J. Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion (2012)
D. Levy, Things I don't want to know (2014)
C. Liu, The Three body problem (2006)
N. Mahfouz, Children of the alley (1957)S. Reynolds, Shock and awe: Glam rock and its legacy (2016)
G. Robb, The debatable land (2018)
A few of these could really have done with being part of the books they were. Liu's multi-garlanded science fiction could have ended earlier, and Haidt's and Robb's initial chapters were laboured with too much tedious personal detail. Both finished well. No criticisms of either of Deborah Levy's succinct volumes of autobiography. I stumbled across Levy through the Booker, but she's a fine writer, though I've found her fiction intriguing rather than outstanding. These I think do it better, with a stronger rootedness to place, and tighter writing. I read them in the wrong order, which doesn't really matter - both were excellent - but I wouldn't recommend you do. I enjoyed the later one more, but by a fine margin.
