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My Eight Best Books of 2023
Here's the best of what I read in 2023. Prior lists: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. Last year, I disrupted and innovated like crazy by…
Mar 4
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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December 2022
My Ten Best Books of 2022
Here's the best of what I read in 2022. New feature klaxon: I’m picking a Book of the Year! It is Mazower’s Dark Continent. Mazower’s devastating review…
Dec 24, 2022
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January 2022
Science Fiction and Fantasy: What’s in a Name?
I’ve always embraced the fact that I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Indeed I believe that some of the best writing of the last three decades…
Jan 9, 2022
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December 2021
My Ten Best Books of 2021
Here's the best of what I read in 2021. And here are links to prior lists: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. This year’s list has a number of books from…
Dec 19, 2021
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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December 2020
My Ten Best Books of 2020
Here's the best of what I read in 2020. This comes after an aborted mid-year decision to do a book of the month — what was I thinking?! Back to the…
Dec 27, 2020
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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September 2020
On Foucault
In my Twitter header is a quote by Michel Foucault, whose influence on me has been substantial. Foucault’s work is so embedded in modern work in the…
Sep 20, 2020
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December 2019
My Ten Best Books of 2019
Here's the best of what I read in 2019. A large proportion of my reading this year consisted of books on climate. These were excluded here for I have…
Dec 26, 2019
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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May 2019
Iain M. Banks and Technology: An Homage
Iain M. Banks died in 2013 and with that came an end to his series of Culture novels. Every few years, I destroy many days and weeks of sleep by…
May 27, 2019
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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December 2018
My Ten Best Books of 2018
Here's the best of what I read in 2018. I set myself an arbitrary count of ten, which forced me to think hard about which books had a meaningful impact…
Dec 26, 2018
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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December 2017
My Best Books of 2017
Here's the best of what I read in 2017. It was as good a year as 2016, if not better. My original shortlist was twice the length and it was very…
Dec 25, 2017
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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October 2017
On Ishiguro
I'd just graduated college when I read The Remains Of The Day. At the time I thought it was the best novel I'd ever read, and while that ranking may…
Oct 6, 2017
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December 2016
My Best Books of 2016
Here’s the best of what I read in 2016. All, to varying degrees, enlightening, entertaining and infuriating. It was tough to winnow down to a short list…
Dec 26, 2016
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