2020's Books Completed
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eve_primeHere's my list for 2020, and here's my 2019 list. Stars mean I liked it so much that I kept thinking about it afterwards.
FANTASY - Lois McMaster Bujold, World of Five Gods
Penric's Mission
Mira's Last Dance
Penric's Fox
The Prisoner of Limnos
The Orphans of Raspay
FANTASY - Megan Whalen Turner, Queen's Thief series
The Thief
The Queen of Attolia
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings
Thick as Thieves
★ FANTASY - Martha Wells, Raksura series
The Cloud Roads
The Serpent Sea
The Siren Depths
FANTASY - Robin Hobb, Liveship Traders / Rain Wilds series
Ship of Magic
Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Dragon Keeper
Dragon Haven
City of Dragons
Blood of Dragons
FANTASY - Nnedi Okorafor, Binti trilogy
Binti
Binti: Home
FANTASY - Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl series
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
FANTASY - Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London series
Midnight Riot
Moon Over Soho
Whispers Under Ground
Broken Homes
★ Foxglove Summer
FANTASY - OTHER
The Angel of the Crows, by Katherine Addison (twice)
Knife Children, by Lois McMaster Bujold (twice)
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
The Baron of Magister Valley, by Steven Brust
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, by Theodora Goss
The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit
Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton
SCIENCE FICTION - Martha Wells, Murderbot series
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
★ Network Effect (twice)
SCIENCE FICTION - John Scalzi, Collapsing Empire trilogy
The Collapsing Empire
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox
SCIENCE FICTION - Becky Chambers series
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
MYSTERY - Louise Penny, Inspector Gamache series
A Fatal Grace
The Cruelest Month
A Rule Against Murder
The Brutal Telling
Bury Your Dead
A Trick of the Light
The Beautiful Mystery
How the Light Gets In
The Long Way Home
The Nature of the Beast
A Great Reckoning
Glass Houses
Kingdom of the Blind
A Better Man
The Hangman
All the Devils Are Here
MYSTERY - Tony and then Anne Hillerman, Leaphorn and Chee series
The Shape Shifter (Tony)
Spider Woman's Daughter (Anne)
Rock with Wings (Anne)
MYSTERY - Lindsey Davis, Flavia Albia series
A Capitol Death
The Grove of the Caesars
MYSTERY - Andrew Shaffer, Biden-Obama bromance series
Hope Never Dies
Hope Rides Again
MYSTERY - OTHER
Beginnings, by Laurie R. King (Kate Martinelli series)
Riviera Gold, by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell series)
The Blackhouse, by Peter May
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
Blanche on the Lam, by Barbara Neely
MANGA
We Never Learn, vol.1, by Taishi Tsutsui
We Never Learn, vol. 2, by Taishi Tsutsui
GENERAL LITERATURE
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman
★ Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
Pamela, by Samuel Richardson
Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Leave It to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse
NON-FICTION: MEMOIR AND PERSONAL ESSAYS
Thick, and other essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Good Talk, by Mira Jacob
★ Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness, by William L. Sullivan
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei
NON-FICTION: HISTORY AND CULTURE AND POLITICS AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCE
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970, by Kirby Brown
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
Zeus's Fear, by Ajit Maan
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, by Alex Ross
Rationality and the Reflective Mind, by Keith E. Stanovich
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu
John Muir: Apostle for Nature, by Thurman Wilkins
NON-FICTION: OTHER
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published, by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato
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104 total, 32 by men, 25 rereads, 15 may self-identify as people of color
I reread more books this year - bedtime reading for J, mostly.
Also, it's weird; for some of the books, clicking the tag on the entry opens the list, but then the entry doesn't appear on the list! See, for example, the Sullivan book I finished on July 30. I have no clue what could cause that.
FANTASY - Lois McMaster Bujold, World of Five Gods
Penric's Mission
Mira's Last Dance
Penric's Fox
The Prisoner of Limnos
The Orphans of Raspay
FANTASY - Megan Whalen Turner, Queen's Thief series
The Thief
The Queen of Attolia
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings
Thick as Thieves
★ FANTASY - Martha Wells, Raksura series
The Cloud Roads
The Serpent Sea
The Siren Depths
FANTASY - Robin Hobb, Liveship Traders / Rain Wilds series
Ship of Magic
Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Dragon Keeper
Dragon Haven
City of Dragons
Blood of Dragons
FANTASY - Nnedi Okorafor, Binti trilogy
Binti
Binti: Home
FANTASY - Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl series
Artemis Fowl
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
FANTASY - Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London series
Midnight Riot
Moon Over Soho
Whispers Under Ground
Broken Homes
★ Foxglove Summer
FANTASY - OTHER
The Angel of the Crows, by Katherine Addison (twice)
Knife Children, by Lois McMaster Bujold (twice)
Kindred, by Octavia Butler
The Baron of Magister Valley, by Steven Brust
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, by Theodora Goss
The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit
Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton
SCIENCE FICTION - Martha Wells, Murderbot series
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
★ Network Effect (twice)
SCIENCE FICTION - John Scalzi, Collapsing Empire trilogy
The Collapsing Empire
The Consuming Fire
The Last Emperox
SCIENCE FICTION - Becky Chambers series
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
MYSTERY - Louise Penny, Inspector Gamache series
A Fatal Grace
The Cruelest Month
A Rule Against Murder
The Brutal Telling
Bury Your Dead
A Trick of the Light
The Beautiful Mystery
How the Light Gets In
The Long Way Home
The Nature of the Beast
A Great Reckoning
Glass Houses
Kingdom of the Blind
A Better Man
The Hangman
All the Devils Are Here
MYSTERY - Tony and then Anne Hillerman, Leaphorn and Chee series
The Shape Shifter (Tony)
Spider Woman's Daughter (Anne)
Rock with Wings (Anne)
MYSTERY - Lindsey Davis, Flavia Albia series
A Capitol Death
The Grove of the Caesars
MYSTERY - Andrew Shaffer, Biden-Obama bromance series
Hope Never Dies
Hope Rides Again
MYSTERY - OTHER
Beginnings, by Laurie R. King (Kate Martinelli series)
Riviera Gold, by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell series)
The Blackhouse, by Peter May
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley
Blanche on the Lam, by Barbara Neely
MANGA
We Never Learn, vol.1, by Taishi Tsutsui
We Never Learn, vol. 2, by Taishi Tsutsui
GENERAL LITERATURE
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman
★ Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
Pamela, by Samuel Richardson
Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Leave It to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse
NON-FICTION: MEMOIR AND PERSONAL ESSAYS
Thick, and other essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Good Talk, by Mira Jacob
★ Listening for Coyote: A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness, by William L. Sullivan
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei
NON-FICTION: HISTORY AND CULTURE AND POLITICS AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCE
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970, by Kirby Brown
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
These Truths: A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
Zeus's Fear, by Ajit Maan
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, by Alex Ross
Rationality and the Reflective Mind, by Keith E. Stanovich
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu
John Muir: Apostle for Nature, by Thurman Wilkins
NON-FICTION: OTHER
The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry
Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published, by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato
_______________________________
104 total, 32 by men, 25 rereads, 15 may self-identify as people of color
I reread more books this year - bedtime reading for J, mostly.
Also, it's weird; for some of the books, clicking the tag on the entry opens the list, but then the entry doesn't appear on the list! See, for example, the Sullivan book I finished on July 30. I have no clue what could cause that.