Books read, 2018

Fiction
J.G. Ballard. The Drowned World.
Elisabeth Beresford. The Wandering Wombles. A childhood favourite.
Carmel Bird. My Hearts Are Your Hearts.
Cory Doctorow. Little Brother.
Greg Egan. Diaspora.
-- Dark Integers.
Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only.
Jeong You Jeong 정 유정. The Good Son.
Liu Cixin 刘慈欣. The Wandering Earth.
Hahn Moo-Sook 한 무숙. Encounter.
Jonathan L. Howard. The Brothers Cabal.
Maggie Shen King. An Excess Male.
Ryu Murakami 村上 龍. Piercing.
Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 I Am a Cat.
Jeff Noon. A Man of Shadows.
George Orwell. Coming Up For Air.
Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Critical Mass.
Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game.
Charles Stross. Saturn's Children.
-- The Fuller Memorandum.
Karin Tidbeck. Amatka.
Daniel H. Wilson. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters.


Non-Fiction
Peter Carey. Wrong About Japan.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World Revisited.
Sam Kean. The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons. Notable for its lack of duelling neurosurgeons.
Damon Knight. Creating Short Fiction.
John Markoff. Machines of Loving Grace.
Jan Morris. Conundrum.
John Parker and Richard Rathbone. African History: a Very Short Introduction.
Sir, Alfred Mehran. The Terminal Man.


The Possibly Unwise "Man's Inhumanity to Man" Reading List
Han Kang. Human Acts.
Hannah Arendt. The Origins of Totalitarianism.

Novels / anthologies tally: white guys - 10; everyone else - 11

Notable short stories
Carmel Bird, "Monkey Business"; "Where the Honey Meets the Air" (in My Hearts Are Your Hearts)
Bryan Camp, "The Independence Patch" (Lightspeed, March 2018)
Greg Egan, "Uncanny Valley" (tor.com, August 2017)
Dare Segun Falowo, "Ku'gbo" (Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2018)
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, "Green Tea".
Walker McKnight, "Work, and Ye Shall Eat" (Apex, February 2018)
Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (in The Complete Stories)
Marie Vibbert, "The Willing Body, The Reluctant Heart" (Analog, May/June 2018)

( Books bought and borrowed )

Luverly gift!
Claire Legrand. Some Kind of Happiness.