, #10) by Ian Rankin cover image

Dead Souls (Inspector Rebus, #10)Ian Rankin

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Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, #2) by Ian Rankin cover image

Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, #2)Ian Rankin

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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) by P.D. James cover image

Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)P.D. James

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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming cover image

Casino RoyaleIan Fleming

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The Night Manager by John le Carré cover image

The Night ManagerJohn le Carré

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The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean cover image

The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons:
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and RecoverySam Kean

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The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia Minor by J.G. MacQueen cover image

The Hittites and Their Contemporaries in Asia MinorJ.G. MacQueen

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Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1) by Mervyn Peake cover image

Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)Mervyn Peake

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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler cover image

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)Raymond Chandler

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Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1) by John le Carré cover image

Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1)John le Carré

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle cover image

The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle

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Thank You, Madagascar: Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly by Alison Jolly cover image

Thank You, Madagascar:
Conservation Diaries of Alison JollyAlison Jolly

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The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle cover image

The Sign of FourArthur Conan Doyle

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert cover image

The Sixth Extinction:
An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert

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Dancing with Darkness: Life, Death and Hope in Afghanistan by Magsie Hamilton-Little cover image

Dancing with Darkness:
Life, Death and Hope in AfghanistanMagsie Hamilton-Little

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Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who by James Chapman cover image

Inside the Tardis:
The Worlds of Doctor WhoJames Chapman

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Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day by Michael Axworthy cover image

Iran:
Empire of the Mind:
A History from Zoroaster to the Present DayMichael Axworthy

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Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie cover image

Hercule Poirot's ChristmasAgatha Christie

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt cover image

Rise of the Rocket Girls:
The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to MarsNathalia Holt

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The RoadCormac McCarthy

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Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster by Rowland White cover image

Into the Black:
The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disasterRowland White

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan cover image

The Silk Roads:
A New History of the WorldPeter Frankopan

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The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard cover image

The Drowned WorldJ.G. Ballard

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Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene cover image

Our Man In HavanaGraham Greene

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Smiley's People by John le Carré cover image

Smiley's PeopleJohn le Carré

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Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence by Thalma Lobel cover image

Sensation:
The New Science of Physical IntelligenceThalma Lobel

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) by Agatha Christie cover image

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4)Agatha Christie

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* I'm not a fan of Kindles or eBooks. I worry that I'll like them too much if I try them, then all my tree-books will be redundant. I know it's silly. Sorry.