October 2022 reading list and notes

Recommended book of the month

October ’22

• Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
  
• To Live by Élisabeth Revol
  
• Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
  
• Breaking the Social Media Prism by Chris Bail
  
• The Life of an MP by Jess Phillips
  
• The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation by Michael Matthews
  
• PhD by Published Work by Susan Smith
  
• Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre

I’ve already commented on Chums below so won’t add more. I happened upon Flying Blind as it was longlisted for the 2022 FT Business Book of the Year. Quite Ugly One Morning was the first Brookmyre book and I had a hankering for a bit of darkly humorous crime.

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