All book reviews published or referenced on the blog (270 and counting) are listed chronologically under the tag #bookreview, but here I'll try to present them in some meaningful order. I'm going backwards chronologically and by this update (24.10.) I've worked my way back to June 2012.
Some of the books I read/reviewed in 2025-2026. Own photo.
1) books I reviewed in blog entries
(books in all languages, there are language-specific tags for French, Galician, German, Latin, Spanish ):
Isabel Allende Más allá del invierno
Isabel Allende Violeta Plaza & Janes 2022
Uwe Anhäuser Schinderhannes und seine Bande Rhein-Mosel-Verlag 2003
Neal Ascherson Black Sea. Coasts and conquests: from Pericles to Putin Vintage Paperback 2015
Philip Ball The music instinct: how music works and why we can’t do without it Bodley Head 2010 / Vintage Paperback 2011
Simone de Beauvoir Les inséparables L'herne 2020
Anna Beer Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music One World 2017
Gioconda Belli El país de las mujeres (2010)
Jesse Bering Perv – the sexual deviant in all of us
Leah Broad Quartet: How four women changed the musical world Faber & Faber 2023
Timothy Brook Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
George Buchanan The making of stringed instruments A workshop guide Batsford 1989
Mercedes Cebrián Cocido y violonchelo Penguin Random House Literatura 2022
Tom Chatfield Netymology
Tracy Chevalier The glassmaker The Borough Press 2025
Nicholas Crane Mercator: The man who mapped the planet Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002 / Phoenix paperback 2003
Joe Dunthorne Children of radium: A buried inheritance Hamish Hamilton 2025
Anthony Everitt The first emperor – Caesar Augustus and the triumph of Rome John Murry Publishers 2006
Toby Faber Stradivarius (US title: Stradivari’s genius) Macmillan 2004 / Pan 2005
Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad Asterix: Le papyrus de César
Allen Frances Essentials of psychiatric diagnosis: Responding to the challenge of DSM-5 The Guilford Press, New York, June 2013
Peter Frankopan Silk roads: A new history of the World Bloomsbury 2015
Hadley Freeman House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family 4th estate paperback, 2021
Esther Freud Lucky break
Esther Freud I couldn't love you more Bloomsbury 2021
Anne Golon Angélique Marquise des Anges
Edward Gordon and A.F.L. Deeson Book of Bloomsbury Published in 1950 by Edward Gordon (Arts) Limited, 9 Great Russell Street, WC1
Almudena Grandes Castillos de cartón
Viv Groskop The Anna Karenina fix Harry N. Abrams, 2018 Penguin 2019
Ursula Le Guin Lavinia Phoenix Paperback 2010
Sabine Henze-Döhring Friedrich der Große: Musiker und Monarch CH Beck 2012
Nora Hespers Mein Opa, sein Widerstand gegen die Nazis und ich (My Grandfather, His Resistance Against the Nazis and I) Suhrkamp 2021
John Holt Never too late: My musical life story Delacorte 1978; Da Capo 1991
W. O. von Horn Ausgewählte Erzählungen J.D. Sauerländer in 1892
Ernst Horst Die Nackten und die Tobenden Blessing Verlag 2013
Steven Isserlis, The Bach Cello Suites: A companion Faber & Faber 2021
Louise Jacobs Café Heimat Ullstein Taschenbuch 2007
Kate Kennedy Cello: A journey through silence to sound Head of Zeus 2024
Stephane Kirkland Paris reborn St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2013
Min Kym Gone: A girl, a violin, a life unstrung Viking 2017
Ulla Lachauer Paradiesstraße 3rd ed. 2001
Laila Lalami The Moor’s account
Elena Lappin What language do I dream in? Virago 2016
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Inherit the truth / Die Wahrheit erben Giles de la Mare 1996 / Weidle Verlag 1997
Astrid Lindgren A world gone mad The wartime diaries of Astrid Lindgren
Charles Loft Last trains: Dr Beeching and the death of rural England Biteback Publishing 2023 (original hardback 2013)
Santiago Lopo Hora zulú Editorial Galaxia 2016 (in Galician) Mar Maior 2016 (Spanish)
Santiago Lopo A arte de Trobar Editorial Xerais, October 2017.
Jonathan Margolis O: The intimate history of the orgasm Century, 2003
Tim Marshall Prisoners of geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics Elliott and Thompson paperback edition last updated 2019
Patrick Modiano Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue folio
Hildegard Möller Malerinnen und Musen des »Blauen Reiters« Piper Verlag 2007
Charlotte Moore Hancox: a house and a family
D. L. Murray Folly Bridge: A romantic tale Hodder and Stoughton 1945
Sten Nadolny Ullsteinroman Ullstein 2004
Carlos Núñez La hermandad de los celtas Espasa 2018
Uschi Obermaier, Olaf Kraemer High Times – Mein wildes Leben Heyne 2008
Philip Oltermann Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters Faber and Faber 2012
Nicholas Ostler Ad Infinitum – A biography of Latin Harper Press 2007
Katherine Pancol Bed bug Albin Michel 2019
Eli Pariser The Filter Bubble Penguin 2011
Mike Parker Pearson, Joshua Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, Kate Welham. Stonehenge: Making Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery Council for British Archaeology's Archaeology for All 2015
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert Planetary systems: a very short introduction Oxford University Press 2021
Alexander Pschera Animal internet
Owen Rees The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past Bloomsbury 2025
María Reimóndez O club de calceta Edicions Xerais 2006
Jean Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir, mon père Hachette 1962 / Gallimard 1981
Dave Richardson Oxford pubs Amberley Publishing 2015
Sophy Roberts The lost pianos of Siberia Transworld / Penguin 2020
Beaty Rubens Listen in: How radio changed the home Bodleian Library Publishing 2025
Rubricastellanus (translator) Asterix in Latin
Alan Rusbridger Play it again: An amateur against the impossible Vintage paperback 2014
Phyllis Ryerse Rich Men, Poor Men: Ryersons on the Titanic Amberley Publishing 2012
Ernst Schütz Trarbach in alter Zeit Traben-Trarbach 1909
Eric Siblin The cello suites: In search of a baroque masterpiece Vintage paperback 2011
Dai Sijie Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise folio
Josef Škvorecký Dvorak in Love: A light-hearted dream Original title of the Czech edition: Scherzo capriccioso 1984
Leïla Slimani Dans le jardin de l’ogre Editions folio
Leïla Slimani Le parfum des fleurs la nuit Editions folio
Leïla Slimani Le pays des autres Editions folio
Mark Small and Jack Shoulder Museum bums: A cheeky looks at butts in art Chronicle Books 2023
PD Smith city – a guidebook for the urban age Bloomsbury 2012
Emma Southon A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Oneworld 2023
Tom Standage A history of the world in six glasses Atlantic Books 2007
Anxos Sumai Así nacen as baleas Galaxia 2007
Vanessa Tait The looking-glass house Corvus paperback 2016
Nick Thorpe The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest Yale University Press 2014
Uwe Timm Morenga published 1983, new edition: dtv, 2020
Polly Toynbee An uneasy inheritance - My family and other radicals Atlantic Books 2023
Barbara Trapido The travelling hornplayer
Jetta Marie Vasak My Bohemian Heritage
Margaret Ward The female line: Researching your female ancestors Countryside Books 2003
Laurence Waters Railways of Oxford A transport hub that links Britain Pen & Sword 2020
Hans Werder (Anna von Bonin) Die Meistergeige (the master violin) Otto Janke Verlag 1914
J. Wetter Die Prüfung zum Stationsvorsteher und Güterexpedienten, sowie zum Stationsassistenten im Deutschen und insbesondere Preussischen Staats-Eisenbahndienste Baedeker Elberfeld 1889
Pip Williams The dictionary of lost words Vintage Paperback 2022
Pip Williams The bookbinder of Jericho Vintage Paperback 2024
Kenneth Wilson Highway cello City Village Books 2023
Leslie Wilson Last train from Kummersdorf Faber & Faber 2003
Simon Winder Germania: A personal history of Germans ancient and modern Picador 2010
Gareth Winrow The Butcher, The Tailor, The Picture-Frame Maker... Stories of Middle Way The Book Guild 2023
Evie Woods The Violin Maker’s Secret Harper Collins 2026
2) books I reviewed in magazines (mostly in C&I)
Jim Al-Khalili Paradox: the nine greatest enigmas in science
Kathleen M. Araujo Low Carbon Energy Transitions Oxford University Press 2018
Arkbound foundation Climate adaptations
J. Barber, A.V. Ruban, eds. Photosynthesis and bioenergetics World Scientific 2018
Keith Barnham The burning answer: a user’s guide to the solar revolution Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2014
Virginia Berridge Demons - our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco and drugs OUP 2013
David Brafman Art of Alchemy: From the Middle Ages to Modern Times (Wunderkammer)
Greg Brennecka Impact: How rocks from space led to life, culture and Donkey Kong William Morrow 2022
Jeffrey Bub Bananaworld
Nessa Carey Junk DNA: a journey through the dark matter of the genome
Susan Casey The underworld: Journeys to the depths of the oceans Penguin 2024
Gregory Chatel Sonochemistry
Lars Chittka The mind of a bee Princeton University Press:
Natanya Civjan, ed. Natural products in chemical biology J. Wiley & Sons, 2012
Alexander Clapp Waste wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish John Murray 2025
Peter Crane Ginkgo: The tree that time forgot
Madeleine Djabourov, Katsuyoshi Nishinari, Simon B. Ross-Murphy Physical gels from biological and synthetic polymers Cambridge University Press 2013
Peter Frankopan The Earth transformed
Michael Freemantle Nature's amazing chemistry Royal Society of Chemistry 2025
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in chemistry Doubleday, 2022
Jaime Green The possibility of life
Kersten T. Hall Insulin The Crooked Timber : A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold OUP (20 Jan 2022)
Paul Halpern Synchronicity
Paul Halpern Einstein’s dice and Schrödinger’s cat: How two great minds battled quantum randomness to create a unified theory of physics Basic Books 2015
James Hamilton-Paterson Stuck monkey: The deadly planetary cost of the things we love Head of Zeus 2023
Alan Heeger Never lose your nerve!
R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison, eds. Still only one Earth: Progress in the 40 years since the first UN Conference on the Environment RSC publishing, 2015 (vol 40 of the series: Issues in Environmental Science and Technology)
Tessa Hill and Eric Simons At every depth
Winfried Hoffmann The economic competitiveness of renewable energy - pathways to 100% global coverage
Sabrina Imbler My life in sea creatures Chatto & Windus 2022
Ferris Jabr Becoming Earth Picador 2024
Rangasamy Jayakumar and Vishnu Priya Murali, eds. Natural biopolymers in drug delivery and tissue engineering Elsevier 2024
Jung-Il Jin and James Grote, eds. Materials Science of DNA CRC Press 2012
Annette Kehnel The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability Profile Books 2024
Brook S. Kennedy Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century
Sadiq Khan Breathe: Tackling the climate emergency Hutchinson Heinemann 2023
Lucie Laplane Cancer Stem Cells: Philosophy and Therapies
Yoon S. Lee Self-assembly and nanotechnology systems: Design, characterization, and applications Wiley 2012
Ray Mackintosh, Jim Al-Khalili, Björn Jonson, Teresa Peña Nucleus: A trip into the heart of matter Dundee University Press. Second edition. 2011
Simone Marchi Colliding Worlds
Richard Martin Superfuel – Thorium, the green energy source for the future Palgrave Macmillan
Kate Moore The radium girls Simon & Schuster 2016
Nobuko Nakano Lucky people: A neuroscientist's guide to attracting luck, cultivating success and leading a happier life Gallery Books 2026
Jason Parisi and Justin Ball The future of fusion energy World Scientific 2019
Morgan Phillips Great adaptations
Addy Pross What is life?
Alex Prud'homme Hydrofracking: what everyone needs to know
Chittaranjan Ray, Ravi Jain Low cost emergency water purification technologies Elsevier 2014
Andrew S. Reynolds Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences Cambridge University Press 2022
Jeremy Rifkin Planet Aqua: Rethinking our home in the Universe Polity Press 2024
Harriet Rix The genius of trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world Bodley Head 2025
Matthias Rögner, ed Biohydrogen
Paul Sabin The bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and our gamble over Earth's future
Ed Schoonveld The price of global health: drug pricing strategies to balance patient access and the funding of innovation Routledge
Joachim Schummer, Tom Børsen, eds. Ethics of chemistry
Berend Smit, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Curtis M. Oldenburg, Ian C. Bourg Introduction to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (The Berkeley Lectures on Energy, Vol. 1) Imperial College Press
Gary Smith Distrust: big data. data torturing and the assault on science OUP 2023
Dava Sobel The elements of Marie Curie Fourth Estate 2024
Giles Sparrow A History of the Universe in 21 Stars: (and 3 Imposters) Welbeck, London 2020
Devi Sridhar How Not to Die (too soon): The Lies We’ve Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us Penguin Viking 2025
Richard Susskind How to think about AI - a guide for the perplexed OUP 2025
Roberto Trotta Starborn
Jennifer R. Vail Friction - a biography The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2026
Claire Vallance Astrochemistry World Scientific Press 2017
Frank Verstraete and Céline Broeckaert Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics
Gaia Vince Nomad Century Allen Lane 2022
Andrew Waterhouse, Gavin Sacks, David Jeffery Understanding wine chemistry Wiley 2024
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams The goldilocks planet
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets
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