Yeah, I know we’re almost through the first month of 2024 and I’m usually more on top of this, but I didn’t read that much last year anyway. So…

Words:
Malinda Lo – Last Night at the Telegraph Club (reread for the Leiden expat book club – the other participants didn’t love it as much as I did, but that’s fine too.)
Sonia Blanck – Hive (I don’t think this is published yet – I met Sonia on Mastodon and offered to read it. Good and weird SF. Keep your eyes peeled for it.)
Jaqueline Harpman – I Who Have Never Known Men (Weird and disturbing SF – the title shouldn’t put you off – this was a proper mindfuck.)
Dorothy L. Sayers – Strong Poison
M. Katz – Cybernetic Tea Shop
C. McMullen – A Space Girl From Earth
Rachel Churcher – Angels (I was a sensitivity reader on this *very* cool YA novel. A leap ahead in style and ability for Ms. Churcher. Check it out.)
Marek Šindelka – Aberrant (Another book club read – I really enjoyed this bit of weirdness that takes place in and around Prague in 2002. My colleagues in the club didn’t know what to make of the flooding in the city that occupies the last third of the book. I knew from the first dateline that the Prague Flood of 2002 would come up. But I lived in Prague at the time. Everyone else in the club was confused.)
Jonathan Scott – The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA’s Interstellar Mixtape
Rachel Pollack – Unquenchable Fire (I’d never heard of Pollack, but when she passed away last year, Neil Gaiman penned an appreciation of her work, so I took a dive. Excellent as the recommendation would suggest.)
Terry Pratchett – Small Gods (Another one for the book club – still excellent.)
S. Jones – Sisters Cavendish (Another preread – this one’s not published yet either, but it’s great.)
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Lathe of Heaven (Read for the new book club at my office which still only has two members. Hadn’t read this in 30 years and gracious is it weirdly wonderful. Still.)
S.L. Rowland – Cursed Cocktails (Cozy fantasy goodness. Recommended.)
Dana Hughes – Rain (A Novella)
Kate Castle – Girl Island (Office book club. Female take on Lord of the Flies – very well done.)
Sean Carroll – The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Satoshi Yagisawa – Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Italo Calvino – If on a winter’s night a traveler (first read in college back in ’85 – still weirdly wonderful)
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood (Office book club. I’d read other Murakami, but not this one, his “normal” novel. Enjoyed it a lot.)
Delacorta – Diva (I’d bought a DVD of the movie which I hadn’t seen in an age and when I posted about it, a friend said, ‘yeah, you have to read the books too. Lola and Luna are waiting on the bookshelf.)
Anne Leckie – Ancillary Justice (recommended by a cousin – wonderful stuff – want to get to the next ones in the series.)
Graham Greene – Travels with My Aunt (Amusing and strange in the way that only Greene is.)
George Orwell – 1984 (office book club)

Audio:
George Johnson – Miss Leavitt’s Stars
Carl Sagan – The Demon Haunted World
Richard Osman – The Thursday Murder Club
Bruce Dickinson – What Does This Button Do? (Interesting memoir from the lead singer of Iron Maiden who has done very cool things, but has abridged much that makes an actual life interesting. Not nearly as good as Rob Halford’s Confess.)
Jung Chang – Wild Swans (When a niece was recovering from a concussion, my sister read this aloud to her. Sis had recommended it in the 90s, but I never took the dive. This history of China from the period before the Communist victory through the Cultural Revolution is riveting stuff.)
Elliot Page – Pageboy (Memoir by excellent trans actor – very nicely done.)
K. Tempest Bradford – Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion
Homer – The Odyssey (Emily Watson translation, read wonderfully by Claire Danes. Alas Danes does not read her translation of The Illiad, but that’s on my list too.
Trevor Horne – Adventures in Modern Recording (Memoir of many great albums from the guy who sang Video Killed the Radio Star and produced Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Among so many other things.)
Kai Bird and Martin K. Sherwin – American Prometheus (The Pulitzer-winning bio of Robert J. Oppenheimer on which the movie Oppenheimer was based. If you thought that Robert Downey Jr.’s Lewis Strauss was a bastard in the movie, dang. Strauss was so much worse in real life.)