Vingt Ans Après

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky

Helliconia Summer

Fiction: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (English translation by Chapman & Hall).

Non-fiction: Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.

Previous fiction: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Loved Ender's Game when I was younger, but for some reason never picked this up. It's brilliant, even better than Ender's.

Previous non-fiction: Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Well, I couldn't put it down. What a book.

"Middlemarch", "Utopia for Realists", and various graphic novels.

Is a river alive by Robert McFarlane

A beautifully written travelogue/nature book/eco activist screed that tours the world visiting rivers and the people engaged in living with and protecting them. Fascinating, hopeful, heartbreaking and lyrical. Really enjoying it (evidently)!

You may enjoy :

- End Times Fascism, And the Fight for the Living World (Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor)

- The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (Tim Wu)

I most recently read http://elan.school

The German Genius is an 850 page marathon (excluding notes) by Peter Watson who's not an academic but an ex NYT/Sunday Times journalist and it shows. It's a brilliantly readable unputdownable (in my view) account of how, in a reviewers words, a ton of Germans from the 17th to the early 20th century 'have done more than anything else to create the modern West'. It also offers a fascinating account of how the later appalling developments in the early 1900s onward came about so disastrously. If you only browse the book in a bookshop, read the three pages of comments from reviewers! Last word to Peter Watson 'The United States and Great Britain may speak English but more than they know, they think German'.

Right now I’m reading Biological War. Before this one I finished reading:

- The Left Hand of Darkness

- The Nerd Reich

- What Happened to Liberal Democracy?