Further reading from B. Coates and E. Foley for readers of their new book, A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing

We read a huge range of media when putting together and checking the information in this book, including the following news and information sources:

BBC News, Guardian, Daily Mirror, Independent, Office for National Statistics, The Times, New Scientist, Telegraph, Encyclopedia Britannica, NASA, New York Times, Live Science, CNBC, Smithsonian Magazine, The Conversation, British Museum, Ted.com, Wellcome Collection, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Al Jazeera, World Population Review, World History Encyclopedia, Reuters, Investopedia, Scientific American, BBC Science Focus Magazine, History Extra, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Royal Society, Discover Magazine, RSC, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, National Geographic, NBC News, House & Garden, History.com, USGS, Science Museum, JSTOR, Poem Analysis, Time, British Library, ScienceDirect, Woodland Trust, Huffington Post, Pew Research Center, Bloomberg, Guinness World Records, Royal Museums Greenwich, English Heritage, Natural History Museum, Gardeners’ World, Gone Medieval, In Our Time, Medical News Today, Poetry Foundation, CDC, World Economic Forum, NPR, Architectural Digest, V&A, Reader’s Digest, Food Standards Agency, Archaeology Magazine, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Ocean Conservancy, RSPB, USA Today, You’re Dead to Me, Stonewall and History Hit.

If you’re interested in reading more on some of the subjects we covered in A Year of Living Curiously, then the following are a few of the books we found most fascinating and useful:

The World Atlas of Coffee: From Beans to Brewing – Coffees Explored, Explained and Enjoyed by James Hoffmann, 2018, Mitchell Beazley

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan, 2008, Avery Publishing

Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes, 2019, Wellcome Collection

Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou, 2013, Virago

History Atlas by Thiago de Moraes, 2020, Alison Green Books

Who’s Who in Dickens by Donald Hawes, Routledge, 1997

The Visual Dictionary of Art and Architecture by Ariane Archambault, Jean-Claude Corbeil, 2009, Québec Amerique

The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters & Documents, edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, Revised and Expanded by Christoph Wolff, 1999, W.W. Norton

Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well by Tim Spector, 2023, Jonathan Cape

Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky, 2023, Bodley Head

River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman, 2021, William Collins

The Pineapple: King of Fruits by Francesca Beauman, 2005, Chatto & Windus

Africa Is Not a Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin, 2022, Harvill Secker

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent, 2022, Faber & Faber

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture by Justine Picardie, 2021, Faber & Faber

Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice by Mark Singleton, 2010, Oxford University Press

The Beatles: A Private View by Robert Freeman, 1990, Big Tent Entertainment

Bread: A Global History by William Rubel, 2011, Reaktion Books

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff, 2000, Oxford University Press

Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel, 2014, Riverhead

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer, 2019, Workman Publishing

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, 1956, The Dial Press

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tokien, 1954, George Allen & Unwin

The Spirits: A Guide to Modern Cocktailing by Richard Godwin, 2021, Square Peg

Guardian Style by David Marsh, 2007, Guardian Books

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Edward Seidensticker, 1992, Everyman’s Library Classics

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, 2014, Oxford University Press

An Autobiography by Agatha Christie, 1977, William Collins

The Bhagavad Gita translated by Laurie L. Patton, 2008, Penguin Classics

Collected Poems by Edna St Vincent Millay, 1956, Harper & Row

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929, Hogarth Press

The SAS Survival Handbook by John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman, 1986, William Collins

Birds Britannica by Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey, 2005, Chatto & Windus

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813, T. Egerton

The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare, 2008, Oxford World’s Classics

Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn, 1991, Alfred A. Knopf

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh and Others, translated by Stephanie Dalley, 2008, Oxford World’s Classics

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949, Secker & Warburg

Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams, 2022, William Collins

The Observer Book of Art, edited by Carl Wilkinson, 2008, Observer Books

Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack, 2008, Allen Lane

The Usborne Book of World Religions by Susan Meredith, 1995, Usborne Publishing

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, 2000, Viking

The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Caplan, 2000, Oxford University Press

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death by Mark O’Connell, 2017, Granta

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 2014, Vintage

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2000, Penguin Modern Classics

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg, 2019, Penguin

Grasshopper, Dragonfly and Daddy-Long-Legs by Phyllis Ladyman, 1964, Methuen

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, edited by Neil Astley, 2002, Bloodaxe Books

Woman’s Lore: 4000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg, 2023, Head of Zeus

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press, Fifth Edition

Golden Tales of Greece, Retold by Compton Mackenzie, 1972, Aldus Books

Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt, 2005, Pimlico

Faraday: The Life by James Hamilton, 2005, HarperCollins

Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, 1992, Vintage

Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin, 2020, Bodley Head,

Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron, 2002, Crown