July Books

Non-fiction 3 (YTD 35)
Manufacture and Uses of Alloy Steels, by Henry D. Hibbard
The Faerie Queene: a selection of critical essays, edited by Peter Bayley
Terre des Hommes, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Non-sf 3 (YTD 28)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows

SF (non-Who) 6 (YTD 43)
I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
A Feast For Crows, by George R.R. Martin
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Lost Road, by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin

Doctor Who etc 9 (YTD 49)
The Brilliant Book (of Doctor Who) 2011
Doctor Who Annual 1986
The Glamour Chase, by Gary Russell
State of Change, by Christopher Bulis
The Dalek Book, by David Whitaker and Terry Nation
Conundrum, by Steve Lyons
Revolution Man, by Paul Leonard
Dead of Winter, by James Goss
Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies, by Justin Richards

Comics 2 (YTD 17)
The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfish, by Neil Gaiman
Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, by Phil and Kaja Foglio

~7,300 pages (YTD ~49,700)
2/23 (YTD 29/172) by women (Shaffer/Barrows, Foglio)
0/23 (YTD 9/172) 1/23 (YTD 10/172) by PoC (Ellison, as points out)
Owned for more than a year: 9 (The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish [reread], A Feast for Crows [reread], The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [reread], Revolution Man, Conundrum, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Decameron, Doctor Who: Aliens And Enemies, Faerie Queene Essays)
Also reread: None (YTD 23/172)

Programmed reads: 12 books from 13 lists
b) Terre des Hommes (non-fiction by popularity on LT)
e) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (non-genre fiction by popularity on LT)
f) The Decameron (non-genre fiction by popularity on LJ poll)
l) Conundrum (New Adventures in sequence)
m) Revolution Man (Eighth Doctor Adventures in sequence)
n) Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies, The Glamour Chase (New Who books by LT popularity)
o) State of Change (other Old Who by popularity)
p) The Lost Road (History of Middle Earth in sequence)
r) Faerie Queene essays (Tudors and Ireland)
s) Invisible Man (books by PoC in order of entry)
t) The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish (books on the shelves at end 2005, otherwise not accounted for, going backwards in LT entry order)
v) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (books I have already read but haven't reviewed on-line, ranked by LT popularity)

Coming next, possibly:
Full House, by Stephen Jay Gould (started)
Niccolo Rising, by Dorothy Dunnett (started)

Western Shore, by Juliet E. McKenna
Last Call, by Tim Powers
Timescape, by Gregory Benford
Tales of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
Old Goriot, by Honore Balzac
The Plot Against Pepys, by James and Ben Long
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales, by Bessie Head
The Naming Of The Dead, by Ian Rankin
Jewels of the Sun, by Nora Roberts
The Little Book of "Thunderbirds" (if I can find it)
2nd Interzone Anthology, ed. by John Clute
Primate Robinson: 1709-94, by A.P.W. Malcomson
A New History of Ireland, Volume III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691, ed. by T. W. Moody 
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
George Herbert, Priest and Poet, by Kenneth Mason
Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Lords of the Storm, by David A. McIntee
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
No Future, by Paul Cornell
Dominion, by Nick Walters
The Return of the Shadow, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nuclear Time, by Oli Smith

Must try harder on diversity.

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