Non-fiction 7 (YTD 19)
De gekste plek van België: 111 bizarre locaties en hun bijzondere verhaal, by Jeroen van der Spek
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen, by Alice Loxton
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows, by Christine Riding and Jon King
That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism and the American Witch Film, by Payton McCarty-Simas (did not finish)
The Future We Choose, by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo, by Ger Duijzings
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention, by David Chandler (did not finish)

Non-genre 2 (YTD 13)
A Granite Silence, by Nina Allan
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

Plays 1 (YTD 1)
The Tribe of Gum, by Anthony Coburn

SF 10 (YTD 25)
Blood in the Bricks, ed. Neil Williamson
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson
Who Will You Save?, by Gareth Powell
A Power Unbound, by Freya Marske (did not finish)
“The Paper Menagerie”, by Ken Liu
When There Are Wolves Again, by E.J. Swift
“The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, by Kij Johnson
Cities Are Forests Waiting To Happen, by Cécile Cristofari
The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar
Uncertain Sons and other stories, by Thomas Ha

Doctor Who 5 (YTD 20)
Firefall, by Beth Axford
The Mind Trap, by John Peel
The Last Resort, by Paul Leonard
Star Flight, by Paul Hayes
Rebellion on Treasure Island, by Bali Rai

Comics 2 (YTD 6)
Ghost Stories, by George Mann et al
Drome, by Jesse Lonergan

~5,400 pages (YTD 20,400)
11/27 (YTD 34/86) by non-male writers (Loxton, Riding, McCarty-Sinas, Figueres, Allan, Marske, Swift, Johnson, Cristofari, El-Mohtar, Axford)
4/27 (YTD 8/86) by writers of colour (Liu, El-Mohtar, Ha, Rai)
3/27 reread (“The Paper Menagerie”, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, The Last Resort)

194 books currently tagged unread, down 1 from last month, down 38 from March 2025.

Reading now
Among Others, by Jo Walton
Fantasy: A Short History, by Adam Roberts

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Lost Dimensions 1, by George Mann et al
Timeless, by Steve Cole
The Chimes of Midnight, by Robert Shearman
Doctor Who and the Daleks, by David Whitaker
Dr Who and the Daleks, by Alan Smithee
The Daleks, by Oliver Wake

Mantel Pieces, by Hilary Mantel
War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age, by Andrew Bacevich
Star Eater, by Kerstin Hall
NATO’s Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment, by Benjamin S. Lambeth

Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, by Gabriela Mistral
Sourire 58, by Baudouin Deville et al
Trouble With Lichen, by John Wyndham
Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution, by James Tiptree
Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian
TUKI: Fight for Fire, by Jeff Smith
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Non-fiction 6 (YTD 12)
The Ark, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, by Rory Carroll
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, by Christopher R. Hill
The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing, by Christopher Priest
Britain’s Other D-Day: The Politics of Decimalisation, by Andy Cook
Liberation: The Unoffical and Unauthorised Guide to Blake’s 7, by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore

Non-genre 5 (YTD 11)
Cards on the Table, by Agatha Christie
Country Christie, by Agatha Christie
The Big Wave, by Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of Women, by Pearl S. Buck
Appointment With Death, by Agatha Christie

Poetry 1 (YTD 1)
Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments, by Sappho, translated and edited by Aaron Poochigan

SF 8 (YTD 15)
Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein
House of Open Wounds, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Dead Take the A Train, by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey (did not finish)
Elfland, by Freda Warrington
The Doors of Midnight, by R.R. Virdi (did not finish)
Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
Serbian Folk Tales, ed. Jake Jackson

Doctor Who 5 (YTD 15)
The Penumbra Affair, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)
Reckless Engineering, by Nick Walters
Whodle: a Whodunit Adventure Through Time and Space, by Tim Dedopulos, Roland Hall and Dave Knowles (did not finish)
Doctor Who: The Ark, by Paul Erickson
The Doctor Who Yearbook 1995, eds Gary Russell and Peri Goodbold

~6,900 pages (YTD 16,000) (counting 100 for the audiobook)
10/26 (YTD 23/59) by women (Moore, 3x Christie, 2x Buck, Sappho, Khaw, Warrington, Goodbold)
2/26 (YTD 4/59) by writers of colour (Khaw and Virdi)
5/26 reread (The Big Wave, Red Planet, The Fifth Elephant, Reckless Engineering, Doctor Who: The Ark)

195 books currently tagged unread, up 11 from last month (thanks to Gallifrey One), down 38 from February 2025.

Reading now
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins

Coming soon (perhaps)
Ghost Stories, by George Mann et al
Last Resort, by Paul Leonard
The Tribe of Gum, by Anthony Coburn

De gekste plek van België: 111 bizarre locaties en hun bijzondere verhaal, by Jeroen van der Spek
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson
The Future We Choose, by Christiana Figueres
From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and International Intervention, by David Chandler
Mantel Pieces, by Hilary Mantel

A Power Unbound, by Freya Marske
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
Drome, by Jesse Lonergan
Rebellion on Treasure Island, by Bali Rai
Enchanted April, by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, by Gabriela Mistral
Sourire 58, by Baudouin Deville et al
Trouble With Lichen, by John Wyndham
Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution, by James Tipton
Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

Non-fiction 6
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters), by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships, by Robin Dunbar
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
Renaissance- en barokarchitectuur in België, by Rutger J. Thijs
The Cuddled Little Vice, by Elizabeth Sandifer
Charlie vs Garret: The Rivalry That Shaped Modern Ireland, by Eoin O’Malley

Non-genre 6
The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie
The Colony, by Audrey Magee
The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath, by Sigrid Undset
Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie
The Grail Tree, by Jonathan Gash

SF 7
Collected Folk Tales, by Alan Garner
River Mumma, by Zalika Reid-Benta
Deep Secret, by Diana Wynne Jones
The Forgotten and the Fantastical: Modern Fables and Ancient Tales: No. 2, ed. Teika Bellamy
Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep, by Philip Reeve
Looking Glass Sound, by Catriona Ward

Doctor Who 10
House of Plastic, by Mike Tucker (audiobook)
Counterstrike, by Una McCormack (audiobook)
Agent of the Daleks, by Steve Lyons (audiobook)
The Domino Effect, by David Bishop
What Still Remains, by Adam Christopher (audiobook)
Frankenstein and the Patchwork Man, by Jack Heath
Doctor Who Annual 2026, by Paul Lang
Bessie Come Home, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)
London, 1965, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)
Sleeper Agents, by Paul Magrs (audiobook)

Comics 4
Best American Comics 2011, ed. Alison Bechdel
Time Trials: The Wolves of Winter, by Richard Dinnick et al
Bruxelles 43, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
Time Trials: A Confusion of Angels, by Richard Dinnick et al

~8,100 pages (counting 100 for each audiobook, and for the Sandifer essay)
13/33 by women (Sandifer, 3x Christie, Magee, Undset, Reid-Benta, Wynne Jones, Bellamy, Kuang, Ward, McCormack, Bechdel)
2/33 by writers of colour (Reid-Benta and Kuang)
4/33 reread (The Secret Adversary, The Grail Tree, Deep Secret, The Domino Effect)

186 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month, down 61 from January 2025.

Reading now
House of Open Wounds, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Elfland, by Freda Warrington
Reckless Engineering, by Nick Walters
Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein

Coming soon (perhaps)
Doctor Who – The Ark, by Paul Erickson
The Ark, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, by Christopher R. Hill
Liberation: The Unoffical and Unauthorised Guide to Blake’s 7, by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
De gekste plek van België: 111 bizarre locaties en hun bijzondere verhaal, by Jeroen van der Spek
The Future We Choose, by Christiana Figueres
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words, by Eddie Robson
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Dead Take the A Train, by Richard Kadrey
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, by Rory Carroll
Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Doors of Midnight, by R.R. Virdi
The Big Wave, by Pearl S. Buck
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Drome, by Jesse Lonergan
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Sourire 58, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
Trouble with Lichen, by John Wyndham

Non-fiction 6 (YTD 74)
Madame Prosecutor, by Carla del Ponte
The Spark that Survived, by Myra Lewis Williams
The Great Hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Decline of the English Murder, and other essays, by George Orwell
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, by David DeSteno
An Experiment with Time, by J.W. Dunne

Non-genre 1 (YTD 38)
The Good Wife of Bath, by Karen Brooks (did not finish)

Poetry 1 (YTD 4)
Gitanjali, by Rabindranath Tagore

SF 7 (YTD 111)
Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett
Salvage, by Emily Tesh
The Year Before Yesterday, by Brian W. Aldiss
Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch 
Metropolis, by Thea von Harbou
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle
Vanishing Point, by Michaela Roessner

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 28)
Time Zero, by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Empire of Death, by Scott Handcock

Comics 6 (YTD 35)
Sonic Boom, by Robbie Morrison et al
The Ray Bradbury Chronicles, Volume 3, by Ray Bradbury et al
Scotland, Épisode 1, by Rodolphe, Leo and Marchal
Ness: A Story from the Ulster Cycle, by Patrick Brown
Charlotte impératrice, Tome 1: La Princesse et l’Archiduc, by Fabien Nury and Matthieu Bonhomme
Spa 1906, by Patrick Weber and Olivier Wozniak

4,700 pages (YTD 72,700)
6/23 (YTD 109/293) by non-male writers (del Ponte, Lewis Williams, Woodham-Smith, Tesh, von Harbou, Roessner)
1/23 (YTD 32/293) by non-white writers (Tagore)
2/23 reread (The Year Before Yesterday, Time Zero)
185 books currently tagged unread, down 4 from last month (some acquisitions at Novacon!), down 75 from November 2024.

Reading now
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino
Winning Ugly: NATO’s War to Save Kosovo, by Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O’Hanlon
Adventures in Space, eds. Patrick Parrinder and Yao Haijun

Coming soon (perhaps)
Time Trials Volume 1: The Terror Beneath, by Warren Pleece et al
The Infinity Race, by Simon Messingham
Doctor Who: The Adventures After
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead, by Peter Grimwade
Mawdryn Undead, by Kara Dennison

Our Wonderful Selves, by Roland Pertwee
Yet More Penguin Science Fiction, ed. Brian Aldiss
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships, by Robin Dunbar
Lost In Time, by A G Riddle
Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, by Christopher R. Hill

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, by Samit Basu
Reeds in the Wind, by Grazia Deledda
The Enigma Score, by Sheri S. Tepper
The Leviathan, by Rosie Andrews
Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Dead Take the A Train, by Richard Kadrey
Best American Comics 2011, ed. Alison Bechdel
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch
Bruxelles 43, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
Red Planet, by Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Non-fiction 9 (YTD 53)
The Devil’s Chord, by Dale Smith 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff 
Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, by Paul Kincaid
Agent of Death: Memoirs of an Executioner, by Robert Greene Elliott
The Dream House, by Lee Berridge
My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion, by Michel Barnier
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, by Harry Pearson
Irish Conflict in Comics, by James Bacon
@Wouters Wondere Wereld, by Guy Gilias

Non-genre 3 (YTD 25)
The Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L. Sayers
Old Babes in the Wood, by Margaret Atwood
Black Mountain and other stories, by Gerry Adams (did not finish)

(Counting Old Babes in the Wood as non-genre, though there are several stories that are clearly sf.)

Poetry 1 (YTD 2)
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson

SF 13 (YTD 92)
Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, by Felicity Williams (did not finish)
Light in My Blood, by Jean Gilbert & William Dresden
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh
The Crawling Wood (Into the Mire), by Casey Lucas (did not finish)
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley 
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett 
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch 
The Last Song of Penelope, by Claire North
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings 
London Centric: Tales of Future London, ed. Ian Whates
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Thirst, by Amelie Nothomb

(Counting Thirst as fantasy, because it is about the crucifixion and resurrection told from the point of view of Jesus.)

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 21)
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack

Comics 4 (YTD 23)
Hyperion, by Robbie Morrison et al
Who Killed Nessie?, by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith
Inferno, by Gary Russell and John Ridgway
Somna: a bedtime story, by Becky Cloonan and Tula Lotay

8,600 pages (YTD 55,400)
15/32 (YTD 92/219) by non-male writers (Koff, Sayers, Atwood, Williams, Gilbert, Tesh, Lucas, Whiteley, North, Giddings, Jikiemi-Pearson, Nothomb, McCormack, Smith, Cloonan/Lotay)
2/32 (YTD 27/219) by non-white writers (Koff, Jikiemi-Pearson)
4/32 reread (The Five Red Herrings, Voyage to Venus, Feet of Clay, Deadfall)
209 books currently tagged unread, up 2 from last month thanks to summer acquisitions, down 91 from August 2024.

Reading now
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch 

Coming soon (perhaps)
The School of Death, by Robbie Morrison et al
Ghost Devices, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Omega, by Mark Griffiths and John Ridgway
Doctor Who: Lux, by James Goss
Musings on Mothering, ed. by Teika Bellamy
Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies, by Rick Edwards
Mother Ross: An Irish Amazon, by G.R. Lloyd
Het Zoet Water door de eeuwen heen, by Jean Binon
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King 
Annie Bot, by Sierra Greer
Final Cut, by Charles Burns 
“Two Hearts”, by Peter S. Beagle 
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire
The Years, by Annie Ernaux
The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng
Silence: A Christian History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Thief of Time, by Terry Pratchett
Amongst Our Weapons, by Ben Aaronovitch
An Experiment with Time, by J. W Dunne
Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle

Non-fiction 8 (YTD 44)
The Making of Martin Luther, by Richard Rex
F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid for It, by John Williams
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman 
Little Wars and Floor Games, by H.G. Wells
Around the World in 80 Games, by Marcus du Sautoy
Apostate, by Forrest Reid
Private Road, by Forrest Reid
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, by John Higgs

Non-genre 1 (YTD 22)
Inspector French and Sir John Magill’s Last Journey, by Freeman Wills Crofts

SF 15 (YTD 79)
Beautiful Star, by Yukio Mishima
The Revenant Express, by George Mann (did not finish)
Raven Heart, by Murphy Lawless
Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I, ed Marie Hodgkinson
Tides of the Titans, by Thoraiya Dyer
Ventiforms, by Sean Monaghan
The Blacksmith, by Barbara Howe (did not finish)
From a Shadow Grave, by Andi C. Buchanan
Spirits Abroad, by Zen Cho
We All Fall, by Helen Vivienne Fletcher
Tyrelia, by S R Manssen (did not finish)
Dragon Rift, by Eileen Mueller (did not finish)
Dark Winds Over Wellington: Chilling Tales of the Weird & the Strange, by TL Wood
The Master, by Louise Cooper
House of Odysseus, by Claire North

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 19)
A Small Semblance of Home, by Paul Phipps
Down, by Laurence Miles
Spectral Scream, by Hannah Fergesen

Comics 1 (YTD 19)
Fractures, by Robbie Morrison et al

6,000 pages (YTD 46,800)
13/28 (YTD 77/177) by non-male writers (“Lawless”, Hodgkinson, Dyer, Howe, Buchanan, Cho, Fletcher, Manssen, Mueller, Wood, Cooper, North, Fergesen)
3/28 (YTD 25/177) by non-white writers (Suleyman, Mishima, Cho)
1/28 reread (Down)
207 books currently tagged unread, down 17 from last month, down 92 from July 2024.

Reading now
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson

Coming soon (perhaps)
Hyperion, by Robbie Morrison et al
Deadfall, by Gary Russell
Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution, by Una McCormack
The Devil’s Chord, by Dale Smith 
Ringlet and the Day the Oceans Stopped, by Felicity Williams
Light in My Blood, by Jean Gilbert
Into the Mire: The Collected Works, by Casey Lucas
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis 
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff 
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett 
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch 
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley 
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings 
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch 
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King 
Final Cut, by Charles Burns 
“Two Hearts”, by Peter S. Beagle 
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire 
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, by Harry Pearson 
Old Babes in the Wood, by Margaret Atwood

Non-fiction 7 (YTD 38)
Ireland in the Renaissance, 1540-1660, ed. Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton
Castrovalva, by Andrew Orton
1913: The Year Before the Storm, by Florian Illies
The Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb (did not finish)
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past, by Christopher Hadley
The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration, by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays

Non-genre 2 (YTD 21)
Not So Quiet…, by Helen Zenna Smith
The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright

SF 7 (YTD 64)
A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske
The Prince of Secrets, by A.J. Lancaster (did not finish)
Would She Be Gone, by Melanie Harding-Shaw
“The Faery Handbag”, by Kelly Link
Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeannette Ng
The Impossible Contract, by K.A. Doore
The Green Man’s Quarry, by Juliet E. McKenna

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 16)
Ship of Fools, by Dave Stone
Fear Death By Water, by Emily Cook
Doctor Who: Castrovalva, by Christopher H. Bidmead

Comics 2 (YTD 18)
Panter, by Brecht Evens
Spent, by Alison Bechdel

5,500 pages (YTD 40,800)

12/21 (YTD 64/149) by non-male writers (Bunting, Smith, Enright, Marske, Lancaster, Harding-Shaw, Link, Ng, Doore, McKenna, Cook, Bechdel)
1/21 (YTD 22/149) by non-white writers (Ng)
5/21 rereads (The Burgundians, The Gallant Edith Bratt, “The Faery Handbag”, Ship of Fools, Doctor Who: Castrovalva)
224 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month, down 83 from June 2024.

Reading now
Beautiful Star, by Yukio Mishima
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future, by Mustafa Suleyman
The Making of Martin Luther, by Richard Rex
F**k Work, Let’s Play: Do What You Love and Get Paid for It, by John Williams

Coming soon (perhaps)
Fractures, by Robbie Morrison et al
Down, by Lawrence Miles
Spectral Scream, by Hannah Fergesen
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who, by by John Higgs
The Revenant Express, by George Mann
Raven Heart, by Murphy Lawless
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson
The Master, by Louise Cooper
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo, by Clea Koff
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch
Three Eight One, by Aliya Whiteley
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
Final Cut, by Charles Burns
“Two Hearts”, by Peter S. Beagle
Histoire de Jérusalem, by Vincent Lemire
A Tall Man In A Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians, by Harry Pearson
The Principle of Moments, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

Non-fiction 9 (YTD 31)
Jean Dubuffet: Jardin d’Email, by Roos van der Lint
Silver Nemesis, by James Cooray Smith
Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead, by Deborah Blum
Logopolis, by Jonathan Hay
The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641, by Brendan Kane
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, by Lea Ypi
The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce, eds. Gordon Noble and Nicholas Evans
Irish Unity: Time to Prepare, by Ben Collins
Improbable History, ed. Michael Dobson (did not finish)

Non-genre 2 (YTD 19)
thirteen fourteen fifteen o’clock, by David Gerrold
The Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West

SF 13 (YTD 57)
The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
So Let Them Burn, by Kamilah Cole
City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Amnesty, by Lara Elena Donnelly (did not finish)
These Burning Stars, by Bethany Jacobs (excerpt only)
Knowledgeable Creatures, by Christopher Rowe
On Vicious Worlds, by Bethany Jacobs (excerpt only)
The West Passage, by Jared Pechaček
Sunbringer, by Hannah Kaner (did not finish)
Countdown for Cindy, by Eloise Engle
The Water Outlaws, by S.L. Huang
A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery, by Curtis Craddock
Dislocation Space, by Garth Nix

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 13)
Beyond the Sun, by Matthew Jones
Doctor Who: Warrior’s Gate and beyond, by Stephen Gallagher
Doctor Who: Logopolis, by Christopher H. Bidmead

Comics 4 (YTD 16)
My Favorite Thing is Monsters, by Emil Ferris
The Eleventh Doctor Archives vol 3, ed. Andrew James
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
Terrorformer, by Robbie Morrison et al

7,200 pages (YTD 35,300)
13/31 (YTD 52/138) by non-male writers (van der Lint, Blum, Ypi, West, Bradley, Cole, Donnelly, Jacobs x2, Kaner, Engle, Huang, Ferris)
3/31 (YTD 21/138) by non-white writers (Bradley, Cole, Huang)
2/31 rereads (Beyond the Sun, Doctor Who: Logopolis)

231 books currently tagged unread, down 20 from last month, down 78 from May 2024.

Reading now
A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske

Coming soon (perhaps)
Ship of Fools, by Dave Stone
Fear Death by Water, by Emily Cook
Doctor Who: Castrovalva, by Christopher H. Bidmead
Castrovalva, by Andrew Orton

Ireland in the Renaissance, 1540-1660, ed. Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton
The Prince of Secrets, by A.J. Lancaster
Would She Be Gone, by Melanie Harding-Shaw
The Impossible Contract, by K. A. Doore

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb
“The Faery Handbag”, by Kelly Link
The Green Man’s Quarry, by Juliet E. McKenna
Métal Hurlant Vol. 1: Le Futur c’est déjà demain, by Mathieu Bablet et al
The Wren, The Wren, by Anne Enright
The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleyman
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Final Cut, by Charles Burns
The Iliad, by Homer, tr. Emily Wilson

Non-fiction 4 (YTD 18)
A Christmas Carol, by Jaime Beckwith and Leslie Grace McMurtry
Track Changes, by Abigail Nussbaum
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, by Jordan S. Carroll
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, by John Barton

Non-genre 3 (YTD 13)
The Research Magnificent, by H.G. Wells
The Friend Zone Experiment, by Zen Cho
Bealby, by H.G. Wells

Plays 1 (YTD 1)
The Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston, vol 3: Radio and Television Plays

Poetry 1 (YTD 1)
Calypso, by Oliver K. Langmead

SF 8 (YTD 28)
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed
Heavenly Tyrant, by Xiran Jay Zhao (did not finish)
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
The Undying Fire, by H.G. Wells
A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher
The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain, by Sofia Samatar

Doctor Who 1 (YTD 7)
Oh No It Isn’t!, by Paul Cornell

Comics 4 (YTD 8)
Sky Jacks!, by Andy Diggle, Eddie Robson and Andy Kuhn
The Child of Time, by Jonathan Morris, Dan McDaid, Mike Collins, Roger Langridge and Rob Davis
Star Trek: Lower Decks – Warp Your Own Way, by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio
We Called Them Giants, by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans and Clayton Cowell

6,400 pages (YTD 19,400)
8/22 (YTD 26/76) by non-male writers (McMurtry, Nussbaum, Cho, Mohamed, Zhao, “Kingfisher”, Samatar, Hans)
4/22 (YTD 11/76) by non-white writers (Cho, Mohamed, Zhao, Samatar)
3/22 rereads (Men At Arms, A Christmas Carol, Oh No It Isn’t!)
232 books currently tagged unread, down 1 from last month, down 99 from March 2024.

Reading now

The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
Joan and Peter, by H.G. Wells
Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger

Coming soon (perhaps)

Dead Man’s Hand, by Tony Lee et al
Dragon’s Wrath, by Justin Richards
Heroes and Monsters Collection, by Justin Richards et al
Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis, by Kevin Clarke
Silver Nemesis, by James Cooray Smith

The Vetting, by Michael Cassutt
Ganny Knits a Spaceship, by David Gerrold
A Short History of Brexit, by Kevin O’Rourke
All American Boys, An Insider’s Look at the U.S. Space Program, by Walter Cunningham

The Vegetarian, by Kang Han
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, by Lea Ypi
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb
Métal Hurlant Vol. 1: Le Futur c’est déjà demain, by Mathieu Bablet et al
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis
Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch
Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch
Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Non-fiction 6 (YTD 14)
Inside the Stargazers’ Palace, by Violet Moller
Under the Lake / Before the Flood, by Kevin Decker and Ryan Parrey
War Childhood: From Sarajevo to Syria, Memories of Life and Hope, by Jasminko Halilović
Eastern Nights and Flights, by Alan Bott
Hooleygan: Music, Mayhem, Good Vibrations, by Terri Hooley and Richard Sullivan
From “Narnia” to a “Space Odyssey”: Stories, Letters, and Commentary By and About C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke, ed. Ryder W. Miller

Non-genre 5 (YTD 10)
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin 
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump, by H.G. Wells
Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H.G. Wells
The Queen’s Gambit, by Walter Tevis

SF 10 (YTD 20)
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki
Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh
A Brilliant Void, ed. Jack Fennell
The Professor in Erin, by L. McManus [Charlotte Elizabeth McManus] (did not finish)
Drowned Country, by Emily Tesh
“Hell is the Absence of God”, by Ted Chiang
Five Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
DallerGut Dream Department Store: The Dream You Ordered is Sold Out, by Miye Lee
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 6)
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual, by Richard Atkinson and Mike Tucker

Comics 2 (YTD 4)
De bondgenoten 1, by Brecht Evens
The Eye of Ashaya, by Andy Diggle, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Richard Dinnick et al

5,800 pages (YTD 13,000)
8/25 (YTD 18/54) by non-male writers (Moller, Alcott, Aoki, Tesh x2, McManus, Le Guin, Lee)
3/25 (YTD 7/54) by non-white writers (Aoki, Chiang, Lee)
5/25 rereads (Light From Uncommon Stars, Silver in the Wood, “Hell is the Absence of God”, Childhood’s End, Mission: Impractical)
233 books currently tagged unread, down 14 from last month, down 76 from January 2024.

Reading now
The Research Magnificent, by H.G. Wells
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett

Coming soon (perhaps)
Sky Jacks!, by Andy Diggle et al
Oh No It Isn’t!, by Paul Cornell
The Child of Time, by Jonathan Morris et al
A Christmas Carol, by Jaime Beckwith and Leslie Grace McMurtry

The Dramatic Works of Denis Johnston: Radio and Television Plays
Bealby, by H.G. Wells
The Undying Fire, by H.G. Wells
Joan and Peter, by H.G. Wells

Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, by Dr John Barton
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
The Vegetarian, by Kang Han
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
All American Boys, An Insider’s Look at the U.S. Space Program, by Walter Cunningham
Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb
Métal Hurlant Vol. 1: Le Futur c’est déjà demain, by Mathieu Bablet et al
Voyage to Venus, by C.S. Lewis

Non-fiction 8
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
Paddy Machiavelli: How to Get Ahead in Irish Politics, by John Drennan
Silence in the Library / The Forest of the Dead, by Dale Smith
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland, by Malachi O’Doherty
The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities, by Zoran Nikolić
Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, by Sam McBride
The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography, by Zoran Nikolić
How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir, by Hans Rosling

Non-genre 5
A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll
The Passionate Friends, by H.G. Wells
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
The Soul of a Bishop, by H.G. Wells
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, by H.G. Wells

SF 10
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
The Song, by Erinn L. Kemper
Vagabonds!, by Eloghosa Osunde
The Ultimate Earth, by Jack Williamson
Navigational Entanglements, by Aliette de Bodard
Sorrowland, by Rivers Solomon
The Lights Go Out in Lychford, by Paul Cornell 
Ithaca, by Claire North

Doctor Who 4
Doctor Who annual 2025, by Paul Lang
Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons
On Ghost Beach, by Neil Bushnell (audiobook)
Sting of the Sasquatch, by Darren Jones (audiobook)

Comics 2
The Hypothetical Gentleman, by Andy Diggle, Mark Buckingham, Brandon Seifert and Philip Bond
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain

7,200 pages
10/29 by non-male writers (McNicoll, Datlow, Harvey, Harpmann, Kemper, Osunde, de Bodard, Solomon, North, Bonvillain)
4/29 by non-white writers (Vuong, Osunde, de Bodard, Solomon)
2/29 rereads (The Ultimate Earth, Killing Ground)
247 books currently tagged unread, down 14 from last month, down 58 from January 2024.

Reading now
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin (group read, almost finished!)
De bondgenoten, by Brecht Evens
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Eye of Ashaya, by Andy Diggle et al
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
Doctor Who: TARDIS Type Forty Instruction Manual, by Richard Atkinson
Under the Lake / Before the Flood, by Kevin Decker and Ryan Parrey
A Brilliant Void, by Jack Fennell
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump, by H. G. Wells
Braver, Greener, Fairer: Memos to the EU Leadership 2019-2024, ed. Maria Demertzis
The Secret Places of the Heart, by H. G. Wells
Silver in the Wood, by Emily Tesh
Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott
DallerGut Dream Department Store: The Dream You Ordered is Sold Out, by Miye Lee
Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths, by Dr John Barton
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
“Hell is the Absence of God”, by Ted Chiang
City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Footnotes in Gaza, by Joe Sacco
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart van Loo
All American Boys, An Insider’s Look at the U.S. Space Program, by Walter Cunningham
Ancient Paths, by Graham Robb
Métal Hurlant Vol. 1: Le Futur c’est déjà demain, by Mathieu Bablet et al

(Books in italics were also on last month’s list.)

Non-fiction 8 (YTD 81)
Tudor Court Culture, eds. Thomas Betteridge & Anna Riehl
The Tudor Discovery of Ireland, by Christopher Maginn and Steven G. Ellis
The Geraldines: An Experiment In Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald
The Roommate of Anne Frank, by Nanda van der Zee
Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel, ed. Bernard Montoneri
Yanks Behind the Lines: How the Commission for Relief in Belgium Saved Millions from Starvation During World War I, by Jeffrey B. Miller
Ascension of the Cybermen & The Timeless Children, by Ryan Bradley
The Deep State of Europe: Welcome to Hell, by Basil Coronakis

Non-genre 7 (YTD 32)
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
La piège aux maris, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
Les débuts de la forgeronne, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
The Harvey Girls, by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Marriage, by H.G. Wells
Creed Country, by Jenny Overton

SF 5 (YTD 81)
The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling
Lost Objects, by Marian Womack
Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman
What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War, by Ernest Bramah
Drowned Ammet, by Diana Wynne Jones

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 30)
Synthespians™, by Craig Hinton
Doctor Who: Rogue, by Kate Herron and Briony Redman

Comics 4 (YTD 32)
The Ripper, by Tony Lee
The Nikopol Trilogy: A Bedlam of Immortals, by Enki Bilal
The Nikopol Trilogy: The Woman Trap, by Enki Bilal
The Nikopol Trilogy: Cold Equator, by Enki Bilal

6,400 pages (YTD 64,300)
8/26 (YTD 110/262) by non-male writers (Riehl, van der Zee, Rattazzi, Buck, Overton, Womack, Wynne Jones, Herron/Redman)
None (YTD 26/262) by a non-white writer, for second month running – rather poor of me
5/26 rereads (The Moonstone, Forever Peace, Creed Country, Synthespians™, The Nikopol Trilogy: A Bedlam of Immortals)
259 books currently tagged unread, down 8 from last month, down 79 from November 2023.

Reading now
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin (group read)
The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, eds Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Authors of their Lives, by David A. Gerber

Coming soon (perhaps)
When Worlds Collide, by Tony Lee et al
Palace of the Red Sun, by Christopher Bulis
Eden Rebellion, by Abi Falaise
The Aztecs, by Doris V Sutherland
Collected Plays and Teleplays, by Flann O’Brien
The Sea Lady, by H.G. Wells
The Peacock Cloak, by Chris Beckett
The Passionate Friends, by H.G. Wells
M Leuven Collectie Schilderijen, by Lorne Campbell
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
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling
The Crown of Dalemark, by Diana Wynne Jones
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett
Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis
“The Ultimate Earth”, by Jack Williamson
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
Vagabonds!, by Eloghosa Osunde

Non-fiction 10 (YTD 73)
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future, by Jenny Uglow
Yes Taoiseach: Irish Politics From Behind Closed Doors, by Frank Dunlop
New State, Modern Statesman: Hashim Thaçi – A Biography, by Roger Boyer and Suzy Jagger  
1066 and All That, by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman (I know, questionable as to whether it’s non-fiction, but it is presented as such)
Midnight, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, by Steve Silberman
Richard II: A Brittle Glory, by Laura Ashe
Ireland under Elizabeth and James I, ed. Henry Morley
Irish Demons, by Joan Fitzpatrick
Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922, ed. Edmund Curtis & R.B. McDowell

SF 4 (YTD 76)
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
A Friend of the Earth, by T.C. Boyle
Austria in the Year 2020, by Josef von Neupauer

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 28)
Burning Heart, by Dave Stone
Doctor Who: 73 Yards, by Scott Handcock

Comics 6 (YTD 28)
The Sapling: Branches, by Alex Paknadel et al
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Sunstone, vol 2, by Stjepan Sejić
Return to Kosovo, by Gani Jakupi and Jorge González
Barcelona, âme noire, by Ruben Pellejero, Eduard Torrents, Martín Pardo, Denis Lapière, Gani Jakupi
Superman & Batman Generations 3: The 21st Century!, by John Byrne

5,700 pages (YTD 57,900)
4/22 (YTD 102/236) by non-male writers (Uglow, Jagger, Ashe, Fitzpatrick)
None (YTD 26/236) by a non-white writer
3/22 rereads (1066 and All That, Night Watch I think, Burning Heart)

267 books currently tagged unread, down 15 from last month, down 77 from October 2023.

Reading now
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling
Tudor Court Culture, eds. Thomas Betteridge & Anna Riehl
The Geraldines: An Experiment In Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald

Coming soon (perhaps) 
The Ripper, by Tony Lee
Synthespians™, by Craig Hinton 
Doctor Who: Rogue, by Kate Herron and Briony Redman 
Ascension of the Cybermen & The Timeless Children, by Ryan Bradley
The Roommate of Anne Frank, by Nanda van der Zee
Lost Objects, by Marian Womack
What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War, by Ernest Bramah
Marriage, by H.G. Wells
Authors of their Lives, by David Gerber
Collected Plays and Teleplays, by Flann O’Brien
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 
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling 
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch 
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain 
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett

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

Non-fiction 14 (YTD 55)
Memoirs of Mrs Margaret Leeson
The Sky at Night Book of the Moon, by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore, by Julie Peakman (did not finish)
Why Politicians Lie About Trade, by Dmitry Grozoubinski
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650, by Clodagh Tait
The Edge of Destruction, by Simon Guerrier
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life, by Samantha Ellis
Imagining Ireland’s Independence, by Jason K. Knick
Comparing Electoral Systems, by David M. Farrell
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
Preventable, by Devi Sridhar
Persians, by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (did not finish)
The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris
The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell, by Monica Blackett

Non-genre 5 (YTD 23)
Companion Piece, by Ali Smith
The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Lydia, by Paula Goode (did not finish)
A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Poetry 1 (YTD 4)
Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein

SF 7 (YTD 61)
Darkening Skies, by Juliet E. McKenna
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless (did not finish)
Carrie, by Stephen King
Redeemer, by C.E. Murphy
334, by Thomas M. Disch

Doctor Who 3 (YTD 23)
Warmonger, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: Kerblam!, by Pete McTighe
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction, by Nigel Robinson

Comics 1 (YTD 21)
The Sapling: Growth, by Rob Williams et al

7,400 pages (YTD 45,500)
16/31 (YTD 87/188) by non-male writers (Leeson/Plunkett, Aderin-Pocock, Peakman, Tait, Ellis, Mazzucato, Sridhar, Harris, Blackett, Smith, Chandler Warner, Goode, Howard, McKenna, Enriquez, Murphy)
3/31 (YTD 26/188) by a non-white writer (Aderin-Pocock, Sridhar, Harris)
3/31 rereads (334, Warmonger, Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction)
300 books currently tagged unread, up only 1 from last month despite Worldcon, down 59 from August 2023.

Reading now
Titan, by John Varley
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Ernest Shackleton
A Crack in Everything, by Ruth Frances Long

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Sapling: Roots, by George Mann et al
Grave Matter, by Justin Richards
Doctor Who: Space Babies, by Alison Rumfitt
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol, by Graeme Curry
The Happiness Patrol, by Mike Stack
Political, Electoral and Spatial Systems, by R. J. Johnston
Church and State in Tudor Ireland: A History of Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics, 1543-1603, by Robert Dudley Edwards
Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings, ed. Jennifer FitzGerald
Yes Taoiseach: Irish Politics From Behind Closed Doors, by Frank Dunlop
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
The Spellcoats, by Diana Wynne Jones
Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Desdemona and the Deep, by C. S. E. Cooney
“They Will Dream in the Garden” by Gabriela Damián Miravete
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
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, by Ernest Bramah
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, by Steve Silberman

Non-fiction 5 (YTD 41)
The Combined 2001 Election, by NISRA
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Lower German Limes, by David J. Breeze, Sonja Jill, Erik P. Graafstal, Willem J.H. Willems and Steve Bödecker
Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece to Life, by Jonathan Bardon
Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective, eds. Lawrence Leduc, Richard G. Niemi, Pippa Norris
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, by Dale Smith

Poetry 2 (YTD 3)
How to be Invisible: Lyrics, by Kate Bush
The Cure at Troy, by Seamus Heaney

SF 7 (YTD 54)
Godkiller, by Hannah Kaner
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse (did not finish)
The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz (did not finish)
“The Martian Child”, by David Gerrold
Who Runs the World?, by Virginia Bergin

Doctor Who 4 (YTD 20)
The Ultimate Treasure, by Christopher Bulis
The Waters of Mars, by Phil Ford
Caged, by Una McCormack
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, by Stephen Wyatt

Comics 2 (YTD 20)
The Malignant Truth, by Si Spurrier et al
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé

3,700 pages (YTD 38,100) 
8/20 (YTD 71/157) by non-male writers (Jill, Norris, Bush, Kaner, Roanhorse, Dean, Bergin)
2/20 (YTD 23/157) by a non-white writer (Roanhorse, Dean)
4/20 rereads (“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, “The Martian Child”, Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, L’Affaire Tournesol)
299 books currently tagged unread, down 8 from last month, down 61 from July 2023.

Reading now
Darkening Skies, by Juliet E. McKenna
Memoirs of Mrs Margaret Leeson
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Sky at Night Book of the Moon, by Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Sapling: Growth, by Rob Williams et al
Warmonger, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: Kerblam!, by Pete McTighe
Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction, by Nigel Robinson
The Edge of Destruction, by Simon Guerrier
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore, by Julie Peakman
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650, by Clodagh Tait
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life, by Samantha Ellis
Comparing Electoral Systems, by David M. Farrell
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Spellcoats, by Diana Wynne Jones
Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Desdemona and the Deep, by C. S. E. Cooney
“They Will Dream in the Garden” by Gabriela Damián Miravete
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Ernest Shackleton
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman
Bellatrix, Tome 1, by Leo
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy

Non-fiction 4 (YTD 36)
Flying from Malone, by Guy Warner
Electoral Laws and their Political Consequences, eds. Bernard Grofman and Arend Lijphart
Ten Years to Save the West, by Liz Truss
The Myth Makers, by Ian Potter

Non-genre 4 (YTD 18)
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame, by Ag Apolloni
The Virgin In The Garden, by A.S. Byatt

SF 8 (YTD 47)
Unraveller, by Frances Hardinge
To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, by Moniquill Blackgoose
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath, by Garth Nix
I AM AI, by Ai Jiang
Linghun by Ai Jiang
If Found Return to Hell, by Em X. Liu
The Death I Gave Him, by Em X. Liu
Dangerous Waters, by Juliet E. McKenna

Doctor Who 4 (YTD 16)
Ruby Red, by Georgia Cook
Fear of the Dark, by Trevor Baxendale
Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood, by Keith Temple
Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, by Donald Cotton

Comics 4 (YTD 18)
Your Wish is My Command [Shubeik Lubeik], by Deena Mohammed
The One, by Si Spurrier et al
Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder, by Tula Lotay and Scott Snyder
Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet

7,300 pages (YTD 34,400) 
13/24 (YTD 63/137) by non-male writers (Truss, Howard, Byatt, Hardinge, Blackgoose, Jiang x 2, Liu x 2, McKenna, Cook, Mohammed, Lotay)
5/24 (YTD 21/137) by a non-white writer (Blackgoose, Jiang x 2, Liu x 2)
3/24 rereads (Doctor Zhivago, Fear of the Dark, Doctor Who: The Myth Makers)

307 books currently tagged unread, down 2 from last month, not tallied in June 2023.

Reading now
Godkiller, by Hannah Kamer

Coming soon (perhaps)
The Malignant Truth, by Si Spurrier et al
The Ultimate Treasure, by Christopher Bulis
The Waters of Mars, by Phil Ford
Caged, by Una McCormack
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, by Stephen Wyatt
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, by Dale Smith
The Combined 2001 Election, by NISRA
Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece, by Jonathan Bardon
How to be Invisible: Lyrics, by Kate Bush
Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective, eds. Lawrence Leduc, Richard G. Niemi, Pippa Norris
Darkening Skies, by Juliet E. McKenna
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Who Runs the World?, by Virginia Bergin
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Spellcoats, by Diana Wynne Jones
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
South, by Ernest Shackleton
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins

[Doctor Who] The Ultimate Treasure by Christopher Bulis (1998)

Non-fiction 7 (YTD 32)
The Notes and Commonplace Book of H.P. Lovecraft, ed. Sean Brandy and Andrew Leaman
My Mama, Cass: A Memoir, by Owen Elliot-Kugell
The Heart’s Time, ed. Janet Morley
The Girl Who Died, by Tom Marshall
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time, by Natalie Grueninger
A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

SF 12 (YTD 39)
Starter Villain, by John Scalzi
Moroda, by L.L. McNeil (did not finish)
Promises Greater Than Darkness, by Charlie Jane Anders (did not finish)
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh
Seeds of Mercury, by Wang Jinkang
Rose/House, by Arkady Martine
Orlanda, by Jacqueline Harpman
Witch King, by Martha Wells
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Abeni’s Song, by P. Djèlí Clark
Black Helicopters, by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Doctor Who 6 (YTD 12)
Imaginary Friends, by Jacqueline Rayner
The Cradle, by Tasha Suri
The Self-Made Man, by Mark Griffiths
The Angel of Redemption, by Nikita Gill
Wannabes, by Dave Rudden
The Monster in the Cupboard, by Kalynn Bayron

Comics 3 (YTD 14)
The Then and the Now, by Si Spurrier et al
The Three Body Problem, Part One, by SFCF Studio
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray

5,900 pages (YTD 27,100) 
16/28 (YTD 50/113) by non-male writers (Elliot-Kugell, Morley, Grueninger, Weinersmith, McNeil, Anders, Chant, Tesh, Martine, Harpman, Wells, Kiernan, Rayner, Suri, Gill, Bayron)
6/28 (YTD 16/113) by a non-white writer (Wang, Clark, Suri, Gill, Bayron, Three Body Problem creators)
2/28 rereads (Hiroshima, Small Gods)

309 books currently tagged unread, down 5 from last month, down 61 from May 2023.

Reading now
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Unraveller, by Frances Hardinge

Coming soon (perhaps)
The One, by Si Spurrier et al
Fear of the Dark, by Trevor Baxendale
Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood, by Keith Temple
Doctor Who: The Myth Makers, by Donal Cotton
The Myth Makers, by Ian Potter
Dangerous Waters, by Juliet E McKenna
The Combined 2001 Election, by NISRA
Hallelujah: The Story of a Musical Genius & the City That Brought His Masterpiece, by Jonathan Bardon
How to be Invisible: Lyrics, by Kate Bush
Comparing Electoral Systems, by David M. Farrell
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Virgin In The Garden, by A.S. Byatt
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Who Runs the World?, by Virginia Bergin
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, by Mariana Mazzucato
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
South, by Ernest Shackleton
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
All Change, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins

Non-fiction 10 (YTD 25)
All These Worlds, by Niall Harrison
Kinda, by Frank Collins
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Flux, ed. Paul Driscoll
The Devil Kissed Her, by Kathy Watson
Belfast: Approach to Crisis, by Ian Budge and Cornelius O’Leary
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People, by Feargal Cochrane
The Return of Marco Polo’s World, by Robert Kaplan
Chindit Column 76, by W.A. Wilcox
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Non-genre 3 (YTD 14)
The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse
De verdwijning, by Guido Eekhout
DOOM 94, by Jānis Joņevs

SF 11 (YTD 27)
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
Reminiscences of a Bachelor, by Sheridan Le Fanu
Mammoths at the Gates, by Nghi Vo
Translation State, by Ann Leckie
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch
Liberty’s Daughter, by Naomi Kritzer
The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera
Life Does Not Allow Us To Meet, by He Xi
Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher
The Mimicking of Known Successes, by Malka Older
When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 6)
Doctor Who: Kinda, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road, by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

Comics and art books 5 (YTD 11)
Conversion, by Al Ewing et al
Saga, vol 11 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Ara Güler’s Istanbul: 40 Years of Photographs
The Witches of World War II, by Paul Cornell and Valeria Burzo
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott

7,500 pages (YTD 21.200) 
12/31 (YTD 34/85) by non-male writers (Watson, Chakraborty, Vo, Leckie, Kritzer, “Kingfisher”, Older, McLemore, Jikiemi-Pearson, Staples, Burzo, DeConnick/Scott)
9/31 (YTD 10/85) by a non-white writer (Chakraborty, Vo, Chandrasekera, He, Older, McLemore, Jikiemi-Pearson, Staples, Jimenez/Ha)
1/31 rereads (Doctor Who: Kinda)

314 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month, down 75 from April 2023.

Reading now (as of last night)
Starter Villain, by John Scalzi
The Then and the Now, by Si Spurrier et al

Coming soon (perhaps)
Imaginary Friends, by Jacqueline Rayner
The Cradle, by Tasha Suri
The Self-Made Man, by Mark Griffiths
The Angel of Redemption, by Nikita Gill
Wannabes, by Dave Rudden
The Monster in the Cupboard, by Kalynn Bayron
The Girl Who Died, by Tom Marshall
Moroda, by L.L. McNeil
Belfast City Hall: One Hundred Years, by Gillian McIntosh
Black Helicopters, by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time, by Natalie Grueninger
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Virgin In The Garden, by A.S. Byatt
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
Who Runs the World?, by Virginia Bergin
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Hard to Be a God, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
South, by Ernest Shackleton

Hugos have been a distraction – I read fewer books this month than in any month since March 2019 and March 2017, the two previous times that I was supervising the close of Hugo nominations as Administrator.

Non-fiction 4 (YTD 15)
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, by Isabel Hardman 
Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction, ed. Chinuo Onwualu
A Traveller in Time: The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan
Paradise Towers, by John Toon

Non-genre 2 (YTD 11)
Confusion, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Those Pricey Thakur Girls, by Anuja Chauhan

SF 4 (YTD 15)
Shigidi and the  Brass Head of Obalufon, by Wole Talabi
Airside, by Christopher Priest
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
Sleepers of Mars, by John Wyndham

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 4)
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks, by Frazer Hines
Doctor Who – Paradise Towers, by Stephen Wyatt

Comics 1 (YTD 6)
Serve You, by Al Ewing, Rob Williams et al 

3,200 pages (YTD 13,700) 
6/13 (YTD 22/54) by non-male writers (Hardman, Onwualu, Speller/Allan, Howard, Chauhan, Butler)
3/13 (YTD 6/41) by a non-white writer (Onwualu, Chauhan, Talabi)
1/13 rereads (Doctor Who – Paradise Towers)

321 books currently tagged unread, up 12 from last month (thanks to shortlists and Eastercon purchases), down 74 from March 2023.

Reading now
De verdwijning, by Guido Eekhout
The Code of the Woosters, by P.G. Wodehouse
All These Worlds, by Niall Harrison, by Niall Harrison

Coming soon (perhaps)
Doctor Who: Kinda, by Terrance Dicks
Kinda, by Frank Collins
Return, by Simon Fraser et al
Reminiscences of a Bachelor, by Sheridan Le Fanu
DOOM 94, by Janis Jonevs
Ara Guler’s Istanbul: 40 Years of Photographs
The Return of Marco Polo’s World, by Robert Kaplan
Moroda, by L.L. McNeil
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Virgin in the Garden, by A.S. Byatt
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Hard to be a God, by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

Non-fiction 4 (YTD 11)
A Life in Questions, by Jeremy Paxman
David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, by Simon Guerrier
The Sunmakers, by Lewis Baston
Bletchley Park Brainteasers, by Sinclair McKay

Non-genre 5 (YTD 9)
Three Girls in a Flat, by Enid Yandell and Laura Hayes
Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien
The Smile on the Face of the Tiger, by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond
The Wheels of Chance, by H.G. Wells
Moonraker’s Bride, by Madeleine Brent

Poetry 1
The Odyssey, by Homer, tr Emily Wilson

SF 6 (YTD 11)
The Dawnhounds, by Sasha Stronach
The Fire Starters, by Jan Carson
Lizard Radio, by Pat Schmatz
The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman
Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
Sferics 2017, ed. Roz Clarke

Doctor Who 1 (YTD 2)
Doctor Who and the Sunmakers, by Terrance Dicks

Comics 3 (YTD 5)
Tintin au Pays de l’Or Noir, by Hergé
After Life, by Al Ewing et al
Sunstone, vol. 1, by Stjepan Sejić

4,900 pages (YTD 10,500) 
7/20 (YTD 16/41) by non-male writers (Yandell/Hayes, Wilson, Stronach, Carson, Schmatz, North, Clarke; “Madeleine Brent” is a pseudonym for Peter O’Donnell)
0/20 (YTD 3/41) by a non-white writer (must do better)
3/20 rereads (The Smile on the Face of the Tiger, Doctor Who and the Sunmakers, Tintin au Pays de l’Or Noir)

309 books currently tagged unread, up 4 from last month, down 76 from 28 Feb 2023

Reading now
Confusion, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, by Isabel Hartman

Coming soon (perhaps)
Serve You, by Al Ewing et al 
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks, by Frazer Hines
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers, by Stephen Wyatt
Paradise Towers, by John Toon
Doctor Who: Kinda, by Terrance Dicks
Kinda, by Frank Collins
De verdwijning, by Guido Eekhaut
Reminiscences of a Bachelor, by Sheridan Le Fanu
DOOM 94, by Janis Jonevs
Ara Guler’s Istanbul: 40 Years of Photographs
The Return of Marco Polo’s World, by Robert Kaplan
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
When Voiha Wakes, by Joy Chant
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray
“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge”, by Mike Resnick
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Wonderful Visit, by H. G. Wells
Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse
Casting Off, by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Non-fiction 7
Fatal Path, by Ronan Fanning
Rule of Law: A Memoir, by Glynnis Breytenbach
Anthro-Vision, by Gillian Tett
The Dark Queens, by Shelley Puhak
Blackpool Revisited, by John Collier
Vincent and the Doctor, by Paul Driscoll
The Talons of Weng-Chiang, by Dale Smith

Non-genre 4
The Beautifull Cassandra, by Jane Austen
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang
Murder in Mesopotamia, by Agatha Christie

Plays 2
The Talons of Weng-Chiang, by Robert Holmes, edited by John McElroy
Three Plays, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

SF 5
The Future, by Naomi Alderman
Attack on Thebes, by M.D. Cooper (did not finish)
Babel, by R.F. Kuang
“The New Mother”, by Eugene Fischer
“Georgia on my Mind”, by Charles Sheffield

Doctor Who 1
Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang, by Terrance Dicks

Comics 2
A Fairytale Life, by Lilah Sturges et al
Strawberry and the Soul Reapers, by Tite Kubo

5,600 pages 
9/21 by non-male writers (Breytenbach, Tett, Puhak, Austen, Christie, Alderman, Cooper, Kuang, Sturges)
3/21 by a non-white writer (Kuang x2, Kubo)
5/21 rereads (Tristram Shandy, The Talons of Weng-Chiang (script), “The New Mother”, “Georgia on my Mind”, Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang)
305 books currently tagged unread, down 7 from last month

Reading now
The Dawnhounds, by Sasha Stronach
The Odyssey, by Homer, tr Emily Wilson
A Life in Questions, by Jeremy Paxman
Tintin au Pays de l’Or Noir, by Hergé

Coming soon (perhaps)
After Life, by Al Ewing et al 
David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, by Simon Guerrier
Kill the Moon, by Darren Mooney
Doctor Who and the Sunmakers, by Terrance Dicks
The Sunmakers, by Lewis Baston
The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman
Sferics 2017, ed. Roz Clarke
The Smile on the Face of the Tiger, by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond
Bletchley Park Brainteasers, by Sinclair McKay
Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien
The Wheels of Chance, by H.G. Wells
Confusion, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Moonraker’s Bride, by Madeleine Brent
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Foxglove Summer, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray
L’Affaire Tournesol, by Hergé
The Sol Majestic, by Ferrett Steinmetz

Travel this month: Oslo, Paris, London, and tonight in Natick, MA, via Copenhagen.

Non-fiction 8 (YTD 79)
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, by Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost
The Hand of Fear, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Dalek, by Billy Sequire
All Things Made New, by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The J.R.R. Tolkien Miscellany, by Robert S. Blackham
One Foot in Laos, by Dervla Murphy 
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women, by Elizabeth Norton
Many Grains of Sand, by Liz Castro

Non-genre 2 (YTD 27)
The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
Under the Yoke, by Ivan Vazov

SF 5 (YTD 159)
The Road to Amber, by Roger Zelazny
My Real Children, by Jo Walton 
The Girl in the Road, by Monica Byrne
Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

Doctor Who 4 (YTD 32)
Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara, by David Fisher
Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear, by Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who: Dalek, by Rob Shearman

Comics 2 (YTD 26)
Facing Fate: Vortex Butterflies, by Nick Abadzis et al
Eldrad Must Live! by Bob Baker, Stephen B. Scott,  Andrew Orton and Colin Brockhurst

4,400 pages (YTD 82,000)
7/21 (YTD 141/330) by non-male writers (Murphy, Norton, Castro, Walton, Byrne, Leckie, illustrators of Vortex Butterflies)
None (YTD 42/330) by a non-white writer
9 rereads (The Prisoner of Zenda, My Real Children, The Girl in the Road, Ancillary Sword, The Metamorphosis, Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara, Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara, Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear, Doctor Who: Dalek)

338 books currently tagged unread – down 6 from last month.

Reading now
None – typing this up just after I finished The Metamorphosis on the plane.

Coming soon (perhaps)
Facing Fate: The Good Companion, by Nick Abadzis et al
Doctor Who: The Star Beast, by Gary Russell
Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion, by Terrance Dicks
Invasion of the Dinosaurs, by Jon Arnold
The Haunting of the Villa Diodati, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Giants at the End of the World, by Johanna Sinisalo
Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries, by Joan Russell Noble
Atlas of Irish History, by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Jaren van de olifant, by Willy Linthout
Marking Time, by Elizabeth Jane Howard
A Long Day in Lychford, by Paul Cornell
The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells
Our Share of Night, by Mariana Enriquez
Fevered Star, by Rebecca Roanhorse
Notes from the Burning Age, by Claire North
Land of the Blind, by Scott Gray et al
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas
“Georgia On My Mind”, by Charles Sheffield
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
The Lost Puzzler, by Eyal Kless
The Unsettled Dust, by Robert Aickman
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak