It’s simple – here’s my list of 38 books read in 2018 and a brief verdict. Not an incredible number as a fair amount of my time is spent writing.
(* Indicates it has been read before.)
Five stars
The Jewish War, Josephus, c. 75 AD
The Emperor, Ryszard Kapuściński, 1978
The Four Voyages, Christopher Columbus, 1492-1504
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus, Cassius Dio, c. 211-233 AD
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X (and Alex Haley), 1965
Room to Dream, David Lynch and Kristine McKenna, 2018
The Later Roman Empire (AD 354-378), Ammianus Marcellinus, c. 380-390 AD
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard, 1966
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940*
On Writing, Stephen King, 2000
The Thirty Years War, C. V. Wedgwood, 1938
And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave, 1989
The First World War, A. J. P. Taylor, 1963*
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré, 1963
Four stars
Content Provider, Stewart Lee, 2016
High-Rise, J. G. Ballard, 1975
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, 1847*
Dreams, Sigmund Freud, 1901
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr, 1978
The Warriors, Sol Yurick, 1965
Call for the Dead, John le Carré, 1961
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, 1985
Concrete Island, J. G. Ballard, 1974
Where Eagles Dare, Alistair MacLean, 1967
Las Vegas Then and Now, Su Kim Chung, 2015
Three stars
The Gunslinger, Stephen King, 1982
The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King, 1987
The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch, 1963
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, 1996
The Wastelands, Stephen King, 1991
The Lonesome Gods, Louis L’Amour, 1983
Wizard and Glass, Stephen King, 1997
Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy, 1905
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, 1970
A Murder of Quality, John le Carré, 1962
The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King, 2012
Two stars
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages, Christoper Berry-Dee, 2017
One star
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