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Eton was entitled to point with pride at both of them, and only had itself to blame if it failed to do so.

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Books 2025

Antimatter Blues, Edward Ashton Mathematica, David Bessis The Gunfighters, Bryan Burrough Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, Michael Caine The Power Broker, Robert A. Caro The Three Coffins, John Dickson Carr Laura, Vera Caspary 4:50 From Paddington, Agatha Christie The ABC Murders, Agatha Christie After the Funeral, Agatha Christie At Bertram’s Hotel, Agatha Christie The Body in the Library, Agatha Christie Cards on the Table, Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery, Agatha Christie The Clocks, Agatha Christie Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie Double Sin and Other Stories, Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember, Agatha Christie Evil Under the Sun, Agatha Christie Hallowe’en Party, Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, Agatha Christie Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie Lord Edgware Dies, Agatha Christie The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, Agatha Christie The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie A Murder is Announced, Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie Nemesis, Agatha Christie One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie Passenger to Frankfurt, Agatha Christie Peril at End House, Agatha Christie A Pocket Full of Rye, Agatha Christie Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie Poirot’s Early Cases, Agatha Christie The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie Sleeping Murder, Agatha Christie They Do It With Mirrors, Agatha Christie Third Girl, Agatha Christie Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Agatha Christie Murder for Christmas, Francis Duncan Why Nothing Works, Marc J. Dunkelman Fry’s Ties, Stephen Fry Economics Without Illusions, Joseph Heath Clown Town, Mick Herron How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler Motherland, Julia Ioffe Infinite Archive, Mur Lafferty Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel Pronoun Trouble, John McWhorter Mundo Mendo, Book One, Luis Mendo Wordslut, Amanda Montell All Souls Lost, Dan Moren Fallen into the Pit, Ellis Peters Clouds of Witness, Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Views the Body, Dorothy L. Sayers Strong Poison, Dorothy L. Sayers Unnatural Death, Dorothy L. Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers The Trading Game, Gary Stevenson A Conventional Boy, Charles Stross Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime, Leonie Swann Big Bad Wool, Leonie Swann Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Full Moon, P. G. Wodehouse A Gentleman of Leisure, P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather, P. G. Wodehouse Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best, P. G. Wodehouse The Luck of the Bodkins, P. G. Wodehouse Pigs Have Wings, P. G. Wodehouse Something New, P. G. Wodehouse Summer Lightning, P. G. Wodehouse Thank You, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime, P. G. Wodehouse Death on Gokumon Island, Seishi Yokomizo The Honjin Murders, Seishi Yokomizo

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i just want to say that all of your stuff is so cool, i just spent a bit reading through your various posts on wolfram and like wow. i need to get on this more. thanks for being cool

Thanks!

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Books 2024

Mickey7, Edward Ashton The Sellout, Paul Beatty The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie The Lies of the Land, Steven Conn Abaddon’s Gate, James S. A. Corey Babylon’s Ashes, James S. A. Corey Caliban’s War, James S. A. Corey Cibola Burn, James S. A. Corey Leviathan Falls, James S. A. Corey Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey Memory’s Legion, James S. A. Corey The Mercy of Gods, James S. A. Corey Nemesis Games, James S. A. Corey Persepolis Rising, James S. A. Corey Tiamat’s Wrath, James S. A. Corey Number Go Up, Zeke Faux How Comics Were Made, Glenn Fleishman Six Centuries of Type & Publishing, Glenn Fleishman Heroes, Stephen Fry Mythos, Stephen Fry The Devil & Sherlock Holmes, David Grann Karla’s Choice, Nick Harkaway Bad Actors, Mick Herron Joe Country, Mick Herron London Rules, Mick Herron The Secret Hours, Mick Herron Slough House, Mick Herron Standing by the Wall, Mick Herron Dust, Hugh Howey Shift, Hugh Howey Veridian Sterling Fakes It, Jennifer Gooch Hummer The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro Flash Boys: Not So Fast, Peter Kovac The MANIAC, Benjamín Labatut Money Men, Dan McCrum Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry The Burglary, Betty Medsger Kissa by Kissa, Craig Mod Things Become Other Things, Craig Mod The Armageddon Protocol, Dan Moren The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa Mina’s Matchbox, Yoko Ogawa Brother Cadfael’s Penance, Ellis Peters The Heretic’s Apprentice, Ellis Peters The Hermit of Eyton Forest, Ellis Peters The Holy Thief, Ellis Peters The Potter’s Field, Ellis Peters A Rare Benedictine, Ellis Peters The Raven of the Foregate, Ellis Peters The Rose Rent, Ellis Peters The Summer of the Danes, Ellis Peters Dissolution, C. J. Sansom A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders Tenth of December: Stories, George Saunders Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott Polostan, Neal Stephenson The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharpe, Leonie Swann The Big Roads, Earl Swift The Secret History, Donna Tartt After World, Debbie Urbanski The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis

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Books 2023

Once upon a time, I kept track of the books I read each year here. That fell by the wayside, but last year I (re)discovered the library, so maybe it’s a good time to re-start the tradition. Yes, I know Goodreads exists, but Amazon already knows enough about me, thank you.

With that preamble, here are the books I completed in 2023:

Bad Blood, John Carreyrou The Club of Queer Trades, G.K. Chesterton Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie The Big Four, Agatha Christie The Thirteen Problems, Agatha Christie Partners in Crime, Agatha Christie Lying for Money, Dan Davies The Tower Treasure, Franklin W. Dixon The Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann The Lost City of Z, David Grann The Wager, David Grann Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway Dead Lions, Mick Herron Real Tigers, Mick Herron Slow Horses, Mick Herron Spook Street, Mick Herron Wool, Hugh Howey Quietly Hostile, Samantha Irby Rogues, Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut Chaos Terminal, Mur Lafferty Station Eternity, Mur Lafferty Going Infinite, Michael Lewis No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood The Aleph Extraction, Dan Moren The Bayern Agenda, Dan Moren The Caledonian Gambit, Dan Moren Homecoming/Pilot Error/Showdown, Dan Moren The Nova Incident, Dan Moren Murder in an Irish Village, Carlene O’Connor Emergent Properties, Aimee Ogden Dead Man’s Ransom, Ellis Peters The Devil’s Novice, Ellis Peters An Excellent Mystery, Ellis Peters The Leper of Saint Giles, Ellis Peters Monk’s Hood, Ellis Peters A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters One Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters Saint Peter’s Fair, Ellis Peters The Sanctuary Sparrow, Ellis Peters The Virgin in the Ice, Ellis Peters Science Fictions, Stuart Ritchie Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher Season of Skulls, Charles Stross The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien System Collapse, Martha Wells Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

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