We all need to keep learning and while I appreciate the enormous amount of online resource, I’m kind of an old-fashioned guy and I do like my books...
Books on notions I don’t understand, books on topics I want to learn more about, books on ideas I disagree with, books on beliefs I share. Books to open my mind, books to have insights on how others think and feel, books to challenge my ideas, books to make me see how complex the world is.
Books to laugh and cry, books to be constantly reminded that two things can be true at the same time. Books to travel far and wide.
Books, to quote Oscar Wilde, to be reminded every single day that “the truth is rarely pure and never simple”. A little sidebar here for my London contacts, the National Theatre production of the Importance of being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa is absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much
Kit Miles
for this beautiful birthday present ??
If you loved, hated or are interested in discussing any of these books, don’t be shy and let’s chat!
- ???? 100 questions sur les chiites et les sunnites – Jean-Pierre Luizard
- ???? Anaximander – Carlo Rovelli
- ???? Autocracy, Inc – Anne Applebaum
- ???? Bad data – Georgina Sturge
- ???? Climate capitalism – Akshat Rathi
- ???? Comment la Palestine fut perdue – Jean-Pierre Filiu
- ???? Doppelganger – Naomi Klein
- ???? Drinking molotov cocktails with Gandhi – Mark Boyle
- ???? Holocaustes – Gilles Kepel
- ???? Invisible women – Caroline Criado Perez
- ???? Justice in times of crisis – Jonathan Sumption
- ???? L’aplatissement de la culture – Olivier Roy
- ???? La clinique de la dignité – Cynthia Fleury
- ???? La révolution obligée – David Dja?z
- ???? La transition énergétique n’aura pas lieu – Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
- ???? La vallée du Silicium – Alain Damasio
- ???? La vie spectrale – Eric Sadin
- ???? La voix et le phénomène – Jacques Derrida
- ???? Le syndrome de la fourmi – Flora Ghebali
- ???? Left is not woke – Susan Neiman
- ???? Les ingénieurs du chaos – Giuliano Da Empoli
- ???? Post growth living – Kate Soper
- ???? Psychologie des minorités actives – Serge Moscovici
- ???? Système de la mode – Roland Barthes
- ???? The deficit myth – Stephanie Kelton
- ???? The digital Republic – Jamie Susskind
- ???? The end of faith – Sam Harris
- ???? The machine age – Robert Skidelsky
- ???? The physics of climate change – Lawrence Krauss
- ???? The women in me - Britney Spears
- ???? Too late to awaken – Slavoj Zizek
- ???? V13 – Emmanuel Carrère
- ???? War – Bob Woodward
- ???? We need new stories - Nesrine Malik
- ???? White holes – Carlo Rovelli
- ???? Ce que je sais de toi – Eric Chacour
- ???? Les Cavaliers – Joseph Kessel
- ???? Chien 51 – Laurent Gaudé?
- ???? Dors ton sommeil de brute -?Carole Martinez
- ???? Fraternité - Luc Dagognet
- ???? Lewis et Iréne – Paul Morand
- ???? On ne se baigne pas dans la Loire – Guillaume Nail
- ???? Profession du père – Sorj Chalandon
- ???? Saint Germain ou la négociation – Francis Walder
- ???? Sarah, Susanne et l’écrivain – Eric Reinhardt
- ???? Veiller sur elle - Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- ???? Entre ciel et terre – Jon Kalman Stefanson
- ???? The leopard – Tomaso Di Lampedusa
- ???? Let the great world spin – Colum McCann
- ???? Spring Snow – Yukio Mishima
- ???? Runaway horses – Yukio Mishima
- ???? Le gout des orties – Junichiro Tanizaki
- ???? Scattered all over the Earth - Yoko Tawada
- ???? The memory police – Yoko Ogawa
- ???? The museum of innocence -Orhan Pahmuk
- ???? Officers and gentlemen – Evelyn Waugh
- ???? Work suspended – Evelyn Waugh
- ???? Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- ???? Foundation and empire – Isaac Asimov
- ???? Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- ???? The ministry for the future – Kim Stanley Robinson
- ???? New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
- ???? The overstory – Richard Powers
- ???? Portnoy's complaint - Philip Roth
- ???? Queer – William S. Burroughs
- ???? Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut?
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1 个月It is very colourful Pierre! Definitely a passion we have in common ?? thanks for reminding how enriching and important it is to read.
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1 个月??I’m kind of an old-fashioned guy and I do like my books?? ahah same here ??♀? et si tu dois nous en recommander 2 ou 3 dans cette liste, lesquels ? (surtout en fiction, en non fiction ma pile est déjà haute!)
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1 个月I love that you love reading so much, it's so you! I will pick my next read in your list, you are always a good advice! Happy new year my dear xxx
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1 个月I'm so jealous you have read so many last year. I just fall asleep...one day I will be able to fi ish a chapter without getting interrupted or falling asleep! Let's catch up soon Pierre Pigeon ...