Books read in November 2018

As per usual, by default I’m just stating whether I’d recommend the book (yes/maybe/no), whether I decided not to finish it (DNF), whether it’s a re-read, and whether I can remember there being any content that needs to be warned for (cw). I’m happy to expand on the reasons for my opinions if anyone is interested though — just comment and ask.

Definitely recommend:

• Word By Word, Kory Stamper (cw: racial slurs, ablist slurs)
• Untouchable, Mulk Raj Anand (re-read) (cw: racism, casteism, racial slurs, colonialism)
• The Emperor’s Soul, Brandon Sanderson (cw: race as destiny)
• The Devil's Novice, Dead Man's Ransom, The Pilgrim of Hate, An Excellent Mystery, The Raven in the Foregate, The Rose Rent, The Hermit of Eyton Forest, The Confession of Brother Haluin, The Heretic's Apprentice, The Holy Thief, Brother Cadfael's Penance, Ellis Peters (all re-reads) (cw: child betrothal, approval of the Crusades, violence, murder, self-harm, slavery, fatphobia, ablism, ablist slurs)

Maybe recommend:

• The Red Threads of Fortune (re-read), The Black Tides of Heaven (re-read), and The Descent of Monsters, J Y Yang (cw: child death, animal death, graphic descriptions of dead bodies)
• Starlings, Jo Walton
• Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters (re-read) (cw: violence, self-harm, fatphobia, racial slurs, ablism, rape, child abuse)

Wouldn’t recommend:

• When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro (re-read) (cw: misogyny, racism, graphic descriptions of dead bodies)

What have you recently read and enjoyed? (Feel free to point towards posts on your own journal.) Do you have any opinions (good or bad) on the books above?