This post is mostly data driven (from my own web site's data) to give me a sense of the quality of the books I've read, otherwise individual reviews are all linked in this post or available on my books page.
Longest book: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI - 496 pages
Shortest book: The Time Machine - 107 pages
Quickest read: 3 days - The Radleys by Matt Haig (341 pages)
Longest read: 2 months, 2 days - Butter by Asako Yuzuki (464 pages)
Diversity of authors:
- Women: 9
- Men: 5
Rated books
5 stars
- Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War - 319 pages
4 stars
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI - 496 pages
- In Bloom (Sweetpea, #2) - 432 pages
- Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) - 480 pages
- The Radleys - 341 pages
- The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) - 422 pages
- The Echo Wife - 347 pages
Books by decade
1890
- 1895: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
1960
- 1969: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
2010
- 2010: The Radleys by Matt Haig
- 2013: Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
- 2017: Butter by Asako Yuzuki
- 2017: Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) by C.J. Skuse
- 2018: In Bloom (Sweetpea, #2) by C.J. Skuse
- 2019: Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe
2020
- 2021: The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman
- 2021: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
- 2022: The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1) by Bob Mortimer
- 2025: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
- 2025: Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War by Ash Sarkar
- 2025: Making a Killing (DI Fawley #7) by Cara Hunter
Originally published on Remy Sharp's b:log