Non-fiction 6 (YTD 14)
Inside the Stargazers’ Palace, by Violet Moller
Under the Lake / Before the Flood, by Kevin Decker and Ryan Parrey
War Childhood: From Sarajevo to Syria, Memories of Life and Hope, by Jasminko Halilović
Eastern Nights and Flights, by Alan Bott
Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations, by Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan
From “Narnia” to a “Space Odyssey”: Stories, Letters, and Commentary By and About C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke, ed. Ryder W. Miller
Non-genre 5 (YTD 10)
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump, by H.G. Wells
Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H.G. Wells
The Queen’s Gambit, by Walter Tevis
SF 10 (YTD 20)
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki
Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh
A Brilliant Void, ed. Jack Fennell
The Professor in Erin, by L. McManus [Charlotte Elizabeth McManus] (did not finish)
Drowned Country, by Emily Tesh
“Hell is the Absence of God”, by Ted Chiang
Five Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
DallerGut Dream Department Store: The Dream You Ordered is Sold Out, by Miye Lee
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
Doctor Who 2 (YTD 6)
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual, by Richard Atkinson and Mike Tucker
Comics 2 (YTD 4)
De bondgenoten 1, by Brecht Evens
The Eye of Ashaya, by Andy Diggle, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Richard Dinnick et al
5,800 pages (YTD 13,000)
8/25 (YTD 18/54) by non-male writers (Moller, Alcott, Aoki, Tesh x2, McManus, Le Guin, Lee)
3/25 (YTD 7/54) by non-white writers (Aoki, Chiang, Lee)
5/25 rereads (Light From Uncommon Stars, Silver in the Wood, “Hell is the Absence of God”, Childhood’s End, Mission: Impractical)
233 books currently tagged unread, down 14 from last month, down 76 from January 2024.
Reading now
The Research Magnificent, by H.G. Wells
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
Coming soon (perhaps)
Sky Jacks!, by Andy Diggle et al
Oh No It Isn’t!, by Paul Cornell
The Child of Time, by Jonathan Morris et al
A Christmas Carol, by Jaime Beckwith and Leslie Grace McMurtry
The Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston: Radio and Television Plays
Bealby, by H.G. Wells
The Undying Fire, by H.G. Wells
Joan and Peter, by H.G. Wells
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, by Dr John Barton
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
The Vegetarian, by Kang Han
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
All American Boys, An Insider’s Look at the U.S. Space Program, by Walter Cunningham
Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb
Métal Hurlant Vol. 1: Le Futur c’est déjà demain, by Mathieu Bablet et al
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis