Non-fiction

1. Painting the Sand by Kim Hughes
2. Making a Success of Brexit and Reforming the EU by Roger Bootle
3. Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
4. Mind Games by Pamela Kole
5. The City: London and the Global Power of Finance by Tony Norfield
6. The Leveller Revolution by John Rees
7. Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marcal
8. Tear Gas by Anna Feigenbaum
9. Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics by Richard Seymour
10. Against Elections: The Case for Democracy by David Van Reybrouck
11. A Passage to Europe by Luuk Van Middelaar
12. A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman
13. Chickenhawk by Robert Macfarlane
14. Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
15. Democracy: A Life by Paul Cartledge
16. Fall Out by Tim Shipman
17. Pimp by Iceberg Slim
18. Carrier Pilot by Norman Hanson
19. The Five Giants by Nicholas Timmins
20. The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams
21. The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
22. Churchill in the Trenches by Peter Apps
23. Basic Income by Philippe Van Parijs
24. The Beatles' Evolving Revolution by James Woodall
25. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
26. Plato and the Tyrant by Anselm Audley
27. A Software Engineer Learns HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery by Dane Cameron
28. Real-World Maintainable Software by Abraham Marin-Perez
29. Compliance at Speed by Mark Lustig
30. October by China Mieville
31. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
32. Racing Through the Dark by David Millar
33. Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
34. Believe Me by Eddie Izzard
35. Mail Men by Adrian Addison
36. Skin in the Game by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
37. Where Shall We Run To? by Alan Garner
38. Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden
39. Bluffocracy by James Ball,Andrew Greenway
40. Pour Me by A.A. Gill
41. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation by David Edgerton
42. Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
43. Marx and Marxism by Gregory Claeys

1. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
2. Ashes of Candesce by Karl Schroeder
3. Blindsight by Peter Watts
4. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
5. The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
6. Crooked by Austin Grossman
7. Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
8. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy
9. In the Darkness by Luke Smitherd
10. Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
11. Artemis by Andy Weir
12. Raven Strategem by Yoon Ha Lee
13. Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
14. Dreams Before the Start of Time by Anne Charnock
15. The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy
16. Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
17. The Just City by Jo Walton
18. What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong
19. The Circle by Dave Eggers

1. This Love by Dani Atkins
2. The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills
3. The Midnight Line by Lee Child
4. False Lights by K. J. Whittaker
5. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
6. Conclave by Robert Harris

Overall picture
Slight uptick in overall numbers, but mostly pretty stable. No comics this year, I think it's partly because I'm worried the kid will be too interested.

Highlights
Non-fiction: Out of a lot of political books, "A Woman's Work" by Harriet Harman stood out as the best for going into the details of how practical politics works. "Adults in the Room" and "The Rise and Fall of the British Nation" were informative, but pretty grim. "Racing Through the Dark" as a good insight into professional cycling.

SF: "Ashes of Candesce" brought an excellent series to a great conclusion. "Ninefox Gambit" was kind of the opposite: a great beginning but a series that flagged later. "The Just City" by Jo Walton was great, don't know what the rest are like but it works well as a standalone. Margaret Killjoy's novellas were flawed but enjoyable.

Non-SF fiction: Not much this year but "The Maintenance of Headway" was a slight but entertaining novel about the everyday lives of bus drivers. "I Capture the Castle" deserves its statys as a classic.

That's all folks! See you next year.