14 July books

Non-fiction
A Narrative About War And Freedom: Dialog with the commander Ramush Haradinaj, by Bardh Hamzaj (2004)
George and Sam, by Charlotte Moore (2007)
The Discovery of the Germ, by John Waller (2007)
The Lost Heart of Asia, by Colin Thubron (2009)
The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005, by David P. Becker (2011)
Shakespeare’s Handwriting: A Study, by Edward Maunde Thompson (2013)
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World, by Verlyn Flieger (2015)

Non-genre
Wilt in Nowhere, by Tom Sharpe (2007)
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (2013)

SF
The Sharing Knife: Legacy, by Lois McMaster Bujold (2007)
Harpist in the Wind, by Patricia A. McKillip (2007)
The Jagged Orbit, by John Brunner (2013)
The Lives of Tao, by Wesley Chu (2014)
Harrow The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir (2021)
Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse (2021)
Network Effect, by Martha Wells (2021)
The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal (2021)
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke (2021)
The City We Became, by N.K. Jemisin (2021)
The Stars Undying, by Emery Robin (2023)

Doctor Who
Doctor Who – the Caves of Androzani, by Terrance Dicks (2007)
Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, by Terrance Dicks (2007)
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders, by Terrance Dicks (2007)
Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive, by David Fisher (2007)
Everyone Says Hello, by Dan Abnett (2010)
Harvest of Time, by Alastair Reynolds (2013)

Comics
Arena of Fear, by Nick Abadzis et al (2023)

The best
As a parent of autistic children myself, I found George and Sam by Charlotte Moore very helpful reading. Her sons are much more able than my daughters, but there is a lot of common understanding. (Review of first edition; get the second edition here.)

Honorable mentions
My favourite Hugo finalist of 2021 was N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became, where the boroughs of New York – and other urban places – become personified. (Review of 2021 Hugo finalists; get it here.)
Legacy starts with one of the best sex scenes Lois McMaster Bujold has ever written, and gets even better from there. (Review; get it here.)

The one you haven’t heard of
And I’m really sure you haven’t heard of it: I was given The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005 as a freebie from a conference that I spoke at in Maine in 2007, didn’t read it until 2012, but loved the art when I did read it. (Review; get it here)

The one to avoid
I found Wilt in Nowhere abandoned in an airport lounge, and took it for my own library. I wish I’d left it in the airport. (Review; get it here.)