Non-fiction
The Bloody Sunday Report, Volume IV (2010)
A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf (2013)
The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss (2016)
Non-genre
The Complete Stories of Zora Neale Hurston (2013)
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (2015)
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving (2023)
SF
The Compleat Enchanter – The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea, by L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (2006)
PEACE, by Gene Wolfe (2008)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein (2009)
Nexus, by Ramez Naam (2014)
HWJN, by Ibraheem Abbas (2017)
Full Immersion, by Gemma Amor (2023)
Doctor Who
The Glamour Chase, by Gary Russell (2011)
Comics
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy, by Abel Lanzac and Christophe Blain (2018)
Die, Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker, by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, letters by Clayton Cowles (2020)
LaGuardia, written by Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford, colours by James Devlin (2020)
Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen, written by Marjorie Liu, art by Sana Takeda (2020)
Mooncakes, by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker, letters by Joamette Gil (2020)
Paper Girls, Vols 1-6, written by Brian K. Vaughan, drawn by Cliff Chiang, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Jared K. Fletcher (2020)
The Wicked + The Divine, Vols 1-9, by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, colours by Matt Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles (2020)
The best
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is passionate, witty and essential, and I wish I had read it twenty-five years earlier. (Review; get it here)
Honorable mentions
The Cider House Rules is a lot longer, but also very much worth reading for a humane take on abortion, and much else, in mid-twentieth-century rural Maine. (Review; get it here)
The Complete Stories of Zora Neale Hurston includes many jewels by the great writer herself, and also a moving epilogue about finding her grave. (Review; get it here)
The one you haven’t heard of
Arthur Vlaminck is plucked from his almost-completed PhD to become speech-writer for the French Foreign Minister. Grim and well-observed hilarity ensues in Weapons of Mass Diplomacy. (Review; get it here)
My favourite of my own reviews from this day
Reading “The Compleat Enchanter“,
when I came to the fourth section,
(set in Finland’s Kalevala)
somehow I began to wonder:
Can one write LiveJournal entries
in iambic tetrameter?
(Yes, I know that last word’s bogus
and perhaps that gives the answer.)
The one to avoid
Full Immersion, by Gemma Amor, attempts to turn intense personal psychiatric experience into a novel and doesn’t succeed. (Review; get it here.)