I shuttered this blog in 2019 but re-opened it in 2025. Previously, I’d bundled short book and film reviews into single “reading & watching” posts. But since re-opening the blog, I’ve been putting up book reviews as single posts. So I thought it might be worth creating an index of the books I’ve reviewed here since last year.

Click on the book title to see the review. Asterisked (*) reviews were posted on Medium (they are slightly longer reviews). I’ve included links to my reviews on SF Mistressworks – the website still exists, although it hasn’t been updated for several years. Those reviews have a † before the book title.

Ackroyd, Peter – Chatterton (1987, UK)
Adams, Douglas – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, UK)
Adolfsson, Maria – *Fatal Isles (2018, Sweden)
Aldiss, Brian W – *Squire Quartet 1: Life in the West (1980, UK)
Ambler, Eric – Uncommon Danger (1937, UK)
Ambler, Eric – Journey into Fear (1940, UK)
Anders, Charlie Jane – *The City in the Middle of the Night (2019, USA)
Anderson, Poul – The People of the Wind (1973, USA)
Armfield, Julia – Private Rites (2024, UK)
Asimov, Isaac – The End of Eternity (1955, USA)

Balle, Solvej – On the Calculation of Volume I (2020, Denmark)
Balle, Solvej – On the Calculation of Volume II (2020, Denmark)
Banks, Iain M – *Consider Phlebas (1987, UK)
Barnes, John – Thousand Cultures 1: A Million Open Doors (1992, USA)
Barnes, John – Thousand Cultures 2: Earth Made of Glass (1998, USA)
Barton, William – *This Dog/Rat World (2012, USA)
Barton, William – *Venusworld 1: Crimson Darkness (2014, USA)
Baxter, Stephen – *Galaxias (2021, UK)
Baxter, Stephen – Creation Node (2023, UK)
Bear, Greg – *Eon (1985, USA)
Benford, Gregory – *Timescape (1980, USA)
Bennett, Gertrude Barrows – Claimed! (1920, USA)
Biller, Anna – Bluebeard’s Castle (2023, USA)
Blish, James – *Cities in Flight (1955-1962, USA)
Blish, James – *A Case of Conscience (1958, USA)
Blumlein, Michael – Short (2023, USA)
de Bodard, Aliette – A Fire Born of Exile (2023, France)
de Bodard, Aliette – Navigational Entanglements (2024, France)
Boye, Karin – Kallocain (1940, Sweden)
Bradley, Kaliane – *The Ministry of Time (2024, UK)
Brin, David – Glory Season (1993, USA)
Brookner, Anita – Hotel du Lac (1984, UK)
Brown, Eric – *Langham & Dupré 9: Murder Most Vile (2022, UK)
Brown, George Mackay – *Magnus (1973, UK)
Brunner, John – The Whole Man (1964, UK)
Brunner, John – The Long Result (1965, UK)
Budrys, Algis – Who? (1958, USA)
Bujold, Lois McMaster – Vorkosigan 2: Shards of Honor (1986, USA)
Bujold, Lois McMaster – Vorkosigan 3: Barrayar (1991, USA)
Burroughs, William S – Nova trilogy 1: The Soft Machine (1961, USA)

Cameron, Miles – *Artifact Space (2021, Canada)
Campbell, Nancy – *Fifty Words for Snow (2020, UK)
Carey, MR – The Girl With All the Gifts (2014, UK)
Chandrasekera, Vajra – The Saint of Bright Doors (2023, Sri Lanka)
Cherryh, CJ – Wave Without a Shore (1981, USA)
Cherryh, CJ – *The Faded Sun Trilogy (1987, USA)
Cherryh, CJ – †Rimrunners (1989, USA)
Cherryh, CJ – *Foreigner 1: Foreigner (1994, USA)
Cherryh, CJ – *Foreigner 4: Precursor (1999, USA)
Cherryh, CJ & Jane S Fancher – Hinder Stars 2: Alliance Unbound (2024, USA)
Cho, Zen – *The True Queen (2019, Malaysia)
Clarke, Arthur C – *Childhood’s End (1953, UK)
Clarke, Arthur C – *Rendezvous with Rama (1973, Sri Lanka)
Coney, Michael G – *The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch (1975, Canada)
Coney, Michael G – *Brontomek! (1976, Canada)
Coney, Michael G – Cat Karina (1982, Canada)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 17: The Scarpetta Factor (2009, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 18: Port Mortuary (2010, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 19: Red Mist (2011, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 20: The Bone Bed (2012, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 21: Dust (2013, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 22: Flesh and Blood (2014, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 23: Depraved Heart (2015, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 24: Chaos (2016, USA)
Cornwell, Patricia – Scarpetta 25: Autopsy (2021, USA)
Crowley, John – *Engine Summer (1979, USA)
Cussler, Clive – Dirk Pitt Adventures 6: Night Probe! (1981, USA)
Cussler, Clive – Dirk Pitt Adventures 7: Deep Six (1984, USA)

Delany, Samuel R – *Nova (1968, USA)
Dick, Philip K – Time Out of Joint (1959, USA)
Durrell, Lawrence – Alexandria Quartet 3: Mountolive (1958, UK)

Evans, Christopher – *Capella’s Golden Eyes (1980, UK)
Evans, Christopher – *Mortal Remains (1995, UK)

Farmer, Philip José – *The Lovers (1961, USA)
Foster, Alan Dean – *Pip & Flinx 1 : The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972, USA)
Foster, Alan Dean – *Icerigger trilogy 2: Mission to Moulokin (1979, USA)

Gentle, Mary – *Golden Witchbreed (1983, UK)
Gentle, Mary – Grunts! (1992, UK)
Gentle, Mary – *Ilario: The Lion’s Eye (2006, UK)
Gigl, Robyn – *By Way of Sorrow (2021, USA)
Gigl, Robyn – *Survivor’s Guilt (2022, USA)
Gilman, Carolyn Ives – Dark Orbit (2016, USA)
Gómez-Jurado, Juan – Antonia Scott 2: Black Wolf (2019, Spain)
Gómez-Jurado, Juan – Antonia Scott 3: White King (2020, Spain)
Goodman, Alison – The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin (2025, Australia)
Green, Ian – *Extremophile (2024, UK)
Grimwood, Ken – Replay (1986, USA)
Grimsley, Jim – *The Ordinary (2004, USA)

Hadfield, Chris – *The Apollo Murders (2021, Canada)
Hall, Alexis – A Lady for a Duke (2022, UK)
Hardinge, Frances – The Lie Tree (2015, UK)
Harris, Robert – *The Second Sleep (2019, UK)
Harrison, M John – *The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (2020, UK)
Harrison, M John – Wish I Was Here (2023, UK)
Heinlein, Robert A – *Rocketship Galileo (1947, USA)
Heinlein, Robert A – *Tunnel in the Sky (1955, USA)
Heinlein, Robert A – *The Door into Summer (1957, USA)
Heinlein, Robert A – *The Past Through Tomorrow (1967, USA)
Herbert, Brian & Kevin J Anderson – *Paul of Dune (2008, USA)
Herbert, Frank – *Hellstrom’s Hive (1973, USA)
Herbert, Frank – *God Emperor of Dune (1981, USA)
Herbert, Frank – *Heretics of Dune (1984, USA)
Herbert, Frank – *Chapterhouse: Dune (1985, USA)
Heyer, Georgette – Pistols for Two (1960, UK)
Hodgell, PC – *Chronicles of the Kencyrath 1: God Stalk (1982, USA)
Hodgell, PC – *Chronicles of the Kencyrath 2: Dark of the Moon (1985, USA)
Hodgell, PC – Chronicles of the Kencyrath 4: To Ride a Rathorn (2006, USA)
Hurley, Kameron – *The Light Brigade (2019, USA)

Jacobs, Bethany – *Kindom Trilogy 1: The Burning Stars (2023, USA)
Jacobs, Bethany – Kindom Trilogy 2: On Vicious Worlds (2024, USA)
Jacobs, Bethany – Kindom Trilogy 3: This Brutal Moon (2025, USA)
Jensen, Johannes V – *The Waving Rye (1958, Denmark)
Jordan, Robert – Wheel of Time 13: Towers of Midnight (2010, USA)
Jordan, Robert – Wheel of Time 14: A Memory of Light (2013, USA)
Joyce, Graham – *Some Kind of Fairy Tale (2012, UK)

Kate, MM – The Far Pavilions (1978, UK)
Kenyon, Kat – *The Rose & the Entire 1: Bright of the Sky (2007, USA)
Kim Un-su – *The Cabinet (2006, South Korea)
Kornbluth, Cyril M – Not This August (1955, USA)

Lagercrantz, David – Millennium 6: The Girl Who Lived Twice (2018, Sweden)
Lakshminarayaran, Lavanya –*The Ten Percent Thief (2012, India)
le Carré, John. – *The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963, UK)
le Carré, John – The Night Manager (1993, UK)
le Carré, John – Smiley 9: A Legacy of Spies (2017, UK)
Le Guin, Ursula K – *The Telling (2000, USA)
Leckie, Anne – Lake of Souls (2024, USA)
Leiber, Fritz – The Wanderer (1964, USA)

MacLeod, Ken – The Corporation Wars 1: Dissidence (2016, UK)
Mallo, Agustín Fernández – *Nocilla Lab (2009, Spain)
Mann, Phillip – *The Story of the Gardener (Master of Paxwax, The Fall of the Families) (1986-1987, New Zealand)
Mann, Phillip – The Paradise Mission (2014, New Zealand)
May Julian – †Pliocene Saga 1: The Many-coloured Land (1981, USA)
McAuley, Paul J – *War of the Maps (2020, UK)
McDevitt, Jack – Alex Benedict 2: Polaris (2004, USA)
McDevitt, Jack – Alex Benedict 3: Seeker (2005, USA)
McKenna, Juliet E – The Green Man’s Holiday (2025, UK)
McMurtry, Larry – *Lonesome Dove (1985, USA)
McMurtry, Larry – Comanche Moon (1997, USA)
McCaffrey, Anne – *Pern 1: Dragonflight (1968, Ireland)
McCaffrey, Anne – Pern 2: Dragonquest (1971, Ireland)
McCaffrey, Anne – Pern 3: The White Dragon (1978, Ireland)
Min, Dolki – Walking Practice (2022, South Korea)
Mitchison, Naomi – †Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962, UK)
Mitford, Nancy – *Wigs on the Green (1935, UK)
Mitford, Nancy – *The Pursuit of Love (1945, UK)
Moore, CL – †Judgment Night (1952, USA)

Newman, Emma – Atlas Alone (2019, UK)
Niven, Larry – *A Gift from Earth (1968, USA)
Niven, Larry – Tales of Known Space (1975, USA)
Niven, Larry – The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976, USA)
Niven, Larry – A World Out of Time (1976, USA)
Niven, Larry – Ringworld 2: The Ringworld Engineers (1980, USA)
North, Claire – *The End of the Day (2017, UK)
North, Claire – *Notes from the Burning Age (2021, UK)
North, Claire – Songs of Penelope 3: The Last Song of Penelope (2024, UK)
North, Claire – Slow Gods (2025, UK)
Norton, Andre – Witch World 1: Witch World (1963, USA)

O’Keefe, Megan – *The Devoured Worlds 1: The Blighted Stars (2023, USA)
Ogawa, Yoko – *The Memory Police (1994, Japan)

Palliser, Charles – Sufferance (2024, UK)
Paretsky, Sara – Pay Dirt (2024, USA)
Peters, Torrey – *Detransition, Baby (2022, USA)
Peters, Torrey – Stag Dance (2025, USA)
Piercy, Marge – *Woman on the Edge of Time (1976, USA)
Piper, H Beam – Little Fuzzy (1962, USA)
Pratchett, Terry – *The Dark Side of the Sun (1976, UK)
Pratchett, Terry – Discworld 15: Men at Arms (1993, UK)
Pratchett, Terry – Discworld 16: Soul Music (1994, UK)
Priest, Christopher – The Affirmation (1981, UK)
Pulley, Natasha – *The Kingdoms (2021, UK)
Pulley, Natasha – *The Mars House (2024, UK)
Pym, Barbara – Quartet in Autumn (1977, UK)

Quinn, Seabury – *Alien Flesh (1977, USA)
qntm – There is No Antimemetics Division (2025, UK)

Ravn, Olga – The Employees (2018, Denmark)
Roberts, Adam – The This (2022, UK)
Roberts, Keith – Gráinne (1987, UK)
Robin, Emery – Empire Without End 1: The Stars Undying (2022, USA)
Robinson, Kim Stanley – The Years of Rice and Salt (2002, USA)
Robson, Justina – *The Switch (2018, UK)
Russ, Joanna – †The Two of Them (1978, USA)
Russell, Eric Frank – *Three Worlds to Conquer (1956, UK)

Saadawi, Ahmed – Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013, Iraq)
Scalzi, John – *Redshirts (2012, USA)
Scott, Melissa – A Choice of Destinies (1986, USA)
Scott, Melissa – †Dreamships (1992, USA)
Shepard, Lucius – *The Ends of the Earth (1991, USA)
Shirley, John – A Song Called Youth 1: Eclipse (1999, USA)
Silverberg, Robert – Up the Line (1969, USA)
Smirnoff, Karin – Millennium 7: The Girl in the Eagle’s Talon (2022, Sweden)
Smirnoff, Karin – Millennium 8: The Girl with Ice in Her Veins (2024, Sweden)
Smith, Cordwainer – The Planet Buyer (1964, USA)
Smith, Cordwainer – The Underpeople (1968, USA)
Smith, EE ‘Doc’ – Subspace Explorers (1965, USA)
Spark, Muriel – The Public Image (1968, UK)
Sturgeon, Ted – Venus Plus X (1960, USA)
Swift, Graham – Last Orders (1996, UK)

Talbot, Bryan – The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor (2025, UK)
Tepper, Sheri S – Arbai 3: Sideshow (1992, USA)
Tiptree Jr, James – *Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975, USA)
Tiptree Jr, James – Up the Walls of the World (1978, USA)
Tiptree Jr, James – *Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981, USA)
Tiptree Jr, James – Brightness Falls from the Air (1985, USA)
Tiptree Jr, James – Crown of Stars (1988, USA)
Tolkien, JRR – *The Hobbit (1937, UK)
Tubb, EC – *Dumarest 1: The Winds of Gath (1967, UK)

Van Vogt, AE – *The Universe Maker (1953, Canada)
Van Vogt, AE – *The Players of Null-A (1956, Canada)
Vandermeer, Jeff – Wonderbook (2013, USA)
Varley, John – *The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977, USA)
Varley, John – *Steel Beach (1992, USA)

Watson, Tom – Metronome (2022, UK)
Weir, Andy – Project Hail Mary (2021, USA)
Wilhelm, Kate – †The Killing Thing (1967, USA)
Williams, Lynda – Oka Rel 1: The Courtesan Prince (2005, Canada)
Wodehouse, PG – Carry On, Jeeves (The Jeeves Omnibus Vol 2) (1925, UK)
Wodehouse, PG – Right Ho, Jeeves (The Jeeves Omnibus Vol 2) (1934, UK)
Wodehouse, PG – Joy in the Morning (The Jeeves Omnibus Vol 2) (1946, UK)