Book Reviews

This is a set of reviews I’ve written for some of the books I’ve read recently. They’re written pretty off-the-cuff for the most part, although the Collected Fictions and the Best of Greg Egan are the most in-depth. Lots of unmarked spoilers!

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

Aliss By The Fire

Jon Fosse

A Stroke Of The Pen

Terry Pratchett

Before The Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Henri Robillot

Cold Enough For Snow

Jessica Au
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Collected Fictions

Jorge Luis Borges
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Farmer Giles of Ham

J. R. R. Tolkien

Gooseberries

Anton Chekhov

Heaven

Mieko Kawakami

The Long Earth Series

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

Minority Report (Collection)

Phillip K. Dick

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman
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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro
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Orbital

Samantha Harvey
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Railhead

Philip Reeve

Recursion

Blake Crouch

Sea Of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel
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Snuff

Terry Pratchett

Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea

Sarah Pinsker

Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel
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Suppose A Sentence

Brian Dillon
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Ten Planets

Yuri Herrera

The Best Of Greg Egan

Greg Egan
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The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguoro
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The Dark Side of the Sun

Terry Pratchett

The Distance Of The Moon

Italo Calvino
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The Doll's Alphabet

Camilla Grudova

The Embedding

Ian Watson

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt
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The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ

Philip Pullman

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vesaas

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

Neil Gaiman
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The Order Of Time

Carlo Rovelli

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Stranger

Albert Camus

The Ten Thousand Doors Of January

Alix E. Harrow

The Three Electroknights

StanisΕ‚aw Lem
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Thief Of Time

Terry Pratchett

This Is How You Lose The Time War

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Venomous Lumpsucker

Ned Beauman