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2017

Table of Contents

A little life and The people in the trees by Hanya Yanagihara. Both books are sometimes grim, always interesting and incredibly well written.

How children succeed How can children overcome difficulties and develop perseverance, curiosity and self-control?

We need to talk about Kevin Terrifying, tense.

The fortunes of Africa

The killing Novelisation of the hit series, an excellent whodunnit.

Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. Fantastic short stories.

The handmaid’s tale

The goldfinch

The case for working with your hands

The Reading List #

  • The kingdom / Fuminori Nakamura ; translated by Kalau Almony.
  • Walkaway / Cory Doctorow.
  • A little life / Hanya Yanagihara.
  • Plugged / Eoin Colfer.
  • How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character / Paul Tough.
  • Top 10 Algarve. Bernhardt, Paul.
  • Berlitz Algarve pocket guide
  • The dark forest / Cixin Liu ; translated by Joel Martinsen.
  • The people in the trees / Hanya Yanagihara.
  • H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald.
  • Six four / Hideo Yokoyama ; translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies.
  • A general theory of oblivion / José Eduardo Agualusa ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
  • Northern lights / Philip Pullman.
  • Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind ; translated by John E. Woods.
  • The war of art : break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles / Steven Pressfield.
  • The three-body problem / Cixin Liu ; translated by Ken Liu.
  • We need to talk about Kevin / Lionel Shriver ; introduction by Kate Mosse.
  • The heart of darkness : and, Youth / Joseph Conrad ; with an introduction by Tim Butcher.
  • Moby-Dick : or, the whale / Herman Melville.
  • The fortunes of Africa : a 5,000-year history of wealth, greed and endeavour / Martin Meredith.
  • Victorian London : the life of a city, 1840-1870 / Liza Picard.
  • The killing / David Hewson ; based on the Bafta Award-winning TV series written by Søren Sveistrup.
  • Humboldt’s gift / Saul Bellow.
  • The life-changing magic of tidying / Marie Kondo ; translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
  • The girl in the spider’s web / David Lagercrantz; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding.
  • New York City / written and researched by Martin Dunford, Stephen Keeling and Andrew Rosenberg.
  • New York City / this edition written and researched by Regis St Louis, Cristian Bonetto.
  • Tales from the therapy room : shrink-wrapped / Phil Lapworth.
  • And the weak suffer what they must? / Yanis Varoufakis.
  • Fictions / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated with an afterword by Andrew Hurley.
  • The chimes / Anna Smaill.
  • Secret Speech. Smith, Tom Rob
  • The handmaid’s tale / Margaret Atwood.
  • The goldfinch / Donna Tartt.
  • The case for working with your hands : or why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good / Matthew Crawford.
  • The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics / translated and adapted by Ann Cutler and Rudolph McShane.