Joe Gurr

Books

2024

April
  1. The Dark Cloud - Guillaume Pitron
March
  1. Life Skills for a Broken World - Dr Ahona Guha
  2. Escape From Model Land - Erica Thompson
  3. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
January
  1. The Art of Logic - Eugenia Cheng

2023

December
  1. How to Climb 5.12 - Eric Horst
  2. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
August
  1. x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender - Eugenia Cheng
July
  1. The Cost of Living - Deborah Levy
May
  1. This Book Will Make You Kinder - Henry James Garrett
  2. I Want To Be A Mathematician - Paul Halmos
February
  1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson

2022

October
  1. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
  2. The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide
August
  1. A Mathematician's Survival Guide - Steven G. Krantz
  2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
July
  1. Stoner - John Williams
June
  1. Godel's Proof - Ernest Nagel
May
  1. Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores - Greg Palast
February
  1. The Passionate Programmer - Chad Fowler
January
  1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  2. Climbing Anchors - John Long
  3. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  4. Oddball (Sarah's Scribbles, #4) - Sarah Andersen
  5. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

2021

December
  1. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  2. Freud for Beginners - Richard Appignanesi
November
  1. The Yoga of Max's Discontent - Karan Bajaj
  2. Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography - Hermann Hesse
  3. The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
October
  1. Bad Medicine - Jack Dann
September
  1. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession - Apostolos Doxiadis
  2. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - Richard Hamming
  3. The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
  4. Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse
June
  1. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  2. Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
May
  1. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey - Ernesto Che Guevara
April
  1. The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet - Noam Chomsky
  2. Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  3. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
  4. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker
  5. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
  6. Windfall: Unlocking a fossil free future - Ketan Joshi
March
  1. The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic - Ginger Strand
  2. We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  3. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
February
  1. Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
January
  1. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2) - Robert M. Pirsig

2020

December
  1. How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference - Rebecca Huntley
  2. F**k No!: How to stop saying yes, when you can't, you shouldn't, or you just don't want to - Sarah Knight
November
  1. Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  2. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
October
  1. Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World - Adele Ferguson
  2. Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart - Courtney Peppernell
September
  1. The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition - Alexandre Dumas
  2. Letter to a Hostage - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  3. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
August
  1. I Know This to Be True: Waleed Aly - Geoff Blackwell
  2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) - Robert M. Pirsig
July
  1. I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
  2. Normal People - Sally Rooney
June
  1. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  2. Letters to a Young Mathematician - Ian Stewart
May
  1. We Hope This Reaches You in Time - R.H. Sin
  2. Bombs, Bliss and Baba: The Spiritual Autobiography Behind the Hilton Bombing Frame Up - Paul Narada Alister
April
  1. Rules for a Knight - Ethan Hawke
  2. Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  3. The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice - Kathryn Bolkovac
March
  1. The Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Ariel - Sylvia Plath
February
  1. The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
  2. Banking Bad: Whistleblowers, Corporate Cover-ups and One Journalist's Fight for the Truth - Adele Ferguson
  3. Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. Brave New World Revisited - Aldous Huxley
January
  1. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference - Cordelia Fine
  2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott
  3. Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway - Siobhan Roberts
  4. Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power - David McKnight