January 2026 books

Non-fiction 6
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters), by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships, by Robin Dunbar
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
Renaissance- en barokarchitectuur in België, by Rutger J. Thijs
The Cuddled Little Vice, by Elizabeth Sandifer
Charlie vs Garret: The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Ireland, by Eoin O’Malley

Non-genre 6
The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
The Colony, by Audrey Magee
The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath, by Sigrid Undset
Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie
The Grail Tree, by Jonathan Gash

SF 7
Collected Folk Tales, by Alan Garner
River Mumma, by Zalika Reid-Benta
Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Forgotten and the Fantastical: Modern Fables and Ancient Tales: No. 2, ed. Teika Bellamy
Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep, by Philip Reeve
Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward

Doctor Who 10
House of Plastic, by Mike Tucker (audiobook)
Counterstrike, by Una McCormack (audiobook)
Agent of the Daleks, by Steve Lyons (audiobook)
The Domino Effect, by David Bishop
What Still Remains, by Adam Christopher (audiobook)
Frankenstein and the Patchwork Man, by Jack Heath
Doctor Who Annual 2026, by Paul Lang
Bessie Come Home, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)
London, 1965, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)
Sleeper Agents, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)

Comics 4
Best American Comics 2011, ed. Alison Bechdel
Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter, by Richard Dinnick et al
Bruxelles 43, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
Time Trials: A Confusion of Angels, by Richard Dinnick et al

~8,100 pages (counting 100 for each audiobook, and for the Sandifer essay)
13/33 by women (Sandifer, 3x Christie, Magee, Undset, Reid-Benta, Wynne Jones, Bellamy, Kuang, Ward, McCormack, Bechdel)
2/33 by writers of colour (Reid-Benta and Kuang)
4/33 reread (The Secret Adversary, The Grail Tree, Deep Secret, The Domino Effect)

186 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month, down 61 from January 2025.

Reading now
House of Open Wounds, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Elfland, by Freda Warrington
Reckless Engineering, by Nick Walters
Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein

Coming soon (perhaps)
Doctor Who – The Ark, by Paul Erickson
The Ark, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, by Christopher R. Hill
Liberation: The Unoffical and Unauthorised Guide to Blake’s 7, by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
De gekste plek van België: 111 bizarre locaties en hun bijzondere verhaal, by Jeroen van der Spek
The Future We Choose, by Christiana Figueres
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Dead Take the A Train, by Richard Kadrey
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, by Rory Carroll
Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Doors of Midnight, by R.R. Virdi
The Big Wave, by Pearl S. Buck
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Drome, by Jesse Lonergan
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Sourire 58, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
Trouble with Lichen, by John Wyndham