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John Carey's Sunday Best

Beskrivelse: John Carey's 2022 book "Sunday Best" collects eighty book reviews from his career as chief reviewer at the Sunday Times. These are the books reviewed.

Rank Titel Forfatter Tilføjet

1

Sapiens : en kort historie om menneskeheden

af Yuval Noah Harari

12,544 medlemmer

382 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: anglemark, ahef1963

2

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

af Daniel L. Everett

778 medlemmer

32 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: anglemark, ahef1963

3

No Voice from the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper

80 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

2 Members: anglemark, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Den gode Soldat Svejks Eventyr under Verdenskrigen

af Jaroslav Hašek

3,534 medlemmer

62 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

5

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

af Richard Holmes

2,688 medlemmer

62 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: anglemark

6

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2,563 medlemmer

47 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: anglemark

7

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

af Oliver Sacks

2,225 medlemmer

53 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

8

af Richard Wilkinson

1,378 medlemmer

46 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: anglemark

9

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier

af Thad Carhart

1,352 medlemmer

39 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

10

af Alan Bennett

1,193 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

11

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories

af Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

904 medlemmer

11 anmeldelser

½ 4.6

Member: anglemark

12

Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World

af Simon Garfield

867 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: anglemark

13

Shakespeare's Language

af Frank Kermode

656 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

14

af André Comte-Sponville

645 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: anglemark

15

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

639 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

16

Shakespeare's Wife

af Germaine Greer

593 medlemmer

19 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

17

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

557 medlemmer

41 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: anglemark

18

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett

af James Knowlson

444 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: anglemark

19

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

af Stephen Greenblatt

436 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: anglemark

20

af Virginia Nicholson

411 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: anglemark

21

Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense

af Francis Spufford

399 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

22

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

af Charles King

380 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: anglemark

23

The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

af Michael Frayn

345 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

3.2

Member: anglemark

24

The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

af Patrick French

305 medlemmer

10 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: anglemark

25

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

af Deborah Harkness

273 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

26

Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral

262 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: anglemark

27

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

af Adrian Desmond

232 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

Member: anglemark

28

Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England

225 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: anglemark

29

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

af Andrew Scull

211 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

30

Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury

202 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

31

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

af Judith Flanders

187 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

32

af Fiona MacCarthy

182 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: anglemark

33

Faulks on Fiction: The Secret Life of the Novel

af Sebastian Faulks

161 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

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34

Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears

154 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

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35

Laughter: A Scientific Investigation

af Robert R. Provine

145 medlemmer

3.2

Member: anglemark

36

Samuel Beckett: the last modernist

af Anthony Cronin

137 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.9

Member: anglemark

37

The Mediterranean in History

af David Abulafia

128 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

38

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome

af Roland Chambers

121 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: anglemark

39

Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales

af Horatio Clare

113 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: anglemark

40

Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared

af Andrew Brown

110 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

41

Alamein to Zem Zem

af Keith Douglas

107 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: anglemark

42

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge

af Miranda Seymour

96 medlemmer

½ 4.4

Member: anglemark

43

Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

af Robert Gottlieb

96 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: anglemark

44

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2: 1956-1963

af Sylvia Plath

95 medlemmer

5

Member: anglemark

45

Grayson Perry: portrait of the artist as a young girl

91 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.3

Member: anglemark

46

af Rosemary Hill

88 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: anglemark

47

A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

af Kate Colquhoun

83 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4.2

Member: anglemark

48

Feast: Why Humans Share Food

af Martin Jones

83 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.3

Member: anglemark

49

af Mark Haskell Smith

77 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

50

Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin

af Pierre Assouline

61 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

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51

Leadville: A Biography of the A40

af Edward Platt

53 medlemmer

4.1

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52

The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time

af Joseph Mazur

51 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.3

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53

A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

50 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: anglemark

54

Bertie, May and Mrs Fish: Country Memories of Wartime

af Xandra Bingley

45 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

55

Robert Graves and the White Goddess: 1940-1985

af Richard Perceval Graves

40 medlemmer

4

Member: anglemark

56

af Miriam Darlington

40 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

57

The Science of Love and Betrayal

af Robin Dunbar

40 medlemmer

½ 2.3

Member: anglemark

58

af Alan Macfarlane

38 medlemmer

3.1

Member: anglemark

59

Orchard : A year in England's Eden

af Benedict Macdonald

37 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

60

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

af Michael Bundock

35 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

61

The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946

29 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: anglemark

62

Swimming with my father

28 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 4.3

Member: anglemark

63

Vauxhall Gardens: A History (Studies in British Art)

af David E. Coke

27 medlemmer

5

Member: anglemark

64

The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus

27 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

2.8

Member: anglemark

65

Betjeman: The Bonus of Laughter

af Bevis Hillier

26 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3

Member: anglemark

66

You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old

af Lewis Wolpert

26 medlemmer

Member: anglemark

67

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History

af Francis O'Gorman

25 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

68

Ahead of the Class

af Marie Stubbs

22 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: anglemark

69

Furious Interiors: Wales, R S Thomas and God

af Justin Wintle

21 medlemmer

4

Member: anglemark

70

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters

af Leslie Mitchell

20 medlemmer

3

Member: anglemark

71

af Tom Maschler

19 medlemmer

2

Member: anglemark

72

Eileen: The Making of George Orwell

14 medlemmer

4

Member: anglemark

73

The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: The Story of World War Two's 'Dig for Victory' Campaign

af Daniel Smith

13 medlemmer

4

Member: anglemark

74

Gypsies : an English history

af David Cressy

11 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: anglemark

75

af Peter Vansittart

11 medlemmer

3.1

Member: anglemark

76

The Short Sharp Life of T.E.Hulme

af Robert Ferguson

10 medlemmer

Member: anglemark

77

The Letters of Charles Dickens: The Pilgrim Edition Volume 8: 1856-1858

af Charles Dickens

7 medlemmer

5

Member: anglemark

78

Vegetable Gardening

7 medlemmer

Member: anglemark

79

IQ: The Brilliant Idea That Failed

af Stephen Murdoch

6 medlemmer

4

Member: anglemark

80

Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War

af Ronald Blythe

6 medlemmer

Member: anglemark

81

Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry

af Robert Graves

3 medlemmer

Member: anglemark

82

af Derek Malcolm

1 medlem

Member: anglemark

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marts 2023
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