My book list

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I have been keeping a book list for the last 2 years. Unfortunately, my laptop crashed so lost the one from last year. Advise to all: back up your data, it hurts when you lose it!

These are the books I read so far this year.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Man Who Mistook his wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

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An Utterly Impartial Histroy of Britain (or 2000 years of upper class idiots in charge) - John O'Farrell

This is a really good book if you are interested in history. The author describes events in a funny way and before you know you have finished the book eventhough it has about 500 pages:)

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The Invisible Century, Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes - Richard Panek

Number of Pages: 207

This book describes the story of the scientific revolution. The book is good in general.

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The Return of History and the End of Dreams - Robert Kagan

This is an excellent book giving snapshots of international relations.

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Electric Universe - How electricity switched on the modern world - David Bodanis

Number of Pages: 239

This is a very good book that is easy to read and enables you to learn lots of new facts related to the history of electricity and various inventors.

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The Economic Naturalist (Why economics explains almost evrything) - Robert H Frank

Number of pages: 217

This is a brilliant booked packed with useful information about basic things you never thought of.

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The books below are the ones I read so far in 2009:

1. Arnold Schwarzenegger - The New Encyclopedia of Moder Bodybuilding

Number of pages: 790

This is a great book with advise on exercises, workouts and nutrition. Highly recommended!


2. Ian Fleming - Thunderball

Number of pages: 336

I enjoyed reading this book after seeing so many of the J. Bond films.

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3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

This book was very interesting, managed to read it in 4 days.

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4. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

I still have 2 more of the latest Discworld books to read.

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5.Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka

6. How to Read Darwin by Mark Ridley

7. Origin of Species by Darwin

8. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

9. Thunderball by Ian Fleming

10. Chocolat by Joanne Harris

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11. Bill Bryson - Shakespeare

Very enjoyable and easy to read.

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12. Terry Pratchett - Thud

Funny read.