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* How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
* How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
* Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
* Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
* Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
* The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium


== Books to Read ==
== Books to Read ==

Revision as of 15:10, 27 November 2024

Books to Buy

  • Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
  • A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)
  • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
  • Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
  • Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
  • The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

Books to Read

  • Reading to Learn - William Zinger
  • Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
  • A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton

Books Read

  • The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
  • In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel
  • Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson
  • Les Effinger - Gabriele Target
  • Triad - Tom Keve
  • Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig
  • The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich
  • How Language Works - David Crystal
  • The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf
  • The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter