From the Heart of Europe

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Non-fiction: 10 (YTD 29)
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O'Driscoll
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
First Generation, by Mary Tamm
The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement, by Paul Bew
Better Than Sex, by Hunter S. Thompson
1913: The World Before the Great War, by Charles Emmerson
For the Love of a Mother: The Black Children of Ulster, by Annie Yellowe Palma
The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent, by Tim Crook
Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story, by John Bossy
Small Wonder, by Barbara Kingsolver


Fiction (non-sf): 3 (YTD 19)
Gigi, by Colette
The Cat, by Colette
A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr


sf (non-Who): 5 (YTD 56)
The Poppy War, by R.F. Kuang
Gateways, ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull
The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty
The Ghosts of Heaven, by Marcus Sedgwick
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells


Doctor Who, etc: 4 (YTD 17)
Night of the Kraken, by Jonathan Green
Adorable Illusion, by Gary Russell
Terror Moon, by Trevor Baxendale
The Showstoppers, by Jonathan Cooper


Comics 3 (YTD 15)
Plastic Man #1, by Jack Cole
Het Amusement, by Brecht Evens
The Story of Garth the Strong, by Stephen Dowling


6,900 pages (YTD 38,400)
9/25 (YTD 60/137) by non-male writers (Obama, Tamm, Yellowe Palma, Kingsolver, Colette x2, Kuang, Hull, Chakraborty)
4/25 (YTD 22/137) by PoC (Obama, Yellowe Palma, Kuang, Chakraborty)
2/25 (YTD 14/137) rereads (Better Than Sex, The Time Machine)

Reading now
Grimm Tales, by Philip Pullman
Kate Bush: Under the Ivy, by Graeme Thompson
De Bourgondiërs, by Bart Van Loo
Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace
The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter

Coming soon (perhaps):
The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory, by Deborah M. Withers
Berlin Book Three: City of Light, by Jason Lutes
Smallworld, by Dominic Green
Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
Alina, by Jason Johnson
Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text, by Brian Morris
Cat Country, by Lao She
Oyasumi, by Renee Rienties
The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Be My Enemy, by Ian McDonald
The Bastard of Istanbul, by Eilif Shafak
The Computer Connection, by Alfred Bester
Two Brothers, by Ben Elton
A Close Run Thing, by Allan Mallinson
How To Be Both, by Ali Smith
A Local Habitation, by Seanan McGuire
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
True Stories, ed. Xanna Eve Chown