I maintain this file for my own benefit, but it can hardly do any harm to make it world-visible.
I'm always open to recommendations of things to read, if you have a suggestion feel free to get in touch.
I've got these books but haven't read them (or finished reading them) yet. This list isn't fully complete at the moment...
The Lost King Of France/Cadbury
The Spanish Inquisition/Kamen
The Black Death/Ziegler
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire VII/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire VIII/Gibbon
Interrogations/Overy
Bound & Gagged/Travis
Heterosexual Dictatorship/Higgins
The Code Book/Singh
Weaving The Web/Tim Berners-Lee
The Major Effect/Kavanagh
Solitary Sex/Laqueuer
A History Of Venice/Norwich
All Under Heaven: A Complete History Of China/Kruger
What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us/Weightman
The Fall Of Berlin/Antony Beevor (rev. Economist)
Leonardo, The First Scientist/White
The Ashdown Diaries I/Ashdown
The Diary Of A Young Girl/Frank
Stone/Adam Roberts
The Marriage Of Sticks/Carroll
The Transmigration Of Timothy Archer/Dick
Sketches From A Hunter's Album/Turgenev
The Informers/Brett Easton Ellis
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid/Fischer
The Course Of The Heart/Harrison
The Reefs Of Earth/Lafferty
Fourth Mansions/Lafferty
In Deep/Knight
On The Road/Kerouac
Made In Yugoslavia/Jakanovic
The Night Listener/Maupin
Maybe The Moon/Maupin
Dinner At Deviant's Palace/Powers
Needle In The Groove/Noon
Galatea 2.2/Powers
City Of Truth/Morrow
Perdido Street Station
Cancer Ward/Solzhenitsyn
Slow Chocolate Autopsy/Sinclair
The Night In Question/Wolff
Barcelona Plates/Sayle
Catch-22 (rec. Janet)
Lord Of The Flies/William Golding (rec. Janet)
To Kill A Mockingbird/Harper Lee (rec. Janet)
Beloved/Toni Morrison (rec. Janet)
Wuthering Heights (rec. Janet - "but if you're more inclined towards modern fiction, you might not get on with it")
The Centauri Device/M John Harrison (actually I have read it but too long ago)
The Scheme For Full Employment/Magnus Mills
Quicksilver/Neal Stephenson
The Separation/Priest (rec. Duncan)
Vanishing Voices/Nettle
The Blank Slate/Pinker
Development As Freedom/Sen
Silent Spring/Carson
The Road To Oxiana/Byron
Essays Of Francis Bacon/Bacon
Frank Skinner/Frank Skinner
Intellectual Impostures/Sokal & Bricmont
Brainchildren/Dennett
No Logo/Klein
Vox Latina/Allen
Homage to Catalonia/Orwell
The Pedant In The Kitchen/Barnes
I've read these books recently but haven't written anything about them.
Once More With Feeling/Coren
Transmetropolitan: Spider's Thrash/Ellis et al
A History Of Britain III/Schama
The Land That Lost Its Heroes/Burns
Porno/Welsh
Ilium/Dan Simmons
£6.99/Beigbeder
The Ottoman Empire & Early Modern Europe/Goffman
The Years Of Rice And Salt/Robinson
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire I/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire II/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire III/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire IV/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire V/Gibbon
The Decline + Fall Of The Roman Empire VI/Gibbon
Roma Eterna/Robert Silverberg
Vitals/Greg Bear
More What If/ed. Cowley
A Short History Of Japan/Andressen
Tidying Up Art/Ursus Wehrl
I've read these books and written brief reviews.
Talk Of The Devil/Orizio
A History Of Britain II/Schama
Choke/Palahniuk
The Twist/Calder
The Penguin History Of The USA/Brogan
Dead Air/Banks
The Battle For The Falklands/Hastings & Jenkins
Amaryllis Night And Day/Hoban
Out Of Eden: The Peopling Of The World/Oppenheimer (rev. Economist)
Absolution Gap/Reynolds
There are lots of books that I don't have but might like to get some time. See this page for a list.
Books that someone's offered to lend me.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World/Murukami (rec. Kirsten)
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