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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

show some respect to Leguin, autocorrect.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Autocorrect should NOT be allowed. Leggings. Ffs

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

These are the books of 2026 so far! Continuing to read less but there are some bangers in there.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Also probably one of the first portrayal of BSL (the main detective/hero is mute and speaks only in sign).

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Murder! Baby abandonment! Secret Wives! Asylum Escapes! Long lost twins!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 32: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Trail of the Serpent. Holy. Moly. This is one wild ride.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 31: Jules Verne, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. Science! Submarines! Sea creatures!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 30: Sophie Morton-Thomas, Birdspotting in a Small Town. Morton-Thomas successfully creates a tightness and inescapabity of characters stuck with each other. Not sure how I feel about the reveal.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 29: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw. Never fails to unsettle.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I genuinely loved this and will definitely be reading more Tommy and Tuppence adventures. Underrated Christie mains.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 27: Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary. The first Tommy and Tuppence novel. Plucky young lady gets embroiled in SPIES.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 26: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Bizarre cases!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 25: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Jane has terrible taste in men.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 24: Ashley Stokes, Gigantic. Search for a giant hominid in Surrey. This book was blurbed as being funny but I just found the narrator insufferable and sad.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 23: Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case. A murder has occurred! Which sister did it?

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 22: Christina Henry, The Ghost Tree. Compulsive and dark suburban murder mystery.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 21: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, The Sultan's Organ. Readable historical contextualising of Thomas Dallam's Journey to the Levant.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 20: Sarena Ulibarri, Another Life. What if genetic proof of reincarnation was discovered and you learned you were once a terrible dude?

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 19: Pauline Oliveros, Quantum Listening. Sound meditations.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 18: Paul Wood, London is a Forest. Traces 6 walks through the London finding echoes and remnants of old and ancient forests while imagining new wooded possibilities for the city.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 17: Kirsty Eyre, Cow Girl. Queer lady's PhD is interrupted by having to save her dad's farm. V fun.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book of Cats is an endearing posthumous collection of her letters drawings, poems, and memories of her beloved cats.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 16: Ursula K Leguin's Book of Cats. Leggings will always be beloved for Earthsea and Left Hand of Darkness but to me I will always first remember her as author of Catwings, a series of illustrated children's stories about flying cats! Also her cat blog.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 15: Jeff Hilson, Organ Music. Poems. Organs give rise to savage political commentary!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 14: Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle. Unlikely friendship between two women on a quest for an impossible beetle.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 13: Sim Kern, Seeds for the Swarm. Teen boarding school/sci fi about life in a water-scarce world.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 12: Rym Kychacha, The Apple and the Pearl. I really loved this. Short novel about creating theatre for the fay.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 11: Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree. High feminist and queer retelling of St George Myth. I rely wanted to like it but the characters fell flat for me.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 10: Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter. It's cold and it's sad.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 9 was Salt Slow, a collection of short stories that are gently horrifying and funny. Instantly converted into an Armfield fan for life.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 8, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea. This is unnervingly weird and terrifying and hopeful and beautifully tragic. How you love people who are slipping away from you.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 7: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot. It's a sad one!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 6: Doris Lessing, On Cats. Leasing is unromantic and unapologetic about the cats who were part of her life.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 5: Jon Day, Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings, and Why We Return. Chronicaling Day's entry into pigeon racing and his fascination with these often unloved birds.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 4: Harriet Lowther, Tell Your Dog I Love Them. Just the most expressive line drawings of dogs.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 3: David Taylor, The Little Tortiseshell Cat Book. Mad little book from the 90s. Featuring cat horoscopes.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 2: Catherine Aird, Patricia Highsmith, Edmund Crispin, Ellis Peters, A Case of the Claws: Classic Tales of Feline Crime. Murder mysteries featuring cats!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 1: Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson, You are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder. Visual golden age murder mystery where, yes, you are the detective.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Okay I'm back: The Books of 2026!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Will return soon with The Books of 2026!

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Those were the books of 2025! I read less than usual last year because of various Life Happenings. So it goes. Some excellent ones in there tho.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 73: Kiera Chapman et al, Nature's Calendar: The British Year in 72 Seasons. Based on the idea of "microseasons", a book which invites you to be attentive to the small changes of the year.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 72: Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family. Interesting unlikeable narrator. I found it too claustrophobic to be enjoyable.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I ain't gettin' into Odyssey discourse.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 71: Trans Emily Wilson, The Odyssey. I guess this is a topical one now?

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 70: Anne Louise Avery, Reynard the Fox. Just a gorgeous edition and energetic translation.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 69: terrible terrible romance novel.

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Erin J @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Book 68: Mahaila Smith, Seed Beetle. Verse sci fi novel: what happens when productivity apps hack our brains. Sad, believable, and hopeful

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