‘Friends’ always ask me for book recommendations as if they are going to read; and I always struggle to give them one as if I’m responsible for their time. Unless you read for a living, you are never going to be reading enough yourself and what little you are reading is likely to be personalized to your individual needs and sensibilities and wont. Then how to recommend a book to (for all practical purposes) a stranger on the internet? You could resort to popular authors like Keigo Higashino or Bill Bryson or Zadie Smith but you risk needless judgment for the books you recommend.
That is the risk I’m taking with this post. Like they do in Cricket, I’m going to pick a team of 11 ‘recommendable’ books (from about fifty I read in 2017) to any stranger on the internet who happened to be on my blog when they could be elsewhere.
Honorable mention (or the 12th man): What If? – Randal Munroe (Pop Science)
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After prolonged use of social media where you snark away in limited number of characters all the time, there comes a point when you wonder if your brain has reconfigured itself to think in status messages. This blog is an attempt to express thoughts in words, unmindful of character limits.
I can’t read more than fifty books in 2018, but I’m hoping to write more than thirty posts.
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