Currently reading
Equinox, by David Towsey
The Raven Scholar, by Antonia Hodgson
Annette Vallon: A Novel of the French Revolution, by James Tipton
Finished in the last week
The Lost Angel, by George Mann and Cavan Scott
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, by Gabriela Mistral
The Lost Magic, by Cavan Scott
Between Serb and Albanian, by Miranda Vickers
The Lost Planet, by George Mann
Holy Terrors, by Margaret Owen
The Invisible Parade, by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio
Sourire 58, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
The Lost Flame, by George Mann and Cavan Scott
Trouble With Lichen, by John Wyndham
April 2026 books
Non-fiction 9 (YTD 28)
Fantasy: A Short History, by Adam Roberts
Mantel Pieces, by Hilary Mantel
War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age, eds Andrew Bacevich and Eliot Cohen
NATO’s Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment, by Benjamin S. Lambeth (did not finish)
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning, by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes
The Daleks, by Oliver Wake
Oscar Wilde: A Biography, by Richard Ellmann
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, by Gabriela Mistral
Between Serb and Albanian, by Miranda Vickers
Non-genre 4 (YTD 17)
The Big Four, by Agatha Christie
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, by Zen Cho
Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
Capital Christie, by Agatha Christie
SF 4 (YTD 29)
Among Others, by Jo Walton
Star Eater, by Kerstin Hall (did not finish)
Holy Terrors, by Margaret Owen
Trouble With Lichen, by John Wyndham
Doctor Who 12 (YTD 32)
The Gods of Winter, by James Goss
Timeless, by Steve Cole
The House of Winter, by George Mann
The Chimes of Midnight, by Robert Shearman
The Sins of Winter, by James Goss
Doctor Who and the Daleks, by David Whitaker
Dr Who and the Daleks, by “Alan Smithee”
The Memory of Winter, by George Mann
The Lost Angel, by George Mann and Cavan Scott
The Lost Magic, by Cavan Scott
The Lost Planet, by George Mann
The Lost Flame, by George Mann and Cavan Scott
Comics 3 (YTD 9)
The Lost Dimension, Book One, by Nick Abadzis, George Mann, Cavan Scott et multi alii
The Invisible Parade, by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio
Sourire 58, by Patrick Weber and Baudouin Deville
~6,900 pages (YTD 27,300), counting each of the audiobooks as 100.
12/32 (YTD 46/118) by non-male writers (Mantel, Mistral, Vickers, Christie x 2, Cho, von Arnim, Walton, Hall, Owen, Stott/Melo et al, Bardugo)
2/32 (YTD 10/118) by writers of colour (Cho, Picacio)
5/32 reread (The Big Four, Among Others, Trouble with Lichen, Timeless, Doctor Who and the Daleks)
198 books currently tagged unread, up 4 from last month (Eastercon), down 53 from April 2025.
Coming soon (perhaps)
The Lost Dimension Vol. 2, by Cavan Scott et al
Sometime Never…, by Justin Richards
Jubilee, by Robert Shearman
Time’s Mosaic 9 – Eccleston, Torchwood and Quatermass, by Finn Clark
The Damnable Question, by George Dangerfield
Kosovo: the Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans, by James Ker-Lindsay
British Generals in Blair’s Wars, by Jonathan Bailey
Slow Horses, by Mick Herron
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
H is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
O the Chimneys, by Nelly Sachs
Ces lignes qui tracent mon corps, by Mansoureh Kamari
The Best of All Possible Worlds, by Karen Lord
Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Red Rabbit, by Alex Grecian
TUKI: Fight for Fire, by Jeff Smith
Green Twining, by Andrew Cheffings
