2024

• Trials of Life
  David Attenborough
  2024-12-08
  ★★★
• Unmasked
  Ellie Middleton
  2024-11-26
  ★★★★
• The Voyage Home
  Pat Barker
  2024-11-14
  ★★★★
• Clean Coder
  Robert C. Martin
  2024-11-10
  ★★★
• Yellowface
  R. F. Kuang
  2024-11-03
  ★★★
• Hunt for the Shadow Wolf
  Derek Gow
  2024-11-02
  ★★★
• Clean Architecture
  Robert C. Martin
  2024-10-27
  ★★★
• The Women of Troy
  Pat Barker
  2024-10-24
  ★★★★
• We Are Free to Change the World
  Lyndsey Stonebridge
  2024-10-21
  ★★★★★
• Clean Code
  Robert C. Martin
  2024-10-15
  ★★★★
• Bartleby, the Scrivener
  Herman Melville
  2024-10-13
  ★★★
• Lie of the Land
  Guy Shrubsole
  2024-10-06
  ★★★★
• What Does Jeremy Think?
  Suzanne Heywood
  2024-09-25
  ★★★
• Nature's Ghosts
  Sophie Yeo
  2024-09-18
  ★★★★★
• The Book of Wilding
  Isabella Tree
  2024-09-06
  ★★★
• The Unaccountability Machine
  Dan Davies
  2024-08-26
  ★★★★
• Natives
  Akala
  2024-08-11
  ★★★★
• Accelerate
  Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
  2024-08-09
  ★★★★
• Babel
  R. F. Kuang
  2024-08-02
  ★★★★★
• Underland
  Robert Macfarlane
  2024-07-21
  ★★★★
• Failed State
  Sam Freedman
  2024-07-14
  ★★★★
• Imaginary Friend
  Stephen Chbosky
  2024-07-05
  ★
• Ancestors
  Alice Roberts
  2024-06-25
  ★★★★
• The Looking Glass War
  John le Carré
  2024-06-20
  ★★★
• The Silence of the Girls
  Pat Barker
  2024-06-07
  ★★★★★
• Team Topologies
  Matthew Skelton
  2024-05-31
  ★★★★★
• We Are Bellingcat
  Eliot Higgins
  2024-05-31
  ★★★
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  John le Carré
  2024-05-27
  ★★★★
• A Murder of Quality
  John le Carré
  2024-05-26
  ★★★★
• Call for the Dead
  John le Carré
  2024-05-25
  ★★★★
• Every man against himself and god against all
  Werner Herzog
  2024-05-19
  ★★★★★
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
  Ken Liu
  2024-05-11
  ★★★★
• We Should All Be Feminists
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  2024-04-27
  ★★★★
• The Making of the English Working Class
  E. P. Thompson
  2024-04-19
  ★★★★
• These Bodies of Water
  Sabrina Mahfouz
  2024-03-29
  ★★★
• Children of Ash and Elm
  Neil Price
  2024-03-24
  ★★★★
• The Old Ways
  Robert Macfarlane
  2024-03-05
  ★★★★★
• Not the end of the world
  Hannah Richie
  2024-02-24
  ★★★★
• Cinema Speculation
  Quentin Tarintio
  2024-02-10
  ★★★★
• Wilding
  Isabella Tree
  2024-01-09
  ★★★★
• Back to nature
  Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin
  2024-01-02
  ★★

2023

• Rebirding
  Benedict Macdonald
  2023-12-26
  ★★★★
• Ultra-Processed People
  Chris van Tulleken
  2023-12-17
  ★★★
• Hydrogen Sonata
  Ian M Banks
  2023-12-13
  ★★★★★
• Invisible Women
  Caroline Criado Perez
  2023-12-02
  ★★★★
• These Burning Stars
  Bethany Jacobs
  2023-12-02
  ★★★
• The Internet Con
  Cory Doctorow
  2023-11-28
  ★★★★
• Reflections
  Dr. Mark Avery
  2023-11-03
  ★★★★★
• How to blow up a pipeline
  Andreas Malm
  2023-10-31
  ★★★★
• Material World
  Ed Conway
  2023-10-30
  ★★★★
• Journeys in the Wild
  Gavin Thurston, Sir David Attenborough
  2023-10-24
  ★★★★
• Technofeudalism
  Yanis Varoufakis
  2023-10-18
  ★★★★
• Nature in focus
  P. S. Crowson
  2023-10-09
  ★★
• The BBC Naturalist
  Desmond Hawkins, Peter Scott, H. Gwynne Vevers, G. K. Yeates, Walter J. C. Murray, Earnest Neal, Humphrey Hewer, James Fisher, W. S. Bristowe, John Barlee, Walter Flesher, Ralph Whitlock, Douglas Wilson, Philip Brown, John Clegg, E. A. R. Ennion, Bruce Campbell, Leo Harrison Matthews, Desmond Hawkins, Maxwell Knight, Frances Pitt, Ralph Wightman, Field marshal Lord Alanbrooke
  2023-10-06
  ★★★
• Regenesis
  George Monbiot
  2023-10-06
  ★★★★
• Green and Prosperous Land
  Dieter Helm
  2023-10-03
  ★★★★
• Feral
  George Monbiot
  2023-09-29
  ★★★★
• The Lost Rainforests of Britain
  Guy Shrubsole
  2023-09-27
  ★★★★
• Translation State
  Ann Leckie
  2023-09-26
  ★★★
• Homage to Catalonia
  George Orwell
  2023-09-23
  ★★★
• Understanding Power
  Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
  2023-09-19
  ★★★★
• The Secret Barrister
  The Secret Barrister
  2023-09-12
  ★★★
• Empireland
  Sathnam Sanghera
  2023-09-03
  ★★★
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
  Richard Rumelt
  2023-08-26
  ★★★
• Migraine
  Oliver Sacks
  2023-08-13
  ★★★
• The Other Wind
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-08-03
  ★★★★
• Tales from Earthsea
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-07-25
  ★★★★
• Radical Help
  Hilary Cottam
  2023-07-19
  ★★
• Tehanu
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-07-10
  ★★★
• How to Be Animal
  Melanie Challenger
  2023-07-06
  ★★★
• Everyday Utopia
  Kristen Ghodsee
  2023-07-03
  ★★★
• The Farthest Shore
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-06-22
  ★★★
• The Tombs of Atuan
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-06-09
  ★★★★
• A Wizard of Earthsea
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2023-06-04
  ★★★★
• Why Politics Fails
  Ben Ansell
  2023-05-29
  ★★★★
• The Big Con
  Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington
  2023-05-14
  ★★★
• Why We Get The Wrong Politicians
  Isabel Hardman
  2023-04-10
  ★★★★
• Burn
  Herman Pontzer
  2023-04-09
  ★★★★
• Follow the Money
  Paul Johnson
  2023-03-31
  ★★★★
• God, Human, Animal, Machine
  Meghan O'Gieblyn
  2023-03-26
  ★★★
• A Desolation Called Peace
  Arkady Martine
  2023-01-06
  ★★★★★

2022

• The Data-centric Revolution
  David McComb
  2022-12-25
  ★★★★
• Children of Memory
  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  2022-12-23
  ★★★★★
• A Memory Called Empire
  Arkady Martine
  2022-11-28
  ★★★★
• Moon Witch, Spider King
  Marlon James
  2022-10-23
  ★★★
• The Right to Sex
  Amia Srinivasan
  2022-09-04
  ★★★★★
• Lavinia
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2022-07-07
  ★★★★
• Country Driving
  Peter Hessler
  2022-07-04
  ★★★
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
  2022-06-26
  ★★
• Moneyland
  Oliver Bullough
  2022-06-22
  ★★★
• The Entrepreneurial State
  Mariana Mazzucato
  2022-06-20
  ★★★★
• Watching the English
  Kate Fox
  2022-06-11
  ★★★
• Butler to the World
  Oliver Bullough
  2022-06-03
  ★★★★★
• The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
  Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot
  2022-06-01
  ★★★★
• Oracle Bones
  Peter Hessler
  2022-05-31
  ★★★
• Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
  2022-05-21
  ★★★★★
• Surface Detail
  Ian M Banks
  2022-05-10
  ★★★★
• The Anthropocene Reviewed
  John Green
  2022-04-30
  ★★★
• Season of Storms
  Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - translator
  2022-04-21
  ★★★★
• River Town
  Peter Hessler
  2022-02-19
  ★★★
• Remote
  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
  2022-02-07
  ★★★★★
• The Lady of the Lake
  Andrzej Sapkowski, David French - translator
  2022-01-25
  ★★★
• The Tower of the Swallow
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2022-01-16
  ★★★
• Baptism of Fire
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2022-01-08
  ★★
• Entangled Life
  Merlin Sheldrake
  2022-01-06
  ★★★★
• Sword of Destiny
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2022-01-06
  ★★★
• The Last Wish
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2022-01-03
  ★★★★

2021

• Time of Contempt
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2021-12-28
  ★★★
• Blood of Elves
  Andrzej Sapkowski
  2021-12-24
  ★★★
• Leviathan Falls
  James S.A. Corey
  2021-12-04
  ★★★★
• Matter
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-11-23
  ★★★★
• The Peregrine
  J. A. Baker
  2021-11-09
  ★★★★★
• Never Let Me Go
  Kazuo Ishiguro
  2021-11-01
  ★★★★
• The Mirror and the Light
  Hilary Mantel
  2021-10-31
  ★★★★★
• Shutdown
  Adam Tooze
  2021-10-10
  ★★★★★
• Stalingrad
  Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler - translator
  2021-10-01
  ★★★★
• Almost Human
  Lee Berger, John Hawks
  2021-09-13
  ★★★★
• Look to Windward
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-09-05
  ★★★★
• The Undercover Economist
  Tim Harford
  2021-09-01
  ★★★★
• 2001
  Arthur C. Clarke
  2021-08-22
  ★★★★
• Inversions
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-08-20
  ★★★★
• Mine!
  James Salzman, Michael A. Heller
  2021-07-29
  ★★★
• Red Mars
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  2021-07-15
  ★★★★
• Adulthood Rites
  Octavia E. Butler
  2021-06-24
  ★★★★
• The Red Kite
  Ian Carter, Dan Powell
  2021-06-13
  ★★★★★
• Ball Lightning
  Cixin Liu
  2021-06-13
  ★★★★★
• The Plague: International Edition
  Albert Camus
  2021-06-11
  ★★★★
• Project Hail Mary
  Andy Weir
  2021-05-31
  ★★★★
• Exercised
  Daniel Lieberman
  2021-05-29
  ★★★★★
• Dawn
  Octavia E. Butler
  2021-04-12
  ★★★★
• The Red Kite's Year
  Ian Carter, Dan Powell
  2021-04-11
  ★★★★★
• Excession
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-04-08
  ★★★★★
• The State of the Art
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-04-03
  ★★★★
• Use of Weapons
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-03-31
  ★★★★
• The Player of Games
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-03-28
  ★★★★
• This Is Going to Hurt
  Adam Kay
  2021-03-25
  ★★★★
• Consider Phlebas
  Iain M. Banks
  2021-03-23
  ★★★★
• Tweet of the Day
  BBC Natural History Radio
  2021-03-21
  ★★★★
• Kindred
  Rebecca Wragg Sykes
  2021-03-08
  ★★★★
• Half of a Yellow Sun
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  2021-02-08
  ★★★★
• The Queen's Gambit
  Walter Tevis
  2021-01-25
  ★★★★★
• October
  China Mieville
  2021-01-20
  ★★★
• Crashed
  Adam Tooze
  2021-01-10
  ★★★★

2020

• The Peregrine
  J. A. Baker
  2020-12-31
  ★★★★★
• Who We Are and How We Got Here
  David Reich
  2020-12-28
  ★★★★★
• Life on Earth
  David Attenborough
  2020-12-28
  ★★★★
• The Book of Trespass
  Nick Hayes
  2020-12-26
  ★★★★
• Quest in Paradise
  David Attenborough
  2020-12-25
  ★★★★★
• Zoo Quest for a Dragon
  David Attenborough
  2020-12-24
  ★★★★★
• David Attenborough's New Life Stories
  David Attenborough
  2020-12-23
  ★★★★★
• Quest under Capricorn
  David Attenborough
  2020-12-23
  ★★★★★
• Atomic Habits
  James Clear
  2020-12-22
  ★★★
• Bring Up the Bodies
  Hilary Mantel
  2020-12-20
  ★★★★
• The Song of Achilles
  Madeline Miller
  2020-12-18
  ★★★★★
• A Closed and Common Orbit
  Becky Chambers
  2020-12-15
  ★★★
• The Doors of Eden
  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  2020-12-06
  ★★★★★
• The Fat Years
  Chan Koonchung, Michael S. Duke
  2020-12-01
  ★★★
• Where the Crawdads Sing
  Delia Owens
  2020-11-26
  ★★★
• Persepolis I & II
  Marjane Satrapi
  2020-11-25
  ★★★★
• The City We Became
  N. K. Jemisin
  2020-11-12
  ★★★★
• The Word for World is Forest
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  2020-09-15
  ★★★★
• Lovecraft Country
  Matt Ruff
  2020-09-08
  ★★★★
• Vesper Flights
  Helen Macdonald
  2020-09-05
  ★★★★★
• MaddAddam
  Margaret Atwood
  2020-08-31
  ★★★★
• Wuhan Diary
  Fang Fang, Michael Berry (translator)
  2020-08-29
  ★★★★
• The Year of the Flood
  Margaret Atwood
  2020-08-29
  ★★★★
• Greetings from Bury Park
  Sarfraz Manzoor
  2020-08-18
  ★★★★
• The Good Immigrant
  Nikesh Shukla, Varaidzo, Chimene Suleyman, Vera Chok, Daniel York Loh, Himesh Patel, Nish Kumar, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Wei Ming Kam, Darren Chetty
  2020-08-17
  ★★★★★
• The Consuming Fire
  John Scalzi
  2020-08-16
  ★★
• The Collapsing Empire
  John Scalzi
  2020-08-11
  ★
• Will Save the Galaxy for Food
  Yahtzee Croshaw
  2020-07-25
  ★★★
• Zita the Spacegirl
  Ben Hatke
  2020-07-25
  ★★★★★
• Oryx and Crake
  Margaret Atwood
  2020-07-12
  ★★★★★
• The Remains of the Day
  Kazuo Ishiguro
  2020-07-05
  ★★★★
• Ancillary Mercy
  Ann Leckie
  2020-07-04
  ★★★
• Wolf Hall
  Hilary Mantel
  2020-06-30
  ★★★★★
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
  Becky Chambers
  2020-06-30
  ★★★
• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
  Reni Eddo-Lodge
  2020-06-30
  ★★★★★
• Ancillary Sword
  Ann Leckie
  2020-06-30
  ★★★
• Ancillary Justice
  Ann Leckie
  2020-06-29
  ★★★★
• Educated
  Tara Westover
  2020-04-10
  ★★★★★
• Something Deeply Hidden
  Sean Carroll
  2020-04-06
  ★★★★
• Middle England
  Jonathan Coe
  2020-01-16
  ★★★