My top five books read in the last year in no particular order. Please share your top books of the year.
How numbers rule the world by Lorenzo Fioramonti
Statistics are, by definition, static: ‘Things have to keep static if you’re going to count them’, argues David Boyle, fellow at the New Economics Foundation and author of The Tyranny of Numbers: ‘But real life isn’t still.’
A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon
The Time machine by George Orwell
“Simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”
What I believe by Bertrand Russell
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
“There are places where cops are not hated, Captain. But in those places you wouldn’t be a cop.”
Collected Reading 