| Date | Title | Series |
|---|
| July, 2008 |
| Tue Jul 15 | Why I Re-Read | |
| Sat Jul 19 | A Deepness in the Sky, the Tragical History of Pham Nuwen | |
| Tue Jul 22 | The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem | |
| Fri Jul 25 | Random Acts of Senseless Violence: Why isn't it a classic of the field? | |
| Sat Jul 26 | From Herring to Marmalade: the perfect plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | |
| Sun Jul 27 | Total Immersion: Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy | |
| Sun Jul 27 | That's just scenery: what do we mean by “mainstream”? | |
| Tue Jul 29 | Individual and Irreverent: Eric Frank Russell | |
| Wed Jul 30 | Re-reading long series | |
| Thu Jul 31 | What you have to do for me to write about your book here | |
| August, 2008 |
| Fri Aug 1 | At the edge of humanity: Amy Thomson's Virtual Girl | |
| Fri Aug 1 | Separating SF and fantasy | |
| Sat Aug 2 | A treat to re-read: Barbara Hambly's Stranger at the Wedding | |
| Mon Aug 4 | The Fermi Paradox: OK, where are they, then? | |
| Tue Aug 5 | The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein's Juveniles | |
| Thu Aug 7 | Aliens and Power: C.J. Cherryh's Atevi Books | |
| Fri Aug 8 | Worldcon: Conversation | |
| Tue Aug 12 | Clearsighted utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed | |
| Thu Aug 14 | Happiness, Meaning and Significance: Karl Schroeder's Lady of Mazes | |
| Thu Aug 14 | Has Queen Amalasuntha Been Assassinated Yet? L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall | |
| Sat Aug 16 | Just Irresistible: Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle | |
| Sun Aug 17 | Heterotopian Choices: Samuel R. Delany's Triton | |
| Wed Aug 20 | The Weirdest Book in the World | |
| Thu Aug 21 | Judging a book by the cover: Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series | |
| Tue Aug 26 | New SF Ideas from Rudy Rucker | |
| Fri Aug 29 | Spellbinding Storytelling Patterns: Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series | |
| Fri Aug 29 | My love-hate relationship with fantasy | |
| September, 2008 |
| Fri Sep 5 | More Cold Equations: Sylvia Engdahl's Heritage of the Star | |
| Fri Sep 5 | Fantasy List | |
| Mon Sep 8 | Don't get too attached to this decade: George R.R. Martin's The Armageddon Rag | |
| Tue Sep 9 | The Poetry of Deep Time: Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night | |
| Fri Sep 12 | Clarke reimagined in hot pink: Tanith Lee's Biting the Sun | |
| Sat Sep 13 | Something rich and strange: Candas Jane Dorsey's Black Wine | |
| Sat Sep 13 | A Chance to Show Off: the first line game | |
| Tue Sep 16 | To trace impunity: Greg Egan's Permutation City | |
| Thu Sep 18 | Black and white and read a million times: Jerry Pournelle, Janissaries | |
| Tue Sep 23 | Alien anthropology and a ton of fun: Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords | |
| Fri Sep 26 | Entertaining asides and vistas of glorious revelation: Some general cool things Neal Stephenson does | |
| Tue Sep 30 | Bloat: threat or menace? | |
| October, 2008 |
| Wed Oct 1 | The hero with a thousand extra lives: Terry Pratchett's Only You Can Save Mankind | |
| Mon Oct 6 | Political agency and changing the world | |
| Wed Oct 8 | College as magic garden: Why Pamela Dean's Tam Lin is a book you'll either love or hate | |
| Sat Oct 11 | Making the future work: Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang | |
| Tue Oct 14 | Growing up tomorrow: Cory Doctorow's Little Brother | |
| Fri Oct 17 | The numinous underpinnings of fantasy: Bujold's Paladin of Souls | |
| Mon Oct 20 | Centaur songs and scientific revolutions: Walter Jon Williams' Knight Moves | |
| Wed Oct 22 | Sentimental Adventures in Time: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger | |
| Sun Oct 26 | What stops you from buying a book? | |
| Mon Oct 27 | Telepathy and Tribulation: John Wyndham's The Chrysalids | |
| Thu Oct 30 | Not only science fiction, but more science fictional than anything else: Rosemary Kirstein's Steerswoman books | |
| Fri Oct 31 | Halloween Special: Why I hate horror. | |
| November, 2008 |
| Mon Nov 3 | What to read to take your mind off the US election. | |
| Thu Nov 6 | Of course science fiction did it first... | |
| Mon Nov 10 | Love, Blood and Rhetoric: Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint | |
| Tue Nov 11 | Duels and Dialogue and Depth: Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword | |
| Wed Nov 12 | Flawed but magnificent: Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's The Fall of the Kings | |
| Thu Nov 13 | Fantasy of Manners | |
| Fri Nov 14 | Beyond America: The Future of the Rest of the Planet | |
| Mon Nov 17 | Anathem: what does it gain from not being our world? | |
| Tue Nov 18 | Who Killed Ariane Emory? C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen | |
| Tue Nov 25 | Hard Boiled Regency: Madeleine Robins Point of Honor | |
| Sun Nov 30 | A happy ending depends on when you stop: Heavy Time, Hellburner and C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe | |
| December, 2008 |
| Mon Dec 1 | Knights Who Say “Fuck”: Swearing in Genre Fiction | |
| Wed Dec 3 | Same date, same time, different place: Holiday meetup in Montreal | |
| Wed Dec 3 | “Earth is one world”: C.J. Cherryh's Downbelow Station | |
| Tue Dec 9 | Space is wide and good friends are too few: Cherryh's Merchanter novels | |
| Wed Dec 10 | A need to deal wounds: Rape of men in Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels | |
| Fri Dec 12 | A break with the bell-ringers: Dorothy Sayers Nine Tailors | |
| Fri Dec 19 | They don't just want a bright kid, they want her back: C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen | |
| Sun Dec 21 | How to talk to writers | |
| Thu Dec 25 | Christmas Books | |
| January, 2009 |
| Fri Jan 2 | Donald E. Westlake 1933-2008 | |
| Fri Jan 2 | Western Fantasy: Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife books | |
| Sun Jan 4 | New News from Reseune: C.J. Cherryh's Regenesis | |
| Tue Jan 13 | Dynamite alternate history: Jenny Davidson's The Explosionist | |
| Sun Jan 18 | Colonial Fantasy: Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword | |
| Wed Jan 21 | Fighting dragons and depression: Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown | |
| Thu Jan 22 | My Perfect Anthology | |
| Sat Jan 24 | Fairytale Rape: Robin McKinley's Deerskin | |
| Mon Jan 26 | Why do I pick up the books I do? | |
| Wed Jan 28 | Near future and far future: Robert Charles Wilson's Spin | |
| Wed Jan 28 | Real world reading for fantasy writers | |
| Thu Jan 29 | “Give me back the Berlin Wall”: Ken MacLeod's The Sky Road | |
| February, 2009 |
| Mon Feb 2 | Who's human anyway? Who's free? Octavia Butler's Pattern series | |
| Thu Feb 5 | “My Star Trek novel”: Octavia Butler's Survivor | |
| Fri Feb 6 | Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction (fiction) | |
| Mon Feb 9 | A wish for something different at the frontier | |
| Tue Feb 10 | What a pity she couldn't have single-handedly invented science fiction! George Eliot's Middlemarch | |
| Tue Feb 10 | Tor.com meetup at Tor Party at Boskone this Saturday | |
| Wed Feb 18 | The beauty of lists: Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial | |
| Thu Feb 19 | Like pop rocks for the brain: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | |
| Fri Feb 20 | Seeing Patterns Everywhere: Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark | |
| Mon Feb 23 | Tussling with Tolkien: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Horizon | |
| Wed Feb 25 | Philip Jose Farmer, 1918-2009 | |
| Thu Feb 26 | Is there any such thing as the Great World Novel? | |
| Fri Feb 27 | The weight of time to come: Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia | |
| March, 2009 |
| Thu Mar 5 | Over the hump: Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers | |
| Fri Mar 6 | The Apocalypso that we Deserve: Janni Lee Simner's Bones of Faerie | |
| Mon Mar 9 | Between Two Worlds: S.P. Somtow's Jasmine Nights | |
| Wed Mar 11 | Sapience and responsibility: H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy books | |
| Fri Mar 13 | As neat as it gets: Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates | |
| Mon Mar 16 | Now cheer me up again: Paolo Bacigalupi's Pump Six and Other Stories | |
| Tue Mar 17 | I think I'll go for a walk and think about aliens: Clifford Simak's Way Station | |
| Wed Mar 18 | Lots of reasons to love these: Daniel Abraham's Long Price books | |
| Thu Mar 19 | Someone has come to free the LLL: Samuel Delany's Empire Star | |
| Fri Mar 20 | These things are there: A.S. Byatt's Possession | |
| Mon Mar 23 | Humorous Humanist Armageddon: Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens | |
| Tue Mar 24 | Maori Fantasy: Keri Hulme's The Bone People | |
| Thu Mar 26 | Better to have loved and lost? Series that go downhill. | |
| Thu Mar 26 | A brilliant standalone book: John Barnes's A Million Open Doors | |
| Fri Mar 27 | A fun kind of chaos: Connie Willis's Bellwether | |
| Mon Mar 30 | The interesting question of thalience: Karl Schroeder's Ventus | |
| Tue Mar 31 | Weeping for her enemies: Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor | |
| April, 2009 |
| Wed Apr 1 | Forward Momentum: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice | |
| Wed Apr 1 | More questions than answers: Robert A. Heinlein's The Stone Pillow | |
| Wed Apr 1 | Quarrels and Quarterstaffs: Shakespeare's Robin of Sherwood on DVD | |
| Thu Apr 2 | Quest for Ovaries: Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos | |
| Fri Apr 3 | Why he must not fail: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Borders of Infinity | |
| Sun Apr 5 | What have you done with your baby brother? Lois McMaster Bujold's Brothers in Arms | |
| Mon Apr 6 | Hard on his superiors: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game | |
| Mon Apr 6 | So, what sort of series do you like? | |
| Tue Apr 7 | One birth, one death, and all the acts of pain and will between: Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar | |
| Thu Apr 9 | All true wealth is biological: Lois McMaster Bujold's Mirror Dance | |
| Fri Apr 10 | Luck is something you make for yourself: Lois McMaster Bujold's Cetaganda | |
| Mon Apr 13 | This is my old identity, actually: Lois McMaster Bujold's Memory | |
| Tue Apr 14 | But I'm Vor: Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr | |
| Wed Apr 15 | She's getting away! Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign | |
| Wed Apr 15 | Just my job: Lois McMaster Bujold's Diplomatic Immunity | |
| Fri Apr 17 | Choose again, and change: Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga | |
| Sun Apr 19 | Every day is a gift: Lois McMaster Bujold's Winterfair Gifts | |
| Mon Apr 20 | Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga | |
| Tue Apr 21 | Time travel and slavery: Octavia Butler's Kindred | |
| Wed Apr 22 | America the Beautiful: Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain | |
| Fri Apr 24 | As you wish, so be it: John Brunner's The Compleat Traveller in Black | |
| Mon Apr 27 | A Chance to Show Off Thread 2: The Quotable Line Game | |
| Mon Apr 27 | Susan Palwick's Shelter | |
| Wed Apr 29 | A new island of stability: Ursula Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore | |
| Thu Apr 30 | A Conversation with Sherwood Smith | |
| May, 2009 |
| Mon May 4 | Pioneer Fantasy: Patricia Wrede's Thirteenth Child | |
| Tue May 5 | The upspoken and the unspeakable: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go | |
| Wed May 6 | A different kind of alternative: John Brunner's The Infinitive of Go | |
| Thu May 7 | Missing the Late Roman Empire? Gillian Bradshaw's The Beacon at Alexandria | |
| Fri May 8 | Alien immersion course: M.A. Foster's The Gameplayers of Zan | |
| Mon May 11 | A new Atevi book: C.J. Cherryh's Conspirator | |
| Mon May 11 | Is Alternate History SF? | |
| Thu May 14 | Daily life and no Europeans: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt | |
| Fri May 15 | Disturbingly brilliant: Susan Palwick's The Fate of Mice | |
| Fri May 15 | Where do you find out about new books? | |
| Sat May 16 | Magic, family, uncertainty: Lisa Goldstein's Tourists | |
| Mon May 18 | Devil's Advocate: Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers | |
| Tue May 19 | Brothers and destroyers: Sarah Monette's Melusine | |
| Thu May 21 | “Ain't we both monsters?”: Sarah Monette's The Virtu | |
| Fri May 22 | I'm sure we can find a map: Sarah Monette's The Mirador | |
| Mon May 25 | Labyrinths inside your head: Sarah Monette's Corambis | |
| Tue May 26 | Aliens, spaceships, and fun: Walter Jon Williams's Dread Empire's Fall | |
| Tue May 26 | Is the right book winning the Hugo? | |
| Wed May 27 | Better to travel hopefully: Dan Simmons's Hyperion | |
| Fri May 29 | Reading between the mythlines: Ian McDonald's King of Morning, Queen of Day | |
| Sun May 31 | Scintillations of a sensory syrynx: Samuel Delany's Nova | |
| June, 2009 |
| Mon Jun 1 | You may not know it, but you want to read this: Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin | |
| Tue Jun 2 | The addiction of time travel: Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand | |
| Wed Jun 3 | Something old, something new? | |
| Wed Jun 3 | Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants | |
| Thu Jun 4 | Faster Than Light at any speed | |
| Sun Jun 7 | Being clever with mythology: John James's Votan and Not For All the Gold in Ireland | |
| Mon Jun 8 | Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness | |
| Wed Jun 10 | Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings: The short stories of Lord Dunsany | |
| Thu Jun 11 | The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep | |
| Fri Jun 12 | The other woman: Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride | |
| Sun Jun 14 | The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein's Friday | |
| Tue Jun 16 | India's superheroes: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children | |
| Wed Jun 17 | Clocks and stars and magic: Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett's Point of Hopes | |
| Thu Jun 18 | Starman Jones, or how Robert A. Heinlein did plot on a good day | |
| Fri Jun 19 | Packing books for a trip | |
| Mon Jun 22 | A funny book with a lot of death in it: Iain Banks's The Crow Road | |
| Tue Jun 23 | More dimensions than you'd expect: Samuel Delany's Babel 17 | |
| Fri Jun 26 | Characters and cryptography: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon | |
| Mon Jun 29 | Not so urban fantasy: Nina Kiriki Hoffman's The Silent Strength of Stones | |
| July, 2009 |
| Wed Jul 1 | Blue collar magic: Sean Stewart's Mockingbird | |
| Thu Jul 2 | The future of the Third World: Geoff Ryman's Air | |
| Mon Jul 6 | Dying Inside Robert Silverberg | |
| Tue Jul 7 | Bad, but good: David Feintuch's Midshipman's Hope | |
| Thu Jul 9 | “The servants of what we have to do”: Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer | |
| Mon Jul 13 | More betrayals in winter than I could shake a stick at: Daniel Abraham's A Betrayal in Winter | |
| Wed Jul 15 | Helen Wright's A Matter of Oaths available for free download | |
| Thu Jul 16 | Ambiguity in Fantasy | |
| Thu Jul 16 | Not sure he's wrong: Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War | |
| Mon Jul 20 | On July 20th, 1969... by Jo Walton | |
| Wed Jul 22 | What do you hope for in a book? | |
| Fri Jul 24 | Alien stars: John Brunner's The Crucible of Time | |
| Mon Jul 27 | Fantasy and the Numinous | |
| Mon Jul 27 | Silent, upon a peak, in Darien: Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring | |
| Wed Jul 29 | History, language, identity, gender: Elisabeth Vonarburg's The Maerlande Chronicles | |
| Thu Jul 30 | Subtly twisted history: John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting | |
| Fri Jul 31 | What is historical fantasy? | |
| August, 2009 |
| Mon Aug 3 | 2009 Hugo Best Novel Nominee Spotlight: Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow | |
| Thu Aug 6 | The most expensive plumbers in the galaxy: Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling Free | |
| Fri Aug 7 | 2009 Hugo Best Novel Nominee Spotlight: Anathem, by Neal Stephenson | |
| Fri Aug 7 | Murder in deep time: Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime | |
| Mon Aug 10 | Infinite ideas: Robert Reed's Down the Bright Way | |
| Thu Aug 13 | Rogue in the ambient: C.J. Cherryh's Rider books | |
| Sun Aug 16 | Growing Up for Real: Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage | |
| Tue Aug 18 | A very long poem: Alan Garner's Red Shift | |
| Thu Aug 20 | Bridging the divide between hard and soft SF: Karl Schroeder's Permanence | |
| Fri Aug 21 | Planet, colony, home: Maureen McHugh's Mission Child | |
| Sun Aug 23 | Goodbye, Dortmunder: Donald E. Westlake's Get Real | |
| Tue Aug 25 | Sea battles and grand emotion: David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef | |
| Wed Aug 26 | We are not amused: My love/hate relationship with funny fiction | |
| Thu Aug 27 | Beautiful, poetic, and experimental: Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand | |
| Fri Aug 28 | Martial art fantasy: C.J. Cherryh's The Paladin | |
| Mon Aug 31 | Hollywood and science fiction: Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet | |
| September, 2009 |
| Tue Sep 1 | “Like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway”: Lloyd Biggle, Jr.'s The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets | |
| Wed Sep 2 | The wisdom of the apes: Peter Dickinson's Eva | |
| Thu Sep 3 | The last three books you bought | |
| Fri Sep 4 | No one left to speak when they came for me: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale | |
| Tue Sep 8 | Waking the Dragon: George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire | |
| Wed Sep 9 | Stick them with the pointy end: George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones | |
| Thu Sep 10 | No true knights: George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings | |
| Mon Sep 14 | Weddings more dangerous than battles: George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords | |
| Thu Sep 17 | No ice, no fire: George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows | |
| Fri Sep 18 | Who killed Jon Arryn? George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire | |
| Sun Sep 20 | Self-naming and death-hastening: Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean | |
| Mon Sep 21 | Happy Birthday H.G. Wells | |
| Mon Sep 21 | Face or vase? Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time | |
| Tue Sep 22 | Out of Control: Octavia Butler's Bloodchild and Other Stories | |
| Wed Sep 23 | Effective dreaming: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven | |
| Thu Sep 24 | A girl and a house: the gothic novel | |
| Sun Sep 27 | Invisible man and organ banks: Larry Niven's A Gift From Earth | |
| Mon Sep 28 | Review: Walter Jon Williams' This Is Not A Game | |
| Tue Sep 29 | Spaceships and starshards and workaday life: Samuel Delany's short fiction | |
| Wed Sep 30 | The best aliens ever: C.J. Cherryh's The Pride of Chanur | |
| October, 2009 |
| Mon Oct 5 | Treachery to species: C.J. Cherryh's Chanur Trilogy | |
| Wed Oct 7 | No Pitching of the Preciousness: C.J. Cherryh's Chanur's Legacy | |
| Fri Oct 9 | Lonely and special: Zenna Henderson's Ingathering | |
| Mon Oct 12 | Princesses and cats: Kij Johnson's Fudoki | |
| Tue Oct 13 | A way the world ends: John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes | |
| Wed Oct 14 | Who reads cosy catastrophes? | |
| Tue Oct 20 | Stalinism vs champagne at the opera: Constantine Fitzgibbon's When the Kissing Had To Stop | |
| Thu Oct 22 | The future of the Commonwealth: Nevil Shute's In the Wet | |
| Fri Oct 23 | Aunts in Space: Elizabeth Moon's Serrano series | |
| Mon Oct 26 | The Identical Twin Paradox: Robert A. Heinlein's Time For the Stars | |
| Tue Oct 27 | Art and life and fairytales: Steven Brust's The Sun the Moon and the Stars | |
| Wed Oct 28 | No catastrophes here: William Tenn's Of Men and Monsters | |
| November, 2009 |
| Mon Nov 2 | Mosaics and charioteers: Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarantine Mosaic | |
| Tue Nov 3 | So good your head explodes every time: Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others | |
| Wed Nov 4 | Like a red-figure vase: Steven Brust's Agyar | |
| Thu Nov 5 | Sketching on the way to battle: Caroline Stevermer's When the King Comes Home | |
| Fri Nov 6 | Competence is really attractive: H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen | |
| Mon Nov 9 | Fantasy disguised as science fiction disguised as fantasy: Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light | |
| Wed Nov 11 | Twists of the Godgame: John Fowles's The Magus | |
| Thu Nov 12 | Like swords, but awesomer: Made up words in science fiction and fantasy | |
| Fri Nov 13 | A charming history of Science Fiction and Fandom: Frederik Pohl's The Way the Future Was | |
| Sun Nov 15 | What is it with coffee? | |
| Mon Nov 16 | Playing the angles on a world: Steven Brust's Dragaera | |
| Tue Nov 17 | “Jhereg feeds on others' kills”: Steven Brust's Jhereg | |
| Thu Nov 19 | Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid when making up fantasy names | |
| Sat Nov 21 | Yendi coils and strikes unseen: Steven Brust's Yendi | |
| Mon Nov 23 | A coachman's tale: Steven Brust's Brokedown Palace | |
| Mon Nov 23 | Barbara Hambly sequel stories to download for $5 | |
| Tue Nov 24 | “Frightened teckla hides in grass”: Steven Brust's Teckla | |
| Wed Nov 25 | “How can you tell?”: Steven Brust's Taltos | |
| Thu Nov 26 | “Phoenix rise from ashes grey”: Steven Brust's Phoenix | |
| Fri Nov 27 | I have been asking for nothing else for an hour: Steven Brust's The Phoenix Guards | |
| Mon Nov 30 | “Athyra rules minds' interplay”: Steven Brust's Athyra | |
| Mon Nov 30 | Robert Holdstock 1948-2009 | |
| December, 2009 |
| Wed Dec 2 | “What, is there more?”: Steven Brust's Five Hundred Years After | |
| Thu Dec 3 | “Orca circles, hard and lean”: Steven Brust's Orca | |
| Fri Dec 4 | “Haughty dragon yearns to slay”: Steven Brust's Dragon | |
| Tue Dec 8 | “Issola strikes from courtly bow”: Steven Brust's Issola | |
| Wed Dec 9 | What has gone before? | |
| Mon Dec 14 | “The time about which I have the honor to write”: Steven Brust's The Viscount of Adrilankha | |
| Tue Dec 15 | Foolproof Holiday Gift Books | |
| Tue Dec 15 | “Dzur stalks and blends with night”: Steven Brust's Dzur | |
| Thu Dec 17 | “Jhegaala shifts as moments pass”: Steven Brust's Jhegaala | |
| Fri Dec 18 | “Quiet iorich won't forget”: Steven Brust's Iorich | |
| Mon Dec 21 | Magical Realist Mars: Ian McDonald's Desolation Road | |
| Wed Dec 23 | What books do you buy to give to other people? | |
| Sat Dec 26 | Quakers in Space: Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day | |
| Mon Dec 28 | “Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond all imagining”: Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising | |
| Tue Dec 29 | Sensible grown-ups and the battle of Waterloo: Georgette Heyer's A Civil Contract | |
| Wed Dec 30 | There is now... | |
| Thu Dec 31 | Imprisoned Intelligence: Thomas M. Disch's Camp Concentration | |
| January, 2010 |
| Fri Jan 1 | Water, love, and meetings: Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge | |
| Wed Jan 6 | “Locked in our separate skulls”: Raphael Carter's The Fortunate Fall | |
| Thu Jan 7 | The whole notion of autobiography: Samuel Delany's The Motion of Light in Water | |
| Fri Jan 8 | Saving both worlds: Katherine Blake (Dorothy Heydt)'s The Interior Life | |
| Mon Jan 11 | Yearning for the unattainable: James Tiptree, Jr.'s short stories | |
| Tue Jan 12 | Lovely and undemanding: Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind | |
| Wed Jan 13 | Unravelling the universe: Ken Macleod's Cosmonaut Keep | |
| Thu Jan 14 | Neglected Books and Authors | |
| Sat Jan 16 | Kage Baker is very ill | |
| Mon Jan 18 | SF reading protocols | |
| Tue Jan 19 | Philip K. Dick Award nominees announced | |
| Wed Jan 20 | A conversation with Steven Brust about writing the Dragaera books | |
| Wed Jan 20 | A Real Princess: Peter Dickinson's King and Joker | |
| Thu Jan 21 | Celtic in a good way: Lisa Tuttle's The Mysteries | |
| Fri Jan 22 | Neglected Books: the list | |
| Sun Jan 24 | Gateway drugs: what books are good for introducing non-SF readers to SF? | |
| Mon Jan 25 | The tea, the statue, the dragon and you: R.A. MacAvoy's Tea With the Black Dragon | |
| Wed Jan 27 | “Bright the hawk's flight in the empty sky”: Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea | |
| Thu Jan 28 | Let her be eaten!: Ursula Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan | |
| Fri Jan 29 | Only in Silence the Word: Ursula Le Guin's The Farthest Shore | |
| February, 2010 |
| Mon Feb 1 | A woman on Gont: Ursula Le Guin's Tehanu | |
| Tue Feb 2 | “What everyone knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think”: Ursula Le Guin's Tales from Earthsea | |
| Wed Feb 3 | Revising death and dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind | |
| Fri Feb 5 | History informs the present: Anthony Price's Audley series | |
| Mon Feb 8 | Time travellers changing history: Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South | |
| Wed Feb 8 | William Tenn 1920-2010 | |
| Wed Feb 10 | Incredibly readable: Robert Heinlein's The Door Into Summer | |
| Thu Feb 18 | Light and Clever and Magical: Lawrence Watt Evans Ethshar Books | |
| Fri Feb 19 | Boskone Panel: The Heroine's Journey | |
| Sun Feb 21 | Where are the positive futures? | |
| Mon Feb 22 | Growing up in a space dystopia: John Barnes's Orbital Resonance | |
| Tue Feb 23 | Nasty, but brilliant: John Barnes's Kaleidoscope Century | |
| Wed Feb 24 | Culture clash on the borders of genres: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series | |
| Fri Feb 26 | “In my own time and season”: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Shattered Chain and Thendara House | |
| Sun Feb 28 | Mervyn Jones 1922-2010 | |
| Sun Feb 28 | The joy of an unfinished series | |
| March, 2010 |
| Mon Mar 1 | Telepathy and polyamory: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Forbidden Tower | |
| Wed Mar 3 | “Where did he belong?”: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Bloody Sun | |
| Thu Mar 4 | No weapon that leaves the hand: Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Heritage of Hastur | |
| Fri Mar 5 | A heroine's journey: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Hawkmistress | |
| Tue Mar 9 | Fantasy and the need to remake our origin stories | |
| Wed Mar 10 | “Everyone talks like Shakespeare”: Pamela Dean's Secret Country trilogy | |
| Thu Mar 11 | Re-living your own life: Ken Grimwood's Replay | |
| Fri Mar 12 | Painting Saturn's Ring red: John Varley's 1970s Eight Worlds stories | |
| Mon Mar 15 | Why reviewers don't often say “This sucks”. | |
| Tue Mar 16 | In Sheep's Clothing: Why Fantasy and SF might be disguised as each other | |
| Wed Mar 17 | Grimmer than grim: C.J. Cherryh, The Chronicles of Morgaine | |
| Sun Mar 21 | Honour to your holdfast, honour to your teyn: George R.R. Martin's Dying of the Light | |
| Mon Mar 22 | What do you think you should do?: Keith Roberts's Molly Zero | |
| Fri Mar 26 | The mind, the heart, sex, class, feminism, true love, intrigue, not your everyday ho hum detective story: Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night | |
| Sat Mar 27 | Epistolary fantasy that will make you smile: Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia | |
| Tue Mar 30 | Three short Hainish novels: Ursula Le Guin's Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions | |
| Wed Mar 31 | Amazingly solid world: John M. Ford's The Princes of the Air | |
| April, 2010 |
| Thu Apr 1 | On reflection, not very dangerous: Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions | |
| Fri Apr 2 | Why do I re-read things I don't like? | |
| Sat Apr 3 | “Yakking about who's civilized and who's not”: H. Beam Piper's Space Viking | |
| Tue Apr 6 | Unusual dystopia: Sumner Locke Elliott's Going | |
| Wed Apr 7 | Julian the Apostate on a Gunboat: Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock | |
| Thu Apr 8 | New perspectives on humanity: Molly Gloss's Wild Life | |
| Fri Apr 9 | The next best thing to being there: Plato's Republic | |
| Sun Apr 11 | Feast or famine? | |
| Tue Apr 13 | Formations and transformations: Samuel Delany's Dhalgren | |
| Wed Apr 14 | Review: Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, the play of Samuel Delany's Dhalgren | |
| Mon Apr 19 | OK, where do I start with that? A. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed Apr 21 | The possibility of knowing yourself: Geoff Ryman's Lust | |
| Fri Apr 23 | Total immersion in 1950s India: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy | |
| Sun Apr 25 | OK, where do I start with that? B. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed Apr 28 | Ok, where do I start with that? | OK, where do I start with that? |
| May, 2010 |
| Mon May 3 | OK, where do I start with that? C. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed May 5 | Alone among aliens: C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner | |
| Thu May 6 | Burning bridges and making alliances: C.J. Cherryh's Invader | |
| Mon May 10 | OK, where do I start with that? D. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed May 12 | By no means unlikely: C.J. Cherryh's Inheritor | |
| Thu May 13 | Sweets, spacestations and intrigue: C.J. Cherryh's Precursor | |
| Fri May 14 | “Actually, you're the alien”: C.J. Cherryh's Defender | |
| Sun May 16 | OK, where do I start with that? E. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed May 19 | How many sides are there in this?: C.J. Cherryh's Explorer | |
| Sun May 23 | OK, where do I start with that? F. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed May 26 | Breakfast in the ruins: C.J. Cherryh's Destroyer | |
| Fri May 28 | Taking it all back: C.J. Cherryh's Pretender | |
| Sun May 30 | OK, where do I start with that? G. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| June, 2010 |
| Tue Jun 1 | One is ever so glad to be rescued: C.J. Cherryh's Deliverer | |
| Thu Jun 3 | You are also an exile: C.J. Cherryh's Conspirator | |
| Fri Jun 4 | “Not much changes on the street, only the faces.” George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails | |
| Sun Jun 6 | OK, where do I start with that? H. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Jun 7 | Humans are crazy that way: C.J. Cherryh's Deceiver | |
| Tue Jun 8 | History inside-out: Howard Waldrop's Them Bones | |
| Thu Jun 10 | I'd love this book if I didn't loathe the protagonist: Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr's Household Gods | |
| Sun Jun 13 | OK, where do I start with that? I and J. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed Jun 16 | Screwball comedy time travel: John Kessel's Corrupting Dr. Nice | |
| Fri Jun 18 | Original, weird, charming: Parke Godwin's Waiting for the Galactic Bus | |
| Sun Jun 20 | OK, where do I start with that? K. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Tue Jun 22 | It wouldn't look right: M.J. Engh's Rainbow Man | |
| Thu Jun 24 | Academic Time Travel: Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog | |
| Sun Jun 27 | OK, where do I start with that? L. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| July, 2010 |
| Thu Jul 1 | The Society of Time: John Brunner's Times Without Number | |
| Sun Jul 4 | OK, where do I start with that? M. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Jul 5 | Five Short Stories with Useless Time Travel | |
| Tue Jul 6 | Homeless and Magical: Megan Lindholm's Wizard of the Pigeons | |
| Thu Jul 8 | Time Control: Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity | |
| Fri Jul 9 | A man and a house: Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger | |
| Sun Jul 11 | OK, where do I start with that? N. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Jul 12 | Texan Ghost Fantasy: Sean Stewart's Perfect Circle | |
| Thu Jul 15 | The fantasy geography of America: Terry Bisson's Talking Man | |
| Fri Jul 16 | Immigrant Fantasy: Susan Palwick's The Necessary Beggar | |
| Sun Jul 18 | OK, where do I start with that? O. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Wed Jul 21 | Sex and Urban Planning: Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue | |
| Thu Jul 22 | Parliamentary Democracy with Martians: Robert Heinlein's Double Star | |
| Fri Jul 23 | The language of stones: Terry Windling's The Wood Wife | |
| Sun Jul 25 | OK, where do I start with this? P. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Jul 26 | A novel in sonnets: Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate | |
| Thu Jul 29 | A great castle made of sea: Why hasn't Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell been more influential? | |
| August, 2010 |
| Sun Aug 1 | OK, where do I start with this? R. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Tue Aug 3 | Suppose you are contemplating an island: Jill Paton Walsh's Knowledge of Angels | |
| Wed Aug 4 | The best spacestation novel not written by Cherryh: Walter Jon Williams' Angel Station | |
| Thu Aug 5 | Real world engineering: Nevil Shute's No Highway | |
| Fri Aug 6 | Provencal Fantasy: Guy Gavriel Kay's A Song for Arbonne | |
| Sun Aug 8 | OK, where do I start with that? S. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Aug 9 | Aliens, Steppe Nomads, and just the right amount of romance: Kate Elliott's Jaran | |
| Wed Aug 11 | “Out far, and onward yet!” Heinlein's future history stories of the thirties and forties | |
| Thu Aug 12 | Growing up alien: Michael Coney's Hello Summer, Goodbye | |
| Thu Aug 12 | Patterson Heinlein biography: Not to be trusted on details | |
| Thu Aug 12 | The right kind of girl | |
| Sun Aug 15 | OK, where do I start with that? T. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Aug 16 | A brief thought about why Heinlein discussions frequently become acrimonious | |
| Tue Aug 17 | Pulp adventure and nothing wrong with that: Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children | |
| Wed Aug 18 | First Juvenile: Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo | |
| Thu Aug 19 | Gulp or sip: How do you read? | |
| Sun Aug 22 | OK, where do I start with that? U and V. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Thu Aug 26 | Weather War: Marjorie Bradley Kellogg's Lear's Daughters | |
| Sun Aug 29 | OK, where do I start with that? W | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Mon Aug 30 | Annapolis in space: Robert A. Heinlein's Space Cadet | |
| Mon Aug 30 | The Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2010 | |
| Tue Aug 31 | Masks and moons: Melissa Scott's The Kindly Ones | |
| September, 2010 |
| Thu Sep 2 | “A number of humans and a number of baboons”: Robert M. Sapolsky's A Primate's Memoir | |
| Fri Sep 3 | Manners and escapes: Sherwood Smith's Crown Duel | |
| Sat Sep 4 | Ditmar Awards 2010 | |
| Sun Sep 5 | OK, where do I start with that? X,Y,Z. | OK, where do I start with that? |
| Tue Sep 7 | How do you find these things? | |
| Tue Sep 7 | Really good fun: Poul Anderson's The High Crusade | |
| Wed Sep 8 | Do you skim? | |
| Wed Sep 8 | Quincentennial: Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth | |
| Thu Sep 9 | Double Identity | |
| Fri Sep 10 | A pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey's Brat Farrar | |
| Sun Sep 12 | “You're not the devil by any chance?” Daphne Du Maurier's The Scapegoat | |
| Tue Sep 14 | E.C. Tubb 1919-2010 | |
| Tue Sep 14 | Eve dreaming of Adam: Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree | |
| Wed Sep 15 | Two young ladies: Joan Aiken's Deception | |
| Thu Sep 16 | Ridiculously honourable: Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda | |
| Fri Sep 17 | Zenda reimagined with sex: George MacDonald Fraser's Royal Flash | |
| Tue Sep 21 | A merrier world: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit | |
| Wed Sep 22 | Two Beauties, Two Beasts: Robin McKinley's Beauty and Rose Daughter | |
| Thu Sep 23 | A cup or a comb or a song: Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer | |
| Mon Sep 27 | Monuments from the future: Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths | |
| Mon Sep 27 | Pondering humanity: Theodore Sturgeon's The Dreaming Jewels | |
| Tue Sep 28 | The Suck Fairy | |
| Wed Sep 29 | A future that never came: Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust | |
| October, 2010 |
| Fri Oct 1 | “The ghost of revolution still prowls the Paris streets”: Lisa Goldstein's The Dream Years | |
| Mon Oct 4 | “Not a moment to be lost”: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Mon Oct 4 | “It could not have fallen more happily”: Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Oct 5 | Trains on the moon: John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless | |
| Wed Oct 6 | Next-door to Fairyland: Hope Mirrlees Lud-in-the-Mist | |
| Thu Oct 7 | Slow glass seen from all around: Bob Shaw's Other Days, Other Eyes | |
| Mon Oct 11 | Out of his element: Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Oct 12 | Post apocalyptic gender-bending: James Alan Gardner's Commitment Hour | |
| Thu Oct 14 | Future Classics: Best science fiction by women written 2001-2010 | |
| Fri Oct 15 | A self-aware computer and a revolution on the moon: Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | |
| Mon Oct 18 | Jack, you have debauched my sloth! Patrick O'Brian's H.M.S. Surprise | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Oct 20 | Classic Science Fiction Tearjerkers | |
| Wed Oct 20 | Rabbit realism and folklore: Richard Adams's Watership Down | |
| Fri Oct 22 | Telepaths, murder and typographical tricks: Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man | |
| Sun Oct 24 | Hugo Nominees: Introduction | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Sun Oct 24 | Hugo Nominees: 1953 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Oct 25 | Showing away: Patrick O'Brian's The Mauritius Command | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Thu Oct 28 | Alien Proxemics: Janet Kagan's Hellspark | |
| Sun Oct 31 | Hugo Nominees: 1955 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| November, 2010 |
| Mon Nov 1 | The voyage of the world: Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Nov 2 | “A particular story, or moral, or scenario”: Why Science Fiction May Not be a Genre | |
| Thu Nov 4 | Overloading the senses: Samuel Delany's Nova | |
| Sun Nov 7 | Hugo Nominees: 1956 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Nov 8 | The American navy was the staple diet of conversation: Patrick O'Brian's The Fortune of War | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Nov 10 | “He isn't like anything, he's the original.” Some thoughts on Lois McMaster Bujold's Aral Vorkosigan | |
| Sun Nov 14 | Hugo Nominees: 1957 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Nov 15 | I know you mean it kindly, Stephen: Patrick O'Brian's The Surgeon's Mate | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Nov 16 | Time present and time past: Connie Willis's Blackout/All Clear | |
| Wed Nov 17 | “Hyperactive git”: Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan | |
| Fri Nov 19 | Faith and lies: Two fascinating novels about nuns | |
| Sun Nov 21 | Hugo Nominees: 1958 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Nov 22 | Parenthesis: Patrick O'Brian's The Ionian Mission | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Nov 24 | SFContario Party Game: Fannish Fortune Cookies | |
| Sun Nov 28 | Hugo Nominees: 1959 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Nov 29 | Ain't I elegant? Patrick O'Brian's Treason's Harbour | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Mon Nov 29 | Aliens and Jesuits: James Blish's A Case of Conscience | |
| December, 2010 |
| Wed Dec 1 | Innocent Bystander: Some thoughts on Lois McMaster Bujold's Ivan Vorpatril | |
| Thu Dec 2 | SFContario Panel: The family trees of fantasy | |
| Fri Dec 3 | Ever outward: Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit, Will Travel | |
| Sun Dec 5 | Hugo Nominees: 1960 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Dec 6 | Around the Horn: Patrick O'Brian's The Far Side of the World | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Dec 7 | Dark ages and doubt: Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz | |
| Thu Dec 9 | Knotwork and custom: R.A. MacAvoy's The Book of Kells | |
| Fri Dec 10 | Smug messiah: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land | |
| Sun Dec 12 | Hugo Nominees: 1961 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Dec 13 | Rode his luck to death: Patrick O'Brian's The Reverse of the Medal | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Dec 15 | A girl on a haunted spaceship: C.J. Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck | |
| Fri Dec 17 | Worth waiting for: Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear | |
| Sun Dec 19 | Hugo Nominees: 1962 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Dec 20 | He was a stranger: Patrick O'Brian's The Letter of Marque | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Dec 22 | Not born to be a heroine: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey | |
| Sun Dec 26 | Hugo Nominees: 1963 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Wed Dec 29 | God is a spaceship: Sharon Shinn's Archangel | |
| Fri Dec 31 | Swiftly goes the swordplay: Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword | |
| January, 2011 |
| Sun Jan 2 | Hugo Nominees: 1964 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jan 3 | Shaken down so well: Patrick O'Brian's The Thirteen Gun Salute | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Jan 5 | Plays and Plato: Mary Renault's The Mask of Apollo | |
| Fri Jan 7 | Aliens, vengeance, complications: C.J. Cherryh's Serpent's Reach | |
| Sun Jan 9 | Hugo Nominees: 1965 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jan 10 | From the mizentop: Patrick O'Brian's The Nutmeg of Consolation | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Jan 11 | So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know: Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky | |
| Wed Jan 12 | In league with the future: Frank Herbert's Dune | |
| Thu Jan 13 | 500 posts by me right here on Tor.com | |
| Fri Jan 14 | Wisecracking, aliens, and hot places: Roger Zelazny's This Immortal (“And Call Me Conrad”) | |
| Sun Jan 16 | Hugo Nominees: 1966 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jan 17 | She is under your protection: Patrick O'Brian's Clarissa Oakes (AKA: The Truelove) | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Tue Jan 18 | Among Others (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| Wed Jan 19 | Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, 2011 | |
| Fri Jan 21 | Religious Science Fiction | |
| Sun Jan 23 | Hugo Nominees: 1967 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jan 24 | I still have hopes: Patrick O'Brian's The Wine Dark Sea | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Jan 26 | Don't mess with magic: Barbara Hambly's The Ladies of Mandrigyn | |
| Sun Jan 30 | Hugo Nominees: 1968 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jan 31 | The chief argosy of your command: Patrick O'Brian's The Commodore | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| February, 2011 |
| Tue Feb 1 | Telepathy and Healing: John Brunner's The Whole Man (aka Telepathist) | |
| Thu Feb 3 | Relativity, sociology, and a sweet love story: Joe Haldeman's The Forever War | |
| Fri Feb 4 | Charming, quirky, delightful: Sarah Caudwell's Hilary Tamar mysteries | |
| Sun Feb 6 | Hugo Nominees: 1969 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Feb 7 | How happy I am to see you: Patrick O'Brian's The Yellow Admiral | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Feb 9 | Absentee aliens: Frederik Pohl's Gateway | |
| Thu Feb 10 | Small wars and bigger wars: C.J. Cherryh's Rimrunners | |
| Sun Feb 13 | Hugo Nominees: 1970 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Feb 14 | A chill fell upon Stephen's heart: Patrick O'Brian's The Hundred Days | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Wed Feb 16 | Who is alien? C.J. Cherryh's Cuckoo's Egg | |
| Fri Feb 18 | Ghosts and second chances: Jennifer Crusie's Maybe This Time | |
| Sun Feb 20 | Hugo Nominees: 1971 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Feb 21 | A fine clear deck: Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| Fri Feb 25 | The work of disenchantment never ends: Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge | |
| Sun Feb 27 | Hugo Nominees: 1972 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Feb 28 | Forever Bailing: Patrick O'Brian's last unfinished novel and the end of the Aubrey-Maturin series | Aubrey-Maturin reread |
| March, 2011 |
| Tue Mar 1 | The Road to Tinue: Spoiler Review of Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear | |
| Wed Mar 2 | Best SFF Novels of the Decade: An Appreciation of Anathem | |
| Thu Mar 3 | One man against a whole planet: Eric Frank Russell's Wasp | |
| Fri Mar 4 | Glimpses: Ursula K. Le Guin's Searoad | |
| Sun Mar 6 | Hugo Nominees: 1973 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Mar 8 | Great aliens, rubber humans: Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves | |
| Sun Mar 13 | Hugo Nominees: 1974 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Mar 14 | Gods and kingdoms: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion | |
| Thu Mar 17 | Sleeping under the wagon: More spoilers for Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear | |
| Sun Mar 20 | Hugo Nominees: 1975 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Mar 21 | Middle aged saint: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Paladin of Souls | |
| Fri Mar 25 | Animal souls: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Hallowed Hunt | |
| Fri Mar 25 | Not quite Jerusalem: Geoff Ryman's 253 | |
| Sun Mar 27 | Hugo Nominees: 1976 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| April, 2011 |
| Fri Apr 1 | Shakespeare's King: Some thoughts on Henry V, Part 2 | |
| Sun Apr 3 | Hugo Nominees: 1977 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Apr 5 | Come and see the violence inherent in the system! | |
| Sun Apr 10 | Hugo Nominees: 1978 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Apr 11 | Where does dystopia fit as a genre? | Dystopia Week |
| Wed Apr 13 | Wei, Christ, Marx and Wood, made us humble, made us good: Ira Levin's This Perfect Day | Dystopia Week |
| Sun Apr 17 | Hugo Nominees: 1979 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Apr 19 | Fantasy for grown-ups: Daniel Abraham's Long Price Quartet | |
| Thu Apr 21 | The Patrick Rothfuss Reread: Introduction | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Apr 21 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 1: The Cut-Flower Sound | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Apr 22 | Engineering and Sri Lanka: Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise | |
| Sun Apr 24 | Hugo Nominees: 1980 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Sun Apr 24 | When We Were Robots in Egypt (Poem) | Poetry |
| Tue Apr 26 | Spaceships, art, and life: Elizabeth Lynn's A Different Light | |
| Thu Apr 28 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 2: You Went Looking For a Myth and Found a Man | Rothfuss Reread |
| May, 2011 |
| Sun May 1 | Hugo Nominees: 1981 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon May 2 | Sunlit clouds beyond the iron grating: Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song | |
| Wed May 4 | Time travel and the bewilderment of childhood: Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes | |
| Thu May 5 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 3: Beware of Folly | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun May 8 | Hugo Nominees: 1982 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Thu May 12 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 4: Entirely the Wrong Sort of Songs | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun May 15 | Hugo Nominees: 1983 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Thu May 19 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 5: Too Much Truth Confuses the Facts | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun May 22 | Hugo Nominees: 1984 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue May 24 | Surpassing humanity: Walter Jon Williams Aristoi | |
| Thu May 26 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 6: Going Somewhere | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri May 27 | Pass the slide rule: Robert Heinlein's The Rolling Stones | |
| Sun May 29 | Hugo Nominees: 1985 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| June, 2011 |
| Thu Jun 2 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 7: My Sympathetic Representation | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Jun 5 | Hugo Nominees: 1986 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Thu Jun 9 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 8: Your Hand Held the Fire | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Jun 9 | Child markers and adulthood in Robert A. Heinlein's juveniles | |
| Sun Jun 12 | Hugo Nominees: 1987 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Jun 13 | I refuse to die wearing provincial trousers: Doris Egan's Ivory books | |
| Thu Jun 16 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 9: Not That I Would Encourage That Sort of Reckless Behaviour | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Jun 17 | A Boy and His Martian: Robert Heinlein's Red Planet | |
| Sun Jun 19 | Hugo Nominees: 1988 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Wed Jun 22 | Reading all of it at once, or reading all of them at once | |
| Thu Jun 23 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 10: Like Wheat Before a Sickle-blade | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Jun 24 | Quakers, aliens, sex: Judith Moffett's Pennterra | |
| Sun Jun 26 | Hugo Nominees: 1989 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Jun 28 | How Robert A. Heinlein wrote about making dinner: some thoughts on Farmer in the Sky | |
| Thu Jun 30 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 11: Every Tale Has Deep Roots Somewhere | Rothfuss Reread |
| July, 2011 |
| Sun Jul 3 | Hugo Nominees: 1990 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Wed Jul 6 | Heinlein's Worst Novel | |
| Thu Jul 7 | Winter is Almost Upon Us: George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons (Spoiler-Free) | |
| Thu Jul 7 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 12: I Know What it is to Have Secrets | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Jul 8 | Tampering with Historical Destiny: Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy | |
| Sun Jul 10 | Hugo Nominees: 1991 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Wed Jul 13 | The dove descending: Time as God in Connie Willis's Time Travel universe | |
| Thu Jul 14 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 13: We're Going to Have to Kill It | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Jul 15 | Linguistics, Aliens, Dystopia: Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue | |
| Sun Jul 17 | Hugo Nominees: 1992 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Jul 19 | Snappy dialogue, intrigue, interstellar shenanigans: Jane Emerson (Doris Egan)'s City of Diamond | |
| Thu Jul 21 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 14: Like a Thunderclap | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Jul 22 | On the Other Side of the Wall: Neil Gaiman's Stardust | |
| Sun Jul 24 | Hugo Nominees: 1993 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Thu Jul 28 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Part 15: Yes, No, Maybe, Elsewhere, Soon | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Jul 31 | Hugo Nominees: 1994 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| August, 2011 |
| Tue Aug 2 | Living with our history: Marge Piercy's Vida | |
| Thu Aug 4 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Speculative Summary, Part 1: “Inside edges. Holes.” Speculations on Imaginary Geography | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Aug 7 | Hugo Nominees: 1995 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Mon Aug 8 | Designing people and societies: C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen | |
| Tue Aug 9 | Two Empires, One Guild: Helen Wright's A Matter of Oaths | |
| Thu Aug 11 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Speculative Summary, Part 2: “A girl standing nearby” Speculations on Denna | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Aug 12 | THE “Don't Miss” Volume? | |
| Sun Aug 14 | Hugo Nominees: 1996 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Thu Aug 18 | Rothfuss Reread: The Name of the Wind, Speculative Summary, Part 3: “Fire, Thunder, Broken Tree.” Speculations on Kvothe | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Aug 18 | Art, Duels, Necromancy: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | |
| Sun Aug 21 | Hugo Nominees: 1997 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Aug 23 | In Order to Save It: M.J. Engh's Arslan | |
| Thu Aug 25 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary, Part 4: Kingkiller Chronicles, huh? Speculations on Kings | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Aug 28 | Hugo Nominees: 1998 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| September, 2011 |
| Thu Sep 1 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 1: Deep and Wide as Autumn's Ending | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Sep 2 | Much and More: A Spoiler Review of George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons | |
| Sun Sep 4 | Hugo Nominees: 1999 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Wed Sep 7 | “Man's more like to change than die”: C.J. Cherryh's Forty Thousand in Gehenna | |
| Thu Sep 8 | Firsts in Fantasy: Ultimate evil and banking in Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path | |
| Thu Sep 8 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 2: So Sharp He Can Hardly Help But Cut Himself | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Sep 11 | Hugo Nominees: 2000 | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Sep 13 | Persecuted Wizards: Barbara Hambly's The Rainbow Abyss | |
| Thu Sep 15 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 3: Or Something Like That | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Sep 18 | Hugo Nominees: Conclusion | Revisiting the Hugos |
| Tue Sep 20 | Alert With Delight: Nina Kiriki Hoffman's “Haunted House” Books | |
| Wed Sep 21 | “All right, one quest. But never another!” Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep | |
| Thu Sep 22 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 4: Well Over The Hill | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Sep 27 | Transformative in This as Everything Else: Walter Jon Williams's Metropolitan and City on Fire | |
| Wed Sep 28 | A Finite Future: Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky | |
| Thu Sep 29 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 5: A Special Kind of Stupid | Rothfuss Reread |
| October, 2011 |
| Tue Oct 4 | “Bright the hawk's flight in the empty sky”: Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea | |
| Wed Oct 5 | New News From Tines World: Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky | |
| Thu Oct 6 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 6: Tangled Up | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Oct 11 | Let Her be Eaten!: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan | |
| Thu Oct 13 | The Lens of History: Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis | |
| Thu Oct 13 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 7: The Next Three Moves | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Oct 18 | Only in Silence the Word: Ursula Le Guin's The Farthest Shore | |
| Thu Oct 20 | Cheating Death in SFF | |
| Thu Oct 20 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 8: The World Needs People Like You | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Oct 21 | “Do you want to share?” Diane Duane's The Door into Fire | |
| Sun Oct 23 | Why Do I Hate Heists in Genre? | |
| Tue Oct 25 | A Woman on Gont: Ursula K. Le Guin's Tehanu | |
| Thu Oct 27 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 9: Giving You a Gift | Rothfuss Reread |
| November, 2011 |
| Tue Nov 1 | “What Everyone Knows is True Turns Out to be What Some People Used to Think”: Ursula Le Guin's Tales from Earthsea | |
| Wed Nov 2 | Rescuing Children in Wartime: Nevil Shute's Pied Piper | |
| Thu Nov 3 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 10: Watching Stories Being Born | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Nov 8 | Revising death and dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Other Wind | |
| Wed Nov 9 | Stories and Secrets: Pamela Dean's The Secret Country | |
| Thu Nov 10 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 11: A Freely Given Gift | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Nov 14 | Beware of stobor!: Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky | |
| Thu Nov 17 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 12: A Beautiful Game | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Nov 18 | Like Being There: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall | |
| Wed Nov 23 | Primal and Mythic: Geoff Ryman's The Warrior Who Carried Life | |
| Tue Nov 29 | Expanding the possibilities of fantasy: Pamela Dean's The Dubious Hills | |
| December, 2011 |
| Thu Dec 1 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 13: It was Idyllic | Rothfuss Reread |
| Wed Dec 7 | Reaching Out: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed | |
| Thu Dec 8 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 14: Secrets of the Heart | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Dec 13 | Quiet Martians: Edgar Pangborn's A Mirror for Observers | |
| Wed Dec 14 | Dealing Underwater: Maureen McHugh's Half the Day is Night | |
| Thu Dec 15 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 15: Defending Civilization | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Dec 22 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 16: Urging Toward the Truth | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Dec 29 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 17: All the Stories in the World | Rothfuss Reread |
| January, 2012 |
| Wed Jan 4 | Perfect Mystery: Peter Dickinson's Perfect Gallows | |
| Thu Jan 5 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 5: “Lackless likes her riddle raveling”: Speculations on Lacklesses | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu Jan 12 | More like this, please: James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes | |
| Thu Jan 12 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 6: “Expect disaster every seven years” Speculations on Kote | Rothfuss Reread |
| Wed Jan 18 | A Soldier Like My Mother. Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga | |
| Thu Jan 19 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 7: “There isn't anything worse than the Ctheah!” Speculations on the Ctheah | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Jan 24 | Pre-existing Universe, Very Original Story: John M. Ford's The Final Reflection | |
| Thu Jan 26 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 8: “I have a patron” Speculations on Master Ash | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Jan 31 | A Trip to Greenland and a Dream of Vikings: Nevil Shute's An Old Captivity | |
| February, 2012 |
| Thu Feb 2 | Re-living Your Own Life: Ken Grimwood's Replay | |
| Thu Feb 2 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary Part 9: “That sparked the entire Creation War” Speculations on the Creation War | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Feb 6 | John Christopher, 1922-2012 | |
| Thu Feb 9 | Charming Fantasy: Sharon Shinn's Summers at Castle Auburn | |
| Thu Feb 9 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 18: Die Or Go Mad | Rothfuss Reread |
| Wed Feb 15 | Mutants, Treachery, Honour: John Christopher's Prince in Waiting trilogy | |
| Thu Feb 16 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 19: All Their Choices Will Be The Wrong Ones | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Feb 21 | When Tripods Walked the Earth: John Christopher's Tripods Trilogy | |
| Thu Feb 23 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 20: You Wouldn't Have a Hope | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Feb 28 | Aliens in Belfast: Ian McDonald's Sacrifice of Fools | |
| March, 2012 |
| Thu Mar 1 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 21: A Deep Well | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Mar 5 | Scientific Language: H. Beam Piper's “Omnilingual” | |
| Wed Mar 7 | Heroes Who Fail | |
| Thu Mar 8 | Rothfuss Reread: Timeline | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Mar 9 | How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Romance | |
| Thu Mar 15 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 22: When Words Fail Us | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sat Mar 17 | M.A.R. Barker 1929-2012 | |
| Tue Mar 20 | “It Won't Do, You Know!” Georgette Heyer's Cotillion | |
| Thu Mar 22 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 23: A Real Person | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Mar 23 | Spies and Fairy Tales: Anthony Price's Tomorrow's Ghost | |
| Mon Mar 26 | The Highest of Fantasy: Yves Meynard's Chrysanthe | |
| Thu Mar 29 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 24: Hell Breaking Loose | Rothfuss Reread |
| April, 2012 |
| Sun Apr 1 | All Of Us Are In The Gutter: Review of Oscar! | |
| Thu Apr 5 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 25: I Forgot Who I Was | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Apr 6 | Small Scale Fantasy: Mary Robinette Kowal's Shades of Milk and Honey | |
| Sun Apr 8 | Nemi (poem) | National Poetry Month |
| Wed Apr 11 | Flying Talking Horses, Yay!: Robin McKinley's Pegasus | |
| Thu Apr 12 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 26: You're alive! | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Apr 16 | Walter Jon Williams's Aristoi Now Available as an Ebook | |
| Mon Apr 16 | The Best Science Fiction Ideas in any Non-Fiction Ever: David Graeber's Debt: The First Five Thousand Years | |
| Wed Apr 18 | Sons and Decisions: Sheri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country | |
| Thu Apr 19 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 27: Kvothe the Arcane | Rothfuss Reread |
| Wed Apr 25 | Here's Some More: Long Series, Novels and Chunks | |
| Thu Apr 26 | Rothfuss Reread: Admissions Questions for Pat? | Rothfuss Reread |
| May, 2012 |
| Thu May 3 | Rothfuss Reread: The Wise Man's Fear, Part 28: I Hate Not Understanding a Thing | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu May 10 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 10: The Road To Newarre | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri May 11 | What is living for? Poul Anderson's The Corridors of Time | |
| Thu May 17 | Rothfuss Reread: Pat Answers the Admissions Questions | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon May 21 | Among Others (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| Tue May 22 | All Aliens: Alison Sinclair's Legacies | |
| Thu May 31 | A Good Life: Samuel R. Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders | |
| June, 2012 |
| Fri Jun 1 | Titles from Poetry: Blake vs Marvell | |
| Mon Jun 4 | Growing Up: Sean Stewart's Nobody's Son | |
| Thu Jun 7 | General Lee's Dreams: Connie Willis's Lincoln's Dreams | |
| Thu Jun 14 | Time Travel and the Black Death: Connie Willis's Doomsday Book | |
| Tue Jun 19 | The Wonders of Wonderland | |
| Thu Jun 21 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 11: Te Rhintae? | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Jun 25 | Three Short Novels by Connie Willis (Uncharted Territory, Remake, Bellwether) | |
| Wed Jun 27 | The Very Breath of Bronze Age Greece: Mary Renault's The King Must Die | |
| Fri Jun 29 | Kangaroo Rex: Janet Kagan's Mirabile | |
| July, 2012 |
| Tue Jul 3 | Winter is Almost Upon Us: George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons | |
| Wed Jul 11 | More Than Alien: Larry Niven's Protector | |
| Wed Jul 18 | Have We Lost The Future? | |
| Thu Jun 19 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 12: Tinker, Tanner | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Jul 24 | Myths of the Spaceways: Poul Anderson's World Without Stars | |
| Thu Jul 26 | Messages From Beyond Death: Connie Willis's Passage | |
| Tue Jul 31 | Wow! Wait, What? Wow!: Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End | |
| August, 2012 |
| Thu Aug 2 | The Glorious, Terrible, Strange USSR: Francis Spufford's Red Plenty | |
| Fri Aug 10 | Homely, Solid, Magical: Nina Kiriki Hoffman's Permeable Borders | |
| Tue Aug 14 | Industrial Revolution Magic: Barbara Hambly's Darkmage Books | |
| Wed Aug 15 | Anthropological SF: Eleanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People | |
| Thu Aug 23 | Some Thoughts on Anthropological Science Fiction as a Sub-Genre | |
| Wed Aug 29 | Romans and Aliens: R. M. Meluch's Tour of the Merrimack books | |
| Thu Aug 30 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 13: The Way He Knew His Own Hands | Rothfuss Reread |
| September, 2012 |
| Wed Sep 5 | The Book You Don't Know You're Looking For | |
| Thu Sep 20 | Where are We Going and Why? Alison Sinclair's Cavalcade | |
| Fri Sep 21 | Death, Gods, and Repartee: Roz Kaveney's Rituals | |
| Thu Sep 27 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 14: This Far West | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri Sep 28 | A Blank Slate in a Complex Fantasy Landscape: C.J. Cherryh's Fortress in the Eye of Time | |
| October, 2012 |
| Fri Oct 5 | Oops, Wrong Spacedrive! Poul Anderson's The Long Way Home | |
| Fri Oct 12 | Magic and Negotiation: C.J. Cherryh's Fortress Sequels | |
| Thu Oct 18 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 15: Stick by the Maer | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Oct 28 | Something Else Like... Introduction | Something Else Like... |
| Sun Oct 28 | Something Else Like... Heinlein | Something Else Like... |
| Tue Oct 30 | Baked Goods and Curses: Nina Kiriki Hoffman's A Fistful of Sky | |
| November, 2012 |
| Sun Nov 4 | Something Else Like... Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga | Something Else Like... |
| Sun Nov 11 | Something Else Like... Roger Zelazny | Something Else Like... |
| Thu Nov 29 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 16: You May Have Heard of Me | Rothfuss Reread |
| December, 2012 |
| Tue Dec 4 | The Ivan Book: Lois McMaster Bujold's Captain Vorpatril's Alliance | |
| Thu Dec 6 | The One With The Magic Teapot and the Seasons: Victoria Walker's Winter of Enchantment | |
| Fri Dec 7 | Those Two Imposters: How Aral and Miles Vorkosigan Deal With Triumph and Disaster | |
| Mon Dec 10 | Sleeping Beauty: Robin McKinley's Spindle's End | |
| Fri Dec 14 | Not Saving the World? How Does That Even Work? | |
| Mon Dec 17 | eDiscover... Agyar by Steven Brust | |
| Fri Dec 21 | The Last Gigot in England: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford | |
| January, 2013 |
| Wed Jan 9 | Boy Visits Space Station: Arthur C. Clarke's Islands In The Sky | |
| Thu Jan 10 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 17: A Break in the Line | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Jan 15 | Is There a Right Age to Read a Book? | |
| Thu Jan 17 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 18: A Good Cloak | Rothfuss Reread |
| February, 2013 |
| Wed Feb 13 | Magical Goldsmithing: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Spirit Ring | |
| Thu Feb 14 | Rothfuss Re-read: Speculative Summary 19: Each Woman Is Like An Instrument | Rothfuss Reread |
| Tue Feb 19 | How Can This Be So Gripping? Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time | |
| Thu Feb 21 | What's Reading For? | |
| March, 2013 |
| Fri Mar 8 | What's Reading For Part 2: Books Do Furnish a Mind | |
| Mon Mar 11 | Mermaid Science Fiction: Kit Whitfield's In Great Waters | |
| Mon Mar 25 | A Lifetime Burning In Every Moment: Rumer Godden's A Fugue In Time | |
| April, 2013 |
| Mon Apr 1 | ON THIS DAY: There's Not Been Enough of Samuel R. Delany | |
| Thu Apr 4 | The Net Before the Net: John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider | |
| Fri Apr 5 | Fantasy, Reading, and Escapism | |
| Fri Apr 12 | Australian Fantasy: Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness | |
| May, 2013 |
| Thu May 23 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 20: Watching his Master | Rothfuss Reread |
| Fri May 24 | Three Short Stories With Stranded Time Travellers | |
| June, 2013 |
| Fri Jun 7 | Superheroes and Life Going On: Susan Palwick's Mending the Moon | |
| Thu Jun 20 | Eight Books From the Last Decade That Made Me Excited About SF | |
| Fri Jun 28 | Eight Books From the Last Decade that Made Me Excited About Fantasy | |
| September, 2013 |
| Mon Sep 2 | On learning of the death of Frederik Pohl | |
| December, 2013 |
| Fri Dec 27 | Is There a Right Age to Read a Book? | |
| Sun Dec 29 | Have We Lost The Future? | |
| January, 2014 |
| Wed Jan 1 | The Book You Don't Know You're Looking For | What Makes This Book So Great |
| Thu Jan 16 | Rothfuss Reread: Making a Mask for Patrick Rothfuss | Rothfuss Reread |
| Mon Jan 20 | A great castle made of sea: Why hasn't Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell been more influential? | What Makes This Book So Great |
| Tue Jan 21 | Waking the Dragon: George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire | What Makes This Book So Great |
| Wed Jan 22 | Knights Who Say “Fuck”: Swearing in Genre Fiction | What Makes This Book So Great |
| Thu Jan 23 | Like pop rocks for the brain: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | What Makes This Book So Great |
| Fri Jan 24 | So, What Sort of Series Do You Like? | What Makes This Book So Great |
| February, 2014 |
| Thu Feb 13 | Rothfuss Reread: Speculative Summary 21: The Thing in the Lackless Box | Rothfuss Reread |
| March, 2014 |
| Thu Mar 6 | A Library In Your Pocket: How Having an E-reader Has Changed My Reading Habits | |
| April, 2014 |
| Tue Apr 1 | There's Not Been Enough of Samuel R. Delany | |
| Thu Apr 3 | Rothfuss Reread: Making a Mask for Patrick Rothfuss, Part 2 | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sun Apr 6 | Hades and Persephone (Poem) | Poetry |
| Wed Apr 9 | My Real Children (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| May, 2014 |
| Thu May 1 | Rothfuss Reread: What Can We Learn From the Name of the Wind Playing Cards? (Part 1) | Rothfuss Reread |
| Thu May 8 | Rothfuss Reread: What Can We Learn From The Name of the Wind Playing Cards? (Part 2) | Rothfuss Reread |
| Wed May 14 | “The Litany of Earth” and a New Generation Doing Wonderful Things | |
| Thu May 15 | Rothfuss Reread: What Can We Learn From The Name of the Wind Playing Cards? (Part 3) | Rothfuss Reread |
| Sat May 17 | Mary Stewart, 1916-2014: An Appreciation | |
| June, 2014 |
| Thu Jun 5 | A Day in the Life of Bast: Patrick Rothfuss's “The Lightning Tree” | |
| August, 2014 |
| Tue Aug 12 | Sleeper (Original Story) | Fiction |
| September, 2014 |
| Thu Sep 18 | Love as Contest in the Work of Mary Renault | |
| Thu Sep 25 | After Paris: Meta, Irony, Narrative, Frames, and The Princess Bride | |
| Fri Sep 26 | Awesome Aliens: Jim Cambias's A Darkling Sea | |
| December, 2014 |
| Mon Dec 15 | The Just City (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| Mon Dec 29 | A Library In Your Pocket: How Having an E-reader Has Changed My Reading Habits | |
| January, 2015 |
| Mon Jan 19 | Eight Books From the Last Decade that Made Me Excited About SF | |
| Mon Jan 19 | Eight Books From the Last Decade that Made Me Excited About Fantasy | |
| March, 2015 |
| Thu Mar 12 | Sir Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, a Reminiscence | |
| Thu Mar 19 | Rothfuss Reread: The Slow Regard of Silent Things Part 1: A Seemly Place | Rothfuss Reread |
| April, 2015 |
| Wed Apr 1 | There's Not Been Enough of Samuel R. Delany | On This Day |
| Wed Apr 1 | Shakespeare's King: Some Thoughts on Henry V, Part 2 | Shakespeare On Tor.Com |
| Mon Apr 20 | Alike in Dignity: Feuding Houses in Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare On Tor.Com |
| June, 2015 |
| Thu Jun 4 | The Philosopher Kings (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| December, 2015 |
| Thu Dec 24 | Meta, Irony, Narrative, Frames, and The Princess Bride | |
| May, 2016 |
| Tue May 10 | A Future Worth Having: Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning | |
| June, 2016 |
| Mon Jun 6 | Necessity (Excerpt) | Excerpts |
| August, 2016 |
| Mon Aug 15 | Thessaly: The Original Inspiration | |
| Mon Aug 22 | Thessaly: The Platonic Inspiration | |
| Mon Aug 29 | Thessaly: The Baroque Inspiration | |
| Tue Aug 30 | Next Year's Words: Science Fiction, Innovation, and Continuity | |
| November, 2016 |
| Mon Nov 7 | Near Future and Far Future: Robert Charles Wilson's Spin | |
| December, 2016 |
| Fri Dec 30 | The Tremendous Continuity of Science Fiction in Conversation With Itself | |
| March, 2017 |
| Wed Mar 8 | The Jump Rope Rhyme | Nevertheless She Persisted |
| April, 2017 |
| Wed Apr 19 | A Burden Shared | Fiction |
| May, 2017 |
| Tue May 23 | Why is Genre Fiction Obsessed with Belisarius? | |
| Thu May 11 | Complicated Simplicity: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep | |
| September, 2017 |
| Thu Sep 7 | A Moment in a Life: Ursula K. Le Guin's “The Day Before the Revolution” | |
| Tue Sep 19 | The Merry World of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit | |
| October, 2017 |
| Thu Oct 12 | Revisiting the Recently Rediscovered 1956 Hugo Awards Ballot | |
| Mon Oct 16 | The Power of Princesses: Robin McKinley's The Door in the Hedge | |
| Thu Oct 19 | Pastoral Apocalypse: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow | |
| December, 2017 |
| Fri Dec 1 | Shared History: Revisiting Long Book Series | |
| January, 2018 |
| Wed Jan 24 | Bright the Hawk's Flight on the Empty Sky: Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| Tue Jan 30 | Sleeper | Fiction |
| March, 2018 |
| Wed Mar 21 | A Future Worth Having: Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning | |
| April, 2019 |
| Wed Apr 10 | Jo Walton's Reading List: March 2019 | Reading List |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol I (1876) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature (2014) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Francesco Petrarch's Letters of Familiar Matters I-VIII | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth (1980) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia (1938) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Sarah LeFanu's Rose Macaulay: A Biography (2003) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour (2017) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Marilyn Simon Rothstein's Husbands and Other Sharp Objects (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want To Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age (2014) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Shepherdess of Sheep (1934) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Abigail Brundin's The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Saki's Reginald in Russia and Other Stories (1910) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's The Case For Books: Past, Present, and Future (2009) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Maria Dahvana Headley's The Mere Wife (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's Trustee From the Toolroom (1960) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Ursula K. Le Guin's Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Conversation and Other Conversations (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Pamela Brown's The Swish of the Curtain (1941) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Ella Carey's Paris Time Capsule (2014) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Rimrunners (1989) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Robert Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths (2001) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: unknown's The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Analects, Chuang Tzu, Mencius (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Cyril Hare's With a Bare Bodkin (1946) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Rebecca West's A Train of Powder (1946) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: James Herriott's Three James Herriott Classics: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful (1980) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's What Happened to the Corbetts (1939) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Allan Kaster's The Year's Top Short SF Novels 6 (2016) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 10 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's The Golden Egg (2013) | RLE |
| Tue Apr 16 | Lent: Chapter 1 | Excerpts |
| May, 2019 |
| Mon May 6 | Jo Walton's Reading List: April 2019 | Reading List |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Lady Diana Cooper's Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich 1939-1952 (2013) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Brenda Margriet's Allegro Court (2019) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Augusta Macgregor Holmes's A Ride to Florence Through France and Switzerland, described in a series of letters by a Lady (1839) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Kenneth Bartlett's Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola 1464-1498: A Short History With Documents (2019) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: George R.R. Martin's Dreamsongs Vol II (2003) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's Nuttie's Father (1885) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Melissa Scott's The Kindly Ones (1987) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Anthony Price's Other Paths to Glory (1971) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Ruth Reichl's Delicious! (2014) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Luke (1939) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Matthew Stewart's The Courtier and the Heretic (2005) | RLE |
| Mon May 6 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's By Its Cover (2014) | RLE |
| Wed May 15 | How Tea, History, and a Simulated Papal Election Inspired Lent | Writing |
| June, 2019 |
| Wed Jun 5 | Jo Walton's Reading List: May 2019 | Reading List |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Julian Fellowes's Past Imperfect (2008) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Saki's The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Douglas Adams's Last Chance to See (1990) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Don Cameron Allen's Doubt's Boundless Sea (1964) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Thomas Bridges's A Burlesque Translation of Homer (1762) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Henry Gee's Siege of Stars (2012) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Alex Nevala-Lee's Astounding (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Elsinore Books's The Best of Poetry: A Young Person's Guide to Evergreen Verse (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Pamela Brown's Maddy Alone (1945) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: John Varley's The Persistence of Vision (1977) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters (1942) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Kelly Robson's Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Myra Carroll (1943) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Gillian Bradshaw's The Sand-Reckoner (2000) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's All We Ever Wanted (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Epictetus's The Golden Sayings ( 135) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Olivier Bernier's Lafayette (1983) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Scott H. Andrews's Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 261 and 262 (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Apuleius's The Golden Ass (158) [translated by Robert Graves] | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Moray Dalton's The Strange Case of Harriet Hall (1936) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Elinor Wylie's Nets to Catch the Wind (1921) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Donald E. Westlake's What's the Worst That Could Happen? (1996) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows (1956) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1914) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Ursula K. Le Guin and David Naimon's Conversations on Writing (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1984) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: Claire Eliza Bartlett's We Rule the Night (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Jun 5 | RL Entry: DaVaun Sanders's FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Year Two (2018) | RLE |
| July, 2019 |
| Wed Jul 5 | Jo Walton's Reading List: June 2019 | Reading List |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Falling in Love (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Stephen Fry's Moab is My Washpot (1997) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Judith (1956) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Iris Origo's War in Vall d'Orcia (1947) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: K.J. Charles's Proper English (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Moray Dalton's One By One They Disappeared (1928) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Poul Anderson's Brain Wave (1954) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Stephen Fry's More Fool Me (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: M.C. Beaton's Lady Fortescue Steps Out (1992) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Elizabeth von Arnim's All the Dogs of My Life (1936) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Carol Richards's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Edwin Arlington Robinson's A Man Against The Sky (1916) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Brian Jeffrey Maxon's The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Rebecca West's This Real Night (1984) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Alan Charles Kors's Epicureans and Atheists in France 1650-1729 (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas's Best of Uncanny (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Adriana Locke's Sway (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: William Alexander's Ambassador (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Hugo Packet's Strange Horizons (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian (1940) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Lord Dufferin's Letters From High Latitudes (1856) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: James Blish's The Seedling Stars (1956) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Lisa Goldstein's Ivory Apples (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol II (1890) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonsong (1976) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Pamela Brown's Golden Pavements (1947) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: P.G. Wodehouse's The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories (1917) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Hugo Packet)'s Shimmer Magazine, Issue 46 | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Robert Heinlein's The Door Into Summer (1957) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Ben Goldfarb's Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 5 | RL Entry: Mary S. Lovell's The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society (2016) | RLE |
| August, 2019 |
| Fri Aug 2 | Jo Walton's Reading List: July 2019 | Reading List |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: William Alexander's Nomad (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Tacitus's The Histories ( 110) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's The Waters of Eternal Youth (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's The Rainbow and the Rose (1958) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Ann Aguirre's Like Never and Always (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Rabindranath Tagore's Stories From Tagore (1918) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Ciro Camilli's The Secret Ingredient (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Pamela Brown's Blue Door Venture (1949) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: John McCormick's Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Francis Bacon's Harvard Classics: Essays of Francis Bacon (1909) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Rosamund Pilcher's September (1990) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 2 | RL Entry: Peter S. Beagle's The New Voices in Fantasy (2017) (edited by) | RLE |
| September, 2019 |
| Wed Sep 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: August 2019 | Reading List |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Ursula Orange's Begin Again (1936) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: William L. Shirer's Twentieth Century Journey (1986) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This Is How You Lose the Time War (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Ursula K. Le Guin's So Far So Good (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Francis Bacon's Harvard Classics: The New Atlantis (1909) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (1943) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: Pamela Brown's Maddy Again (1956) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 4 | RL Entry: William Alexander's Goblin Secrets (2012) | RLE |
| October, 2019 |
| Fri Oct 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: September 2019 | Reading List |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Saki's The Toys of Peace and Other Papers (1919) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Walter Pater's The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1873) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Ninon de l'Enclos's Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de l'Enclos (1700) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them (1948) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Charles Nicoll's The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Michael Gilbert's Death in Captivity (1952) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Robert Graves's The Pier Glass (1921) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Rainbow Rowell's Carry On (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Rainbow Rowell's Wayward Son (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Leah Bobet's An Inheritance of Ashes (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: John Milton's Harvard Classics: Areopagitica and On Education (1909) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's Mrs Tim Carries On (1941) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: William Alexander's Ghoulish Song (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Molly Gloss's Unforeseen: Stories (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 4 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's Modern Broods (1901) | RLE |
| November, 2019 |
| Mon Nov 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: October 2019 | Reading List |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Moray Dalton's Death in the Cup (1932) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Orphans of Raspay (2019) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War (2003) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning (2016) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders (2017) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's The Will to Battle (2017) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Catherine Bybee's Wife By Wednesday (2011) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Cassiodorus's The Letters of Cassiodorus ( 560) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Eliot's Alice (1950) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Rumer Godden's The Greengage Summer (1958) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Martin H) Greenberg's Stories of the Apocalypse (2010) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Adrian Johns's The Nature of the Book (1998) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Earthly Remains (2017) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Dorothy L. Sayers's The Wimsey Papers (1940) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Richard M. Wunderli's Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen (1992) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars (2021) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars (2021) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's The Rescuers (1959) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Theodora Goss's The Thorn and the Blossom (2012) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Rosamunde Pilcher's The Day of the Storm (1975) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Caroline Stevermer's Magic Below Stairs (2010) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Alice Munro's Away From Her (1999) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's Ruined City (1938) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Saki's The Unbearable Bassington (1913) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Joanna Trollope's Sense & Sensibility (2013) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Candas Jane Dorsey's Ice and Other Stories (2018) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Alexis Shotwell's Against Purity, Living Ethically In Compromised Times (2018) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 4 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's A Train in Winter (2011) | RLE |
| December, 2019 |
| Fri Dec 6 | Jo Walton's Reading List: November 2019 | Reading List |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Carolyn Ives Gilman,'s Halfway Human (1998) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Ingrid Rowland's The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's It Pays To Be Good (1936) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Kathleen Thompson Norris's Wife For Sale (1933) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Mary Robinette Kowal's The Fated Sky (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Raoul McLaughlin's The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy and the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia, and India (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Augusta Macgregor Holmes's A Ride on Horseback Through France to Florence Vol II (1842) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Rudolph Amsel and Teresa Keyne's The Best of Poetry: Thoughts That Breathe and Words That Burn (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Ann Aguirre's I Want It That Way (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Snow White, Blood Red (1993) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: George Horace Lorimer's Letters From a Self-Made Merchant To His Son (1902) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on Catnet (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Mark Salber Phillips's On Historical Distance (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Michael Gilbert's Smallbone Deceased (1950) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Jacqueline Murray's Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Martha Wells's All Systems Red (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Elizabeth E. Wein's A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in WWII (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's The Temptation of Forgiveness (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher's Alliance Rising (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 6 | RL Entry: Sarah Caudwell's Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981) | RLE |
| January, 2020 |
| Fri Jan 3 | Jo Walton's Reading List: December 2019 | Reading List |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Mimi Matthews's The Work of Art (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Lord Dunsany's While the Sirens Slept (1944) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Peter Fleming's One's Company (1934) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Cyril Hare's Death Walks the Woods (1954) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Gary D. Schmidt's What Came From the Stars (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Mike Ashley's The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Arthur Hugh Clough's Selected Poems (1859) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Susan Palwick's The Necessary Beggar (2005) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Kate Harris's Land of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Merchanters Luck (1982) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Sofka Zinovieff's The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Michael Gilbert's Death Has Deep Roots (1951) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's Italian Days and Ways (1905) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Stendhal's The Red and the Black (1830) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's Scenes and Characters (1847) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Simon Jimenez's The Vanished Birds (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Joanna Trollope's Friday Nights (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Vera Tobin's Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Ken Liu's Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction (2019) (edited, trans by) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's Mrs Tim Gets a Job (1947) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 3 | RL Entry: Tacitus's The Annals of Imperial Rome (117) | RLE |
| February, 2020 |
| Wed Feb 5, 20 | Jo Walton's Reading List: January 2020 | Reading List |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Claud Cockburn's A Discord of Trumpets (1956) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Poul Anderson's Tau Zero (1970) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2019) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Gretchen McCulloch's Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Resurgence (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Unto Us a Son is Given (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning (2016) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders (2017) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's The Will to Battle (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars (2021) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven (1971) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Duff Cooper's Talleyrand (1932) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin (2007) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Donald E. Westlake's Money For Nothing (2003) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Rachel Winters's Would Like to Meet (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Mothering Sunday (1950) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: James R. Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great (2005) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories (1968) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Nisi Shawl's Talk Like a Man (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Brian P. Copenhaver's Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (1945) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Salvatore Settis's If Venice Dies (2014) | RLE |
| Wed Feb 5 | RL Entry: Muriel Barbery's Gourmet Rhapsody (2000) | RLE |
| March, 2020 |
| Wed Mar 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: February 2020 | Reading List |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Mary McGrigor's Sister Queens: Isabella and Catherine de Valois (2016) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Don Kulik's Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Gardner Dozois's The New Space Opera (2007) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Eric W. Cochrane's Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800, a History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes (1973) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Dorothy Osborne's The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne 1652-54 (1888) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: E.L. Doctorow's World's Fair (1985) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate (1949) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Eleonory Gilburd's To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (2007) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's Where We Belong (2012) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Daisy Dunn's Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (2005) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: China Mieville's The City and the City (2009) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Amy Binns's Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Gardner Dozois's The Book of Swords (2017) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Stephen Rutt's Wintering: A Season With Geese (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's Small Changes (1972) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Suzanne Marrs's Meanwhile There Are Letters (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Suzanne Palmer's Finder (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Lawrence Rothfield's The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Mary Stewart's Thornyhold (1988) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: J.R.R. Tolkien's Beren and Luthien (2017) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's The Longings of Women (1994) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (1965) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 4 | RL Entry: Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen's The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 20 | Books in Which No Bad Things Happen | |
| April, 2020 |
| Fri Apr 3 | Jo Walton's Reading List: March 2020 | Reading List |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: H. Beam Piper's Space Viking (1965) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's A Bold and Dangerous Family (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: James Gairdner's The Paston Letters 1422-1509 (1983) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's A Betrayal in Winter (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War (2008) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring (2009) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Kathleen Thompson Norris's Mink Coat (1943) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Ira Levin's A Kiss Before Dying (1953) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Hilary Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey's Cheaper By the Dozen (1948) | RLE |
| Fri Apr 3 | RL Entry: Alan Charles Kors's Naturalism and Unbelief in France 1650-1729 (2016) | RLE |
| Tue Apr 21 | Books That Grab You | Writing |
| May, 2020 |
| Thu May 7 | Jo Walton's Reading List: April 2020 | Reading List |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Anthony Price's War Game (1976) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 (2012) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Inglath Cooper's That Month in Tuscany (2014) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Frank Gilbreth's Belles on Their Toes (1950) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow (1956) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Sue Roberts's You, Me, and Italy (2019) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's Requiem for a Wren (1955) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: T.A. Williams's Dreaming of Verona (2020) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois's Warriors (2010) (edited by) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Laura Case Collins's By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel (1890) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea (2001) | RLE |
| Thu May 7 | RL Entry: Leonard Wibberley's The Mouse That Roared (1955) | RLE |
| Thu May 21 | Dragons of the Prime: Jo Walton on Writing Tooth and Claw | Writing |
| June, 2020 |
| Fri Jun 5 | Jo Walton's Reading List: May 2020 | Reading List |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Susan Howatch's Glittering Images (1987) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Gail Godwin's Old Lovegood Girls (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover (1981) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Trace Elements (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: O. Douglas's Penny Plain (1920) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: T.A. Williams's Dreaming of Florence (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Jill Paton Walsh's Fireweed (1969) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Tilly Tennant's Rome Is Where the Heart Is (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 5 | RL Entry: Laurie J. Marks's Fire Logic (2002) | RLE |
| July, 2020 |
| Thu Jul 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: June 2020 | Reading List |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Tilly Tennant's Rome Is Where the Heart Is (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Joanna Trollope's Mum & Dad (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Sarah Skilton's Fame Adjacent (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Tanith Lee's Metallic Love (2005) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Laurie J. Marks's Earth Logic (2004) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Laurie J. Marks's Water Logic (2007) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Laurie J. Marks's Air Logic (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Jo Graham's Black Ships (2008) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Miles Pattenden's Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 (2018) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Kathleen Thompson Norris's Bread Into Roses (1936) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Victor Canning's Mr. Finchley Discovers His England (1934) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Lucy Coleman's Summer on the Italian Lakes (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (2019) (edited by) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 9 | RL Entry: Ann Aguirre's Heartwood Box (2019) | RLE |
| August, 2020 |
| Fri Aug 7 | Jo Walton's Reading List: July 2020 | Reading List |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Caroline Eden's Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Elinor Lipman's The Family Man (2009) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Aster Glenn Gray's Ashlin & Olivia (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Victor Canning's Mr Finchley Goes to Paris (1938) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Romy Sommer's Last of the Summer Vines (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Colours In the Steel (1998) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Allison Levy's House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Of Cats and Elfins (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's The Lies That Bind (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Cadwell Turnbull's The Lesson (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Georgette Heyer's False Colours (1963) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Olivia Spring's The Middle-Aged Virgin (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Shion Miura's The Great Passage (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: David P. Wagner's Cold Tuscan Stone (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman (1926) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Grass in Piccadilly (1952) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Mary Oliver's Dream Work (1986) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's Under Italian Skies (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 7 | RL Entry: Will Slauter's Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright (2019) | RLE |
| September, 2020 |
| Fri Sep 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: August 2020 | Reading List |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's Summer at the Villa Rosa (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Laura Taylor Namey's The Library of Lost Things (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's The Villa Girls (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: John Joseph Adams's Other Worlds Than These (2012) (edited by) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's The Italian Wedding (2008) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions (1955) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Gillian Bradshaw's The Beacon at Alexandria (1986) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's Recipe For Life (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: C. Julius Caesar's The Gallic Wars (50 BC) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's One Summer in Venice (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Belly of the Bow (1999) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (1955) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's A Year at Hotel Gondola (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: A.S. Byatt's Possession (1990) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 4 | RL Entry: Sarah Caudwell's The Shortest Way to Hades (1984) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | Seven Books I Love From Seven "A" Authors | Reading List |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War (2008) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Joan Aiken's A Small Pinch of Weather (1969) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Poul Anderson's Guardians of Time (1955) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride (1993) | RLE |
| Wed Sep 9 | RL Entry: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818) | RLE |
| October, 2020 |
| Thu Oct 8 | Jo Walton's Reading List: September 2020 | Reading List |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's How to Rule an Empire and Get Away With It (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: The Detection Club's The Floating Admiral (1931) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's First Comes Love (2016) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's The Food of Love Cookery School (2013) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Mollie Panter-Downes's My Husband Simon (1931) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April (1922) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: K Chess's Famous Men Who Never Lived (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Jared Davidson's Dead Letters: Censorship and Subversion in New Zealand 1914-1920 (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's Tiny Pieces of Us (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Kate Elliott's Court of Fives (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Ella Cheever Thayer's Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes (1879) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Stacy Schiff's A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) | RLE |
| Thu Oct 8 | RL Entry: Dahvana Headley's Beowulf (c1000, trans. 2020) (translated by) | RLE |
| November, 2020 |
| Mon Nov 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: October 2020 | Reading List |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's A Dream of Italy (2020) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Diana Athill's A Florence Diary (2016) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories (2019) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Charlotte von Pfalz's The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, and Marie-Adelaide of Savoy (18th C) (edited by) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Kate Elliott's Poisoned Blade (2016) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Alfred Duggan's Three's Company (1958) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's The Pillars of the House (1873) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jaclyn Moriarty's Feeling Sorry For Celia (2000) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Courtney Milan's The Duke Who Didn't (2020) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Molly Gloss's The Dazzle of Day (1997) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Gelato (2016) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Robert Launay's Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking About Others from Montaigne to Herder (2019) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's When in Rome (2012) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Divergence (2020) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Georgie Capron's One Summer in Positano/It Was Always You (2017) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Nicholas Jubber's Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe (2019) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Emily Henry's Beach Read (2020) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Michael Tucker's Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy (2007) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jonathan D. Spence's The Question of Hu (2011) | RLE |
| Mon Nov 9 | RL Entry: Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) | RLE |
| December, 2020 |
| Thu Dec 10 | Jo Walton's Reading List: November 2020 | Reading List |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Andrew Cotto's Cucina Tipica (2018) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Iris Origo's The Merchant of Prato (1957) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Helen Wright's A Matter of Oaths (1987) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Ruth Rendell's Piranha to Scurfy (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Jules Wake's From Italy With Love (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: E. Lily Yu's On Fragile Waves (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion (2001) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: L.M. Elliott's Da Vinci's Tiger (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's The Pride of Chanur (1981) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Jo Thomas's The Olive Branch (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Chanur's Venture (1984) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Sarah Morgan's One Summer in Paris (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: George R.R. Martin's Dangerous Women (2013) (edited by) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's Delicious (2005) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Carola Oman's Nothing to Report (1940) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Jacklyn Moriarty's Gravity Is the Thing (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's The Kif Strike Back (1985) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Valmiki's Ramayana (translation by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith published 1870) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Katherine Reid's Sunrise in Florence (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Dec 10 | RL Entry: Eleanor Farjeon's The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket (1931) | RLE |
| January, 2021 |
| Fri Jan 8 | Jo Walton's Reading List: December 2020 | Reading List |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Alice Degan's From All False Doctrine (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Jules Wake's From Rome With Love (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: C.J. Cherryh's Chanur's Homecoming (1986) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Helen Hoang's The Kiss Quotient (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's Masquerade in Lodi (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's My Venice and Other Essays (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: William Shakespeare's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Rosanna Ley's From Venice With Love (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Ryan North's How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Walter Jon Williams's Fleet Elements (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Evelyn Waugh's The Complete Stories (1953) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Angela Scipioni's Gently, Jolene (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Emily Guendelsberger's On The Clock (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 8 | RL Entry: Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood (2019) | RLE |
| February, 2021 |
| Thu Feb 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: January 2021 | Reading List |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Alexis Hall's Boyfriend Material (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's Rhododendron Pie (1930) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Miya Kuzuki's Ascendance of a Bookworm (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Helen Hoang's The Bride Test (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Robyn Arianrhod's Seduced By Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Carola Oman's Somewhere in England (1943) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Tim Parks's Italian Neighbours (1985) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Algis Budrys's Outposts (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Jules Wake's From Paris With Love This Christmas (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Nathan Lowell's Quarter Share (2007) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Jackie Lau's A Match Made for Thanksgiving (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Can You Keep a Secret? (2003) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: George Orwell's Diaries (2009) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Alex Brown's A Postcard From Italy (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's The Measure of Malice (2020) (edited by) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Marko Kloos's Aftershocks (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Hisham Matar's A Month in Siena (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: C.S. Lewis's Letters of C.S. Lewis (1966) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Paula McLain's The Paris Wife (2011) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering (2018) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Pamela Dean's Tam Lin (1991) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Leo Damrosch's The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Mary Oliver's Devotions: The Selected Poetry of Mary Oliver (2019) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni (2013) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel (1927) | RLE |
| Thu Feb 4 | RL Entry: Lori Nelson Spielman's The Star Crossed Sisters of Tuscany (2018) | RLE |
| March, 2021 |
| Fri Mar 5 | Jo Walton's Reading List: February 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's Fanfare for Tin Trumpets (1932) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell's The Element of Lavishness (2000) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Love Your Life (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Marko Kloos's Ballistic (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Nathan Lowell's Half Share (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Mary Renault's The King Must Die (1958) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World (1986) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Roberta Pianaro's Brunetti's Cookbook (2009) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Wein's The Enigma Game (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Ann Leckie's Provenance (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Devil You Know (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home (1985) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Music at Long Verney (2001) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: John Julius Norwich's Four Princes (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's On The Way Out, Turn Out The Light: Poems (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Mar 5 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's The Jewels of Paradise (2012) | RLE |
| April, 2021 |
| Thu Apr 7 | Jo Walton's Reading List: March 2021 | Reading List |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Paula McLain's Love and Ruin (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Academic Exercises (2014) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Donald Sturrock's Love From Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother (2016) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Sarra Manning's Pretty Things (2005) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Madeleine L'Engle's A Circle of Quiet (1972) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Confessions of a Shopaholic (2000) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Nathan Lowell's Full Share (2008) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Leonard Cohen's The Flame (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Gary D. Schmidt's Just Like That (2021) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Jules Wake's The Spark (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Marc Levy's P.S. From Paris (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Francesca Wade's Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Nancy Kress's The Eleventh Gate (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Sue Moorcroft's One Summer in Italy (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Rainbow Rowell's Carry On (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Transient Desires (2021) | RLE |
| Wed Apr 7 | RL Entry: Robert Clark's Dark Water (2008) | RLE |
| June, 2021 |
| Fri Jun 11 | Jo Walton's Reading List: April and May 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy and Ira Wood's Storm Tide (1998) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's Four Gardens (1935) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Claire Harman's Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography (1989) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's The Undomestic Goddess (2005) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Kate Elliott's Cold Magic (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Marlena di Blasi's A Thousand Days in Venice (2002) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Jennifer Bohnet's You Had Me at Bonjour (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: C.L. Polk's Witchmark (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Bernard Ollivier's Out of Istanbul (2000) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's The Stone of Chastity (1940) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Madeleine L'Engle's The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's I Owe You One (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song (1979) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sarra Manning's Rescue Me (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Ken Liu's The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: C.L. Polk's Stormsong (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Naomi Kritzer's Chaos on Catnet (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Shaun Bythell's Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Innocent and the Guilty (1971) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Marlena di Blasi's A Thousand Days in Tuscany (2004) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Romilly Cavan's Beneath the Visiting Moon (1940) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: James Hankins's Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Bernard Ollivier's Walking to Samarkand (2001) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's The True Heart (1929) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Sharps (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Sue Moorcroft's Under the Italian Sun (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Robert Darnton's Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's Life's a Beach (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's The Assassins of Thasalon (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Shae Spreafico's The Vanishing (2017) (edited by) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Nancy Kress's The Best of Nancy Kress (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 11 | RL Entry: Susanna Clarke's Piranesi (2020) | RLE |
| July, 2021 |
| Fri Jul 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: June 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Margery Sharp's Harlequin House (1944) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Aliya Whiteley's Skyward Inn (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Marlena de Blasi's The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Marko Kloos's Orders of Battle (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Surprise Me (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning (1949) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: C.L. Polk's Soulstar (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Virginia Cox's The Subtlest Soul (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Bernard Ollivier's Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Silk Road from Central Asia to China (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Kathleen Thompson Norris's Butterfly (1923) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Edwin Arlington Robinson's The Three Taverns (1920) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's One Way or Another (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy From Fascism (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Sylvia Townsend Warner's One Thing Leading To Another (1985) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Suzanne Allain's Mr. Malcolm's List (2009) | RLE |
| Fri Jul 9 | RL Entry: Emilie du Chatelet's The Art of Happiness (1779) | RLE |
| August, 2021 |
| Mon Aug 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: July 2021 | Reading List |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Sue Burke's Semiosis (2018) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Rainbow Rowell's Any Way the Wind Blows (2021) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Jonathan Lethem's More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (2017) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Nicola Griffith's Spear (2022) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Snorri Sturluson's Olaf's Saga (Edited by John Sephton) (1225) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Douglas Anderson's Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Stephen A. Epstein's Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (2001) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Marlena de Blasi's That Summer in Sicily (2008) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: John Barnes's A Million Open Doors (1992) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Catherine Hewitt's The Mistress of Paris: The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret (2015) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's Dynevor Terrace (1857) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Twenties Girl (2008) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: Ginny Baird's The Duplicate Bride (2020) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Devices and Desires (2005) | RLE |
| Mon Aug 9 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Evil For Evil (2006) | RLE |
| September, 2021 |
| Fri Sep 10 | Jo Walton's Reading List: August 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's Colors Passing Through Us (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Escapement (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Donald E. Westlake's Baby, Would I Lie? (1994) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Rosamunde Pilcher's A Place Like Home (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Marko Kloos's Citadel (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Kathleen Thompson Norris's Barberry Bush (1929) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Patience Agbabi's The Infinite (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's The One & Only (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Rebecca West's The Young Rebecca: Writings 1911-1917 (1992) | RLE |
| Fri Sep 10 | RL Entry: Ryan North's How to Take Over the World (2022) | RLE |
| October, 2021 |
| Fri Oct 8 | Jo Walton's Reading List: September 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: M. Tullius Cicero's Letters to Atticus (c.43 BC) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Helen Hoang's The Heart Principle (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: T.J. Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Amit Majmudar's What He Did in Solitary (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Rudolph M. Bell's Street Life in Renaissance Rome (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Hirohiko Araki's Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Theophrastus's The Characters (c.280 BC) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Sandra Benjamin's Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's The Will to Battle (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Oct 8 | RL Entry: Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars (2021) | RLE |
| November, 2021 |
| Tue Nov 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: October 2021 | Reading List |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: John Fowles's The Magus (1965) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Friday The Rabbi Slept Late (1964) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Phyllis Ann Karr's Frostflower and Windbourne (1982) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jonathan Strahan's The Book of Dragons (2020) (edited by) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Literature (1980) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's I've Got Your Number (2011) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Alice Munro's The View From Castle Rock (2006) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Rozsa Gaston's Anne and Charles: Passion and Politics in Late Medieval France (2018) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Sue Burke's Interference (2019) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Kris Ripper's The Love Study (2020) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Father of Lies (2018) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Flappers and Philosophers (1920) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky (2021) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: C.N. and A.M. Williamson's Set in Silver (1909) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Jonathan Jones's The Lost Battles: Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance (2010) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (2019) | RLE |
| Tue Nov 9 | RL Entry: Lois McMaster Bujold's Knot of Shadows (2021) | RLE |
| December, 2021 |
| Fri Dec 3 | Jo Walton's Reading List: November 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: John Cleese's Creativity (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Mark Dunn's Ibid: A Life (2004) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Remember Me? (2008) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry (1966) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Feather Thief (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Elizabeth von Arnim's Father (1931) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Nisi Shawl's Everfair (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2019) (edited by) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's Going Down Fast (1969) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Folding Knife (2010) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Laura Kay's The Split (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 3 | RL Entry: Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual (2021) | RLE |
| January, 2022 |
| Fri Jan 7 | Jo Walton's Reading List: December 2021 | Reading List |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Lois Keith's Take Up Thy Bed And Walk: Death, Disability, and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls (2001) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Alexis Hall's Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Marlena de Blasi's The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club (2012) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: John Ashdown-Hill's Cecily Neville, Mother of Richard III (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's The Party Crasher (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Ioanna Iordanou's Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence In The Renaissance (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales (1956) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's Honeymoon For One (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Vladimir Nabokov's Lectures on Russian Literature (1981) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Nicky Pellegrino's To Italy, With Love (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Nicola Shulman's A Rage For Rock Gardening (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Peter Pezzelli's Home to Italy (2004) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 7 | RL Entry: Jane Stevenson's The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro (2022) | RLE |
| February, 2022 |
| Fri Feb 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: January 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Nevil Shute's So Disdained (1928) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's My Not So Perfect Life (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Louise Fitzhugh's Sport (1980) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Helen Ericson's Harriet Spies Again (2002) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Robert Silverberg's Time and Time Again: Sixteen Trips in Time (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Brian Stableford's The Florians (1976) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Becky Monson's Just a Name (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Georgette Heyer's Sylvester (1957) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Eileen Alexander's Love in the Blitz (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Miklos Banffy's They Were Counted (1934) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's All the Sad Young Men (1926) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Diccon Bewes's Slow Train to Switzerland (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Charlotte Lucas's Your Perfect Year (2016) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Catherine Mangan's The Italian Escape (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Helene Hanff's Underfoot in Show Business (1962) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Guy P. Raffa's Dante's Bones (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's Black Swan Green (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's Mapping Winter (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Molly Keane's Good Behaviour (1981) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Courtney Milan's The Devil Comes Courting (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Feb 4 | RL Entry: Virginia Cox's Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance (2013) | RLE |
| March, 2022 |
| Wed Mar 4 | Jo Walton's Reading List: February 2022 | Reading List |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: George Alec Effinger's The Bird of Time (1986) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Samantha Tonge's One Summer in Rome (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's Slade House (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Finding Audrey (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Vikram Seth's All You Who Sleep Tonight (2021) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: William Alexander's A Properly Unhaunted Place (2017) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's The River South (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Elizabeth von Arnim's Expiation (1929) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi (1968) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Miranda Dickinson's The Day We Meet Again (2019) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Caroline Moorehead's Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution (2009) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Ken MacLeod's Dissidence (2016) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Ken MacLeod's Insurgence (2016) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Ken MacLeod's Emergence (2017) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999) (edited by) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Charlotte M. Yonge's The Two Sides of the Shield (1885) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Goliarda Sapienza's Meeting in Positano (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's The Crooked Inheritance (2006) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Leslie Brody's Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh (2020) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Marcus Tullius Cicero's On Friendship and On Old Age (44 BC) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Julie Tieu's The Donut Trap (2021) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's The English Air (1940) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2016) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Ben Coates's The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River From Amsterdam to the Alps (2018) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Muriel Barbery's The Life of Elves (2015) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Daniel Abraham's Age of Ash (2022) | RLE |
| Wed Mar 9 | RL Entry: Sarah Title's The Undateable (2017) | RLE |
| April, 2022 |
| Tue Apr 5 | Revisiting Long Book Series | |
| Thu Apr 7 | Jo Walton's Reading List: March 2022 | Reading List |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Nick Webb's Constitution (2015) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (2001) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Karen Aldous's Under a Tuscan Sky (2017) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Duncan Dennis's Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure From Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (2022) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Marian Engel's One Way Street (1974) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Una Silberrad's The Good Comrade (1907) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's Will They, Won't They? (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: George Chityil's 1000+ Greatest Poems Of All Time (2013) (edited by) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (2010) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Verily Anderson's Spam Tomorrow (1956) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Donna Leon's Give Unto Others (2022) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Christopher S. Celenza's Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence (2001) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Peter Dickinson's Death of a Unicorn (1984) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Umberto Eco's Baudolino (2000) | RLE |
| Thu Apr 7 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's Journey (1978) | RLE |
| May, 2022 |
| Fri May 6 | Jo Walton's Reading List: April 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: Laura Jane Williams's Our Stop (2019) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: John Freely's Jem Sultan: The Adventures of Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe (2004) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1684) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's Dangerous Games (1980) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: Lawrence Durrell's Prospero's Cell (1945) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's No Ex Before Marriage (2022) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: Isaac Fellman's The Two Doctors Gorski (2022) | RLE |
| Fri May 6 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's Green Money (1939) | RLE |
| June, 2022 |
| Fri Jun 10 | Jo Walton's Reading List: May 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's Savages (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Jennifer Probst's Our Italian Summer (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Ben Aaronovitch's Midnight Riot (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's The Time of Our Lives (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Una Lucy Silberrad's Desire (1908) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: N.T. Wright's Paul: A Biography (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Samuel R. Delany's Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noel Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Mary Hollingsworth's Princes of the Renaissance (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Zhang Ling's A Single Swallow (2017) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Peter Dickinson's Hindsight (1983) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: William Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) | RLE |
| Fri Jun 10 | RL Entry: Tomihiko Morimi's The Tatami Galaxy (2004, translated 2022 by Alexa Frank) | RLE |
| July, 2022 |
| Thu Jul 14 | Jo Walton's Reading List: June 2022 | Reading List |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman (1989) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Vikram Seth's Three Chinese Poets (translated by) (1992) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Jules Wake's Escape to the Riviera (2016) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Claire Tomalin's The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Monisha Rajesh's Around India in 80 Trains (2011) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's He, She, and It (aka Body of Glass) (1991) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Jane Beaton's Welcome to the School by the Sea (2008) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Suzanne Marrs's What There Is To Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell (2011) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Lindsey Kelk's On a Night Like This (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (2012) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Raw Material (1923) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home (1969) | RLE |
| Thu Jul 14 | RL Entry: Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax (1959) | RLE |
| August, 2022 |
| Fri Aug 5 | Jo Walton's Reading List: July 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's The Plus One Pact (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: John Freely's The Grand Turk (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: C.S. Lewis's Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Vikram Seth's Mappings (1980) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Company (2008) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Alexis Hall's Something Fabulous (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Jennifer Walker's Elizabeth of the German Garden: A Literary Journey (2013) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's Love the One You're With (2008) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Angelica Goodden's Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman, Eighteenth Century Icon (2005) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's The Blue Sapphire (1963) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope (1926) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's The School at the Chalet (1925) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Ben Aaronovitch's Moon Over Soho (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Sarra Manning's London With Love (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1980) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Daisy James's Wedding Bells At Villa Limoncello (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Karin Tidbeck's The Memory Theater (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Saplings (1945) | RLE |
| Fri Aug 5 | RL Entry: Ross King's The Bookseller of Florence (2021) | RLE |
| Tue Aug 16 | Mentioning Everything Twice: Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neveryon | |
| September, 2022 |
| Thu Sep 8 | Jo Walton's Reading List: August 2022 | Reading List |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Annabeth Albert's Out of Character (2021) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Samuel R. Delany's Tales of Neverton (1979) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Clothes-Pegs (as by Susan Scarlett) (1939) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Josephine Tey's The Expensive Halo (1931) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's Islands (1975) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Monday the Rabbi Took Off (1972) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Stephen Fry's Mythos (2017) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Jeryldene M. Wood's Ippolita Maria Sforza: The Renaissance Princess Who Linked Milan and Naples (2020) | RLE |
| Thu Sep 8 | RL Entry: Daisy James's Summer Dreams at Villa Limoncello (2019) | RLE |
| October, 2022 |
| Wed Oct 8 | Jo Walton's Reading List: September 2022 | Reading List |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Ben Aaronovitch's Whispers Under Ground (2012) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Katy Watson's The Three Dahlias (2022) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Marko Kloos's Centers of Gravity (2022) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Babbacombe's (as by Susan Scarlett) (1941) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Diana Athill's Letters to a Friend (2011) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Eiko Kadono's Kiki's Delivery Service (1985), translated Emily Balistrieri | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Anne Sexton's Complete Poems (1981) | RLE |
| Wed Oct 5 | RL Entry: Toni Sepeda's Brunetti's Venice (2008) | RLE |
| November, 2022 |
| Fri Nov 11 | Jo Walton's Reading List: October 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Alexis Hall's Husband Material (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Guido Ruggiero's Love and Sex in Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Samuel R. Delany's Letters From Amherst (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: George R.R. Martin's Dreamsongs: Volume 1 (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Vikram Seth's Beastly Tales From Here and There (1992) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's Charlotte Fairlie (1954) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Sariah Wilson's The Paid Bridesmaid (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (2023) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Hammer (2011) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red (1973) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: Marta Randall's Collected Stories (2007) | RLE |
| Fri Nov 11 | RL Entry: James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (2005) | RLE |
| December, 2022 |
| Fri Dec 9 | Jo Walton's Reading List: November 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Various's One Thousand and One Nights (translated by Edward William Lane, revised by Stanley Lane-Poole) (1909) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Cadell's The Corner Shop (1966) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Ten Way Street (as by Susan Scarlett) (1941) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Various's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (translated by Arthur Waley) (1918) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Jessie Mihalik's Hunt the Stars (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Lindsey Kelk's In Case You Missed It (2020) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Judith Zinsser's Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Emily Giffin's Meant to Be (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Italo Calvino's The Complete Cosmicomics (translated by William Weaver, Martin L. McLaughlin, and Tim Parks) (1997) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Robert A. Heinlein's Expanded Universe (1980) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Various's The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection From Her Majesty's Correspondence, Vol. I, 1837-1843 (2006) | RLE |
| Fri Dec 9 | RL Entry: Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes (2013) | RLE |
| January, 2023 |
| Fri Jan 13 | Jo Walton's Reading List: December 2022 | Reading List |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: D.E. Stevenson's The Empty World (1937) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Peter and Paul (as by Susan Scarlett) (1940) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Marge Piercy's Mars and Her Children (1992) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Kathryn Freeman's The Italian Job (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Peter S. Beagle's The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1 (2023) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: John Gagne's Milan Undone: Contested Sovereignties in the Italian Wars (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Harry Kemelman's Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet (1976) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Words of Mercury (2003) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's M.O. Crimes of Practice (2003) (edited by) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Jean Meltzer's The Matzah Ball (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Vikram Seth's The Rivered Earth (2021) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Walter Jon Williams's Imperium Restored (2022) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Noel Streatfeild's Christmas Stories (written in the '40s and '50s) (2018) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Daisy James's Christmas Secrets at the Villa Limoncello (2019) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Jon Evans's Exadelic (2023) | RLE |
| Fri Jan 13 | RL Entry: Nisi Shawl's Our Fruiting Bodies (2022) | RLE |
| February, 2023 |
| Fri Feb 14 | Jo Walton's Reading List: January 2023 | Reading List |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Aesop's Aesop's Fables (500 BCE) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: K.J. Parker's The Two of Swords, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (2017) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Sarah Cockram's Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga (2013) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Martin Edwards's A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020) (edited by) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Michael Herzfeld's Evicted From Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome (2009) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise (1920) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Daphne du Maurier's Golden Lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon, and Their Friends (1975) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Noel Streatfeild's Under the Rainbow (as by Susan Scarlett) (1942) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Victoria Springfield's The Italian Holiday (2021) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time (1939) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Sophie Kinsella's Shopoholic and Sister (2004) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Paula McLain's Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses (2004) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Ben Aaronovitch's Foxglove Summer (2014) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Annette Christie's The Rehearsals (2021) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Anthony Everitt's The Rise of Athens (2016) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Alfred Bester's Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1997) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (1971) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: James Cambias's Arkad's World (2019) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Felicity Cloake's One More Croissant For the Road (2019) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Portia MacIntosh's Stuck On You (2020) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Rebecca Serle's One Italian Summer (2022) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Mary Hollingsworth's Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559 (2013) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Diana Athill's Stet: An Editor's Life (2000) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: G. Willow Wilson's The Bird King (2019) | RLE |
| Tue Feb 14 | RL Entry: Alfred Duggan's Lord Geoffrey's Fancy (1962) | RLE |