26 July books

Non-fiction
Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election, by John Danforth et al (2022)

Non-genre
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (2010)
Jill, by Amy Dillwyn (2023)
Jill and Jack, by Amy Dillwyn (2023)

Scripts
Faust, by Goethe (2010)

Song lyrics
How to be Invisible, by Kate Bush (2024)

SF
Plastic Jesus, by Wayne Simmons (2014)
Anno Mortis, by Rebecca Levene (2018)
Light, by M. John Harrison (2021)
The Separation, by Christopher Priest (2021)
Upgrade, by Blake Crouch (2023)

Doctor Who
The Book of the Still, by Paul Ebbs (2014) [Eighth Doctor, spinoff novel]
Dead Romance, by Lawrence Miles (2016) [Bernice Summerfield novel]
Doctor Who and the Cybermen, by Gerry Davis (2020) [Second Doctor, novelisation]

Comics
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (2015)

Again, not as many as some days.

The best
To my surprise, I was blown away by The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway’s sparse and lucid account of young things in Paris and Spain. (Review; get it here)

Honorable mentions
Christopher Priest’s The Separation is one of the great alternate-WW2 novels – and there are some bad ones too. (Review; get it here)
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, is a great mixture of historical feminism and the lived experience of a late twentieth-century professional woman. (Review; get it here)

The one you haven’t heard of
My distant cousin Amy Dillwyn’s best novel is Jill, about a young woman finding herself (and love with other women) by travelling around Europe in the 1890s. (Review; get it here)

The one to avoid
I do not like Light, by M. John Harrison. I thought the sex was sordid, the characters unpleasant, and the plot barely comprehensible. (Review; get it here)