Books

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
• Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
• Consolations - David Whyte

Books to Read

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

Books Read

2024

• The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
• when we cease to understand the world - Labatut
• 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