6 July books

Non-fiction
The Making of Doctor Who, by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks (2007)
Self-Portrait, by Anneke Wills (2015)
Naked, by Anneke Wills (2015)

Non-genre
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson (2013)

Script
Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (2018)

SF
The Prisoner, by Thomas M. Disch (2006)
The Mind of Mr Soames, by Charles Eric Maine (2007)
Farthing, by Jo Walton (2008)
Frankenstein Unbound, by Brian Aldiss (2016)
De piraten van de Zilveren Kattenklauw, by “Geronimo Stilton” (2017)
“Bears Discover Fire”, by Terry Bisson (2023)
“The Hemingway Hoax”, by Joe Haldeman (2023)
Titan Blue, by M.B. Fox (2023)

Doctor Who
Hunter’s Moon, by Paul Finch (2013)
Something Borrowed, by Richelle Mead (2013)

Comics
Afspraak in Nieuwpoort, by Ivan Petrus Adriaenssens (2013)
De dag waarop de bus zonder haar vertrok, by Béka, Marko, and Maëla Cosson (2020)
De dag waarop ze haar vlucht nam, by Béka, Marko, and Maëla Cosson (2020)

The Best
Farthing, by Jo Walton, is a great what-if-Hitler-won alternate history; an alternate 1948, where Britain made peace with Germany in 1941 after Rudolf Hess’s mission. It is a crime novel that turns into a political parable. I couldn’t put it down. (Review; get it here)

Honourable mentions
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson, another of her very humane tales of middle America. (Review; get it here)
The Making of Doctor Who (first edition), by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, was the book whose second edition pushed a much younger me into fandom. (Review; get it here, at a price)

The one you haven’t heard of
Self-portrait, a charming and (I think) honest autobiography by Who actress Anneke Wills, bringing to life the Swinging Sixties. (Review; get it here)

The ones to avoid
Titan Blue was one of the least impressive books I looked at for the Clarke Award, real Nutty Nuggets stuff where the first female character to speak does so on page 48, and again on page 60. (Review; get it here)
Also to mention Doctor Who novel Hunter’s Moon (review; get it here), and mid-20th century British SF novel The Mind of Mr Soames (review; get it here) which were both rather poor.