Books

These are the books I'm currently reading, and have read with my reviews on Goodreads.

Currently

Children of Time (Children of Time #1)

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

By J.K. Rowling

Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business

By Paul Jarvis

Previously

Read Title Author
3-Feb '20
5 days		 In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2)

📝My review
Kept me guessing and an easy read.

Cara Hunter 4 / 5
29-Jan '20
5 days		 Flowers for Algernon

📝My review
Heartbreaking and thought provoking.

Daniel Keyes 4 / 5
24-Jan '20
15 days		 Exhalation

📝My review
Thought provoking, some interesting ideas, but a tough act to follow.

Ted Chiang 3 / 5
9-Jan '20
9 days		 The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)

📝My review (includes spoilers)
Brutal.

Margaret Atwood 5 / 5
31-Dec '19
28 days		 We

📝My review
Beautiful prose but no idea what it was about!

Yevgeny Zamyatin 3 / 5
23-Dec '19
7 days		 Skipping Christmas

📝My review
Skip Skipping Christmas.

John Grisham 1 / 5
4-Dec '19
6 days		 My Name is Leon

📝My review
Sad. Heart breaking. Beautiful.

Kit de Waal 4 / 5
26-Nov '19
10 days		 The Book of M

📝My review
Engaging from the very first pages, brilliant writing and ideas with some sci-fi without the need to explain absolutely everything. Loved it.

Peng Shepherd 5 / 5
17-Nov '19
20 days		 Recursion

📝My review (includes spoilers)
Decent sci-fi read, not terribly challenging, perhaps a bit overly grim towards the end, but entertaining all round.

Blake Crouch 3 / 5
29-Oct '19
1 month		 Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

📝My review
If this were a technical rating, the book would get 5 stars. For me however, the book felt like a bit of a slog. It took me 2 months to read it and the story line, good gosh, feels like it is stretched across time.

Liu Cixin 3 / 5
1-Sep '19
8 days		 The Afterlife of Walter Augustus

📝My review (includes spoilers)
A bit obvious, uneventful and a miss for me.

Hannah M. Lynn 2 / 5
26-Aug '19
6 months		 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

📝My review (includes spoilers)
Unexpected scary bits!

J.K. Rowling 5 / 5
24-Aug '19
8 days		 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

📝My review
All throughout reading this book, I found myself smiling.

Winifred Watson 5 / 5
17-Aug '19
1 month		 The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

📝My review
A tough/hard science start, but gets picks up and good gosh, the ideas in this book are…wow, expansive!

Liu Cixin 4 / 5
18-Jul '19
12 days		 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

📝My review
My first "hard science" read, but had me immediately inspired to learn more about physics.

Liu Cixin 4 / 5
6-Jul '19
1 day		 The Humans

📝My review
My first read-twice book. A love letter to humanity.

Matt Haig 5 / 5
6-Jul '19
7 days		 I Am Legend

📝My review
I loved it; gripping, heart warming, shameful, despairing, brilliant and quite beautiful.

Richard Matheson 5 / 5
30-Jun '19
13 days		 No Way Out (DI Adam Fawley, #3)

📝My review
Well paced, well written and engaging crime thriller. Not my typical cup of tea, but really enjoyed it.

Cara Hunter 4 / 5
17-Jun '19
11 days		 Meeting Mungo Thunk

📝My review
There's a clever story in here, with some decent humour but for me, personally, the undertone of sexism and 1980s machismo was a turn off.

Keith A. Pearson 2 / 5
30-May '19
11 days		 The Passengers

📝My review
Certainly a page turner and an easy read. Interesting concepts on near-future issues, but I was left feeling a bit…unchallenged.

John Marrs 3 / 5
19-May '19
24 days		 The Sudden Appearance of Hope

📝My review
Great page turner, and I loved the concept of how an individual exits whilst always forgotten in the world.

Claire North 5 / 5
2-May '19
1 day		 I Had a Black Dog: His Name Was Depression

📝My review
Beautifully illustrated and communicated. Some particular pages rang more than true for me and it's useful and helps to see the way others articulate their own depression.

Matthew Johnstone 5 / 5
25-Apr '19
20 days		 Fahrenheit 451

📝My review (includes spoilers)
I loved the concept behind this story, but sadly the delivered story fell fairly flat for me.

Ray Bradbury 3 / 5
6-Apr '19
16 days		 Lord of the Flies

📝My review
Stressful, but solid, reading.

William Golding 3 / 5
22-Mar '19
26 days		 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

📝My review
Absolutely superb stuff. This book was recommended separately by three different friends, and it lived up to expectations.

Patrick Rothfuss 5 / 5
25-Feb '19
17 days		 Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps... and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind

📝My review

Nick Littlehales 3 / 5
9-Feb '19
18 days		 Autonomous

📝My review

Annalee Newitz 4 / 5
22-Jan '19
13 days		 All the Birds in the Sky

📝My review (includes spoilers)

Charlie Jane Anders 3 / 5
10-Jan '19
5 days		 Clawthorn (Clement, #3)

📝My review

Keith A. Pearson 3 / 5
6-Jan '19
1 month		 A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

📝My review

Adam Rutherford 5 / 5
2-Jan '19
3 months		 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)

📝My review (includes spoilers)

J.K. Rowling 5 / 5
1-Jan '19
10 days		 The Chrysalids

📝My review (includes spoilers)

John Wyndham 4 / 5
29-Dec '18
13 days		 The Truth Pixie (Christmas Series, #3.5)

📝My review (includes spoilers)
Good to read aloud to the kids (took about 15-20 minutes), and a beautiful message in the story, whereby the adult reading...me...might have caught a frog in their throat!

Matt Haig 4 / 5
22-Dec '18
6 days		 Christmas Jars Collector's Edition

📝My review

Jason F. Wright 3 / 5
16-Dec '18
1 day		 The Gift of the Magi

📝My review (includes spoilers)

O. Henry 3 / 5
29-Nov '18
24 days		 Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

📝My review

Martha Wells 5 / 5
4-Nov '18
18 days		 Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

📝My review

Martha Wells 4 / 5
28-Oct '18
1 day		 Saga, Vol. 9 (Saga, #9)

📝My review

Brian K. Vaughan 5 / 5
16-Oct '18
7 days		 Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

📝My review

Martha Wells 4 / 5
9-Oct '18
22 days		 The End Specialist

📝My review

Drew Magary 2 / 5
17-Sep '18
8 days		 Tin Man

📝My review

Sarah Winman 4 / 5
10-Sep '18
3 days		 The Brighton Mermaid

📝My review

Dorothy Koomson 4 / 5
7-Sep '18
19 days		 War with the Newts

📝My review

Karel Čapek 5 / 5
6-Sep '18
2 months		 Beetle Boy

📝My review (includes spoilers)

M.G. Leonard 5 / 5
20-Aug '18
6 days		 Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls

📝My review

Robert Rankin 4 / 5
11-Aug '18
10 days		 Dogs of War

📝My review

Adrian Tchaikovsky 5 / 5
1-Aug '18
2 days		 Past Mortem

📝My review

Ben Elton 4 / 5
30-Jul '18
13 days		 Neuromancer

📝My review

William Gibson 3 / 5
12-Jul '18
9 months		 The Obesity Code: unlocking the secrets of weight loss

📝My review

Jason Fung 5 / 5
9-Jul '18
6 days		 Good Omens

📝My review

Terry Pratchett 5 / 5
3-Jul '18
3 days		 The Dead Fathers Club

📝My review

Matt Haig 3 / 5
1-Jul '18
2 days		 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

📝My review

Martha Wells 5 / 5
30-Jun '18
8 days		 Brave New World

📝My review (includes spoilers)

Aldous Huxley 5 / 5
21-Jun '18
6 days		 Postcards From the Edge (Suzanne Vale, #1)

📝My review

Carrie Fisher 4 / 5
15-Jun '18
26 days		 Snow Crash

📝My review (includes spoilers)

Neal Stephenson 4 / 5
10-Jun '18
1 day		 Jessica Jones, Vol. 2: The Secrets of Maria Hill

📝My review

Brian Michael Bendis 4 / 5
9-Jun '18
2 months		 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

📝My review

J.K. Rowling 4 / 5
20-May '18
15 days		 1984

📝My review (includes spoilers)

George Orwell 5 / 5
6-May '18
13 days		 Stories of Your Life and Others

📝My review

Ted Chiang 5 / 5
22-Apr '18
13 days		 The Catcher in the Rye

📝My review (includes spoilers)

J.D. Salinger 3 / 5
31-Mar '18
23 days		 Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole, #8)

📝My review

Sue Townsend 3 / 5
3-Mar '18
8 days		 Silent Victim

📝My review

Caroline Mitchell 4 / 5
11-Feb '18
11 days		 Who Sent Clement? (Clement #1)

📝My review

Keith A. Pearson 4 / 5
31-Jan '18
10 days		 The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)

📝My review

Nnedi Okorafor 5 / 5
22-Jan '18
15 days		 The Lives of Tao

📝My review

Wesley Chu 2 / 5
7-Jan '18
3 days		 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power

📝My review

Ryan North 4 / 5
4-Jan '18
2 days		 Wishful Drinking

📝My review

Carrie Fisher 3 / 5
3-Jan '18
2 days		 Saga, Vol. 8

📝My review

Brian K. Vaughan 5 / 5
2-Jan '18
4 days		 The Power

📝My review

Naomi Alderman 5 / 5
29-Dec '17
21 days		 A Gentleman in Moscow

📝My review

Amor Towles 4 / 5
8-Oct '17
9 days		 Beyond Broadhall (The '86 Fix #2)

📝My review (includes spoilers)

Keith A. Pearson 5 / 5
26-Aug '17
4 days		 The Girl With All the Gifts

📝My review

M.R. Carey 5 / 5
1-Mar '17
16 days		 A Boy Made of Blocks

📝My review

Keith Stuart 5 / 5
1-Feb '17
8 days		 The Song From Somewhere Else

📝My review

A.F. Harrold 4 / 5