just less than a year since the last bookshelf tidy up. Since last december I have read the following;
robert galbraith - troubled blood (I usually like the strike novels. the story is decent, and there were certainly twists I didn't see coming. tv series has spoiled it a bit for me though)
rudolph hoess - commandant of auschwitz
alain de botton - essays in love (I do enjoy de bottons work)
stephen king - outsider
noam chomsky - manufacturing consent (wished I had read it years ago. bit dated now mind)
brett easton ellis - american psycho (enjoyed this!)
michael schermer - the science of good and evil
melvyn fairclough - the ripper and the royals (90% tosh)
emma donoghue - room (not seen the film, cracking book)
jonathon kellerman - the web
jonathon kellerman - bad love
michel de montaigne - the complete essays (1300 pages! took a while, and lockdown is the kinda time to read it. really accessible though. had this for many years and always intended to get around to reading it and really glad I have.)
lewis carroll - alices adventures in wonderland
lewis carroll - through the looking glass (had honestly never read either of them)
chuck palahniuk - fight club
agatha christie - the mysterious affair at styles/peril at end house/the abc murders/one two buckle my shoe (poirot is a right knob in the books)
stephen jay gould - bully for brontosaurus (brilliant, and another long but rewarding read on the role science has for our lives)
heather morris - the tattooist of Auschwitz (decent story, but a bit odd)
antonio damasio - decartes error (another consciousness book. tried to be a bit too clever, though really interesting in parts)
c collodi - pinnochio
stephen fry - troy (all the mythos books are really enjoyable)
albert borowitz - the jack the ripper walking tour murders (quite a funny(!) novel)
ray bradbury - something wicked this way comes (
@nimrod mentioned his favourite book, and this encouraged me to purchase a few by bradbury. this was my bradbury cherry, and it's a really really good novel.)
jennifer ackerman - the genius of birds (someone else on here raved about this, and rightly so. a fairly joyful little book)
brett easton ellis - less than zero (better than american pyscho, which is really good imo!)
robert mclaughlin - the first jack the ripper victim photographs (this is quite a rare book that i got lucky finding a copy of. it examines loads about the history of photography, and examines photo's of all the victims that we know of (and some we have lost). It's a fascinating book.)
michael moore - dude where's my country
philip k dick - do androids dream of electric sheep (so, so good! why had I never read this before?)
john locke - political writings
stephen king - finders keepers
gerold frank - the boston strangler
robert louis stephenson - dr jekyll and mr hyde
harry leslie smith - don't let my past be your future (ideal xmas pressie for
@Johnny75 )
ray bradbury - farenheit 451 (read for
@nimrod, have to say mind, something wicked is superior imo)
robert eastway - how long is a piece of string
dean koontz - sole survivor
paul begg - jack the ripper the uncensored facts
robin cooper - the timewaster letters (dogshit presented as "humour". neither as funny nor as clever as it thinks it is or tries to be)
stuart turton - the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle (absolutely mental headfuck time travel style novel, that is also a kinda whodunnit. hurt my brain in a good way trying to keep up with it. really enjoyable)
james shapiro - 1606 (the year shakespear wrote king lear, kinda.)
james riordan - war song (drivel)
david nicholls - one day (absolute masterpiece! god I got so into this story. and the ending is totally fucking brutal. highly recommended)
malcolm gaskill - witchfinders
chuck palahniuk - choke (realised i have built up several of palahniuks books. maybe i should be worried, but there are others I also want to read...)
dennis neilsen - history of a drowning boy
jonathon coe - what a carve up
derren brown - happy (re-read this, as it is a phenomenally useful book. also re-read it as prep for the follow up, see 2 lines down)
adam kay - this is going to hurt (phenomenal. genuinely everyone should read this book. so funny in so many ways, and so, so human)
derren brown - a book of secrets (follows on from happy. both these books are really thought provoking, and really useful)
robert harris - munich (really good and thoughtful novel set at the time most of harris' books are)
drew d gray & andrew wise - jack and the thames torso murders (linking JtR to a 2nd series of murders that occurred in 1888 london. basic premise, that it is unlikely that 2 serial killers would be in action at the same time)
I recently started the stephen king dark tower series. liked the first 2 books, recently started the third instalment. They'll keep me busy til spring i reckon...