Books of the Year 2018
Part 2
It’s part two of our multi guest end of year special where we chat to all sorts of performers from our Christmas shows about the best things they read this year. In this all-star special there’s recommendations from Robin Ince, Josie Long, Brian Cox, the Octavia Poetry Collective, Ben Moor, Chris Lintott, Suzi Gage, Suzie Imber, Hannah Fry, Grace Petrie, Matt Parker, Chris Stokes, Dr Karl, Helen Czerski, Kat Arney, Ronnie Le Drew and Melinda Burton!
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Reading List
Robin Ince recommends:
More Trees to Climb by Ben Moor
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
Hello World by Hannah Fry
The work of Andy Stanton
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore
Out in the Open by Javi Rey and Jesús Carrasco
The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells
Josie Long recommends:
The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
Maeve in America by Maeve Higgins
In at the Deep End by Kate Davies
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside by Henry Bradley Bell
I’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince
The work of Michael Rosen
That’s (Not) Mine by Anna Kang
Brian Cox recommends:
General Relativity from A to B by Robert Geroch
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle
Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Sussking and Art Friendman
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Stephen Hawking and George Ellis
Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke
Octavia Poetry Collective recommend:
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Heart of the Race by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Soho by Richard Scott
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
Ben Moor recommends:
Tom King’s Batman comics
Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughn
Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill
How To Invent Everything by Ryan North
Bitter by Francesca Jakobi
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Matt Parker recommends:
How To Invent Everything by Ryan North
The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
Grace Petrie recommends:
I’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince
Things Can Only Get Better by John O’Farrell
Past Mortem by Ben Elton
Chris Stokes recommends:
The work of John Dickson Carr
Murder in the Metro by Gayle K Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite
Suzi Gage recommends:
Blueprint by Lucy Maddox
Suzie Imber recommends:
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Chris Lintott recommends:
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
The Design and Engineering of Curiosity by Emily Lakdawalla
Hannah Fry recommends:
All That Remains by Sue Black
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Choice by Edith Eger
Dr Karl recommends:
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
Fly! by Richard de Crespigny
QF32 by Richard de Crespigny
Kat Arney recommends:
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Helen Czerski recommends:
Chasing the Sun by Linda Geddes
Ronnie Le Drew recommends:
Puppetry: How to Do It by Mervyn Miller
The Horse’s Mouth by Mervyn Miller
Zippy and Me by Ronnie Le Drew and Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi
Melinda recommends:
Be More Pirate by Sam Connie Allende
Supernormal by Meg Jay
Cicada by Shaun Tan
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
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