Non-fiction 8 (YTD 81)
Tudor Court Culture, eds. Thomas Betteridge & Anna Riehl
The Tudor Discovery of Ireland, by Christopher Maginn and Steven G. Ellis
The Geraldines: An Experiment In Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald
The Roommate of Anne Frank, by Nanda van der Zee
Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel, ed. Bernard Montoneri
Yanks Behind the Lines: How the Commission for Relief in Belgium Saved Millions from Starvation During World War I, by Jeffrey B. Miller
Ascension of the Cybermen & The Timeless Children, by Ryan Bradley
The Deep State of Europe: Welcome to Hell, by Basil Coronakis
Non-genre 7 (YTD 32)
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
La piège aux maris, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
Les débuts de la forgeronne, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
The Harvey Girls, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Marriage, by H.G. Wells
Creed Country, by Jenny Overton
SF 5 (YTD 81)
The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling
Lost Objects, by Marian Womack
Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman
What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War, by Ernest Bramah
Drowned Ammet, by Diana Wynne Jones
Doctor Who 2 (YTD 30)
Synthespians™, by Craig Hinton
Doctor Who: Rogue, by Kate Herron and Briony Redman
Comics 4 (YTD 32)
The Ripper, by Tony Lee
The Nikopol Trilogy: A Bedlam of Immortals, by Enki Bilal
The Nikopol Trilogy: The Woman Trap, by Enki Bilal
The Nikopol Trilogy: Cold Equator, by Enki Bilal
6,400 pages (YTD 64,300)
8/26 (YTD 110/262) by non-male writers (Riehl, van der Zee, Rattazzi, Buck, Overton, Womack, Wynne Jones, Herron/Redman)
None (YTD 26/262) by a non-white writer, for second month running – rather poor of me
5/26 rereads (The Moonstone, Forever Peace, Creed Country, Synthespians™, The Nikopol Trilogy: A Bedlam of Immortals)
259 books currently tagged unread, down 8 from last month, down 79 from November 2023.
Reading now
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin (group read)
The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, eds Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Authors of their Lives, by David A. Gerber
Coming soon (perhaps)
When Worlds Collide, by Tony Lee et al
Palace of the Red Sun, by Christopher Bulis
Eden Rebellion, by Abi Falaise
The Aztecs, by Doris V Sutherland
Collected Plays and Teleplays, by Flann O’Brien
The Sea Lady, by H.G. Wells
The Peacock Cloak, by Chris Beckett
The Passionate Friends, by H.G. Wells
M Leuven Collectie Schilderijen, by Lorne Campbell
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times, by Michelle Obama
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Bellatrix, Tome 1, by Leo
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling
The Crown of Dalemark, by Diana Wynne Jones
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
“The Ultimate Earth”, by Jack Williamson
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
Vagabonds!, by Eloghosa Osunde