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Jim Riley

3rd August 2008

According to a report in the Sunday Times, the Conservative leader, David Cameron issued his MPs with a list of 38 books to read during the summer recess.

I wonder if blog readers have any of the following packed in their suitcases…

Terror and Consent: The War for the Twenty-First Century, Philip Bobbitt
Tony’s Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration, Adam Boulton
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini
Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq, Patrick Cockburn
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521-1580, Roger Crowley
Boris v Ken: How Boris Johnson Won London, Giles Edwards and Jonathan Isaby
Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan will Shape our Next Decade, Bill Emmott
Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis, David Faber
A Million Bullets: The Real Diary of the British Army in Afghanistan, James Fergusson
A Political Suicide: The Conservatives’ Voyage into the Wilderness, Norman Fowler
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, Laurence Freedman
Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World, Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
The Rise of Boris Johnson, Andrew Gimson
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life, Ffion Hague
Inside the Private Office: Memoirs of the Secretary to British Foreign Ministers, Nicholas Henderson
Good Business: Your World Needs You, Steve Hilton and Giles Gibbons
Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story, Heidi Holland
Politicians and Public Services: Implementing Change in a Clash of Cultures, Kate Jenkins
Cameron on Cameron, Dylan Jones
Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today, Peter Jones
The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan
Five Days in London, John Lukas
Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Life in Occupied Europe, Mark Mazower
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance, Giles Milton
1948: The First Arab Israeli War, Benny Morris
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes, Ferdinand Mount
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers, E Neudstadt and Ernest R May
Britain in Africa, Tom Porteous
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism is being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid
Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West, Andrew Roberts
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, David Runciman
Good Manners and Bad Behaviour: The Unofficial Rules of Diplomacy, Candida Slater
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, Richard H Thaler and Cass R Sunstein
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair, Stephen Wall
Decline to Fall: The Making of British Macro-Economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis, Douglas Wass
Mr Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War, Tom Wheeler
The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria

Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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