July 2025 books

Non-fiction 8 (YTD 44)
The Making of Martin Luther, by Richard Rex
F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid for It, by John Williams
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman 
Little Wars and Floor Games, by H.G. Wells
Around the World in 80 Games, by Marcus du Sautoy
Apostate, by Forrest Reid
Private Road, by Forrest Reid
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, by John Higgs

Non-genre 1 (YTD 22)
Inspector French and Sir John Magill’s Last Journey, by Freeman Wills Crofts

SF 15 (YTD 79)
Beautiful Star, by Yukio Mishima
The Revenant Express, by George Mann (did not finish)
Raven Heart, by Murphy Lawless
Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I, ed Marie Hodgkinson
Tides of the Titans, by Thoraiya Dyer
Ventiforms, by Sean Monaghan
The Blacksmith, by Barbara Howe (did not finish)
From a Shadow Grave, by Andi C. Buchanan
Spirits Abroad, by Zen Cho
We All Fall, by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
Tyrelia, by S R Manssen (did not finish)
Dragon Rift, by Eileen Mueller (did not finish)
Dark Winds Over Wellington: Chilling Tales of the Weird & the Strange, by TL Wood
The Master, by Louise Cooper
House of Odysseus, by Claire North

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 19)
A Small Semblance of Home, by Paul Phipps
Down, by Laurence Miles
Spectral Scream, by Hannah Fergesen

Comics 1 (YTD 19)
Fractures, by Robbie Morrison et al

6,000 pages (YTD 46,800)
13/28 (YTD 77/177) by non-male writers (“Lawless”, Hodgkinson, Dyer, Howe, Buchanan, Cho, Fletcher, Manssen, Mueller, Wood, Cooper, North, Fergesen)
3/28 (YTD 25/177) by non-white writers (Suleyman, Mishima, Cho)
1/28 reread (Down)
207 books currently tagged unread, down 17 from last month, down 92 from July 2024.

Reading now
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson

Coming soon (perhaps)
Hyperion, by Robbie Morrison et al
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack
The Devil’s Chord, by Dale Smith 
Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, by Felicity Williams
Light in My Blood, by Jean Gilbert
Into the Mire: The Collected Works, by Casey Lucas
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff 
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett 
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch 
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley 
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings 
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch 
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King 
Final Cut, by Charles Burns 
“Two Hearts”, by Peter S. Beagle 
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire 
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, by Harry Pearson 

Old Babes in the Wood, by Margaret Atwood