Non-fiction 9 (YTD 53)
The Devil’s Chord, by Dale Smith
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff
Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, by Paul Kincaid
Agent of Death: Memoirs of an Executioner, by Robert Greene Elliott
The Dream House, by Lee Berridge
My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion, by Michel Barnier
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, by Harry Pearson
Irish Conflict in Comics, by James Bacon
@Wouters Wondere Wereld, by Guy Gilias
Non-genre 3 (YTD 25)
The Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L. Sayers
Old Babes in the Wood, by Margaret Atwood
Black Mountain and other stories, by Gerry Adams (did not finish)
(Counting Old Babes in the Wood as non-genre, though there are several stories that are clearly sf.)
Poetry 1 (YTD 2)
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson
SF 13 (YTD 92)
Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, by Felicity Williams (did not finish)
Light in My Blood, by Jean Gilbert & William Dresden
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh
The Crawling Wood (Into the Mire), by Casey Lucas (did not finish)
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Last Song of Penelope, by Claire North
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings
London Centric: Tales of Future London, ed. Ian Whates
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Thirst, by Amelie Nothomb
(Counting Thirst as fantasy, because it is about the crucifixion and resurrection told from the point of view of Jesus.)
Doctor Who 2 (YTD 21)
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack
Comics 4 (YTD 23)
Hyperion, by Robbie Morrison et al
Who Killed Nessie?, by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith
Inferno, by Gary Russell and John Ridgway
Somna: a bedtime story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay
8,600 pages (YTD 55,400)
15/32 (YTD 92/219) by non-male writers (Koff, Sayers, Atwood, Williams, Gilbert, Tesh, Lucas, Whiteley, North, Giddings, Jikiemi-Pearson, Nothomb, McCormack, Smith, Cloonan/Lotay)
2/32 (YTD 27/219) by non-white writers (Koff, Jikiemi-Pearson)
4/32 reread (The Five Red Herrings, Voyage to Venus, Feet of Clay, Deadfall)
209 books currently tagged unread, up 2 from last month thanks to summer acquisitions, down 91 from August 2024.
Reading now
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
Coming soon (perhaps)
The School of Death, by Robbie Morrison et al
Ghost Devices, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Omega, by Mark Griffiths and John Ridgway
Doctor Who: Lux, by James Goss
Musings on Mothering, ed. by Teika Bellamy
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies, by Rick Edwards
Mother Ross: An Irish Amazon, by G.R. Lloyd
Het Zoet Water door de eeuwen heen, by Jean Binon
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
Final Cut, by Charles Burns
“Two Hearts”, by Peter S. Beagle
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire
The Years, by Annie Ernaux
The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng
Silence: A Christian History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett
Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch
An Experiment with Time, by J. W Dunne
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle
