Books read - Ben Fraser

2024

Last Man Off, Matt Lewis
All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. John Boyne
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton's Endurance. Menson Bound
Holes, Louis Sachar
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II. Stephen Morris
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I. Stephen Morris
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop? Chris Van Tulleken
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor, Eddie Jake
Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Jon Krakaeur

Gene Eating: the story of human appetite, Giles Yeo
The Puppet Show, M W Craven
The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
The Great Bridge, David McCullough
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Adam Hochschild
Congo Journey, Redmond O’Hanlon
True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise, Terence McKenna
Blank on the Map: Pioneering exploration in the Shaksgam valley and Karakoram mountains, Eric Shipton
Between Ape and Human, Gregory Forth
Educated, Tara Westover
Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape, Henry Dimbleby
Children Of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond: The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager. Mark Blake
Work: a history of how we spend our time, James Suzman
Losing It (or How I Fell Off My Bicycle) - Adam Morris

Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Red Notice, Bill Browder
Regenesis, George Monbiot
All Quiet on the Western Front, Vintage Remarque
Citizens, Jon Alexander
The ink that draws the map, Dan Olner
The body keeps the score, Bessel Van Der Kolk
Creativity, the Perfect Crime, Phillips Petit
Sing Backwards and Weep, Mark Lanegan
See a Little Light, Bob Mould autobiography
Devil in Coma, Mark Lannegan
Do What You Want, the story of Bad Religion
Papillon, Henri Charriere
Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit, Matt Brennan
The Dawn of Everything: a new history of humanity, David Wengrow & David Graeber

Those Who Were Dancing, Mark Sleigh
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
Explaining Humans, Camilla Pang
Xavier DuPont De Ligonnes, L’Enquete
Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey
Not in the label: what really goes into our food, Felicity Lawrence
Memoirs of a Geezer, Jah Wobble
Bullet Journal, Ryder Carroll
Football Factory, John King
Epidemics and Society, Frank Snowden
Clouds on Both Sides, Julie Tullis
The Year of the Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
In Search of Tito’s Punks, Barry Phillips
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Entangled Life, How Fungi..., Merlin Sheldrake

Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan
We are the weather, Jonathan Safran Foer
Set the Boy Free: Johnny Marr autobiography
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World, Steve Brusatte
Ruined by Design, Mike Monteiro
The Soloist, Steve Lopez
Stop Selling Music, Damian Keyes
A godawful small affair, J Morrison
Freakonomics, Steven Levitt
Body book, Bill Bryson
Mountain Shadow, Gregory Robert Davies
Sixteen Trees of the Somme, Lara Mytting
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen, Brian Masters
Paris Architect, Charles Belfoure
Obliquity, John Kay
Stories of the Sahara, Sanmao
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya, James Crowden