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2020-03-05 21:20 Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Books 2020, 3)
2020-02-03 11:31 The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 2)
2020-01-09 20:16 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 1)
2019-12-27 16:46 Transition by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 25)
2019-12-27 14:33 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Books 2019, 24)
2019-12-17 15:06 The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 23)
2019-11-23 21:39 The Book of Dust vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 22)
2019-11-19 11:25 Kieron’s Comic, Brontë’s Book
2019-11-14 23:49 Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Books 2019, 21)
2019-11-11 21:20 Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 18, 19 & 20)
2019-10-27 23:56 On Pausing Stories
2019-10-23 19:02 Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2019, 17)
2019-10-23 11:59 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 16)
2019-10-06 23:27 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Books 2019, 15)
2019-09-25 23:07 The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet, Translated by Sam Taylor (Books 2019, 14)
2019-08-21 23:23 The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Books 2019, 13)
2019-08-11 19:32 The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Books 2019, 12)
2019-07-30 20:39 What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Books 2019, 11)
2019-07-21 14:49 Milkman by Anna Burns (Books 2019, 10)
2019-07-15 22:51 Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Books 2019, 9)
2019-07-14 14:12 Touch by Claire North (Books 2019, 8)
2019-07-10 14:57 In Dreams: A Unified Interpretation of Twin Peaks & Other Selected Works of David Lynch, by H Perry Horton (Books 2019, 7)
2019-05-21 19:52 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 6)
2019-05-20 23:56 Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassady (Books 2019, 5)
2019-03-01 23:00 The Beats: a Very Short Introduction (Books 2019, 4)
2019-02-25 23:50 England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, by Jon Savage (Books 2019, 3)
2019-02-01 19:56 We Are The Clash by Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki (Books 2019, 2)
2019-01-15 00:19 Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Books 2019, 1)
2018-12-31 22:09 Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (Books 2018, 31)
2018-12-29 17:46 Stormwatch by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch (Books 2018, 30)
2018-12-29 17:28 The Drifters by James A Michener (Books 2018, 29)
2018-10-26 20:49 Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2018, 28)
2018-10-10 22:46 Promethea by Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray & Todd Klein (Books 2018, 27)
2018-10-04 22:33 Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2018, 26)
2018-10-02 23:54 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Books 2018, 25)
2018-09-08 00:22 This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (Books 2018, 24)
2018-08-16 19:35 Gilded Cage, Tarnished City, and Bright Ruin by Vic James (Books 2018, 21, 22, 23)
2018-08-13 18:11 Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock (Books 2018, 20)
2018-08-12 00:26 The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 19)
2018-08-01 17:50 Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 18)
2018-07-20 00:32 The Great Banksie Reread
2018-07-17 23:57 The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 17)
2018-07-04 00:20 Matter by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 16)
2018-06-24 16:16 Inversions by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 15)
2018-06-21 23:02 Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 14)
2018-06-17 19:45 Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 13)
2018-05-15 23:05 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Books 2018, 11)
2018-04-18 21:12 Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Books 2018, 9)
2018-04-12 22:41 Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Books 2018, 8)
2018-04-10 22:29 The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2018, 7)
2018-04-10 22:20 The Audrey and Eddie Show
2018-03-17 20:33 2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Books 2018, 6) 📚🎵
2018-02-27 18:04 Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (Books 2018, 5)
2018-02-25 20:42 Sourdough by Robin Sloan (Books 2018, 4)
2018-01-30 17:28 I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon (Books 2018, 2) 📚🎵
2018-01-22 22:04 Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Books 2018, 1)
2017-11-22 22:10 Jerusalem by Alan Moore (Books 2017, 5)
2017-09-01 22:04 Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Books 2017, 4)
2017-04-13 00:49 BSFA Awards 2016 by Various (Books 2017, 3)
2017-03-19 00:36 Reading Materials
2017-03-02 23:51 Footnotes Revisited
2017-03-01 23:57 Under the Television Skies
2017-02-15 21:13 All the Things in the World
2017-01-25 23:30 A Song of Stone by Iain Banks (Books 2017, 2)
2017-01-03 07:18 The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost (Books 2017, 1)
2016-12-20 07:09 Complicity and The Business by Iain Banks (Books 2016 16 & 17)
2016-11-26 14:32 Again, Again
2016-11-20 17:56 Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2016, 15)
2016-09-14 00:15 Reamde By Neal Stephenson (Books 2016, 13)
2016-09-06 23:27 The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and others (Books 2016, 12)
2016-08-29 01:01 Normal by Warren Ellis (Books 2016, 11)
2016-08-25 18:18 Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Books 2016, 10)
2016-07-14 01:45 All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Books 2016, 9)
2016-06-19 23:12 The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Books 2016, 8)
2016-06-16 18:04 Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (Books 2016, 7
2016-06-07 23:06 The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Books 2016, 6)
2016-04-13 00:18 Patience by Daniel Clowes (Books 2016, 5)
2016-04-06 23:43 Patience
2016-04-03 00:16 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K Dick (Books 2016, 2)
2016-04-02 23:39 Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, by China Miéville (Books 2016, 1)
2015-11-04 23:48 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2015, 10)
2015-10-06 18:51 The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Books 2015, 9)
2015-09-08 11:58 Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Books 2015, 8)
2015-08-18 00:47 Mind of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (Books 2015, 7)
2015-06-25 16:04 Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (books, 2015, 5)
2015-04-30 08:30 Neither tempestuous nor particularly challenging
2015-03-31 08:27 Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Books 2015, 4)
2015-03-22 00:43 Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (books 2015, 3)
2015-03-06 00:24 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Books 2015, 2)
2015-02-12 00:19 The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Books 2015, 1)
2015-01-19 20:58 Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (Books 2014, 20)
2015-01-14 21:54 The Schrödinger’s Cat trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 19)
2015-01-14 21:45 Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Books 2014, 18)
2015-01-05 00:01 The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 17)
2014-12-22 22:25 The Circle by Dave Eggers (Books 2014, 16)
2014-12-02 20:12 Sir Gawain and the Green Night translated by Bernard O’Donoghue (Books 2014, 15)
2014-11-26 01:21 Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: the Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook (Books 2014, 14)
2014-11-25 23:32 Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Books 2014, 13)
2014-11-20 08:11 Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot (Books 2014, 12)
2014-11-08 12:43 On Writing by AL Kennedy (Books 2014, 11)
2014-10-23 22:24 The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (books, 2014, 10)
2014-10-23 00:36 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Books 2014, 9)
2014-10-12 19:31 The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Books 2014, 8)
2014-08-20 15:08 The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2014, 7)
2014-07-22 00:57 Pavane by Keith Roberts (Books, 2014, 6)
2014-07-21 23:14 Not-Exactly-Books, 2014, 5: What Has Gone Wrong With Short Stories?
2014-04-14 22:21 The State of Me, by Nasim Marie Jafry (Books 2014, 4)
2014-04-11 08:39 Secret Diaries
2014-03-26 23:33 The First Three Books of the Year
2014-03-11 23:50 Another Lost Month, and Unpublished Posts
2013-10-16 20:14 The Summer of Rereading, 2: A Culture of Marvel and Miracles
2013-10-16 12:57 The Summer of Rereading, 3: More Culture
2013-09-21 17:25 The Summer of Rereading 1: The Magus, by John Fowles
2013-09-14 00:02 Cultural Times
2013-06-17 00:58 Forgot the Cry of Gulls
2013-05-21 00:15 The Third-Person Sanctimonious
2012-03-30 13:03 A Drop of the Hard Stuff
2011-04-28 01:17 Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
2010-09-08 00:14 Summer Reading 2010
2010-01-30 17:17 Next-Door to a Sequel
2009-09-12 01:11 Transitions in Real Life?
2009-02-19 13:37 Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2008, 21)
2009-02-19 12:59 Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Books 2008, 20)
2009-02-19 11:58 The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson (books 2008, 19)
2009-02-19 11:47 Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Books 2008, 18)
2009-02-19 11:44 Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)
2009-01-14 22:03 Adverbs, by Daniel Handler (Books 2008, 16)
2009-01-07 23:23 American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)
2009-01-07 22:58 Halting State, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 13)
2009-01-04 01:35 Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut, by Warren Ellis and D’Israeli (Books 2008, 14)
2009-01-04 01:24 Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer (Books 2008, 12)
2008-10-13 21:38 ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
2008-08-26 22:53 A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (Books, 2008, 10)
2008-06-20 17:26 A Dream of Wessex, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 9)
2008-06-17 21:08 The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 8)
2008-06-08 21:42 Newton’s Wake: A Space Opera, by Ken Macleod (books 2008, 7)
2008-06-05 20:24 Identity and letdown in The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (books 2008, 6)
2008-06-01 23:12 The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany (Books 2008, 5)
2008-05-05 11:46 British Summer Time, by Paul Cornell (Books 2008, 4)
2008-04-03 17:47 Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi (Books 2008, 3)
2008-03-16 16:22 The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 2)
2008-02-25 21:24 Matter, by Iain M Banks (Books 2008, 1)
2007-12-19 11:05 Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)
2007-11-12 23:23 The Scar, by China Miéville (Books 2007, 6)
2007-09-25 13:16 The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (Books 2007, 5)
2007-09-20 13:37 The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2007, 4)
2007-09-01 14:12 Ink, by Hal Duncan (Books 2007, 3)
2007-08-10 12:16 Twenty Years of Foolin’ and They Put You in the Pub
2007-07-19 22:39 We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (Books 2007, 2)
2007-07-13 17:54 Potter Week
2007-06-15 23:36 Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, by Chris Salewicz (Books 2007, 1)
2007-06-14 12:53 The Last of the 2006 “Book Notes” Posts
2007-04-12 07:53 Book Notes 25: The Family Trade, by Charles Stross
2007-03-16 13:17 Straight to Elgin Avenue
2007-02-25 00:04 The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance
2007-02-03 03:40 A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
2007-01-21 22:41 Book Notes 23: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
2007-01-12 14:07 Dead Zen Master
2007-01-10 14:00 Book Notes 22: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshika Amano
2006-12-21 14:55 Book Notes 20: The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
2006-12-20 14:31 Book Notes 19: Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, and others
2006-12-19 13:02 Book Notes 18: Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K Dick
2006-12-11 23:07 Book Notes 17: Vellum, by Hal Duncan
2006-12-06 14:26 Book Notes 16: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, by Catherine Webb
2006-11-07 13:53 Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute
2006-11-01 17:43 Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison
2006-09-21 13:26 Book Notes 13: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
2006-08-09 23:09 Book Notes 12: The Last Temptation, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
2006-08-08 15:59 Book Notes 11: The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
2006-08-02 17:18 Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie
2006-08-01 00:44 Book notes 9: Redemolished, by Alfred Bester
2006-08-01 00:28 Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
2006-06-25 23:35 Book Notes 7: Nova Scotia, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson
2006-03-27 23:18 Stanslaw Lem
2006-03-27 21:14 Book Notes 6: Saturday by Ian McEwan
2006-03-24 13:10 Reading matters