 | A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier by Bodleian Library
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £5.36 When you put into context where and when this book was written, it's quite superb.
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 | When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Buy used from: £3.89 Godwin - Immense. Brilliant book; turns fact into story where others fail.
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy used from: £13.58 Introduces some profound concepts, and changes the way you think about aspects of life. Not my normal type of read, but would very much recommend.
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 | The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey by Rupert Isaacson
Buy used from: £1.55 Not a bad book. Some great tales. Pales alongside Godwin and Malin however
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 | Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing by Martyn Amos
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Great insight into a subject which I feel I have no right to read about, but Martyn Amos made it easy.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £10.05 Dawkins - Legend. Rant of the century (and last).
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 | My Traitors Heart by Malan
Buy used from: £4.13 A story told with bluntness and brilliance. Second only to When a Crocodile Meets the Sun.
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 | The Book of General Ignorance (A Quite Interesting Book) by John Lloyd
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 Great for when you're having a dump.
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara
Buy used from: £7.82 Pretty good, short, book.
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 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £2.86 Awesome story. Great subject, well covered.
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 | The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper
Buy used from: £10.95 Like QI, excellent "on the toilet" book. Interesting short articles.
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 | Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
Buy used from: £0.02 Great writer, great book. Slow to start, but excellent to finish
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £0.01 An amazing book by one of the best writers ever. When Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, he forgot to mention the god that is Salman Rushdie
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 | Doctor Salt by Gerard Donovan
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Again Donovan writes a strange classic.
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 | Fury by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Another Rushdie classic. Loved this book.
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 | A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life by John Simpson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A man of immense stories, I wish I was him.
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 | Down and Out in Paris and London: Autobiography (Essential Penguin) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.01 Orwell. Need I say more.
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 | The Jaguar Smile: Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £1.31 Great tale of Nicaraguan history, told by the genius of India's history.
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