106 books overall; 34 books read in the last year; 1 book read in the last month. That's an average of 3 books each month.
Planned books (26):
- Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
- Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
- On History by E.J. Hobsbawm
- The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin
- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx
- Monte Cassino by Sven Hassel
- The Age of Capital, 1848-75 by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
- Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
- All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani
- William Marshal by Georges Duby
- Poor Story: An Insider Uncovers How Globalisation and Good Intentions Have Failed the World’s Poor by Giles Bolton
- Hildegard of Bingen: Selections from Her Writings by Hildegard of Bingen
- A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
- To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding
- War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy
- Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910 by Richard J. Evans
- Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1 by Karl R. Popper
- The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 2 by Karl R. Popper
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargos Llosa
Current books (1):
Recent books (79):
- The Social Contract by Jean Jacque Rousseau
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Lives of the Great Composers by Harold C. Schonberg
- Conversations with Stalin by Milovan Djilas
- A History of the Weimar Republic: v. 2 by Erich Eyck
- The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom by Paulo Coelho
- Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
- The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- A History of the Weimar Republic: v. 1 by Erich Eyck
- The Joke by Milan Kundera
- Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
- The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
- The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- Lost In Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad by Charlie Croker
- The Journey Home by Olafur Johann Olafsson
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933 by Sally Marks
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers
- The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
- Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
- The Passport by Martin Lloyd
- The Noodle Maker by Jian Ma
- The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Steve Jones
- Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
- Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe by David Blair
- London Match by Len Deighton
- The Weimar Republic by John Hiden
- Memoirs of a Spymaster: The Man Who Waged a Secret War Against the West by Markus Wolf
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Mexico Set by Len Deighton
- The Analects by Confucius
- Barbarossa to Berlin: A Chronology of the Campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941-45: Long Drive East by Brian Taylor
- Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
- Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Economic and Social Behaviour by Paul Ormerod
- Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
- The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet by Unknown
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Marx by Terry Eagleton
- Berlin Game by Len Deighton
- Raj by Lawrence James
- The Battle of Marengo, 1800 by David Hollins
- The African Queen by Cecil Scott Forester
- The Xenophobe’s Guide to the English by Antony Miall
- Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by E.J. Hobsbawm
- Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
- City of Life, City of Death: Memories of Riga by Max Michelson
- Modern India, 1885-1947 by Sumit Sarkar
- Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
- The Practice of History by G.R. Elton
- What Is History? by Edward Hallett Carr
- Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
- Ataturk by Andrew Mango
- Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
- The Christmas Books Volume 1: A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens
- Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
- Studying History 2nd ed by Jeremy Black
- Blitzfreeze by Sven Hassel
- Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
- In Defence of Marxism by L. Trotskii
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Last Word and Other Stories by Graham Greene
- Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories by F.Scott Fitzgerald
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays by George Orwell
- Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lying in State: How Whitehall Denies, Dissembles and Deceives - From the Chinook Crash to the Kelly by Tim Slessor
- Lend Me Your Ears by Boris Johnson
