Guns, Germs and Steel
by Jarrod DiamondTricks of the Mind
by Derren Brown| Author | Series | Title | Genre | rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg | Nightfall | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg | Child of Time | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg | The Bicentennial Man | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Isaac Asimov | Nemesis | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Isaac Asimov | The Complete Robot | |||
| Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason | The Rule of Four | **** | ||
| Iain Banks | A Song of Stone | ??? | 0 stars | |
| Alfred Bester | The Stars My Destination | Sci Fi | **** | |
| Constance Briscoe | Ugly | |||
| Terry Bisson (based on the novel by William Gibson) | Johnny Mnemonic | Movie/Sci-Fi | ||
| Carol Bristow | Central 822 | Factual (Police) | **** | |
| Dan Brown | Digital Fortress | Action/thriller | *** | |
| Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code | Action/thriller | *** | |
| Dan Brown | Angels and Demons | Action/thriller | **** | |
| Dan Brown | Deception Point | Action/thriller | *** | |
| Trudi Canavan | Black Magician Trilogy | The Magician's Guild | ***** | |
| Trudi Canavan | Black Magician Trilogy | The Novice | ***** | |
| Trudi Canavan | Black Magician Trilogy | The High Lord | ***** | |
| Trudi Canavan | Age of the Five | Priestess of the White | Fantasy | *** |
| Trudi Canavan | Age of the Five | Last of the Wilds | Fantasy | *** |
| Trudi Canavan | Age of the Five | Voice of the Gods | Fantasy | *** |
| Agatha Christie | Miss Marple | Hallowe'en Party | Detective | *** |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2001 A Space Odyssey | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2010 Odyssey Two | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Arthur C. Clarke | 2061 Odyssey Three | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Arthur C. Clarke | 3001 The Final Odyssey | Sci-Fiction | ||
| Bernard Cornwell | Grail Quest | The Archer's Tale | Historical | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Grail Quest | Vagabond | Historical (medieval) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | Gallows Thief | Historical | **** | |
| Bernard Cornwell | Stonehenge | Historical | **** | |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Grail Quest | Harlequin | Historical (medieval) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Tiger | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Triumph | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Fortress | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Trafalgar | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Prey | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Rifles | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Eagle | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Gold | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Battle | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Company | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Sword | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Enemy | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Honour | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Regiment | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Siege | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Revenge | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Waterloo | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Sharpe Series | Sharpe's Devil | Historical (military) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Warlord Chronicles | The Winter King | Historical (Arthurian) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Warlord Chronicles | The Enemy of God | Historical (Arthurian) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Warlord Chronicles | Excalibur | Historical (Arthurian) | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell and Susannah Kells | A Crowning Mercy | Historical | ||
| Bernard Cornwell | Alfred the Great | The Last Kingdom | Historical | **** |
| Bernard Cornwell | The Pale Horseman | Historical | ||
| Richard Dawkins | The Blind Watchmaker | Non-fiction (Evolution) | **** | |
| Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | Classic | ||
| David and Leigh Eddings | The Redemption of Althalus | Fantasy | ***** | |
| David Feintuch | The Seafort Saga | Midshipman's Hope | Sci-fantasy | **** |
| David Feintuch | The Seafort Saga | Challengers's Hope | Sci-fantasy | **** |
| David Feintuch | The Seafort Saga | Prisoner's Hope | Sci-fantasy | **** |
| David Feintuch | The Seafort Saga | Fisherman's Hope | Sci-fantasy | **** |
| David Feintuch | The Seafort Saga | Voices of Hope | Sci-fantasy | **** |
| David Feintuch | The Still | Sci-fantasy (medieval) | *** | |
| David Feintuch | Seafort Saga | Children of Hope | Sci-Fi | **** |
| Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurst | The Empire Trilogy | Mistress of the Empire | Fantasy | ***** |
| Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurst | The Empire Trilogy | Servant of the Empire | Fantasy | ***** |
| Raymond E. Feist Janny Wurst | The Empire Trilogy | Daughter of the Empire | Fantasy | **** |
| Raymond E. Feist | Riftwar Saga | Magician | Sci-Fantasy | ***** |
| Raymond E. Feist | Riftwar Saga | Silverthorn | Fantasy | **** |
| Raymond E. Feist | The Riftwar Cycle | A Darkness at Sethanon | Fantasy | ***1/2 |
| Raymond E. Feist | The Riftwar Cycle | Prince of the Blood | Fantasy | **** |
| Raymond E. Feist | Riftwar Cycle | The King's Buccaneer | Fantasy | **** |
| Raymond E. Feist | Faerie Tale | Fantasy/Horror | ***** | |
| Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair | Sci-Lit-fantasy | **** | |
| Jasper Fforde | Lost in a Good Book | Sci-Lit-Fantasy | **** | |
| Jasper Fforde | The Well of Lost Plots | Sci-Lit-Fantasy | **** | |
| C.S. Forrester | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | Historical, Naval | ||
| C.S. Forrester | Lieutenant Hornblower | Historical, Naval | ||
| C.S. Forrester | Hornblower and the Hotspur | Historical, Naval | ||
| C.S. Forrester | Hornblower and the Atropos | Historical, Naval | ||
| C.S. Forrester | The Happy Return | Historical, Naval | ||
| Dick Francis | For Kicks | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Smokescreen | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Slay-ride | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Knock Down | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Banker | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | The Danger | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Proof | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Break In | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Bolt | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Straight | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | To the Hilt | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | 10lb Penalty | Detective | ||
| Dick Francis | Second Wind | Detective | ||
| Stephen Fry | Making History | Sci-fi | ***+1/2 | |
| Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | |||
| Malcolm Gladwell | The Tipping Point | |||
| Philippa Gregory | The Constant Princess | Historical (Tudor) | **** | |
| Philippa Gregory | The Other Boleyn Girl | Historical (Tudor) | ***** | |
| Philippa Gregory | The Boleyn Inheritance | Historical (Tudor) | **** | |
| Philippa Gregory | The Queen's Fool | Historical (Tudor) | ***** | |
| Philippa Gregory | The Virgin's Lover | Historical (Tudor) | ***** | |
| Philippa Gregory | Earthly Joys | Historical (Stewart) | **** | |
| Joe Halderman | The Forever War | Sci Fi | ||
| Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Classic | ||
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbrvilles | Classic | ||
| Thomas Harris | Pompeii | Historical fiction | ||
| Lian Hearn | Tales of the Otori | Heaven's Net is Wide | Historical Fantasy | *** |
| Lian Hearn | Tales of the Otori | Across the Nightingale Floor | Historical Fantasy | *** |
| Lian Hearn | Tales of the Otori | Grass for his Pillow | Historical Fantasy | *** |
| Lian Hearn | Tales of the Otori | Brilliance of the Moon | Historical Fantasy | *** |
| Lian Hearn | Tales of the Otori | The Harsh Cry of the Heron | Historical Fantasy | *** |
| Robert Holdstock | The Merlin Codex | Celtika | ||
| Robert Holdstock | The Merlin Codex | The Iron Grail | Historical Fantasy | |
| Homer | The Iliad | Classic (Greek) | ||
| Douglas Hurd | Vote to kill | Political thriller | *** | |
| Ursula Le Guin | The Dispossessed | Sci-Fi | *** | |
| Stephen Lawhead | Patrick | Historical | ||
| Robert Ludlum | The Hades Factor | Sci-Fi/Thriller | ****1/2 | |
| Williuam R. Maples | Dead men do tell tales | Non-fiction (Forensic Anthropology) | ||
| Takashi Matsuoka | Cloud of Sparrows | Historical/Japanese | ***1/2 | |
| John McLaren | Press Send | sci-fi/thriller | **** | |
| Lois McMaster Bujold | The Curse of Chalion | |||
| Patrick O'Brian | Master and Commander | Historical (Naval) | *** + 1/2 | |
| Ellis Peters | Chronicles of Brother Cadfael | The Rose Rent | Historical, Detective | |
| Ellis Peters | Chronicles of Brother Cadfael | One Corpse too Many | Historical, Detective | |
| Robert Rankin | The Brentford Trilogy | The Antipope | Fantasy-ish | **** |
| Robert Rankin | The Brentford Trilogy | The Brentford Triangle | Fantasy-ish | **** |
| Robert Rankin | The Brentford Trilogy | East of Ealing | Fantasy-ish | ***1/2 |
| Robert Rankin | Brentford Trilogy | The Sprouts of Wrath | Fantasy | **** |
| Robert Rankin | Brentford Trilogy | The Brentford Chainsaw Massacre | Fantasy | **** |
| Robert Rankin | Armageddon Quartet | Armageddon The Musical | Fantasy | *** |
| Robert Rankin | Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls | fantasy-ish | ****+1/2 | |
| Julian Rathbone | Kings of Albion | Historical, Wars of the Roses | ** | |
| Gregory David Roberts | Shantaram | Contemporary novel | ***** | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince | Fantasy | |
| J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Fantasy | |
| Edward Rutherfurd | Sarum | Historical, (ancient-present) | ***** | |
| Edward Rutherfurd | London | Historical, (ancient-present) | **** | |
| Edward Rutherfurd | The Forest | Historical, (ancient-present) | **** | |
| Edward Rutherfurd | Dublin | Historical (ancient-present) | ||
| Simon Scarrow | The Eagle Series | The Eagle's Prophecy | *** | |
| R. Scott Baker | The Darkness that Comes Before | |||
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Play | ||
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Play | ||
| William Shakespeare | King Lear | Play | ||
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | Play | ||
| William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Play | **** | |
| Bob Smith | Hamlet's Dresser | ***** | ||
| Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward | Sci Fantasy | ****1/2 | |
| Michael Marshall Smith | One of Us | Sci Fantasy | **** | |
| Michael Marshall Smith | What you make it | Short Stories | **** | |
| Linus Torvalds | Just for Fun: The story of an accidental revolutionary | |||
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Lord of the Rings | The Two Towers | Fantasy | **** |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Lord of the Rings | The Lord of the Rings | Fantasy | **** |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Lord of the Rings | The Return of the King | Fantasy | *** |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Silmarillion | Fantasy | **** | |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Hobbit | Fantasy | *** | |
| J.R.R. Tolkein | The Unfinished Tales | Fantasy | *** | |
| Sarah Zettel | Camelot's Shadow | Fantasy/Arthurian | **** | |
| Robert Anton Wilson | Illuminatus Trilogy | The Eye in the Pyramid | sci-fi-ish | *** |
| Joan D. Vinge (based on the screenplay by Akiva Goldsman) | Lost in Space | Movie/Sci-Fi | ||
| Elizabeth Chadwick (based on story by Lorne Cameron and David Hoselton and William Nicholson Screenplay by William Nicholson) | First Knight | Movie/Historical (Arthurian) | ||
| Max Allan Collins | CSI: Cold Burn | TV tie-in/Crime | ||
| Max Allan Collins | CSI: Body of Evidence | TV tie-in/Crime | ||
| Max Allan Collins | CSI: Double Dealer | TV tie-in | ||
| Peter David (based on screenplay by Lee Batchler and Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman) | Batman Forever | Movie/Sci-Fiction | ||
| Neal Barrett, Jr (bades on the screenplay by William Wisher and Steven E. de Souza) | Movie/Sci-Fiction | |||
| Dewey Gram (based on a screenplay by David Frazoni and John Logan and William Nicholson. Story by David Franzoni) | Gladiator | Movie/Historical (Roman) | ||
| Simon Green | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Movie/Fantasy | ||
| Robert Tine | Chain Reaction | Movie/Sci-Fiction | ||
| Alan Arnold (based on screenplay by Chris Columbus) | Young Sherlock Holmes | Movies/Fantasy | ||
| Doctor Who | Short trips: Steel skies | TV tie-in/Sci-fi | ||
| Kate Orman | Doctor Who New Adventures | Set Piece | TV tie-in |