{"id":771,"date":"2009-01-07T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=771"},"modified":"2009-01-07T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T18:25:42","slug":"books-read-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2009\/01\/07\/books-read-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"books read in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Matt<\/a>, and after being asked by Tom<\/a>, here is the list of books I read in 2008. The ones I strongly recommend are in bold.<\/p>\n

Middlemarch, George Eliot (1871) 17 Jan<\/b>
\nThe Improvisation Game, Chris Johnston (2005) 26 Jan
\nPrisoner’s Dilemma, William Poundstone (1992) 2 Feb
\nSecrets of Creation: Vol 1: The Mystery of the Prime Numbers, Matthew Watkins (2008, proofs) 5 Feb
\nBrainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, Kathleen Taylor (2004) 7 Feb
\nThe Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein (2007) 17 Feb<\/b>
\nBreakdown of Will, George Ainslie (2001) 12 March<\/b>
\nMeditations, Marcus Aurelius (180) March
\nKluge, Gary Marcus (2008) 8 April
\nV, Thomas Pynchon (1963) April
\nThe Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif (2000) 23 May
\nPermutation City, Greg Egan (1994) 10 June
\nMeaning Medicine and the “Placebo Effect”, Daniel Moerman (2002) 8 June<\/b>
\nFragile Things, Neil Gaiman (2006) 15 June
\nWonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995) 21 June
\nBetter: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande (2007) 28 June
\nMy Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl (1979) 28 June
\nSin City: Hell and Back, Frank Miller (2005) 6 July
\nDivided Kingdom, Rupert Thomson (2005) 18 July
\nMicromotives and Macrobehaviour, Thomas Schelling (1978) 15 July
\nNights at the Circus, Angela Carter (1984) 25 July<\/b>
\nStandloper, Alan Garner (1996) 17 August
\nImpro for Storytellers, Kieth Johnstone (1994\/99) 18 August
\nSight Unseen, Goodale & Milner (2004) 24 August<\/b>
\nThe Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fannon (1963) 23 August
\nNeither Victims Nor Executioners, Albert Camus (1946) 24 August, r.<\/b>
\nThe Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon (1965) 30 August
\nThe Virago Book of Fairy Tales, Ed. Angela Carter (1990) 31 August
\nThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1994) 7 September, r.
\nMan’s Search for Meaning, Viktore E. Frankl (1945\/1959) 8 September
\nThe Science of Self-Control, Howard Rachlin (2000) 18 September
\nAl Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern, John Grey (2003) 5 October<\/b>
\nA Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick (1977) 16 October, r.
\nFull Facts Book of Cold Reading, Ian Rowland (2002), 20 October
\nThe Elfish Gene, Mark Barrowcliffe (2007), 25 October
\nMoominvalley in November, Tove Jansson (1971), 30 October<\/b>
\nNixon Under the Bodhi Tree, Kate Wheeler (ed., 2004), Nov
\nAll the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCathy (1992), 11 December
\nActive Vision, Findlay & Gilchrist (2003), 28 December<\/p>\n

39 is a lot less that Matt’s 104, but I reckon my commute is about fifty minutes less than his, and its hard to read while cycling \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It’s about 50-50 fiction\/non-fiction, but I reckon I spent most of the time on non-fiction since it is slower going. My top two would be ‘The Shock Doctrine’ and ‘Sight-Unseen’. A top three is too hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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