Non-fiction 9 (YTD 37)
Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans, by James Ker-Lindsay
Inventing the Renaissance, by Ada Palmer
The Damnable Question, by George Dangerfield
Time’s Mosaic 9 – Eccleston, Torchwood and Quatermass, by Finn Clark
Face to Face: The Classic Years, by Eddie McGuigan
British Generals in Blair’s Wars, eds Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan
Feel Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You, by Ali Abdaal
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, by Susana M. Morris
The Initials in the Heart, by Lawrence Whistler
Non-genre 5 (YTD 22)
Crooked House, by Agatha Christie
The Private Life of Helen of Troy, by John Erskine
Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution, by James Tipton
Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
Death in the Clouds, by Agatha Christie
SF 11 (YTD 40)
Equinox, by David Towsey
The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson
Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe, by C.B. Lee
Four for Tomorrow, by Roger Zelazny
Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite
Cinder House, by Freya Marske
The Summer War, by Naomi Novik
Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz
What Stalks the Deep, by T. Kingfisher
They Bloom at Night, by Trang Thanh Tran
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, by Zen Cho
Doctor Who 3 (YTD 35)
Sometime Never…, by Justin Richards
Jubilee, by Robert Shearman
Death Among the Stars, by Steve Cole
Comics 6 (YTD 15)
The Lost Dimension, Book One, by Nick Abadzis et mult al
The Lost Dimension, Book Two, by Gordon Rennie et mult al
The Power Fantasy, Vol 1: The Superpowers, by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard et al
The Space Cat, by Nnedi Okorafor and Tana Ford
Absolute Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Last Amazon, by Kelly Thompson et al
A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel, by Ursula K. Le Guin and Fred Fordham
~9,400 pages (YTD 36,700), counting the audiobook as 100.
16/33 (YTD 61/152) by non-male writers (Palmer, Morris, 2x Christie, Hodgson, Lee, Waite, Marske, Novik, Newitz, “Kingfisher”, Tran, Cho, Okorafor/Ford, Thompson, Le Guin)
5/33 (YTD 15/152) by writers of colour (Abdaal, Morris, Lee, Tran, Cho)
4/33 reread (Crooked House, Death in the Clouds, Four for Tomorrow, Sometime Never…)
221 books currently tagged unread, up 23 from last month (thank you, Hugo packet), down 10 from April 2025. I may be close to achieving a steady state here.
Reading now
H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
Coming soon (perhaps)
The Everlasting, by Alix E. Harrow
The Supremacy of the Cybermen, by George Mann, Cavan Scott, Alessandro Vitti et al
Halflife, by Mark Michalowski
Aliens of London, by Joseph Lidster
Doctor Who and the Zarbi, by Bill Strutton
The Web Planet, by Bridget Cherry
Lessons From Kosovo: The KFOR Experience, ed. Larry Wentz
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, ed. Glyn Morgan (2022)
An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder, by Susie Dent
O the Chimneys, by Nelly Sachs
Ces Lignes qui tracent mon corps, by Mansoureh Kamari
The Best of All Possible Worlds, by Karen Lord
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata
Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian
TUKI: Fight for Fire, by Jeff Smith
Last Exit, by Max Gladstone
Dead Lions, by Mick Herron
Autumn, by Ali Smith
Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
The Compleat Angler, by Izaak Walton
