Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks
The third Culture Novel, wherein the weapon is a not particularly nice person.
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Italy, A Short History – Harry Hearder
A brief history of Italy
Osama – Lavie Tidhar
Did you ever wish Philip K Dick sucked a little less? Well do I have news for you!
A Discourse on the Method – René Descartes
The “Cogito Ergo Sum” book. Is it worth a read now-a-days?
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Second Culture novel was as good as the first
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
To have read this a decade ago…
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The File on H – Ismail Kadare
A funny short novel of the ‘strangers come to town’ variety by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare
Of Solids and Surds – Samuel R. Delany
A book about writing from my favorite writer, written perhaps a little too late in his extraordinary life
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
A fantasy novel set in a fantasy Venice, with what feels like a pretty good feeling for what medieval Venice was like
Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas is the first Culture novel. It seems pretty light on Culture.
Failures in Polymathy 