Books I read in 2018

As usual I have read lots of books this last 12 months.

Ones which stand out include:

Munich by Robert Harris – manages to make an era which is history to all of us feel very much in the here and now, where all possible outcomes are options and the story we know is not enevitable.

Artemis by Andy Weir – great fun novel, follow up to The Martian, my comments from earlier in the year here.

Elysium Fire by Alistar Reynolds, good sci-fi myestery novel, which I wrote about here.

The Death of Grass by John Wyndham – a bleak novel about the quick descent to anarchy which follows a disease which kills all forms of plant in the grass family – wheat, rice, barley – anything we rely on for carbohydrate aside from root veg. Things go south pretty quickly.

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng – again one I wrote about before, here.

Bad Dad by David Walliams – recomended by my son, a good fun read, with an important message about loving your children being more important than buying them stuff (a very crucial message in a world obsessed by stuff)

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Feel free to feedback your thoughts on any of these books.

Happy reading in 2019.