Book Ratings

An excellent book about sleep, and one of the most useful self-help books I have read.

Epic story of rival palaeontologists digging in the West in 1876, including Deadwood.

An excellent Ludlum spy thriller in the Bourne mould.

Excellent; I preferred it to The Martian. A mission to investigate a threat to the Sun.

An excellent thriller about quantitative trading and machine intelligence.

Wartime codebreaking and a 1990s story about cryptography and digital money.

A classic.

An enjoyable thriller series in the Bourne mould.

A gripping near-future story about climate change.

One of my all-time favourites.

A thriller involving a biological threat. My favourite in the series so far.

The third novel in the Cicero trilogy.

The first novel in the Cicero trilogy.

The second novel in the Cicero trilogy.

A senior North Korean official's account of escaping the country.

Ransomware in WoW leads to an international spy buddy adventure.

A Northerner fighting for the South in the American Civil War. Classic Cornwell.

Very enjoyable. People begin losing their shadows and their memories.

A very interesting post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel, first published in 1951.

Decent books, though I preferred the TV adaptation.

A book I thought made its points very well.

An ambitious vision of the future and how it might be built. I thought it was excellent.

For breathing, rather as Why We Sleep is for sleep.

An alternative history in which the Roman Empire survives and reaches America.

A classic.

Chaos theory and complex systems, with popcorn and dinosaurs.

Phantom memories make for a top-notch science-fiction thriller.

A great story about a society divided into colour-based castes.

A top-notch Russian spy thriller. The film is good too.

A pretty good cyberpunk thriller involving a virtual world.