Reading on the Desk of Owen Minns
Being books I've read in the past few years:
- Spook Country, by William Gibson;
- The Book of Proper Names, by Amélie Nothomb (translated by Shaun Whiteside to English from the French);
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J K Rowling;
- Blink and The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell;
- Jurisprudence (2d Ed.), by J G Riddall;
- Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay;
- Law's Empire, by Ronald Dworkin;
- Practical Reasons and Norms, by Joseph Raz;
- The Morality of Law, by Lon L Fuller;
- The Concept of Law (2d Ed.), by H L A Hart;
- Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, by Guy Gavriel Kay (reread);
- The Epic of Gilgamesh: English Version with an introduction by N K Sandars;
- The Law School Book: Succeeding at Law School, by Allan C. Hutchinson;
- The Dragon Prince, by Melanie Rawn (reread);
- The Fionavar Tapestry, by Guy Gavriel Kay (reread);
- Dune, by Frank Herbert (reread);
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C S Lewis (reread);
- The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (reread);
- Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (reread);
- A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright;
- Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven (reread);
- Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson;
- The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner (reread);
- Words and Rules, by Stephen Pinker;
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss;
- The Da Vinci Code and Angel and Demons, by Dan Brown;
- The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman;
- Beowulf, by [Unknown];
- Profit from the Core, by Chris Zook and James Allen;
- Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Winter Holiday and Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (reread);
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson;
- Data Structures & Problem Solving using Java, by Mark Allen Weiss;
- Specifying Software, by R D Tennent;
- Robots and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (reread);
- Robots of Dawn, by Isaac Asimov (reread);
- Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov (reread);
- Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov (reread);
- The Last Light of the Sun, by Guy Gavriel Kay;
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, by A S Byatt;
- The Matisse Stories, by A S Byatt;
- The Little Black Book of Stories, by A S Byatt;
- A Telling of Stars, by Caitlin Sweet;
- What Went Wrong, by Bernard Lewis;
- The Meaning of Everything, by Simon Winchester;
- Concepts of Object-oriented Programming, by David N Smith;
- Adventure Series, by Enid Blyton;
- A New History of England, by Jeremy Black;
- Queen's Quarterly (Volume 110 Number 3);
- Possession, by A S Byatt;
- Count Zero, by William Gibson (reread);
- Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson;
- The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester;
- Lord of Emperors, by Guy Gavriel Kay;
- Sailing to Sarantium, by Guy Gavriel Kay (reread);
- How Nature Works, by Per Bak;
- The Lord of the Rings, by J R R Tolkien;
- The Professional Service Firm 50, by Tom Peters;
- Red Shift and The Owl Service by Alan Garner.
