This is the 240th month in which I have been keeping records of every book that I have read, and so it brings to an end my series of regular flashbacks to past months. (If you want to know what I’ve been up to in the last few weeks: basically, I went to China for Chengdu WorldCon.) Some analysis of 20 years of bookblogging tomorrow, perhaps, as it’s a day off for me. Meanwhile here are the tallies for the last 31 days:
Non-fiction 7 (YTD 71)
Living with the Gods, by Neil MacGregor
A Life of My Own, by Claire Tomalin
About Time 9, by Tat Wood and Dorothy Ail
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford
Earthshock, by Brian J. Moss
The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos, by James F. McGrath
Politics: Between The Extremes, by Nick Clegg 
Non-genre 4 (YTD 25)
Leave Me Alone, by Murong Xuecun
Fate, by Zhao Haohui
No, But I Saw the Movie, ed. David Wheeler
Winter, by Ali Smith
SF 8 (YTD 154)
Nine Black Doves – Volume 5: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
Locklands, by Robert Jackson Bennett
2024, by Robert Durward
“Even the Queen” by Connie Wilis
Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett
Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
Cart and Cwidder, by Diana Wynne Jones
Life Ceremony, by Sayaka Murata
Doctor Who 1 (YTD 28)
Doctor Who: Earthshock, by Ian Marter 
Comics 1 (YTD 24)
Facing Fate: Breakfast at Tyranny’s, by Nick Abadzis et al 
7,100 pages (YTD 77,600)
8/21 (YTD 134/309) by non-male writers (Tomalin, Ail, Smith, Willis x2, Wynne Jones, Murata, illustrators of Breakfast at Tyranny’s)
3/21 (YTD 42/309) by a non-white writer (Murong, Zhou, Murata)
4 rereads (“Even the Queen”, Wyrd Sisters, Doomsday Book, Doctor Who – Earthshock)
344 books currently tagged unread – down 8 from last month. At this rate I will clear the lot some time in 2027.
Reading now
The Road to Amber, by Roger Zelazny
Coming soon (perhaps)
Vortex Butterflies, by Nick Abadzis et al
Doctor Who – the Androids of Tara, by David Fisher
Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear, by Terrance Dicks
The Hand of Fear, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Dalek, by Billy Sequire
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The J.R.R. Tolkien Miscellany, by Robert S. Blackham
Three Plays, by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart
Many Grains of Sand, by Liz Castro
Giants at the End of the World, by Johanna Sinisalo
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, by Nick Montfort
My Real Children, by Jo Walton
One Foot in Laos, by Dervla Murphy
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women, by Elizabeth Norton
Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Jaren van de olifant, by Willy Linthout
Marking Time, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
A Long Day in Lychford, by Paul Cornell
The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray et al
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas
“Georgia On My Mind”, by Charles Sheffield
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett