Reading list...

Stuff I've been reading recently (most recent at the top). For those of you who might be interested... Similar info on my GoodReads Author account

2019

Acceptance (Southern Reach #3) – Jeff VanderMeer

Authority (Southern Reach #2) – Jeff VanderMeer

The Time Machine – H.G. Wells

Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) – Jeff VanderMeer

Air – Geoff Ryman

The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells

American Gods – Neil Gaiman

The Island of Dr Moreau – H. G. Wells

The Monarch of the Glen – Neil Gaiman

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Neverwhere (London Below #1) – Neil Gaiman

Shadow Captain (Revenger #2) – Alastair Reynolds

The Dark Tourist – Dom Joly

Revenger (Revenger #1) – Alastair Reynolds (re-read)

The Cure: A Perfect Dream – Ian Gittins

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

The Pool of Fire (The Tripods #3) – John Christopher

Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures – Stephen Fry

The City of Gold and Lead (The Tripods #2) – John Christopher

The White Mountains (The Tripods #1) – John Christopher

The Fire Gospel – Michael Faber

A Darkling Plain (Mortal Engines Quartet, #4) – Philip Reeve

Infernal Devices (Mortal Engines Quartet, #3) – Philip Reeve

2018

Predator’s Gold (Mortal Engines Quartet, #2) – Philip Reeve

Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines Quartet, #1) – Philip Reeve

Revival – Stephen King

Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami

Planetfall (Planetfall #1) – Emma Newman

Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby

So, Anyway… - John Cleese

The Prince in Waiting – John Christopher

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography – Eric Idle

Ordinary Thunderstorms – William Boyd

Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 – Michael Palin

The Delighted (Feral Space #2) – James Worrad

The Scalpel (Feral Space #1) – James Worrad

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead

The Children Act – Ian McEwan (re-read)

An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro

The White Hotel – D.M. Thomas

Dreams Before the Start of Time – Anne Charnock

Embers of War – Gareth L. Powell

Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut

Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies – Nick Frost

When We Were Orphans – Kazuo Ishiguro

Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood

Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey

Mythos: the Greek myths retold – Stephen Fry

A Single Man – Christopehr Isherwood

Whatever Happened To Margo? - Margaret Durrell

The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts

Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Hospital Station - James White

The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson

A World Of My Own: A Dream Diary - Graham Greene

Finders Keepers - Stephen King

The Body Library - Jeff Noon

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds (re-read)

Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg (abridged audiobook version)

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman

Prater Violet - Christopher Isherwood

The Fifth Wave - Rick Yancey

The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories - Michel Faber

The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

Back Story - David Mitchell

How Not To Be A Boy - Robert Webb

Tuf Voyaging - George R. R. Martin

Asterix and the Chariot Race - Jean-Yves Ferri

2017

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

Farewell Summer - Ray Bradbury

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division - Peter Hook

Shattermoon - Dominic Dulley

Contagion - Robin Cook

Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence - Michael Marshall Smith

Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak

Monsters and Medics - James White

Confluence - Paul McAuley (re-read)

The Wind From Nowhere - J. G. Ballard

Rushing To Paradise - J. G. Ballard

Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury

The Power and the glory - Graham Greene

My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl

Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami

Their Finest - Lissa Evans

Morning Journey - James Hilton

The House of Shattered Wings - Aliette de Bodard

Nutshell - Ian McEwan

The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima

The Festival of Insignificance - Milan Kundera

The Quiet American - Graham Greene

Netherspace - Andrew Lane / Nigel Foster

Time and Time Again - James Hilton

Memory of Water - Emmi Itaranra

At the Loch of the Green Corrie - Andrew Grieg

The Fetch - Gregory Leadbetter

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Goodbye To Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

God Bless You Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut

So Well Remembered - James Hilton

2016

Dark Sister - Graham Joyce

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Exchange - Graham Joyce

Revenger - Alastair Reynolds

The Devil's Ladder - Graham Joyce

Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene

Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

The End of the Affair - Graham Greene

The History of Mr Polly - H. G. Wells

Titanborn - Rhett C. Bruno

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys - Lol Tolhurst

Cogheart - Peter Bunzl

Hello America - J. G. Ballard

The Meadows of the Moon - James Hilton

Europe in Autumn (Fractured Europe Sequence) - Dave Hutchinson

Smoke and Blue in the Face: Two Films - Paul Auster

The Passionate Year - James Hilton

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The Torrents of Spring - Ernest Hemingway

This Census Taker - China Mieville

Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Some Kind of Fairytale - Graham Joyce

Knight Without Armour - James Hilton

Into Everywhere - Paul McAuley

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

To Have And Have Not - Ernest Hemingway

The Story of Dr Wassell - James Hilton

The Year Of The Ladybird - Graham Joyce

We Are Not Alone - James Hilton

The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes

Asterix and the Missing Scroll - Jean-Yves Ferri

The Last Word - Hanif Kureishi

Was It Murder? - James Hilton

Vermilion Sands - J. G. Ballard

Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town - Thomas Jerome Seabrook

The Man In The Picture - Susan Hill

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

The Deeds of Dr Deadcert - Joan Fleming

Interzone #262

The Third Man and The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster

Goodbye My Chips - James Hilton

Random Harvest - James Hilton

And Now Goodbye - James Hilton

To You, Mr Chips - James Hilton

2015

Lost Horizon - James Hilton

Slow Bullets - Alastair Reynolds

Star Wars - Will Brooker

The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami

The Variable Man - Philip K Dick

Charlotte Sometimes - Penelope Farmer

Funny Girl - Nick Hornby

Interzone #261

The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

The Visitors Book - Sophie Hannah

Slade House - David Mitchell

The Girl With All The Gifts - M.R.Carey

Interzone #260

Post Mortem - Patricia Cornwell

The Book of Strange New Things - Michel Faber

Heechee Rendezvous - Frederick Pohl

Beyond The Blue Event Horizon - Frederick Pohl

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Crashing Heaven - Al Robertson

The Dramaturges of Yan - John Brunner

Walking Away - Simon Armitage

Five Star Billionaire - Tash Aw

Interzone #257

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Interzone #258

The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps - Michel Faber

The Magic Goes Away - Larry Niven

Lion Heart - Justin Cartwright

The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

Don't Point That Thing At Me - Kyril Bonfiglioli

Something Coming Through - Paul McAuley

The Stochastic Man - Robert Silverberg

Raw Spirit - Iain Banks

The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide

Bête - Adam Roberts

The Children Act - Ian McEwan

A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

2014

A Question of Blood - Ian Rankin

In Search of a Distant Voice - Taichi Yamada (tr. Michael Emmerich)

The Loom of Youth - Alec Waugh

The Trial - Franz Kafka (tr. Mike Mitchell)

Albedo One #45

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pligrimage - Haruki Murakami (tr. Philip Gabriel)

Chapter and Verse - Bernard Sumner

Empty Space: A Haunting (Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy Book 3) - M. John Harrison

Milford 2014 submissions

Nova Swing (Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy Book 2) - M. John Harrison

Light (Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy Book 1) - M. John Harrison

Interzone #253

Pietr the Latvian: Inspector Maigret #1 - Georges Simenon

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

Resurrection Men - Ian Rankin

Albedo One #44

Interzone #252

The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe

The Concrete Island - J. G. Ballard

In Other Worlds: SF and the Imagination - Margaret Atwood

The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Evening's Empires - Paul McAuley

Interzone #248

Interzone #247

Interzone #251

The Mindful Manifesto - Dr Jonty Heaversedge & Ed Halliwell

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

On The Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds

The Falls - Ian Rankin

Set In Darkness - Ian Rankin

The Bleak Hotel - D. M. Thomas

Memories & Hallucinations - D. M. Thomas

The Ship Who Sang - Anne McCaffrey

The Castle - Franz Kafka

Strange News From Another Star - Herman Hesse

The Changeling - A. E. Van Vogt

The Flame Alphabet - Ben Marcus

Interzone #250

Adam Robots - Adam Roberts

Winter Journal - Paul Auster

Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Pinball, 1973 - Haruki Murakami

Hear The Wind Sing - Haruki Murakami

2013

In the Mouth of the Whale - Paul McAuley

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

Interzone #249

A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R R Martin

A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust - George R R Martin

A Feast for Crows - George R R Martin

A Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R R Martin

Dark Eden - Chris Beckett

Interzone #246

The Quarry - Iain Banks

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R R Martin

A Clash of Kings - George R R Martin

Essays In Love - Alain De Botton

Interzone #245

Thank you for the days - Mark Radcliffe

A Game of Thrones – George R R Martin

The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester

The Drowned Cities - Paulo Bacigalupi

Ship Breaker - Paulo Bacigalupi

Dead Souls – Ian Rankin

Any Human Heart – William Boyd

Hothouse – Brian Aldiss

Interzone #244

The Hanging Garden – Ian Rankin

2012

A Glass Of Shadow – Liz Williams

Black & Blue – Ian Rankin

Amrita – Banana Yashimoto

Deathworld – Harry Harrison

The Girl Who Glayed With Fire – Stieg Larsson

The Hydrogen Sonata – Iain M Banks

Jack Glass – Adam Roberts

Dolphin Island – Arthur C Clarke

I haven’t dreamed of flying in a while – Taichi Yamada

Do androids dream of electric sheep? – Philip K Dick

Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau

Interzone #241

Interzone #240

The Inverted World – Christopher Priest

The Testament of Jessie Lamb – Jane Rogers

Railsea – China Mieville

Blue Remembered Earth – Alastair Reynolds

Titus Awakes – Maeve Gilmore

Strangers – Taichi Yamada

Mockingjay – Susanne Collins

Catching Fire – Susanne Collins

The Hunger Games – Susanne Collins

Lasting Damage – Sophie Hannah

Stonemouth – Iain Banks

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

Interzone #239

On Writing – Stephen King

1Q84 book three – Haruki Murakami

1Q84 books one & two – Haruki Murakami

Gradisil – Adam Roberts

Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez