The first several chapters of the following books will give you the background to my thoughts and the creativity and ideas from which I have stolen. Thank you kindly to every author here and the many I’ve missed so far.
I have not listened to or read all of all of these books and there may be some I haven’t studied at all so far. Others I’ve heard end to end more than once 🙂 Most I have a good idea of. Once I’ve understood the bigger picture for a specialist story, I tend to bounce in and out depending on my mood. I hope to show you the bigger picture in my head. I’m not endorsing anything that’s in any of them, I don’t always agree but I always learn by listening or reading. Some authors I have more than one of their books but haven’t listed them all here.
I love stories and I’m just learning to tell them myself – I’ll have to be having lots of conversations about this stuff (hopefully and for surely while I am on my campaign walk around St Ives) and it’d be really helpful if you found a bit that interests you and ask me all about that please.
They’re in some kind of order. I’d loved to have put them in chronological order but I’m not that organized.
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, Agatha Christie
Charles Eisenstein: Sacred Economics, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible
The Human Cosmos, Jo Marchant
T.S.Eliot
The Curious Case of Benhamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
Seamus Heaney
Reality, Art and Illusion, Alan Watts
Charles Dickens
Astrophysics for People In a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Agatha Raisin, Hamish McBeth and M.C. Beaton
On Anarchism, Noam Chomsky
Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds
Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg
Notes of a Nervous Plane, Matt Haig
I May Be Wrong, B.N. Lindeblad
The Examined Life, Stephen Grosz
The Tyranny of Metrics, Jerry Z. Muller
The Brain, David Eagleman
The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray
The Body in the Library and Murder on the Orient Express
G. K. Chesterton
Epistemology: Bolinda Beginner Guides
Dopamine Nation, Dr Anna Lembke
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
The Green Witch, Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Journey into Space: Operation Luna, Charles Chilton
Soil, Matthew Evans
The New Enclosure, Brett Christophers
Why Does E=MC2 and Why Should We Care
The Wind in the Willows
The Fault in Our Stars, J Green
Making Evil, Dr Julia Shaw
Gut, Giulia Enders
Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols
Cornwall, A History, Philip Payton
Shy, Max Porter
Mental Fitness, Ant Middleton
The Mordern Scholar: Evolutionary Psychology I & II – The Science of Human Nature
Sherlock Holmes
The Molecule of More, D. Lieberman & M. Long
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, Heather Heying
The Social Leap, William von Hippel
Your Brain is a Time Machine, Dean Buonomano
Fermat’s Last Theorem
Lost Connections and Homo Deus, Johann Hari
A Short History of England, Simon Jenkins
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs, Tristan Gooley
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer
Slains Castle’s Secret History, M. Shepherd and D. Striker
Being You, Anil Seth
The Practicing Stoic, Ward Farnsworth
The Trials of Life, David Attenborough
Supernormal, Meg Jay
Grimm Tales for Young and Old
9/11: The Conspiracy Theories, D. Gardner
Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier
Prisoners of Geography, T. Marshall
The Happy Brain, D. Burnett
Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan
It’s All in Your Head, Suzanne O’Sullivan
Yoga of the Subtle Body, Tias Little
Bryant And May on various adventures, Christopher Fowler
The Deep History of Ourselves, Joseph LeDoux
Think Like a Stoic, Massimo Pigliucci
The Secret Teachings of Plants, S. H. Buhner
Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collections
Living Planet, Life on Earth, D. Attenborough ad astra
Ultra-Processed People, Chris van Tulleken
Humankind, Rutger Bregman
The Universe in Your Hand, Christophe Galfard
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
Language and the Mind, Spencer D. Kelly
Selfie, Will Storr
The Panama Papers, Frederik and Bastian Obermaier
Your Dog is Your Mirror, Kevin Behan
Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspectice, Barbara J. King
Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution, Richard Wolfson
The Salt Path and Landlines, Raynor Winn
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Becoming Human, Michael Tomasello
How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini
Digging Up Mother, Doug Stanhope
Jack Reacher, Forever
Bad Science, Ben Goldacre
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Lisa Randall
Animal Societies, Ashley Ward
The God Delusion, The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
How Emotions are Made, L. F. Barrett
The Dawn of Language, Sverker Johansson
Heroes, Stephen Fry
Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched
The Bronte BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Kindred, R. W. Sykes
Organic Gardening: 5 Books in 1
Moral Animal, R. Wright
Complexity, M. M. Waldrop
Welcome to the Universe, M. A. Strauss, J. R. Gott, N. T.
The China Study, T. Colin Campbell
Necessary Illusion, N. Chomsky
The Story of Human Language, J. McWhorter
Food: A Cultural Culinary History, K. Albala
Psychology of Human Behaviour, D. W. Martin
Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life, F. J. Ambrosio
Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said
The Clan of the Cave Bear et al, Jean M. Auel
Harry Potter and Friends
Neurotribes, Steve Silberman
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoyevsky
The Origins of Political Order, F. Fukuyama
The Blank Slate, S. Pinker
The Story of China, M. Wood
The History of Ancient Egypt, Bob Brier
Nautre and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin
The History of the Ancient World, S. W. Bauer
Behave, R. M. Sapolsky
Who Owns England?, G. Shrubsole
Introducing Consciousness, The Open University eBook
The Portable Atheist, C. Hitchens
Psychological Research, Obedience and Ethics, The OU eBook
The Greatest Story Ever Told…So Far, Lawrence M. Krauss
Food is Your Medicine, Dr. Jitendra Arya
Forks Over Knives, Gene Stone
The Autistic Spectrum: from theory to practice, OU
The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, W. H. Davies
Adventures in Edible Plant Foraging, Karen Monger
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, Adam Rutherford
Waking Up, Sam Harris
What’s In A Word, Webb Garrison
Where the Pieces Land, Claire Addington
Remember, Remember, Ed Cooke
Practicing the Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
The Green Witch, Arin Murphy-Hiscock
1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell
Deadliest Enemy, M. Osterholm, M. Oishaker
Post-Truth, How Bullshit Conquered the World, James Ball
It Didn’t Start with You, Mark Wolynn
An Inconvenient Death, Miles Goslett
Food over Medicine, P. Popper and G. Merzer
Atomic Accidents, Jim Mahaffey
Science for Sale, David Lewis
The Sane Society and To Have or To Be, Erich Fromm
Edible Wild Plants for Beginners, Althea Press
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
Extreme Weather, Leanne Annett
Disease and Death, Jonathan Moore
Why is there No God, Armin Navari
Reaching down the Rabbit Hole, Allan Ropper and B.D. Burrell
Christian Nation, Frederic C. Rich
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis
Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, Veronica Roth
Apps I Use:
Merlin Bird ID
Willy Weather
Seek / INaturalist
SkyView
Moon Phase
Outdooractive – any OS will do
Suns’s Path
Compass
Measure
Flight Radar
Marine Traffic
AuroraWatch UK
Pressreader, BorrowBox and Libby – for the Library Access
Thesaurus and Dictionary
Podcasts:
Joe Rogan – every expert on anything but particularly the episode on Cobalt – we cannot make excuses when we know we are contributing to this horror. History tells us so.