Non-fiction
The Politics of Serbia in the 1990s, by Robert Thomas (2004)
How Languages are Learned, by Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada (2014)
Boy, by Roald Dahl (2016)
Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece to Life, by Jonathan Bardon (2024)

Non-genre
Chloe Arguelle, by Amy Dillwyn (2023)
A Burglary, by Amy Dillwyn (2023)

SF
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick (2015)
Gateways, ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull (2019)
The Transfer Problem by Adam Saint (2023)

Doctor Who
The Doctor Who Quiz Book of Dinosaurs, by Michael Holt (2018) [Fifth Doctor, quiz book]
The Unofficial Master Annual 2074, ed. Mark Worgan (2022) [Master]

Comics
Brussel in beeldekes: Mannekin Pis en andere sjarels, ed. Marc Verhaegen (2014)

Rather slim pickings today.

The best
Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly has flaws – every woman character is referred to by the size of her breasts – but the central theme of loss of self is utterly compelling. And the prediction of a 1977 book, that 1994 would see the war on drugs still being waged and lost, only with superior technology and occasional state collusion, turns out to have been entirely true; thirty years on from 1994, almost fifty since the book was written, we haven’t learned much. (Review; get it here.)

Honorable mention, also the one you haven’t heard of
Jonathan Bardon’s history of Handel’s Messiah is great on how he came to be in England, then in Ireland, and the social situation of 18th-century Dublin that almost guaranteed success. (Review; get it here)

The one to avoid
I got only fifty pages into The Transfer Problem, by Adam Saint. (Review; get it here.)