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Every Man For Himself And God Against All

By Warner Herzog

4 stars

Herzog is such an original and his films so vividly conceived that it is only natural that his memoir is such an enigmatic series of anecdotes spanning his childhood in Nazi Germany, through his many scrapes with death, to his current standing as an international treasure.
Playground

By Richard Powers

5 stars

After Overstory, Bewilderment,and now Playground, I think Powers might be my favorite author. Through vividly drawn central characters Powers let's you into new and astonishing worlds.
Rogues: True stories of drifters, killers, rebels and crooks

By Patrick Radden Keefe

4 stars

A collection of Keefe's best long-form stories from his time at New Yorker magazine, this book shows his incredible nose for a story and his integrity as a journalist. Whilst it's not as mind blowing as Say Nothing or Empire Of Pain, it's still a quality piece of non-fiction.
11.22.63

By Stephen King

5 stars

I've been reading Stephen King for 30 years and this has instantly jumped into my top 5 of his books. More a thriller than a horror, but has moments of shocking violence but also a thoughtful meditation on the underbelly of post-war America in the lead up to the assassination of JFK.
I Was A Teenage Slasher

By Stephen Graham Jones

4 stars

Both a deconstruction and a celebration of the '80's slasher film, this book takes a humorous, though often violent, peak behind the mask of a Jason Voorhees-style killer. As with those stories, the supporting characters are pretty thinly drawn, but the two leads are compelling and their relationship evokes those high school friendships that seemed like they would last forever.
The Grimmelings

By Rachel King

4 stars

Great YA story that blends compelling domestic drama with Celtic fantasy aspects, all set in NZ's South Island. I read it to my daughters and they loved it.
There Are Rivers In The Sky

By Elif Shafak

5 stars

Does for water what Overstory did for trees.
Nuclear War: A Scenario

By Annie Jacobsen

5 stars

The scariest book I've ever read.

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