Books of the Year
Book Shambles
It’s our annual books of the year edition of Book Shambles recorded with various guests back stage at the Compendium and Nine Lessons shows. In this year’s edition Robin chats to Josie Long, Michael Legge, Pete Etchells, Claudia Hammond, Gecko, Chris Lintott, Chris Hadfield, Jo Neary, Suzi Gage, Lucie Green, Ben Moor, Tim Peake, Lucy Rogers, Peter Buckley Hill and Trent Burton.
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Reading List
Robin Ince recommends:
Notes From An Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell
Lost in a Good Game by Pete Etchells
McMindfulness by Ronald E. Purser
Animal by Sara Pascoe
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Crowd and the Cosmos by Chris Lintott
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
Say Why to Drugs by Suzi Gage
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll
Only Americans Burn in Hell by Jarret Kopek
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Josie Long recommends:
The poetry of Crispin Best
The Wall by John Lanchester
Michael Legge recommends:
The Hate Poems by John Tottenham
Shout, Sister, Shout! by Gayle Wald
Face It by Debbie Harry
Pete Etchells recommends:
The Art of Rest by Claudia Hammond
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Claudia Hammond recommends:
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
To Be a Machine by Mark O’Connell
Gecko recommends:
Sex, Power, Money by Sara Pascoe
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Chris Lintott recommends:
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Green Earth by Kim Stanley Robinson
Chris Hadfield recommends:
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Jo Neary recommends:
The work of Daphne du Maurier
The work of John Higgs
William Blake Now by John Higgs
The Future is History by Masha Gessen
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
Suzi Gage recommends:
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez
The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla
Women of Substances by Jenny Valentish
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
Cala by Laura Legge
Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Lucie Green recommends:
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Ben Moor recommends:
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
March of the Lemmings by Stewart Lee
Episodes by Christopher Priest
The Separation by by Christopher Priest
Powers of Ten by Jonathon Hickman
House of X by Jonathon Hickman
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
The short stories of Joanna Walsh
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Driftless Area by Tom Drury
You’re on an Airplane by Parker Posey
I Don’t Know What You Know Me From by Judy Greer
Shopfronts of London by Eleanor Crow
Lanny by Max Porter
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Tim Peake recommends:
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Lucy Rogers recommends:
Forever Completely by JJ Patrick
Peter Buckley Hill recommends:
The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent
Melinda Burton recommends:
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Others edited by Charles Fernyhough
Trent Burton recommends:
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
Mouthful of Blood by Toni Morrison
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