My 6 months in books… H2 2021
2 min readDec 7, 2021
My previous book blogs are here.
Please throw recommendations at me (@tim_dempsey)…
Books I’d strongly recommend (in no order):
- Coffeeland: A History
Augustine Sedgewick - The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Stephen Greenblatt - Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Simon Winchester - Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite
Andrew Jenkinson - When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour
Paul Dix
Others I read and enjoyed:
- Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism
Giles Fraser - Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they do for us
Pete Etchells - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
Jason Schreier - Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
Richard H. Thaler - War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Margaret MacMillan - St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle
Karen Armstrong - Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought
Joshua A. Berman - The Ravine: A family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed
Wendy Lower - The Democracy of Species: Penguin Green Ideas
Robin Wall Kimmerer - Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain
Ed Husain - FTSE: The inside story of the deals, dramas and politics that revolutionized financial markets
Mark Makepeace - Bootstrap Your Life: How to turn £500 into £350 million
Oli Cookson
Books I wouldn’t recommend so highly:
- The The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind
Nick Chater - Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
Daniel Lieberman - Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty & Law
Jeffrey Rosen - Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Anja Shortland - Those Who Forget: One Family’s Story; A Memoir; a History; a Warning
Géraldine Schwarz
Books I wouldn’t recommend at all:
- Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect
Noreena Hertz