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Crime, Mystery, & Thrillers
- Out of the reading slump
- CWA Twisted Dagger Shortlist 2025
- Human Remains + Jo Callaghan
- 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)
- CWA Daggers Longlists 2025
- The Vipers - Katy Hays
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- In These Hallowed Halls - Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane (editors)
- Magic For Liars - Sarah Gailey
- The Darkling Halls of Ivy - Laurence Block (ed.)
- Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
- The Gatsby Gambit - Claire Anderson-Wheeler
- The Day of the Roaring - Nina Bhadreshwar
- French Concession - Xiao Bai
- Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham
- Reading The Booker Prize - Wild Houses
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- Beartooth - Callan Wink
- Blood and Mascara - Colin Krainin
- The Last Murder At The End Of The World - Stuart Turton
- Artifice - Claire Berest
- The Vipers - Katy Hays
- In These Hallowed Halls - Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane (editors)
- The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
- All This And More - Peng Shepherd
- The Gatsby Gambit - Claire Anderson-Wheeler
- French Concession - Xiao Bai
- Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- The Haunting Of Blackwater - Marcia Armandi
- Isolation Island - Louise Minchin
- The Whispering Muse - Laura Purcell
- Out of the reading slump
- CWA Twisted Dagger Shortlist 2025
- Human Remains + Jo Callaghan
- The Vipers - Katy Hays
- The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
- Only If You're Lucky - Stacy Willingham
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- The Bachman Books - Rage and Roadwork
Fantasy
- Discworld #12 - Witches Abroad
- Katabasis - R.F. Kuang
- A Black Mile To The Surface
- Wheel of Time #3 - The Dragon Reborn
- What It Is To Burn
- The Devils - Joe Abercrombie
- Wheel Of Time #2 - The Great Hunt
- Wheel of Time #1 - The Eye Of The World
- Wheel Of Time #0 - New Spring (Part 2)
- Wheel of Time #0 - New Spring
- Grimdark Magazine Issue 1
- In These Hallowed Halls - Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane (editors)
- The Magicians - Lev Grossman (DNF)
- Magic For Liars - Sarah Gailey
- The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik
- A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
- The Serpent Called Mercy - Roanne Lau
- Godblind - Anna Stephens
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies 421
- Fairy Tale - Stephen King
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Siege of Burning Grass
- Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon - Wole Talabi
- The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
- No Gods, No Monsters - Cadwell Turnbull
- 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
- Babel - R.F. Kuang
- Off-Time Jive - A.Z. Louise
- 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
- Redwall - Brian Jacques
- 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
- 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
Historical Fiction
- North Sun, or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther - Ethan Rutherford
- The Silver Bone - Andrey Kurkov
- Reading the Booker Prize - The Safekeep
- Off-Time Jive - A.Z. Louise
- The Bullet Swallower - Elizabeth Gonzalez James
- The Instrumentalist - Harriet Constable
- How Much Of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang
- The Whispering Muse - Laura Purcell
Horror
- 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days - Week 1
- Silver And Cold
- What It Is To Burn
- I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There - Róisín Lanigan
- The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (DNF)
- Bunny - Mona Awad (DNF)
- To You Shall All Flesh Come - Lumen Reese
- Coup de Grâce - Sofia Ajram
- Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Troika - Alastair Reynolds
- It Was All A Dream 2 - Another Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right
- It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
- Tides of Madness - Robert Cave Harriston
- The Beauty - Aliya Whiteley
- The Flesh Inherent - Perry Meester
- Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay
- The Brides Of High Hill - Nghi Vo
- The Bachman Books - Rage and Roadwork
- The Haunting Of Blackwater - Marcia Armandi
- Green Fuse Burning - Tiffany Morris
- The Holy Terrors - Simon R. Green
Literary Fiction
- North Sun, or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther - Ethan Rutherford
- Reading the Booker Longlist - Audition, Katie Kitamura
- Booker Prize Longlist 2025
- I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There - Róisín Lanigan
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (DNF)
- International Booker Prize Longlist 2025
- Bunny - Mona Awad (DNF)
- The Extinction of Irena Rey - Jennifer Croft
- Apartment Women - Gu Byeong-mo
- We Do Not Part - Han Kang
- Three Days In June - Anne Tyler
- Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
- Confessions - Catherine Airey
- Hagstone - Sinéad Gleason
- My Friends - Hisham Matar
- Han Kang - Human Acts
- Lie With Me - Philippe Besson
- Study For Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
- Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking - Han Smith
- Granta 168
- Spent Light - Lara Pawson
- Pearl - Siân Hughes
- It Lasts Forever And Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
- Reading the Booker Prize - Stone Yard Devotional
- Reading the Booker Prize - James
- Reading The Booker Prize - Wild Houses
- Reading the Booker Prize - The Safekeep
- Donna Tartt - The Secret History
- Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
- Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
- Reading the Booker Prize - Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - Sift
- In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
- Reading the Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Skin and Its Girl
- Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
- Samantha Harvey - Orbital
- The Bachman Books - Rage and Roadwork
- Beartooth - Callan Wink
- How Much Of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang
- Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
- How To Build A Boat - Elaine Feeney
- All The Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
- The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Science Fiction
- Grimdark Magazine Issue 1
- The Ministry Of Time - Kaliane Bradley
- All This And More - Peng Shepherd
- They - Kay Dick
- Womb City - Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Reach For Infinity - Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
- Troika - Alastair Reynolds
- Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Way - Cary Groner
- Reading The Ursula K Le Guin Prize - The Siege of Burning Grass
- The Beauty - Aliya Whiteley
- Magazine of the Month - Hexagon #17
- The Library Of Broken Worlds - Alaya Dawn Johnson (DNF)
- In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
- Samantha Harvey - Orbital
- Redwall - Brian Jacques
- Far From The Light Of Heaven - Tade Thompson
- Basilisk - Scott Bradley
- The Last Murder At The End Of The World - Stuart Turton