Non-fiction 8
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
Paddy Machiavelli: How to Get Ahead in Irish Politics, by John Drennan
Silence in the Library / The Forest of the Dead, by Dale Smith
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland, by Malachi O’Doherty
The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities, by Zoran Nikolić
Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, by Sam McBride
The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography, by Zoran Nikolić
How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir, by Hans Rosling
Non-genre 5
A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll
The Passionate Friends, by H.G. Wells
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
The Soul of a Bishop, by H.G. Wells
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, by H.G. Wells
SF 10
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
The Song, by Erinn L. Kemper
Vagabonds!, by Eloghosa Osunde
The Ultimate Earth, by Jack Williamson
Navigational Entanglements, by Aliette de Bodard
Sorrowland, by Rivers Solomon
The Lights Go Out in Lychford, by Paul Cornell
Ithaca, by Claire North
Doctor Who 4
Doctor Who annual 2025, by Paul Lang
Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons
On Ghost Beach, by Neil Bushnell (audiobook)
Sting of the Sasquatch, by Darren Jones (audiobook)
Comics 2
The Hypothetical Gentleman, by Andy Diggle, Mark Buckingham, Brandon Seifert and Philip Bond
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain
7,200 pages
10/29 by non-male writers (McNicoll, Datlow, Harvey, Harpmann, Kemper, Osunde, de Bodard, Solomon, North, Bonvillain)
4/29 by non-white writers (Vuong, Osunde, de Bodard, Solomon)
2/29 rereads (The Ultimate Earth, Killing Ground)
247 books currently tagged unread, down 14 from last month, down 58 from January 2024.
Reading now
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin (group read, almost finished!)
De bondgenoten, by Brecht Evens
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki
Coming soon (perhaps)
The Eye of Ashaya, by Andy Diggle et al
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
Doctor Who: TARDIS Type Forty Instruction Manual, by Richard Atkinson
Under the Lake / Before the Flood, by Kevin Decker and Ryan Parrey
A Brilliant Void, by Jack Fennell
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump, by H. G. Wells
Braver, Greener, Fairer: Memos to the EU Leadership 2019-2024, ed. Maria Demertzis
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H. G. Wells
Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh
Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott
DallerGut Dream Department Store: The Dream You Ordered is Sold Out, by Miye Lee
Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
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
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
“Hell is the Absence of God”, by Ted Chiang
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
(Books in italics were also on last month’s list.)