Title links to my diary, author links to Amazon.
Non-fiction
- And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis
- So you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson
- All Out War by Tim Shipman
- Men Explain Things To me by Rebecca Solnit
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- The KLF by John Higgs
- The Manual by Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty
- The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
- Year of the Fat Knight by Antony Sher
- The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré
- Spymaster by Tennent H. Bagley
- Cabin Fever by Mandy Smith
- The Raj at War by Yasmin Khan
- Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
- The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
- Raising Expectations and Raising Hell by Jane McAlevey
- Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by A.J. Pollard
- Becoming Shakespeare by Jack Lynch
- The Day Democracy Died by Anselm Audley
- The Little Book of Prison by Frankie Owens
- The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
- The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey
- Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- Dunkirk: A Miracle of Deliverance by David Boyle
- Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
- New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey
- The Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny
- All the Birds of the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
- Bloodline by Claudia Gray
- The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
- The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
- The Book of Etta by Meg Elison
- The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
- Ha’penny by Jo Walton
- Half a Crown by Jo Walton
- Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
- The Sunless Countries by Karl Schroeder
- Empire of Time by Daniel Godfrey
- The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts
- Sweet Dreams by Tricia Sullivan
- Night Waking by Sarah Moss
- Night School by Lee Child
- The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt
- The North Water by Ian McGuire
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Death of King Arthur by Simon Armitage
- The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
- Matchbox Theatre by Michael Frayn
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Christmas List by Chrissie Manby
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Another light year though I sped up at the end by giving up the smartphone in the evenings.
I have another 5 books which I've read but not written up, will roll them over to next year.
Highlights
Non-fiction:
Lots of good ones. "Becoming Shakespeare" was one of my favourites,
about how Shakespeare became an icon after his death. "All Out War"
was topical and revealing about the Brexit campaigns and associated politics.
SF: The Power by Naomi Alderman was a striking novel of reversal of gender roles, classic SF in exploring how a concept changes things. But the final two volumes of Jo Walton's "Small Change" trilogy were my favourites, great and plausible alternate history with good characters.
Non-SF fiction: A bit of a cheat as it's basically SF but not marketed that way: "The Underground Railroad" was a great and surreal reimagining of slavery in the US.
See you next year!
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