My 2018 books poll
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Which of these 108 SF books have you read?
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
20(4.4%)
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
18(4.0%)
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, by Edith Hamilton
7(1.6%)
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
9(2.0%)
Ringworld, by Larry Niven
16(3.6%)
The Island Of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells
10(2.2%)
The Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
11(2.4%)
The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
2(0.4%)
The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
2(0.4%)
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
2(0.4%)
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, by James Finn Garner
6(1.3%)
Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
3(0.7%)
Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy
6(1.3%)
It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis
2(0.4%)
Finn Family Moomintroll, by Tove Jansson
9(2.0%)
Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson
2(0.4%)
High-Rise, by J. G. Ballard
5(1.1%)
Vurt, by Jeff Noon
5(1.1%)
Beyond This Horizon, by Robert A. Heinlein
7(1.6%)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, by Robert A Heinlein
8(1.8%)
The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
1(0.2%)
Comet In Moominland, by Tove Jansson
7(1.6%)
La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman
2(0.4%)
Robot Visions, by Isaac Asimov
7(1.6%)
A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan
7(1.6%)
Welcome to Night Vale, by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
4(0.9%)
Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson
6(1.3%)
Moominsummer Madness, by Tove Jansson
6(1.3%)
He, She and It, by Marge Piercy
4(0.9%)
Discount Armageddon, by Seanan McGuire
5(1.1%)
Moominpappa At Sea, by Tove Jansson
6(1.3%)
Second-Stage Lensmen, by E. E. 'Doc' Smith
6(1.3%)
Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
8(1.8%)
City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett
3(0.7%)
Moominvalley in November, by Tove Jansson
6(1.3%)
The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin
5(1.1%)
The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi
6(1.3%)
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
9(2.0%)
Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams
6(1.3%)
The Cloud Roads, by Martha Wells
6(1.3%)
The Beast Master, by Norton Andre
9(2.0%)
Provenance, by Ann Leckie
10(2.2%)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones, by Seanan McGuire
5(1.1%)
New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson
2(0.4%)
Toast, by Charles Stross
1(0.2%)
Ill Met in Lankhmar, by Fritz Leiber
6(1.3%)
Lord of Thunder, by Andre Norton
7(1.6%)
Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty
6(1.3%)
Binti: Home, by Nnedi Okorafor
7(1.6%)
Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright
2(0.4%)
An Old Captivity, by Nevil Shute
3(0.7%)
River of Teeth, by Sarah Gailey
5(1.1%)
The Ginger Star, by Leigh Brackett
3(0.7%)
The Sudden Appearance of Hope, by Claire North
4(0.9%)
Earth Girl, by Janet Edwards
2(0.4%)
The Black Tides of Heaven, by JY Yang
4(0.9%)
Perilous Dreams, by Andre Norton
4(0.9%)
Fools, by Pat Cadigan
4(0.9%)
An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
1(0.2%)
Heroine Complex, by Sarah Kuhn
1(0.2%)
Raven Stratagem, by Yoon Ha Lee
6(1.3%)
Planesrunner, by Ian McDonald
2(0.4%)
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog, by Doris Lessing
1(0.2%)
The Laertian Gamble, by Robert Sheckley
2(0.4%)
Jade City, by Fonda Lee
3(0.7%)
In Other Lands, by Sarah Rees Brennan
4(0.9%)
A Skinful of Shadows, by Frances Hardinge
3(0.7%)
Donovan's Brain, by Curt Siodmak
2(0.4%)
Akata Warrior, by Nnedi Okorafor
5(1.1%)
The Man Who Spoke Snakish, by Andrus Kivirähk
1(0.2%)
Your Code Name Is Jonah, by Edward Packard
3(0.7%)
Mind Over Ship, by David Marusek
1(0.2%)
Missile Gap, by Charles Stross
5(1.1%)
The Martian Inca, by Ian Watson
2(0.4%)
Under the Pendulum Sun, by Jeannette Ng
3(0.7%)
Putting up Roots, by Charles Sheffield
1(0.2%)
Penric's Fox, by Lois McMaster Bujold
8(1.8%)
The Sound of his Horn, by Sarban
2(0.4%)
The Uninvited, by Dorothy Macardle
1(0.2%)
Larque on the Wing, by Nancy Springer
3(0.7%)
Up Jim River, by Michael Flynn
1(0.2%)
The Universe Between, by Alan E Nourse
4(0.9%)
Anno Dracula - Dracula Cha Cha Cha, by Kim Newman
3(0.7%)
The Art of Starving, by Sam J. Miller
2(0.4%)
Stories of the Raksura: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below, by Martha Wells
5(1.1%)
Aztec Century, by Christopher Evans
3(0.7%)
Summer in Orcus, by T. Kingfisher
4(0.9%)
Spirit, by Gwyneth Jones
1(0.2%)
The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson
1(0.2%)
Destination Moon, by Robert A. Heinlein
6(1.3%)
The Rift, by Nina Allan
2(0.4%)
Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock
1(0.2%)
Daystar and Shadow, by James B. Johnson
0(0.0%)
Hybrid, by Shaun Hutson
0(0.0%)
Darkness and the Light, by Olaf Stapledon
0(0.0%)
Gonna Roll The Bones, by Fritz Leiber
4(0.9%)
The Enclave, by Anne Charnock
0(0.0%)
"Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones", by Samuel R. Delany
5(1.1%)
"Slow Sculpture", by Theodore Sturgeon
4(0.9%)
Uncanny Valley, by Greg Egan
0(0.0%)
Anno Mortis, by Rebecca Levene
0(0.0%)
Grand Canyon, by Vita Sackville-West
0(0.0%)
The Region Between, by Harlan Ellison
0(0.0%)
Rare Unsigned Copy, by Simon Petrie
0(0.0%)
Tangle Of Fates, by Leslie Ann Moore
0(0.0%)
Newry Bridge, or, Ireland in 1887, by Anonymous
0(0.0%)
Which of these 36 non-sf fiction books have you read?
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
8(6.2%)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
15(11.5%)
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
13(10.0%)
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
5(3.8%)
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
3(2.3%)
The Way by Swann's, by Marcel Proust
4(3.1%)
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
6(4.6%)
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
4(3.1%)
And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
1(0.8%)
Delta of Venus, by Anaïs Nin
6(4.6%)
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust
3(2.3%)
The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
3(2.3%)
The Name of this Book Is Secret, by Pseudonymous Bosch
1(0.8%)
Sodom and Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust
3(2.3%)
Burr, by Gore Vidal
3(2.3%)
How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn
4(3.1%)
Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively
5(3.8%)
Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust
3(2.3%)
Julian, by Gore Vidal
3(2.3%)
The Prisoner and the Fugitive, by Marcel Proust
3(2.3%)
War and Turpentine, by Stefan Hertmans
1(0.8%)
Gemini, by Dorothy Dunnett
5(3.8%)
Ghana Must Go, by Taiye Selasi
1(0.8%)
Mrs Miniver, by Jan Struther
3(2.3%)
Rather Be the Devil, by Ian Rankin
1(0.8%)
Looking For JJ, by Anne Cassidy
1(0.8%)
The Supernatural Enhancements, by Edgar Cantero
1(0.8%)
The Lost Weekend, by Charles Jackson
1(0.8%)
Something Like Normal, by Trish Doller
1(0.8%)
Maigret Loses His Temper, by Georges Simenon
3(2.3%)
Gentleman's Agreement, by Laura Z. Hobson
2(1.5%)
The Stone Book Quartet, by Alan Garner
4(3.1%)
Quoth the Raven, by Jane Haddam
3(2.3%)
Baptism in Blood, by Jane Haddam
3(2.3%)
The Deer Hunter, by Eric Corner
1(0.8%)
L'Équation Africaine, by Yasmina Khadra
1(0.8%)
Five Escape Brexit Island, by Bruno Vincent
2(1.5%)
Which of these 50 non-fiction books have you read?
Watching the English, by Kate Fox
4(5.4%)
Byzantium, by Judith Herrin
1(1.4%)
The Life of Our Lord, by Charles Dickens
1(1.4%)
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, by Ian Mortimer
5(6.8%)
So, Anyway..., by John Cleese
2(2.7%)
A Preface to Paradise Lost, by C. S. Lewis
2(2.7%)
Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
2(2.7%)
Women & Power, by Mary Beard
4(5.4%)
The Road to Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead
1(1.4%)
No Time to Spare, by Ursula K. Le Guin
3(4.1%)
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World, by Ian Stewart
1(1.4%)
Who I Am, by Peter Townshend
2(2.7%)
Nine Gates, by Jane Hirshfield
1(1.4%)
Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary, by Neil Corry, Jacqueline Rayner, Andrew Darling, Kerrie Dougherty, David John and Simon Beecroft
3(4.1%)
The God Instinct, by Jesse Bering
1(1.4%)
The Man Within My Head, by Pico Iyer
1(1.4%)
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, by Ruth Padel
1(1.4%)
Crash Override, by Zoe Quinn
2(2.7%)
Doctor Who: A History Of The Universe In 100 Objects, by Steve Tribe and James Goss
1(1.4%)
The Fate of Rome, by Kyle Harper
1(1.4%)
The Road to Somewhere, by David Goodhart
1(1.4%)
Politics of Climate Change, ed. Anthony Giddens
1(1.4%)
Brewing Justice, by Daniel Jaffee
1(1.4%)
The Complete Ice Age, ed. Brian M. Fagan
1(1.4%)
Who is the Doctor, by Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?
1(1.4%)
Behind the Sofa, ed. Steve Berry
1(1.4%)
After Europe, by Ivan Krastev
1(1.4%)
Luminescent Threads, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal
2(2.7%)
A Lit Fuse, by Nat Segaloff
2(2.7%)
Iain M. Banks, by Paul Kincaid
2(2.7%)
Free Radical, by Vince Cable
1(1.4%)
Here's My Card, by Bob Popyk
1(1.4%)
Sleeping with Monsters, by Liz Bourke
3(4.1%)
Berlitz Pocket Guide Riga, by Martins Zaprauskis
1(1.4%)
OUTSIDE IN: 160 New Perspectives on 160 Classic Doctor Who Stories by 160 Writers, ed. Robert Smith?
1(1.4%)
No Going Back To Moldova, by Anna Robertson
1(1.4%)
Virgins, Weeders and Queens: A History of Women in the Garden, by Twigs Way
1(1.4%)
About Time 8, by Tat Wood and Dorothy Ail
1(1.4%)
Europe Reset, by Richard Youngs
1(1.4%)
Freddie Mercury, by Mark Blake
1(1.4%)
Patrick Troughton, by Michael Troughton
1(1.4%)
Wroxeter Roman City, by Roger H. White
1(1.4%)
Fair Trade, ed. Laura T. Reynolds, Douglas L. Murray and John Wilkinson
1(1.4%)
Seychelles: The Saga of a Small Nation Navigating the Cross-Currents of a Big World, by Sir James Mancham
1(1.4%)
The Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook, European Edition, by Harrison Monsky and the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
1(1.4%)
An Outline of the History of Pharmacy in Ireland, by William D Moore
1(1.4%)
The Case for a New WEU, by Charles Tannock
1(1.4%)
Explorers: Huawei Stories, ed. Tian Tao and Yin Zhifeng
1(1.4%)
Pioneers: Huawei Stories, ed. Tian Tao and Yin Zhifeng
1(1.4%)
Brexit and the Future of Ireland: Uniting Ireland & Its People in Peace & Prosperity, by Senator Mark Daly
1(1.4%)
Which of these 28 comics/graphic novels have you read?
Saga Volume 7, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples
5(9.4%)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, by Emil Ferris
2(3.8%)
Monstress Volume 2: The Blood, written by Marjorie M. Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
4(7.5%)
Paper Girls Volume 3, written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher
5(9.4%)
Bitch Planet Volume 2: President Bitch, written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Valentine De Landro and Taki Soma, colored by Kelly Fitzpatrick, lettered by Clayton Cowles
3(5.7%)
Brüsel, by Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten
2(3.8%)
Providence, Act 1, by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
1(1.9%)
Ergens Waar Je Niet Wilt Zijn, by Brecht Evens
1(1.9%)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, by H.P. Lovecraft and Ian Culbard
2(3.8%)
Torchwood: Rift War, by Ian Edgington et al.
1(1.9%)
Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament, by Arthur Ranson, Donald Rooum, Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore, Hunt Emerson, Neil Gaiman, Mike Matthews, Julie Hollings, Carol Bennett, Peter Rigg and Dave McKean
2(3.8%)
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy, by Abel Lanzac and Christophe Blain
2(3.8%)
The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, by Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot
1(1.9%)
The Four Doctors, by Paul Cornell and Neil Edwards
3(5.7%)
Black Bolt Vol. 1: Hard Time, written by Saladin Ahmed, illustrated by Christian Ward, lettered by Clayton Cowles
4(7.5%)
Krimson, by Marc Legendre
1(1.9%)
Dark Satanic Mills, by Marcus Sedgwick, Julian Sedgwick, John Higgins and Marc Olivent
1(1.9%)
Doctor Who: A Cold Day in Hell, ed. Tom Spilsbury
2(3.8%)
Doctor Who: The Widow's Curse, ed. Tom Spilsbury
3(5.7%)
Verraad, by Jean-Luc Istin and Dejan Nenadov
1(1.9%)
Apostata 07: Niets meer dan een wolk, by Ken Broeders
1(1.9%)
P.I.G.S, by Cecilia Valagussa
1(1.9%)
Aliénor, la Légende noire, tome 5, by Arnaud Delalande, Simona Mogavino and Carlos Gomez
1(1.9%)
Aliénor, la Légende noire, tome 6, by Arnaud Delalande, Simona Mogavino and Carlos Gomez
1(1.9%)
Hoger dan de bergen en dieper dan de zee: kroniek van een migrant, by Laïla Koubaa and Laura Janssens
1(1.9%)
Retour sur Aldébaran, tome 1, by Leo
1(1.9%)
Rose de Paris, by Gilles Schlesser and Eric Puech
1(1.9%)
Which of these four plays have you read or seen?
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
30(76.9%)
Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
5(12.8%)
You Can't Take It with You, by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
3(7.7%)
Everybody Comes to Rick’s, by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
1(2.6%)
Which of these three epic poems have you read?
The Aeneid, by Virgil
14(82.4%)
The Aeneid, Book VI, by Virgil as translated by Seamus Heaney
2(11.8%)
Glory for Me, by MacKinlay Kantor
1(5.9%)
And finally, which of these 32 Doctor Who books (here in rough continuity order) have you read?
Who Killed Kennedy: The Shocking Secret Linking a Time Lord and a President, by “James Stevens” and David Bishop (mostly Third Doctor)
2(4.0%)
Doctor Who-The Talons of Weng-Chiang: Script, by Robert Holmes (Fourth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, by Douglas Adams and James Goss (Fourth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who Quiz Book of Dinosaurs, by Michael Holt (Fifth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who-Time Lord, by Peter Darvill-Evans and Ian Marsh
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who Files: The Daleks, by Justin Richards (Tenth Doctor era)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who Files: the Cybermen, by Justin Richards (Tenth Doctor era)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who Files: The TARDIS, by Justin Richards (Tenth Doctor era)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who Storybook 2009 (Tenth Doctor)
2(4.0%)
The Official "Doctor Who" Annual 2010 (Tenth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who: Rose, by Russell T Davies (Ninth Doctor)
2(4.0%)
Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion, by Jenny T Colgan (Tenth Doctor)
3(6.0%)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, by Steven Moffat (Eleventh Doctor, with Tenth Doctor and War Doctor)
2(4.0%)
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time, by Paul Cornell (Twelfth Doctor)
2(4.0%)
Twelve Angels Weeping, by Dave Rudden (Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, War, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived, by Christel Dee and Simon Guerrier (Various companions and other chatacters, brief Thirteenth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who: The Missy Chronicles, by James Goss, Cavan Scott, Paul Magrs, Peter Anghelides, Jacqueline Rayner and Richard Dinnick (Missy, brief Thirteenth Doctor)
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song, by Jenny T. Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane (River Song)
2(4.0%)
Doctor Who: Wit, Wisdom and Timey Wimey Stuff - The Quotable Doctor Who, by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
1(2.0%)
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred, by James Goss, illustrated by Russell T. Davies
3(6.0%)
The Tree of Life, by Mark Michalowski (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Parallel Lives, by Rebecca Levene, Stewart Sheargold, Dave Stone and Simon Guerrier (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Something Changed, ed. Simon Guerrier (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Genius Loci, by Ben Aaronovitch (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Collected Works, ed. Nick Wallace (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Old Friends, by Jonathan Clements, Marc Platt and Pete Kempshall (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
The Two Jasons, by Dave Stone (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Nobodys Children, by Kate Orman, Jonathan Blum and Philip Purser-Hallard (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
Missing Adventures, ed. Rebecca Levene (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)
The Vampire Curse, by Mags L Halliday, Kelly Hale and Philip Purser-Hallard (Bernice Summerfield)
2(4.0%)