Non-fiction 8 (YTD 56)
Théo Van Rysselberghe, ed. Paul Holberton
Brian W. Aldiss, by Paul Kincaid
Making Peace in Northern Ireland, by Charles B. Strozier
The Invasion, by Stephen Hatcher
The Compleat Angler, by Isaak Walton
Hail, Penang!, by George Bilainkin
Racebook, by Tochi Onyebuchi
Upon a White Horse, by Peter Ross
Non-genre 6 (YTD 33)
Autumn, by Ali Smith
Sleeping Murder, by Agatha Christie
Dead Lions, by Mick Herron
Send Him Victorious, by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond
Inspector Imanishi Investigates, by Seichō Matsumoto
The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth
Play 1 (YTD 2)
Death and the King’s Horseman, by Wole Soyinka
SF 9 (YTD 65)
Twenty-first Century Blues, by Steve Walker (did not finish)
Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian
Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
Little Green Men and other stories, by Chris Boucher
The Listeners, by James Gunn
Last Exit, by Max Gladstone (did not finish)
Blake’s 7: Their First Adventure, by Trevor Hoyle
Blake’s 7: Project Avalon, by Trevor Hoyle
Blake’s 7: Scorpio Attack, by Trevor Hoyle
Doctor Who 3 (YTD 52)
The Eye of the Tyger, by Paul McAuley
The Time of Angels, by Jenny Colgan
Doctor Who: The Invasion, by Ian Marter
Comics 3 (YTD 23)
Tuki: Fight for Fire, by Jeff Smith
The Compleat Angler: A Graphic Adaptation, by Gareth Brookes and Izaak Walton
Vos en Haas op zoek naar koek, by Sylvia Vanden Heede, ill. Thé Thong-Khing
~6,900 pages (YTD 56,700)
5/30 (YTD 84/234) by non-male writers (Smith, Christie, Okorafor, Colgan, Vanden Heede)
4/30 (YTD 24/234) by writers of colour (Onyebuchi, Matsumoto, Soyinka, Thé)
5 out of 30 reread (Sleeping Murder, The Day of the Jackal, Binti, The Eye of the Tyger)
187 books currently tagged unread, down 16 from last month, down 22 from August 2025.
Reading now
Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins, by David M. Carr
The Owned Continent, by Dave Keating
Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife, by Sigrid Undset
Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister?, by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton
Coming soon (perhaps)
Gods and Monsters: Omega and Sutekh, by Ian Winterton and David Salmon
Fear Itself, by Nick Wallace
Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival, by L.D. Lapinski
Silent Earth, by Dave Goulson
Christopher Priest: The Interaction, ed. Andrew M. Butler
Agents, Adepts and Apprentices, by Kathryn Sullivan
Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle, by Paula Frederiksen
Léopoldville 60, by Baudouin Deville
”Seasons of Glass and Iron”, by Amal el-Mohtar
Patchwork, by Kate Evans
Raising Hare, by Chloe Dalton
Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz
The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi
All That We See or Seem, by Ken Liu
Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
Septology, by Jon Fosse
Real Tigers, by Mick Herron
Little Thieves, by Margaret Owen
