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2016

Table of Contents

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks The amazing life of some cell samples taken from a dying woman without her permission.

The farm Retiring to a farm in Sweden a mother can’t convince those around her of what she’s seen.

The big short Explaining financial disaster in an entertaining way.

The strange case of Thomas Quick A genuinely mind-bending tale of Sweden’s worst serial killer.

The Reading List #

  • The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
  • Top 10 Algarve. Bernhardt, Paul.
  • Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.
  • Richard III : manga Shakespeare/ adapted by Richard Appignanesi ; illustrated by Patrick Warren.
  • The wolf of Wall Street / Jordan Belfort.
  • The world’s greatest company : the story of Tata / Peter Casey ; illustrations by Mike Luckovich.
  • How to build a billion dollar app : discover the secrets of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time / George Berkowski.
  • The design of everyday things / Donald A. Norman.
  • Finding your element : how to discover your talents and passions and transform your life / Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica.
  • All the pretty horses / Cormac McCarthy.
  • The night manager / John Le Carré.
  • Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead / Sheryl Sandberg.
  • Our kind of traitor / John le Carré.
  • The green road / Anne Enright.
  • The end of days / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
  • Eastern Europe / this edition written and researched by Tom Masters…et al..
  • The farm / Tom Rob Smith.
  • Parade / Shuichi Yoshida ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
  • Our Lady of the Nile / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner.
  • Alan Turing : The enigma : The book that inspired the film ‘The Imitation Game’ / by Andrew Hodges.
  • Portugal : eyewitness travel guide / main contributor Martin Symington … [et al.].
  • Tipperary folk tales / Aideen McBride.
  • The dirty dust: =cré na cille / Máirtín Ó Cadhain ; translated from the Irish by Alan Titley
  • European city breaks / (editor: Sophie Blacksell Jones).
  • Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? : a novel / Dave Eggers.
  • The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis.
  • Super better : a revolutionary approach to getting stronger, happier, braver and more resilient / Jane McGonigal.
  • The machine that changed the world: the sotry of lean production-Toyota’s secret weapon in global car wars that is revolutionizing world industry / James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones & Daniel Roos.
  • Men explain things to me / Rebecca Solnit.
  • Too big to fail : inside the battle to save Wall Street / Andrew Ross Sorkin.
  • Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith.
  • Doing good better : effective altruism and a radical new way to make a difference / William MacAskill.
  • The strange case of Thomas Quick : the Swedish serial killer and the psychoanalyst who created him / Dan Josefsson ; translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson.
  • Naturalists in paradise : Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon / John Hemming.
  • Single and single. Le Carré, John.
  • Snow country / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.