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Author Title († = Read a long time ago) Category Rating Year Published Date Added
Nessa Carey Junk DNA Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2015 2024-10-30
Laurie Lee A Moment of War Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 2024-10-13
Laurie Lee A Rose for Winter Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1955 2024-09-30
Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1969 2024-09-12
Zadie Smith Swing Time Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2016 2024-08-28
Penelope Lively How It All Began Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 2011 2024-08-15
Robert Graves Claudius the God Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1934 2024-07-24
Paul Scott A Division of the Spoils Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1975 2024-06-09
Paul Scott The Towers of Silence Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1971 2024-03-24
Paul Scott The Day of the Scorpion Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1968 2023-10-30
Paul Scott The Jewel in the Crown Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1966 2023-08-07
John Carey A Little History of Poetry Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020 2023-06-20
David Hepworth Nothing is Real Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2018 2023-02-05
Evelyn Waugh The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1957 2023-01-15
Robert Graves I, Claudius Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1934 2023-01-01
Posy Simmonds Cassandra Darke Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2018 2022-11-28
James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1791 2022-11-23
John Sutherland Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2021 2022-01-10
James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1785 2021-12-19
Samuel Johnson A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1775 2021-10-02
John D Barrow Impossibility Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1998 2021-08-23
Kevin Barry That Old Country Music Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020 2021-04-25
Penelope Lively Judgement Day Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1980 2021-04-03
Redmond O'Hanlon Trawler Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2003 2021-03-06
David Hepworth 1971: Never a Dull Moment Music Rating: 4 - A top read 2016 2020-12-31
Helen Lewis The House with Old Furniture Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017 2020-11-27
David Hepworth A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives Music Rating: 4 - A top read 2019 2020-10-04
David Hepworth Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars Music Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 2017 2020-09-02
Yann Martel Life of Pi Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2001 2020-08-23
Simon Baron-Cohen Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008 2020-08-10
David Hepworth The Rock and Roll A Level Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2019 2020-07-25
Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2020 2020-07-14
Henkjan Honing Iedereen is Muzikaal (Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening) Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009 2020-06-20
Francis Pryor The Fens History Rating: 4 - A top read 2019 2020-03-19
Daniel Nettle Strong Imagination Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2001 2020-02-09
Carlo Bonini, Manuel Delia, John Sweeney Murder on the Malta Express Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2019 2020-02-09
Henkjan Honing Aap Slaat Maat (The Evolving Animal Orchestra) Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2018 2020-01-31
Duncan Hamilton The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2019 2019-12-27
Raymond Carver Cathedral Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1983 2019-11-04
Max Frisch Homo Faber Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1957 2019-10-06
Ivo Andrić The Bridge over the Drina Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1945 2019-08-21
Philippe Claudel Le Rapport de Brodeck (Brodeck's Report) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007 2019-08-21
Michael Palin Diaries 1969-79: The Python Years Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2006 2019-08-21
Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1998 2019-07-07
Bill Bryson Neither Here nor There Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 2019-06-26
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 2019-06-15
F Springer (Carel Jan Schneider) Schimmen rond de Parula (The Ghosts of Parula) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1966 2019-05-06
Laurie Lee I Can't Stay Long Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1975 2019-04-17
Sula Wolff Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1995 2019-03-23
Helga Ruebsamen Olijfje (Olive) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1989 2019-02-11
Eric Vuillard L'ordre du jour (The Order of the Day) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2017 2019-02-11
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1993 2019-01-13
Nescio (JHF Grönloh) Titaantjes (Young Titans) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1915 2019-01-05
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2004 2018-12-20
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1902 2018-11-18
Guy de Maupassant Selected Short Stories (Hodder and Stoughton) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1959 2018-10-07
Matthew Engel Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2010 2018-09-30
Mike Parker Map Addict Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009 2018-09-15
Fred Uhlman The Making of an Englishman Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1960 2018-09-15
Fred Uhlman The Reunion Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1971 2018-09-15
Daniel Chamovitz What a Plant Knows Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2012 2018-07-21
Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers) Het Verhaal van Oosterhuis (The Story of Oosterhuis) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1946 2018-07-01
Peter Godfrey-Smith Other Minds Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2017 2018-05-30
Joseph A Debono and Caroline Muscat (editors) Invicta: The Life and Work of Daphne Caruana Galizia Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2017 2018-04-08
Paul Kingsnorth Beast Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2016 2018-02-11
Jonathan Miller France: A Nation on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015 2018-02-06
Kazuo Ishiguro My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2017 2018-01-09
Tristan Gooley How to Read Water Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2016 2017-12-30
Yvette Z'Graggen Changer l'oubli (Unforgetting) Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1989 2017-11-02
Anna Regeniter Ein Jahr in London (A Year in London) Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2007 2017-10-17
Robert Menasse Die Hauptstadt (The Capital City) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2017 2017-10-09
John Carey The Unexpected Professor Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2014 2017-10-08
Claudia Hunt What's for Tea? Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008 2017-09-24
Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex, Part 1 Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2015 2017-09-17
Patrick O'Brian Master and Commander Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1969 2017-09-17
Chris and Helen Pellant Geological Structures: An Introductory Field Guide Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2016 2017-08-03
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009 2017-06-11
Graham Greene Monsignor Quixote Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1982 2017-05-15
Graham Swift Mothering Sunday Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 2016 2017-05-05
Alan Bennett Keeping On Keeping On Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2016 2017-04-27
Will Gompertz What Are You Looking At? Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2012 2017-03-26
Edward Dusinberre Beethoven for a Later Age Music Rating: 4 - A top read 2016 2017-01-22
Daniel Everett Don't Sleep, There are Snakes Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2008 2017-01-08
Franz Kafka Das Schloss (The Castle) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1926 2017-01-01
Craig Brown One on One Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2011 2016-07-03
Frank M Turner European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche History Rating: 4 - A top read 2014 2016-05-29
Colm Tóibín The Testament of Mary Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 2012 2016-05-07
Penelope Lively City of the Mind Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 2016-03-26
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1966 2016-03-12
Antoine Laurain Le Chapeau de Mitterrand (The President's Hat) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2012 2016-02-06
Ben Macintyre A Spy Among Friends Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2014 2016-01-05
Julian Barnes England, England Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1998 2015-12-08
Timur Vermes Er ist Wieder Da (Look Who's Back) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2012 2015-11-08
Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1922 2015-10-11
Franz Kafka Brief an den Vater (Letter to Father) Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1952 2015-09-22
Penelope Lively The Road to Lichfield Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1977 2015-09-14
Wendy Cope Life, Love and the Archers Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2014 2015-09-01
Julian Barnes Keeping an Eye Open Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2015 2015-08-22
Jenny Diski Skating to Antarctica Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1997 2015-08-17
James Fenton The Strength of Poetry Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2001 2015-07-26
Jane Austen Persuasion Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1817 2015-06-07
Howard I Kushner A Cursing Brain? Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1999 2015-04-19
Graham Swift Making an Elephant Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2009 2015-04-07
John Leslie Infinite Minds Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2001 2015-03-04
Mary Midgley Beast and Man Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1979 2015-01-25
Redmond O'Hanlon In Trouble Again Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1988 2014-12-20
Rudi Rotthier The Fetish Room Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2011 2014-10-27
Oliver Sacks Hallucinations Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2012 2014-10-04
Joseph Conrad An Outpost of Progress Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1897 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad Il Conde Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1908 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Duel Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1908 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Idiots Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1896 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Informer Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1906 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Lagoon Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1897 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Secret Sharer Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1910 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad Youth: A Narrative Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1902 2014-08-31
Joseph Conrad The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1897 2014-05-25
Henry James The Bostonians Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1886 2014-05-01
Samuel Johnson Selected Essays (Penguin) Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2014-04-26
Alexander McCall Smith What W H Auden Can Do for You Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2013 2014-01-26
Jean Hartley Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1989 2014-01-24
John Williams Stoner Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1965 2014-01-13
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1939 2013-12-27
E M Forster The Longest Journey Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1907 2013-11-29
David Lodge The Practice of Writing Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1996 2013-10-13
David Lodge Paradise News Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1991 2013-09-27
Joseph Roth Radetzkymarsch (The Radetzky March) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1932 2013-09-21
David Lodge Deaf Sentence Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2008 2013-09-08
Mike Parker The Wild Rover Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2011 2013-06-09
Julian Barnes Levels of Life Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2013 2013-04-20
Yehudi Menuhin Unfinished Journey Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1997 2013-04-16
Benjamin Constant Adolphe Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1816 2013-04-14
Peter Handke Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied (Short Letter, Long Farewell) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1972 2013-04-14
Peter Handke Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-handed Woman) Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1976 2013-04-14
Hermann Hesse Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1943 2013-04-14
Hermann Hesse Der Steppenwolf Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1927 2013-04-14
Madame de La Fayette La Princesse de Clèves Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1678 2013-04-14
Robert Musil Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless (The Confusions of Young Törless) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1906 2013-04-14
Joseph Roth Die Flucht ohne Ende (Flight Without End) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1927 2013-04-13
Julian Barnes The Lemon Table Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004 2013-03-30
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1937 2013-03-20
Joseph Roth Hiob (Job) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1930 2013-03-09
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1895 2013-02-24
Simone de Beauvoir Les belles Images (Beautiful Images) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1966 2013-02-23
Simone de Beauvoir Mémoires d'une jeune Fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1958 2013-02-23
Jean-Paul Sartre Les Mots (Words) Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1964 2013-02-23
Joseph Roth April Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1925 2013-02-13
Joseph Roth Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker (The Legend of the Holy Drinker) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1939 2013-01-27
Franz Kafka Amerika / Der Verschollene (America) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1927 2013-01-21
Franz Kafka Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1915 2013-01-21
Jean-Paul Sartre La Nausée (Nausea) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1938 2013-01-21
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2011 2012-12-26
Simon Armitage Walking Home Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2012 2012-10-09
Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1970 2012-07-05
Joseph Conrad Lord Jim Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1900 2012-06-25
Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1902 2012-05-09
André Gide La Symphonie Pastorale Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1919 2012-05-08
James Fenton An Introduction to English Poetry Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2002 2012-04-16
Rupert Sheldrake The Science Delusion Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2012 2012-03-05
David Lodge How Far Can You Go? Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1980 2012-01-14
Erwin Schrödinger Meine Weltansicht (My View of the World) Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1960 2011-11-21
Maeve Brennan The Philip Larkin I Knew Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2002 2011-10-23
Ernst Peter Fischer Brücken zum Kosmos (Bridges to the Cosmos) Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2004 2011-09-25
Leo Tolstoy Happy Ever After Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1859 2011-04-29
Leo Tolstoy The Cossacks Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1863 2011-04-29
Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1886 2011-04-29
John Lanchester Whoops! Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2010 2011-03-12
Denis Diderot Le Rêve de D'Alembert (The Dream of D'Alembert) Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1830 2011-03-05
George Eliot Daniel Deronda Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1876 2011-03-05
David Lodge Small World Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1984 2011-02-12
Jenny Diski Nothing Natural Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1986 2011-01-16
Michael Foley The Age of Absurdity Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2010 2011-01-09
Barbara Ehrenreich Smile or Die Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2009 2010-12-29
John Gray Straw Dogs Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2002 2010-12-27
John Ardagh Germany and the Germans Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 2010-09-15
John Humphrys Devil's Advocate Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1999 2010-09-15
Redmond O'Hanlon Congo Journey Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1996 2010-09-15
Redmond O'Hanlon Into the Heart of Borneo Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1984 2010-09-15
Richard P Feynman The Character of Physical Law Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1965 2010-09-14
Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Revolution 1789-1848 History Rating: 4 - A top read 1962 2010-09-14
W G Hoskins The Making of the English Landscape History Rating: 4 - A top read 1955 2010-09-14
John Julius Norwich Byzantium: The Early Centuries History Rating: 4 - A top read 1988 2010-09-14
Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1945 2010-09-14
José María Arguedas Deep Rivers Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1956 2010-09-05
Richard P Feynman QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1985 2010-04-25
Hermann Broch Die Schlafwandler, Part 2: Esch oder die Anarchie Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1930 2010-03-29
Gabriel García Márquez Chronicle of a Death Foretold Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1981 2009-12-12
Hermann Broch Die Schlafwandler, Part 1: Pasenow oder die Romantik Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1930 2009-12-07
Milan Kundera L'art du roman (The Art of the Novel) Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1986 2009-10-12
Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2009 2009-10-04
Thomas Bernhard Alte Meister (Past Masters) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1985 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Auslöschung (Extinction) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1986 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Beton (Concrete) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1982 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Das Kalkwerk (The Lime Works) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1970 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Der Untergeher (The Loser) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1983 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Frost (Frost) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1963 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Verstörung (Gargoyles) Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1967 2009-09-07
Thomas Bernhard Wittgensteins Neffe (Wittgenstein's Nephew) Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1982 2009-09-06
Thomas Bernhard Holzfällen (Cutting Timber) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1984 2009-09-05
Thomas Bernhard Korrektur (Correction) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1975 2009-09-04
Albert Camus L'étranger (The Outsider) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1942 2009-08-26
Albert Camus La Chute (The Fall) Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1956 2009-08-26
Franz Kafka Der Proceß (The Trial) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1925 2009-08-26
Albert Camus La Peste (The Plague) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1947 2009-08-25
André Gide La Porte Etroite (Strait is the Gate) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1909 2009-08-25
André Gide Les Caves du Vatican (The Vatican Cellars) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1914 2009-08-25
André Gide Les Faux-Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1925 2009-08-25
Milan Kundera Immortality Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1990 2009-08-25
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1979 2009-08-25
Ian McEwan Enduring Love Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1997 2009-08-25
Evelyn Waugh Sword of Honour Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1965 2009-08-17
Julian Barnes Nothing to be Frightened of Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2008 2009-07-06
Neil Shubin Your Inner Fish Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2007 2009-06-26
Stefan Zweig Ungeduld des Herzens (Beware of Pity) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1939 2009-06-13
C P Snow The Search Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1934 2009-04-21
Brian Greene The Elegant Universe Science Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1999 2009-03-20
Russell McCormmach Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 2009-02-21
Norman Doidge The Brain that Changes Itself Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2007 2009-01-25
John Banville Doctor Copernicus Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1976 2009-01-07
Paul Davies and Julian Brown (editors) Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1988 2008-12-28
Mario Vargas Llosa The Time of the Hero Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1963 2008-12-22
Philip Larkin A Girl in Winter Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1947 2008-09-24
Bruce Lipton The Biology of Belief Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005 2008-08-23
Susan Pockett The Nature of Consciousness: A Hypothesis Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2000 2008-06-29
Beryl Bainbridge An Awfully Big Adventure Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1989 2008-06-14
David Lodge Author, Author Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2004 2008-06-07
Erwin Schrödinger What is Life? / Mind and Matter / Autobiographical Sketches Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1944 2008-03-27
Jonathan Haidt The Happiness Hypothesis Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2005 2008-03-05
Oliver Sacks Musicophilia Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2007 2008-01-26
Penelope Lively Oleander, Jacaranda Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1994 2007-12-29
Graham McCann Fawlty Towers: The Story of Britain's Favourite Sitcom Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2007 2007-12-29
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1987 2007-12-15
Byron Rogers The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of of R S Thomas Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2006 2007-11-27
John Worthen D H Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2005 2007-10-20
Julian Barnes Love, etc Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2000 2007-09-10
Robert Graves Goodbye to All That Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1929 2007-08-19
Nick Lane Oxygen: The Molecule that made the World Science Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 2003 2007-07-02
Adam Eason The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2005 2007-05-19
Michael Frayn The Russian Interpreter Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1966 2007-05-19
Elkhonon Goldberg The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2001 2007-05-10
David Lodge Thinks... Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2001 2007-04-18
Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2001 2007-04-14
Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1954 2007-03-12
Alan Sheridan André Gide: A Life in the Present Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1998 2007-02-26
Amit Gupta The Self-Aware Universe Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1993 2006-12-08
Charles Dickens Bleak House Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1853 2006-11-09
V S Ramachandran Phantoms in the Brain Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1999 2006-10-14
Peter Carey The Tax Inspector Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 2006-10-09
Michael Morgan The Space Between Our Ears: How the Mind Represents Visual Space Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2006-07-14
Jorge Luís Borges Fictions Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1944 2006-07-08
Hans Christian von Baeyer Information: The New Language of Science Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2006-04-17
Michael Talbot The Holographic Universe Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1992 2006-03-25
Alan Bennett Untold Stories Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 2005 2006-03-09
James D Watson DNA: The Secret of Life Science Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 2004 2006-01-22
Dean Radin The Conscious Universe Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1997 2006-01-02
Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos The Non-Local Universe Science Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 2001 2005-11-29
Arthur J Ellison Science and the Paranormal Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 2002 2005-11-18
Keith Thomas Man and the Natural World History Rating: 4 - A top read 1983 2005-11-06
Amir D Aczel Entanglement Science Rating: 1 - Impressively bad 2002 2005-10-30
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5 Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1969 2005-10-03
Steve Jones The Language of the Genes Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1994 2005-09-22
F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1925 2005-08-31
James D Watson The Double Helix Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1968 2005-08-31
David Lodge Therapy Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 2005-08-17
Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1958 2005-08-01
Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 2005-07-12
Richard Wolfson Simply Einstein Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2005-07-03
Robin Waterfield Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 2002 2005-06-24
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1997 2005-05-28
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1985 2005-05-14
Rupert Sheldrake The Sense of Being Stared At Science Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2005-05-14
L Dudley Stamp Britain's Structure and Scenery Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1946 2005-03-25
Gerald Edelman Bright Air, Brilliant Fire Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1992 2005-02-08
George Johnson Fire in the Mind Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1996 2005-01-11
David Lodge Nice Work Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1988 2005-01-03
André Gide L'immoraliste Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1902 2004-12-04
Roger Penrose The Emperor's New Mind Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1989 2004-11-05
Deryck Cooke The Language of Music Music Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1983 2004-10-04
Paul Griffiths The String Quartet Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1983 2004-10-04
Bernard Haggin The Listener's Musical Companion Music Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1991 2004-10-04
Leonard B Meyer Emotion and Meaning in Music Music Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1956 2004-10-04
Muriel Nissel Married to the Amadeus Music Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1998 2004-10-04
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1866 2004-10-03
JWN Sullivan Beethoven: His Spiritual Development Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1927 2004-10-03
Paul Auster City of Glass Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1985 2004-09-07
Nick Herbert Quantum Reality Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1985 2004-08-27
Heinz R Pagels The Cosmic Code Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1982 2004-08-16
Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Capital 1848-1875 History Rating: 4 - A top read 1988 2004-07-29
Jeremy Narby The Cosmic Serpent Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1995 2004-07-26
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1958 2004-05-27
Humphrey Carpenter Dennis Potter Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1998 2004-05-06
Thekla Clark Wystan and Chester Biography Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1995 2004-05-06
Richard Davenport-Hines Auden Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 2004-05-06
Roger Highfield / Paul Carter The Private Lives of Albert Einstein Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1993 2004-05-06
Andrew Motion Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life Biography Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1993 2004-05-06
George Gissing New Grub Street Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1891 2004-02-17
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1877 2004-02-17
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1869 2004-02-17
Norman Davies The Isles: A History History Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1999 2004-01-26
Milan Kundera L'identité (Identity) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1998 2003-11-09
Graham Swift The Light of Day Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 2003 2003-07-26
Stefan Zweig Schachnovelle (Chess Story) Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1942 2003-07-09
Charles Dickens Great Expectations Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1861 2003-07-04
Martin Amis London Fields Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1989 Unrecorded
Martin Amis Money Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1984 Unrecorded
Martin Amis Night Train Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1998 Unrecorded
Martin Amis The Information Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1996 Unrecorded
Peter Atkins The Periodic Kingdom Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1995 Unrecorded
Jane Austen Emma Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1815 Unrecorded
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1813 Unrecorded
Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1811 Unrecorded
Beryl Bainbridge Every Man for Himself Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1996 Unrecorded
Beryl Bainbridge The Bottle Factory Outing Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1974 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10½ Chapters Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1989 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes Before She Met Me Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1982 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1984 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes Metroland Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1980 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes Talking It Over Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1991 Unrecorded
Julian Barnes The Porcupine Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1992 Unrecorded
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1973 Unrecorded
Raymond Carver Elephant Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1988 Unrecorded
Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1976 Unrecorded
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1939 Unrecorded
Norman Davies Europe: A History History Rating: 4 - A top read 1996 Unrecorded
David Deutsch The Fabric of Reality Science Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1997 Unrecorded
Charles Dickens Hard Times Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1854 Unrecorded
George Eliot Middlemarch Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1872 Unrecorded
Alice Thomas Ellis The Birds of the Air Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1980 Unrecorded
Walter Ellis The Oxbridge Conspiracy Miscellaneous Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1994 Unrecorded
E M Forster A Passage to India Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1924 Unrecorded
John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1958 Unrecorded
Gabriel García Márquez News of a Kidnapping Miscellaneous Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1996 Unrecorded
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1967 Unrecorded
Robert Gittings The Older Hardy Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1978 Unrecorded
Robert Gittings Young Thomas Hardy Biography Rating: 4 - A top read 1975 Unrecorded
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1891 Unrecorded
Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1886 Unrecorded
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1986 Unrecorded
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1989 Unrecorded
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady Fiction Rating: 2 - I'd give it a miss if I were you 1881 Unrecorded
Milan Kundera La Lenteur (Slowness) Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1993 Unrecorded
Milan Kundera Testaments Betrayed Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1992 Unrecorded
Milan Kundera The Farewell Party Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1972 Unrecorded
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1984 Unrecorded
Philip Larkin Jill Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1946 Unrecorded
D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1913 Unrecorded
David Lodge Changing Places Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1975 Unrecorded
Ian McEwan The Cement Garden Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1978 Unrecorded
Iris Murdoch The Bell Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1958 Unrecorded
J M Roberts The Penguin History of the World History Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1976 Unrecorded
John Ruskin Selected Writings (Penguin) Miscellaneous Rating: 4 - A top read 1964 Unrecorded
Arthur Schnitzler Fräulein Else Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1924 Unrecorded
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1767 Unrecorded
Ian Stewart Does God Play Dice? Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1989 Unrecorded
Ian Stewart Life's Other Secret Science Rating: 4 - A top read 1999 Unrecorded
Ian Stewart Nature's Numbers Science Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1997 Unrecorded
Graham Swift Ever After Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1992 Unrecorded
Graham Swift Last Orders Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1996 Unrecorded
Graham Swift Waterland Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1983 Unrecorded
Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1862 Unrecorded
Ivan Turgenev First Love Fiction Rating: 3 - Worth reading 1860 Unrecorded
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust Fiction Rating: 4 - A top read 1934 Unrecorded
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited Fiction Rating: 5 - A personal favourite 1945 Unrecorded

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