I was asked about my favourite books recently and rattled off a bunch of these - I’ve given it a little more thought and here’s my current list of decent reads to recommend:

  1. Neal Stephenson - Anathem
  2. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
  3. Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
  4. Neal Stephenson - Seveneves
  5. Bryan Lee O’Malley - Scott Pilgrim
  6. Iain Banks - The Bridge
  7. Doctorow - Walkaways
  8. Robert Macfarlane - The Old Ways
  9. Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian
  10. Italo Calvino - If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
  11. Joe Sacco - Safe Area Gorazde
  12. Maurice Leblanc - Arsene Lupin
  13. Ada Palmer - Too like the lightning
  14. Neal Stephenson - REAMDE
  15. Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebas
  16. G.W.Dahlquist - Glass Book of the Dream Eaters
  17. Bill Bryson - Short History of Nearly Everything
  18. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
  19. Charles Stross - Glasshouse
  20. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

When I think of others I’ll try to remember to pop them here!