Happy Christmas! To celebrate I talk about some of the best things in the world - books!

I've been getting back in to reading recently after something of a break at university, but before uni I devoured books. These are some of my favourites, both past and present.

I'm posting amazon links below, but where possible please try to support your local book store and keep them in business :)

LINKS

Current reading:
- Waterloo http://bit.ly/waterloobook
- Feast for Crows http://bit.ly/stiffpinkmast
- Consider Phlebas http://bit.ly/considerphlebas
- 5 Cs of Cinematography http://bit.ly/fivecinematography

Favourites:
- My Family and Other Animals http://bit.ly/familyandotheranimals
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance https://geni.us/motorcyclemaintenance
- Brave New World http://bit.ly/lighthouseending
- The Fault in Our Stars http://bit.ly/crylikeababy
- His Dark Materials http://bit.ly/lyrawillbench
- Gaunt's Ghosts https://geni.us/firstandonly
- Horus Heresy http://bit.ly/magnusdidnothingwrong
- The Martian http://bit.ly/potatoesfordays
- Paradise Lost http://bit.ly/bettertoruleinhell
- Long Way Round http://bit.ly/noktms
- Brief History of Medicine http://bit.ly/briefhistorymedicine
- Six Easy Pieces https://geni.us/feynman6easy
- Medieval View of the Cosmos http://bit.ly/medievalcosmos
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information https://geni.us/visualdisplayq
- A Short History of Nearly Everything https://geni.us/brysonhistory
- Alex's Adventures in Numberland https://geni.us/alexadventures
- The Strangest Man https://geni.us/strangestman

Music:
Rhodesia Background by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

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I am Simon, a third year PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. I upload videos on bits of science which are relevant to what I do, and sometimes just because they're really cool.

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