Non-fiction 8 (YTD 63)
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Ernest Shackleton
Truss at 10: How Not To Be Prime Minister, by Anthony Seldon with Jonathan Meakin
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It, by Janina Ramirez
Political, Electoral and Spatial Systems, by R. J. Johnston
The Happiness Patrol, by Mike Stack
Church and State in Tudor Ireland: A History of Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics, 1543-1603, by Robert Dudley Edwards
A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, by Samuel Hynes
Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings, ed. Jennifer FitzGerald
Non-genre 3 (YTD 25)
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Shame, by Annie Ernaux
Pook at College, by Peter Pook (did not finish)
SF 11 (YTD 72)
Titan, by John Varley
A Crack in Everything, by Ruth Frances Long
The Spellcoats, by Diana Wynne Jones
Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Running Man, by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Lake at the End of the World, by Caroline Macdonald
Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney
“They Will Dream in the Garden” by Gabriela Damián Miravete
Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers: Virtual Vandals, by Diane Duane
Doctor Who 3 (YTD 26)
Grave Matter, by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Space Babies, by Alison Rumfitt
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol, by Graeme Curry
Comics 1 (YTD 22)
The Sapling: Roots, by George Mann et al
6,700 pages (YTD 52,200)
11/26 (YTD 98/214) by non-male writers (Ramirez, FitzGerald, Ernaux, Long, Wynne Jones, Bulawayo, Macdonald, Cooney, Damián Miravete, Duane, Rumfitt)
1/26 (YTD 26/188) by a non-white writer (Bulawayo)
3/261 rereads (Steppenwolf, Grave Matter, Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol)
282 books currently tagged unread, down 18 from last month, down 70 from September 2023. At this rate I’ll have cleared the unread shelves in four years’ time.
Reading now
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future, by Jenny Uglow
Yes Taoiseach: Irish Politics From Behind Closed Doors, by Frank Dunlop
The Sapling: Branches, by Alex Paknadel et al
Coming soon (perhaps)
Burning Heart, by Dave Stone
Doctor Who: 73 Yards, by Scott Handcock
Midnight, by Philip Purser-Hallard
New State, Modern Statesman: Hashim Thaçi – A Biography, by Roger Boyes and Suzy Jagger
Ireland under Elizabeth and James I, ed. Henry Morley
Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922, ed. Edmund Curtis & R.B. McDowell
The Geraldines. An Experiment In Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman
The Good Earth, by Pearl S Buck
Drowned Ammet, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, eds Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times, by Michelle Obama
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Bellatrix, Tome 1, by Leo
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
Marriage, by H.G. Wells
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling
What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War, by Ernest Bramah
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, by Steve Silberman