I finished 45 books this year. (Links are to my reviews; I’d hoped to say more about more of these books, but It’s Been a Year and the words have not come easily. Suffice to say that I wanted to say many good things about many of these books, and may still do so at some point.)
- The Complete Guide to Writing for Young Adults by Gabrielle Harbowy (ed.)
- Irregular Verbs and Other Stories by Matthew Johnson
- The Just City by Jo Walton
- The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton
- The Square Mile: Merchant Princes of Montreal by Donald MacKay
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Unruly Places: Lost Space, Secret Cities and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett
- Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
- Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
- California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout
- Elements by Suzanne Church
- Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
- Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
- Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
- The End of All Things by John Scalzi
- Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (reread)
- Slow River by Nicola Griffith (reread)
- Child of a Hidden Sea by A. M. Dellamonica
- The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith (reread)
- Stay by Nicola Griffith (reread)
- Always by Nicola Griffith
- With Her Body by Nicola Griffith
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
- Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews by John Clute
- The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
- Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
- Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney
- Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
- Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Chasing the Phoenix by Michael Swanwick
- Atlas of Cursed Places by Olivier Le Carrer
- Prodigies by Angelica Gorodischer
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
- Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet
- On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria
- How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
- Echopraxia by Peter Watts
- Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
- Meeting Infinity by Jonathan Strahan (ed.)
Stats: 20/45 (44.4%) by women; 34/45 (75.6%) sf/fantasy; 16/34 (47.1%) sf/fantasy by women; 9/45 (20%) nonfiction; 0/45 (0%) audiobooks; 17/45 (37.8%) ebooks; 7/45 (15.6%) from the library; 4/45 (8.9%) review copies; 4/45 (8.9%) rereads.
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