This is a list of all the books I've reviewed since 2001. Enjoy!

2024

• The Pursuit of Purpose Part memoir, part study – A book about finding your way in the world by Ken Banks★★★★☆
• Dystopia X by A.E. Currie★★★⯪☆
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder★⯪☆☆☆
• Relic by Alan Dean Foster★★★⯪☆
• Understanding Privacy by Heather Burns★★★★★
• Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde★★★★⯪
• Fallen Idols by Alex von Tunzelmann★★★★★
• The Doors of Opportunity by Rosalind Messenger★★★★★
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel★★★☆☆
• Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy by Pablo Hidalgo★⯪☆☆☆
• Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss★★★⯪☆
• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas★★★★⯪
• How Big Things Get Done : The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner★★★★⯪
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz★★★⯪☆
• We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by Eliot Higgins★★★⯪☆
• Julia by Sandra Newman★★★★★
• How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole★★★⯪☆
• The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde★★★★☆
• Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins★★★★★
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin★★★★★
• Babel by R.F. Kuang★★★★★
• Refuse to Choose! A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love by Barbara Sher★★☆☆☆
• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane★★★⯪☆
• The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal★★★☆☆

2023

• Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas★★★★★
• Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 4 by Emily Brill-Holland★★⯪☆☆
• Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants - Britain's First Female Crime Syndicate by Brian McDonald★★★★☆
• Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser★★★★⯪
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel★★★⯪☆
• Hamlet, Prince of Robots by M. Darusha Wehm★★★★⯪
• The Man From the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya★★★★☆
• The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures by Joanna Bagniewska★★★★★
• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell★★★★★
• Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction From Ukraine & The Diaspora by Valya Dudycz Lupescu★★★★★
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand★★★★★
• Bournville by Jonathan Coe★⯪☆☆☆
• The Twilight of the British Empire: British Intelligence and Counter-Subversion in the Middle East, 1948–63 by Chikara Hashimoto★★⯪☆☆
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick★★★★☆
• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll★★★★★
• Time Squared by Lesley Krueger★★★☆☆
• The Variable Man and other stories by Philip K. Dick★★★★☆
• Hacking Capitalism: Modeling, Humans, Computers, and Money by Kris Nóva★★★★☆
• The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow★★★★⯪
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie★★★★⯪
• The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp★★★★★
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus★★★★☆
• Kill It With Fire - Manage Ageing Computer Systems by Marianne Bellotti★★★★★
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight by Jonathan Strahan★★★★☆
• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock★★★⯪☆
• Pleased! A short story anthology in celebration of The Beatles' Please Please Me album's 60th anniversary by Gayle Ramage★★⯪☆☆
• Plain Text - The Poetics of Computation by Dennis Tenen★★★★☆
• Engraved on the Eye by Saladin Ahmed★★★★☆
• The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow★★★☆☆
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi★★★★⯪
• Invisible Planets by Ken Liu★★★★☆
• Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasok Chang★★☆☆☆
• It's Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan★★★⯪☆
• Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey★★☆☆☆
• The Constant Sinner by Mae West★★★★★
• A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips & Jonn Elledge★★★★★
• The Reincarnated Giant by Mingwei Song★★★☆☆
• Radicalized by Cory Doctorow★★★★☆
• "You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by Torie Bosch★★★★⯪
• Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton★★★★★
• Shakespeare in Jest by Indira Ghose★★⯪☆☆
• Leviathan Wakes: Book One of The Expanse by James S. A. Corey★★★☆☆
• The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy★★★★★
• Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by Qntm★★★★☆
• The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold by Sam Knight★★★★★
• Denizen 43 by A. E. Currie★★★★☆
• Portraits of Childfree Wealth by Jay Zigmont★★★★☆
• Consider the Platypus by Maggie Ryan Sandford★★★⯪☆
• Adventures in Space - New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers by Patrick Parrinder ★★★☆☆
• The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Jane Loudon★★★☆☆
• Pod by Laline Paull★★★★☆
• 12 Bytes - How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way We Live and Love by Jeanette Winterson★★⯪☆☆
• If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable by Mikko Hyppönen★★★☆☆
• Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman★★★★★
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro★★☆☆☆
• Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling★★★⯪☆
• Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson★★★★☆
• Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera★★★★⯪
• More Zeros and Ones Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand by Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast★★★★☆
• There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill★★★★☆
• The Really Good Idea Test by Julia Shalet★★★★★
• Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon by Martin Popoff★★★⯪☆

2022

• Rising Tide by Jennifer Palgrave★★★★☆
• Reality Is Broken - Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal★★★⯪☆
• A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Dr Amanda Foreman★★★★⯪
• The Bees by Laline Paull★★★★★
• Gnomon by Nick Harkaway★★☆☆☆
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir★★★★⯪
• The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter★★★☆☆
• So, You Have to Write a Literature Review: A Guided Workbook for Engineers by Catherine G.P. Berdanier & Joshua B. Lenart★★★★★
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers★★★★⯪
• Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marçal★★★★⯪
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor★★★★⯪
• Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach★★★☆☆
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova★★★★★
• Me++ The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William J. Mitchell★★★★⯪
• Sex: Lessons From History by Fern Riddell★★★⯪☆
• Illegal Alien by Robert Sawyer★★★★⯪
• Shakespeare and Immigration by Espinosa & Ruiter★★★☆☆
• When HARLIE Was One, Release 2.0 by David Gerrold★★★★☆
• An Unnatural Life by Erin K Wagner★★☆☆☆
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers★★★★☆
• Rhetoric of InSecurity; The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts by Victoria Baines★★★★⯪
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson★★★⯪☆
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke★★★★★
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm★★★★★
• The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar★★★★⯪
• Conundra by A.E. Currie★★★★☆
• The Programmer's Brain - What every programmer needs to know about cognition by Felienne Hermans★★★★★
• Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy by Martin Paul Eve★★★⯪☆
• The Uplift War by David Brin★★★★⯪
• Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning★★★★⯪
• Constance by Matthew FitzSimmons★★★★★
• Ira Aldridge The African Roscius by Bernth Lindfors★★★⯪☆
• The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi★★★★★
• Startide Rising by David Brin★★★★⯪
• Die With Zero by Bill Perkins★★★★☆
• Doctor Who: The Vault by Marcus Hearn★★★★⯪
• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Dr Shashi Tharoor★★★★⯪
• The Empyrean by Katherine Franklin★★★★☆

2021

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal★★★★⯪
• The Medusa Chronicles by Alastair Reynolds & Stephen Baxter★★★★★
• Future law : emerging technology, regulation and ethics by Lilian Edwards ★★★★☆
• The Idiot Gods by David Zindell★★★★☆
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black★★★★★
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz★★★★★
• Disability and the Tudors All the King's Fools - by Phillipa Vincent Connolly★★★⯪☆
• Glass Coffin by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch★★★★⯪
• Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott★★★★⯪
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo★★★★★
• After Meat The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World by Karthik Sekar★★★☆☆
• Professional Practice in Engineering and Computing: Preparing for Future Careers by Riadh Habash☆☆☆☆☆
• Cosmogramma by Courttia Newland★★★★☆
• Sexual Revolution - Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny★★★★⯪
• Such Big Teeth by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch★★★★☆
• A Teaspoon and an Open Mind - The Science of Doctor Who by Michael White★★⯪☆☆
• New Moons For Sam Becoming Kiwi – Life of a New Zealand Diplomat by Peter Hamilton★★⯪☆☆
• All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black★★★★☆
• The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Nikolić★☆☆☆☆
• The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye★★★★⯪
• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson★⯪☆☆☆
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong★★☆☆☆
• Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch★★★★⯪
• Bias Interrupted Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good by Joan C. Williams★★★⯪☆
• The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race by Ayanna Thompson★★★★☆
• To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers★★★★⯪
• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask★★★★★
• Amatka by Karin Tidbeck★★★★★
• Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang★★★⯪☆
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu★★★★★
• The Power of Privilege How White People can Challenge Racism by June Sarpong★★★★⯪
• Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by Pat Cadigan; William Gibson★★★★☆
• Clockwork River by J.S. Emery★⯪☆☆☆
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman★★★★☆
• The Cabinet by Un-su Kim★★☆☆☆
• The Art of Statistics - Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter★★★★⯪
• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoë Playdon★★★★★
• No Bath But Plenty Of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-73 by Lisa Power★★★★☆
• The End of Bias How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell★★★★☆
• DALEK by Robert Shearman★★★★★
• Sinopticon 2021 : A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction by Xueting Christine Ni★★★★★
• How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford ★★★★★
• The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin ★★★★☆
• Sundiver by David Brin★★★★★
• The Happiness Revolution: A Manifesto for Living Your Best Life by Andy Pope and Paul McGee★★☆☆☆
• Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan★★★★★
• Difficult Women by Helen Lewis★★★★☆
• Assassin's Orbit by John Appel ★★★⯪☆
• The Computer’s Voice - From Star Trek to Siri by Liz W. Faber★★☆☆☆
• The 22 Murders Of Madison May by Max Barry★★★★☆
• Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North★★★★★
• Quarantine Comix by Rachael Smith★★★☆☆
• A Brief History of Motion From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage★★★⯪☆
• Record of a Spaceborn Few : Wayfarers 3 by Becky Chambers★★★★☆
• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers★★★★☆
• Our Biggest Experiment by Alice Bell★★★★★
• Handmade A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making by Dr Anna Ploszajski★★★★★
• Agency by William Gibson★★★☆☆
• A History of Women in Men's Clothes by Norena Shopland★★★★⯪
• The Gameshouse by Claire North★★★★⯪
• What White People Can Do Next From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri★★★★☆
• Always On by Rory Cellan-Jones★★★★★
• Good Data by Sam Gilbert★☆☆☆☆
• Monstrous Design by Kat Dunn★★★★⯪
• The Wrens of World War II: Bletchley's Secret Source by Peter Hore★★★★☆
• Star Wars from a Certain Point of View by Various★★★☆☆
• Feminist City Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern★★★★☆
• Doctor Who - The Witchfinders by Joy Wilkinson★★★★★
• Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth★★★★☆
• Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen★★★☆☆
• Kindred - Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes★★★★☆
• Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Temi Oh★★★★☆
• Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal★★⯪☆☆
• Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn★★★★★
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers★★★★★
• How To Invent Everything by Ryan North★★★★☆
• The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis★★★★☆
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton★★★★★
• Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller★★★★★
• I'm a joke and so are you by Robin Ince★★★☆☆
• BitCoin Hurricane by Kate Baucherel ★★★★☆
• Radical Help by Hillary Cottam★★★★★
• Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia★★★★☆
• Humble Pi by Matt Parker★★★★⯪
• Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy★⯪☆☆☆
• The Problem with Men: When is it International Men’s Day? (and why it matters) by Richard Herring★★★★★

2020

• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman★★★★☆
• Sweet Harmony by Claire North★★★★★
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole★★★★★
• Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker & James Goss ★★⯪☆☆
• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble★★★★☆
• Shouting Zeros and Ones by Andrew Chen★★★★★
• The Thief on the Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas★★★★★
• Circe by Madeline Miller★★★★★
• Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz★★★★★
• Utopia Five by A.E. Currie★★★⯪☆
• Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman★★☆☆☆
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees★★★★★
• Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch★★★★★
• The One That Got Away by Jennifer Palgrave★★★★☆
• A Short Philosophy of Birds by Elise Rousseau⯪☆☆☆☆
• The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett★★★★⯪
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin★★★⯪☆
• The Relentless Moon: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal★★★★★
• Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig★★★⯪☆
• A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor★★★⯪☆
• Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann★★★★⯪
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini★★★★★
• Philosophy of Race: An Introduction by Naomi Zack★★★⯪☆
• ood Services - How to Design Services that Work by Lou Downe★★★★★
• The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard★★⯪☆☆
• The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett★★⯪☆☆
• Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture by Dr Evie Kendal★★★★★
• Beyond the Labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein★★★★★
• This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith★★★★★
• Touch by Claire North★★★★⯪
• The Future of Feeling by Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips★★⯪☆☆
• Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions by Lois H Gresh★★⯪☆☆
• Something Beginning With by Sarah Salway★☆☆☆☆
• A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong★★⯪☆☆
• The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North★★★★⯪
• The Memory Illusion by Julia Shaw★★★★★
• Sapience by Alexis Lantgen★★★★⯪
• Alone Together by Sherry Turkle★★★★★
• The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White★★★★⯪
• Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho★★★★☆
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff★⯪☆☆☆
• Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor★★★★⯪
• The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato★★★★☆
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium by Paul Kidby★★⯪☆☆
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler★★★★★

2019

• Mismatch by Kat Holmes★★★★⯪
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar★★★★★
• The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon★★★★☆
• Zero Sum Game by S. L. Huang★★★⯪☆
• Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch★★★★⯪
• Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine★★☆☆☆
• The Five by Hallie Rubenhold★★★★★
• The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman★★⯪☆☆
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden★★⯪☆☆
• Helpful Hackers by Chris van 't Hof★★★★⯪
• A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier★★☆☆☆
• Queer Privacy by Sarah Jamie Lewis★★★⯪☆
• The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal★★★★⯪
• Jennifer Government by Max Berry★★★★☆
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez★★★★★
• Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet★★★★☆
• Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson★★★★⯪
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel★★★⯪☆
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal★★★★★
• Playing with FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) by Scott Rieckens★★★☆☆
• Do No Harm by Henry Marsh★★☆☆☆
• The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Vs. Dracula by Loren D. Estleman★★★★☆
• Deep Medicine by Eric Topol★★★★☆
• The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross★★☆☆☆
• Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz★★★⯪☆
• 84K by Claire North★★★★⯪
• The Secret Barrister by Anonymous★★★☆☆
• The City & The City by China Miéville★★★★★
• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla★★★★☆
• The End of the Day by Claire North★★★★★
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman★★★★☆
• How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin★★★★★
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou★★★★⯪
• Inferior by Angela Saini★★★★★
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood★★★★⯪
• Hello World by Hannah Fry★★★⯪☆
• Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel★★★★☆
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker★★★⯪☆
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov★★★★★
• Longitude by Dava Sobel★★★★⯪
• Death's End by Cixin Liu★★★⯪☆
• This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay★★★☆☆
• Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson★★★★☆
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge★★★★⯪
• Letters from Alcatraz by Michael Esslinger★★☆☆☆
• Fukushima Dreams by Zelda Rhiando★★★★☆
• The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross★★⯪☆☆
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari★★★★☆
• Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates★★⯪☆☆
• The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas★★★★☆
• Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope★★★★☆
• Was This in the Plan? by Stephanie Nimmo★★★★★
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz★★★★⯪
• Nina is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi★★★★★
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling★★★★★

2018

• Week Notes - Sick Note
• Week Notes 5
• Weeknotes 4
• Week Notes 2

2017

• Review: Accessibility for Everyone

2016

• Sci-Fi Holiday Reading

2015

• What I Read On My Holidays

2011

• Barefoot Into Cyberspace
• Holiday Reading

2010

• Holiday Book Reviews

2009

• The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism by Ellie Levenson★★★★⯪

2001

• Review: Pratchett "The Last Hero" Illustrated by Paul Kidby