Book review index

(How I rate books, explanation)

(For non-fiction, scroll down-down-down)

A

• Katherine Addison
  • The Goblin Emperor ****
• Poul Anderson
  • Tau Zero ***
• Margaret Atwood
  • The MaddAddam trilogy
    • Oryx and Crake ****½
    • The Year of the Flood ****

B

• R. Scott Bakker
  • The Aspect-Emperor series
    • The Judging Eye ****
    • The White-Luck Warrior *****
    • The Great Ordeal ****½
    • The Unholy Consult ****½
• Iain M. Banks
  • Against a Dark Background ***
• T.J. Bass
  • The Hive series
    • Half Past Human ***
    • The Godwhale ***

C

• James Branch Cabell
  • Jurgen, A Comedy Of Justice *****
• B. Catling
  • The Vorrh Trilogy
    • The Vorrh *****
    • The Erstwhile ****
• Michael Chabon
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *****
• Becky Chambers
  • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ***
• Ted Chiang
  • Stories of Your Life and Others *****
• Arthur C. Clarke
  • A Fall of Moondust ***
• Susanna Clarke
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *****
• Carlo Collodi
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio **
• John Crowley
  • Aegypt: The Solitudes ***

D

• Philip K. Dick
  • The Penultimate Truth ***

E

• E.R. Eddison
  • The Worm Ouroboros ****
• Greg Egan
  • Permutation City ***½
• Dave Eggers
  • The Circle **½

F

• Charles G. Finney
  • The Circus of Dr. Lao ***
• Michael R. Fletcher
  • Beyond Redemption ***

G

• John Gardner
  • Grendel *****

H

• Peter F. Hamilton
  • The Commonwealth Saga
    • Pandora’s Star ***½
    • Judas Unchained ***½
• Robert Holdstock
  • Mythago Wood ****
• Dave Hutchinson
  • Fractured Europe series
    • Europe in Autumn *****
    • Europe at Midnight ****½

J

• N.K. Jemisin
  • The Broken Earth Trilogy
    • The Fifth Season *****
    • The Obelisk Gate ****
    • The Stone Sky *****

L

• Mark Lawrence
  • The Broken Empire trilogy
    • Prince of Thorns ****
    • King of Thorns ****½
    • Emperor of Thorns ****
  • The Red Queen’s War trilogy
    • Prince of Fools
• Yoon Ha Lee
  • Ninefox Gambit
• Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Earthsea Novels
• Stanislaw Lem
  • The Star Diaries
• David D. Levine
  • Arabella of Mars
• David Lindsay
  • A Voyage to Arcturus
• Cixin Liu
  • Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
    • The Three-Body Problem
    • The Dark Forest
    • Death’s End
• Ken Liu
  • The Grace of Kings
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• H.P. Lovecraft
  • The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
  • The Thing at the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
• Scott Lynch
  • Gentleman Bastard series
    • The Lies of Locke Lamora

M

• George R.R. Martin
  • Tuf Voyaging
  • Songs of the Dying Earth (ed. with Gardner Dozois)
• A. Lee Martinez
  • Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain
• Cormac McCarthy
  • The Road
• Jack McDevitt
  • Priscilla Hutchins series
    • The Engines of God
    • Chindi
• China Mieville
  • This Census-Taker
  • Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories

P

• Mervyn Peake
  • The Gormenghast Novels
• Terry Pratchett
  • Discworld series
    • The Truth
    • Thief of Time
    • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
    • Night Watch
    • The Wee Free Men

R

• Alastair Reynolds
  • Revelation Space Series
    • Revelation Space
    • Chasm City
    • Redemption Ark
  • Terminal World
• Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Aurora

S

• Brandon Sanderson
  • The Stormlight Archive
    • The Way of Kings
• Jose Saramago – The Elephant’s Journey
• Karl Schroeder – Lady of Mazes
• Clifford D. Simak – Way Station
• Dan Simmons
  • Ilium Series
    • Ilium
    • Olympos
• Cordwainer Smith – The Rediscovery of Man
• Olaf Stapledon – Star Maker
• Olaf Stapledon – Last and First Men
• Neal Stephenson – Seveneves
• Michael Swanwick – Stations of the Tide

V

• Catherynne M. Valente – Radiance
• Jack Vance
  • The Dying Earth novels
  • Night Lamp
• Jeff VanderMeer
  • Ambergris Series
    • Shriek: An Afterword
    • Finch
  • Southern Reach Series
    • Annihilation
    • Authority
    • Acceptance
  • Borne

W

• Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Gene Wolfe – The Book of the Long Sun
• Gene Wolfe – The Book of the Short Sun

Non-fiction – History

• Bill Bryson – One Summer: America 1927
• Mike Dash – Tulipomania
• Norman Davies – Vanished Kingdoms
• Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
• Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Ian Mortimer – Human Race

Non-fiction – Other

• Tim Birkhead – Bird Sense
• Eric Harvey – The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus
• Benjamin Hoff – The Tao of Pooh
• Henry Kissinger – World Order
• Arthur Koestler – The Act of Creation
• Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
• Michael Palin – New Europe
• Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
• Alan W. Watts – The Wisdom of Insecurity