October books

A couple of tweaks here. First I think I have finally cracked the secret of how to include the book covers neatly in each of the thematic sections. Second, I’ve revised the “Coming next” section to include the coming month’s Doctor Who-related reading first, and then the books acquired in 2016, followed by the rest of the Reading Order in sequence. As always, this is for my own records more than anything else.

Non-fiction 7 (YTD 83)
Doctor Who: A British Alien?
, by Danny Nicol
The Bad Christian’s Manifesto, by Dave Tomlinson (did not finish)
Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northrup
The Face of Evil, by Thomas L Rodebaugh
Love and Monsters, by Niki Haringsma
Welcome to the Doomsphere: Sad Puppies, Hugos, and Politics, by Matthew M. Foster
The Bordley and Belt Families, Based on Letters Written by Family Members, assembled and annotated by Edward Wickersham Hoffman

Plays 1
Juicy and Delicious
, by Lucy Alibar

SF 12 (YTD 89)
δ1
Empire Of Sand
, by Tasha Suri
Complete Short Stories: the 1950s, by Brian Aldiss
ε1
ζ1
La Femme
, ed. Ian Whates
η1
Goliath
, by Tochi Onyebuchi
θ1
ι1
κ1
λ1
 (did not finish)
  

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 28)
Lineage
, ed. Shaun Russell
Doctor Who and the Face of Evil, by Terrance Dicks

Comics 2 (YTD 16)
Voorbij de grenzen van de ernst
, by Kamagurka
Weapons of Past Destruction, by Cavan Scott, Blair Shedd, Rachel Stott and Anand Setyawan

6,500 pages (YTD 62,000)
7/24 (YTD 91/236) by non-male writers (Alibar, Suri, ε1, ι1, κ1, λ1, Stott)
6/24 (YTD 33/236) by a non-white writer (Northrup, Suri, Onyebuchi. κ1, λ1, Setyawan)

381 books currently tagged “unread”, 13 more than last month, with award submissions continuing to come in

Reading now
The End of the Day
, by Claire North
The Harem of Aman Akbar, by Elizabeth Scarborough
Rauf Denktaş, a Private Portrait, by Yvonne Cerkez

Coming soon (perhaps) – new format for this list
Doctormania, by Cavan Scott et al
Moon Boots and Dinner Suits, by Jon Pertwee
The Danger Men, by Nick Walter
The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon, by John Toon
Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, by Terrance Dicks
The Dalek Invasion of Earth, by Jonathan Morris
Hyperspace Demons, by Jonathan Moeller
To Rule in Amber, by John Betancourt
Faith in Politics, by John Bruton
A Darker Shade, ed. John-Henri Holmberg
Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard, by Lawrence M. Schoen
Null States, by Malka Older
Disobedience, by Naomi Alderman
Death of a Naturalist, by Seamus Heaney
The Clockwise War, by Scott Gray
Song of Time, by Ian R. MacLeod
The Lost Child of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
“Schrödinger’s Kitten”, by George Alec Effinger
Metamorphoses, by Ovid
What If? by Randall Munroe
All the Names They Used for God, by Anjali Sachdeva
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
The Revolution Trade, by Charles Stross
The World Set Free, by H.G. Wells
Neptune – Épisode 1, by Leo
Roadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Ratlines, by Stuart Neville