Books
I started recording what books I was reading at the start of 2009 on Amazon's Goodreads website.
Eventually, I realised a spreadsheet would do just fine, infact would better serve my needs -- easier & quicker to update, I can do what I want with the data etc.
This is that spreadsheet turned into a webpage.
= good, = bad. More notes
2022
August
- Wings — (1991)
- Matrix — (2021)
July
- Steampunk! — (2011)
- Utopia Avenue — (2020)
June
- Diggers — (1990)
- Railsea — (2012)
- Providence — (2017)
- Truckers — (1989)
May
- The Brilliant Abyss — (2021)
- How to — (2019)
- Autogeddon — (1991)
- Summerwater — (2020)
- Day of Ascension — (2022)
April
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 — (2021)
March
- The Midnight Library — (2020)
- Mort — (1987)
- Vanity Fair — (1848)
January
- Sky Song — (2018)
- The Ill Made Knight — (1940)
2021
November
- Bullshit Jobs — (2018)
- Laser Writer II — (2021)
- Maus — (1991)
- The Last Interview and Other Conversations — (2019)
- How I Escaped My Certain Fate — (2010)
- The Anarchy — (2019)
September
- Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi — (2019)
- The Last Continent — (1998)
August
- Generation X — (1991)
- The Witch in the Wood — (1939)
- Wives and Daughters — (1866)
July
- The Sword In The Stone — (1938)
June
- No One Is Talking About This — (2021)
- Melmoth — (2018)
May
- The Passenger — translated by Philip Boehm (1938)
- Marneus Calgar — (2021)
- Children of Ruin — (2019)
- Treasure Island — (1883)
April
- A Memory Called Empire — (2019)
- Exhalation — (2019)
- Having and Being Had — (2020)
March
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol IV): The Tempest — (2020)
- Slaughterhouse 5 — (2020)
- Economic Science Fictions — (2018)
February
- The Long Earth — (2012)
- The Owl Service — (1967)
- Girl, Woman, Other — (2019)
January
- Piranese — (2020)
- Energy the Subtle Concept — (2010)
2020
December
- When the Wind Blows — (1982)
- The Idiot — (2017)
- Entangled Life. How fungi make our world, change our minds, and shape our futures — (2020)
November
- Reality — (2020)
- The Second Sleep — (2019)
October
- The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King — (1955)
- Children of Time — (2015)
- Harrow the Ninth — (2020)
September
- The Mirror and the Light — (2020)
August
- The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers — (1954)
July
- On The Beach — (1957)
- Beyond A Boundary — (1963)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — (1926)
- Go Ahead in the Rain Paperback — (2019)
June
- Black American Psycho — (2016)
- The Heat of the Day — (1948)
- The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring — (1954)
May
- The Turn of the Key — (2019)
- Enigma — (1995)
April
- Fleishman is in trouble — (2019)
- Moderan — (1971)
- The Cloven — (2018)
- Disobedience — (2007)
- The Moonstone — (1868)
March
- Cold Spring Harbour — (1986)
February
- Rusty Brown — (2019)
- The Women of Brewster Place — (1982)
- It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls — (2014)
- Infinite Kung Fu — (2011)
- The Coldest Winter Ever — (1999)
January
- Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: On Where Eagles Dare — (2018)
- The War Of The Worlds — (1897)
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — (2018)
- Gideon the Ninth — (2019)
- The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments — (1967)
2019
December
- The Topeka School — (2019)
- Ghost Wall — (2018)
- Priestdaddy — (2017)
- The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins — (2015)
November
- Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself — (2019)
- The Island of Dr Moreau — (1896)
- Slow Horses — (2010)
October
- Prisoners of Geography — (2015)
- My Sister the Serial Killer — (2018)
- The Order of the Day — translated by Mark Polizzotti (2017)
- Their Brilliant Careers — (2016)
- BTW — (2013)
- Cassandra Darke — (2018)
September
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming — (2019)
- The Stone Sky — (2017)
August
- Obleisk Gate — (2016)
- Fifth Season — (2016)
- Only Americans Burn In Hell — (2019)
July
- The Future Won't Be Long — (2017)
- Normal People — (2018)
June
- Mary Barton — (1848)
- Uncertainty in Games — (2013)
May
- Atta — (2011)
April
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World — (2018)
- Addiction By Design — (2012)
March
- Murmur — (2018)
- The Writer's Map — (2018)
- Dr Who: Borrowed Time — (2011)
- Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World — (2018)
- The Black Prince — (2018)
February
- The Daylight Gate — (2013)
- Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was — (1983)
- Milkman — (2018)
January
- The Circle — (2013)
- Frankenstein — (1818)
2018
December
- A Wizard of Earthsea — (1968)
- Things That Bother Me; death, freedom, the self, etc — (2018)
November
- Pet Semetary — (1983)
- The Spire — (1964)
October
- HOE #999: Decennial Appreciation and Celebratory Analysis — (2010)
- The Poisonwood Bible — (1998)
- Convenience Store Woman — translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (2018)
September
- How To Change Your Mind — (2018)
- My Year Of Rest And Relaxation — (2018)
August
- Changing My Mind — (2009)
- Girls Gone Old — (2017)
- The Erstwhile — (2017)
- Jingo — (1997)
July
- The Mother Of All Questions — (2017)
- The Easter Parade — (1976)
- Lullaby — translated by translator (2017)
- Circe — (2018)
June
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race — (2017)
- Radical Technologies — (2017)
May
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — (1961)
- The Fall Guy — (2017)
April
- Soft and Cuddly — (2017)
- ZZT — (2014)
- No Time To Spare — (2017)
- The Monkey's Mask — (1995)
- I Hate The Internet — (2016)
- Gnomon — (2017)
February
- The Sellout — (2016)
January
- Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story — (2013)
- Anti-Gone — (2017)
- The Alarming Palsy of James Orr — (2017)
- The Origin of Others — (2017)
- Sum — (2009)
- Provenance — (2017)
- Gold — (2007)
- Bluets — (2009)
- USA Trilogy — (1936)
2017
October
- The Time Machine — (1895)
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky — (1935)
September
- Ethel and Ernest — (1998)
- Clade — (2015)
- Agnes Grey — (1847)
August
- The Essex Serpent — (2016)
- Radiant State — (2015)
- Truth and Fear — (2015)
- Wolfhound Century — (2015)
July
- Binti — (2015)
- October — (2017)
June
- The Hobbit — (1937)
- Why I'm Not A Feminist — (2017)
- Stoner — (1965)
May
- Rise of the Videogame Zinesters — (2012)
- Nimona — (2015)
- The Martian Chronicles — (1950)
- The Last Days Of New Paris — (2017)
April
- The Power — (2016)
- North and South — (1855)
- Seeing Like A State — (1998)
March
- Eligible — (2016)
- Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 2 — (2017)
February
- Star Wars: Darth Vader Vol. 1 — (2016)
- Lumberjanes 5 — (2016)
- Polaroids From The Dead — (1996)
- Roadside Picnic — translated by Olena Bormashenko (1977)
- The Fifth Head of Cerberus — (1972)
January
- This Census Taker — (2016)
- Homo Deus — (2016)
- A Far Cry From Kensington — (1988)
- Akira Vol 6. — (1993)
- Akira Vol 5. — (1990)
- Akira Vol 4. — (1987)
- This Is The Place To Be — (2016)
- Akira Vol 3. — (1986)
- Akira Vol 2. — (1985)
- Akira Vol 1. — (1984)
- But What If We're Wrong? — (2016)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle — (1962)
2016
December
- Hothouse — (1961)
- The Silence of Animals — (2013)
- Re Jane — (2015)
- Men Explain Things To Me — (2014)
November
- New Model Army — (2010)
- Words are my Matter — (2016)
- Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine — (2016)
- Lumberjanes 4 — (2016)
October
- Golden Hill — (2016)
- Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen — (1984)
- Brave New World — (1932)
- Wuthering Heights — (1847)
September
- Lumberjanes 3 — (2016)
- Dancing at the Edge of the World — (1989)
August
- Dart — (2002)
- The Vorrh — (2012)
- Hark! A Vagrant — (2011)
- Dictator — (2015)
- The Penelopiad — (2005)
July
- Number 11 — (2015)
- Three Moments of an Explosion — (2015)
- Jane Eyre — (1847)
- The Eltingville Club — (2016)
June
- Lumberjanes 2 — (2015)
- Lumberjanes 1 — (2015)
- Timequake — (1997)
- Hocus Pocus — (1990)
May
- Bluebeard — (1987)
- Our Tragic Universe — (2011)
- Thor: Goddess of Thunder — (2016)
- Captain Marvel: Down — (2012)
- Captain Marvel: In Pursuit of Flight — (2012)
- To The Lighthouse — (1927)
April
- Galapagos — (1985)
- Deadeye Dick — (1982)
- Jailbird — (1979)
- Slapstick — (1976)
- The Story of the Lost Child — translated by Ann Goldstein (2015)
March
- Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay — translated by Ann Goldstein (2014)
- The Story of a New Name — translated by Ann Goldstein (2013)
- My Brilliant Friend — translated by Ann Goldstein (2012)
February
- Mother Night — (1961)
- The Sirens of Titan — (1959)
- Player Piano — (1952)
- Rogue Male — (1939)
- A Monster Calls — (2011)
- Uzumaki — (1999)
- Cold Comfort Farm — (1932)
January
- Ancillary Mercy — (2015)
- Americanah — (2013)
2015
December
- Breakfast of Champions — (1973)
- Slaughterhouse 5 — (1969)
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater — (1965)
- Cat's Cradle — (1963)
- Utopia Of Rules — (2015)
November
- We Should All Be Feminists — (2014)
- Gyo — (2002)
- Moby Dick — (1851)
October
- The Gospel According To Jesus Christ — (1994)
September
- Ancillary Sword — (2014)
August
- Ancillary Justice — (2013)
- Infinite Jest — (1996)
April
- Monsterous Affections — (2014)
- Design as Art — (1971)
- Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction — (2014)
- Get In Trouble — (2015)
March
- The Love Affairs Of Nathaniel P — (2014)
February
- Sugar Skull — (2014)
- Saga — (2014)
- Flame Alphabet — (2012)
- In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination — (2011)
January
- The Thing Around Your Neck — (2009)
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects — (2010)
- Stories of Your Life and Others — (2002)
- Cranford — (1851)
2014
December
- Stranger Things Happen — (2001)
November
- Augustus — (1972)
September
- Ammonite — (1992)
August
- The Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 — (1982)
- Nemo Roses of Berlin — (2014)
- Nemo Heart of Ice — (2013)
- Three — (2014)
- 84 Charing Cross Road — (1970)
- Memorial — (2011)
- Making Comics — (2006)
- A Sting In The Tale — (2013)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics — (2006)
June
- The Bees — (2014)
May
- The Gathering Night — (2009)
- The Language of the Night. Essays on fantasy and science fiction — (1979)
April
- The Eagle of the Ninth — (1954)
March
- Middlemarch — (1874)
February
- Oishinbo: à la Carte, Vol. 3: Ramen and Gyoza — (2009)
- The Odyssey — translated by Robert Fagles (-800)
January
- Orlando — (1928)
- How I Live Now — (2004)
- The Song Of Achilles — (2011)
- The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction — (1975)
2013
December
- Hangover Square — (1941)
- Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (Literary Conversations) — (2008)
- The Complete Don Quixote — (2011)
- Light — (2002)
- Cheek by Jowl — (2009)
November
- NW — (2012)
October
- Lighter Than My Shadow — (2013)
- A Hologram For The King — (2013)
- Thinking Fast and Slow — (2011)
September
- Railsea — (2012)
- Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself — (2009)
- Understanding Comics — (1993)
- Ubik — (1969)
August
- Telegraph Avenue — (2012)
July
- Gone Girl — (2012)
- On The Map — (2012)
June
- Fables vol. 18: Cubs In Toyland — (2013)
- Fables Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind — (2012)
- Fables Vol. 16: Super Team — (2012)
- Cinderella: Fables Are Forever — (2011)
- Secret Avengers, Vol. 3: Run the Mission, Don't Get Seen, Save the World — (2012)
- Fables Vol. 15: Rose Red — (2011)
- Fables Vol. 14: Witches — (2010)
- Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love — (2009)
- Fables Vol 13: The Great Fables Crossover — (2010)
- Fables Vol 12: The Dark Ages — (2009)
- MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Sign, Storage, Transmission) — (2012)
May
- The Third Policeman — (1967)
April
- Bring Up the Bodies — (2012)
March
- The Secret History of Science Fiction — (2009)
- Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display — (2011)
February
- On Fairy-Stories — (1947)
- Underground Maps Unraveled — (2012)
January
- Lustrum — (2009)
- The Iliad — translated by Robert Fagles (-800)
- The Compass Rose — (1982)
2012
December
- Pure — (2011)
- The Hive — (2012)
November
- Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? — (1986)
- The A. B. C. Warriors: The Black Hole — (1988)
- Insurrection: The War Against the Judges Has Begun — (2011)
October
- Building Stories — (2012)
- Litany of the Long Sun — (1993)
- London's Overthrow — (2012)
September
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 — (2011)
August
- Microscope — (2011)
- Double Nickels on the Dime — (2007)
- Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley — (1968)
- Imperium — (2006)
- Dice Games Properly Explained — (1999)
- Red Mars — (1992)
June
- The Age of Movies: Selected Writings — (1975)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments — (1997)
- Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste — (2008)
- Wolf Hall — (2009)
May
- Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces — (2008)
- Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince — (2008)
- Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves — (2006)
- Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire — (2007)
- Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights — (2006)
April
- The Stars My Destination — (1957)
- Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction — (2011)
- Space Opera — (1974)
- Skippy Dies — (2010)
March
- Mockingjay — (2010)
- The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume 2 — (2012)
- Catching Fire — (2009)
- The Hunger Games — (2008)
- Think Stats — (2011)
February
- Rip It Up and Start Again — (2006)
- Now Wait for Last Year — (1966)
- Persepolis — (2000)
- Supergods — (2011)
January
- How to Be a Woman — (2011)
- Howl's Moving Castle — (1986)
2011
December
- Zoo City — (2010)
- Ready Player One — (2011)
November
- Snake and Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret — (2000)
- Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall — (2006)
- Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands — (2006)
- Fables, Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons — (2005)
October
- Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers — (2004)
- Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love — (2004)
- Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm — (2003)
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — (2010)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad — (2010)
- Claudius the God — (1934)
September
- Xed — (2010)
- Tabletop: Analog Game Design — (2011)
- Elliot Allagash — (2010)
- Westwood — (1946)
- Buddha, Volume 3: Devadatta — (1976)
- Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom — (2011)
August
- Sword & Citadel — (1982)
- All-Star Superman — (2006)
- Tom Strong: Book 5 — (2000)
- Shadow & Claw — (1982)
July
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 — (2010)
- The Wild Girls — (2002)
- Lightborn — (2010)
- Oishinbo à la Carte - Japanese Cuisine — (2009)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — (1968)
June
- Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past — (2011)
- Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters — (1974)
- Embassytown — (2011)
May
- The Last Werewolf — (2011)
- Un Lun Dun — (2007)
- The Bulletproof Coffin — (2011)
- Cocaine Nights — (1996)
- Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu — (1972)
- Blindness — (1995)
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union — (2007)
April
- Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will — (2009)
- Patternmaster — (1976)
- Clay's Ark — (1984)
March
- Cloud Atlas — (2004)
- Mind of My Mind — (1977)
- Forever Peace — (1997)
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth — (2009)
- The Lovecraft Anthology. Vol. 1 — (2011)
February
- Black Hole — (2005)
- Accelerando — (2005)
- Strange Tales — (2010)
January
- One Moonlit Night — (1961)
- The Eye of the Queen — (1982)
- The Embedding — (1973)
2010
December
- Acme Novelty Library #20 — (2010)
- Red Plenty — (2010)
- Star Maker — (1937)
- Last and First Men — (1930)
November
- Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline — (2010)
- Whoops! : Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay — (2010)
October
- I, Claudius — (1934)
September
- All-Star Superman — (2006)
- Pretty Monsters — (2003)
- Other Lives — (2010)
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature — (2007)
August
- Nineteen Eighty-Four — (1949)
- The elephant's journey — (2008)
- The Princess Bride — (1973)
- Greenmantle — (1916)
- The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory — (1975)
- Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour — (2010)
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe — (2009)
- Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together — (2007)
- Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness — (2006)
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World — (2005)
- Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life — (2004)
July
- Tamara Drewe — (2007)
- Kraken — (2010)
June
- Wilson — (2010)
- American Wife — (2008)
- The Iron Man — (1968)
- Looking for Jake — (2005)
- The Complete Cosmicomics — (1967)
- The Cave — (2000)
May
- Revolutionary Road — (1961)
- Evolution — (2002)
- Wild Seed — (1980)
April
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — (2007)
- Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction — (1986)
March
- Magic for Beginners — (2005)
- Invisible Man — (1952)
- Challenges for Game Designers — (2009)
- You Don't Love Me Yet — (2007)
February
- Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players — (2001)
January
- Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth — (2000)
- Cold Earth — (2009)
- Stand on Zanzibar — (1968)
2009
December
- Thrill-power Overload — (2007)
- Bicycle Diaries — (2009)
- The Philosophical Baby — (1998)
November
- Legend of a Suicide — (2008)
- Seeing — (2004)
- Best SF: 1969 — (1969)
- Excellent Women — (1952)
October
- The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack — (2009)
- The Eye of the Heron — (1978)
September
- The Sportswriter — (1986)
- The Design of Everyday Things — (1988)
August
- Bill, the Galactic Hero on The Planet of the Robot Slaves — (1989)
- The Slaves of Solitude — (1947)
- The City & The City — (2009)
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon — (2006)
July
- Bill, the Galactic Hero — (1965)
- Lavinia — (2008)
- Lord of Light — (1967)
June
- Changing Planes — (2003)
- PopCo — (2004)
May
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1910 — (2009)
- Make Room! Make Room! — (1966)
April
- Jeeves in the Offing — (1960)
- Very Far Away From Anywhere Else — (1976)
- Searoad — (1991)
March
- Maps and Legends — (2008)
- Gemma Bovery — (1999)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — (2000)
- The Man of My Dreams — (2000)
February
- Acme Novelty Library #19 — (2008)
- Acme Novelty Library #18 — (2007)
- Matter — (2008)
- Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide — (2005)
- Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend — (1910)
January
- Man in the Dark — (2008)
- Amrita — (1994)
- McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 — (2004)
- An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: v .2 — (2008)
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories — (2006)
- Powers — (2007)
- Tales from Earthsea — (2001)
In progress / unfinished
- The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition — (1932)
- Epiphany of The Long Sun — (2000)
- Grimm Tales: For Young and Old — (2012)
- The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) — (1999)
- Collected Stories and Other Writings (Library of America, No. 188) — (1978)
- Oblivion — (2004)
- The Man with the Compound Eyes — (2012)
- The Isles: A History — (2000)
- The Ministry for the Future — (2020)
Notes
Most books are
, I like them.are espescially recomended, are recomended if you like that kind of thing, are only for people who are really into that kind of thing, and denotes books I feel are best avoided
Sometimes I read things more than once so they appear more than once.
I include books I read to my kids if I read the whole thing to them, if they read some parts themselves or if someone else reads bits of them I don't include the book in the data. Aside: Reading out loud to/ with someone is a very different experience.
Publication date (in brackets) is a bit vague, I'm using it as a proxy for when something was written so for eg. Fagels' translation of the Iliad is noted as 800BC (itself a bit vague) rather than when Penguin actually published it. Similarly for career spanning short story collections I've chosen the mid-point.