A list of the 13 books read by me during 2005.
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
by R D Keynes
A complete transcript of Darwin's Beagle Journal.
Evolution's Captain
by Peter Nichols
Biography of the captain of HMS Beagle.
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson
Historical page-turner.
The da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
International bestseller.
Evolution
by Carl Zimmer
An excellent introduction to evolution.
Granta 89: The Factory
by Ian Jack (ed.)
The rise and fall of industry.
The Ancestor's Tale
by Richard Dawkins
Dawkins's lavishly illustrated magnum opus-cum-coffee table book.
Darwin and the Barnacle
by Rebecca Stott
Charles Darwin's eight-year barnacle odyssey.
Granta 90: Country Life
by Ian Jack (ed.)
Great collection of writing, loosely themed on the countryside.
Don't You Have Time to Think?
by Richard P Feynman
The Correspondence of physicist, Nobel laureate and bongo player, Richard Feynman.
Trawler
by Redmond O'Hanlon
How to go mad on a boat.
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here
by Ian Jack (ed.)
Collection of excellent writing on no particular theme.
Granta 92: The View from Africa
by Ian Jack (ed.)
Collection of writing mostly about Africa.