The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb: “If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Woul… Read More

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam M. Grant My rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in schoo… Read More

The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet by Marc Hartzman My rating: (4 / 5) Summary: The Red Planet takes center st… Read More

Saved by Science: The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology by Mark J Poznansky My rating: (3.5 / 5) Summary: With all the advances in science in the last century, why are there still so ma… Read More

Diary of a Confused Feminist by Kate Weston My rating: (1.5 / 5) Summary: 15-year-old Kat wants to do GOOD FEMINISM, although she’s not always sure what that means. She also wants to… Read More

The Other People by C.J. Tudor My rating: (3.5 / 5) Summary: She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . . Three years ago, Gabe saw his daughter taken. In the back of a rusty old car, cove… Read More

The End of Everything by Katie Mack My rating: (4 / 5) Summary: We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it went from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing… Read More

Devolution by Max Brooks My rating: [user 3] Summary: As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unn… Read More

Work: A History of How we spend our Time by James Suzman My rating: (3.5 / 5) Synopsis: The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we… Read More

COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora MacKenzie My rating: (4 / 5) Summary: Over the last 20 years of epidemics, we learned every les… Read More

Sur les traces du coupable by Carbone My rating: ★★☆☆☆ Blurb: Lya va peut-être enfin connaître l’identité du chauffard qui l’a re… Read More

Mini Chibi Art Class: A Complete Course in Drawing Cuties and Beasties – Includes 19 Step-by-Step Tutorials! by Yoai My rating:  (4 / 5) [I received a copy through NetGalley, in… Read More

Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One by Debora MacKenzie My rating: ★★★★☆ Blurb: Over the last… Read More

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene My rating: (3.5 / 5) Synopsis: In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow cre… Read More

The Holdout by Graham Moore My rating:  (3.5 / 5) Synopsis: One jury member changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? It was the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old… Read More

The Book of Queer Prophets: 24 Writers on Sexuality and Religion by Ruth Hunt My rating: (3.5 / 5) Synopsis: Is it possible to believe in God and be gay? How does it feel to be excluded fro… Read More

The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem My rating: (3.5 / 5) About: Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger immune systems. They&rs&hell…Read More

The End of Everything by Katie Mack My rating: ★★★★☆ Blurb: We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it went from a state of unimaginable densit… Read More

Monstrous Devices by Damien Love My rating: (2.5 / 5) Blurb: When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post, the note from his grandfather simply reads: ‘This one is… Read More

The Mother Code by Carole Stivers My rating: (3 / 5) Summary: It’s 2049, and the survival of the human race is at risk. The earth’s inhabitants must turn to their last resort, a… Read More

How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small by Ivo van Vulpen My rating: (4 / 5) Synopsis: The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most… Read More

How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small by Ivo van Vulpen My rating: ★★★★☆ Blurb: The history of particle physics… Read More

Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals about Your Brain and its Quirks by Marc Dingman My rating: (4 / 5) Summary: Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these thi… Read More

Your Brain, Explained: What Neuroscience Reveals about Your Brain and its Quirks by Marc Dingman My rating: ★★★★☆ Blurb: Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language… Read More

The Companions by Katie M. Flynn My rating: ★★☆☆☆ Blurb: In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise… Read More

Reflections on a Surprising Universe: Extraordinary Discoveries Through Ordinary Eyes by Richard Conrad Dieter My rating: ★★★☆☆ Blurb: Reflections on a Surprisi… Read More

The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken My rating: ★★★★☆ Blurb: Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He’s rich, he&rsqu&hell…Read More

Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun My rating: ★★★☆☆ Blurb: When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife cris… Read More

Gone by Leona Deakin My rating: 3/5 Blurb: YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME. DARE TO PLAY? The police aren’t worried – it’s just a game. But the families are frantic. As psychologist… Read More

The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg My rating: 3/5 Blurb: Welcome to the Kingdom… where ‘Happily Ever After’ isn’t just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel beh… Read More

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett My rating: 2/5 Blurb: “No one speaks of the grace year.It’s forbidden.We’re told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boy… Read More

Tangle’s Game by Stewart Hotston My rating: [usr 2.5] Blurb: Tense tech-thriller based on the growing role of blockchains, encryption and social media in society. Nowhere to run. N… Read More

The July Girls by Phoebe Locke My rating: [user 4] Blurb: Every year, on the same night in July, a woman is taken from the streets of London; snatched by a killer who moves through the c… Read More

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin My rating: [usr 1.5] Blurb: Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules… Read More

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov My rating:  [usr 4] Blurb: What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? E… Read More

The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr My rating:  [usr 3.5] Blurb: Who would we be without stories? Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They d… Read More

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker My rating:  [usr 3] Blurb: Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita are four women who have worked at Truviv, Inc., for years. The sudden death of Truviv… Read More

Quantum Convention by Eric Schlich My rating:  [usr 2.5] Blurb: “Quantum Convention”’s eight genre-bending stories balance precariously between reality and fantasy… Read More

Recursion by Blake Crouch My rating: [usr 3] Blurb: What if someone could rewrite your entire life? ‘My son has been erased.’ Those are the last words the woman tells Barry S… Read More

My rating: 3.5/5 Blurb: Gun violence, climate change and unemployment have ravaged the United States beyond recognition.Amid the wreckage, an online retail giant named Cloud reigns… Read More

Underdogs by Chris Bonnello My rating:  [usr 2.5] Blurb: One million cloned soldiers. A nation imprisoned.  A group of neurodiverse rebels fighting back. Britain as we know it… Read More

Unearthed by Amie Kaufman My rating: [usr 2] Blurb When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution the planet has been waiting for. The Undying… Read More

XX by Angela Chadwick My rating: ★★★ Blurb: HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR A CHILD OF YOUR OWN? When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two w… Read More

The Science of Science Fiction: The Influence of Film and Fiction on the Science and Culture of Our Times by Mark Brake My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: We are the first genera… Read More

Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night by Henry Nicholls My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: When Henry Nicholls was twenty-one, he was diagnosed wit… Read More

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay My rating: ★★★★★ Blurb: In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling autho… Read More

She Wants It by Jill Soloway My rating: ★★ Blurb: When Jill Soloway’s father came out to her as transgender in his seventies, all of a sudden she had the key she’d al… Read More

Sadie by Courtney Summers My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: A missing girl on a journey of revenge and a Serial-like podcast following the clues she’s left behind. Sadie h… Read More

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg My rating: ★★ Blurb: Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life… Read More

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat… Read More

Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict by Max Brooks My rating: ★★★ Blurb: The most successful film franchise of all time, Star Wars thrilli… Read More

Killing It: She’s one bad mother . . . by Asia Mackay My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Every working mum has had to face it. The guilt-fuelled, anxiety-filled first day back i… Read More

Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowrey My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: Imagine if every mo… Read More

School for Psychics by K.C. Archer My rating: ★★ Blurb: Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical twenty-something woman. She’s resourceful. She’s bright. She’s scr… Read More

Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift My rating: ★★ Blurb: Paris was supposed to save Hallie. Now… well, let’s just say Paris has other ideas. There’s a strange woman ca… Read More

Wendigo Rising by James A. Hunter My rating: ★★ Blurb: Bigfoot is real. Yancy Lazarus—mage, bluesman, and rambler—knows because there happens to be a nine-foot-tall… Read More

Flip by David Estes My rating: ★★★ Blurb: In a scared and broken world where someone must die before another can be born, one family has been torn apart by fate and a ruthl… Read More

Invictus by Ryan Graudin My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rom… Read More

The Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart My rating: ★★ Blurb: An atmospheric, chilling page turner from rising star Martin Stewart, reminiscent of Stand by Me and Stranger Things. Sep… Read More

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Blurb: In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussio… Read More

After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: The Unfolded World is a bitter and unfriendly place for Daniel Carter and Emily Lovecraft. In… Read More

Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files: Wild Card by Jim Butcher My rating: ★★ Blurb: Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files saga continues in this original and in-continuity graph… Read More

Lady Mechanika: La Dama de la Muerte by Joe Benítez My rating: ★★★ Blurb: After suffering a tragic loss, Lady Mechanika takes a trip to a small Mexican village just… Read More

Globe: Life in Shakespeare’s London by Catharine Arnold My rating: ★★★ Blurb: The life of William Shakespeare, Britain’s greatest dramatist, was inextricably li… Read More

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the… Read More

Break Out: How the Apple II Launched the PC Gaming Revolution by David L. Craddock My rating: ★★★★★ Blurb: Around the world, millions of people hijack cars in G… Read More

The Girl in The Tower by Katherine Arden My rating: ★★★ Blurb: The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is f… Read More

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera My rating: ★★★ [I received a copy of this book through Edelweiss.] An alternate-world story where a company named Death-Cast inform… Read More

Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker My rating: ★★★★★ Blurb: Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and l… Read More

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen My rating: ★★ Blurb: Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but… Read More

Circe by Madeline Miller My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child&n&hell…Read More

Paper Ghosts: A Novel of Suspense by Julia Heaberlin My rating: ★ Blurb: An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this mom… Read More

Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn My rating: ★★ Blurb: When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with t… Read More

Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age by Susan Landau My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst’s urgent call to… Read More

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch My rating: ★★★ Blurb: In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and… Read More

Lady Mechanika, Vol. 3: The Lost Boys of West Abbey by Joe Benítez My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: Lady Mechanika’s investigation into the murders of -undesirable… Read More

The Last Dog on Earth by Adrian J. Walker My rating: ★★ Blurb: Every dog has its day… And for Lineker, a happy go lucky mongrel from Peckham, the day the world ends is his… Read More

London: Orbital by Guy Adams My rating: ★★ Blurb: WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE WORLD CHANGED? One minute everything was fine and the next… they arrived. Those that saw them di… Read More

The Apothecary’s Curse by Barbara Barnett My rating: ★★★ Blurb: In Victorian London, the fates of physician Simon Bell and apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune entwine when S… Read More

Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow by Jason Heller My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb: Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The… Read More

Wraithborn by Joe Benítez My rating: ★★★ Blurb: He was trained from birth to inherit a mythical power. She is the timid teenage girl to whom it was bestowed instead… Read More

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of… Read More

Yamada Monogatari: The Emperor in Shadow by Richard Parks My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Lord Yamada is called away―one last time―from his newly restored estates in Kama… Read More

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore My rating: ★★★ Blurb: When the Moon Was Ours follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements and magica… Read More

Strange Magic by James A. Hunter My rating: ★★ Blurb: Yancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there’s a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a d… Read More

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney My rating: ★★★ Blurb: A damaged young woman gets the unique opportunity to rent a one-of-a-kind house. When she falls in love with the sexy… Read More

All Darling Children by Katrina Monroe My rating: ★★ Blurb: All boys grow up, except one. On the tenth anniversary of her mother’s death, fourteen-year-old Madge Darling&r&hell…Read More

The Cygnus Virus by T.J. Zakreski My rating: ★★ Blurb: Andron Varga is a small-town lawyer on planet Terra and he’s having a bad year. A cosmically bad year. First, he lo… Read More

Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives by Suzana Flores My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: The number of Facebook users worldwide exceeded one bi… Read More

The #MonuMeta Social Media Book by Roger Warner My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Mee Corp is the developer of the world’s number one social network, The Stream. Based at the rec… Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Six by J.T. Krul My rating: 1 of 5 stars Blurb: A pivotal chapter in the history of Battlestar Galactica, the reimagined series… set before the destruction of th… Read More

Heartless by Marissa Meyer My rating: ★★ Blurb: Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Catherine may be one of the most des… Read More

Toru: Wayfarer Returns by Stephanie R. Sorensen My rating: ★★ Blurb: Revolutionary young samurai with dirigibles take on Commodore Perry and his Black Ships in this alternate his… Read More

Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online by Bailey Poland My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: Cybersexism is rampant and can exact an astonishingly high cost. In some cases… Read More

Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: Who are these bold rebels pillaging their European neighbors in the name of revolution? The Futurists! Utopian… Read More

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari My rating: ★★★ Blurb: Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and intern… Read More

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch My rating: ★★★★ Blurb: “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor… Read More

The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam My rating: ★★ Blurb: Evan’s job is to help people die. Evan is a nurse – a suicide assistant. His job is legal – just. He… Read More

Cybercrime and the Dark Net: Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet by Cath Senker My rating: ★★★ Blurb: With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime beca… Read More

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds My rating: ★★★ Blurb: The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civi… Read More