Rachel Coleman

Books on pre-order:

1. Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells (7 Oct 2025)
2. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2025)

Books acquired in September:

• and read:
  1. The Rose & The Dagger (Wrath and the Dawn 2) by Renée Ahdieh
  2. Breakaway (Portland Storm 1) by Catherine Gayle
  3. The Claiming of the Shrew (Fated Mountain Lodge) by Lauren Esker
• and unread:
  1. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells
  2. The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
  3. City of Bones by Martha Wells
  4. Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells
  5. Emilie and the Sky World by Martha Wells
  6. Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
  7. Surviving the Storms - RNLI [3]

Books acquired previously and read in September:

1. The Wrath & The Dawn by Renée Ahdieh [3][May]
2. Kidnap on the California Comet by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman [3][May][DNF]
3. Betrayal (Trinity 1) by Fiona McIntosh [3][May][DNF]

Rereads in September:

1. Slippery Creatures (Will Darling Adventures 1) by KJ Charles
2. The Sugared Game (Will Darling Adventures 2) by KJ Charles
3. Subtle Blood (Will Darling Adventures 3) by KJ Charles

I started off strong in September, clearing some of the books from earlier in the year, reading new books, and even a reread of some old favourites. And then the ice hockey season got under way. I'm actually part way through both the RNLI paperback (bought at Bembridge RNLI on the Isle of Wight) and the first of the batch of Martha Wells books from the HumbleBundle but progress is slow when I'm busy.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

Books on pre-order:

1. The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdoms 3) by Tasha Suri (12 Nov)

Books acquired in August:

• and unread:
  1. Witch King by Martha Wells [2]
  2. Small Wonders, Issue 14, August 2024 edited by Stephen Granade & Cislyn Smith [4]
• and previously read:
  1. Bittersweet (True North 1) by Sarina Bowen

Books acquired previously and read in August:

1. Bound for Perdition (Mysterious Arts) by Celia Lake [Jul]
2. Shoemakers Wife (Mysterious Arts) by Celia Lake [Jul]
3. Perfect Accord (Mysterious Arts) by Celia Lake [Jul]
4. Four Walls and a Heart (Charms of Albion) by Celia Lake [Jul]
5. Ancient Trust by Celia Lake [Jul]
6. Complementary by Celia Lake [Jul]
7. Casting Nasturtiums by Celia Lake [Jul]
8. Country Manners by Celia Lake [Jul]
9. Chasing Legends by Celia Lake [Jul]
10. Best Foot Forward (Land Mysteries 1) by Celia Lake [Jul]
11. Nocturnal Quarry (Land Mysteries 2) by Celia Lake [Jul]
12. Old As The Hills (Land Mysteries 3) by Celia Lake [Jul]
13. Upon A Summer's Day (Land Mysteries 4) by Celia Lake [Jul]
14. Illusion of a Boar (Land Mysteries 5) by Celia Lake [Jul]
15. Three Graces (Land Mysteries 6) by Celia Lake [Jul]
16. The Magic of Four (Land Mysteries 7) by Celia Lake [Jul]
17. The Earl who Isn't (Wedgeford Trials 3) by Courtney Milan [1] [Jul]

Borrowed books read in August:

1. Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher
2. Exes and O's by Amy Lea
3. The Darkness Outside Me by Eliot Schrefer
4. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon [3]
5. I, Spy by Rhian Tracey [2][6]

Rereads in August:

1. Lucky Bounce by Cait Nary

It's been a month of reading all the remaining Celia Lake books I bought in July, plus the preordered Courtney Milan (which in fairness to me came out at the very end of July and I was busy), with a handful of library books and a favourite hockey romance for a little variety. I have of course read Witch King in text, but the unread acquisition is the audiobook; that is queueing up behind a bunch of Cambridgeshire Listens audiobooks, and my weekly Economist subscription. From today I will be cycling to the rink 4-5 times a week so that's a lot of commute time to listen to audiobooks (or music; after late night hockey practice it's usually music just to give me the energy to get home).

I have a lot of unread books from this year still (mostly from July, to be honest), plus a small pile of actual library books due back in the next week or so, plus I'd like to get back to my goodbye reads.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens

System Collapse by Martha Wells. More Murderbot, yay. It follows on almost immediately after Network Effect but is novella-length rather than another novel, which took me slightly by surprise. I read it once fast, and again slower, and when my bedtime-story rotation makes it through to the end of Network Effect again, I'll buy this one in audiobook too and add it on the end. (Currently I am falling asleep to Murderbot in 10-minute increments, it's very effective.)

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. A middle-aged retired pirate gets found by a desperate grandmother and finds herself blackmailed into taking on one last job with a big payoff. She leaves her daughter behind, collects her old crewmates and they sail off around a fantasy 12th-century Indian Ocean, and into a bunch of ever scarier magical adventures. This was a lot of fun, and I remember that I basically inhaled The City of Brass in one afternoon and never followed up with the sequels, so maybe I should do something about that.

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy by Marie-Claire Amuah was a Cambridgeshire Listens audiobook and probably something I'd never have picked up independently. It's a story told in first person, as the narrator ages from a child of five or six with an abusive parent to an outwardly-successful adult still wrestling with the consequences of that abuse. Stella's parents are Ghanaian and she grows up in south London in the 90s and 00s, goes to university in Bristol and becomes a barrister in London. There's a lot of vivid time-and-place description and I was engaged in the story until the very end ... when Stella goes to a party and starts planning a trip to Iceland, in April 2020. The book was published in 2022 so I don't know what was going on with that.

The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh was a Cambridgeshire Reads ebook, a contemporary family drama / thriller. Emma is a marine biologist, a former TV presenter, wife to obituary writer Leo and mum to their toddler Ruby. But Emma is also keeping some big secrets, and when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by starting to write her obituary - and in digging through the details of what he thinks he knows about Emma, he starts finding all the things she's lied to him about. This one kept me turning the pages, and nothing turned out quite the way I was expecting. It has some heavy material in it around death and parenthood but pulled off a satisfying ending.

In future reading news, I've been making generous use of the Libby "Notify Me" tag on assorted books I'd like to read that my libraries (I am now a member of Suffolk and Peterborough libraries as well as Cambridgeshire) might get in . Earlier this week I got notifications for both A Power Unbound by Freya Marske and Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree. I didn't see the notification in time to borrow them immediately, but I've put in holds and should get to read both soon.

Books on pre-order:

1. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell (1 Nov)
2. If There's Anyone Left: Volume 3 edited by Jason P. Burnham and C. M. Fields (2 Nov)
3. Bloodmarked (Legendborn Cycle 2) by Tracy Deonn (8 Nov)
4. The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard (24 Nov)
5. Furious Heaven (Sun Chronicles 2) by Kate Elliott (2 Mar 2023)
6. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (Doomsday 1) by KJ Charles (7 Mar 2023)
7. Witch King by Martha Wells (30 May 2023)

Books acquired in October

• and read:
  1. The Head Wolf (HEA Collective) by Andie J Christopher [4]
  2. Nightvine (Gardener's Hand 2) by Felicia Davin
  3. Shadebloom (Gardener's Hand 3) by Felicia Davin
  4. Fake Around and Find Out (HEA Collective) by Mia Heintzelman [4]
  5. The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal [1]
  6. A Marvellous Light (Last Binding 1) by Freya Marske
  7. Damia's Children (Tower and Hive 3) by Anne McCaffrey
  8. The Pride of Garnet Run (Garnet Run 2.5) by Roan Parrish
  9. The Lights on Knockbridge Lane (Garnet Run 3) by Roan Parrish [1]
  10. Twice Faked (HEA Collective) by Reese Ryan [4]
  11. A Fashionable Deception (HEA Collective) by Sera Taino [4]
  12. Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot 6) by Martha Wells [2]
• and previously read:
  1. Unconquerable Sun (Sun Chronicles 1) by Kate Elliott
  2. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea 1) by Ursula K. LeGuin
  3. To Ride Pegasus (Talents 1) by Anne McCaffrey
  4. Damia (Tower and Hive 2) by Anne McCaffrey

Books acquired previously and read in October

1. Watership Down by Richard Adams [2][Jul 2016]

Borrowed books read in October:

1. Dial 'A' for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
2. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles 1) by Marissa Meyer

Rereads in October:

1. The Rowan (Tower and Hive 1) by Anne McCaffrey
2. What Happened at Midnight by Courtney Milan
3. The Lady Always Wins by Courtney Milan
4. Better Than People (Garnet Run 1) by Roan Parrish
5. Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run 2) by Roan Parrish

I did lots of reading in October, partly because I was on holiday for a week, partly because I'm spending more time on buses and less on bikes, and deliberately trying to use the bus time for reading rather than doomscrolling etc.

For a second month running I read everything new I acquired (I read nearly all the 'previously read' too!)

Brief opinions on what I read in a comment.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding

Books on pre-order:

1. What Souls Are Made Of by Tasha Suri (5 Jul)
2. The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri (16 Aug)
3. The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal (11 Oct)

Books acquired in June

• and read:
  1. Winter of the Owl (Seasons of the Lukoi 1) by Iris Foxglove
  2. Season's Change (Trade Season 1) by Cait Nary
  3. Game Changer (Game Changers 1) by Rachel Reid
  4. Tough Guy (Game Changers 3) by Rachel Reid
  5. Common Goal (Game Changers 4) by Rachel Reid
  6. Role Model (Game Changers 5) by Rachel Reid
  7. The Long Game (Game Changers 6) by Rachel Reid
  8. The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian [1]
• and unread:
  1. Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
  2. Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
  3. The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor
  4. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky 2) by Rebecca Roanhorse
• and previously read:
  1. The Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey
  2. Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey
  3. The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
  4. Eric by Terry Pratchett

Books acquired previously and read in June

1. West Side Love Story by Priscilla Oliveras [May][DNF]
2. The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells [2][Apr 2020]
3. The Siren Depths by Martha Wells [2][Apr 2020]
4. Frederica by Georgette Heyer [2][Feb 2020]

Borrowed books read in June:

1. Start With Why by Simon Sinek [3]

Rereads in June:

1. Heated Rivalry (Game Changers 2) by Rachel Reid

Summary: a lot more audiobook listening than usual, and a sudden splurge on hockey romances, because my brain has no subtlety about missing ice hockey.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding

Books on pre-order:

1. Nora's Hockey Dream by Ryan Minkoff (2 Feb)
2. Red Blossom in Snow (Lotus Palace 4) by Jeannie Lin (21 Mar)
3. The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri (16 Aug)

Books acquired in January

• and read:
  1. As Fast As Her by Kendall Coyne with Estelle Laure [1]
  2. The Hidden Moon (Lotus Palace 3) by Jeannie Lin
  3. Tale of the Drunken Sword by Jeannie Lin
  4. The Missing Page (Page & Sommers 2) by Cat Sebastian [1]
  5. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
  6. Stories of the Raksura: Volume I by Martha Wells
  7. Stories of the Raksura: Volume II by Martha Wells
  8. The Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells
  9. The Harbors of the Sun by Martha Wells
• and unread:
  1. Indistractable by Nir Eyal
  2. The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• and previously read:
  1. The Masterharper of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
  2. Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
  3. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Books acquired previously and read in January:

1. The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin [Q2 2018]
2. The Jade Temptress (Lotus Palace 2) by Jeannie Lin [Q2 2018]
3. The Siren Depths by Martha Wells [Jun 2019]

Rereads in January:

1. Liar's Dice (Lotus Palace 2.5) by Jeannie Lin

Borrowed books read in January:

1. The Menopause Manifesto by Dr Jen Gunter [3]
2. Snow White In New York by Fiona French [3]

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding

I have two comments on this: first, that it is hilarious that one of the books I "failed" to read is about not getting distracted from one's goals; second that I have read not one but TWO non-fiction books this month (ok I started the menopause one in December) after literally years of not managing to read anything non-fiction.

Books on pre-order:

• Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots 2) by Cat Sebastian (13 Sep)
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (7 Oct)
• The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong: Volume 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (7 Dec)
• Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan CI Fu: Volume 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (7 Dec)
• Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi: Volume 1 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (7 Dec)

Books acquired in August

• and read:
  1. The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi
  2. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
  3. Star Wars: Razor's Edge by Martha Wells
  4. After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang [1]
• and unread:
  1. For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes [1]
  2. Vicky on the Rocks (Return Tavern 1) by Liz Harman

Borrowed books read in August:

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers 4) by Becky Chambers [3]

Rereads in August:

1. Briarley by Aster Glenn Gray

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding

Books on pre-order:

• Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic 1) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (11 May)
• How to Find a Princess (Runaway Royals 2) by Alyssa Cole (25 May)
• One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (1 Jun)
• The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian (8 Jun)
• In The Heights: Finding Home by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter (2215 Jun)
• For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes (31 Aug)
• Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots 2) by Cat Sebastian (13 Sep)

Books acquired in April

• and read:
  1. Ink and Ice by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
  2. Tempest (Love's Labours 3) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
  3. The Devil Comes Courting (Worth Saga 3) by Courtney Milan [1]
  4. Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot 6) by Martha Wells [1]
  5. FIYAH #18, Spring 2021 edited by DaVaun Sanders
  6. Mermaids Monthly Issue #4, April 2021 edited by Julia Rios and Ashley Deng [4]
  7. Shoreline of Infinity 21 edited by Noel Chidwick
• and previously read:
  1. In The Middle of Somewhere (Middle of Somewhere 1) by Roan Parrish
  2. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials 2) by Phillip Pullman

For the second month running I read all the books I bought! Plus I got some other reading in too:

Books acquired previously and read in April:

1. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy 1) by N.K. Jemisin [Jan]
2. The Ruin of Kings (Chorus of Dragons 1) by Jenn Lyons [Feb]
3. Midsummer (Love's Labours 1) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese [Sep 2019]
4. Twelfth Night (Love's Labours 2) by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese [Sep 2019]
5. Defying Doomsday edited by Tsana Dolichva & Holly Kench [Nov 2020]

Borrowed books read in April:

1. The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black [3]
2. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas [3]

Rereads in April:

1. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles
2. The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles
3. Gilded Cage by KJ Charles
4. A Queen From The North by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese
5. After the Gold by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding

New Murderbot novel today! It made me laugh on the first page and squeak aloud in delight in a number of places. I read it over the afternoon in and around doing a worse job than usual of supporting schooling.

In less happy news, Delfont Mackintosh theatres confirmed today that Hamilton performances in London are now cancelled through to the end of June, so this year I will not be continuing my self-indulgent tradition[1] of seeing it for my birthday. At some point I'll get contacted and offered a refund or an exchange for a future performance and obviously I'm going to go for the latter. Oh, I hope actors and theatre staff come through this okay.

[1] As I learned at DWCons, anything done more than once is a tradition ...

Martha Wells, and five other authors, each got asked to recommend a new author on the Amazon Book Review. So many interesting-sounding books! So little time!

I only read the entirety of The Goblin Emperor late last year, and loved it (should have read it sooner! I read the sample of it for Hugo Award purposes the year it was eligible, was given the book, took ages to read it) Anyway, nearly a year ago, Katherine Addison wrote on Tor.com about her favourite moments writing it, which has reminded me all over again how much I liked it and I might have to go find it for a friendly reread.

I accidentally reread A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad because it is amazing, and then I was looking up other things by her, and somehow I found this anthology due out later this year: Robots and Revolution edited by Jonathan Strahan and the author list is very exciting: "Featuring stories by John Chu, Daryl Gregory, Alice Sola Kim, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, Ian R. Macleod, Annalee Newitz, Suzanne Palmer, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Alastair Reynolds, Kelly Robson, Sofia Samatar, Rivers Solomon and Peter Watts".

I can't find a table-of-contents anywhere yet, so I can't tell if Prasad's entry is going to be a reprint of Fandom for Robots or a new story (eeeee). I'm hesitating over pre-ordering this. because I already have three books pre-ordered for March, and also because it only seems to be available for pre-order in paperback right now, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.

1: The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard This is Holmes and Watson in de Bodard's Xuya universe where Watson is a spaceship and both are female - that one-liner was enough for me to pre-order this novella, and I very much enjoyed reading it too.

2: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells This is currently my bedtime audiobook and I am completely unable to be objective about it. The only reason this one isn't in first place is that it is a sequel, and I cannot honestly tell how well it works without having read the first one really a lot of times. Murderbot learning how to be a person, making friends, tracking down its past, and taking on bad people who hurt its people, is never ever going to be old for me.

3: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark I inhaled the whole of this novella over lunch: an alt-history New Orleans with gods and airships and terrifying weather and a young woman doing her best by her city.

4: Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor I really love all three of the Binti novellas but I think they work better as one long story in three parts than stand-alone. This one picks up after a desperately tense cliffhanger at the end of the previous book, resolves that, charges through some other tense situations and ends up going somewhere I never predicted.

Two novellas not ranked: As predicted, I bounced off Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, and I think I am now at the point where I'm going to stop trying to read her books, I'm beyond being able to be 'fair' about my intensely irritated reaction to them.

I don't think I've read anything by Kelly Robson before, but after getting 10% of the way through Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach and being alternately confused or not interested, I gave myself permission to stop.

(actually being written up in April 2019, because I got distracted, and it rather shows in just how much shopping I did)

Books on pre-order:

1. A Duke In Disguise by Cat Sebastian (9 April 2019)
2. A Man of Independent Mind (Clorinda Cathcart's Circle 2) by L.A. Hall (15 April 2019)
3. A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole (30 April 2019)
4. The Duchess Deception by Cat Sebastian (15 October 2019)

Books acquired Jan-Mar:

• and read in Jan-Mar:
  1. Knife Children (Sharing Knife) by Lois McMaster Bujold
  2. Snowspelled (Harwood Spellbook 1) by Stephanie Burgis
  3. Thornbound (Harwood Spellbook 2) by Stephanie Burgis
  4. Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole [1]
  5. Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole [1]
  6. Metal Dragon by Lauren Esker
  7. A Lady Awakened (Blackshear Family 1) by Cecilia Grant
  8. The Ironmaster's Tale (Clorinda Cathcart's Circle 1) by L.A. Hall
  9. Provenance by Ann Leckie [4]
  10. The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie [1]
  11. The Gentle Sleep Book by Sarah Ockwell-Smith
  12. Not For Use In Navigation: Thirteen Stories by Iona Datt Sharma
  13. Artificial Condition (Murderbot 2) by Martha Wells [4]
  14. 10-a-Day the Easy Way by James Wong [2]
• and in progress:
  1. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Caroline Alexander
  2. Jaeth's Eye (Agartes Epilogues 1) by K.S. Villoso [1]
• and unread in Jan-Mar:
  1. The Weight of Stars by K. Ancrum [1]
  2. On The Edge by Ilona Andrews
  3. Murder of Crows (Twenty-Sided Sorceress 2) by Annie Bellet
  4. Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
  5. The City of Brass (Daevabad Trilogy 1) by S.A. Chakraborty
  6. Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
  7. Leviathan Wakes (Expanse 1) by James S.A. Corey
  8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  9. The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
  10. Common Grounds vol 1 by Troy Hickman and Dan Jurgens [2]
  11. The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, translated by KA Yoshida and David Mitchell
  12. In Another Country by Kellum Jeffries
  13. The Secrets of My Life by Caitlin Jenner
  14. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones [2]
  15. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
  16. The King's Man (Welsh Blades 1) by Elizabeth Kingston
  17. Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
  18. Huntress by Malinda Lo
  19. Shameless (Shameless Trilogy 1) by M. Malone & Nana Malone
  20. A Shameless Bonus(Shameless Trilogy 4) by M. Malone & Nana Malone
  21. Before Sin (Sin Duet 1) by M. Malone & Nana Malone
  22. In Deep (Deep Duet 1) by Nana Malone & Nana Malone
  23. The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn [3]
  24. Mrs Martin's Incomparable Adventure (Worth Saga) by Courtney Milan [1]
  25. Shaman Rises (Walker Papers 10) by C.E. Murphy
  26. Invitation to the Blues (Small Change 2) by Roan Parrish
  27. The Long Mars (Long Earth 3) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  28. Inferior by Angela Saini
  29. Beowulf: Dragonslayer by Rosemary Sutcliff [2]
  30. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  31. Aina's Breath (Agartes Epilogues 2) by K.S. Villoso [1]
  32. Sapphire's Flight (Agartes Epilogues 3) by K.S. Villoso [1]
  33. The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams [2]
  34. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
  35. Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney [2]
  36. Sharp & Sugar Tooth anthology, edited by Octavia Cade [3]
  37. Rainbow Bouquet anthology, edited by Farah Mendlesohn [1]
  38. Lonely Planet Country Guide China
  39. Lonely Planet Country Guide France
  40. Lonely Planet Country Guide Italy
  41. Lonely Planet Country Guide Japan
  42. Lonely Planet Country Guide Spain
  43. Lonely Planet Phrasebook French
  44. Lonely Planet Phrasebook Italian
  45. Lonely Planet Phrasebook Japanese
  46. Lonely Planet Phrasebook Mandarin
  47. Lonely Planet Phrasebook Spanish
  48. Lonely Planet Pocket Barcelona
  49. Lonely Planet Pocket Beijing
  50. Lonely Planet Pocket Paris
  51. Lonely Planet Pocket Rome
  52. *Lonely Planet Pocket Tokyo
• and previously read
  1. The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain 1) by Lloyd Alexander
  2. The Dark is Rising (The Dark Is Rising 2) by Susan Cooper
  3. Greenwitch (The Dark Is Rising 3) by Susan Cooper
  4. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  5. Red Star Rising by Anne McCaffrey
  6. Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
  7. All The Weyrs Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
  8. The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey
  9. House of Cards (Negotiator 2) by C.E. Murphy
  10. Hands of Flame (Negotiator 3) by C.E. Murphy
  11. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
  12. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
  13. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
  14. Thud! by Terry Pratchett
  15. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
  16. The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen
  17. The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga 2) by Mary Stewart

Books acquired earlier & first read in Jan-Mar 2019:

1. A Gentleman Undone (Blackshear Family 2) by Cecilia Grant [Nov 18]
2. Ninefox Gambit (Machineries of Empire 1) by Yoon Ha Lee [Dec 18]
3. Raven Stratagem (Machineries of Empire 2) by Yoon Ha Lee [Dec 18]
4. Revenant Gun (Machineries of Empire 2) by Yoon Ha Lee [Dec 18]<
5. ReMade Season 1 from SerialBox (Gwenda Bond, Matthew Cody, Carrie Harris, E.C. Meyers, Andrea Phillips, Kiersten White) [Q3 18]

[1] Pre-ordered
[2] Physical book
[3] Crowdfunded
[4] Audiobook

1. Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries 4) by Martha Wells (2nd October)
2. In the Vanisher's Palace by Aliette de Bodard (16 October)
3. The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (26 February 2019)
4. The Weight of Stars by K. Ancrum (19 March 2019)

• and read
  1. The Boss by Abigail Barnette
  2. The Cobbler's Boy by Elizabeth Bear & Katherine Addison [1]
  3. The Defiant Hero (Troubleshooters 2) by Suzanne Brockmann
  4. A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole [1]
  5. Different Names for the Same Thing by Francis Gideon
  6. Sudden Death (Comfortable Courtesan 8) by L.A. Hall [1]
  7. Romantick Stratagems (Comfortable Courtesan 9) by L.A. Hall [1]
  8. An Honourable Estate (Comfortable Courtesan 10) by L.A. Hall [1]
  9. A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert
  10. Operation Atonement by Talia Hibbert
  11. Always With You by Talia Hibbert
  12. Wayward Myths by Layla Lawlor
  13. Over and Over Again by Cole McCade [1]
  14. Iced Coffee Dreams by Jennifer Montgomery
  15. A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell [1]
  16. Cabaret of Monsters by Tansy Rayner Roberts [2]
  17. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian [1]
  18. Learning Curves by Ceillie Simkiss [1]
  19. Check Please! #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu [1][3]
  20. Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries 3) by Martha Wells [1]
  21. The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang [1]
  22. Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction [2]
• and part way through:
  
  1. Mother of Invention edited by Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts [2]
• and still unread:
  1. I <3<3<3<3 the Centre Pompidou [3]
  2. Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou [3]
  3. Centre Pompidou - The Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art by Jacinto Lageira [3]
  4. A Larger Reality / Una realidad más amplia edited by Libia Brenda [2]
  5. Born to the Blade Season 1 from SerialBox (Marie Brennan, Cassandra Khaw, Malka Older, Michael R. Underwood)
  6. ReMade Season 1 from SerialBox (Gwenda Bond, Matthew Cody, Carrie Harris, E.C. Meyers, Andrea Phillips, Kiersten White)
  7. Some Kind Of Hero (Troubleshooters 19) by Suzanne Brockmann
  8. Daydreamers Journey by Julie Dillon [2]
  9. Imagined Realms Book 1 by Julie Dillon [2]
  10. Imagined Realms Book 2 by Julie Dillon [2]
  11. 14 books on UI/UX from HumbleBundle (which I am too lazy to transcribe here)
• and previously read:
  
  1. The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
  2. Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer (and reread again)
  3. The Toll-Gate by Georgette Heyer (and reread again)
  4. Ash by Malinda Lo
  5. The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

• and first read this quarter:
  1. The Year We Fell Down by Sarina Bowen (Q2)
  2. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (Q2)
  3. The Omegas' Day Off by Dessa Lux (Q2)
  4. Redeemer by C.E. Murphy (Q1)
  5. The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Q1)
  6. The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang (Q1)
• and reread this quarter:
  
  1. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
  2. Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries 2) by Martha Wells

• and read:
  
  1. A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
  2. Rustick Exile (The Comfortable Courtesan 2) by L.A. Hall
  3. A Change of Station (The Comfortable Courtesan 3) by L.A. Hall
  4. Old Enemies, New Problems (The Comfortable Courtesan 4) by L.A. Hall
  5. The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War 2) by T. Kingfisher
  6. Lumberjack Werebear by T.S. Joyce
  7. Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn
  8. Turn The Ship Around by L. David Marquet
  9. Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• and still part-way through: Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
• and not yet read:
  
  1. Redeemer by C.E. Murphy
  2. The Covert Captain by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
  3. Song of the Sea Spirit by K.C. May
  4. Werewolf Unchained by Shay Roberts
  5. Splashdance Silver (Mocklore 1) by Tansy Rayner Roberts
  6. Liquid Gold (Mocklore 2) by Tansy Rayner Roberts
  7. Ink Black Magic (Mocklore 3) by Tansy Rayner Roberts
  8. Sparks Fly by Llinos Cathryn Thomas
  9. The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
  10. The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
  11. Level Up by Cathy Yardley
• and read previously (many, many times in all three cases):
  
  1. The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer
  2. Venetia by Georgette Heyer
     
  3. Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

• and first read this quarter:
  1. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler (2017)
  2. Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler (2017)
  3. Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler (2017)
  4. Patternmaster by Octavia Butler (2017)
• and reread this quarter:
  
  1. The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher
  2. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

1. The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (2nd April)
2. After the Wedding (Worth Saga 2) by Courtney Milan (24th April)
3. Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries 2) by Martha Wells (8th May)
4. A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell (31st July)
5. Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries 3) by Martha Wells (7th August)
6. Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu (18th September)
7. Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries 4) by Martha Wells (2nd October)

• 35 books by 25 authors.
• 2 of the books (5.7%) are non-fiction; the fiction is almost entirely science fiction, fantasy, romance or some combination thereof.  (I am not sure how to categorise Check Please! - suggestions welcome!)
• All but Check Please! are ebooks (although I did also buy a paperback of Turn the Ship Around for lending purposes).
• As best I can tell from a quick google, 20 of the authors (80%, writing 86% of the books) are women, 4 are men and 1 is non-binary.
• As best I can tell from a quick google, 18 of the authors (72%, writing 69% of the books) are white.