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Behemoth: the structure and practice of national socialism by Franz Neumann

Country of the blind by Christopher Brookmyre

Traditions of Edinburgh by Robert Chambers

The warden by Anthony Trollope

Giant Lizards from Another Star by Ken MacLeod

The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow

The city and the stars by Arthur C. Clarke

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About meI work at a small academic library near Oxford. Why I do this, too, is beyond me...

About my libraryI moved to Oxford in early 2006 with a box of forty books; how they grow... The ones listed here are only those I have to hand; the remainder are in storage elsewhere, and not listed.

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Currently readingThe Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon
Are You Ready for the Country? by Peter Doggett
I May be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
The Oxford History of the British Army by David Chandler

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Why I write by George Orwell

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On natural selection by Charles Darwin

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Red moon rising : Sputnik and the rivalries that ignited the space age by Matthew Brzezinski

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The man who ran the moon : James Webb, JFK and the secret history of Project Apollo by Piers Bizony

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Leviathan by Philip Hoare

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Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest by Gerard DeGroot

Great review on Altered Carbon. I just wrote one myself, so it's interesting seeing someone else write one right when I finished the novel.

posted by bardsfingertips at 4:27 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I just saw your little review of the Civil Defense Guidebook, Advising the Householder on Protection against Nuclear Attack. If you don't know it already, you very much must watch Duck and Cover produced by the US Federal Civil Defense Administration. (I couldn't tell if your book was US or UK).

posted by eromsted at 10:08 am (EST) on Jan 18, 2009

It is your fault I have bought a paid membership, after hemming and hawing about it. This now means I have to go catalog the *rest* of my books. Curse you!

posted by mindspillage at 12:15 am (EST) on Feb 27, 2007

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