What?! You already have a Top 10 books list after two weeks of 2009?
Not really. In fact, I have managed to finish just one book so far this year. It was a Christmas present and a pleasant read: Carole Coleman’s personal account of covering the US Presidential Election. Obama literature understandably has popped up everywhere. [...]

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While I’m conscious of following a me-too pattern of end-of-year favourite lists, a number of people have asked me to reflect on the dozens of books that I have read in the past year. And so, here’s a list of ten books that I really enjoyed in 2008.
Two clarifications:  these are presented in no particular [...]

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