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2024 Favourites
- A Year of Book Blogging
- Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Lie With Me - Philippe Besson
- After Lorca - Jack Spicer
- Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham
- Choice - Neel Mukherjee
- It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
- Reading the Booker Prize - The Safekeep
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Siege of Burning Grass
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
- Reading the Booker Prize - Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - Sift
- Debut Novels I Enjoyed
- The Brides Of High Hill - Nghi Vo
- Reading the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist - Mammoths At The Gates
- When The Tiger Came Down The Mountain - Nghi Vo
- The Bachman Books - Rage and Roadwork
- The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- Beartooth - Callan Wink
- Mid-year review
- How Much Of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang
- Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
- Discworld #8 - Guards! Guards!
- Discworld #6 - Wyrd Sisters
- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Roundup Posts
- A Year of Book Blogging
- November In Review
- October in Review
- September In Review
- August in Review
- July in Review
- Mid-year review
- June in Review
Advanced Reading Copies
- One Boat - Jonathan Buckley
- I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There - Róisín Lanigan
- The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (DNF)
- The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
- The Serpent Called Mercy - Roanne Lau
- We Do Not Part - Han Kang
- Three Days In June - Anne Tyler
- Confessions - Catherine Airey
- The Gatsby Gambit - Claire Anderson-Wheeler
- Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
- Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Day of the Roaring - Nina Bhadreshwar
- The Way - Cary Groner
- Tides of Madness - Robert Cave Harriston
- The Beauty - Aliya Whiteley
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- The Haunting Of Blackwater - Marcia Armandi
- Beartooth - Callan Wink
- Isolation Island - Louise Minchin
- The Instrumentalist - Harriet Constable
- Blood and Mascara - Colin Krainin
- Basilisk - Scott Bradley
- The Whispering Muse - Laura Purcell
- The Holy Terrors - Simon R. Green
Works In Translation
- Strange Pictures - Uketsu
- Horror In Translation
- I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman
- The Silver Bone - Andrey Kurkov
- Artifice - Claire Berest
- The Night of Baba Yaga - Akira Otani
- The Lover of No Fixed Abode - Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini (DNF)
- A Leopard-Skin Hat - Anne Serre
- The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (DNF)
- International Booker Prize Longlist 2025
- Apartment Women - Gu Byeong-mo
- Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
- Han Kang - Human Acts
- Lie With Me - Philippe Besson
- French Concession - Xiao Bai
Poetry
Award Lists
Booker Prize 2023
- Study For Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
- Pearl - Siân Hughes
- Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
- In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
- On Awards Shortlists
- Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
- How To Build A Boat - Elaine Feeney
- All The Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Booker Prize 2024
- My Friends - Hisham Matar
- Booker Prize Shortlist 2024
- Reading the Booker Prize - Stone Yard Devotional
- Reading the Booker Prize - James
- Reading The Booker Prize - Wild Houses
- Reading the Booker Prize - The Safekeep
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- Reading the Booker Prize - Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
- Booker Prize Longlist 2024
- On Awards Shortlists
- Samantha Harvey - Orbital
Booker Prize 2025
- The Rest Of Our Lives - Ben Markovits (DNF)
- Flesh - David Szalay
- One Boat - Jonathan Buckley
- The South - Tash Aw
- Reading the Booker Longlist - Audition, Katie Kitamura
- Booker Prize Longlist 2025
- Misinterpretation - Ledia Xhoga
Center For Fiction First Novel Prize 2025
CWA Daggers 2025
- Out of the reading slump
- CWA Twisted Dagger Shortlist 2025
- The Silver Bone - Andrey Kurkov
- Artifice - Claire Berest
- The Night of Baba Yaga - Akira Otani
- The Lover of No Fixed Abode - Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini (DNF)
Goldsmiths Prize 2024
- Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking - Han Smith
- The Goldsmiths Prize 2024
- Spent Light - Lara Pawson
- Choice - Neel Mukherjee
- Parade - Rachel Cusk
- The Goldsmiths Prize 2024
International Booker prize 2025
- A Leopard-Skin Hat - Anne Serre
- International Booker Prize Longlist 2025
- Perfection - Vincenzo Latronico
Ignyte Awards 2024
- The Ignyte Awards 2024
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi
- The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
- Reading the Ignyte Awards - To Shape A Dragon's Breath
- Reading the Ignyte Awards - The Water Outlaws
- The Lies Of The Ajungo - Moses Ose Utomi
- Off-Time Jive - A.Z. Louise
- On Awards Shortlists
- Green Fuse Burning - Tiffany Morris
National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024
- My Friends - Hisham Matar
- Scattered Snows, to the North - Carl Phillips
- National Book Critics Circle Longlists
- Reading the Booker Prize - James
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024
- It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
- The Ursula K Le Guin Prize 2024
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Siege of Burning Grass
- The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
- The Library Of Broken Worlds - Alaya Dawn Johnson (DNF)
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - Sift
- On Awards Shortlists
- Reading the Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Skin and Its Girl
- Samantha Harvey - Orbital
- Reading the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist - Mammoths At The Gates
- The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist
Authors & Complete Series
Joe Abercrombie
- The Devils - Joe Abercrombie
- The Wisdom of Crowds - Joe Abercrombie
- The Trouble With Peace - Joe Abercrombie
- A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombie
- The Heroes and Red Country - Joe Abercrombie
- Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
- The First Law trilogy - Joe Abercrombie
Discworld
- Discworld #12 - Witches Abroad
- Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
- Discworld #10 - Moving Pictures
- Discworld #9 - Eric
- Discworld #8 - Guards! Guards!
- Discworld #7 - Pyramids
- Discworld #6 - Wyrd Sisters
- Discworld #5 - Sourcery
- Discworld #4 - Mort
- Discworld #2 - The Light Fantastic
- Discworld #3 - Equal Rites
- Discworld Read-through #1: The Colour of Magic
Nghi Vo
- The Brides Of High Hill - Nghi Vo
- Reading the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist - Mammoths At The Gates
- When The Tiger Came Down The Mountain - Nghi Vo
Wheel Of Time