Last books finished
The Sea Lady, by H.G. Wells
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
Bellatrix, Épisode 1, by Leo
La mexicaine, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
Bellatrix, Épisode 2, by Leo
In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
The Peacock Cloak, by Chris Beckett
Bicheville ou le Chemin du Paradis, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
December Reading
Non-fiction 5 (2024 total 86)
Authors of their Lives, by David Gerber
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times, by Michelle Obama
Hollow Places, by Christopher Hadley
How To Stay Sane In An Age Of Division, by Elif Shafak
The Aztecs, by Doris V. Sutherland
Non-genre 3 (2024 total 35)
The Nightwatch Winter, by Jenny Overton
La mexicaine, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
Bicheville ou le Chemin du Paradis, by Madame Rattazzi (née Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse)
Plays 1 (2024 total 3)
Collected Plays and Teleplays, by Flann O’Brien
SF 8 (2024 total 89)
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Aelita, by Alexei Tolstoy
The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, eds Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
The Sea Lady, by H.G. Wells
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
The Peacock Cloak, by Chris Beckett
Doctor Who 4 (2024 total 34)
The Force of Death (audiobook), by Andrew Lane
Palace of the Red Sun, by Christopher Bulis
Eden Rebellion, by Abi Falaise
Doctor Who: The Aztecs, by John Lucarotti
Comics 4 (2024 total 36)
When Worlds Collide, by Tony Lee et al
Sunstone, vol 3, by Stepan Sejić
Bellatrix, Épisode 1, by Leo
Bellatrix, Épisode 2, by Leo
5,700 pages (2024 total 70,000)
11/25 (2024 total 121/287) by non-male writers (Obama, Shafak, Sutherland, Overton, Rattazzi x2, Le Guin, ‘Kingfisher’, Yu/Yang, Emezi, Falaise)
4/25 (2024 total 30/287) by non-white writers (Obama, Yu/Yang, Emezi, Falaise)
3/25 rereads (The Word for World is Forest, Palace of the Red Sun, Doctor Who: The Aztecs)
261 books currently tagged unread, up 2 from last month, down 51 from December 2023.
Reading now
Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are, by William Godwin (group read)
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy
A Kind of Spark, by Elle McNicoll
The Passionate Friends, by H.G. Wells
Coming soon (perhaps)
Doctor Who annual 2025
The Hypothetical Gentleman, by Andy Diggle
Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons
Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead, by Dale Smith
Fifty Years On, by Malachi O’Doherty
The Soul of a Bishop, by H.G. Wells
A Brilliant Void, by Jack Fennell
Burned, by Sam McBride
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman, by H.G. Wells
I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
The Crown of Dalemark, by Diana Wynne Jones
Vagabonds!, by Eloghosa Osunde
Sorrowland, by Rivers Solomon
“The Ultimate Earth”, by Jack Williamson
Once and Future, vol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling
De bondgenoten, by Brecht Evens
Of the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a 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 (2020)
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2, ed. Karen Joy Fowler
Nine Lives, by William Dalrymple
Ithaca, by Claire North