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• The Three-Body Problem reviewed by @sam

  7/ 107 out of 10

  The game, yes. The people, no. Finished it anyway.

  The Three-Body Problem · @sam · 3 Feb 2026

• Milk and Honey reviewed by @mx_marginalia

  2/ 102 out of 10

  Two out of ten, and I want to be exact about where my unfairness starts, because the cheap version of this review is beneath everyone.

  Milk and Honey · @mx_marginalia · 3 Feb 2026

• Cheer Up Love reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  A warm hand on the shoulder and also a scalpel. She takes the Black Dog for a walk and makes you laugh at it; I cried on the 47 bus and did not care who saw.

  Cheer Up Love · @an_ordinary_tuesday · 1 Feb 2026

• The Body Keeps the Score reviewed by @nightshiftnurse

  6/ 106 out of 10

  important. also enormous.

  The Body Keeps the Score · @nightshiftnurse · 1 Feb 2026

• The Three-Body Problem reviewed by @kepler22b

  8/ 108 out of 10

  the simulation sequences are the reason to read it. characterisation is thin & the sophons are silly. the translator's notes are better company than some of the middle chapters.

  The Three-Body Problem · @kepler22b · 31 Jan 2026

• Siddhartha reviewed by @dr_bramble

  6/ 106 out of 10

  A fig tree that is just a fig tree

  Siddhartha · @dr_bramble · 31 Jan 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review

• A Short History of Nearly Everything reviewed by @books_and_bins

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Bryson's the boy for this stuff. I now know roughly how big the earth is and who worked it out first, which is more than school managed.

  A Short History of Nearly Everything · @books_and_bins · 30 Jan 2026

• Thinking, Fast and Slow reviewed by @sam

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Two systems. Fine.

  Thinking, Fast and Slow · @sam · 29 Jan 2026

• Thinking, Fast and Slow reviewed by @kepler22b

  9/ 109 out of 10

  parts one and two hold up. the priming material in the middle didn't replicate & he said so himself afterwards, which counts for something. still the clearest account of the two-system framing i've read.

  Thinking, Fast and Slow · @kepler22b · 29 Jan 2026

• Mexican Gothic reviewed by @bleakhouse_bex

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Lovely house, silly answer

  Mexican Gothic · @bleakhouse_bex · 29 Jan 2026

  22 readers agree with this review

• Piranesi reviewed by @rereader

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Second, six months after the first, which is the shortest gap anywhere on my list. Knowing the answer costs it something real; what survives is the tides, the statues, the birds, and the journal dates, which I read properly this time.

  Piranesi · @rereader · 28 Jan 2026

• The Fifth Season reviewed by @grimdarkgareth

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Eight. Properly grim and never once edgy about it. Opens by telling you the world's ending and then makes you care about a schoolteacher anyway — how? Second person did my head in for fifty pages and then I stopped noticing it entirely.

  The Fifth Season · @grimdarkgareth · 28 Jan 2026

• The Stranger reviewed by @sam

  7/ 107 out of 10

  He shot him.

  The Stranger · @sam · 28 Jan 2026

• Jane Eyre reviewed by @bleakhouse_bex

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The attic! Everyone remembers the attic and forgets that most of this is a freezing school and an enormous amount of walking. Both halves are great, actually. Rochester is a red flag on a horse and I'd still have got in the carriage.

  Jane Eyre · @bleakhouse_bex · 27 Jan 2026

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reviewed by @rereader

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Fifth time. Spreadsheet says fifth.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · @rereader · 26 Jan 2026

  55 readers agree with this review

• Blood Meridian reviewed by @grimdarkgareth

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Ten. This is my ceiling now.

  Blood Meridian · @grimdarkgareth · 24 Jan 2026

• Siddhartha reviewed by @w_okonkwo

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Fine as a fable. I keep meeting people for whom it counts as having thought about something.

  Siddhartha · @w_okonkwo · 23 Jan 2026

• House of Leaves reviewed by @bleakhouse_bex

  5/ 105 out of 10

  I wanted to love it so much. Turned the book upside down in a Wetherspoons and a man at the next table asked if I was alright. Five: all of it for the house, none of it for the tattooist and his footnotes.

  House of Leaves · @bleakhouse_bex · 21 Jan 2026

• One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @the_slow_reader

  9/ 109 out of 10

  In the original, obviously.

  One Hundred Years of Solitude · @the_slow_reader · 19 Jan 2026

• The Hobbit reviewed by @thebigsleepy

  8/ 108 out of 10

  November to February, which is far too long for a book this size, but there we are. Best read in the dark with one lamp. Smaug talking is the bit I stayed awake for.

  The Hobbit · @thebigsleepy · 19 Jan 2026

• Man's Search for Meaning reviewed by @dr_bramble

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The dying woman and the chestnut branch outside her window has stayed with me for fifteen years (Aesculus hippocastanum; two blossoms puts it in May). Part two I have never managed to love.

  Man's Search for Meaning · @dr_bramble · 19 Jan 2026

• Thinking, Fast and Slow reviewed by @dnf_diaries

  5/ 105 out of 10

  DNF at p.180, 11 May. The findings are interesting and the prose is a committee; I kept reading the same paragraph twice and finding it had not moved. Read instead: the summaries, honestly.

  Thinking, Fast and Slow · @dnf_diaries · 18 Jan 2026

• Dune reviewed by @books_and_bins

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Everybody telt me this would change my life. It's a decent desert war book with a glossary at the back. Six.

  Dune · @books_and_bins · 18 Jan 2026

• The Iliad reviewed by @thebigsleepy

  8/ 108 out of 10

  A log, since I can't honestly review it properly.

  The Iliad · @thebigsleepy · 18 Jan 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review