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My reads by year
A list of the all the books I have read each year.
2024
- Interview with the vampire – Anne Rice
- The Epigenetics Revolution – Nessa Carey
- Transformer – Nick Lane
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert
- Children of Dune – Frank Herbert
- God Emperor of Dune – Frank Herbert
- Heretics of Dune – Frank Herbert
- Chapterhouse: Dune – Frank Herbert
- The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
- The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
- Death’s End – Cixin Liu
- A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vigne
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and empire – Isaac Asimov
- Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
- Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
2023
- Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse
- In the Heart of the Amazon Forest – Walter Henry Bates
- Spare – Prince Harry
- Superior – Angela Saini
- Inferior – Angela Saini
- Black and British – David Olusoga
- Goodbye, Dr Banda – Alexander Chula
- Sad Little Men – Richard Beard
- Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- No Longer At Ease – Chinua Achebe
- Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
- This is not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter – Tomiwa Owolade
- Otherlands: A World in the Making – Thomas Halliday
- Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh
- River of Smoke – Amitav Ghosh
- Flood of Fire – Amitav Ghosh
- Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
- Number 9 Dream – David Mitchell
2022
- Winners Take All – Anand Giridharadas
- Orientalism – Edward Said
- Poor Economics – Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The Great Education Robbery – Nigel Gann
- Mission Economy – A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism – Mariana Mazzucato
- The Tyranny of Merit – Michael Sandel
- Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality? – Cheikh Anta Diop
- Capital in the 21st Century – Thomas Piketty
- What is Life? – Paul Nurse
- At the edge of uncertainty – Michael Brooks
2021
- Divided: Why we are living in an age of walls – Tim Marshall
- A brief history of neoliberalism – David Harvey
- Capitalism and Freedom – Milton Friedman
- Development as Freedom – Amartya Sen
- The Beautiful Tree – James Tooley
- Dictators without borders: Power and Money in Central Asia – Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism – Benedict Anderson
- Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack – Richard Ovenden
- The Debt Delusion: Living within our means and other fallacies – John Weeks
- Nations and Nationalism – Ernest Gellner
- 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism – Ha Joon Chang
- Decolonising the Mind – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- A History of the Bible – John Barton
- The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney
- White Skin, Black Masks – Frantz Fanon
- The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
- It Takes A School – Jonathan Starr
- The Fortunes of Wangrin – Amadou Hampaté Ba
- Empireland: How Imperialism has shaped Modern Britain – Sathnam Sanghera
- Bite of the Mango – Mariatu Kamara
2020
- When breath becomes air – Paul Kalanithi
- The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
- The Book of Humans – Adam Rutherford
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
- An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
- Four Ways to Forgiveness – Ursula Le Guin
- The Telling – Ursula Le Guin
- Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- A Quiet Education – Jamie Thom
- The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
- Let My People Go Surfing – Yvon Chouinard
- The Divide – Jason Hickel
- Global Education Policy and International Development 2nd Ed. – Verger et al
- Slade House – David Mitchell
- K & R – James Smythe
- Sultana’s Dream – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
- Three Circles into One – William Waldegrave
- Less is more – Jason Hickel
- On fire: the burning case for a green new deal – Naomi Klein
- Debt: The First 5000 Years – David Graeber
2019
- Trivium 21c – by Martin Robinson
- Prisoners of Geography – by Tim Marshall
- The Left Hand of Darkness – by Ursula Le Guin
- I am Pilgrim – by Terry Hayes
- The Handmaid’s Tale – by Margaret Attwood
- Slaughter House 5 – by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Wizard of Earthsea – by Ursula Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan – by Ursula Le Guin
- The Farthest Shore – by Ursula Le Guin
- Tales from Earthsea – by Ursula Le Guin
- The Other Wind – by Ursula Le Guin
- The Three-Body Problem – by Cixin Liu
- The Righteous Mind – by Jonathan Haidt
- The Curriculum – Gallimaufry to coherence – by Mary Myatt
- School Leadership and education system reform – edited by Peter Earley and Toby Greany
- Rocannan’s World – by Ursula Le Guin
- Planet of Exile – by Ursula Le Guin
- City of Illusions – by Ursula Le Guin
- The Word for World is Forest – by Ursula Le Guin
- Single & Single – John Le Carré
- How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy – Julian Baggini
- The Coddling of the American Mind – Greg Lukinoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are – Robert Plomin
- The New Silk Roads – Peter Frankopan
- The Paper Menagerie – Ken Liu
- All That Man Is – David Salazay
- The Bone Clocks- David Mitchell
- The Machine – James Smythe
2018
- What is this thing called knowledge? – by Duncan Pritchard. Read as part of Oxford Universities online CPD course – theory of knowledge
- Epistemology: Contemporary readings – edited by Michael Huemer
- What if everything you knew about education was wrong? – by David Didau – my review.
- Cleverlands – by Lucy Crehan
- Seven myths about education – by Daisy Christodoulou
- Making good progress? – by DaisyChristodoulou
- Why knowledge matters: rescuing our children from failed educational theories – by E.D. Hirsch
- Ouroboros – by Greg Ashman
- What does this look like in the classroom? – by Carl Hendrick and Robin MacPherson
- The Sword of Honour Trilogy – by Evelyn Waugh
- Millionaire Teacher – by Andrew Hallam
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – by Yuval Noah Harari
- Millionaire Expat – by Andrew Hallam
- Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and why it has to change – by Jonathan Fenby
- A parent’s guide to raising kids Overseas (Volume 1) – by Jeff Devens
- Homo Deus: a brief history of tomorrow – by Yuval Noah Harari
- Fierce conversations: achieving success in work and in life, one conversation at a time – by Susan Scott
- The first 90 days, updated and expanded; proven strategies for getting up to speed faster and smarter – by Michael D. Watkins
- 21 lessons for the 21st Century – by Yuval Noah Harari
- Fahrenheit 451 – by Ray Bradbury
- Brave new world – by Aldous Huxley
- This is going to hurt – by Adam Kay
- Educated – Tara Westover
2017
- Raising babies – by Steve Biddulph
- A brief history of everyone who ever lived – by Adam Rutherford
- Patient H.M. – by Luke Dittrich
- The Serengeti rules – by Sean Carroll
- Battle hymn of the tiger teachers: the Michaela way – edited by Katherine Birbalsingh
- American Gods – by Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere – by Neil Gaiman
- How the Marquis got his coat back – by Neil Gaiman
- Stardust – by Neil Gaiman
- The ocean at the end of the lane – by Neil Gaiman
- Anansi boys – by Neil Gaiman
- The rise and fall of D.O.D.O – by Neil Stephenson and Nicole Galland
- What every teacher needs to know about psychology – by David Didau and Nick Rose
- How to stop time – by Matt Haig
- Why don’t students like school? – by Daniel Willingham
- Coraline – by Neil Gaiman
- The graveyard book – by Neil Gaiman
- Fragile things – by Neil Gaiman
- Smoke and mirrors – by Neil Gaiman
- His Dark Materials: The complete trilogy – by Philip Pullman
- Trigger Warning – by Neil Gaiman
- Norse Mythology – by Neil Gaiman
- Good Omens – by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
2016
- How to raise an adult – by Julie Lythcott-Haims – my review.
- What is the point of school? – by Guy Claxton
- Making thinking visible – by Ron Richhardt – my review.
- Aping mankind – by Raymond Tallis
- Getting Darwin wrong – by Brendan Wallace
- The problems of philosophy – by Bertrand Russell
- Why evolution is true – by Jerry Coyne
- Faith vs fact – by Jerry Coyne
- Seven Storey Mountain – by Thomas Merton
- Seveneves – by Neal Stephenson
- Never let me go – by Kazuo Ishiguro
- What is the point of school – by Guy Claxton
- Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End – by Atul Gawande
- Religion for Atheists – by Alain de Botton
- The Remains of the day – by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Fireflies – by Shiva Naipaul
- The Young Atheist’s Handbook: Lessons for living a good life without God – by Alom Shaha
- Justice – Michael Sandel
- The vital question: why is life the way it is? – by Nick Lane
2015
- The brain at school: educational neuroscience in the classroom – by John Geake
- Classroom-based research and evidence-based practice – by Keith Taber
- Ways of learning: learning theories and learning styles in the classroom – by Alan Pritchard
- Pedagogy of the oppressed – by Paolo Freire
- Visible learning for teachers – by John Hattie
- Thinking, fast and slow – by Daniel Kahneman
- Raising girls – by Steve Biddulph
- Full catastrophe living – by Jon Kabat Zinn
- The moral landscape – by Sam Harris
- A Universe from nothing – by Laurence Krauss
2014
- Good work – by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon
- Intelligence reframed – by Howard Gardner
- Contemporary theories of learning – by Knud Illeris
- Teaching as if life matters – by Christopher Uhl
- Nonviolent Communication – by Marshall Rosenberg
- The last child in the woods – by Richard Louv
- The sixth extinction: an unnatural history – by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Neanderthal man – by Svante Paabo
- The serpents promise – by Steve Jones
- The language of life – by Francis Collins
- Creation: the origin of life/the future of life – by Adam Rutherford
- Your inner fish – by Neil Shubin
- Life Ascending – by Nick Lane
- The Baroque cycle (3 books) – by Neal Stephenson
- The magic of reality – by Richard Dawkins
Earlier
- Bad Science – by Ben Goldacre
- Thirteen things that don’t make sense – by Michael Brooks
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks – by Rebecca Skloot
- The rational optimist – by Matt Ridley
- Quantum evolution: the new science of life – by Johnjoe Mcfadden
- The diversity of life – by E.O. Wilson
- Impossibility – by John Barrow
- Collapse – by Jared Diamond
- The self illusion – by Bruce Hood
- The selfish gene – by Richard Dawkins
- Genome – by Matt Ridley
- The secret life of trees – by Colin Tudge
- The man who mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks
- The Handmaid’s tail – by Margaret Atwood
- The Inheritors – by William Golding
- The Baroque cycle – by Neal Stephenson
- The greatest show on earth – by Richard Dawkins
- The song of the Dodo – by David Quammen
- The lives of a cell – by Lewis Thomas
- Fifty ideas you really need to know – by Hayley Birch
- The violinists thumb – by Sam Keen
- All the Evelyn Waugh novels and travel writing
- Game of thrones
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