Thursday 19 December 2013

Summer Reading: What’s yours?

Around this time every year, I generally post a pile of summer reading I’m trying to stuff into my pack. I’ll probably do that in a few days, but in the meantime, what books are you stuffing into your pack or eBook reader this summer?

And what books would you recommend to others?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Some recommended books,....

Everything I want to do is illegal by Joel Salatin
-a light hearted look at the rules & regulations a farmer has to face in the USA.

The libertarian reader by David Boaz
-covers the history of Libertarians

Mao The unknown story by Jon Halliday
-a very detailed biography of Chairman Mao

Hope this helps, B Whitehead

Kiwiwit said...

I Shall Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer (the only German Jew to have survived the Holocaust and to have kept a diary covering the entire period that Hitler was in power).
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
No, They Can't: Why Government Fails But Individuals Succeed by John Stossel
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made America Great by Ben Carson
Einstein: HIs Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
and, I suspect, out of obligation as a NZ writer: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

RW said...

The Great Degeneration - Naill Ferguson
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
Cultural Amnesia - Clive James
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
Arthur Phillip - Derek Parker
George Orwell Complete Collection -by George oddly enough
Nothing to Envy... - Barbara Demick (near finished really)
Can recommend How China became Capitalist - Ronald Coase
& The Mystiery of Capital - Hernando Desoto
Rod: The Autobiography - Rod Stewart

Kindle - which I was resistant to - is amazing; I'm blazing through books.

Anonymous said...

When I left home : My Story / Buddy Guy with David Ritz.

Johnny Cash: The Life, by Robert Hilburn

The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War by Pugsley, C.(2001: Reed New Zealand) ISBN 978-0-7900-0941-4

IvanK


Anonymous said...

- The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

- Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights, Gary Klein

Anonymous said...

- The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

- Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights, Gary Klein

Bevan.

Mr Lineberry said...

Non Fiction: "The Bassett Road Machine Gun Murders" by Scott Bainbridge; "Old Invercargill" by John Hall-Jones

Fiction: "Watergate: The Hidden History - Nixon, the Mafia and the CIA" by Lamar Waldron

Libertyscott said...

Christopher Hitchens "Arguably" (entertaining, informative and he's sufficiently right and wrong enough to be able to be critical and appreciative in even doses)

Andrei Lankov "The Real North Korea" (few beat this Korean fluent, Russian expat historian, who cut his teeth as a Soviet student in North Korea. Insights into what has changed and the rationality of the regime for those who benefit from it)

Structural survey for house I am seeking to buy in London...

Anonymous said...

An interesting read was "The Electric Sky - a challenge to the myths of modern astronomy" Donald Scott [A5 X 240 pages, less pictures]. I'm not sure the proffered alternative of a plasma universe is correct, but author and range of web sites discredit: gravitational lensing (or microlensing); that a red shift ONLY means movement away; cosmic background radiation has better explanations than flawed standard.
For the standard inflation/ big bang to work, you need to have had multiple mini universes bubbling off. Critics of the plasma universe don't seem to find their own ideas bizarre; like global warming, the science is of course settled
Peter

Freedom is an islam free World said...

Just blown the dust off "The Silence of the Lambs".