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July Books

Non-fiction: 4 (YTD 27)
Splintered Light: Tolkien's World, by Verlyn Flieger
The Prisoner, by Dave Rogers
Gulp, by Mary Roach
The King's Speech, by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Splintered Light The Prisoner Gulp The Kings Speech

Fiction (non-sf): 4 (YTD 22)
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson
Ulysses, by James Joyce
The Sorrows of an American, by Siri Hustvedt

The Luminaries The True Deceiver Ulysses Sorrows of an American

SF (non-Who): 3 (YTD 77)
City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear (did not finish, 100 pages only)
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick
Kushiel's Mercy, by Jacqueline Carey

City at the End of Time A Scanner Darkly Kushiels Mercy

Doctor Who, etc: 6 (YTD 28)
Killing Ground, by Steve Lyons
Halflife, by Mark Michalowski
Ghost Devices, by Simon Bucher-Jones
Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal by William H. Keith, Jr.
Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gamble by William H. Keith, Jr.
Doctor Who - The Drosten's Curse, by A.L. Kennedy

Killing Ground Halflife Ghost Devices Vortex Crystal Rebels Gamble Drostens Curse

Comics : 1 (YTD 11)
Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, by Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot

Sally Heathcote

~6,300 pages (YTD 43,700)
9/18 by women (YTD 48/165) - Flieger, Roach, Catton, Jansen, Hustvedt, Kennedy, Talbot/Charlesworth
0/18 by PoC (YTD 11/147)

Reread: 2/18 (Ulysses, A Scanner Darkly), YTD 14/165

Reading now:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear, by James Shapiro
Lord Valentine's Castle, by Robert Silverberg
Divorcing Jack, by Colin Bateman

Coming soon (perhaps):
Building Confidence in Peace, by Erol Kaymak, Alexandros Lordos and Nathalie Tocci
A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England, by Suzannah Lipscomb
History, by Elsa Morante
Selected Essays, by Virginia Woolf
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lampiri
Naamah's Kiss, by Jacqueline Carey
Transition, by Iain Banks
11/22/63, by Stephen King
Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories, by Michael Moorcock
The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbø
The Twenty-two Letters, by Clive King
And Another Thing..., by Eoin Colfer
Meditations on Middle Earth
Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
The Wild Reel, by Paul Brandon
The Unlimited Dream Company, by J. G. Ballard
The Ancient Languages of Europe, by Roger D. Woodard
Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us: Or Why You Have No Idea How Your Mind Works, by Christopher Chabris
Girls in Love, by Jacqueline Wilson
Mission: Impractical, by David A. McIntee
The Tomorrow Windows, by Jonathan Morris
Mean Streets, by Terrance Dicks
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