Title links to my diary, author links to Amazon.
Non-fiction
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Finest Years by Max Hastings
- The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
- Trigger Warnings by Jeff Sparrow
- Paul: A Biography by Tom Wright
- The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
- Political Ideals by Bertrand Russell
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
- The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
- Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey
- 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire. by Rebecca Rideal
- Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
- The Art of the Loophole by Nick Freeman
- Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
- Drug Wars by Neil Woods and J.S. Rafaeli
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah
- Hired by James Bloodworth
- The Dark Side of the Mind by Kerry Danes
- The Prison Doctor by Amanda Brown
- Where Power Stops by David Runciman
- Year of the Mad King by Antony Sher
- Daniels’ Running Formula by Jack Daniels
- Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
- The Private Life of the Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
- Kill the Black One First by Michael Fuller
- Running With the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn
- Hamlet: Globe to Globe by Dominic Dromgoole
- Hello World by Hannah Fry
- Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- The Secrets of Ghosts by Sarah Painter
- The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
- The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
- A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
- Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
- Necessity by Jo Walton
- The Enceladus Mission by Brandon Q. Morris
- The Night Raven by Sarah Painter
- Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
- Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds
- The Titan Probe by Brandon Q. Morris
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
- Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
- The Mangle Street Murders by M.R.C. Kasasian
- The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle
- Fat Chance by Nick Spalding
- An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
- Anarchy by Stewart Binns
- Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
- A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Lolita by Vladimr Nabokov
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Past Tense by Lee Child
- Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
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Overall picture
Not much change since last year, seemed to have settled down into a 60ish a year as a parent.
Thought the running might reduce the amount of reading, but thanks to audiobooks
it doesn't seem to have changed that much.
Had no comics at all last year, this year back up to 2 so they're hanging in there.
Highlights
Non-fiction.
"The Darkening Age" by Catherine Nixey was an opinionated
philippic against the Christian destruction of the classical world.
"Trigger Warnings" by Jeff Sparrow was a good look at modern politics.
"Inglorious Empire" by Shashi Tharoor summed up the British Empire.
"Drug Wars" by Neil Woods and J.S. Rafaeli gave some disturbing information
about corruption in the UK police.
Science fiction/fantasy.
"The Philosopher Kings" and "Necessity" by Jo Walton
brought the "Thessaly" trilogy, about the consequences of Greek gods
trying to reproduce Plato's Republic, to a great conclusion.
Non-SF fiction.
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
lived up to its reputation: an astounding book.
That's all! See you next year.
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