You can find reviews for the first 1000 posts collected on this page. Reviews for stories are on a separate page.
This blog doesn’t cover all the books I’ve read, nor all the books I’ve reviewed.
It started in 2014 as a center for short story reviews for a couple of anthologies, because GoodReads couldn’t handle those, and moderators often enough deleted them. At the same time, I started requesting ARCs from NetGalley, and this blog came in handy for the mandatory reviews. I had a reviewing slump starting in 2017 up to 2019 and wrote only very few posts at all in those years.
Starting in 2020, I switched to this blog as the main source for reviews of all sorts.
Novels
| Title with Link to Review | Author(s) | Publication Year | Genre and Category | Blog Post Date |
| Die Flüsse von London | Ben Aaronovitch | 2011 | Urban Fantasy | 22.08.2020 |
| The Goblin Emperor | Katherine Addison | 2014 | Gaslight Fantasy novel | 29.04.2015 |
| The Witness for the Dead | Katherine Addison | 2021 | Gaslight Fantasy novel | 22.07.2021 |
| Finches of Mars | Brian W. Aldiss | 2015 | SF novel | 01.05.2015 |
| Gridlinked | Neal Asher | 2001 | Space Opera novel | 06.10.2021 |
| The Water Knife | Paolo Bacigalupi | 2015 | CliFi novel | 24.01.2016 |
| Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks | 1987 | Space Opera novel | 12.12.2021 |
| Call of the Bone Ships (Tide Child #2) | RJ Barker | 2020 | High Fantasy novel | 27.11.2020 |
| A Caller’s Game | J.D. Barker | 2021 | Thriller | 22.02.2021 |
| The Last Unicorn, Two Hearts | Peter S. Beagle | 1968 | Fantasy novel and novelette | 09.03.2021 |
| The Unfinished Land | Greg Bear | 2021 | Fantasy novel | 15.02.2021 |
| The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1951 | SF novel | 07.05.2015 |
| The Demolished Man | Alfred Bester | 1953 | SF novel | 23.10.2021 |
| I’m Waiting for You And Other Stories | Kim Bo-Young | 2021 | Collection | 06.04.2021 |
| Driftwood | Marie Brennan | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 14.08.2020 |
| Red Rising: Das dunkle Zeitalter – Teil 1 | Pierce Brown | 2019 | SF Roman | 02.05.2020 |
| The Galaxy, and the Ground Within | Becky Chambers | 2021 | Space Opera | 18.02.2021 |
| Record of a Spaceborn Few | Becky Chambers | 2018 | Space Opera novel | 02.01.2021 |
| Downbelow Station | C.J. Cherryh | 1981 | Space Opera novel | 04.10.2021 |
| Cyteen #1-3 | C.J. Cherryh | 1989 | Space Opera novel | 05.10.2021 |
| Black Water Sister | Zen Cho | 2021 | Urban Fantasy novel | 10.06.2021 |
| The Walking Dead – Taifun | Wesley Chu | 2021 | post-apokalyptischer Thriller-R | 11.03.2021 |
| The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin | 2014 | SF novel | 29.04.2015 |
| A Master of Djinn | Phenderson Djèlí Clark | 2021 | Steampunk novella | 19.08.2021 |
| The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | 1956 | SF novel | 12.03.2015 |
| Rendezvous With Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1973 | SF novel | 11.05.2015 |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | 2020 | Speculative fiction novel | 04.10.2020 |
| Engine Summer | John Crowley | 1979 | Post-post apocalyptic novel | 04.12.2021 |
| Babel-17 | Samuel Delany | 1966 | SF novel | 07.05.2015 |
| The Einstein Intersection | Samuel R. Delany | 1967 | SF Novel | 22.01.2021 |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 1962 | SF novel | 01.06.2015 |
| Ubik | Philip K. Dick | 1969 | SF novel | 01.06.2015 |
| Attack Surface | Cory Doctorow | 2020 | Near Future SF novel | 01.10.2020 |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 2014 | Historical Fiction novel | 28.10.2021 |
| How to Mars | David Ebenbach | 2021 | Planetary Romance novel | 25.05.2021 |
| The Hair Carpet Weavers | Andreas Eschbach | 1995 | SF novel | 06.08.2020 |
| Eines Menschen Flügel | Andreas Eschbach | 2020 | Science Fantasy Roman | 30.09.2020 |
| How to They/Them | Stuart Getty | 2020 | Non-fiction novel | 29.09.2020 |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | Cyberpunk novel | 28.12.2020 |
| The Peripheral | William Gibson | 2014 | Time Travel novel | 16.01.2021 |
| Agency | William Gibson | 2020 | Cyberpunk/Zeitreise-Roman | 21.01.2021 |
| The Conductors | Nicole Glover | 2021 | Urban Fantasy novel | 05.03.2021 |
| Trafalgar | Angélica Gorodischer | 1979 | SF novel | 04.08.2020 |
| Ammonite | Nicola Griffith | 1992 | Planetary Romance | 02.04.2021 |
| Hild | Nicola Griffith | 2013 | Historical Fiction novel | 11.09.2021 |
| The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1975 | SF novel | 17.05.2015 |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig | 2020 | Magical Realism Novel | 05.09.2021 |
| The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | 1975 | SF novel | 07.05.2015 |
| The Once and Future Witches | Alix E. Harrow | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 15.10.2020 |
| The Door into Summer | Robert A. Heinlein | 1956 | SF novel | 03.01.2016 |
| Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | 1959 | Military SF novel | 16.10.2021 |
| The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | 1966 | SF novel | 01.06.2015 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | SF novel | 11.07.2020 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | SF novel | 11.07.2020 |
| Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert | 1969 | SF novel | 23.08.2020 |
| Im Dienst der Föderation | Tanya Huff | 2000 | Military SF Roman | 14.09.2020 |
| The Story of the Stone | Barry Hughart | 1988 | Fantasy Novel | 04.09.2021 |
| Steinerner Himmel | N.K. Jemisin | 2020 | High Fantasy Roman | 01.07.2020 |
| The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | 2015 | Fantasy novel | 20.02.2016 |
| The Vanished Birds | Simon Jimenez | 2020 | SF novel | 11.08.2020 |
| Forever Sea | Joshua Phillip Johnson | 2021 | High Fantasy novel | 19.01.2021 |
| The Wheel of Time 1: The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | 1990 | Fantasy Novel | 31.03.2021 |
| The Wheel of Time 2: The Great Hunt | Robert Jordan | 1990 | Fantasy Novel | 19.06.2021 |
| The Wheel of Time 3: The Dragon Reborn | Robert Jordan | 1991 | Fantasy Novel | 29.08.2021 |
| The Wheel of Time 4: The Shadow Rising | Robert Jordan | 1992 | Fantasy Novel | 30.10.2021 |
| Die Krieger der Altaii | Robert Jordan | 2020 | High Fantasy Roman | 26.03.2020 |
| The Summer Tree | Guy Gavriel Kay | 1984 | Fantasy novel | 04.03.2021 |
| The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth | 1952 | SF novel | 11.05.2015 |
| The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) | Mary Robinette Kowal | 2018 | Alternate History novel | 20.09.2021 |
| The House of Styx | Derek Künsken | 2020 | SF novel | 16.05.2020 |
| Schattenkämpfer | Mark Lawrence | 2019 | Fantasy novel | 19.06.2020 |
| Ancillary Justice | Anne Leckie | 2013 | Space Opera novel | 12.10.2021 |
| Phoenix Extravagant | Yoon Ha Lee | 2020 | Steampunk Fantasy | 31.05.2020 |
| The Grace of Kings | Ken Liu | 2015 | Epic Fantasy novel | 25.10.2015 |
| Der Name aller Dinge | Jenn Lyons | 2019 | Fantasy Roman | 09.01.2021 |
| Beyond the Hallowed Sky | Ken MacLeod | 2021 | Space Opera novel | 26.11.2021 |
| The Velocity of Revolution | Marshall Ryan Maresca | 2021 | Dieselpunk novel | 09.02.2021 |
| The Kingdom of Liars | Nick Martell | 2020 | High Fantasy novel | 07.06.2020 |
| The Two-Faced Queen | Nick Martell | 2021 | Fantasy novel | 25.03.2021 |
| The Thief on the Winged Horse | Kate Mascarenhas | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 26.11.2020 |
| I Am Legend | Richard Matheson | 1954 | Horror novel | 07.05.2015 |
| Winter’s Orbit | Everina Maxwell | 2021 | Sci-Fi novel | 02.02.2021 |
| Four Hundred Billion Stars | Paul McAuley | 1988 | Planetary Romance novel SF | 26.09.2021 |
| The Quiet War | Paul McAuley | 2008 | SF novel | 31.03.2017 |
| Star Trek Picard – Die letzte und einzige Hoffnung | Una McCormack | 2020 | SF | 27.02.2020 |
| Dreamsnake | Vonda N. McIntyre | 1978 | SF novel | 01.09.2015 |
| The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | Patricia A. McKillip | 1974 | Fantasy novel | 05.12.2021 |
| Dream of Distant Shores | Patricia A. McKillip | 2016 | Fantasy Collection | 25.03.2016 |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurty | 1985 | Western novel | 15.11.2020 |
| Dragons & Mythical Creatures | Gerrie McCall, Chris McNab | 2020 | Fantasy picture book | 14.05.2020 |
| The City & the City | China Miéville | 2009 | Fantasy novel | 14.10.2021 |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller | 1959 | SF novel | 01.06.2015 |
| Circe | Madeline Miller | 2018 | Mythological Fiction novel | 30.09.2021 |
| Quantum Shadows | L.E. Modesitt Jr. | 2020 | SF novel | 09.05.2020 |
| Gallowglass | S.J. Morden | 2020 | Space Opera | 10.12.2020 |
| The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August | Claire North | 2014 | Time Travel novel | 04.09.2020 |
| Sweet Harmony | Claire North | 2020 | Near Future SF novella | 22.09.2020 |
| Noor | Nnedi Okorafor | 2021 | Cyberpunk Africanfuturism novel | 16.11.2021 |
| Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City | K.J. Parker | 2019 | Fantasy novel | 18.08.2020 |
| How To Rule An Empire and Get Away With It | K.J. Parker | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 20.08.2020 |
| Schwarzer Dolch: Chroniken der Seelenfänger 1 | Alexey Pehov | 2016 | Fantasy | 16.05.2016 |
| The Ninth Metal | Benjamin Percy | 2021 | SF Western novel | 01.06.2021 |
| We are Satellites | Sarah Pinsker | 2021 | Near Future SF novel | 01.05.2021 |
| Gateway | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | SF novel | 06.04.2015 |
| Gateway (Heechee Saga #1) | Frederik Pohl | 1977 | Space Opera novel | 08.03.2021 |
| 2084 – Eine Zeitreise durch den Klimawandel | James Lawrence Powell | 2020 | Dystopischer Roman | 30.09.2020 |
| The Fractured Void | Tim Pratt | 2020 | Space Opera novel | 03.11.2020 |
| The Prestige | Christopher Priest | 1995 | SF Fantasy Horror novel | 12.04.2021 |
| Der goldene Kompass | Philip Pullman | 1995 | Sci-Fi Novel | 04.06.2021 |
| Der goldene Kompass | Philip Pullman | 1995 | Sci-Fi Novel | 04.06.2021 |
| The Remoras | Robert Reed | 1994 | Transhuman SF novelette | 28.09.2021 |
| Marrow | Robert Reed | 2000 | BDO SF novel | 27.09.2021 |
| Vampire State Building | Ange, Patrick Renault | 2020 | Vampire Graphic Novel | 11.06.2020 |
| Inhibitor Phase | Alastair Reynolds | 2021 | Space Opera novel | 26.08.2021 |
| Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse | 2020 | High Fantasy novel | 04.04.2021 |
| Antarctica | Kim Stanley Robinson | 1997 | CliFi novel | 24.05.2020 |
| Galileo’s Dream | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2009 | Time travel novel | 23.12.2020 |
| Aurora | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2015 | SF novel | 16.08.2015 |
| Green Earth | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2015 | CliFi novel | 18.09.2021 |
| New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2017 | CliFi novel | 19.09.2021 |
| The Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2020 | CliFi novel | 08.10.2020 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | 1998 | Urban Fantasy Novel | 30.05.2021 |
| Dark One | Brandon Sanderson | 2021 | Fantasy Graphic Novel | 18.05.2021 |
| The Tower of Fools | Andrzej Sapkowski | 1994 (engl. 2020) | Historical fantasy novel | 26.10.2020 |
| The Collapsing Empire | John Scalzi | 2017 | Space Operetta | 02.04.2017 |
| The Dispatcher | John Scalzi | 2017 | novella | 09.04.2017 |
| Krieg der Klone – die Trilogie | John Scalzi | 2020 | SF Omnibus | 04.07.2020 |
| The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V.E. Schwab | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 06.10.2020 |
| The Priory of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon | 2019 | High Fantasy novel | 07.02.2021 |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | 1989 | SF novel | 07.06.2015 |
| The Vela | Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, SL Huang, and Rivers Solomon | 2019 | Space Opera | 25.08.2020 |
| Sorrowland | Rivers Solomon | 2021 | Superhero novel | 06.05.2021 |
| Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | 2015 | SF novel | 31.01.2016 |
| The Bone Shard Daughter | Andrea Stewart | 2020 | Fantasy novel | 10.09.2020 |
| The Bone Shard Emperor | Andrea Stewart | 2021 | Romantasy novel | 25.11.2021 |
| Dead Lies Dreaming | Charles Stross | 2020 | Urban Fantasy novel | 29.10.2020 |
| Fearless | Allen Stroud | 2020 | Space Opera | 20.03.2020 |
| The Binge Watcher’s Guide to the Harry Potter Films | Cecilia Tan | 2020 | Non-fiction novel | 14.06.2020 |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | SF novel | 20.06.2015 |
| The Doors of Eden | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2020 | SF novel | 11.02.2020 |
| Shards of Earth | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2021 | Space Opera novel | 27.05.2021 |
| Grass | Sheri S. Tepper | 1989 | SF novel | 01.06.2015 |
| Mockingbird | Walter Tevis | 1980 | Dystopian novel | 15.06.2021 |
| Rosewater | Tade Thompson | 2018 (deutsch 20 | First Contact SF Roman | 22.11.2020 |
| Central Station | Lavie Tidhar | 2015 | Posthumanity SF novel | 07.02.2016 |
| Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | 2014 | SF novel | 29.04.2015 |
| The Snow Queen | Joan D. Vinge | 1980 | Science Fantasy novel | 15.10.2021 |
| Savage Legion | Matt Wallace | 2020 | Military Fantasy novel | 21.07.2020 |
| Among Others | Jo Walton | 2011 | Fantasy novel | 13.10.2021 |
| The Sword of Kaigen | M.L. Wang | 2018 | Fantasy novel | 04.01.2021 |
| Artemis | Andy Weir | 2017 | Hard SF novel | 05.08.2017 |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 2021 | Space Opera novel | 09.06.2021 |
| Ashes of the Sun | Django Wexler | 2020 | High Fantasy novel | 21.07.2020 |
| Where Late the Sweet Birds Sing | Kate Wilhelm | 1976 | SF novel | 17.05.2015 |
| Brothers of the Wind | Tad Williams | 2021 | High Fantasy novel | 02.11.2021 |
| Doomsday Book | Connie Willies | 1992 | SF novel | 24.10.2021 |
| The Fifth Head of Cerberus | Gene Wolfe | 1972 | SF novel | 07.06.2015 |
| Peace | Gene Wolfe | 1975 | Literary novel | 17.02.2020 |
| Doorways in the Sand | Roger Zelazny | 1975 | SF novel | 11.04.2016 |
Non-Fiction books
Non-fiction books are not sorted.
| Title with Link to Review | Author(s) | Publication Year | Genre and Category | Blog Post Date |
| Tolkien at Exeter College | John Garth | 2014 | Non-fiction biography | 08.02.2016 |
| A Beauty arrived today: The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn | Paul Davies | 2017 | Art book | 13.06.2020 |
| The Sirens of Mars | Sarah Stewart Johnson | 2020 | Non-fiction book | 20.07.2020 |
| Im Kernschatten des Mondes – Die unbekannten Heldinnen der NASA | Margot Lee Shetterly | 2020 | Non fiction book | 25.07.2020 |
| Ancient Egypt [Visual Explorer Guide] | Peter Mavrikis | 2020 | Non fiction book | 16.09.2020 |
| Wonders of the World | Claudia Martin | 2020 | Non fiction book | 13.09.2020 |
| Licht im Dunkeln – Schwarze Löcher, das Universum und wir | Heino Falcke | 2020 | Non fiction book | 24.10.2020 |
| Dreams of El Dorado – A History of the American West | H. W. Brands | 2020 | History Book | 04.11.2020 |
| The Art of NASA – The Illustrations That Sold the Missions | Piers Bizony | 2020 | Art Book | 16.11.2020 |
| Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030 | Catherine Tubb & Tony Seba | 2020 | Non-fiction book | 11.02.2021 |
| Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control | Stuart Russel | 2019 | Non-fiction book | 23.02.2021 |
| The Real J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man who created Middle-Earth | Jesse Xander | 2021 | Non-fiction book | 27.02.2021 |
| William Gibson and the Future of Contemporary Culture | Mitch R. Murray & Mathias Nilges | 2021 | Non-fiction essay antho | 15.03.2021 |
| Final Report of the National Security Commission on AI | Eric Schmidt, Robert Work | 2021 | Non-fiction book | 19.03.2021 |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom | 2014 | Non-fiction book | 26.03.2021 |
| How to Avoid a Climate Disaster | Bill Gates | 2021 | Non-fiction book | 28.03.2021 |
| For Cats Only / Nur für Katzen | Pascale Weber | 2021 | Novelty Book | 16.07.2021 |
| The Art of Sushi | Franckie Alarcon | 2021 | Graphic Documentary | 14.12.2021 |
| The Art and Soul of Dune | Tanya Lapointe | 2021 | Graphic Documentary | 01.01.2022 |
| Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth | John Garth | 2003 | Biography | 04.01.2022 |
Anthologies and Collections
Anthologies and Collections are sorted by publication year.
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