September 2025 books

Non-fiction 7 (YTD 60)
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies, by Rick Edwards & Dr Michael Brooks
Het Zoet Water door de eeuwen heen, by Jean Binon and Paul Coeckelbergh
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The Years, by Annie Ernaux 
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, by Serhii Plokhy
Silence: A Christian History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch (did not finish)
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire, by Julie Kavanagh

Non-genre 7 (YTD 32)
Behind Frenemy Lines, by Zen Cho
Mother Ross: An Irish Amazon, by G.R. Lloyd 
Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon (did not finish)
The Emperor of Portugallia, by Selma Lagerlöf
Jerusalem, Part 1, by Selma Lagerlöf
The Casuarina Tree, by W. Somerset Maugham
The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng 

Poetry 1 (YTD 3)
Musings on Mothering, ed. Teika Bellamy

SF 6 (YTD 98)
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch 
Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
’Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King 
The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle (did not finish)
“Two Hearts” by Peter S Beagle
Howul: A Life’s Journey, by David Shannon

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 23)
Ghost Devices, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Doctor Who: Lux, by James Goss

Comics 4 (YTD 27)
The School of Death, by Robbie Morrison et al
Omega, by Mark Griffiths and John Ridgway
Final Cut, by Charles Burns 
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire and Christophe Gaultier

6,600 pages (YTD 62,000)
7/27 (YTD 99/246) by non-male writers (Ernaux, Kavanagh, Cho, Lagerlöf x2, Bellamy, “Greer”) 
2/27 (YTD 29/246) by a non-white writer (Cho, Eng) 

2/27 reread (“Two Hearts”, Ghost Devices

204 books currently tagged unread, down 5 from last month, down 78 from September 2024.

Reading now
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
The New Machiavelli, by Jonathan Powell
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925, by Charles Townshend

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Twist, by George Mann et al 
Mean Streets, by Terrance Dicks 
Paradise Towers, by Sean Mason and Silvano Beltramo 
Doctor Who: The Well, by Gareth F. Powell
Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet, by Terrance Dicks
The Mysterious Planet, by Jez Strickley
Burning Brightly, ed. Ian Whates
Het lijkt Washington wel: Hoe lobbyisten Brussel in hun greep hebben, by Peter Teffer
Wag the Dog, by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
An Island Called Moreau, by Brian Aldiss
Dragon’s Teeth, by Ian Bancroft
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, by Storm Constantine
Madame Prosecutor, by Carla del Ponte
The Good Wife of Bath, by Karen Brooks
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck 
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, by Ted Chiang
Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett 
The Enigma Score, by Sheri S. Tepper
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