Last years read, this years reading.

I read a bunch of books last year (above are some pictured) so thought I'd pop a post up recommending some.

The complete list of books I read last year looks like this:

• The Primal Blueprint - Mark Sisson
• The Diet Delusion (or Good Calorie, Bad Calorie if your not in the UK) - Gary Taubes
• The Vegetarian Myth - Lierre Keith
• An Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Ayn Rand & Leonard Peikoff
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
• Why Does E=mc2 - Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
• Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nicholas N. Taleb
• Moment Arm Exercise - Bill DeSimone
• The Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss
• Gotrek & Felix 3rd Omnibus - William King & Nathan Long
• The Killing Ground - Graham McNeil
• Horus Rising - Dan Abnett

Additionally Xmas just passed and ended with me getting loads of books as gifts ,and also money gifted which I subsequently spent on books. As you can see from the following picture, I've my work cut out for me this year with reading.

I always like to have 3 books open at any one time.

• One non-fiction book to expand my knowledge of the topics I am interested in.


• One fiction book which I like to read before retiring to bed, hopefully relaxing in the process.


• An additional book which for use of a better word I term my 'poo' book. Apologies but it's a true label. Not because the book is bad in anyway. I always like to have a book which I can pick up, read a few pages, then put it down and pick up another time without having to remember whats happened previously. So the perfect time for this book is whilst relieving myself.

This xmas I gained the following non-fiction books.

• The 4 Hour Body - Tim Ferriss

• Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, Survival - T.S. Wiley

• The Vitamin D Solution - Michael Hollick

• The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain

• The Paleo Solution - Robb Wolf

• Omnivores Dilema: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan

• The Great Cholesterol Con - Malcom Kendrick

• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - Weston A. Price

• Born to Run - Christopher McDougall

• The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton

• The Plan: 12 Months to Renew Britain - Douglas Carswell & Daniel Hannan

• The Revolution: A Manifesto - Ron Paul

• Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects - Dmitry Orlov

• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Life, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

• Boost Your Confidence with NLP - Ian McDermott

• The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle

• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

• The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

• A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen
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• Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

• Endgame: The Problem of Civilization V1 - Derrick Jensen

• Endgame: Resistance V2 - Derrick Jensen

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive - Jared Diamond

• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand

• The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand

• The Romantic Manifesto - Ayn Rand

I gained the following fictional books.

• Under the Dome - Stephen King
• Christine - Stephen King
• The Dark Half - Stephen King
• Misery - Stephen King
• It - Stephen King
• Eisenhorn Trilogy - Dan Abnett

And these are my current 'poo' books.

• In Arthurs Shadow - Gary Bannister
• The Atheists Guide to Xmas
• Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze

Gonna be a good year of reading.......