The Young Stalin by Simon Schama is gripping.
Bill Bryson , A Walk in the Woods is a proper laugh out loud holiday read .
Another vote for John Connoly , but I'd definitely read Every daed thing first .
Due to the loss of a major client I've got a lot of spare time at the moment and I can't fill it all with client chasing, lawn mowing and riding so I decided to get some rereading done and decided to have a shot at Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon.
Snow Crash was as good as ever but just before I dived into Cryptonomicon for the first time in five years I stumbled across a Kindle plug for The Rise and Fall of DODO.
I read it in three sittings. It was like a return to his humorous earlier stuff. Really can recommend it.
I recently bought The Martian by Andy Weir as a £0.99 kindle deal. Having watched the film version starring Matt Damon I knew the plot but really enjoyed the writing and scientific aspects of the tale. If you enjoy (fictional) tales of survival against the odds it is a cracking read.
Sapiens
Jordan Peterson 12 rules of life
Grapes of wrath
All recent books I've enjoyed
Sapiens...can't believe nobody else has recommended it
I love The Martian even allowing for the huge inaccuracy at the start.
I'll always recommend Louis de Bernières. His South American Trilogy (The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman) are utterly sublime, and his semi-non-fiction Birds Without Wings is the best book I've ever read.
More recently, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is certainly worth a read and I've been pleasantly surprised by Craig Thomas and his Kenneth Aubrey series of 1980s cold war British Intelligence novels.
Snow Crash was as good as ever but just before I dived into Cryptonomicon for the first time in five years I stumbled across a Kindle plug for The Rise and Fall of DODO.
I’ve read Snow Crash umpteen times, but I’ve always struggled with Cryptonomicon; I saw ‘...DODO’ in Waterstones last weekend, and it looks interesting, so I’ll be checking it out.
I’ve recently read Claire North’s new book, 84k, and it’s very good indeed, and a rather scary forseeing of how society is progressing. Her previous books are very readable as well: The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August, Touch, The Sudden Appearance Of Hope, and The End Of The Day, she takes ideas that have been used before, but manages to put her own spin on them.
The Son, Philip Meyer
The Crow Road, Iain Banks
Sweet tooth, Ian McEwan
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman.
Humans. Matt Haig.
American Gods. Neil Gaiman.
Just finished this, would make a great holiday whodunit.
The Son, Philip Meyer
Excellent, as is American Rust by the same author
Grapes of wrath
Excellent, as is everything else by the same author (bar "Log from the Sea of Cortez", which is really dull). 'East of Eden' is epic in every sense, but I particularly liked' Once There was a War', a collection of his reporting from WW2. really evocative.
