Books I’ve read
I love reading! I always have a book on the go, and I can often be found between the shelves of my local library. I worked as a software developer at Wellcome Collection for seven years, where I got to see what makes a library tick.
I’m also a regular attendee of the London Ace Book Club, and have been since it started running in October 2022. It’s where I met my partner; we bonded over our love of books.
This page is where I keep notes on all the books I’ve read:
My favourite books from 2025
Sapphics and spies, butlers and basketball, prophecy and purpose – what I enjoyed reading this year.
My favourite books from 2024
Fires and fighters, heroes and horrors, suicide and surgery – what I enjoyed reading this year.
My favourite books from 2023
Storms and schools, escapes and exorcisms, murders and magic – what I enjoyed reading this year.
My favourite books from 2022
Romance and rust, gender and grief, horror and the House – what I enjoyed reading this year.
My favourite books from 2021
Aliens and aces, railroads and racism, dating and disasters – what I enjoyed reading this year.
Books I read in 2026
I’ve read 7 books so far this year:
What you are looking for is in the library, by Michiko Aoyama
A librarian gives five people a book and a felt toy that changes their life, but not in the way they expected. (★★★☆☆).
How to Love, by Alex Norris
A surprisingly sincere collection of advice about love and relationships which knows when to be funny and when to be serious. (★★★★☆).
Common Bonds, edited by Claudie Arseneault, C.T. Callahan, B.R. Sanders and RoAnna Sylver
A mixed bag of speculative fiction about aromantic experiences that I wish I’d had more time to read. (★★★☆☆).
Becoming, by Laura Jane Williams
A memoir about Williams finding a sense of identity and self-worth, which gets better the further you read. (★★★★☆).
Dream On, Ramona Riley, by Ashley Herring Blake
This is a romance novel, the first in a new Clover Lake series, and I found it disappointing. (★★★☆☆).
Lilith, by Nikki Marmery
This is a modern and feminist retelling of Lilith, a character I’m not very familiar with. (★★★★☆).
Dethroned in Knightsbridge, by Silvia Lemos
Poetry collection by a Mincefluencer friend. We’re not close enough for me to know the story behind each of the poems, but I can sense it from her writing. (★★★☆☆).
Books I read in 2025
I read 61 books:
Notes on a Nervous Planet, by Matt Haig
★★★★☆
Make You Mine This Christmas, by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
★★★★☆
Why You Should Read Children's Books, by Katherine Rundell
★★★☆☆
Something Wild and Wonderful, by Anita Kelly (did not finish)
There is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm
★★★★★
What the Past Did For Us, by Adam Hart-Davis
★★★☆☆
Treasury of Folklore: Seas & Rivers, by DeeDee Chainey & Willow Winsham
★★★★☆
The Devil She Knows, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★☆
The Official Guide to the Jurassic Coast, edited by Professor Denys Brunsden
★★★★☆
The Odd Woman and the City, by Vivian Gornick
★★★☆☆
Second Chances in New Port Stephen, by TJ Alexander
★★★☆☆
Transmutation, by Alex DiFrancesco
★★★☆☆
Finding Hester, by Erin Edwards, Greg Callus, Claudia Caplan Wolff, Rose Crossgrove, and Jack Lawrence
★★★★★
Goodnight Tokyo, by Atsuhiro Yoshida
★★★☆☆
Cinderella, retold by Brittany Mazique
★★★☆☆
Compound Fracture, by Andrew Joseph White
★★★★☆
The Lantern of Lost Memories, by Sanaka Hiragi
★★★☆☆
Library for the War-Wounded, by Monika Helfer (did not finish)
Mondays Are Murder, by Ravena Guron
★★★★☆
The End Crowns All, by Bea Fitzgerald
★★★★★
The Dog Sitter Detective, by Antony Johnston
★★★★☆
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line, by Hiro Arikawa
★★★★☆
Desert Echoes, by Abdi Nazemian
★★★☆☆
The Sound of Stars, by Alechia Dow
★★★☆☆
Love & Other Disasters, by Anita Kelly
★★★★☆
Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson
★★★☆☆
The Split, by Laura Kay (did not finish)
The King is Dead, by Benjamin Dean
★★★★☆
The Wildest Dreams Bookshop, by Gracie Page
★★★☆☆
How the Railways Will Fix the Future, by Gareth Dennis
★★★★☆
The Mill on Magnolia Lane, by Tilly Tennant
★★★☆☆
Wild Things, by Laura Kay
★★★★☆
My Murder, by Katie Williams
★★★★☆
NYC Storefronts, by Joel Holland
★★★★☆
How You Get the Girl, by Anita Kelly
★★★★★
Key Lime Sky, by Al Hess
★★★☆☆
Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint, by Russell Davies
★★★★★
What To Do When You Get Dumped, by Suzy Hopkins
★★★☆☆
The Appendix, by Liam Konemann
★★★★☆
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear, by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
★★★★★
The Mess We're In, by Annie Macmanus (did not finish)
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
★★★★☆
The Stasi Poetry Circle, by Philip Oltermann (did not finish)
Human Resources, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
★★★★☆
Sunrise on the Reaping, by Suzanne Collins
★★★★☆
Don’t Let the Forest In, by CG Drews
★★★☆☆
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
★★★★☆
The Distance Between Us, by Maggie O’Farrell
★★★★☆
The Day the World Came to Town, by Jim DeFede
★★★★☆
Mermaids Never Drown, edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker
★★★☆☆
The Heartbreak Bakery, by A.R. Capetta
★★★☆☆
Merriment and Mayhem, by Alexandria Bellefleur (did not finish)
Swordcrossed, by Freya Marske
★★★★☆
Merry Ever After, by Tessa Bailey (did not finish)
Cruel Winter With You, by Ali Hazelwood
★★★☆☆
Ace of Spades, by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
★★★★☆
Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
★★★★☆
Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
★★★★☆
Service Model, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
★★★★★
Make the Season Bright, by Ashley Herring Blake
★★★★☆
Herring in the Smoke, by L.C. Tyler
★★★☆☆
Books I read in 2024
I read 63 books:
Channel of Peace, by Kevin Tuerff
★★★★☆
Night Train, by David Quantick
★★★☆☆
The Meister of Decimen City, by Brenna Raney
★★★☆☆
Chinese Proverbs, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
★★★☆☆
Catch Your Breath, by Ravena Guron
★★★★☆
This Book Kills, by Ravena Guron
★★★★☆
Making It, by Laura Kay
★★★★☆
Before We Forget Kindness, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
★★★★★
Consumed, by Aja Barber
★★★★☆
Sheine Lende, by Darcie Little Badger
★★★★☆
Death at Morning House, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
Lover Birds, by Leanne Egan
★★★★★
Lunar New Year Love Story, by Guen Luen Yang
★★★★☆
Leave No Trace, by Mindy Mejia
★★★★☆
Freya's Gold, by Fiona Longmuir
★★★★☆
The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill, by Annie Darling
★★★★☆
Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami (did not finish)
Silo 49: Flying Season for the Mis-Recorded, by Ann Christy
★★★★★
Silo 49: Dark Till Dawn, by Ann Christy
★★★★☆
Silo 49: Deep Dark, by Ann Christy
★★★☆☆
Silo 49: Going Dark, by Ann Christy
★★★☆☆
Filippo, Me and the Cherry Tree, by Paola Peretti
★★★★☆
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins
★★★★☆
To Save Every One, by RNLI
★★★☆☆
Like A Charm, by Kerry Barrett
★★★☆☆
She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan
★★★☆☆
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, by Ian Stewart
★★★☆☆
Transcription, by Kate Atkinson
★★★☆☆
Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
★★★★☆
On the Come Up, by Angie Thomas
★★★★☆
The Philosophy of Cheese, by Patrick McGuigan
★★★★☆
Meet Me On Platform 3, by Zara Stonely
★★★☆☆
Spare Parts, by Marc Platt
★★★★☆
the letters i will never send, by isabella-dorta
★★★★★
Wasteland, by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
★★★★★
Truly, Madly, Deeply, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★☆
Herc, by Phoenicia Rogerson
★★★★★
The Fixer, by Claudia Carroll
★★★☆☆
Ending the Pursuit, by Michael Paramo (did not finish)
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe
★★★★☆
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
★★★★★
the ghosts that we leave behind, by Anne Maningas
★★★☆☆
From Hurt to Hope, edited by Mair Elliott
★★★☆☆
What If?, by Randall Munroe
★★★☆☆
How To Be a Normal Person, by TJ Klune
★★★☆☆
The Importance of Music to Girls, by Lavinia Greenlaw (did not finish)
The Reader on the 6.27, by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
★★★★☆
The Rest of Their Lives, by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
★★★★★
If I Have To Be Haunted, by Miranda Sun
★★★☆☆
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
★★★★☆
How to Be Perfect, by Mike Schur (did not finish)
Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, by Ashley Herring Blake
★★★★☆
Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn
★★★★★
The Secret Life of Cows, by Rosamund Young
★★★★★
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, by Ashley Herring Blake
★★★★☆
The Fire Never Goes Out, by Noelle Stevenson
★★★☆☆
At Midnight, edited by Dahlia Adler
★★★★★
The Girl on the Platform, by Bryony Pearce
★★★★☆
Fire Stations, by Billy Reading
★★★★☆
Hopeless Aromantic, by Samantha Rendle (did not finish)
Show Me The Bodies, by Peter Apps
★★★★★
Valuable Humans in Transit, by qntm
★★★★★
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail, by Ashley Herring Blake
★★★★☆
Books I read in 2023
I read 78 books:
The Diver, by WJ Davies
★★★★☆
The Watcher, by WJ Davies
★★★★☆
The Runner, by WJ Davies
★★★★☆
It All Adds Up, by Mickaël Launay
★★★☆☆
Now That I’ve Found You, by Ciara Geraghty
★★★☆☆
The Only Good Dalek, by Justin Richards and Mike Collins
★★★☆☆
She and Her Cat, by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa
★★★★☆
Dust, by Hugh Howey
★★★★☆
Shift, by Hugh Howey
★★★★☆
Wool, by Hugh Howey
★★★★☆
The Hard Road Out, by Jihyun Park and Seh-Lynn Chai
★★★★★
Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories, by Various authors
★★★☆☆
Before We Say Godbye, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
★★★★★
Strong Female Character, by Fern Brady
★★★★★
The Cat Who Saved Books, by Sosuke Natsukawa
★★★★★
Aces Wild, by Amanda DeWitt
★★★★☆
Colours of Film, by Charles Bramesco
★★★☆☆
Flying Blind, by Peter Robison
★★★☆☆
The Hollow Sea, by Annie Kirby (did not finish)
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, by Natasha Pulley
★★★★☆
Liftoff, by Eric Berger
★★★★★
Nine Liars, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World, by Laura Imai Messina
★★★★★
We had to remove this post, by Hanna Bervoets
★★★★☆
Practical SVG, by Chris Coyier
★★★★☆
How To Save a Life, by Clare Swatman
★★☆☆☆
500 Lines or Less, edited by Michael DiBernardo (did not finish)
The Twyford Code, by Janice Hallett
★★★☆☆
Gender Euphoria, by Maia Kobabe
★★★★☆
Paris by Starlight, by Robert Dinsdale
★★★★☆
A Snake Falls to Earth, by Darcie Little Badger
★★★★☆
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
★★★★☆
The Lego Trains Book, by Holger Matthes
★★★★☆
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson
★★★★☆
Beyond the Black Door, by A. M. Strickland
★★★☆☆
The Math Book, by Clifford A. Pickover
★★★☆☆
The Secret Life of the Otter, by Andy Howard
★★★★☆
We Are All Constellations, by Amy Beashel
★★★★☆
Ace, by Angela Chen
★★★☆☆
Sword in the Stars, by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
★★★★☆
Once & Future, by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
★★★☆☆
Deep Sea and Foreign Going, by Rose George
★★★★☆
Last Train from Kummersdorf, by Leslie Wilson
★★★☆☆
The Diary of a Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell
★★★☆☆
The Fiancée Farce, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★★
The Chemical Elements, by Nechaev & Jenkins
★★★★☆
Flight into Danger, by John Castle and Arthur Hailey
★★★☆☆
The Story of Codes, by Steven Pincock & Mark Frary
★★★☆☆
A Sky Full of Stars, by Dani Atkins
★★★★★
Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger
★★★★★
Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn
★★★☆☆
Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel, by Edward Marston
★★★☆☆
White Fragility, by Robin Diangelo
★★★★★
Just Haven't Met You Yet, by Sophie Cousens
★★★★☆
Ace Voices, by Eris Young (did not finish)
The Break Up, by Charlotte Barnes
★★★★☆
The Brexit Tapes, by John Bull
★★★☆☆
Tragedy on the Branch Line, by Edward Marston
★★★★☆
Seven Fallen Feathers, by Tanya Talaga
★★★★★
Again Again, by E. Lockhart
★★★★☆
Brightly Burning, by Alexa Donne
★★★★☆
Medusa, by Jessie Burton
★★★★★
Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends, by Richard Wilhelm & Frederick H. Martens
★★★★☆
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have, by Tash Oakes-Monger
★★★☆☆
How to be Ace, by Rebecca Burgess
★★★☆☆
Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping, by Dave Rudden
★★★★★
The Murder of Mr Wickham, by Claudia Gray
★★★★☆
The Last Man on the Moon, by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis
★★★★★
By Underground to Kew, by Jonathan Riddell and William T. Stearn
★★★☆☆
Punderworld, by Linda Šejić
★★★★☆
Ariadne, by Jennifer Saint
★★★★☆
The Union of Synchronised Swimmers, by Cristina Sandu
★★★☆☆
The Frequency of Us, by Keith Stuart
★★★★★
A bookshop in Algiers, by Kaouther Adimi
★★★★☆
Severance: The Lexington Letter, by Anonymous
★★★☆☆
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, by Mackenzi Lee
★★★★☆
Not My Problem, by Ciara Smyth
★★★★☆
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
★★★☆☆
Books I read in 2022
I read 84 books:
Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire
★★★★☆
The Origins of Iris, by Beth Lewis
★★★★★
S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service, by Cyril Jolly
★★★★☆
The Falling in Love Montage, by Ciara Smyth
★★★★★
All In Our Own Words, by Friends of the Bure Valley Railway
★★★☆☆
One Night With You, by Laura Jane Williams
★★★★☆
Our Stop, by Laura Jane Williams
★★★★☆
Asexual Fairy Tales, by Elizabeth Hopkinson (did not finish)
Olympia, by Anna Maranti
★★★☆☆
Another Life, by Jodie Chapman
★★★★★
Rust, by Jonathan Waldman
★★★★★
A Cosmic Kind of Love, by Samantha Young
★★★★☆
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
★★★★☆
Passing, by Nella Larsen
★★★★☆
Attention All Shipping, by Charlie Connelly (did not finish)
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley
★★★★☆
Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
★★★☆☆
The Last Library, by Freya Sampson
★★★☆☆
Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa
★★★★★
The Central Line, by Saskia Sarginson
★★★★☆
Alpha Beta, by John Man
★★★☆☆
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
★★★★☆
Mathematical Intelligence, by Junaid Mubeen (did not finish)
The Society for Soulless Girls, by Laura Steven
★★★★☆
The Strange and Infinite World of Numbers, by Tim Sole (did not finish)
What If? 2, by Randall Munroe
★★★★☆
Before Your Memory Fades, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
★★★★★
Seats of London, by Andrew Martin
★★★★☆
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
★★★★☆
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers
★★★★☆
Concrete Rose, by Angie Thomas
★★★★☆
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
★★★★★
Uncentering the Earth, by William T. Vollmann (did not finish)
One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston
★★★★★
Snowball Earth, by Gabrielle Walker
★★★☆☆
Transmutation Stories, by Alex DiFrancesco (did not finish)
Letters to a Young Mathematician, by Ian Stewart
★★★★★
The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: Great Outdoors, by David Borgenicht & Trey Popp
★★★☆☆
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrew Lawlor (did not finish)
The Survivors, by Jane Harper
★★★★☆
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
★★★★★
False Starts, Near Misses and Dangerous Goods, by Geoff Body and Ian Body
★★★☆☆
Looking for Emily, by Fiona Longmuir
★★★★☆
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg
★★★★☆
The Secret Lives of Colour, by Kassie St Clair
★★★★★
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
★★★★★
Under the Paw, by Tom Cox
★★★☆☆
Dating, by The School of Life
★★★★★
Outraged, by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
★★★☆☆
We Are Bellingcat, by Eliot Higgins
★★★★☆
Night Trains, by Andrew Martin (did not finish)
Gender Euphoria, by Laura Kate Dale
★★★★★
Egyptian Mythology, by W. Max Mũller (did not finish)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, by Penelope Lively
★★★☆☆
The Invisible Orientation, by Julie Sondra Decker (did not finish)
Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction, by Tom Burns & Eva Burns-Lundgren (did not finish)
A Briefer History of Time, by Steven Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow
★★★☆☆
Homer's Odyssey, by Gwen Cooper
★★★★★
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick
★★★★★
Mary Celeste, by Paul Begg
★★★☆☆
The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History, by Joshua Piyen, David Borgenicht, Piers Marchant & Melissa Wagner
★★★☆☆
Underground Cities, by Mark Ovenden
★★★☆☆
The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley
★★★★☆
Doctor Who: Respond to All Calls, by Lisa McMullin, Tim Foley, and Timothy X. Atack
★★★☆☆
The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything, by Jonn Elledge
★★★☆☆
We Need to Talk, by Celeste Headlee
★★★★☆
Count Your Lucky Stars, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★☆
Never Lost Again, by Bill Kilday
★★★★☆
There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm
★★★★★
The Wombles, by Elisabeth Beresford
★★★★☆
Kigelia: A Typeface for Africa, by Mark Jamra and Neil Patel
★★★★☆
Light Years, by Brian Clegg
★★★☆☆
The Most Precious of Cargoes, by Jean-Claude Grumberg
★★★★★
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
Homer's The Iliad and the Odyssey, by Alberto Manguel (did not finish)
Hang the Moon, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★★
The Haunting of Tram Car 015, by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★☆
Historic Railway Disasters, by O. S. Nock
★★★★☆
The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal (did not finish)
Palestine + 100, edited by Basma Ghalayini
★★★★☆
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
★★★★★
Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku
★★★☆☆
The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree, by Paola Peretti
★★★★☆
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers
★★★★★
Books I read in 2021
I read 61 books:
The Power of the A4s, by Brian Morrison
★★★★☆
Dick Whittington and his cat, retold by Vera Southgate
★★★★☆
Trains, by David Carey
★★★★☆
The Otters' Tale, by Simon Cooper
★★★★☆
The Library of the Dead, by T.L. Huchu
★★★☆☆
What Cats Want, by Dr. Yuki Hattori
★★★★☆
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, by Alex White (did not finish)
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, by Lemony Snicket
★★★☆☆
Cosmogramma, by Courttia Newland (did not finish)
The Box in the Woods, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
The Hand on the Wall, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
The Vanishing Stair, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
The Apollo Murders, by Chris Hadfield
★★★★★
Truly Devious, by Maureen Johnson
★★★★☆
Model Railways, by Cyril J. Freezer
★★★★☆
Codebreaker: The Untold Story of Richard Hayes, by Marc McMenamin (did not finish)
Bure Valley Recollections, by Gerry Balding & Andrew Barnes
★★★★☆
Your Computer is on Fire, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip
★★★★★
Poison for Breakfast, by Lemony Snicket
★★★☆☆
Written in the Stars, by Alexandria Bellefleur
★★★★★
Tales from Moominvalley, by Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
Abandoned America, by Matthew Christopher
★★★★☆
The Backwater Sermons, by Jay Hulme
★★★☆☆
Surviving the Storms, by the RNLI
★★★★★
The Distant Hours, by Kate Morton
★★★★☆
Resilient Management, by Lara Hogan
★★★★☆
Think Black, by Clyde W. Ford
★★★★★
Small Bodies of Water, by Nina Mingya Powles
★★★☆☆
The Martian, by Andy Weir
★★★☆☆
Moominpappa at Sea, by Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★☆☆
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet, by Douglas Adams, James Goss (did not finish)
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz, by Thomas Geve
★★★★☆
Black and British, by David Olusoga
★★★★☆
The Vela (season 1), by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, S.L. Huang
★★★☆☆
Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson
★★★★☆
Digging for Words, by Angela Burke Kunkel
★★★★☆
The Kabuliwallah and Other Stories, by Rabindranath Tagore (did not finish)
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
★★★★☆
The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
★★★★☆
The Only Plane in the Sky, by Garrett M. Graff
★★★★★
The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
★★★★☆
Loveless, by Alice Oseman
★★★★★
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
★★★★☆
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales, by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett
★★★★★
How to Fly a Plane, by Nick Barnard and Lucy Pope
★★★★☆
The Invisible Child and the Fir Tree, by Tove Jansson
★★★☆☆
The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, by David Wells
★★★☆☆
Railsea, by China Miéville
★★★★★
The Last Lingua Franca, by Nicholas Ostler (did not finish)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers
★★★★★
Programmed Inequality, by Marie Hicks
★★★★☆
Solutions and Other Problems, by Allie Brosh
★★★★★
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières
★★★★☆
The Cyberiad, by Stanislaw Lem
★★★☆☆
Mathematics and Politics, by Alan D. Taylor and Allison M. Pacelli
★★★★☆
Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong
★★★★★
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
★★★☆☆
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret, by Paul Gannon
★★★★☆
Lustrum, by Robert Harris
★★★☆☆
Books I read in 2020
I read 47 books:
The Read Aloud Cloud, by Forrest Brazeal
★★★★★
The Story of Brexit, by Ladybird Books
★★★☆☆
The Trains Now Departed, by Michael Williams
★★★★☆
Bite Size Bash, by Julia Evans
★★★☆☆
The Rust Programming Language, by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
★★★★☆
Welwyn's Railways, by The Revd. Tim W. Gladwin, Peter W. Neville, Douglas E. White
★★★☆☆
Notes from Small Planets, by Nate Crowley
★★★★☆
IBM and the Holocaust, by Edwin Black
★★★★★
The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern
★★★★★
The Chinese Typewriter: A History, by Thomas S. Mullaney
★★★★☆
How to be a Good Motorist, by the Bodleian Library
★★★☆☆
The City & the City, by China Miéville
★★★★★
Engineering a Safer World, by Nancy G. Leveson
★★★★☆
An Atlas of Extinct Countries, by Gideon Defoe
★★★★☆
A Speller's Companion, by Hugh Brown and Margaret Brown
★★★★☆
Codebreakers: The inside story of Bletchley Park, by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Tripp
★★★★★
The Wandering Wombles, by Elisabeth Beresford
★★★★☆
Montmorency, by Eleanor Updale
★★★☆☆
Airman, by Eoin Colfer
★★★★☆
Behind the Scenes at Scrapheap Challenge, by Robert Llewellyn
★★★★☆
Creative Selection, by Ken Kocienda
★★★★☆
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge
★★★★★
The Gate of Angels, by Penelope Fitzgerald
★★★☆☆
Small Robots, by Thomas Heasman-Hunt
★★★★★
GCHQ, by Richard Aldrich
★★★★★
Atomic, by Jim Baggott (did not finish)
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
★★★★★
Exit Strategy, by Martha Wells
★★★★★
Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
★★★★☆
Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells
★★★★☆
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
★★★☆☆
Quicksilver, by R.J. Anderson
★★★★☆
Yellow Trains, by Andrew Royle
★★★★☆
Ultraviolet, by R.J. Anderson
★★★★☆
The Magazine: The Book, by Glenn Fleishman
★★★★★
The Secret Listeners, by Sinclair McKay
★★★★★
Intimate Friendships, by James W. Ramey
★★★☆☆
The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
★★★★☆
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr.
★★★☆☆
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Trans Like Me, by C. N. Lester
★★★★★
Why Buildings Fall Down, by Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori
★★★★☆
The Lonely City, by Olivia Laing (did not finish)
Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen, by Peter M Higgins
★★★☆☆
Am I Overthinking This?, by Michelle Rial
★★★☆☆
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute
★★★★★
Trans Britain, by Christine Burns
★★★★★
Books I read in 2019
I read 66 books:
How To, by Randall Munroe
★★★★☆
H2O, by Philip Ball
★★★☆☆
Strange Planet, by Nathan Pyle
★★★☆☆
Plato's Podcasts, by Mark Vernon
★★☆☆☆
The Meaning of It All, by Richard P. Feynman
★★★★★
The Maths Gene, by Keith J. Devlin
★★☆☆☆
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
★★★☆☆
Atomic Accidents, by James Mahaffey
★★★★★
Antimatter, by Frank Close
★★★☆☆
History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys, by Sarah Baxter
★★★☆☆
The Art of Betrayal, by Gordon Corera
★★★★★
The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
★★★☆☆
Bletchley Park: Home of the Codebreakers, by English Heritage
★★★☆☆
Lorenz, by Jerry Roberts
★★★★☆
Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, by Alan Bloom
★★★★☆
Bletchley Park: Demystifying the Bombe, by Dermot Turing
★★★☆☆
The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide, by Paweł “Sariel” Kmieć
★★★★☆
From Prejudice to Pride, by Amy Lame
★★★☆☆
Introduction to Graph Theory, by Robin J. Wilson
★★★★☆
Why Buildings Stand Up, by Mario Salvadori
★★★★☆
Provenance, by Ann Leckie
★★★☆☆
oh no, by Alex Norris
★★★☆☆
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers
★★★★☆
Chernobyl, by Serhii Plokhy
★★★★★
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing, by Gary Provost
★★★★★
Beautiful LEGO, by Mike Doyle
★★★☆☆
A Layman's Guide to the Greek Gods, by Alan & Maureen Carter
★★★★☆
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt W. Beyer
★★★★★
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
★★★★★
The Ancient Greek Computer From Rhodes, by V.J. Kean
★★★☆☆
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
★★★★☆
Write to the Point, by Sam Leith
★★★☆☆
LEGO Architecture The Visual Guide, by Philip Wilkinson
★★★★☆
The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit (did not finish)
A Brief History of Infinity, by Brian Clegg
★★★★☆
A Layman's Guide to Greek Heroes, by Alan Carter
★★★☆☆
Lewis Carroll in Numberland, by Robin J. Wilson
★★★☆☆
The Phoenix and the Carpet, by E. Nesbit
★★★☆☆
The Box, by Marc Levinson
★★★★☆
Volk's Railways, Brighton: An Illustrated History, by Alan A. Jackson
★★★☆☆
Volk’s Electric Railway: A Visitor’s Guide, by Peter Walker
★★★☆☆
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
★★★★☆
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, by Cary Elwes
★★★★★
London Underground by Design, by Mark Ovenden
★★★★★
ABC Signalling In The Age Of Steam, by Ian Allan
★★★☆☆
Beyond Burnout, by Cary Cherniss
★★★☆☆
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondō
★★★★☆
The Artist And The Mathematician, by Amir D. Aczel
★★★☆☆
Gaming the Vote, by William Poundstone
★★★★☆
Electric Universe, by David Bodanis
★★★★☆
Here, The World Entire, by Anwen Kya Hayward
★★★★☆
Messages from the Sea, by Paul Brown
★★★☆☆
Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins
★★★★★
Seashaken Houses, by Tom Nancollas
★★★★☆
1421: The Year China Discovered The World, by Gavin Menzies
★★★☆☆
The Void, by Frank Close
★★★☆☆
The Universe Next Door, by Marcus Chown
★★★☆☆
From Here to Eternity, by Caitlin Doughty
★★★★☆
Ancillary Mercy, by Ann Leckie
★★★★☆
Ancillary Sword, by Ann Leckie
★★★★☆
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, by Caitlin Doughty
★★★★★
Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie
★★★★☆
Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks
★★★☆☆
The Railway Adventures, by Geoff Marshall, Vicki Pipe
★★★★☆
Mismatch, by Kat Holmes
★★★★★
Yes, You Are Trans Enough, by Mia Violet
★★★★★
Books I read in 2018
I read 26 books:
Hello World, by Hannah Fry
★★★★☆
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman (did not finish)
A Brief History of Wales, by Gerald Morgan
★★★☆☆
Engines Of War, by Christian Wolmar
★★★★☆
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, by Ken Liu
★★★★★
A Little Book About the Runes, by Björn Jónasson
★★★☆☆
Places I Stopped on the Way Home, by Meg Fee
★★★★★
Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers
★★★★★
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield
★★★★★
The Greatest Traitor, by Roger Hermiston
★★★★☆
Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman
★★★★★
And Another Thing…, by Eoin Colfer
★★☆☆☆
Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
★★★★★
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, by P.D. James
★★★★☆
Looking for Group, by Alexis Hall
★★★★★
Wish You Were Here, by Nick Webb
★★★★☆
I Hate Everyone But You, by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin
★★★☆☆
Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh
★★★★☆
The Butterfly Isles, by Patrick Barkham
★★★★☆
The Art of Lecturing, by Parham Aarabi
★★★☆☆
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman (did not finish)
Ida, by Alison Evans
★★★★☆
Mallard, by Don Hale
★★★★☆
Death, Dynamite and Disaster, by Rosa Matheson
★★★★☆
Liars and Outliers, by Bruce Schneier
★★★★★
Seven Ways We Lie, by Riley Redgate
★★★★☆
Books I read in 2017
I read 27 books:
The Wrong Kind of Snow, by Rob Penn
★★★☆☆
Turing, by B. Jack Copeland
★★★★☆
The Secret Listeners, by Sinclair McKay
★★★☆☆
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
★★★★☆
Psychiatric Tales, by Darryl Cunningham
★★★☆☆
Numbers Rule, by George G. Szpiro
★★★★★
Manx Fairy Tales, by Sophia Morrison
★★★☆☆
What If?, by Randall Munroe
★★★★☆
A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers
★★★★★
Mind the Gap, by Emily Kearns
★★★☆☆
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, by Sydney Padua
★★★★★
Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwadine
★★★★★
Granuaile, by Anne Chambers
★★★★☆
Doctor Who: Timeless, by Stephen Cole
★★☆☆☆
We Go Forward, by Alison Evans
★★★★★
The Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz
★★★★☆
Understanding Asexuality, by Anthony F. Bogaert
★★☆☆☆
Too Much Information, by Dave Gorman
★★★☆☆
The Man Who Invented the Daleks, by Alwyn W. Turner
★★★★☆
Forgotten Sacrifice, by Michael G. Walling
★★★★☆
The Healthy Programmer, by Joe Kutner
★★★★☆
Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon
★★★☆☆
Fire Season, by Philip Connors
★★★★★
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
★★★★★
I Was There on PQ17, the Convoy to Hell, by Paul Lund
★★★★☆
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, by Dr Hannah Fry & Dr Thomas Oléron Evans
★★★☆☆
The Dark, by Lemony Snicket
★★★★☆