October Books

A lower tally than sometimes – three very long books, and also reading lots of short fiction for Hugo nominations.

Non-fiction: 5 (YTD 43)
TARDIS Eruditorum – An Unofficial Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 6: Peter Davison and Colin Baker, by Philip Sandifer
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us: Or Why You Have No Idea How Your Mind Works, by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to "Faerie", by Verlyn Flieger
A Star Chamber Court in Ireland: The Court of Castle Chamber, 1571-1641, by Jon G. Crawford
Family Britain, 1951-1957, by David Kynaston
TARDIS Eruditorum 6 Invisible Gorilla Question of Time Star Chamber Court Family Britain

Fiction (non-sf): 1 (YTD 32)
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
Les Mis

SF (non-Who): 7 (YTD 96)
Jacaranda, by Cherie Priest
Forsaken, by Kelley Armstrong (did not finish)
Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds
The Arabian Nights, ed. Muhsin Mahdi, tr. Hussein Haddawy
The Dark Tower and Other Stories, by C.S. Lewis
Slan, by A.E. van Vogt
Jacaranda Forsaken Galactic North Arabian Nights Dark Tower Slan

Doctor Who, etc: 3 (YTD 35)
Business Unusual, by Gary Russell
The Deadstone Memorial, by Trevor Baxendale
Walking to Babylon by Kate Orman
Business Unusual Deadstone Memorial Walking to Babylon

Comics : 0 (YTD 13)

~6,400 pages (YTD 64,000)
4/15 by women (YTD 68/228) – Flieger, Priest, Armstrong, Orman
1/15 by PoC (YTD 15/228) – Mahdi/Haddawy

Reread: 2/15 (Les Miserables, Walking to Babylon), YTD 18/228

Reading now:
Axis, by Robert Charles Wilson

Coming soon (perhaps):
Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro
The Summer Before the Dark, by Doris May Lessing
Saga Volume 4. by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Sleepyhead, by Mark Billingham
Streetlethal, by Steven Barnes, if I can find it
The Oxford Book of Christmas Stories, ed. Dennis Pepper
Dodger, by Terry Pratchett
North Wind, by Gwyneth Jones
The Battle for Gaul, by Julius Caesar
Monkey Planet, by Pierre Boulle
Horrible Science Annual 2010, by Nick Arnold
The Invention of Happiness, by Brian W. Aldiss
Bits of Me are Falling Apart, by William Leith
Keeping it Real, by Justina Robson
When I Was a Child I Read Books, by Marilynne Robinson
Moon Over Soho, by Ben Aaronovitch
Helliconia, by Brian Aldiss
A Princess of Roumania, by Paul Park
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
New Europe, by Michael Palin
The Folding Star, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Quantum Archangel, by Craig Hinton (2001)
To the Slaughter, by Steve Cole (2005)
Oblivion, by Dave Stone (1998)

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