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Last active January 6, 2022 15:40
A list of the books I remember reading or owning.

Book List

  • Girl by Edna O’Brien
  • Patient: The True Story of a Rare Illness by Ben Watt
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  • Robbing the Dead by Tana Collins
  • Care to Die by Tana Collins
  • Mark of The Devil by Tana Collins
  • Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
  • Messy: How to creative and resilient in a tidy-minded world by Tim Harford
  • Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
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BestofTimes / 2018_reading.md
Created January 6, 2022 15:33
The books I read in 2018

2018 Reading List

January

  • The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
  • Munich by Robert Harris
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
  • The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

February

  • Fictitious Dishes by Dinah Fried
  • Marvel 1602: 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman (2013)
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BestofTimes / 2019_reading.md
Created January 6, 2022 15:34
The books I read in 2019

2019 Reading List

January

  • The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig (2010)
  • Negotiating With The Dead by Margaret Atwood
  • The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  • Toll by Matt Gemmell (2018)
  • Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin
  • The War of The Worlds by HG Wells [Audio]
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
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BestofTimes / 2020_reading.md
Created January 6, 2022 15:35
The books I read in 2020

2020 Reading List

January

  • The Omega Factor by Jack Gerson (1979)
  • The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
  • Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
  • Truth To Power by Jess Philips
  • Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks [Audio]
  • A Very Stable Genius by Carol D Leonnig & Philip Rucker

February

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BestofTimes / 2021_reading.md
Last active January 6, 2022 18:15
The books I read in 2021

2021 Reading List

January

  • [[The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon]] (printed in 1701)
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • [[Signs of Murder]] by David Wilson

February

  • [[The Pursuit of Love]] by Nancy Mitford
  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama [Audio]
  • Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
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BestofTimes / 2022_reading.md
Created March 7, 2022 10:07
The books I read in 2022.

2022 Reading List

January

  • Black Gold by Jeremy Paxman.
  • Letters of Note by Shaun Usher [Audio]
  • [[Busman’s Holiday]] by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • [[Sad Little Men]]: Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard

February

  • Orcadians: Seven Impromptus by George Mackay Brown
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BestofTimes / 2023_reading.md
Created December 31, 2023 17:02
The books I read in 2023.

January

  1. Middlemarch by George Elliot
  2. Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell DNF
  3. Sherlock Holmes and The Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove Audio
  4. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper Audio
  5. The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh Audio
  6. Dr Who - The Sirens of Time by Nicholas Briggs Audio

February

  1. A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh Audio
  2. The Illustrated Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth