Excession – Iain M. Banks
Banks’ fifth novel in the series attempts to explore… well, i honestly have no idea.
Fiction
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
Another book in the ‘what if it had all gone differently’ genre
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
At the heart of this story is the fact that, yes, life is scarier than any monster our imaginations can come up with.
The State of the Art – Iain M. Banks
A short story collection with one novella from the Culture series
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
A short little novel about a side of Albania travelers hopefully won’t see – bloodfeuds
Never Deal with a Dragon – Robert N. Charrette
The first book in the novelized series from the Shadowrun RPG universe
Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks
The third Culture Novel, wherein the weapon is a not particularly nice person.
Osama – Lavie Tidhar
Did you ever wish Philip K Dick sucked a little less? Well do I have news for you!
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Second Culture novel was as good as the first
The File on H – Ismail Kadare
A funny short novel of the ‘strangers come to town’ variety by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare
Failures in Polymathy 