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The Year of publication is for the specific edition I've read. Bibliographies are excluded from the page count. A missing rating means that the book is due for a re-read. See here for reviews and quotations.

Type key:

BBook
MManga or comic
PPoem
PbPicturebook
SShort story
AAudiobook
EE-book
HcHardcover
HcCClothbound
ScSoftcover

Abbreviations galore:

  • Lang.—Language
  • Pub.—Published

Some information may be incorrect as it's seriously ridiculously difficult to deduce; feel free to send corrections.

PSA: Excuse the unpleasant gradient until I regain access to the books or get around to reading them.

Currently Reading

Enjoyment Authors Title Subtitle Pages Type Lang. Year
Read
Publisher Year
Pub.
ISBN Notes
★★★ Ishida, Syou We'll prescribe you a cat 252 B; Hc UK English 2024 Penguin Random House 2024 9781529936711
★★★★ Lansing, Alfred Endurance The true story of Shackleton's incredible voyage to the Antarctic 282 B; Hc UK English 2024 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999 0297643568
★★★★ 坂元 裕二 またここか 184 B; Hc 日本語 2024 リトルモア 2018 978489815493

Finished

Enjoyment Authors Title Subtitle Pages Type Lang. Year
Read
Publisher Year
Pub.
ISBN Notes
Borges, Jorge L. The Book of Sand (from The Library of Babel) 9 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
Borges, Jorge L. The Circular Ruins (from The Library of Babel) 12 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
Borges, Jorge L. Death and the Compass (from The Library of Babel) 22 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
★★★ Borges, Jorge L. Funes, His Memory (from The Library of Babel) 15 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
Borges, Jorge L. The Garden of the Forking Paths (from The Library of Babel) 21 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
★★★★ Borges, Jorge L. The Library of Babel (from The Library of Babel) 16 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
★★★★ Borges, Jorge L. The Lottery in Babylon (from The Library of Babel) 12 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
Borges, Jorge L. Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (from The Library of Babel) 17 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
★★★★ Borges, Jorge L. Shakespeare's Memory (from The Library of Babel) 12 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
Borges, Jorge L. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (from The Library of Babel) 16 S; HcC UK English 2023 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241630860
★★★ Bunker, Nick The Mayflower Pilgrims The Essential Guide
1620
128 B; Sc UK English 2024 Vintage Classics 2020 9781784876494
★★ Campbell, Nancy Fifty Words for Snow 207 B; Sc UK English 2024 Elliott & Thompson 2021 9781783966035 Signed
★★★★★ Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist ? B; Sc UK English 2025 ? ? ? [1]
★★★★★ Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search For Meaning The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust 154 B; Sc UK English 2024 Rider 2004 9781844132393
★★★ Horse, Harry The Last Polar Bears 75 S; Sc UK English 2024 Puffin Books 1996 0140363823
★★★★★ Joyce, Rachel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry B; Sc UK English 2023
★★★★★ Keynes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon B; Sc UK English 2024
★★ Mountford, Karl J. The Circles in the Sky 154 Pb; Hc UK English 2024 Walker Books 2022 9781529502572
★★★★ Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men 153 B; HcC UK English 2024 Penguin Classics 2023 9780241620236
★★★★ Truss, Lynne Eats, Shoots & Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 204 B; Sc UK English 2023 Fourth Estate 2009 9780007329069
★★★ Videen, Hana The Wordhord Daily Life in Old English 270 B; Sc UK English 2024 Profile Books 2022 9781788166119
(Various) RWBY Official Manga Anthology 1 Red Like Roses 178 M; Sc US English 2023 VIZ Media 2018 9781974701575
(Various) RWBY Official Manga Anthology 2 Mirror, Mirror 170 M; Sc US English 2023 VIZ Media 2019 9781974701582
(Various) RWBY Official Manga Anthology 3 From Shadows 156 M; Sc US English 2023 VIZ Media 2018 9781974702817
(Various) RWBY Official Manga Anthology 4 I Burn 158 M; Sc US English 2023 VIZ Media 2019 9781974702824
★★★★ あずま きよひこ よつばと! 1 224 M; Sc 日本語 2025 角川文庫 2024 9784048690669
★★★★★ 大今 良時 不滅のあなたへ 1 191 M; Sc 日本語 2025 講談社 2022 9784063958423
★★★★ 大今 良時 不滅のあなたへ 2 191 M; Sc 日本語 2025 講談社 2022 9784063958874
★★★★ 大今 良時 不滅のあなたへ 3 207 M; Sc 日本語 2025 講談社 2022 9784063959550
★★★ 大今 良時 不滅のあなたへ 4 191 M; Sc 日本語 2025 講談社 2021 9784065101896
★★★ 藤本 タツキ ファイアパンチ 224 M; Sc 日本語 2025 角川文庫 2024 9784048690669
★★ 星 新一 宇宙の声 206 B; Sc 日本語 2025 角川文庫 2022 9784088807317

[1] I'd bought it at an airport that same year, and have since left it at a bus stop bookshelf somewhere in Horspath for someone else to enjoy. While I can't verify which edition it was exactly, it looks like it could have perhaps been ISBN 9780722532935. Definitely not the 30th anniversary edition, as I specifically recall there not being any such mention on the cover, as well as the ‘Alchemist’ part of the title being white.