Books & Posts by Category

Lionheart

Plantagenets
Sharon Kay Penman 2011 Finished reading around April 15, 2021

Templar Silks

William Marshal
Elizabeth Chadwick 2018 Finished reading around January 2, 2021

Young Bloods

Revolution,
Simon Scarrow 2006 Finished reading around November 20, 2020

The Pillars of the Earth

Kingsbridge,
Ken Follett 1989 Finished reading around September 21, 2020

Heresy

Giordano Bruno,
S.J. Parris 2010 Finished reading around July 24, 2020

Clash of Empires

Clash of Empires
Ben Kane 2018 Finished reading around July 1, 2020

Transcription

Kate Atkinson 2018 Finished reading around June 4, 2020

The Other Queen

Philippa Gregory 2008 Finished reading around May 27, 2020

Imperium - A Novel of Ancient Rome

Cicero, 1
Robert Harris 2006 Finished reading around May 11, 2020

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel 2009 Finished reading around April 21, 2020

Lancelot

The Arthurian Tales,
Giles Kristian 2018 Finished reading around March 2, 2020

The Autobiography of Henry VIII

With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Margaret George 1986 Finished reading around February 19, 2020

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz,
Heather Morris 2018 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller 2011 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Read again!

The Nuremberg Enigma

Yves Bonavero Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Lost Book of the Grail

Charlie Lovett 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Liberation

Kate Furnivall 2016 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Falcon of Sparta

Conn Iggulden 2018 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Confessions of Young Nero

Nero,
Margaret George 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Munich

Robert Harris 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

In The Name of the Family

Sarah Dunant 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Il giuramento

Il mio nome è Nessuno,
Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2012 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Fire

C.C. Humphreys 2016 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Crusader Gold

Jack Howard Series Book 2
David Gibbins 2006 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Conclave

Robert Harris 2016 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

An Eagle in the Snow

Michael Morpurgo 2015 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Dictator

Cicero,
Robert Harris 2015 Finished reading around April 8, 2016

The Last Queen of England

Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery,
Steve Robinson 2012 Finished reading around December 25, 2015

The Winter King

The Warlord Chronicles
Bernard Cornwell 1995 Finished reading around April 25, 2015

Brothers in Blood

Eagle,
Simon Scarrow 2014 Finished reading around April 25, 2015

The Da Vinci Code

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2003 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Lultima legione

Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2002 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

1984

George Orwell 1949 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Artificial Intelligence

A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell 2019 Finished reading around October 3, 2021

Just right

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel Dennett 1995 Finished reading around September 7, 2021

A monumental book. Very dense, very challenging, but really worth the effort.

The Man Who Changed Everything

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
Basil Mahon 2003 Finished reading around September 7, 2021

Dry and factual Biography of one of the greatest minds of 19th century.

How to Count to Infinity

Marcus Du Sautoy 2017 Finished reading around September 5, 2021

Tiny fun book to read while waiting for lunch to be ready, in one go.

The Future of the Mind

The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind
Michio Kaku 2014 Finished reading around September 3, 2021

Remarkable yes, great not sure. Let us say interesting…

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli 2015 Finished reading around August 30, 2021

Nice little book for a quiet evening

The First Three Minutes

A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe - Updated Edition 1993
Steven Weinberg 1977 Finished reading around August 27, 2021

Seminal book. Seemingly comfortable book to read, it was instead very challenging and to the limit of my understanding given the implied maths knowledge

The Physics of Star Trek

with a foreword by Stephen Hawking
Lawrence Krauss 1996 Finished reading around August 11, 2021

When it all fits together… pt. 2

Elastic

The power of flexible thinking
Leonard Mlodinow 2019 Finished reading around August 5, 2021

When I read it Early august 2021 (still going at the time of writing).

Fermat’s Last Theorem

The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
Simon Singh 2011 Finished reading around July 25, 2021

Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos ejusdem nom...

The Brain

The story of you
David Eagleman 2016 Finished reading around July 21, 2021

We think color as a fundamental quality of the world around us. But in the outside world, color does not actually exists.

Infinite Powers

The story of Calculus, the language of the Universe
Steven Strogatz 2019 Finished reading around July 12, 2021

I wonder why I am knowing about this stuff only now!

The Selfish Gene

40th Anniversary Edition (2016)
Richard Dawkins 1976 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

When I read it I chose not to read this book all at once, but instead looking at specific things at specific times. It was between 2019-21.

Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman 1985 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

When I read it June 2021. Part and first of the biographies I intended to read. Is this really a biography?

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku 2008 Finished reading around June 3, 2021

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark 2014 Finished reading around May 30, 2021

Interesting read.

The World According to Physics

Jim Al-Khalili 2020 Finished reading around May 9, 2021

I love Jim!

Physics and Philosophy

The Revolution in Modern Science
Werner Heisenberg 1958 Finished reading around April 24, 2021

Cosmos

Carl Sagan 1980 Finished reading around April 15, 2021

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking 1988 Finished reading around February 8, 2021

Flatland

A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott 1884 Finished reading around January 26, 2021

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle 1957 Finished reading around January 13, 2021

The Darkening Age

The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
Catherine Nixey 2017 Finished reading around March 30, 2020

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

A Trilogy in Five Parts
Douglas Adams 1979 Finished reading around March 23, 2020

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman 2011 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Universe in Your Hand

A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
Christophe Galfard 2015 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins 2006 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Talking to My Daughter

A Brief History of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis 2013 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde 1890 Finished reading around March 23, 2020

The Sentence is Death

Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery,
Anthony Horowitz 2018 Finished reading around March 15, 2020

The Templar Heresy

Chris Bronson
James Becker 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Lost Island

Gideon Crew
Douglas Preston 2014 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Lost Book of the Grail

Charlie Lovett 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Origin

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Inferno

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2013 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

I See You

Clare Mackintosh 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Head of State

The Bestselling Brexit Thriller
Andrew Marr 2014 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Fools and Mortals

Bernard Cornwell 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Digital Fortress

Dan Brown 1998 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Crusader Gold

Jack Howard Series Book 2
David Gibbins 2006 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Angels & Demons

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2000 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Ready Player One

Ready Player One,
Ernest Cline 2011 Finished reading around April 13, 2016

The Red House

Mark Haddon 2012 Finished reading around January 20, 2016

The Strain

The Strain Trilogy,
Guillermo del Toro 2009 Finished reading around November 13, 2015

The Second Coming

John Niven 2011 Finished reading around November 13, 2015

The Fifth Gospel

Ian Caldwell 2015 Finished reading around October 7, 2015

The Man Who Forgot His Wife

John O'Farrell 2012 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

The Da Vinci Code

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2003 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Inferno

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2013 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Capital

John Lanchester 2012 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Angels & Demons

Robert Langdon,
Dan Brown 2000 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

1984

George Orwell 1949 Finished reading around February 8, 2015

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn 2012 Finished reading around February 1, 2013

The Strangest Man

The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Graham Farmelo 2009 Finished reading around October 12, 2021

Beautiful account

The Man Who Changed Everything

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
Basil Mahon 2003 Finished reading around September 7, 2021

Dry and factual Biography of one of the greatest minds of 19th century.

Surely Youre Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman 1985 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

When I read it June 2021. Part and first of the biographies I intended to read. Is this really a biography?

Just for Fun

The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds 2001 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

I, Woz

Steve Wozniak 2006 Finished reading around May 16, 2020

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson 2011 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle 1957 Finished reading around January 13, 2021

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

A Trilogy in Five Parts
Douglas Adams 1979 Finished reading around March 23, 2020

Arrival

Ryk Brown 2016 Finished reading around January 6, 2017

Ready Player One

Ready Player One,
Ernest Cline 2011 Finished reading around April 13, 2016

The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla 2016 Finished reading around July 27, 2020

WTF?

Robert Peston 2017 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Talking to My Daughter

A Brief History of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis 2013 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

Head of State

The Bestselling Brexit Thriller
Andrew Marr 2014 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Geek Leaders Handbook

Essential Leadership Insight for People with Technical Backgrounds
Paul Glen 2014 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

Just for Fun

The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Linus Torvalds 2001 Finished reading around June 25, 2021

I, Woz

Steve Wozniak 2006 Finished reading around May 16, 2020

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel Dennett 1995 Finished reading around September 7, 2021

A monumental book. Very dense, very challenging, but really worth the effort.

Physics and Philosophy

The Revolution in Modern Science
Werner Heisenberg 1958 Finished reading around April 24, 2021

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion

David Hume 1757 Finished reading around June 29, 2020

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins 2006 Finished reading around February 14, 2020

The Fifth Gospel

Ian Caldwell 2015 Finished reading around October 7, 2015

Hello World

How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hannah Fry 2018 Finished reading around October 5, 2021

Very light…

Artificial Intelligence

A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell 2019 Finished reading around October 3, 2021

Just right

Welcome to Jekyll!

Finished reading around April 18, 2019

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[Post] Goodbye Professor Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (1933 -2021)