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
★★★★☆

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
★★★☆☆

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)

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

Poison for Breakfast

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

Abandoned America

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

Tales from Moominvalley

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

The Backwater Sermons

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

The Distant Hours

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

Resilient Management

by Lara Hogan (2019)
read 18 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 Underground Railroad

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

Atomic Habits

by James Clear (2018)
read 6 June 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)

The Last Lingua Franca

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

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

by Marie Hicks (2017)
read 31 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: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof

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

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
★★★☆☆

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

The Gate of Angels

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

Atomic

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

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, #1)

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

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
★★★☆☆

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 Maths Gene

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

Fun Home

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

Bletchley Park: Demystifying the Bombe

by Dermot Turing (2015)
read 2 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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

The Ancient Greek Computer From Rhodes

by V.J. Kean (1991)
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: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

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

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett (2014)
read 21 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
★★★☆☆

Seashaken Houses

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

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

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

The Void

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

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

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
★★★★☆

A Little Book About the Runes

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

The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake

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

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

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

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

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

Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

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: How the Blue Streak Broke the World Speed Record

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

Death, Dynamite and Disaster

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

Seven Ways We Lie

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

The Wrong Kind of Snow: How the Weather Made Britain

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

Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age

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
★★★☆☆

Manx Fairy Tales

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

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

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

Mind the Gap: A London Underground Miscellany

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

Granuaile: Grace O’Malley - Ireland’s Pirate Queen

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

Doctor Who: Timeless

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

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

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

Understanding Asexuality

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

Too Much Information: Or: Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think

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: The Arctic Convoys of World War II

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
★★★☆☆

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
★★★★☆

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
★★★★☆

Blind Mans 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: The Untold Story of Britain’s Most Famous Submarine

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: The Greatest Hoax Of The Second World War

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 - The Battle for the Code

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