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Page 👈 12 of 13 👉 of all the authors that I've read this century, or go back to the book author index.

  • L.C. Tyler
  • Barry Unsworth
  • Arthur Upfield
  • Nicola Upson
  • Salley Vickers
  • Barbara Vine
  • Dan Waddell
  • Maj Sjowall & Wahloo
  • Martyn Waites
  • Mary Willis Walker
  • Matthew Walker
  • WJ Wall
  • Jill Paton Walsh
  • Catriona Ward
  • Ruth Ware
  • Penny Warner
  • Sarah Waters
  • S.J. Watson
  • Duncan J. Watts
  • Duncan Watts
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
  • Martha Wells
  • Louise Welsh
  • Donald E Westlake
  • Tara Westover
  • Carolyn Wheat
  • Chris Whitaker
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Ellen Wilkinson
  • Nicola Williams
  • Robert Wilson
  • Laura Wilson
  • Simon Winchester
  • RD Wingfield
  • Sarah Winman
  • Jasper Winn
  • Don Winslow
  • Jeanette Winterson
  • Richard Wiseman
  • KJA Wishnia
  • Matt Witten
  • PG Wodehouse
  • Yael van der Wouden
  • Gabriel Wyner
  • Xu Xi
  • Louisa Young
  • Natalie Young
  • Émile Zola

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3 Good Things for 6 November 2026

📕 Reading my own travel diary from 1992. (34 years ago! Time is the strangest thing.) (I thought I’d mislaid it over the years and was sad about that. I realised I still had it last year but it’s taken me a while to summon up the courage to actually read it.)

😬Realising I’ve simultaneously changed a lot and not changed at all.

🔍Based on a first name and one line description of a friendly person I met on a train in 1992 I managed to locate them on the internet today. They won’t remember me so I won’t contact them but I’m glad to see they look like they are still a nice guy. And the internet is still quite amazing even when it feels way past its best.

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