Black and British: A Forgotten History
Status:On going Rating:4 Stars Editors Foreword: ‘ comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.’ ...
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin Status:Completed Rating:5 Stars Editors Foreword: A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging ...
The 4-Hour Workweek
By Tim Ferriss Editors Foreword: Forget the old concepts of retirement and a deferred life plan. There is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable ...
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head.
By Dan Harris Status: Completed Reading July 2021 Rating:3 Stars Editors foreword: Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality ...
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Status:An on going read with the audiobook ready for my next long walk. Rating:3.5 Stars – Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas ...
Homo Deus
By Yuval Noah Harari Status:Ongoing – July 2021 Rating:so far 5 Stars Quotes & Highlights Editors Foreword: Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns ...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Harari Editors Foreword: 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed ...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
By Daniel Kahneman Among tn. Status:Completed / Audiobook assisted- While the explanation of the concepts in this book simple, the concepts themselves, did require a huge amount of mental energy. ...
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden Publishers forward: Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his ...
The Gulag Archipelago
By Aleksandr Solženitsõn Status:Ongoing – July 2021 Rating:So far 5 Stars Quotes & Highlights Editors Foreword: THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED ABRIDGEMENT OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOLUMES I, II & III A vast canvas ...
Ride with me Amsterdam
Pick up your bike and explore Amsterdam by Roos Stallinga Status:Completed – more of a reference book Rating:4 Stars Quotes & Highlights
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix.
By Marc Randolph Editors foreword But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair-with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO-founded a company. Now with over 150 million subscribers, ...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By Yval Noah Harari Status:Listened / Completed Rating:5 Stars Editors Foreword: The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins. In 21 bite-sized ...
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
By Greg McKeown Status:Completed Rating:4 Stars Editors Foreword: Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel ...
Around the World in 80 Days
By Michael Palin Status: ListenedCompleted during my first 50km walk of Amsterdam’s A10. Michael’s 80days around the World lasted exactly the same. amount of time. Personal Rating: 5 Stars Quotes ...