What I’ve been reading recently:

2024

The Loved One

★★★ ½

Martyr

★★★★

Jungle House

★★★★ ½

Japan

★★★

Frankenstein in Baghdad

★★★★

United Kingdom

★★★★

Iran

★★★★

Habibi

★★ ½

Nervous Conditions

★★★★

2023

Piranesi

★★★★★

A Master of Djinn

★★★ ½

Orlando

★★★

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

★★★★

Shubeik Lubeik

★★★★★

The Vegetarian

★★★★

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

★★★ ½

Paradise

★★★★ ½

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

★★★ ½

Pride and Prejudice

★★★★

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

★★★ ½

The Persian Pickle Club

★★★ ½

My Brilliant Friend

★★★ ½

What We Owe the Future

★

Titus Groan (Gormenghast #1)

★★★★

Elder Race

★★★ ½

2022

Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

★★★

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

★★★

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

★★★ ½

Older

Exhalation

★★★★

The Left Hand of Darkness

★★★★ ½

The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

★★★★★

The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)

★★★★★

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

★★★★

Watchmen

★★★★

What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

★★★★

Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)

★★★★

Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, #2)

★★★★

Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)

★★★★

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

★★ ½

Roadside Picnic

★★★★★