Library

This is a list of all the books I've reviewed since 2001. Enjoy!

2025

• Specimens of German Romance; Volume II, Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann ★★★⯪☆
• Strong Female Character by Fern Brady ★★☆☆☆
• If there were no Shinkansen - High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan by Shuichiro Yamanouchi ★★★★☆
• The Battle of the Beams by Tom Whipple ★★★★★
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut ★★★★★
• A Quest for God and Spices by Dean Cycon ★★☆☆☆
• The Anarchy - The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple ★★★★☆
• The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris ★★★⯪☆
• Streaming Wars - How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever by Charlotte Henry ★★☆☆☆
• This Might Surprise You - A Breast Cancer Story by Hayley Gullen ★★★★★
• All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu ★★★★★
• Star Trek: Lower Decks, Vol. 1: Second Contact by Ryan North ★★★★★
• What Sheep Think about the Weather by Amelia Thomas ★★★☆☆
• The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi ★★★⯪☆
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett ★★★★⯪
• The World After Amazon - Stories from Amazon Workers by Xenia Benivolski ★★★☆☆
• Book Review: Problems Have No Sex - Caroline Haslett (1949)
• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk ★☆☆☆☆
• The World According to Cunk - An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever, Space Permitting by Philomena Cunk ★★★★★
• The Left Hand of Dog - An extremely silly tale of alien abduction by Si Clarke ★★☆☆☆
• First Contact by Becky Ferreira ★★★★⯪
• The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★☆
• Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman ★★★★★
• If Only They Didn't Speak English by Jon Sopel ★★⯪☆☆
• Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent ★★★★⯪
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price ★★★★★
• A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge ★★★★⯪
• The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals by Silvana Condemi and François Savatier ★★★☆☆
• Intimacy by Ita O'Brien ★★★☆☆
• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark ★★★⯪☆
• How to Land a Plane by Mark Vanhoenacker ★★★★☆
• Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ★★★★★
• Death Glitch - How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara Kneese ★★★★⯪
• Protective Practices - A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business by Jessica Borge ★★★★☆
• Book Review: The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (Standard Ebooks version)
• Learning to Think by Tracy King ★★★★★
• It's Not That Radical - Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach ★★⯪☆☆
• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes ★★⯪☆☆
• Great Robots of History by Tim Major ★★★⯪☆
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu ★★★★☆
• Fabulosa! - The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker ★★★★★
• The Wicked of the Earth by A D Bergin ★★★★★
• The Little Book of Ikigai - The secret Japanese way to live a happy and long life by Ken Mogi ★★☆☆☆
• The Man In The Wall by KJ Lyttleton ★★★★☆
• Machine Readable Me by Zara Rahman ★★★★☆
• Hive - Madders of Time Book One by D. L. Orton ★★☆☆☆
• Medieval Cats - Claws, Paws, and Kitties of Yore by Catherine Nappington ★⯪☆☆☆
• Web Accessibility Cookbook by Manuel Matuzović ★★★★★
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust ⯪☆☆☆☆
• The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser ★★★★⯪
• Queen B by Juno Dawson ★★★☆☆
• We Need New Stories - Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik ★★★★☆
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett ★★★★☆
• The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper ★★★★☆
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh ★★★★☆
• What If? 10th Anniversary Edition - Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe ★★★★☆
• Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck ★★★★★
• Rules for Radicals - A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky ★★★★☆

2024

• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley ★★★★★
• A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway ★☆☆☆☆
• Git Commit Murder by Michael Warren Lucas ★★★☆☆
• Platformland : An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public Services by Richard Pope ★★★★★
• When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi ★★★★★
• How Spies Think: 10 Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand ★★☆☆☆
• The Appeal by Janice Hallett ★★★★★
• 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman ★★★★★
• Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang ★★★★★
• How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill ★★★★☆
• The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson ★★★★⯪
• Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson ★★★★☆
• Myself When Young by Margot Asquith ★★★★⯪
• The Intergalactic Omniglot by Jenni Fleetwood ★★★★★
• Somewhere To Be by Laurie Mather ★★★★⯪
• Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield ★★★⯪☆
• The Pursuit of Purpose Part memoir, part study – A book about finding your way in the world by Ken Banks ★★★★☆
• Dystopia X by A.E. Currie ★★★⯪☆
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder ★⯪☆☆☆
• Relic by Alan Dean Foster ★★★⯪☆
• Understanding Privacy by Heather Burns ★★★★★
• Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde ★★★★⯪
• Fallen Idols by Alex von Tunzelmann ★★★★★
• The Doors of Opportunity by Rosalind Messenger ★★★★★
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★☆☆
• Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo ★⯪☆☆☆
• Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss ★★★⯪☆
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas ★★★★⯪
• How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner ★★★★⯪
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz ★★★⯪☆
• We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins ★★★⯪☆
• Julia by Sandra Newman ★★★★★
• How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole ★★★⯪☆
• The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde ★★★★☆
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins ★★★★★
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★★
• Babel by R.F. Kuang ★★★★★
• Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love by Barbara Sher ★★☆☆☆
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane ★★★⯪☆
• The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★☆☆

2023

• Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas ★★★★★
• Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 4 by Emily Brill-Holland ★★⯪☆☆
• Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants - Britain's First Female Crime Syndicate by Brian McDonald ★★★★☆
• Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser ★★★★⯪
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★⯪☆
• Hamlet, Prince of Robots by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★⯪
• The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya ★★★★☆
• The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures by Joanna Bagniewska ★★★★★
• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell ★★★★★
• Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction From Ukraine & The Diaspora by Valya Dudycz Lupescu ★★★★★
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand ★★★★★
• Bournville by Jonathan Coe ★⯪☆☆☆
• The Twilight of the British Empire: British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 by Chikara Hashimoto ★★⯪☆☆
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll ★★★★★
• Time Squared by Lesley Krueger ★★★☆☆
• The Variable Man and other stories by Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
• Hacking Capitalism: Modeling, Humans, Computers, and Money by Kris Nóva ★★★★☆
• The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow ★★★★⯪
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★★★⯪
• The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp ★★★★★
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus ★★★★☆
• Kill It With Fire - Manage Ageing Computer Systems by Marianne Bellotti ★★★★★
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight by Jonathan Strahan ★★★★☆
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock ★★★⯪☆
• Pleased! A short story anthology in celebration of The Beatles' Please Please Me album's 60th anniversary by Gayle Ramage ★★⯪☆☆
• Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation by Dennis Tenen ★★★★☆
• Engraved on the Eye by Saladin Ahmed ★★★★☆
• The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow ★★★☆☆
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi ★★★★⯪
• Invisible Planets by Ken Liu ★★★★☆
• Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasok Chang ★★☆☆☆
• It's Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan ★★★⯪☆
• Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey ★★☆☆☆
• The Constant Sinner by Mae West ★★★★★
• A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips & Jonn Elledge ★★★★★
• The Reincarnated Giant by Mingwei Song ★★★☆☆
• Radicalized by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
• "You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch ★★★★⯪
• Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton ★★★★★
• Shakespeare in Jest by Indira Ghose ★★⯪☆☆
• Leviathan Wakes: Book One of The Expanse by James S. A. Corey ★★★☆☆
• The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy ★★★★★
• Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by Qntm ★★★★☆
• The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight ★★★★★
• Denizen 43 by A. E. Currie ★★★★☆
• Portraits of Childfree Wealth by Jay Zigmont ★★★★☆
• Consider the Platypus by Maggie Ryan Sandford ★★★⯪☆
• Adventures in Space - New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers by Patrick Parrinder ★★★☆☆
• The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Loudon ★★★☆☆
• Pod by Laline Paull ★★★★☆
• 12 Bytes - How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live and Love by Jeanette Winterson ★★⯪☆☆
• If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable by Mikko Hyppönen ★★★☆☆
• Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman ★★★★★
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro ★★☆☆☆
• Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling ★★★⯪☆
• Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson ★★★★☆
• Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera ★★★★⯪
• More Zeros and Ones Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand by Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast ★★★★☆
• There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill ★★★★☆
• The Really Good Idea Test by Julia Shalet ★★★★★
• Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon by Martin Popoff ★★★⯪☆

2022

• Rising Tide by Jennifer Palgrave ★★★★☆
• Reality Is Broken - Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal ★★★⯪☆
• A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Dr Amanda Foreman ★★★★⯪
• The Bees by Laline Paull ★★★★★
• Gnomon by Nick Harkaway ★★☆☆☆
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ★★★★⯪
• The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter ★★★☆☆
• So, You Have to Write a Literature Review: A Guided Workbook for Engineers by Catherine G.P. Berdanier & Joshua B. Lenart ★★★★★
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers ★★★★⯪
• Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marçal ★★★★⯪
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor ★★★★⯪
• Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach ★★★☆☆
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova ★★★★★
• Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William J. Mitchell ★★★★⯪
• Sex: Lessons From History by Fern Riddell ★★★⯪☆
• Illegal Alien by Robert Sawyer ★★★★⯪
• Shakespeare and Immigration by Espinosa & Ruiter ★★★☆☆
• When HARLIE Was One, Release 2.0 by David Gerrold ★★★★☆
• An Unnatural Life by Erin K Wagner ★★☆☆☆
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
• Rhetoric of InSecurity; The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts by Victoria Baines ★★★★⯪
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson ★★★⯪☆
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ★★★★★
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm ★★★★★
• The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar ★★★★⯪
• Conundra by A.E. Currie ★★★★☆
• The Programmer's Brain - What every programmer needs to know about cognition by Felienne Hermans ★★★★★
• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy by Martin Paul Eve ★★★⯪☆
• The Uplift War by David Brin ★★★★⯪
• Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning ★★★★⯪
• Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons ★★★★★
• Ira Aldridge The African Roscius by Bernth Lindfors ★★★⯪☆
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi ★★★★★
• Startide Rising by David Brin ★★★★⯪
• Die With Zero by Bill Perkins ★★★★☆
• Doctor Who: The Vault by Marcus Hearn ★★★★⯪
• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Dr Shashi Tharoor ★★★★⯪
• The Empyrean by Katherine Franklin ★★★★☆

2021

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal ★★★★⯪
• The Medusa Chronicles by Alastair Reynolds & Stephen Baxter ★★★★★
• Future law : emerging technology, regulation and ethics by Lilian Edwards ★★★★☆
• The Idiot Gods by David Zindell ★★★★☆
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black ★★★★★
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz ★★★★★
• Disability and the Tudors All the King's Fools - by Phillipa Vincent Connolly ★★★⯪☆
• Glass Coffin by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch ★★★★⯪
• Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott ★★★★⯪
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo ★★★★★
• After Meat The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World by Karthik Sekar ★★★☆☆
• Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers by Riadh Habash ☆☆☆☆☆
• Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland ★★★★☆
• Sexual Revolution - Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny ★★★★⯪
• Such Big Teeth by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch ★★★★☆
• A Teaspoon and an Open Mind - The Science of Doctor Who by Michael White ★★⯪☆☆
• New Moons For Sam Becoming Kiwi – Life of a New Zealand Diplomat by Peter Hamilton ★★⯪☆☆
• All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black ★★★★☆
• The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Nikolić ★☆☆☆☆
• The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye ★★★★⯪
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson ★⯪☆☆☆
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ★★☆☆☆
• Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch ★★★★⯪
• Bias Interrupted Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good by Joan C. Williams ★★★⯪☆
• The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson ★★★★☆
• To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers ★★★★⯪
• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask ★★★★★
• Amatka by Karin Tidbeck ★★★★★
• Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang ★★★⯪☆
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu ★★★★★
• The Power of Privilege How White People can Challenge Racism by June Sarpong ★★★★⯪
• Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by Pat Cadigan; William Gibson ★★★★☆
• Clockwork River by J.S. Emery ★⯪☆☆☆
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman ★★★★☆
• The Cabinet by Un-su Kim ★★☆☆☆
• The Art of Statistics - Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter ★★★★⯪
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoë Playdon ★★★★★
• No Bath But Plenty Of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-73 by Lisa Power ★★★★☆
• The End of Bias How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell ★★★★☆
• DALEK by Robert Shearman ★★★★★
• Sinopticon 2021 : A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction by Xueting Christine Ni ★★★★★
• How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford ★★★★★
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin ★★★★☆
• Sundiver by David Brin ★★★★★
• The Happiness Revolution: A Manifesto for Living Your Best Life by Andy Pope and Paul McGee ★★☆☆☆
• Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan ★★★★★
• Difficult Women by Helen Lewis ★★★★☆
• Assassin's Orbit by John Appel ★★★⯪☆
• The Computer’s Voice - From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber ★★☆☆☆
• The 22 Murders Of Madison May by Max Barry ★★★★☆
• Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North ★★★★★
• Quarantine Comix by Rachael Smith ★★★☆☆
• A Brief History of Motion From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage ★★★⯪☆
• Record of a Spaceborn Few : Wayfarers 3 by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ★★★★☆
• Our Biggest Experiment by Alice Bell ★★★★★
• Handmade A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making by Dr Anna Ploszajski ★★★★★
• Agency by William Gibson ★★★☆☆
• A History of Women in Men's Clothes by Norena Shopland ★★★★⯪
• The Gameshouse by Claire North ★★★★⯪
• What White People Can Do Next From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri ★★★★☆
• Always On by Rory Cellan-Jones ★★★★★
• Good Data by Sam Gilbert ★☆☆☆☆
• Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn ★★★★⯪
• The Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore ★★★★☆
• Star Wars from a Certain Point of View by Various ★★★☆☆
• Feminist City Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern ★★★★☆
• Doctor Who - The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson ★★★★★
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth ★★★★☆
• Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen ★★★☆☆
• Kindred - Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes ★★★★☆
• Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Temi Oh ★★★★☆
• Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★⯪☆☆
• Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn ★★★★★
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers ★★★★★
• How To Invent Everything by Ryan North ★★★★☆
• The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis ★★★★☆
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton ★★★★★
• Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ★★★★★
• I'm a joke and so are you by Robin Ince ★★★☆☆
• BitCoin Hurricane by Kate Baucherel ★★★★☆
• Radical Help by Hillary Cottam ★★★★★
• Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★☆
• Humble Pi by Matt Parker ★★★★⯪
• Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy ★⯪☆☆☆
• The Problem with Men: When is it International Men’s Day? (and why it matters) by Richard Herring ★★★★★

2020

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman ★★★★☆
• Sweet Harmony by Claire North ★★★★★
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole ★★★★★
• Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker & James Goss ★★⯪☆☆
• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble ★★★★☆
• Shouting Zeros and Ones by Andrew Chen ★★★★★
• The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas ★★★★★
• Circe by Madeline Miller ★★★★★
• Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz ★★★★★
• Utopia Five by A.E. Currie ★★★⯪☆
• Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman ★★☆☆☆
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees ★★★★★
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch ★★★★★
• The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave ★★★★☆
• A Short Philosophy of Birds by Elise Rousseau ⯪☆☆☆☆
• The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett ★★★★⯪
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin ★★★⯪☆
• The Relentless Moon: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★★
• Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig ★★★⯪☆
• A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor ★★★⯪☆
• Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann ★★★★⯪
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini ★★★★★
• Philosophy of Race: An Introduction by Naomi Zack ★★★⯪☆
• ood Services - How to Design Services that Work by Lou Downe ★★★★★
• The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard ★★⯪☆☆
• The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett ★★⯪☆☆
• Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture by Dr Evie Kendal ★★★★★
• Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein ★★★★★
• This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith ★★★★★
• Touch by Claire North ★★★★⯪
• The Future of Feeling by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips ★★⯪☆☆
• Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions by Lois H Gresh ★★⯪☆☆
• Something Beginning With by Sarah Salway ★☆☆☆☆
• A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong ★★⯪☆☆
• The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North ★★★★⯪
• The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw ★★★★★
• Sapience by Alexis Lantgen ★★★★⯪
• Alone Together by Sherry Turkle ★★★★★
• The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White ★★★★⯪
• Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho ★★★★☆
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff ★⯪☆☆☆
• Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor ★★★★⯪
• The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato ★★★★☆
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium by Paul Kidby ★★⯪☆☆
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler ★★★★★

2019

• Mismatch by Kat Holmes ★★★★⯪
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar ★★★★★
• The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon ★★★★☆
• Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang ★★★⯪☆
• Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch ★★★★⯪
• Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine ★★☆☆☆
• The Five by Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★★
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman ★★⯪☆☆
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden ★★⯪☆☆
• Helpful Hackers by Chris van 't Hof ★★★★⯪
• A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier ★★☆☆☆
• Queer Privacy by Sarah Jamie Lewis ★★★⯪☆
• The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★⯪
• Jennifer Government by Max Berry ★★★★☆
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez ★★★★★
• Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet ★★★★☆
• Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson ★★★★⯪
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel ★★★⯪☆
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★★
• Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) by Scott Rieckens ★★★☆☆
• Do No Harm by Henry Marsh ★★☆☆☆
• The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Vs. Dracula by Loren D. Estleman ★★★★☆
• Deep Medicine by Eric Topol ★★★★☆
• The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross ★★☆☆☆
• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz ★★★⯪☆
• 84K by Claire North ★★★★⯪
• The Secret Barrister by Anonymous ★★★☆☆
• The City & The City by China Miéville ★★★★★
• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla ★★★★☆
• The End of the Day by Claire North ★★★★★
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman ★★★★☆
• How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin ★★★★★
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou ★★★★⯪
• Inferior by Angela Saini ★★★★★
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood ★★★★⯪
• Hello World by Hannah Fry ★★★⯪☆
• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel ★★★★☆
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker ★★★⯪☆
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov ★★★★★
• Longitude by Dava Sobel ★★★★⯪
• Death's End by Cixin Liu ★★★⯪☆
• This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay ★★★☆☆
• Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson ★★★★☆
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge ★★★★⯪
• Letters from Alcatraz by Michael Esslinger ★★☆☆☆
• Fukushima Dreams by Zelda Rhiando ★★★★☆
• The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross ★★⯪☆☆
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ★★★★☆
• Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates ★★⯪☆☆
• The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas ★★★★☆
• Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope ★★★★☆
• Was This in the Plan? by Stephanie Nimmo ★★★★★
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz ★★★★⯪
• Nina is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi ★★★★★
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling ★★★★★

2018

• Week Notes - Sick Note
• Week Notes 5
• Weeknotes 4
• Week Notes 2

2017

• Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag ★★★★★

2016

• Sci-Fi Holiday Reading

2015

• What I Read On My Holidays

2011

• Barefoot Into Cyberspace
• Holiday Reading

2010

• Holiday Book Reviews

2009

• The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism by Ellie Levenson ★★★★⯪

2001

• Review: Pratchett "The Last Hero" Illustrated by Paul Kidby