Books for Blokes

This list started as an idea for my local library. They have a toddler session at the weekends, and it is mostly dads that bring the children along. The children end up taking out lots of books, but rarely the dads; hopefully some from this list they will find appealing and might make them read more.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Girl with all the Gifts – M R Carey

The City and The City – China Miéville

Railsea – China Miéville

Perdido Street Station – China Miéville

Blue Remembered Earth – Alastair Renyolds

On the Steel Breeze – Alastair Renyolds

Poseidon's Wake – Alastair Renyolds

Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks

The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman

American Gods – Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch

Pashazade – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Effendi – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Felaheen – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Redrobe – Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Principles of Angels - Jaine Fenn
Consorts of Heaven - Jaine Fenn

Uprooted - Naomi Novik
A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E.Schwab
The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
The Shining Girls - Lauren Beurkes

Fiction

The Girl on the Landing  - Paul Torday

Clay - Melissa Harrison
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Crow Road – Iain Banks

The Business – Iain Banks

The Travelers – Chris Pavone

Reamde – Neal Stephenson

At hawthorn Time - Melissa Harrison
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Trinity Six – Charles  Cumming

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John le Carre

The Night Manager – John le Carre

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le Carre

The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid

1984 – George Orwell

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
Last Night in Montreal - Emily St. John Mandel

Oryx and Crake - Magaret Attwood

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Adventure

Long Way Round – Charley Borman and Ewan McGregor

Long Way Down – Charley Borman and Ewan McGregor

Walking the Nile – Levison Wood

Dare to Do - Sarah Outen
Walking the Himalayas – Levison Wood

Call of the Wild – Guy Grieve

Walking the Amazon – Ed Stafford

Arctic – Bruce Parry

Explore Everything: Place-Hacking The City From Tunnels To Skyscrapers – Bradley L. Garrett
Revolutionary Ride - Lois Pryce

Military

SBS: The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service – John Parker

Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World – James Hamilton-Paterson

Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II – Taylor Downing

Vulcan 607 – Roland White

Phoenix Squadron – Rowland White

Agent Zigzag – Ben Macintyre

Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World – James Hamilton-Paterson

Travel

French Revolutions – Tim Moore

The Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor

Between the Woods and the Water – Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos – Patrick Leigh Fermor

McCarthy’s Bar – Pete McCarthy

Tequila Oil – Hugh Thomson

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland – Gretel Ehrlich

Round Ireland with a Fridge – Tony Hawkes

Bearback: The World Overland – Pat Gerrod

Shadow of the Silk Road – Colin Thubron

The Tent, the Bucket and Me – Emma Kennedy

Canoeing the Congo: First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River – Phil Harwood

Drive Over lemons – Chris Stewart
Love of Country - Madeline Bunting

Climbing Days – Dan Richards
Boundless - Kathleen Winter
Adrift: A Secret Life of London's Waterways by Helen Babbs
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica - Sarah Wheeler

Natural History

The Wild Places – Robert Macfarlane

Waterlog – Roger Deakin

Edgelands – Paul Farley

Crow Country – Mark Cocker

Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature – Chris Yates

Sightlines – Kathleen Jamie

Findings – Kathleen Jamie

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach – Jean Sprackland

The Outrun - Amy Liptrot

To the River: A Journey Beneath The Surface - Oliva Liang

Humour

Are You Dave Gorman? – Dave Gorman

Fatherhood – Marcus Berkmann

Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life - Nina Stibb

Biography

Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson

Patrick Leigh Fermor – Artemis Cooper

The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

Sport

Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket – Marcus Berkmann

Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers – Amol Rajan

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Popular Science

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body - Jo Marchant
Bringing Down The House – Ben Mezrich

For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker – Victoria Coren

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean - Susan Casey
Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt

The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St Clair 
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

The Big Short – Michael Lewis
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England - Sarah Wise

Bad Science – Ben Goldacre

Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics – Alex Bellos

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis