May 2024 books

Non-fiction 7 (YTD 32)
The Notes and Commonplace Book of H.P. Lovecraft, ed. Sean Brandy and Andrew Leaman
My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, by Owen Elliot-Kugell
The Heart’s Time, ed. Janet Morley
The Girl Who Died, by Tom Marshall
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time, by Natalie Grueninger
A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

SF 12 (YTD 39)
Starter Villain, by John Scalzi
Moroda, by L.L. McNeil (did not finish)
Promises Greater Than Darkness, by Charlie Jane Anders (did not finish)
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
Seeds of Mercury, by Wang Jinkang
Rose/House, by Arkady Martine
Orlanda, by Jacqueline Harpman
Witch King, by Martha Wells
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Abeni’s Song, by P. Djèlí Clark
Black Helicopters, by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Doctor Who 6 (YTD 12)
Imaginary Friends, by Jacqueline Rayner
The Cradle, by Tasha Suri
The Self-Made Man, by Mark Griffiths
The Angel of Redemption, by Nikita Gill
Wannabes, by Dave Rudden
The Monster in the Cupboard, by Kalynn Bayron

Comics 3 (YTD 14)
The Then and the Now, by Si Spurrier et al
The Three Body Problem, Part One, by SFCF Studio
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray

5,900 pages (YTD 27,100) 
16/28 (YTD 50/113) by non-male writers (Elliot-Kugell, Morley, Grueninger, Weinersmith, McNeil, Anders, Chant, Tesh, Martine, Harpman, Wells, Kiernan, Rayner, Suri, Gill, Bayron)
6/28 (YTD 16/113) by a non-white writer (Wang, Clark, Suri, Gill, Bayron, Three Body Problem creators)
2/28 rereads (HiroshimaSmall Gods)

309 books currently tagged unread, down 5 from last month, down 61 from May 2023.

Reading now
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Unraveller, by Frances Hardinge

Coming soon (perhaps)
The One, by Si Spurrier et al
Fear of the Dark, by Trevor Baxendale
Doctor Who: Planet of the
Ood, by Keith Temple
Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, by Donal Cotton
The Myth Makers, by Ian Potter
Dangerous Waters, by Juliet E McKenna
The Combined 2001 Election, by NISRA
Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece, by Jonathan Bardon
How to be Invisible: Lyrics, by Kate Bush
Comparing Electoral Systems, by David M. Farrell
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Virgin In The Garden, by A.S. Byatt
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Who Runs the World?, by Virginia Bergin
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
South, by Ernest Shackleton
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins