October 2025 books

Non-fiction 8 (YTD 68)
The New Machiavelli
, by Jonathan Powell
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925, by Charles Townshend
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
Het lijkt Washington wel: Hoe lobbyisten Brussel in hun greep hebben
, by Peter Teffer
Wag the Dog: The Mobilization and Demobilization of the Kosovo Liberation Army, by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder and Wolf-Christian Paes
The Mysterious Planet, by Jez Strickley (did not finish)
Dragon’s Teeth: Tales from North Kosovo, by Ian Bancroft
Barracoon: the Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, by Zora Neale Hurston

Non-genre 5 (YTD 37)
Our Song
, by Anna Carey
The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow
Soundings, by A. Hamilton Gibbs

SF 6 (YTD 104)
Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon
, ed. Ian Whates
An Island Called Moreau, by Brian Aldiss
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, by Ted Chiang
Shroud, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, by Storm Constantine

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 26)
Mean Streets
, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: The Well, by Gareth L. Powell
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet, by Terrance Dicks

Comics 2 (YTD 29)
The Twist
, by George Mann et al
Paradise Towers: Paradise Found, by Sean Mason and Silvano Beltramo

6,000 pages (YTD 68,000)
4/24 (YTD 103/270) by non-male writers (Hurston, Christie, Carey, Constantine)
2/24 (YTD 31/270) by non-white writers (Hurston, Chiang)
4/24 reread (“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, Mean Streets, Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union)
189 books currently tagged unread, down 15 from last month, down 78 from October 2024.

Reading now
Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett

Coming soon (perhaps)
Sonic Boom, by Robbie Morrison et al
Time Zero, by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Empire of Death, by Scott Handcock
Madame Prosecutor, by Carla del Ponte
The Good Wife of Bath, by Karen Brooks
The Spark that Survived, by Myra Lewis Williams
The Year Before Yesterday, by Brian W. Aldiss
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, by David DeSteno
The Great Hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore
Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch
An Experiment with Time, by J. W Dunne
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino
Ness: A Story from the Ulster Cycle, by Patrick Brown
Spa 1906, by Drac
Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Woman in White, by Willie Collins
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi

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