Thing Explainer

by Randall Munroe (2015)
read 16 April 2024
★★★★☆

The Checklist Manifesto

by Atul Gawande (2009)
read 10 April 2024
★★★★★

the ghosts that we leave behind

by Anne Maningas (2023)
read 2 April 2024
★★★☆☆

From Hurt to Hope

edited by Mair Elliott (2022)
read 1 April 2024
★★★☆☆

What If?

by Randall Munroe (2014)
read 31 March 2024
★★★☆☆

How To Be a Normal Person

by TJ Klune (2019)
read 30 March 2024
★★★☆☆

The Importance of Music to Girls

by Lavinia Greenlaw (2007)
read 27 March 2024
(did not finish)

The Reader on the 6.27

by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (2014)
read 24 March 2024
★★★★☆

The Rest of Their Lives

by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent (2016)
read 22 March 2024
★★★★★

If I Have To Be Haunted

by Miranda Sun (2023)
read 20 March 2024
★★★☆☆

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata (2016)
read 27 February 2024
★★★★☆

How to Be Perfect

by Mike Schur (2022)
read 24 February 2024
(did not finish)

Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date

by Ashley Herring Blake (2023)
read 17 February 2024
★★★★☆

Ella Minnow Pea

by Mark Dunn (2001)
read 12 February 2024
★★★★★

The Secret Life of Cows

by Rosamund Young (2003)
read 10 February 2024
★★★★★

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care

by Ashley Herring Blake (2022)
read 9 February 2024
★★★★☆

The Fire Never Goes Out

by Noelle Stevenson (2020)
read 6 February 2024
★★★☆☆

At Midnight

edited by Dahlia Adler (2023)
read 3 February 2024
★★★★★

The Girl on the Platform

by Bryony Pearce (2021)
read 30 January 2024
★★★★☆

Fire Stations (Britain’s Heritage)

by Billy Reading (2017)
read 28 January 2024
★★★★☆

Hopeless Aromantic

by Samantha Rendle (2023)
read 23 January 2024
(did not finish)

Show Me The Bodies

by Peter Apps (2022)
read 13 January 2024
★★★★★

Valuable Humans in Transit

by qntm (2022)
read 8 January 2024
★★★★★

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fall

by Ashley Herring Blake (2022)
read 7 January 2024
★★★★☆

The Watcher

by WJ Davies (2013)
read 23 December 2023
★★★★☆

The Diver

by WJ Davies (2013)
read 23 December 2023
★★★★☆

The Runner

by WJ Davies (2013)
read 23 December 2023
★★★★☆

It All Adds Up

by Mickaël Launay (2018)
read 21 December 2023
★★★☆☆

Now That I’ve Found You

by Ciara Geraghty (2014)
read 11 December 2023
★★★☆☆

The Only Good Dalek

by Justin Richards and Mike Collins (2010)
read 9 December 2023
★★★☆☆

She and Her Cat

by Makoto Shinkai and Naruki Nagakawa (2022)
read 7 December 2023
★★★★☆

Dust

by Hugh Howey (2013)
read 1 December 2023
★★★★☆

Shift

by Hugh Howey (2013)
read 30 November 2023
★★★★☆

Wool

by Hugh Howey (2011)
read 27 November 2023
★★★★☆

The Hard Road Out

by Jihyun Park and Seh-Lynn Chai (2022)
read 20 November 2023
★★★★★

Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories

by Various authors (2019)
read 12 November 2023
★★★☆☆

Before We Say Godbye

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2023)
read 3 November 2023
★★★★★

Strong Female Character

by Fern Brady (2023)
read 30 October 2023
★★★★★

The Cat Who Saved Books

by Sosuke Natsukawa (2021)
read 28 October 2023
★★★★★

Aces Wild

by Amanda DeWitt (2022)
read 24 October 2023
★★★★☆

Flying Blind

by Peter Robison (2021)
read 22 October 2023
★★★☆☆

Colours of Film

by Charles Bramesco (2023)
read 22 October 2023
★★★☆☆

The Hollow Sea

by Annie Kirby (2022)
read 17 October 2023
(did not finish)

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow

by Natasha Pulley (2020)
read 8 October 2023
★★★★☆

Liftoff

by Eric Berger (2021)
read 22 September 2023
★★★★★

Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5)

by Maureen Johnson (2022)
read 15 September 2023
★★★★☆

The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

by Laura Imai Messina (2020)
read 14 September 2023
★★★★★

We had to remove this post

by Hanna Bervoets (2022)
read 9 September 2023
★★★★☆

Practical SVG

by Chris Coyier (2016)
read 8 September 2023
★★★★☆

How To Save a Life

by Clare Swatman (2022)
read 7 September 2023
★★☆☆☆

500 Lines or Less

edited by Michael DiBernardo (2016)
read 4 September 2023
(did not finish)

The Twyford Code

by Janice Hallett (2022)
read 28 August 2023
★★★☆☆

Gender Euphoria

by Maia Kobabe (2019)
read 22 August 2023
★★★★☆

Paris by Starlight

by Robert Dinsdale (2020)
read 17 August 2023
★★★★☆

A Snake Falls to Earth

by Darcie Little Badger (2021)
read 9 August 2023
★★★★☆

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012)
read 4 August 2023
★★★★☆

The Lego Trains Book

by Holger Matthes (2017)
read 30 July 2023
★★★★☆

Nimona

by Noelle Stevenson (2015)
read 28 July 2023
★★★★☆

Beyond the Black Door

by A. M. Strickland (2019)
read 25 July 2023
★★★☆☆

The Math Book

by Clifford A. Pickover (2009)
read 24 July 2023
★★★☆☆

The Secret Life of the Otter

by Andy Howard (2021)
read 21 July 2023
★★★★☆

We Are All Constellations

by Amy Beashel (2022)
read 16 July 2023
★★★★☆

Ace

by Angela Chen (2020)
read 2 July 2023
★★★☆☆

Sword in the Stars

by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (2020)
read 30 June 2023
★★★★☆

Once & Future

by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (2019)
read 25 June 2023
★★★☆☆

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George (2013)
read 20 June 2023
★★★★☆

Last Train from Kummersdorf

by Leslie Wilson (2003)
read 15 June 2023
★★★☆☆

The Fiancée Farce

by Alexandria Bellefleur (2023)
read 4 June 2023
★★★★★

The Diary of a Bookseller

by Shaun Bythell (2017)
read 4 June 2023
★★★☆☆

The Chemical Elements

by Nechaev & Jenkins (2003)
read 29 May 2023
★★★★☆

Flight into Danger

by John Castle and Arthur Hailey (1958)
read 28 May 2023
★★★☆☆

The Story of Codes

by Steven Pincock & Mark Frary (2019)
read 16 May 2023
★★★☆☆

A Sky Full of Stars

by Dani Atkins (2021)
read 1 May 2023
★★★★★

Elatsoe

by Darcie Little Badger (2020)
read 24 April 2023
★★★★★

Heir to the Empire

by Timothy Zahn (1991)
read 20 April 2023
★★★☆☆

Slaughter in the Sapperton Tunnel

by Edward Marston (2018)
read 18 April 2023
★★★☆☆

White Fragility

by Robin Diangelo (2018)
read 17 April 2023
★★★★★

Just Haven’t Met You Yet

by Sophie Cousens (2021)
read 1 April 2023
★★★★☆

Ace Voices

by Eris Young (2022)
read 27 March 2023
(did not finish)

The Break Up

by Charlotte Barnes (2022)
read 22 March 2023
★★★★☆

The Brexit Tapes

by John Bull (2023)
read 18 March 2023
★★★☆☆

Tragedy on the Branch Line

by Edward Marston (2021)
read 18 March 2023
★★★★☆

Seven Fallen Feathers

by Tanya Talaga (2017)
read 16 March 2023
★★★★★

Again Again

by E. Lockhart (2020)
read 12 March 2023
★★★★☆

Medusa

by Jessie Burton (2021)
read 4 March 2023
★★★★★

Brightly Burning

by Alexa Donne (2018)
read 4 March 2023
★★★★☆

Chinese Fairy Tales and Legends

by Richard Wilhelm & Frederick H. Martens (2019)
read 3 March 2023
★★★★☆

All the Things They Said We Couldn’t Have

by Tash Oakes-Monger (2023)
read 27 February 2023
★★★☆☆

How to be Ace

by Rebecca Burgess (2021)
read 26 February 2023
★★★☆☆

Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping

by Dave Rudden (2018)
read 24 February 2023
★★★★★

The Murder of Mr Wickham

by Claudia Gray (2022)
read 23 February 2023
★★★★☆

The Last Man on the Moon

by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis (1999)
read 19 February 2023
★★★★★

By Underground to Kew

by Jonathan Riddell and William T. Stearn (1994)
read 17 February 2023
★★★☆☆

Punderworld

by Linda Šejić (2021)
read 11 February 2023
★★★★☆

Ariadne

by Jennifer Saint (2021)
read 10 February 2023
★★★★☆

The Union of Synchronised Swimmers

by Cristina Sandu (2019)
read 4 February 2023
★★★☆☆

The Frequency of Us

by Keith Stuart (2021)
read 3 February 2023
★★★★★

A bookshop in Algiers

by Kaouther Adimi (2017)
read 31 January 2023
★★★★☆

Severance: The Lexington Letter

by Anonymous (2022)
read 30 January 2023
★★★☆☆

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

by Mackenzi Lee (2020)
read 24 January 2023
★★★★☆

Not My Problem

by Ciara Smyth (2021)
read 15 January 2023
★★★★☆

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

by Rebecca Solnit (2006)
read 8 January 2023
★★★☆☆

Once Upon a Tome

by Oliver Darkshire (2022)
read 28 December 2022
★★★★☆

The Origins of Iris

by Beth Lewis (2021)
read 27 December 2022
★★★★★

S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service

by Cyril Jolly (1961)
read 24 December 2022
★★★★☆

The Falling in Love Montage

by Ciara Smyth (2020)
read 22 December 2022
★★★★★

All In Our Own Words

by Friends of the Bure Valley Railway (2016)
read 16 December 2022
★★★☆☆

One Night With You

by Laura Jane Williams (2022)
read 14 December 2022
★★★★☆

Our Stop

by Laura Jane Williams (2019)
read 2 December 2022
★★★★☆

Olympia

by Anna Maranti (1999)
read 22 November 2022
★★★☆☆

Asexual Fairy Tales

by Elizabeth Hopkinson (2019)
read 22 November 2022
(did not finish)

Another Life

by Jodie Chapman (2021)
read 19 November 2022
★★★★★

Rust

by Jonathan Waldman (2015)
read 15 November 2022
★★★★★

A Cosmic Kind of Love

by Samantha Young (2022)
read 10 November 2022
★★★★☆

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921)
read 9 November 2022
★★★★☆

Passing

by Nella Larsen (1929)
read 6 November 2022
★★★★☆

Attention All Shipping

by Charlie Connelly (2004)
read 5 November 2022
(did not finish)

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

by Natasha Pulley (2015)
read 3 November 2022
★★★★☆

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel (2022)
read 27 October 2022
★★★☆☆

The Last Library

by Freya Sampson (2021)
read 21 October 2022
★★★☆☆

Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa (2019)
read 18 October 2022
★★★★★

The Central Line

by Saskia Sarginson (2022)
read 13 October 2022
★★★★☆

Alpha Beta

by John Man (2000)
read 12 October 2022
★★★☆☆

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

by Gabrielle Zevin (2022)
read 2 October 2022
★★★★☆

Mathematical Intelligence

by Junaid Mubeen (2022)
read 25 September 2022
(did not finish)

The Society for Soulless Girls

by Laura Steven (2022)
read 21 September 2022
★★★★☆

The Strange and Infinite World of Numbers

by Tim Sole (2019)
read 19 September 2022
(did not finish)

What If? 2

by Randall Munroe (2022)
read 14 September 2022
★★★★☆

Before Your Memory Fades

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2022)
read 12 September 2022
★★★★★

Seats of London

by Andrew Martin (2019)
read 9 September 2022
★★★★☆

This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019)
read 3 September 2022
★★★★☆

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot Book 2)

by Becky Chambers (2022)
read 31 August 2022
★★★★☆

Concrete Rose

by Angie Thomas (2021)
read 26 August 2022
★★★★☆

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas (2017)
read 22 August 2022
★★★★★

Uncentering the Earth

by William T. Vollmann (2006)
read 20 August 2022
(did not finish)

One Last Stop

by Casey McQuiston (2021)
read 19 August 2022
★★★★★

Snowball Earth

by Gabrielle Walker (2003)
read 18 August 2022
★★★☆☆

Transmutation Stories

by Alex DiFrancesco (2021)
read 16 August 2022
(did not finish)

Letters to a Young Mathematician

by Ian Stewart (2006)
read 7 August 2022
★★★★★

The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: Great Outdoors

by David Borgenicht & Trey Popp (2007)
read 30 July 2022
★★★☆☆

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

by Andrew Lawlor (2017)
read 29 July 2022
(did not finish)

The Survivors

by Jane Harper (2020)
read 22 July 2022
★★★★☆

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2019)
read 18 July 2022
★★★★★

False Starts, Near Misses and Dangerous Goods

by Geoff Body and Ian Body (2017)
read 17 July 2022
★★★☆☆

Looking for Emily

by Fiona Longmuir (2022)
read 14 July 2022
★★★★☆

No One is Too Small to Make a Difference

by Greta Thunberg (2019)
read 14 July 2022
★★★★☆

The Secret Lives of Colour

by Kassie St Clair (2016)
read 13 July 2022
★★★★★

Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (2017)
read 9 July 2022
★★★★★

Under the Paw

by Tom Cox (2008)
read 6 July 2022
★★★☆☆

Dating

by The School of Life (2019)
read 3 July 2022
★★★★★

Outraged

by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles (2020)
read 2 July 2022
★★★☆☆

We Are Bellingcat

by Eliot Higgins (2021)
read 29 June 2022
★★★★☆

Night Trains

by Andrew Martin (2017)
read 24 June 2022
(did not finish)

Gender Euphoria

by Laura Kate Dale (2021)
read 23 June 2022
★★★★★

Egyptian Mythology

by W. Max Mũller (2004)
read 14 June 2022
(did not finish)

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

by Penelope Lively (1973)
read 5 June 2022
★★★☆☆

The Invisible Orientation

by Julie Sondra Decker (2014)
read 4 June 2022
(did not finish)

Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction

by Tom Burns & Eva Burns-Lundgren (2015)
read 2 June 2022
(did not finish)

A Briefer History of Time

by Steven Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow (2005)
read 28 May 2022
★★★☆☆

Homer’s Odyssey

by Gwen Cooper (2010)
read 26 May 2022
★★★★★

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick (2014)
read 22 May 2022
★★★★★

Mary Celeste

by Paul Begg (2005)
read 19 May 2022
★★★☆☆

The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History

by Joshua Piyen, David Borgenicht, Piers Marchant & Melissa Wagner (2006)
read 8 May 2022
★★★☆☆

Underground Cities

by Mark Ovenden (2020)
read 6 May 2022
★★★☆☆

The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet

by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley (2015)
read 4 May 2022
★★★★☆

Doctor Who: Respond to All Calls (The Ninth Doctor Adventures)

by Lisa McMullin, Tim Foley, and Timothy X. Atack (2021)
read 18 April 2022
★★★☆☆

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

by Jonn Elledge (2021)
read 12 April 2022
★★★☆☆

We Need to Talk

by Celeste Headlee (2017)
read 9 April 2022
★★★★☆

Count Your Lucky Stars (Written in the Stars, #3)

by Alexandria Bellefleur (2022)
read 3 April 2022
★★★★☆

There Is No Antimemetics Division

by qntm (2021)
read 30 March 2022
★★★★★

Never Lost Again

by Bill Kilday (2018)
read 30 March 2022
★★★★☆

The Wombles

by Elisabeth Beresford (1968)
read 27 March 2022
★★★★☆

Kigelia: A Typeface for Africa

by Mark Jamra and Neil Patel (2018)
read 26 March 2022
★★★★☆

Light Years

by Brian Clegg (2008)
read 25 March 2022
★★★☆☆

The Most Precious of Cargoes

by Jean-Claude Grumberg (2019)
read 17 March 2022
★★★★★

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village

by Maureen Johnson (2021)
read 14 March 2022
★★★★☆

Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey

by Alberto Manguel (2007)
read 11 March 2022
(did not finish)

Hang the Moon (Written in the Stars, #2)

by Alexandria Bellefleur (2021)
read 5 March 2022
★★★★★

The Haunting of Tram Car 015

by P. Djèlí Clark (2019)
read 24 February 2022
★★★★☆

Historic Railway Disasters

by O. S. Nock (1983)
read 11 February 2022
★★★★☆

The Calculating Stars (The Lady Astronaut series #1)

by Mary Robinette Kowal (2018)
read 5 February 2022
(did not finish)

Palestine + 100

edited by Basma Ghalayini (2019)
read 28 January 2022
★★★★☆

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke (2020)
read 20 January 2022
★★★★★

Physics of the Impossible

by Michio Kaku (2008)
read 18 January 2022
★★★☆☆

The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree

by Paola Peretti (2018)
read 8 January 2022
★★★★☆

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)

by Becky Chambers (2021)
read 3 January 2022
★★★★★

Trains (Ladybird Books)

by David Carey (1974)
read 30 December 2021
★★★★☆

Dick Whittington and his cat (Ladybird Books)

retold by Vera Southgate (1966)
read 30 December 2021
★★★★☆

The Power of the A4s

by Brian Morrison (1978)
read 30 December 2021
★★★★☆

The Otters’ Tale

by Simon Cooper (2017)
read 29 December 2021
★★★★☆

The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1)

by T.L. Huchu (2021)
read 19 December 2021
★★★☆☆

What Cats Want

by Dr. Yuki Hattori (2020)
read 16 December 2021
★★★★☆

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

by Alex White (2018)
read 11 December 2021
(did not finish)

File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

by Lemony Snicket (2014)
read 9 December 2021
★★★☆☆

Cosmogramma

by Courttia Newland (2021)
read 4 December 2021
(did not finish)

The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4)

by Maureen Johnson (2021)
read 1 December 2021
★★★★☆

The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious #3)

by Maureen Johnson (2020)
read 27 November 2021
★★★★☆

The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2)

by Maureen Johnson (2019)
read 20 November 2021
★★★★☆

The Apollo Murders

by Chris Hadfield (2021)
read 18 November 2021
★★★★★

Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1)

by Maureen Johnson (2018)
read 16 November 2021
★★★★☆

Model Railways

by Cyril J. Freezer (1991)
read 10 November 2021
★★★★☆

Codebreaker: The Untold Story of Richard Hayes

by Marc McMenamin (2020)
read 6 November 2021
(did not finish)

Bure Valley Recollections

by Gerry Balding & Andrew Barnes (2018)
read 5 November 2021
★★★★☆

Your Computer is on Fire

edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (2021)
read 31 October 2021
★★★★★

Poison for Breakfast

by Lemony Snicket (2021)
read 28 October 2021
★★★☆☆

Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

by Alexandria Bellefleur (2020)
read 24 October 2021
★★★★★

Tales from Moominvalley

by Tove Jansson (1962)
read 7 October 2021
(did not finish)

Abandoned America

by Matthew Christopher (2014)
read 7 October 2021
★★★★☆

The Backwater Sermons

by Jay Hulme (2021)
read 2 October 2021
★★★☆☆

Surviving the Storms

by the RNLI (2020)
read 26 September 2021
★★★★★

The Distant Hours

by Kate Morton (2010)
read 25 September 2021
★★★★☆

Resilient Management

by Lara Hogan (2019)
read 18 September 2021
★★★★☆

Think Black

by Clyde W. Ford (2019)
read 7 September 2021
★★★★★

Small Bodies of Water

by Nina Mingya Powles (2021)
read 2 September 2021
(did not finish)

The Martian

by Andy Weir (2011)
read 27 August 2021
★★★☆☆

Moominpappa at Sea

by Tove Jansson (1948)
read 22 August 2021
★★★☆☆

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
read 13 August 2021
★★★☆☆

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

by Douglas Adams, James Goss (2017)
read 3 August 2021
(did not finish)

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

by Thomas Geve (2021)
read 28 July 2021
★★★★☆

Black and British

by David Olusoga (2016)
read 24 July 2021
★★★★☆

The Vela (season 1)

by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, S.L. Huang (2019)
read 18 July 2021
★★★☆☆

Comet in Moominland

by Tove Jansson (1946)
read 17 July 2021
★★★★☆

Digging for Words

by Angela Burke Kunkel (2020)
read 8 July 2021
★★★★☆

The Kabuliwallah and Other Stories

by Rabindranath Tagore (2020)
read 5 July 2021
(did not finish)

Finn Family Moomintroll

by Tove Jansson (1948)
read 3 July 2021
★★★☆☆

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett (2014)
read 2 July 2021
★★★★☆

The Woman in Cabin 10

by Ruth Ware (2016)
read 27 June 2021
★★★★☆

The Only Plane in the Sky

by Garrett M. Graff (2019)
read 25 June 2021
★★★★★

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead (2016)
read 21 June 2021
★★★★☆

Loveless

by Alice Oseman (2018)
read 14 June 2021
★★★★★

Atomic Habits

by James Clear (2018)
read 6 June 2021
★★★★☆

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales

by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett (2020)
read 18 May 2021
★★★★★

How to Fly a Plane

by Nick Barnard and Lucy Pope (2007)
read 15 May 2021
★★★★☆

The Invisible Child and the Fir Tree

by Tove Jansson (1962)
read 3 May 2021
★★★☆☆

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers

by David Wells (1986)
read 1 May 2021
(did not finish)

Railsea

by China Miéville (2012)
read 28 April 2021
★★★★★

The Last Lingua Franca

by Nicholas Ostler (2010)
read 25 April 2021
(did not finish)

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers,)

by Becky Chambers (2021)
read 17 April 2021
★★★★★

Programmed Inequality

by Marie Hicks (2017)
read 31 March 2021
★★★★☆

Solutions and Other Problems

by Allie Brosh (2020)
read 23 March 2021
★★★★★

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

by Louis de Bernières (1994)
read 21 March 2021
★★★★☆

The Cyberiad

by Stanislaw Lem (1965)
read 15 March 2021
★★★☆☆

Mathematics and Politics

by Alan D. Taylor and Allison M. Pacelli (1995)
read 12 March 2021
★★★★☆

Disability Visibility

edited by Alice Wong (2020)
read 5 March 2021
★★★★★

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen (1813)
read 28 February 2021
★★★☆☆

Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret

by Paul Gannon (2007)
read 7 February 2021
★★★★☆

Lustrum

by Robert Harris (2009)
read 2 January 2021
★★★☆☆

The Read Aloud Cloud

by Forrest Brazeal (2020)
read 26 December 2020
★★★★★

The Story of Brexit

by Ladybird Books (2018)
read 25 December 2020
★★★☆☆

The Trains Now Departed

by Michael Williams (2015)
read 25 December 2020
★★★★☆

Bite Size Bash

by Julia Evans (2020)
read 23 December 2020
★★★☆☆

The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols (2018)
read 21 December 2020
★★★★☆

Welwyn’s Railways

by The Revd. Tim W. Gladwin, Peter W. Neville, Douglas E. White (1986)
read 18 December 2020
★★★☆☆

Notes from Small Planets

by Nate Crowley (2020)
read 16 December 2020
★★★★☆

IBM and the Holocaust

by Edwin Black (2001)
read 5 December 2020
★★★★★

The Starless Sea

by Erin Morgenstern (2019)
read 22 November 2020
★★★★★

The Chinese Typewriter: A History

by Thomas S. Mullaney (2017)
read 16 November 2020
★★★★☆

How to be a Good Motorist

by the Bodleian Library (2013)
read 11 October 2020
★★★☆☆

The City & the City

by China Miéville (2009)
read 7 October 2020
★★★★★

Engineering a Safer World

by Nancy G. Leveson (2012)
read 27 September 2020
★★★★☆

An Atlas of Extinct Countries

by Gideon Defoe (2020)
read 19 September 2020
★★★★☆

A Speller’s Companion

by Brown and Brown (1987)
read 17 September 2020
★★★★☆

Codebreakers: The inside story of Bletchley Park

by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Tripp (1993)
read 15 September 2020
★★★★★

The Wandering Wombles

by Elisabeth Beresford (1970)
read 9 September 2020
★★★★☆

Montmorency

by Eleanor Updale (2003)
read 16 August 2020
★★★☆☆

Airman

by Eoin Colfer (2008)
read 8 August 2020
★★★★☆

Behind the Scenes at Scrapheap Challenge

by Robert Llewellyn (2001)
read 30 July 2020
★★★★☆

Creative Selection

by Ken Kocienda (2018)
read 26 July 2020
★★★★☆

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)
read 18 July 2020
★★★★★

The Gate of Angels

by Penelope Fitzgerald (1990)
read 12 July 2020
★★★☆☆

Small Robots

by Thomas Heasman-Hunt (2019)
read 10 July 2020
★★★★★

GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich (2010)
read 5 July 2020
★★★★★

Atomic

by Jim Baggott (2015)
read 26 June 2020
(did not finish)

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern (2011)
read 22 May 2020
★★★★★

Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

by Martha Wells (2018)
read 8 May 2020
★★★★★

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

by Martha Wells (2018)
read 8 May 2020
★★★★☆

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

by Martha Wells (2018)
read 5 May 2020
★★★★☆

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

by Martha Wells (2017)
read 4 May 2020
★★★☆☆

Quicksilver (Ultraviolet, #2)

by R.J. Anderson (2013)
read 30 April 2020
★★★★☆

Yellow Trains

by Andrew Royle (2019)
read 18 April 2020
★★★★☆

Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet,)

by R.J. Anderson (2011)
read 17 April 2020
★★★★☆

The Magazine: The Book

by Glenn Fleishman (2014)
read 13 April 2020
★★★★★

The Secret Listeners

by Sinclair McKay (2012)
read 10 March 2020
★★★★★

Intimate Friendships

by James W. Ramey (1975)
read 20 February 2020
★★★☆☆

The Day of the Triffids

by John Wyndham (1951)
read 7 February 2020
★★★★☆

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk Jr. (1918)
read 6 February 2020
★★★☆☆

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)
read 2 February 2020
★★★☆☆

Trans Like Me

by C. N. Lester (2017)
read 27 January 2020
★★★★★

Why Buildings Fall Down

by Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori (1992)
read 25 January 2020
★★★★☆

The Lonely City

by Olivia Laing (2016)
read 18 January 2020
(did not finish)

Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen

by Peter M Higgins (2007)
read 14 January 2020
★★★☆☆

Am I Overthinking This?

by Michelle Rial (2019)
read 12 January 2020
★★★☆☆

On the Beach

by Nevil Shute (1957)
read 11 January 2020
★★★★★

Trans Britain

by Christine Burns (2018)
read 10 January 2020
★★★★★

How To

by Randall Munroe (2019)
read 27 December 2019
★★★★☆

H2O

by Philip Ball (2000)
read 26 December 2019
★★★☆☆

Strange Planet

by Nathan Pyle (2019)
read 25 December 2019
★★★☆☆

Plato’s Podcasts

by Mark Vernon (2009)
read 23 December 2019
(did not finish)

The Meaning of It All

by Richard P. Feynman (2007)
read 11 December 2019
★★★★★

The Maths Gene

by Keith J. Devlin (2000)
read 9 December 2019
★★☆☆☆

Fun Home

by Alison Bechdel (2006)
read 2 December 2019
★★★☆☆

Atomic Accidents

by James Mahaffey (2015)
read 1 December 2019
★★★★★

Antimatter

by Frank Close (2009)
read 24 November 2019
★★★☆☆

History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys

by Sarah Baxter (2017)
read 23 November 2019
★★★☆☆

The Art of Betrayal

by Gordon Corera (2011)
read 14 November 2019
★★★★★

The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman (1988)
read 7 November 2019
★★★☆☆

Bletchley Park: Home of the Codebreakers

by English Heritage (2005)
read 4 November 2019
★★★☆☆

Lorenz

by Jerry Roberts (2018)
read 3 November 2019
★★★★☆

The Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder’s Guide

by Paweł "Sariel" Kmieć (2012)
read 2 November 2019
★★★★☆

Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (Jarrold Railway Series 1)

by Alan Bloom (1980)
read 2 November 2019
★★★★☆

Bletchley Park: Demystifying the Bombe

by Dermot Turing (2015)
read 2 November 2019
★★★☆☆

From Prejudice to Pride

by Amy Lame (2017)
read 28 October 2019
★★★☆☆

Introduction to Graph Theory

by Robin J. Wilson (2010)
read 26 October 2019
★★★★☆

Why Buildings Stand Up

by Mario Salvadori (1990)
read 20 October 2019
★★★★☆

Provenance

by Ann Leckie (2018)
read 12 October 2019
★★★☆☆

oh no

by Alex Norris (2019)
read 7 October 2019
★★★☆☆

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

by Becky Chambers (2019)
read 28 September 2019
★★★★☆

Chernobyl

by Serhii Plokhy (2018)
read 26 September 2019
★★★★★

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

by Gary Provost (1985)
read 9 September 2019
★★★★★

Beautiful LEGO

by Mike Doyle (2013)
read 8 September 2019
★★★☆☆

A Layman’s Guide to the Greek Gods

by Alan & Maureen Carter (1994)
read 7 September 2019
★★★★☆

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age

by Kurt W. Beyer (2012)
read 30 August 2019
★★★★★

The Ancient Greek Computer From Rhodes

by V.J. Kean (1991)
read 22 August 2019
★★★☆☆

Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell (1981)
read 22 August 2019
★★★★★

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman (1973)
read 18 August 2019
★★★★☆

Write to the Point

by Sam Leith (2017)
read 17 August 2019
★★★☆☆

LEGO Architecture The Visual Guide

by Philip Wilkinson (2014)
read 14 August 2019
★★★★☆

The Enchanted Castle

by E. Nesbit (1994)
read 13 August 2019
(did not finish)

A Brief History of Infinity

by Brian Clegg (2003)
read 11 August 2019
★★★★☆

A Layman’s Guide to Greek Heroes

by Alan Carter (1994)
read 10 August 2019
★★★☆☆

Lewis Carroll in Numberland

by Robin J. Wilson (2009)
read 4 August 2019
★★★☆☆

The Phoenix and the Carpet (Five Children #2)

by E. Nesbit (1994)
read 31 July 2019
★★★☆☆

Volk’s Railways, Brighton: An Illustrated History

by Alan A. Jackson (1993)
read 27 July 2019
★★★☆☆

Volk’s Electric Railway: A Visitor’s Guide

by Peter Walker (2018)
read 27 July 2019
★★★☆☆

The Box

by Marc Levinson (2016)
read 27 July 2019
★★★★☆

Good Omens

by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (2014)
read 21 July 2019
★★★★☆

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

by Cary Elwes (2014)
read 16 July 2019
★★★★★

London Underground by Design

by Mark Ovenden (2013)
read 13 July 2019
★★★★★

ABC Signalling In The Age Of Steam

by Ian Allan (2005)
read 29 June 2019

Beyond Burnout

by Cary Cherniss (1995)
read 27 June 2019
★★★☆☆

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

by Marie Kondō (2014)
read 19 June 2019
★★★★☆

The Artist And The Mathematician

by Amir D. Aczel (2007)
read 15 June 2019
★★★☆☆

Gaming the Vote

by William Poundstone (2008)
read 11 June 2019
★★★★☆

Electric Universe

by David Bodanis (2006)
read 9 June 2019
★★★★☆

Here, The World Entire

by Anwen Kya Hayward (2016)
read 2 June 2019
★★★★☆

Messages from the Sea

by Paul Brown (2016)
read 6 May 2019
★★★☆☆

Carrying the Fire

by Michael Collins (2009)
read 1 May 2019
★★★★★

Seashaken Houses

by Tom Nancollas (2018)
read 9 April 2019
★★★★☆

The Void

by Frank Close (2007)
read 24 March 2019
★★★☆☆

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

by Gavin Menzies (2003)
read 24 March 2019
(did not finish)

The Universe Next Door

by Marcus Chown (2003)
read 23 March 2019
★★★☆☆

From Here to Eternity

by Caitlin Doughty (2018)
read 2 March 2019
★★★★☆

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

by Ann Leckie (2015)
read 23 February 2019
★★★★☆

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)

by Ann Leckie (2014)
read 19 February 2019
★★★★☆

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

by Caitlin Doughty (2015)
read 13 February 2019
★★★★★

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1)

by Ann Leckie (2013)
read 11 February 2019
★★★★☆

Automating Inequality

by Virginia Eubanks (2018)
read 27 January 2019
★★★☆☆

The Railway Adventures

by Geoff Marshall, Vicki Pipe (2018)
read 20 January 2019
★★★★☆

Mismatch

by Kat Holmes (2018)
read 16 January 2019
★★★★★

Yes, You Are Trans Enough

by Mia Violet (2018)
read 13 January 2019
★★★★★

Hello World

by Hannah Fry (2018)
read 28 December 2018
★★★★☆

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman (2017)
read 26 December 2018
(did not finish)

A Brief History of Wales

by Gerald Morgan (2008)
read 21 December 2018
★★★☆☆

Engines Of War

by Christian Wolmarr (2010)
read 12 December 2018
★★★★☆

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

by Ken Liu (2016)
read 23 November 2018
★★★★★

A Little Book About the Runes

by Björn Jónasson (2002)
read 23 October 2018
★★★☆☆

Places I Stopped on the Way Home

by Meg Fee (2018)
read 20 October 2018
★★★★★

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

by Becky Chambers (2018)
read 7 October 2018
★★★★★

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

by Chris Hadfield (2013)
read 19 September 2018
★★★★★

The Greatest Traitor

by Roger Hermiston (2013)
read 14 August 2018
★★★★☆

Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman (2017)
read 13 July 2018
★★★★★

And Another Thing… (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #6)

by Eoin Colfer (2009)
read 10 July 2018
(did not finish)

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly (2017)
read 4 July 2018
★★★★★

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

by P.D. James (2010)
read 24 May 2018
★★★★☆

Looking for Group

by Alexis Hall (2016)
read 21 May 2018
★★★★★

Wish You Were Here

by Nick Webb (2005)
read 10 May 2018
★★★★☆

I Hate Everyone But You (I Hate Everyone But You, #1)

by Gaby Dunn & Allison Raskin (2017)
read 9 April 2018
★★★☆☆

The Butterfly Isles

by Patrick Barkham (2011)
read 7 April 2018
★★★★☆

Hyperbole and a Half

by Allie Brosh (2013)
read 7 April 2018
★★★★☆

The Art of Lecturing

by Parham Aarabi (2007)
read 4 March 2018
★★★☆☆

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman (2008)
read 1 March 2018
(did not finish)

Ida

by Alison Evans (2017)
read 16 February 2018
★★★★☆

Mallard

by Don Hale (2003)
read 11 February 2018
★★★★☆

Death, Dynamite and Disaster

by Rosa Matheson (2014)
read 5 February 2018
★★★★☆

Liars and Outliers

by Bruce Schneier (2012)
read 3 February 2018
★★★★★

Seven Ways We Lie

by Riley Redgate (2017)
read 4 January 2018
★★★★☆

The Wrong Kind of Snow

by Rob Penn (2008)
read 31 December 2017
★★★☆☆

Turing

by B. Jack Copeland (2013)
read 29 November 2017
★★★★☆

The Secret Listeners

by Sinclair McKay (2012)
read 16 November 2017
★★★☆☆

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon (2004)
read 16 November 2017
★★★★☆

Psychiatric Tales

by Darryl Cunningham (2010)
read 21 August 2017
★★★☆☆

Numbers Rule

by George G. Szpiro (2010)
read 14 August 2017
★★★★★

Manx Fairy Tales

by Sophia Morrison (1991)
read August 2017
★★★☆☆

What If?

by Randall Munroe (2014)
read 15 July 2017
★★★★☆

A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

by Becky Chambers (2016)
read 30 June 2017
★★★★★

Mind the Gap

by Emily Kearns (2013)
read 16 May 2017
★★★☆☆

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

by Sydney Padua (2015)
read 15 May 2017
★★★★★

Last Chance to See

by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwadine (2009)
read 27 April 2017
★★★★★

Granuaile

by Anne Chambers (2009)
read 17 April 2017
★★★★☆

Doctor Who: Timeless

by Stephen Cole (2003)
read 11 April 2017
(did not finish)

We Go Forward

by Alison Evans (2016)
read 5 April 2017
★★★★★

The Examined Life

by Stephen Grosz (2014)
read April 2017
★★★★☆

Understanding Asexuality

by Anthony F. Bogaert (2012)
read 31 March 2017
★★☆☆☆

Too Much Information

by Dave Gorman (2015)
read 15 March 2017
★★★☆☆

The Man Who Invented the Daleks

by Alwyn W. Turner (2011)
read 26 February 2017

Forgotten Sacrifice

by Michael G. Walling (2012)
read 13 February 2017
★★★★☆

The Healthy Programmer

by Joe Kutner (2013)
read February 2017
★★★★☆

Await Your Reply

by Dan Chaon (2009)
read 31 January 2017
★★★☆☆

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Wayfarers,)

by Becky Chambers (2015)
read 22 January 2017
★★★★★

Fire Season

by Philip Connors (2012)
read 22 January 2017
★★★★★

I Was There on PQ17, the Convoy to Hell

by Paul Lund (2010)
read 11 January 2017
★★★★☆

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus

by Dr Hannah Fry & Dr Thomas Oléron Evans (2016)
read 3 January 2017
★★★☆☆

The Dark

by Lemony Snicket (2013)
read 3 January 2017
★★★★☆

“Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?” (All the Wrong Questions, #4)

by Lemony Snicket (2015)
read 27 December 2016
★★★★☆

“Shouldn’t You Be in School?” (All the Wrong Questions, #3)

by Lemony Snicket (2014)
read 26 December 2016
★★★☆☆

Master Pieces

by Gareth Williams (2000)
read 26 December 2016
★★★★☆

Adventures with the Wife in Space

by Neil Perryman (2013)
read 27 November 2016
★★★★★

Getting Things Done

by David Allen (2002)
read 26 November 2016
★★★★★

A Philosophy of Walking

by Frédéric Gros (2014)
read 26 November 2016
★★★☆☆

“When Did You See Her Last?” (All the Wrong Questions, #2)

by Lemony Snicket (2013)
read 24 October 2016
★★★☆☆

“Who Could That Be at This Hour?” (All the Wrong Questions, #1)

by Lemony Snicket (2012)
read 23 October 2016
★★★☆☆

The Riddle of the Labyrinth

by Margalit Fox (2013)
read 16 October 2016
★★★★☆

Creativity, Inc.

by Ed Catmull (2014)
read September 2016
★★★★☆

Blind Man’s Bluff

by Sherry Sontag (2000)
read July 2016

Typography for Lawyers

by Matthew Butterick (2015)
read April 2016

The Chronicles of Narnia Audio Collection

by C.S. Lewis (2000)
read February 2016

Secrets of the Conqueror

by Stuart Prebble (2013)
read December 2015

A Little Book of Language

by David Crystal (2011)
read December 2015

Just My Type

by Simon Garfield (2010)
read November 2015

Operation Fortitude

by Joshua Levine (2012)
read October 2015

Effective Python

by Brett Slatkin (2015)
read August 2015

Carmilla

by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
read August 2015

The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)

by Douglas Adams (2012)
read April 2015

Target Tirpitz

by Patrick Bishop (2012)
read April 2015

Paper Towns

by John Green (2009)
read April 2015

You Say Potato

by Ben Crystal, David Crystal (2014)
read February 2015

March Hares and Monkeys’ Uncles

by Harry Oliver (2005)
read August 2011

How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?

by Tony Juniper (2007)
read August 2011

Five Equations That Changed the World

by Michael Guillen (2000)
read August 2011

The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead

by Marcus Chown (2007)
read July 2011

Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction

by Fred C. Piper (2002)
read July 2011

The Last Little Blue Envelope (Little Blue Envelope, #2)

by Maureen Johnson (2011)
read May 2011

Focus

by Leo Babauta (2010)
read May 2011

Enigma

by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (2001)
read May 2011

Two’s Company, Three Is Complexity

by Neil Johnson (2007)
read April 2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling (2007)
read July 2007

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling (2005)
read July 2005

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling (2005)
read June 2003