Book logging, 2015

[korafox]

It's that time again.  Time to tally up how many books I read in the past year.

I definitely won the race with last year (50) by reading a grand total of 57 books.  Yay, I got past the 1/week mark.  I was also very successful with my goal to read more books by non-white-cis-men. 

The long-form list (re-reads are asterisked, though there were amazingly only two this year):

Karen Abbott, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale *
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Stephen Baxter, Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice
Peter Beagle (ed.), The Secret History of Fantasy
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Spirit Ring
Jacqueline Carey, Poison Fruit
M.R. Carey, The Girl With All the Gifts
Daina Chaviano, The Island of Eternal Love
Elle Cosimano, N34rly Gone
Meghan Daum (ed.), Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on Their Decision Not To Have Kids
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
Cary Elwes, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride
Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Rose Fox & Daniel Jose Older (eds.), Long Hidden
David Hartwell (ed.), Year's Best SF 18
Jim Hines, Unbound
Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic *
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms
Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
Carla Kelly, Summer Campaign
Stephen King, Christine
Natsuo Kirino, The Goddess Chronicle
Mary Robinette Kowal, Glamour in Glass
Mary Robinette Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey
Mary Robinette Kowal, Without a Summer
Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Unreal & the Real v.1
Malinda Lo, Ash
Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
Sangu Mandanna, The Lost Girl
Laurie Marks, Water Logic
George RR Martin & Gardner Dozois (eds.), Songs of Love & Death
Brian McClellan, The Autumn Republic
Seanan McGuire, Half-Off Ragnarok
Seanan McGuire, Sparrow Hill Road
Elizabeth McIntosh, Sisterhood of Spies
Toni Morrison, God Help the Child
Naomi Novik, Uprooted
Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Cherie Priest, Boneshaker
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria
Steven Savile & Alethea Kontis (eds.), Elemental
Sherri Smith, Orleans
Lucy Snyder, Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide
Jonathan Strahan (ed.), The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year
Sheri Tepper, The Margarets
Sabrina Vourvoulias, Ink
Jo Walton, My Real Children
Heather Webb, Rodin's Lover
I keep meaning to actually start participating in that Wednesday reading meme, but if anyone has any questions about books I have read this year, I am happy to answer.

Comments

[kilroy]

Top 3 recommends? I have more specific questions, but that seems like a good place to start.

[korafox]

1. Water Logic, and this is actually the third in the series so I could technically stop there for recommendations. But oh my golly goodness I love this series with all my heart (you have heard me wax rhapsodic about it before) and the third installment did not disappoint. (Would fling entire series directly from my bookshelf to your hands.)

2. Conservation of Shadows, which is actually a short story collection and they are all these carefully crafted little puzzle boxes where about halfway through you have this "aha!" moment and can see the beautiful shape of them.

3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. This is the first in a series, but is entirely able to be read stand-alone (the second book shifts to a different protagonist). The setting will resonate with you as Amber-esque, and if you like a story about God-foibles this is an amazing one.

The second two were library reads, so alas I do not have copies to lend.