Here you can find my review scores for the books I read.
I largely read e-books on my eReader, although almost all of the books related to ships and sailing are part of my small but dear to me maritime library.
I’m writing my mini-reviews since 2013, just for fun. The reviews are not published (yet?), but the scores are.
All scores are given on a scale from 0 to 10, with exceptional titles given 11 (because why not?).
Reviews per year: 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
2026
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Валериан Альбанов - На Юг, к Земле Франца-Иосифа | 10 |
| Brian Aldiss - Non-Stop | 9 |
| Dan Abnett - Hereticus (Eisenhorn #3) | 9 |
| Julian Sancton - Madhouse at the end of the Earth | 9 |
| Richard de Kerbrech and David Williams - Harland & Wolff and Workman, Clark | 9 |
| Tom Nancollas - Seashaken Houses | 9 |
| William Barr - Tragedies and Triumph in the North: Russian Exploration of the Arctic 1910-1915 | 9 |
| Beau Riffenburgh - A Tragedy of Errors: The Saga of the Disastrous Jeannette Expedition | 8 |
| Ben Counter - Galaxy In Flames | 8 |
| Dan Abnett - Horus Rising | 8 |
| Dan Abnett - Maleus (Eisenhorn #2) | 8 |
| Michael English - Sailing the Irish Famine Tall Ship Jeanie Johnston | 8 |
| Nikki Girvan - To Save Every One: 200 Years of RNLI courage | 8 |
| Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz | 8 |
| Dan Abnett - Xenos (Eisenhorn #1) | 7 |
| Graham McNeill - False Gods | 7 |
| Howard Clarke, Sheila Dooley, Ruth Johnson - Dublin and the Viking World | 7 |
| Frank Herbert - Dune | 6 |
| Tom McCluskie - The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff | 6 |
| Северный Морской Путь и Освоение Русской Арктики | 5 |
2025
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Bernard Meehan - The Book of Kells | 11 |
| Anthony Lane & Martin Augustus - Lightships: Their Design, Development and Diversity | 10 |
| Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country | 10 |
| Michael Smith - An Unsung Hero | 10 |
| Peter Goodwin - The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War | 10 |
| Beau Riffenburgh - Exploring Shackleton | 9 |
| Cormac F. Lowth - Ringsend Sailing Trawlers | 9 |
| Grady Hillhouse - Engineering in Plain Sight | 9 |
| Hampton Sides - The Wide Wide Sea | 9 |
| Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People | 9 |
| Angus Konstam - Nile River Gunboats 1882-1918 | 8 |
| David Johnson - Brickmaking: History and Heritage | 8 |
| Emily Wilson - Iliad | 8 |
| Gordon Rottman - US Patrol Torpedo Boats | 8 |
| Harding McGregor Dunnett - Shackleton’s Boat: The Story of the James Caird | 8 |
| Jason Schreier - Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment | 8 |
| John Shears and Nico Vincent - Endurance | 8 |
| Lady Augusta Gregory - Irish Myths and Legends | 8 |
| Pat Sweeney - Liffey Ships & Shipbuilding | 8 |
| Ruth Delany - The Grand Canal of Ireland | 8 |
| Simon Mills - Titanic Britannic Olympic: The Anatomy and Evolution of the Olympic Class | 8 |
| William Dalrymple - The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company | 8 |
| Elizabetta Petroni, Guglielmo Dossena - Galway Hookers | 7 |
| Richard J. Scott - The Galway Hookers | 7 |
| Anne Chambers - Grace O’Malley | 6 |
| Charles Dickens - Great Expectations | 6 |
2024
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| John Harland - Seamanship in the Age of Sail | 10 |
| Neil Price - Children of Ash and Elm | 10 |
| Paul Farrell - Tugboats Illustrated | 10 |
| Eric Clemens - USS Constitution A Midshipman’s Pocket Manual 1814 | 9 |
| Ian McLaughlan - The Sloop of War: 1650-1763 | 9 |
| N.K. Jemisin - The Shadowed Sun | 9 |
| Richard Endsor - The Restoration Warship | 9 |
| Stephen Croad - The Thames Through Time | 9 |
| Brian Lavery - The Ship of the Line: A history in ship models | 8 |
| Darcy Lever - Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor | 8 |
| David Grann - The Wager | 8 |
| Eric Kentley - Cutty Sark: The Last of the Tea Clippers | 8 |
| Nick Ball - Navy Board Ship Models | 8 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear | 7 |
| N.A.M. Rodger - The Wooden World | 7 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island | 7 |
| David McWilliams - The Pope’s Children | 5 |
2023
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| N.K. Jemisin - The Killing Moon | 10 |
| Herman Melville - Moby Dick | 8 |
| Liam Clarke - Light in the Darkness: A History of Lightships and the People Who Served on Them | 8 |
| Fintan O’Toole - We don’t know ourselves | 7 |
| Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles | 7 |
| Nick Robins - The Coming of the Comet | 6 |
2022
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of The Baskervilles | 10 |
| D.K. Brown - Warrior to Dreadnought | 9 |
| Ernie O’Malley - The Singing Flame | 9 |
| Robert Gardiner - The Sailing Frigate | 9 |
| Дмитрий Глуховский - Пост. Спаси и сохрани | 9 |
| Brian Lavery - Anson’s Navy | 8 |
| Ernie O’Malley - Another Man’s Wound | 8 |
| Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos | 8 |
| Matthew Betts - Terror | 8 |
| Michael Palin - Erebus | 8 |
| N.K. Jemisin - The Kingdom of Gods | 8 |
| Aldous Huxley - Brave New World | 7 |
| C.S. Forester - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | 7 |
| Алексей Юрчак - Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось | 5 |
| Леонид Невзлин - Оставаясь в меньшинстве | 5 |
2021
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Richard Endsor - The Master Shipwrights Secrets | 11 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four | 9 |
| D.K. Brown - Before the Ironclad | 9 |
| Ernest Shackleton - South | 9 |
| J.D. Davies - Pepys’s Navy | 9 |
| Martha Wells - Exit Strategy | 9 |
| Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol | 9 |
| N.K. Jemisin - The Broken Kingdoms | 9 |
| N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms | 9 |
| Richard Endsor - The Warship Anne | 9 |
| Brian Lavery - Wooden Ship Construction: A history in ship models | 8 |
| Jeroen Van der Vliet - Willem van de Velde & son | 8 |
| Oscar Wilde - The Importance of being Earnest | 8 |
| Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Grey | 8 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet | 7 |
| Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation | 7 |
| Виктор Пелевин - iPhuck 10 | 6 |
| Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens | 5 |
2020
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Дмитрий Глуховский - Текст | 11 |
| Marie Kowal - The Calculating Stars | 10 |
| N.K. Jemisin - Broken Earth Trilogy | 10 |
| Martha Wells - Artificial Condition | 9 |
| Виктор Пелевин - Generation “П” | 9 |
| Виктор Пелевин - Чапаев и Пустота | 9 |
| Brian Kernighan - UNIX: A history and a Memoir | 8 |
| Mike Dash - Batavia’s Graveyard | 8 |
| Neal Stephenson - Fall or Dodge in Hell | 8 |
| Алексей Иванов - Тобол: Много званных | 7 |
2019
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Братья Стругацкие - Обитаемый Остров | 10 |
| Glen Cook - The Black Company | 9 |
| Виктор Пелевин - Затворник и Шестипалый | 9 |
| Виктор Пелевин - ОМОН Ра | 9 |
| Владислав Иноземцев - Несовременная страна | 9 |
| Григорий Кубатьян - Жизнь в дороге | 9 |
| Юваль Ной Харари - Sapiens | 9 |
| Петровы в гриппе и вокруг него | 8 |
| Венедикт Ерофеев - Москва-Петушки | 7 |
| Джон Бойн - Бунт на Баунти | 7 |
| Чайна Мьельвиль - Октябрь | 7 |
| Jordan B. Peterson - 12 rules for life | 6 |
| Виктор Пелевин - Желтая стрела | 6 |
2018
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| John Windham - The Day of the Triffids | 10 |
| Евгений Замятин - Мы | 10 |
| Peter Watts - Starfish | 9 |
| Фёдор Достоевский - Идиот | 9 |
| Arthur Clarke - Childhoods End | 8 |
| Josiah Bancroft - Senlin Ascends | 8 |
| Martha Wells - All Systems Red | 8 |
| Robert Heinlein - A stranger in a strange land | 7 |
| Владимир Сорокин - Норма | 6 |
| Carl Sagan - Demon Haunted World | 3 |
2017
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Peter Watts - Blindsight | 10 |
| Александр Солженицын - Один день Ивана Денисовича | 10 |
| Charles Dickens - A Tale Of Two Cities | 9 |
| Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. | 9 |
| Isaac Asimov - Nightfall | 8 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde | 8 |
| Скот Орсон Кард - Игра Эндера | 8 |
| Филлип Дик - мечтают ли андроиды об электроовцах | 8 |
| Ursula Vernon - Jackalope Wives | 7 |
| Ursula Vernon - The Tomato Thief | 7 |
| Нил Стивенсон - Зодиак | 7 |
| Шамиль Идиатуллин - Город Брежнев | 6 |
| Robert Sheckley - Watchbird | 5 |
| Юрий Олеша - Зависть | 4 |
| Кен Фоллет - Столпы Земли | 3 |
2016
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Фёдор Достоевский - Преступление и Наказание | 10 |
| Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets | 9 |
| Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone | 9 |
| Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness | 8 |
| Neal Stephenson - Seveneves | 8 |
| Peter Watts - The Island | 8 |
| William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland | 7 |
| Вернор Виндж - Пламя над бездной | 7 |
| Бернард Вербер - Муравьи | 6 |
| Захар Прилепин - Грех | 6 |
2015
| Name | Score |
|---|---|
| Вернор Виндж - Глубина в небе | 10 |
| Сергей Довлатов - Заповедник | 10 |
| Сергей Довлатов - Компромисс | 9 |
| Сергей Довлатов - Филиал (Записки ведущего) | 9 |
| Энди Вейер - Марсианин | 9 |
| Ден Симмонс - Террор | 8 |
| Нил Стивенсон - Алмазный век | 8 |
| Нил Стивенсон - Лавина | 8 |
| Роберт Хайнлайн - История будущего (сборник) | 8 |
| Сергей Довлатов - Наши | 8 |
| Сергей Довлатов - Зона | 6 |