Web-log book reviews (non-fiction)
This is an index page for the web-log reviews
I've written of non-fiction. Sometimes the “reviews”
linked to are a bit terse, and more can be garnered by reading up the
page to see if I've written anything in the various “Still
reading:” entries from before the final summing up.
Check the date at the bottom of the page to see when it was last
updated.
All reviews |
Fiction only index
By author
- Karen Armstrong, The battle for
God.
- Jane Austen, Complete letters.
- Frederick Bailey, Mission to
Tashkent.
- Anne Pimlott Baker, Beethoven.
- Felix Barker and Peter Jackson, The history of London in
maps.
- Geoffrey Barraclough, The crucible of
Europe.
- John Baxter, A pound of
paper.
- Antony Beevor, Berlin.
- Antony Beevor, Stalingrad.
- David Berlinski, A tour of the
calculus.
- Boethius, The
consolation of philosophy.
- Anthony Bourdain, A cook's
tour.
- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen
confidential.
- Bill Bryson, A
walk in the woods.
- John Byng, Rides round
Britain.
- Italo Calvino, Why read the
classics?
- Kenneth Clark, Civilisation.
- Joseph Conrad, The
mirror of the sea.
- Joseph Conrad, A
personal record.
- Kaz Cooke, Up the
duff.
- Charles Darwin, The
voyage of the Beagle.
- Terrence Deacon, The symbolic
species.
- Daniel Dennett, Darwin’s
dangerous idea.
- Daniel Dennett, Freedom
evolves.
- Jared Diamond, The rise and fall of the
third chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human
animal.
- George Dyson, Darwin among the
machines.
- Jason Elliot, An unexpected light:
travels in Afghanistan.
- Geoffrey Elton, England under the
Tudors.
- Anne Fadiman, Ex
Libris.
- Tim Flannery, The eternal frontier: an
ecological history of North America and its peoples.
- Karl Fogel, Open source development
with CVS.
- John Fothergill, An innkeeper's
diary.
- Robert L. Glass, Software
runaways.
- Stephen Jay Gould, Eight little piggies:
reflections in natural history.
- Dominic Green, The double life of
Dr. Lopez.
- Daniel Hahn, The Tower
Menagerie.
- Brian Hall, Madeleine’s
world.
- Alexandra Hasluck, Georgiana Molloy: portrait with
background.
- Paul Hoffman, The
man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdös and the
search for mathematical truth.
- Erich Hoyt, Earth dwellers:
adventures in the land of ants.
- Roger Hudson, London:
portrait of a city.
- Robert Hughes, Shock of the
new.
- J. Huizinga, The waning of the
Middle Ages.
- Jane Hutcheon, From rice to riches: a
personal journey through a changing China.
- Roy Jenkins, Gladstone.
- John Keay, The
great arc.
- Michael King, The
Penguin History of New Zealand.
- Philip Knightley, Australia: biography of a
nation.
- David Landes, The wealth and poverty
of nations.
- Philip Lieberman, Eve spoke: human language and
human evolution.
- Mary S. Lovell, The Mitford girls: the
biography of an extraodinary family.
- Alister McGrath, In the beginning: the
story of the King James Bible.
- Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: the
dark lady of DNA.
- Leo Marks, Between silk and
cyanide.
- Ben Mezrich, Bringing down the
house: the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for
millions.
- Mary Mitford, Our
village.
- H. St. L. B. Moss, The birth of the Middle
Ages.
- John H. Mundy, Europe in the High Middle
Ages, 1150–1309.
- Sylvia Nasar, A beautiful
mind.
- Eric Newby, The last grain
race.
- Jeremy Paxman, The
English.
- Henry Petroski, Invention by
design.
- Karl Popper, The open society and its
enemies.
- Signalling from Mars:
the letters of Arthur Ransome, selected and introduced by
Hugh Brogan.
- Matt Ridley, Genome.
- Oliver Sacks, Uncle
Tungsten.
- Paul Samuelson, Economics.
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Enigma: the battle for
the code.
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: the court of the red
tsar.
- Simon Singh, The
code book.
- Carl V. Smith, From N to Z.
- R. W. Southern, The making of the
Middle Ages.
- W. Stanley Moss, Ill met by
moonlight.
- Ian Stewart, Flatterland: like
Flatland only more so.
- Ian Stewart, Math hysteria: fun and
games with mathematics.
- Jan Swafford, Johannes Brahms.
- The
assassin’s cloak: an anthology of the world’s greatest
diarists, edited by Irene and Alan Taylor.
- Michael Thomsett, Getting started with
options.
- Claire Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: the unequalled
self.
- G. M. Trevelyan, England under the
Stuarts.
- Solomon Volkov, Shostakovich and
Stalin.
- Edmund White, The
flâneur.
- Peter Whitfield, Mapping the world: a
history of exploration.
- George C. Williams, Plan and
purpose in nature.
- A. N. Wilson, The
Victorians.
- Simon Winchester, The meaning of
everything.
