Hugos have been a distraction – I read fewer books this month than in any month since March 2019 and March 2017, the two previous times that I was supervising the close of Hugo nominations as Administrator.
Non-fiction 4 (YTD 15)
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, by Isabel Hardman
Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction, ed. Chinuo Onwualu
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan
Paradise Towers, by John Toon
Non-genre 2 (YTD 11)
Confusion, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Those Pricey Thakur Girls, by Anuja Chauhan
SF 4 (YTD 15)
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, by Wole Talabi
Airside, by Christopher Priest
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
Sleepers of Mars, by John Wyndham
Doctor Who 2 (YTD 4)
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks, by Frazer Hines
Doctor Who – Paradise Towers, by Stephen Wyatt
Comics 1 (YTD 6)
Serve You, by Al Ewing, Rob Williams et al 
3,200 pages (YTD 13,700)
6/13 (YTD 22/54) by non-male writers (Hardman, Onwualu, Speller/Allan, Howard, Chauhan, Butler)
3/13 (YTD 6/41) by a non-white writer (Onwualu, Chauhan, Talabi)
1/13 rereads (Doctor Who – Paradise Towers)
321 books currently tagged unread, up 12 from last month (thanks to shortlists and Eastercon purchases), down 74 from March 2023.
Reading now
De verdwijning, by Guido Eekhout
The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse
All These Worlds, by Niall Harrison, by Niall Harrison
Coming soon (perhaps)
Doctor Who: Kinda, by Terrance Dicks
Kinda, by Frank Collins
Return, by Simon Fraser et al
Reminiscences of a Bachelor, by Sheridan Le Fanu
DOOM 94, by Janis Jonevs
Ara Guler’s Istanbul: 40 Years of Photographs
The Return of Marco Polo’s World, by Robert Kaplan
Moroda, by L.L. McNeil
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Hard to be a God, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky