From: Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> >To: silklist@lists.hserus.net >Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:00 PM >Subject: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011 > >For the third year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book >recommendation this holiday season. > >What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? >What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/New >Year's holidays?
Delurking to talk about books! It's been a good year, quite a few five star reads. Here's a list of books I enjoyed (most of them on my iPad) this year - most if not all should be should be available in India. All of these are heartily recommended. Non-fiction: · - Deadly Waters: Inside the hidden world of Somalia's pirates, by Jay Bahadur (ebook) · - The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true, by Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean (ebook) · - The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes, by Steven Pinker · - Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, by Norman Davies (ebook) · - Wonders of the Universe, by Brian Cox (ebook) · - The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson (ebook) · - The Life of Cesare Borgia, by Rafael Sabatini (ebook) · - The Last Days of the Incas, by Kim MacQuarrie · - Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10, by Stephen Taylor Fiction · - L'Art Francais de La Guerre, by Alexis Jenni (I don’t think this has an English translation yet) · - The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt (ebook) Comics: · - Batman - The Black Mirror, by Scott Snyder, Jock & Francesco Francavilla (purchased as individual comics, to be published as a collected edition in December) · - Cowboy Ninja Viking Volume 1 &2 by Riley Rossmo and A. J. Lieberman (two separate Trade paperbacks) Audiobooks: - Killing Rommel, by Steven Pressfield, narrated by Alfred Molina - Dark Matter, by Michelle Paver, narrated by Jeremy Northam cheers Divya
