Non-fiction 7 (YTD 38)
Ireland in the Renaissance, 1540-1660, ed. Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton
Castrovalva, by Andrew Orton
1913: The Year Before the Storm, by Florian Illies
The Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb (did not finish)
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past, by Christopher Hadley
The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration, by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays
Non-genre 2 (YTD 21)
Not So Quiet…, by Helen Zenna Smith
The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright
SF 7 (YTD 64)
A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske
The Prince of Secrets, by A.J. Lancaster (did not finish)
Would She Be Gone, by Melanie Harding-Shaw
“The Faery Handbag”, by Kelly Link
Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeannette Ng
The Impossible Contract, by K.A. Doore
The Green Man’s Quarry, by Juliet E. McKenna
Doctor Who 3 (YTD 16)
Ship of Fools, by Dave Stone
Fear Death By Water, by Emily Cook
Doctor Who: Castrovalva, by Christopher H. Bidmead
Comics 2 (YTD 18)
Panter, by Brecht Evens
Spent, by Alison Bechdel
5,500 pages (YTD 40,800)
12/21 (YTD 64/149) by non-male writers (Bunting, Smith, Enright, Marske, Lancaster, Harding-Shaw, Link, Ng, Doore, McKenna, Cook, Bechdel)
1/21 (YTD 22/149) by non-white writers (Ng)
5/21 rereads (The Burgundians, The Gallant Edith Bratt, “The Faery Handbag”, Ship of Fools, Doctor Who: Castrovalva)
224 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month, down 83 from June 2024.
Reading now
Beautiful Star, by Yukio Mishima
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman
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
Coming soon (perhaps)
Fractures, by Robbie Morrison et al
Down, by Lawrence Miles
Spectral Scream, by Hannah Fergesen
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, by by John Higgs
The Revenant Express, by George Mann
Raven Heart, by Murphy Lawless
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson
The Master, by Louise Cooper
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
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
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
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
