year in books

Welcome to the somethingth edition of “A Year In Books” here at CdPdN. It’s where I chronicle and count up the books I’ve read in a given year. Mostly, it helps me remember what I’ve read if I forget, and it occasionally helps me recommend books to others.

Also, in October of 2020, I noticed there was a whole bunch of garbage code here after tracking numbered lists for over a decade, so I started cleaning it up. I expect it’ll be a work in progress, but ideally, I’ll eventually clean up all the extraneous html/php elements.

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2024:

  1. The Split – Ellis Wiener and Steve Radlauer
  2. Lincoln’s Dreams – Connie Willis
  3. Enough – Cassidy Hutchinson
  4. System Collapse – Martha Wells
  5. Legends and Lattes – Travis Baldree
  6. Counting the Cost – Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard
  7. By The Blood of Heroes – Joseph Nassise
  8. Defiant – Brandon Sanderson
  9. Witches Incorporated – K.E. Mills
  10. Silent Blade – Ilona Andrews
  11. The Glass-Sided Ant’s Nes – Peter Dickinson
  12. Bookshops and Bonedust – Travis Baldree
  13. The Space Between Worlds – Michiah Johnson
  14. Democracy Awakening – Heather Cox Richardson
  15. The Blighted Stars – Megan E. O’Keefe
  16. Assistant to the Villain – Hannah Nicole Maehrer
  17. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
  18. The Chowderhead Crusades – J.J. Walsh
  19. Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros
  20. A Hard Day’s Knight – John G. Hartness
  21. Testimony – Jon Ward
  22. Hell on $5 A Day – Greg Bulmash
  23. House of Vampires: Part One – Samantha Snow
  24. Heir to the Jedi – Kevin Hearne
  25. The Sword of Summer – Rick Riordan
  26. Goblins and Greatcoats – Travis Baldree
  27. Back in Black – John G. Hartness
  28. Knight Moves – John G. Hartness
  29. Shadows of the Night – Darin Kennedy
  30. You Better Run  Darin Kennedy
  31. Tell Me An Ending – Jo Harkin
  32. Homeworld Lost – JN Chaney, Scott Moon
  33. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – Kathleen Hanna
  34. Stone Cold Witch – Patrick Dugan
  35. The Six – Mark Alpert
  36. Postmortal – Drew Magary
  37. The Siege – Mark Alpert
  38. The Silence – Mark Alpert
  39. You Better Run – Darin Kennedy
  40. Red Rabbit – Tom Clancy
  41. The Blood Trials – N. E. Davenport
  42. Atomic Habits – James Clear
  43. Misled – Sylvia Day
  44. The Doomsday Vault – Steven Harper
  45. Saturn Run – John Sanford and Ctien
  46. The Seven – John G. Hartness
  47. The Mercy of Gods – James S.A. Corey
  48. A Rip Through Time – Kelley Armstrong
  49. The Ministry of Time – Kailaine Bradley
  50. The Poisoner’s Ring – Kelley Armstrong
  51. Say More – Jen Psaki
  52. Extinction – Douglas Preston
  53. The Divider – Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
  54. How To Brew – John J. Palmer
  55. Architects of Memory – Karen Osborne
  56. Identity Theft – John G. Hartness

2023:

  1. Hench – Natalie Zina Walschots
  2. Never Deal With A Dragon – Robert N. Charette
  3. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquet – Nancy Springer
  4. The Ink Black Heart – Robert Galbraith
  5. The Accidental Summoner – R.E. Carr
  6. Choose Your Enemies Carefully – Robert N. Charette
  7. Find Your Own Truth – Robert N. Charette
  8. Watching the Bodies – Graham Smith
  9. Upgrade – Blake Crouch
  10. Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  11. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections – Eva Jurczyk
  12. Shadow of the Gods – John Gwynne
  13. The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin
  14. Pelosi – Molly Ball
  15. Go Mutants! – Larry Doyle
  16. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard – Tom Felton
  17. A Borrowed Man – Gene Wolfe
  18. Interlibrary Loan – Gene Wolfe
  19. How To Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix
  20. A Letter to Three Witches – Elizabeth Bass
  21. Profiles In Ignorance – How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber – Andy Borowitz
  22. Burning Shakespeare   – AJ Hartley
  23. 18 and Life on Skid Row  – Sebastian Bach
  24. Empowered: Volume 1 – Adam Warren
  25. Paddle Your Own Canoe – Nick Offerman
  26. Empowered: Volume 2 – Adam Warren
  27. The Malaise Falchion  – Paul Barrett
  28. Gone To The Wolves – John Ray
  29. This Bird Has Flown – Suzanna Hoffs
  30. Horrostor – Grady Hendrix
  31. If, Then – Kate Hope Day
  32. Hogfather – Terry Pratchett
  33. 13 Bullets – David Wellington
  34. Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett
  35. 99 Coffins – David Wellington
  36. Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
  37. On Earth As It Is on Television – Emily Jane
  38. End Times – Peter Turchin
  39. Starter Villain – John Scalzi
  40. Titanium Noir – Nick Harkaway
  41. Confessions of a Geek Bard – Mikey Mason
  42. No Plan B – Lee Child
  43. The Accidental Sorcerer – K.E. Mills
  44. The Running Grave – Robert Galbraith
  45. The Chosen One’s Assistant – Kimber Grey
  46. Run, Rose, Run – James Patterson/Dolly Parton
  47. Look Out For The Little Guy – Scott Lang (Rob Kutner)
  48. The House On Dead Man’s Curve – Jason Roach
  49. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios – Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards

2022:

  1. The History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
  2. Sunreach – Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson
  3. Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only Five Plugins: Bjorgvin Benediktsson
  4. Chaos Rising – Timothy Zahn
  5. Cytonic – Brandon Sanderson
  6. Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert
  7. Agnes at the End of the World – Kelly McWilliams
  8. Iron Widow – Xiran Jay Zhao
  9. Broken Horses – Brandi Carlile
  10. Greater Good – Timothy Zahn
  11. Evershore – Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson
  12. Hammers on Bone – Cassandra Khaw
  13. The One – John Marrs
  14. Ink & Sigil – Kevin Hearne
  15. Leviathan Falls – James S.A Corey
  16. ReDawn – Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson
  17. Black Leopard Red Wolf – Marlon James
  18. NPCs – Drew Hayes
  19. Paper & Blood – Kevin Hearne
  20. Split the Party – Drew Hayes
  21. The Kaiju Preservation Society – John Scalzi
  22. The Beast in Aisle 34 – Darrin Doyle
  23. 2034: A Novel of the Next World War – Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis
  24. My Dungeon Master Is A T-Rex Rules Lawyer But Fortunately I Rolled A Crit On The Pound My Butt Check – Chuck Tingle
  25. Going Rogue – Drew Hayes
  26. Children of Dune – Frank Herbert
  27. Siege Tactics – Drew Hayes
  28. Goliath – Tochi Onyebuchi
  29. The Devil’s Been Busy: Monster Hunder Mom Season One – JD Blackrose
  30. A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) – David Sedaris
  31. Blood, Sweat and Tears (Bubba The Monster Hunter, Season 5) – John G. Hartness
  32. Noble Roots – Drew Hayes
  33. Whatever for Hire: A Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) – RJ Blain
  34. Cultish: The Language of Fantaticism – Amanda Montell
  35. Hello, Molly!  A Memoir – Molly Shannon
  36. Day Zero – C. Robert Cargill
  37. Battling the Big Lie – Dan Pfeiffer
  38. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: A Monk and Robot Book – Becky Chambers
  39. KEVIN (Or The Latter Days of Romulus Augustulus, Last Emperor of Western Rome) – Dan Nokes
  40. Music is History – Questlove
  41. Meddling Kids – Edgar Cantero
  42. Lies Across America – James W. Loewen
  43. Death By Dumpling – Vivien Chien
  44. Dawnshard – Brandon Sanderson
  45. Heroic Hearts – Jim Butcher & Kerrie Hughes (ed)
  46. Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League Et Al – The Reno Kid with Earl Mac Rauch  (Act 1)
  47. Differently Morphous – Yahtzee Croshaw
  48. Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League Et Al – The Reno Kid with Earl Mac Rauch  (Act 2)
  49. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road To Hell: Tim Miller
  50. More Than One Way To Breathe – Abigail Wild
  51. Darwin’s Radio – Greg Bear
  52. Darling Girl – Liz Michalski
  53. The Constant Rabbit – Jasper Fforde
  54. Randoms  – David Liss
  55. The Fifth Season – NK Jesimin
  56. Nona The Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  57. Confidence Man – Maggie Haberman
  58. The Hydrogen Sonata – Iain m. Banks
  59. Hidden Empire – Kevin J Anderson
  60. Remarkably Bright Creatures – Natalie Zina Walschot
  61. Version Zero  – David Yoon

2021:

  1. Qualityland – Mark Uwe-King
  2. The Passengers – John Marrs
  3. Rhythm of War – Brandon Sanderson
  4. All Systems Red – Martha Wells
  5. Ready Player Two – Ernest Cline
  6. The Art of Drowning – Abigail Wild
  7. One of Us Is Lying – Karen M. McManus
  8. Blood of Elves – Andrzej Sapkowsk
  9. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater –  Marc Acito
  10. Monster – A. Lee Martinez
  11. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World – Rachel Cantor
  12. F**k Anxiety – Robert Duff
  13. Face the Music – Paul Stanley
  14. The Beautiful Ones – Prince
  15. Universal Language – Robert T. Jeschonek
  16. Gameboard of the Gods – Richelle Mead
  17. The Warded Man – Peter V. Brett
  18. The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey
  19. The Desert Spear – Peter V. Brett
  20. The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
  21. Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
  22. Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells
  23. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs – Sarah Smarsh
  24. You’re Doing Great! – Tom Papa
  25. Axiom’s End – Lindsay Ellis
  26. The Daylight War – Peter V. Brett
  27. Red Seas Under Red Skies – Scott Lynch
  28. Wanderers – Chuck Wendig
  29. The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
  30. A Desolation Called Peace – Arkady Martine
  31. Lord Foul’s Bane – Stephen Donaldson
  32. Some Girls Bite – Chloe Neill
  33. Proxy – Mindy Arnett
  34. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
  35. Avalon – Mindy Arnett
  36. A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers
  37. Record of a Spaceborn Few – Becky Chambers
  38. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal – Ian Christie
  39. Manna: Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Marshall Brain
  40. Spellhacker – MK England
  41. Persist – Elizabeth Warren
  42. Exit Strategy – Martha Wells
  43. Naked Came The Stranger – Penelope Ashe
  44. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
  45. The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal
  46. Grim – MK Eidem
  47. Network Effect – Martha Wells
  48. The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix
  49. Dog Dish of Doom  – EJ Copperman
  50. Fugitive Telemetry – Martha Wells
  51. The Nymphos of Rocky Flats – Mario Acevedo
  52. X-Rated Bloodsuckers – Mario Acevedo
  53. Persephone Station – Stina Leicht
  54. Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix (again – audio)
  55. The Hierarchies – Ros Anderson
  56. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within – Becky Chambers
  57. Thrawn – Timothy Zahn
  58. Thrawn: Alliances – Timothy Zahn
  59. Robert E. Lee and Me – A Southerner’s Reckoning With The Myth of the Lost Cause – Ty Seiduel
  60. Valor’s Choice – Tanya Huff
  61. The Skull Throne – Peter V. Brett
  62. LIFEL1K3 – Jay Kristoff
  63. A Psalm for the Well-Built – Becky Chambers
  64. Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
  65. Skyward – Brandon Sanderson
  66. Broken (In The Best Possible Way) – Jenny Lawson
  67. Thrawn: Treason – Timothy Zahn
  68. The Fated Sky – Mary Robinette Kowal
  69. DEV1AT3 – Jay Kristoff
  70. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu
  71. The Relentless Moon – Mary Robinette Kowal
  72. Attack Surface – Cory Doctorow
  73. Starsight – Brandon Sanderson
  74. The Lady Astronaut of Mars – Mary Robinette Kowal
  75. Machine Man – Max Barry

2020:

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  1. Whispers Underground – Ben Aaronovich
  2. Terminal Alliance – Jim C. Hines
  3. The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
  4. The Princess Beard – Delilah Dawson and Kevin Hearne
  5. Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovich
  6. See Jane Win -Caitlin Moscatello
  7. Foxglove Summer – Ben Aaronovich
  8. Terminal Uprising – Jim C. Hines
  9. The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovich
  10. The Two Income Trap – Amelia Warren Tyagi and Elizabeth Warren
  11. Lies Sleeping – Ben Aaronovich
  12. Magic for Liars – Sarah Galley
  13. Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
  14. Age of Heroes – C.C. Ekeke
  15. Itty Bitty Writing Space – Brick & Caile (ed)
  16. Skinwalker – Faith Hunter
  17. Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roanhorse
  18. The Stars Now Unclaimed – Drew Williams
  19. Deadtown – Nancy Holzner
  20. Hellforged – Nancy Holzner
  21. Storm of Locusts – Rebecca Roanhorse
  22. Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs
  23. The Devil Inside – Jenna Black
  24. Thief’s Covenant – Ari Marmell
  25. Dragon Bones – Patricia Briggs
  26. Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
  27. Dragon Blood – Patricia Briggs
  28. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
  29. Iron Kissed – Patricia Briggs
  30. Whatever For Hire – RJ Blain
  31. Green Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
  32. The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
  33. Juan of the Dead – Jacalyn Boggs (she’s a friend of mine, buy the book!)
  34. Bone Crossed – Patricia Briggs
  35. The Last Emperox – John Scalzi
  36. Blue Mars – Kim Stanley Robinon
  37. In the Ocean of Night – Gregory Benford
  38. False Value – Ben Aaronovich
  39. Dragongate: Devils – James Maxey
  40. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir – John Bolton
  41. A Woman Can Never Be Too Curious – Mary Wine
  42. Magic Bites – Ilona Andrews
  43. Peace Talks – Jim Butcher
  44. Magic Burns – Ilona Andrews
  45. River Marked – Patricia Briggs
  46. Frost Burned – Patricia Briggs
  47. Rosemary and Rue – Seanan McGuire
  48. A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine
  49. Night Broken – Patricia Briggs
  50. Armor – John Steakley
  51. Chicken: USDA Rejected: Dan Nokes
  52. Across That Bridge: John Lewis
  53. The Mediterranean Caper – Clive Cussler
  54. Fire Touched – Patricia Briggs
  55. Silence Fallen – Patricia Briggs
  56. The Case of the Missing Maquess – Nancy Springer
  57. Interference – Brad Parks
  58. Storm Cursed – Patricia Briggs
  59. Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  60. Shadow Kin – MJ Scott
  61. Blood Kin – MJ Scott
  62. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady – Nancy Springer
  63. Iron Kin – MJ Scott
  64. Devolution – Max Brooks
  65. Fire Kin – MJ Scott
  66. Smoke Bitten: Patricia Briggs
  67. The Sheriff of Yrnameer – Michael Reubens
  68. Battle Ground – Jim Butcher
  69. Calamity – Brandon Sanderson
  70. Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  71. Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
  72. Too Much and Never Enough – Mary Trump
  73. Lost In A Good Book” – Jasper Fforde
  74. Harrow The Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
  75. A Chain Across The Dawn – Drew Williams
  76. The Witches of Echo Park – Amber Benson
  77. The Last American Vampire – Seth Graham Smith
  78. The Sword of Destiny – Andrzej Sapkowski
  79. Troubled Blood – Robert Galbraith
  80. The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones
  81. The President’s Vampire – Christopher Farnsworth
  82. The Slow Regard or Silent Things – Patrick Rothfuss
  83. A Local Habitation – Seanan McGuire
  84. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
  85.  A Hat Full of Sky – Terry Pratchett
  86.  The 2084 Report – James Lawrence Powell
  87. Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds – Gwenda Bond
  88. Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett
  89. Titanshade – Dan Stout
  90. Provenance – Ann Leckie
  91. (most of)The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
  92. I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett
  93.  The Companions – Katie M. Flynn

2019:

  1. Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
  2. You Are Here – Jenny Lawson
  3. Alice Isn’t Dead – Joseph Fink
  4. Make Me – Lee Child
  5. Storm Front – Richard Castle
  6. Strange Practice – Vivian Shaw
  7. Gideon’s Sword – Preston & Child
  8. The Rifle Chronicles – Jason Gilbert
  9. High Heat – Richard Castle
  10. DisneyWar – James B. Stewart
  11. Night School – Lee Child
  12. Heat Storm – Richard Castle
  13. Red Moon – Michael Chussett
  14. Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Neil Gaiman
  15. Nine Princes in Amber – Roger Zelazny
  16. The Guns of Avalon – Roger Zelazny
  17. Sign of the Unicorn – Roger Zelazny
  18. The Hand of Oberon – Roger Zelazny
  19. The Courts of Chaos – Roger Zelazny
  20. The Trumps of Doom – Roger Zelazny
  21. Blood of Amber – Roger Zelazny
  22. Signs of Chaos – Roger Zelazny
  23. Knight of Shadows – Roger Zelazny
  24. Prince of Chaos – Roger Zelazny
  25. Monster City: Music, Murder and Mayhem in Nashville’s Dark Age – Michael Arntfield
  26. Metal Shark Bro – Bob Franz
  27. Midnight Line – Lee Child
  28. Valley of the Raven – Ken Ramirez
  29. The Truths We Hold – Kamala Harris
  30. All Our Wrong Todays – Elan Mastai
  31. Vox – Christina Dalcher
  32. Eater – Gregory Benford
  33. Lethal White – Robert Galbriath
  34. Alien Morning – Rick Wilbur
  35. How To Build A Girl – Caitlin Moran
  36. Medusa Uploaded – Emily Devenport
  37. The October Man – Ben Aaronovich
  38. Going Through The Change – Samantha Bryant
  39. Deep Secets – Diana Wynn Jones
  40. Your Best Game Ever – Monte Cook
  41. Midnight Riot – Ben Aaronovich
  42. The Poppy War – RF Kuang
  43. Hell’s Gate – Bull Schutt & JR Finch
  44. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challege and A Model For America’s Future – Pete Buttigeig
  45. Soul Music – Terry Pratchett
  46. The Second Amendment: A Biography – Michael Waldman
  47. Darkness on the Edge of Town – Andrew Christopher
  48. Mort – Terry Pratchett
  49. Your Dad Stole My Rake – Tom Papa
  50. Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl – Carrie Brownstein
  51. Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett
  52. Tiamat’s Wrath – James S.A. Corey
  53. Fluke – Christopher Moore
  54. Death By Black Hole – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  55. Red, White, and Blood – Christopher Farnsworth
  56. Blood Oath – Christopher Farnsworth
  57. One Summer – Bill Bryson
  58. A Warning – Anonymous
  59. Werewolf Cop – Andrew Klaven
  60. Tomorrow’s Kin – Nancy Kress
  61. No Country for Old Gnomes – Delila Dawson and Kevin Hearne
  62. Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovich

2018:

  1. Chasing the Phoenix – Michael Swanwick
  2. I Suck at Girls – Justin Halpern
  3. The Fold – Peter Clines
  4. Heir to the Jedi – Kevin Hearne
  5. Small Favor – Jim Butcher
  6. The Risen Empire – Scott Westerfeld
  7. Hounded – Kevin Hearne
  8. Killing Floor – Lee Child
  9. Servants of the Sands – Leona Wisoker
  10. Astrophysics for Busy People – Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  11. Die Trying – Lee Child
  12. Hail to the Chin – Bruce Campbell
  13. Specters Anonymous – Phil Budhan
  14. Persepolis Rising – James S.A. Corey
  15. The Intern’s Handbook – Shane Kuhn
  16. Strange Weather – Joe Hill
  17. Artemis – Andy Weir
  18. Heroine Complex – Sarah Kuhn
  19. Hostile Takeover – Shane Kuhn
  20. Election Night – D.J. McGuire
  21. Black Star Renegades – Michael Moreci
  22. Oathbringer – Brandon Sanderson
  23. Dracula the Un-Dead – Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
  24. Stories – Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (eds)
  25. Nothin to Lose – Ken Sharp w Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
  26. Scourged – Kevin Hearne
  27. A World Without “Whom”: TheEssential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age – Emmy J. Favilla
  28. Drafter – Kim Harrison
  29. Beatles vs. Stones – John McMillan
  30. Heat Wave – Richard Castle
  31. Dark State – Charles Stross
  32. Naked Heat – Richard Castle
  33. Dreaming Spies – Laurie R. King
  34. Head On – John Scalzi
  35. Space Opera – Catheryne Valente
  36. Falling Dusk – Jennifer R. Povey
  37. Trifle and Folly – Gail Z Martin
  38. Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff
  39. Journal of a UFO Investigator – Daniel J Halperin
  40. Time and Time Again – Ben Elton
  41. Hot Lead, Cold Iron – Ari Marmell
  42. Heat Rises – Richard Castle
  43. The Martian Race – Greg Benford
  44. Daemon – Daniel Suarez
  45. Hallow Point – Ari Marmell
  46. Frozen Heat – Richard Castle
  47. The Crown Tower – Michael J. Sullivan
  48. Influx – Daniel Suarez
  49. Uncharted – Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt
  50. Brief Cases – Jim Butcher
  51. Trifles and Folly 2 – Gail Z. Martin
  52. Kill The Farm Boy – Delila S. Dawson & Kevin Hearne
  53. Rock Revival – Natania Barron
  54. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  55. Pandemic – A.J. Riddle
  56. Year One: A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Collection – John G. Hartness
  57. The Princess Diarist – Carrie Fisher
  58. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik
  59. Max Rage: Intergalactic Badass – Jake Bible
  60. Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem – John G. Hartness
  61. The Wild Dead – Carrie Vaughn
  62. Fear: Trump in the White House – Bob Woodward
  63. Nights in Sandbridge – Elizabeth L. Brooks & Lynn Townsend
  64. Genome – A.J. Riddle
  65. Act of Will – A.J. Hartley
  66. The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck – Mark Manson
  67. Robots of Gotham – Todd McAulty
  68. Cryptid Zoo – Gerry Griffiths
  69. A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America – Bruce Canon Gibney
  70. Superheroes Anonymous – Lexie Dunne
  71. We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
  72. Shoot the Messenger – Pippa DaCosta
  73. Supervillains Anonymous – Lexie Dunne
  74. Raging Heat – Richard Castle
  75. Personal – Lee Child
  76. Impossible Tales of the Last Pit Stop – Dan Nokes

2017:

  1. Dragonsong – Anne McCaffrey
  2. A Multitude of Monsters – Craig Shaw Gardener
  3. Dragonsinger – Anne McCaffrey
  4. Beasts of Imagination – E.A Bowen
  5. Dragondrums – Anne McCaffrey
  6. Saturn’s Children – Charles Stross
  7. Martians Abroad – Carrie Vaughn
  8. Monster Hunter International – Larry Correia
  9. March: Vol 1 – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
  10. March: Vol 2 – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
  11. March: Vol 3 – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
  12. Symbiont – Mira Grant
  13. Moranifesto – Caitlin Moran
  14. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
  15. Hidden Figures – Margo Lee Shetterly
  16. Chimera – Mira Grant
  17. The Young World – Chris Weitz
  18. Essential Defenders Vol 5 – DeMatteis, Milgron, et. al
  19. The New Order – Chris Weitz
  20. The Fireman – Joe Hill
  21. Essential Defenders Vol 6 -DeMatteis, et al
  22. The Complacent Class – Tyler Cowan
  23. Essential Defenders Vol 7 – DeMatteis, et al
  24. The Collapsing Empire – John Scalzi
  25. Religious Literacy – Stephen Prothero
  26. Arcanum Unbounded – Brandon Sanderson
  27. A Perfectly Good Guitar – Chuck Holley
  28. Retreat of Dragons – Carrie Vaughn
  29. Shadowplay – Nigel Finley
  30. The Wolf’s Hour – Robert McKinnon
  31. Scattered, Smothered, and Chunked: Bubba the Monster Hunter, season 1 – John G. Hartness
  32. Grits, Guns, and Glory: Bubba the Monster Hunter, season 2 – John G. Hartness
  33. Wine, Women, and Song: Bubba the Monster Hunter, season 3 – John G. Hartness
  34. Walkaway – Cory Doctorow
  35. Skin Game – Jim Butcher
  36. The Wind in the Night – Barb and JC Hendee
  37. Homeland – Cory Doctorow
  38. The First and Last Sorcerer – Barb and JC Hendee
  39. Timecaster – Joe Kimball
  40. Bannerless – Carrie Vaughn
  41. Besieged – Kevin Hearne
  42. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  43. Walking on the Sea of Clouds – Gray Rinehart
  44. Oberon’s Meaty Mysteries: The Purloined Poodle – Kevin Hearne
  45. A Plunder of Souls – DB Jackson
  46. Caliban’s War – James S.A. Corey
  47. Abbadon’s Gate – James S.A. Corey
  48. Date Night on Union Station – E.M. Foner
  49. Doctor Strange and the Secret Defenders – Mars, Thomas, Coates, Grinberg
  50. The Chapel Perilous – Kevin Hearne
  51. Two Tales of the Iron Druid – Kevin Hearne
  52. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor
  53. Cibola Burn – James S.A. Corey
  54. The Cassandra Project – Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick
  55. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin – James Sullivan
  56. Aftermath: Empire’s End – Chuck Wendig
  57. Phasma – Delilah S. Dawson
  58. A Plague of Giants – Kevin Hearne
  59. Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness – Peter Godfrey-Smith
  60. Rimrunners – CJ Cherryh
  61. Jack White: How He Built an Empire from the Blues – Nick Hasted
  62. Nemesis Games – James S.A. Corey
  63. Revisionary – Jim C. Hines
  64. What Does This Button Do? – An Autobiography – Bruce Dickinson
  65. The Clockwork Dynasty – Daniel H. WIlson
  66. Babylon’s Ashes – James S.A. Corey
  67. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

2016:

  1. Lost Stars: Claudia Gray
  2. Carter and Lovecraft – Jonathan L. Howard
  3. Down These Strange Streets – George R.R. Martin and Gardener Dozios (ed)
  4. Uprooted – Naomi Novik
  5. The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
  6. Ancillary Mercy – Ann Leckie
  7. Soren: The Idaho Jane Doe Murders – Danny Birt
  8. Classic – Lynn Townsend
  9. Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee
  10. Splinter of the Mind’s Eye – Alan Dean Foster
  11. Sandman Slim – Richard Kadrey
  12. How to Fake A Moon Landing – Darryl Cunningham
  13. The Bands of Mourning – Brandon Sanderson
  14. Anonymous Rex – Eric Garcia
  15. Worldwar: In the Balance – Harry Turtledove
  16. Mothership – Isla Neal and Martin Leicht
  17. The Magician King – Lev Grossman
  18. The Magician’s Land – Lev Grossman
  19. Kitty Saves the World – Carrie Vaughn
  20. Plays with Cars – Doug DeMuro
  21. The Stainless Steel Rat – Harry Harrison
  22. The Man in the White Suit – Ben Collins
  23. Elfquest: Journey to Sorrow’s End – Wendy and Richard Pini
  24. The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge – Harry Harrison
  25. The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World – Harry Harrison
  26. Decision at Doona – Anne McCaffrey
  27. 30 Pieces of Silver – Carolyn McCray
  28. Deadly Curiosities – Gail Z. Martin
  29. The Reaper Virus – Nathan Barnes
  30. Jalopnik’s Book of Car Facts and History Even Gearheads Don’t Know – Jalopnik Writers
  31. Gauntlet of Time – Trip Ellington
  32. Purgatory Pub (book 2) – Gabriel Dunston
  33. Captain America and The Nationalist Superhero – Jason Dittmer
  34. Bumper-to-Bumper – Doug Demuro
  35. What Remains – Nathan Barnes
  36. Doctor Strange : Way of the Weird – Jason Aaron, Chris Balacho
  37. Staked – Kevin Hearne
  38. Dirty Magic – Jaye Wells
  39. Living Like A Runaway: A Memoir – Lita Ford
  40. Cursed Moon – Jaye Wells
  41. Compendium of North American Cryptids and Magical Creatures – Maury Brown, Ben Morrow, Mike Young, Ffion Evans
  42. Captain America: The Tomorrow Soldier – Remender/Pacheco
  43. Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
  44. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child – J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
  45. Fantastic Four: First Family – Casey & Weston
  46. Deadly Spells – Jaye Wells
  47. The Sleeping Dragon – Joel Rosenberg
  48. The Sword and the Chain – Joel Rosenberg
  49. The Silver Crown – Joel Rosenberg
  50. Vostok – Steve Alten
  51. Avengers: Time Runs Out, vol. 1 – Hickman & Chueng
  52. How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise – Chris Taylor
  53. Jessica Jones: The Pulse, complete collection – Bendis, Bagley, Gaydos, et al.
  54. The Last American Vampire – Seth Grahame-Smith
  55. Defenders: Volume 1 – Fraction and Dodson
  56. All That Jazz – Lynn Townsend (*beta read – pre-publication)
  57. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements – Bob Mehr
  58. Oh Florida: How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country – Craig Pittman
  59. All New, All Different Avengers, Volume 1: The Magificent Seven – Waid/Kubert
  60. The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  61. Let’s Pretend this Never Happened – Jenny Lawson
  62. The One Eyed Man – L. E. Modesitt Jr
  63. The Long War – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  64. The Secret Service – Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons, Matthew Vaughn
  65. League of Dragons – Naomi Novik
  66. Summer Knight – Jim Butcher
  67. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  68. The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative – T.S. Creager
  69. Proven Guilty – Jim Butcher
  70. Hawkeye Vol 1: My Life as a Weapon – Fraction/Aja
  71. Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
  72. Lafayette in these Somewhat United States – Sarah Vowell
  73. The Long Mars – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  74. Jimmy Olsen Adventures by Jack Kirby, vol 1 – Jack Kirby
  75. “We Side with the Free” – Gray Rinehart
  76. The Long Utopia – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
  77. Parasite – Mira Grant
  78. The Iron Assassin – Ed Greenwood
  79. Aftermath: Life Debt – Chuck Wendig
  80. All The Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
  81. Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible – Stan Lee w/ Peter David
  82. 1602 – Neil Gaiman/Andy Kubert

2015:

  1. Running With Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
  2. Altered Carbon – Richard K Morgan
  3. Firefight – Brandon Sanderson
  4. Trading in Danger – Elizabeth Moon
  5. The Wedding of Deadpool – Posein/Duggan
  6. Alias v4: The Secret Origin of Jessica Jones – Bendis/Gaydos/Bagley
  7. Ancillary Justice – Anne Leckie
  8. Welcome Back Frank – Garth Ennis
  9. The Alien Factor – Stan Lee w Stan Timmons
  10. Falling Sky – Rajan Khanna
  11. The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi
  12. Redshirts – John Scalzi
  13. Low Midnight – Carrie Vaughn
  14. A Marked Man – Lynn Townsend
  15. Paranormal Bromance – Carrie Vaughn
  16. The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
  17. Doctor Atlantis – vol 1 – Ian Ally-Seals, Carl Mefferd
  18. Words of Radiance – Brandon Sanderson
  19. Earth Awakens – Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
  20. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  21. Doctor Atlantis – vol 2 – Ian Ally-Seals, Carl Mefferd
  22. A Fighting Chance – Elizabeth Warren
  23. The Magicians – Lev Grossman
  24. Dead Witch Walking – Kim Harrison
  25. Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
  26. Unlocked – John Scalzi
  27. Bloodring – Faith Hunter
  28. The Good, The Bad, and the Undead – Kim Harrison
  29. Fade To Black – Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus
  30. Doctor Atlantis – vol 3 – Ian Ally-Seals, Carl Mefferd
  31. Bled White – Tim McBain an L.T. Vargus
  32. Red on the Inside – Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus
  33. Seraphs – Faith Hunter
  34. Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi
  35. Hosts – Faith Hunter
  36. Deadpool: Soul Hunter – Duggan & Posehn
  37. The Secret History of Wonder Woman – Jill Lapore
  38. Time Salvager – Wesley Chu
  39. Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
  40. Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
  41. Girl in A Band: A Memoir – Kim Gordon
  42. Every Which Way But Dead – Kim Harrison
  43. Armada – Ernest Cline
  44. The End of All Things – John Scalzi
  45. The Martian – Any Weir
  46. The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
  47. City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennet
  48. A Fistful of Charms – Kim Harrison
  49. Hounded – Kevin Hearne
  50. Blood Rites – Jim Butcher
  51. Dhampir – Barb and JC Hendee
  52. Dead Beat – Jim Butcher
  53. Hexed- Kevin Hearne
  54. Unbound – Jim C. Hines
  55. Hammered – Kevin Hearne
  56. Tricked – Kevin Hearne
  57. Trapped – Kevin Hearne
  58. Ship Breaker – Paulo Bacigalupi
  59. The Serpent of Venice – Christopher Moore
  60. The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
  61. The Aeronaut’s Windlass – Jim Butcher
  62. Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson
  63. Hunted – Kevin Hearne
  64. …And on That Bombshell: Inside the Madness and Genius of ‘Top Gear’ – Richard Porter
  65. Where the Hell is Tesla? A Novel – Rob Dircks
  66. Shattered – Kevin Hearne
  67. Star Wars: Aftermath – Chuck Wendig
  68. The Dinosaur Lords – Victor Milan
  69. The Monster Show – A Cultural History of Horror – David J Skall
  70. Ant-Man: Scott Lang – David Michelene et. al.
  71. Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
  72. Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud
  73. Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil – Lee, Wood, etc
  74. Dinosaur Summer – Greg Bear
  75. Silver Screen Fiend – Patton Oswalt

2014:

  1. Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom – Triumph and Torment – Roger Stern, Mike Mignola
  2. Between Their Worlds – Barb and JC Hendee
  3. Batman: The Killing Joke – Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
  4. Spider Island – Dan Slott, Humberto Ramos, et al.
  5. Clementine – Cherie Priest
  6. The Mote in God’s Eye – Niven & Pournelle
  7. Sandman Vol 10 : The Wake – Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli
  8. Fiddlehead – Cherie Priest
  9. Code Monkey Save World – Pak, Coulton, Miyazawa
  10. Dreams of the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn
  11. Shadowkeep – Alan Dean Foster
  12. The Real Frank Zappa Book – Frank Zappa w. Peter Occhiogrosso
  13. Angel Trumpet – Ann McMillan
  14. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man – Vol. 4 – Bendis et. al.
  15. Marvel’s Finest- Avengers: The Kree-Skrull War – Adams, Thomas, Buscema
  16. Nothing O’Clock – Neil Gaiman
  17. The Dog in the Dark – Barb and JC Hendee
  18. Fabula Zero Exposition – Nick Davis
  19. She Hulk – The Complete Collection v. 1 – Dan Slott, et. al.
  20. The Martian – Andy Weir
  21. Time Travelers Never Die – Jack McDevitt
  22. Ghost Train to New Orleans – Mur Lafferty
  23. Steelheart – Brandon Sanderson
  24. Idiot America – Charles Pierce
  25. Fires of the Desert – Leona Wisoker
  26. The Strain – Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
  27. The Final Solution – Michael Chabon
  28. Roll – Lynn Townsend
  29. The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson
  30. Survival – Julie Czerneda
  31. Dawn’s Early Light – Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
  32. Unseaming – Mike Allen
  33. The Summoner – Gail Z Martin
  34. Prison Nation – Jenni Merritt
  35. Bone Dance – Emma Bull
  36. Skin Game – Jim Butcher
  37. Blood King – Gail Z Martin
  38. Blood Sight – Lynn Townsend
  39. She-Hulk by Dan Slott – The Complete Collection, Volume 2
  40. Dark Haven – Gail Z Martin
  41. Fifty Shades of Grey – EL James
  42. The Necessary Beggar – Susan Palwick
  43. Serenity – The Shepherd’s Tale – Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Chris Samnee
  44. Pride of Baghdad – Brian K Vaughn, Niko Henrichon
  45. Incredible Hulk – Visionaries – John Byrne et. al
  46. Wolves on the Border – Robert N Charrette
  47. The Rithmatist – Brandon Sanderson
  48. Dodger – Terry Pratchett
  49. Bad Wizard – James Maxey
  50. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
  51. No Man’s Land – Greg Rucka
  52. Ultimate Fantastic Four vol. 1 – Millar/Bendis/Kubert
  53. Civil Blood – Ann McMillan
  54. Ultimate Fantastic Four vol 3 – Ellis/Immonen/Kubuert
  55. Designers and Dragons – the 70s – Shannon Appelcline
  56. Chickahominy Fever – Ann McMillan
  57. Designers and Dragons – the 80s – Shannon Appelcline
  58. Books of Magic – Neil Gaiman
  59. The Gutbucket Quest – Piers Anthony and Ron Lemming
  60. Charisma +1 – Jessica Brawner
  61. Designers & Dragons – the 90s – Shannon Applecline
  62. Spider-Man: The Fantastic Spider-Man – Dan Slott, Christos Gage, et al
  63. Avengers Arena vol 1 – Kill or Die – Dennis Hopeless et al.
  64. Ant Man: Season One – Tom Defalco, Horatio Dominguez
  65. Designers & Dragons – the 00s – Shannon Applecline
  66. Thank You For Smoking – Christopher Buckley
  67. Critter vol. 1: Kitty in the City – Tom Hutchinson et al
  68. The Monster in the Closet – Chris Otto
  69. Critter vol. 2: Purrfection – Tom Hutchinson et al
  70. River Monsters – Jeremy Wade
  71. The Jungle – David Drake
  72. Critter vol. 3: Truth or Consequences – Tom Hutchinson et al
  73. Lock In – John Scalzi
  74. Thieftaker – DB Jackson
  75. The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
  76. Fray – Joss Whedon
  77. The Replacements: all over but the shouting (an oral history) – Jim Walsh
  78. Blues – Lynn Townsend
  79. Transmetropolitan volume 2 – lust for life – Ellis/Robertson
  80. A New Dawn – John Jackson Miller
  81. Spider-Men – Bendis/Pichelli
  82. Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus – Waid/Immonen/et al
  83. Avengers vs. X-Men: Avengers Academy – Gage/Remender/Grummet
  84. Avengers vs. X-Men: Consequences – Gillen/et al
  85. Fantastic Four: Season One – Aguirre-Sacasa/Marquez
  86. Fantasy and Science Fiction – July/August 2014
  87. 1632 – Eric Flint
  88. Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History – Glen Berger
  89. Hawkeye vol 3 : LA Woman – Fraction/Wu/Pulido
  90. Tithe – Holly Black
  91. An Astronaut’s Guide to Life On Earth – Chris Hadfield
  92. Fluke – Christopher Moore
  93. Legion of Superheroes vol. 1: Teenage Revolution – Waid/Kitson
  94. Unfamiliar Fishes – Sarah Vowell
  95. Thief’s Quarry – DB Jackson
  96. Choose Your Own Autobiography – Neil Patrick Harris
  97. Critter vol 4: High Tide – Tom Hutchinson
  98. Capes N Babes vol 1: You Can’t Print Flick – Chris Flick
  99. Capes N Babes vol 2: You Still Can’t Print Flick – Chris Flick
  100. Capes N Babes vol 3: That’s Why You Can’t Print Flick – Chris Flick
  101. Purgatory Pub (book one) – Gabriel Dunston
  102. Capes N Babes vol 4: This Fur Don’t Burn – Chris Flick
  103. Jurassic Park – Michael Chrichton
  104. Uglies – Scott Westerfeld
  105. Neptune’s Brood – Charles Stross
  106. You – Austin Grossman
  107. Goliath – Scott Westerfeld

2013:

  1. Analog – December 2012
  2. The Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England – Brock Clark
  3. Asimov’s– January 2013
  4. The Black Cauldron – Lloyd Alexander
  5. Entoverse – James P Hogan
  6. Dragonheart – Todd McCaffrey
  7. The Man Called Cash – The Life, Love, and Faith of an American Legend – Steve Turner
  8. Moranthology – Caitlin Moran
  9. The President of Vice: The “Autobiography” of Joe Biden – The Onion
  10. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
  11. Carte Blanche – Jeffery Deaver
  12. JLA/Superman: The Never-Ending Battle – Roger Stern
  13. Gullible’s Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist – Cash Peters
  14. Spook Country – William Gibson
  15. The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
  16. Changes – Jim Butcher
  17. Changelings – Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  18. Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 – John Ferling
  19. The Dolphins of Pern – Anne McCaffrey
  20. Lamb – Christopher Moore
  21. Look to Windward – Iain M. Banks
  22. The Ladies of Grace Adieu – Susanna Clark
  23. Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill
  24. Ghost Story – Jim Butcher
  25. The Language of Bees – Laurie R. King
  26. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  27. I Wish I Knew That: US Presidents – Editors of Readers’ Digest
  28. Gamers – Thomas K. Carpenter
  29. Bells of the Kingdom – Leona Wisoker
  30. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf – Victor Pelevin
  31. Kitty Rocks The House – Carrie Vaughn
  32. Small Favor – Jim Butcher
  33. Throne of the Crescent Moon – Saladin Ahmed
  34. Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo – Greg Leitich Smith
  35. The Daughter of Frost – Nick Davis
  36. His Majesty’s Dragon – Naomi Novik
  37. God of the Hive – Laurie R. King
  38. Turn Coat – Jim Butcher
  39. Burma Chronicles – Guy Delisle
  40. The Wheel of Darkness – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  41. N0S4A2 – Joe Hill
  42. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  43. Isaac The Pirate – 2. The Capital – Christophe Blaine
  44. Sandman – vol 2 – A Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman, various artists
  45. Sandman – vol 3 – Dream Country – Neil Gaiman, various artists
  46. Rocket Raccoon and Groot – the complete collection – Bill Mantlo, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Jack Kirby, various artists
  47. 20th Century Ghosts – Joe Hill
  48. The Shadow of the Sun – Barbara Friend Ish
  49. Batman: The Compete Knightfall Saga – Dixon, Moench, etc
  50. Fool – Christopher Moore
  51. The Human Division – John Scalzi
  52. Throne of Jade – Naomi Novik
  53. The Golden Age of Death – Amber Benson
  54. The Shambling Guide to New York City – Mur Lafferty
  55. Showcase Presents – Legion of Super Heroes Vol. 2
  56. Clockwork Phoenix 4 – Mike Allen (ed)
  57. Boots on the Ground By Dusk – Mary Tillman
  58. Into the Wild – John Krakauer
  59. Leviathan Wakes – James S.A. Corey
  60. Just A Geek – Wil Wheaton
  61. Shenzhen – Guy Delise
  62. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon – PN Elrod (ed)
  63. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
  64. The Meowmorphosis – Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook
  65. Hawkeye: My Life as A Weapon – Matt Fraction et. al.
  66. Saving Mars – Cidney Swanson
  67. The Dragon’s Path – Daniel Abraham
  68. Layer Cake – JJ Connolly
  69. Soon I Will Be Invincible – Austin Grossman
  70. A Princess of Landover – Terry Brooks
  71. WE3 – Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
  72. Chicken with Plums – Marjane Satrapi
  73. The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan
  74. Pirate King – Laurie R. King
  75. Hawkeye: Little Hits – Matt Fraction et al
  76. Matter – Iain M. Banks
  77. Laika – Nick Abadzis
  78. Kitty in the Underworld – Carrie Vaughn
  79. Warm Bodies – Isaac Marion
  80. The Night Gwen Stacy Died – Sarah Bruni
  81. Candle – John Barnes
  82. Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis
  83. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  84. Startide Rising – David Brin
  85. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
  86. Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman, various Artists
  87. Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman, various Artists
  88. Sandman Vol 6: Fables & Reflection – Neil Gaiman, various Artists
  89. Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
  90. Kaleidiscope Century – John Barnes
  91. Sandman Vol 7: Brief Lives – Neil Gaiman, various Artists
  92. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
  93. Garment of Shadows – Laurie R. King
  94. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
  95. The Sky So Big and Black – John Barnes
  96. X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga – Claremont & Byrne
  97. Argo – Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio
  98. Proven Guilty – Jim Butcher
  99. Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930 – Cynthia Grant Tucker
  100. Sandman Vol 8 – World’s End – Neil Gaiman, various artists
  101. The Infinity Gauntlet – Jim Starlin, George Perez
  102. Memoria – Alex Bobl
  103. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (vol 1) – Bendis et al
  104. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (vol 2) – Bendis et. al
  105. Suicide Kings – George R.R. Martin (ed)
  106. Sandman Vol 9 – The Kindly Ones – Neil Gaiman, various Artiss
  107. Rule 34 – Charles Stross
  108. Libriomancer – Jim C Hines
  109. Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (vol 3) – Bendis et. al
  110. The Mallet of Loving Correction – John Scalzi
  111. Codex Born – Jim C Hines
  112. Crucible of Gold – Naomi Novik
  113. Blood of Tyrants – Naomi Novik
  114. Kobolds Ate My Baby! In Colour!!! – Chris O’Neill & Dan Landis, illust. by John Kovalic
  115. The Reckoning – Howard Owen
  116. Dead March – Ann McMillan
  117. Kraken – China Mieville

2012:

  1. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. “Not Your Bitch” Martin
  2. Bedlam Boyz – Ellen Guon
  3. Nightshade – Laurell K. Hamilton
  4. Star Guard – Andre Norton
  5. Straying from the Path – Carrie Vaughn
  6. On Basilisk Station – David Weber
  7. Knight of the Black Rose – James Lowder
  8. Journey to Elsewhere – Murray Leinster
  9. Kittys’ Greatest Hits – Carrie Vaughn
  10. BtVS: Tales of the Slayer, Vol 1
  11. The Duplicators – Murray Leinster
  12. Giant’s Star – James P. Hogan
  13. The Honor of the Queen – David Weber
  14. Bewitched and Betrayed – Lisa Shearin
  15. Paradise Towers – Stephen Wyatt
  16. Broken Blade – Kelly McCullough
  17. The Gods of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  18. Quiet – The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
  19. Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob – Rob Balder & Jamie Noguchi
  20. A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
  21. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
  22. The Dark Design – Philip Jose Farmer
  23. The Guardians of the Desert – Leona Wisoker
  24. The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
  25. Con and Conjure – Lisa Shearin
  26. Drift – Rachel Maddow
  27. Between a Roc and a Hard Place – Danny Birt
  28. Phoenix Rising – Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
  29. Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America- Barbara Ehrenreich
  30. Spectre Nightmares and Visitations – Pamela K Kinney
  31. Strike Zone – Peter David
  32. Redshirts – A Novel with Three Codas – John Scalzi
  33. All Spell Breaks Loose – Lisa Shearin
  34. Fuzzy Nation – John Scalzi
  35. Awol on the Appalacian Trail – David Miller
  36. A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
  37. Adam and Eve: Bizarre Love Triangle in the Zombie Apocalypse, Vol 2. – Dan Nokes
  38. A Dog’s Life: No Shenanigans!!! – Chris Otto
  39. The Janus Affair – Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
  40. Analog – September 2011
  41. Analog – October 2011
  42. Analog – November 2011
  43. A Feast for Crows – George R.R. Martin
  44. Kitty Steals the Show – Carrie Vaughn
  45. Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Superheroes – Timothy Callahan (ed.)
  46. How to be A Woman – Caitlin Moran
  47. A Dance With Dragons – George R.R. Martin
  48. Pirates of Mars – Chris Gerrib
  49. Let The Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
  50. Nobody Gets The Girl: A Superhero Novel – James Maxey
  51. DC Comics Showcase: The Legion of Superheroes vol. 1
  52. The Warlock In Spite of Himself – Christopher Stasheff
  53. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  54. Star Trek:TNG/Doctor Who: Assimilation² (vol 1) – Tipton, Tiption & Woodward
  55. The Casual Vacancy – JK Rowling
  56. A Teddy Bear Tale II – Nick Davis
  57. Geek Love – Katherine Dunn
  58. Escape Velocity – Christopher Stasheff
  59. Marvel Comics: the untold story – Sean Howe
  60. Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall – Thomas Hopp
  61. Sub-Human – David Simpson
  62. John Gone – Michael Kayatta
  63. How To Be Death – Amber Benson
  64. Burn Baby Burn: A Supervillain Novel – James Maxey
  65. Post-Human – David Simpson
  66. Further: Beyond the Threshold – Chris Roberson
  67. A Dog’s Life: Bark to the Future – Chris Otto & Ben Taylor
  68. Analog – Jan/Feb 2012
  69. Galactic Creatures – Elektra Hammond (ed)
  70. Cold Days – Jim Butcher
  71. Trans-Human – David Simpson
  72. Paranoia! – The Computer is Your Friend – Ultraviolet Books
  73. Analog – March 2012
  74. Predation – SJ Parkinson
  75. Spider-Man: Skin Deep – JMS & Mike Deodato
  76. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
  77. Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq – David J. Danelo
  78. Horns – Joe Hill
  79. Asimov’s – October/November 2012
  80. The Ten-¢ent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America – David Hadju
  81. Isaac the Pirate (vol 1) – Christophe Blain
  82. Asimov’s – December 2012
  83. Analog – November 2012
  84. Jerusalem – Guy Delisle
  85. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama – Tetsu Sawai

2011:

  1. Deception Point – Dan Brown
  2. Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
  3. Through Stone and Sea – Barb & JC Hendee
  4. The Switch – Elmore Leonard
  5. The Abstinence Teacher – Tom Perrotta
  6. The Day After and Other Stories – Wil Wheaton
  7. Dreadnought – Cherie Priest
  8. A Hymn Before Battle – John Ringo
  9. Analog: March 2011
  10. Sweet Myth-tery of Life – Robert Asprin
  11. The Ranger’s Apprentice: The Icebound Land – John Flanagan
  12. Blasphemy – Douglas Preston
  13. To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
  14. Hunter – Wil Wheaton
  15. Analog: April 2011
  16. Bonk – Mary Roach
  17. Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher
  18. The Fabulous Riverboat – Philip Jose Farmer
  19. Dark River – John Twelve Hawks
  20. Behemoth – Scott Westerfeld
  21. Analog: May 2011
  22. The Wizardry Compiled – Rick Cook
  23. A Chosen Faith – Buehrens & Church
  24. The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
  25. Serpent’s Storm – Amber Benson
  26. With A Little Help – Cory Doctorow
  27. Haunted Richmond – Pamela K. Kinney
  28. The Dresden Files RPG: Your Story – Butcher, Hicks, etc
  29. Steel – Carrie Vaughn
  30. Tongues of Serpents – Naomi Novik
  31. Analog: June 2011
  32. After the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn
  33. Secret of the Sands – Leona Wisoker
  34. You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop Into a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing – John Scalzi
  35. Analog: July/August 2011
  36. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – David Sedaris
  37. I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas – Lewis Black
  38. Emma and the Vampires – Jane Austen and Wayne Josephson
  39. Kitty’s Big Trouble – Carrie Vaughn
  40. Ghost Story – Jim Butcher
  41. LA Noire: The Collected Stories – Rockstar Games
  42. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
  43. Bossypants – Tina Fey
  44. Nerd Do Well – Simon Pegg
  45. Ghost Troopers – Joe Schreiber
  46. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland – Patton Oswalt
  47. The Snow Queen’s Shadow – Jim C Hines
  48. The Bedwetter – Sarah Silverman
  49. Stories I Only Tell My Friends – Rob Lowe
  50. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band – Mötley Crüe w/ Neil Strauss
  51. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier – Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
  52. The Authoritarians – Bob Altemeyer
  53. Timecaster – Joe Kimball
  54. Of Truth and Beasts – Barb & JC Hendee
  55. Elegy Beach – Steven Boyett
  56. Abigail Adams – Woody Holton
  57. Adam and Eve – Bizarre Love Triangle in the Zombie Apocalypse – Dan Nokes
  58. It’s Not News, It’s Fark – how the mass media tries to pass off crap as news – Drew Curtis
  59. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
  60. Haunted Virginia – Pamela K. Kinney
  61. The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities – Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (ed.)
  62. Gust Front – John Ringo
  63. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede – James P. Hogan
  64. The Warrior’s Apprentice – Lois McMaster Bujold
  65. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
  66. Vampire Science – Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman
  67. Unconditional – A Teddy Bear Tale – Nick Davis & Dan Nokes

2010:

  1. Humans – Robert J. Sawyer
  2. In Shade and Shadow – Barb & J.C. Hendee
  3. Kitty’s House of Horrors – Carrie Vaughn
  4. Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever – John Scalzi
  5. Crazy for God – Frank Schaeffer
  6. Proven Guilty – Jim Butcher
  7. Ill Wind – Rachel Caine
  8. White Night – Jim Butcher
  9. Human Nature – Paul Cornell
  10. The Breach – Patrick Lee
  11. The Time Traders – Andre Norton
  12. Galactic Derelict – Andre Norton
  13. Digital Knight – Ryk E. Spoor
  14. Analog – April 2010
  15. Fallen Angels – Niven, Pournelle, & Flynn
  16. Game Change – John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
  17. The Two Faces of Tomorrow – James P. Hogan
  18. Cat’s Claw – Amber Benson
  19. Analog: May 2010
  20. The God Engines – John Scalzi
  21. Heat Stroke – Rachel Caine
  22. Voices of Dragons – Carrie Vaughn
  23. Small Favor – Jim Butcher
  24. Primary Inversion – Catherine Asaro
  25. Last Call – Tim Powers
  26. Analog – June 2010
  27. Little Fuzzy – H. Beam Piper
  28. The Things That Are Not There – CJ Henderson
  29. Boneshaker – Cherie Priest
  30. Free Range Kids – Lenore Skenazy
  31. Essential Doctor Strange (vol 4) – Stern, Claremont, Etc.
  32. My Own Kind of Freedom – Steven Brust
  33. The Stench of Fresh Air – CJ Henderson
  34. Makers – Cory Doctorow
  35. Get Opinionated – Amanda Marcotte
  36. The Mountains of Mourning – Lois McMaster Bujold
  37. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith
  38. For The Win – Cory Doctorow
  39. Omnilingual – H. Beam Piper
  40. Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters – Malcolm Hulke
  41. Prince of Stories: the many worlds of Neil Gaiman – Wagner, Golden & Bissette
  42. Exile’s Burn – Elaine Corvidae
  43. Essential Moon Knight Vol 2 – Moench & Sienkiewicz
  44. Turn Coat – Jim Butcher
  45. The Sleep that Rescues – CJ Henderson
  46. Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E: ultimate edition: Warren Ellis & Stuart Immonen
  47. Geek Dad – Ken Denmead
  48. Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) – Gever Tulley w/ Julie Spiegler
  49. Analog: September 2010
  50. Anathem – Neal Stephenson
  51. Sunrise Alley – Catherine Asaro
  52. Spellcrash – Kelly McCullough
  53. The Clockwise Man – Justin Richards
  54. Kitty Goes To War – Carrie Vaughn
  55. The Eight Doctors – Terrance Dicks
  56. Analog: July-August 2010
  57. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
  58. Discord’s Apple – Carrie Vaughn
  59. Goth Opera – Paul Cornell
  60. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  61. Analog: October 2010
  62. The Monsters Inside – Stephen Cole
  63. Red Hood’s Revenge – Jim C. Hines
  64. Wizard’s Bane – Rick Cook
  65. Alternate Generals – Harry Turtledove (editor)
  66. Med Ship – Murray Leinster
  67. Essential Defenders vol 4 – David Kraft et al.
  68. Analog: November 2010
  69. Lai Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker – CJ Henderson
  70. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  71. Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer
  72. Changes – Jim Butcher
  73. The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
  74. Clash of the Geeks – Wheaton, Scalzi, etc
  75. Unnatural History – Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman
  76. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  77. I Am America (and so can you!) – Stephen Colbert
  78. Scott Pilgrim vs The World – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  79. Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  80. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  81. Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  82. Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour – Bryan Lee O’Malley
  83. Analog: December 2010
  84. An Unearthly Child – Terrance Dicks
  85. The Taint – Michael Collier
  86. The Line – Teri Hall
  87. Assassination Vacation – Sarah Vowell
  88. Hybrids – Robert J. Sawyer
  89. Lucifer’s Hammer – Niven & Pournelle
  90. When You Are Engulfed In Flames – David Sedaris
  91. xkcd: volume 0 – Randall Munroe
  92. The Lace Reader – Brunonia Barry
  93. Dirty Sexy Politics – Meghan McCain
  94. The Guinea Pig Diaries: my life as an experiment – A.J. Jacobs
  95. Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
  96. The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
  97. Dress Your Family in Courdoroy and Denim – David Sedaris
  98. Leviathan – Scott Westerfeld
  99. Born Standing Up – Steve Martin
  100. The Party Cloudy Patriot – Sarah Vowell
  101. The Great Derangement – Matt Taibbi
  102. Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
  103. Essential Marvel Two-in-One, vol 3 – Gruenwald et. al.
  104. Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
  105. Analog: January/February 2011
  106. Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
  107. Side Jobs – Jim Butcher

2009:

  1. World War Z – Max Brooks
  2. Child of a Dead God – Barb and JC Hendee
  3. Fool Moon – Jim Butcher
  4. The Year of Living Biblically – A.J. Jacobs
  5. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
  6. The Stepsister Scheme – Jim C. Hines
  7. Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand – Carrie Vaughn
  8. The Wrecking Crew – Thomas Frank
  9. Analog – April 2009
  10. Sunken Treasure – Wil Wheaton
  11. 1984 – George Orwell
  12. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
  13. Kitty Raises Hell – Carrie Vaughn
  14. Essential Doctor Strange: v. 3 – Engelhart, Brunner, Colan, et al
  15. The Hacker Crackdown – Bruce Sterling
  16. Analog – May 2009
  17. Death’s Daughter – Amber Benson
  18. Analog – June 2009
  19. Grave Peril – Jim Butcher
  20. Singularlity Sky – Charles Stross
  21. Zappa – Barry Miles
  22. Zoe’s Tale – John Scalzi
  23. Hero of Ages – Brandon Sanderson
  24. Summer Knight – Jim Butcher
  25. Analog – July/August 2009
  26. Victory of Eagles – Naomi Novik
  27. Analog – September 2009
  28. MythOS – Kelly McCullough
  29. Death Masks – Jim Butcher
  30. Wolfkin – Elaine Corvidae
  31. The Trouble With Demons – Lisa Shearin
  32. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
  33. In The Shadows – Joseph Lidster
  34. Analog – October 2009
  35. Blood Rites: Jim Butcher
  36. Your Inner Fish – Neil Shubin
  37. Saturn’s Children – Charles Stross
  38. The Motherhood Manifesto – Joan Blades, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
  39. Analog – November 2009
  40. Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson
  41. Dinosaur Planet – Anne McCafferey
  42. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town – Cory Docotorow
  43. Dragons of the Cuyahoga – S. Andrew Swann
  44. The Apocalypse Troll: David Weber
  45. Goblin Quest – Jim C. Hines
  46. The Buried Pyramid – Jane Lindskold
  47. Dwarves of Whisky Island – S. Andrew Swann
  48. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
  49. Rats, Bats & Vats – Dave Freer & Eric Flint
  50. Inherit the Stars – James P. Hogan
  51. The Rats, The Bats, and the Ugly” – Eric Flint & Dave Freer
  52. Goblin Hero – Jim C. Hines
  53. Analog December 2009
  54. Sense And Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Jane Austen & Ben H. Winters
  55. Sheepfarmer’s Daughter – Elizabeth Moon
  56. Memories of the Future: Volume One – Wil Wheaton
  57. A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin
  58. Goblin War – Jim C. Hines
  59. Ariel – Steven R. Boyett
  60. …And Another Thing – Eoin Colfer
  61. Analog – Jan-Feb 2010
  62. Dead Beat – Jim Butcher
  63. The Multiplex Man – James P. Hogan
  64. Waiting for Athena – John Scalzi
  65. Shatnerquake – Jeff Burk
  66. More Information Than You Require – John Hodgman
  67. The Mermaid’s Madness – Jim C. Hines
  68. Surface Action – David Drake
  69. Analog: March 2010
  70. Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress – Shelly Mazzanoble
  71. Imago – Octavia Butler
  72. Hominids – Robert J. Sawyer
  73. Analog: May 1984

2008:

  1. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
  2. The Cradle of Saturn – James P. Hogan
  3. The Price of Paradise – Colin Brake
  4. The Genesis Machine – James P. Hogan
  5. Rebel Fay – Barb and JC Hendee
  6. Robots and Empire – Isaac Asimov
  7. Edenborn – Nick Sagan
  8. Lamb – Christopher Moore
  9. Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
  10. Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
  11. Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
  12. Kitty and the Midnight Hour – Carrie Vaughn
  13. The Android’s Dream – Scalzi
  14. Spin – Robert Charles Wilson
  15. Rockets, Redheads, and Revolution – James P. Hogan
  16. Agent to the Stars – John Scalzi
  17. The Outstretched Shadow – Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
  18. The Moor – Laurie R. King
  19. Farthing – Jo Walton
  20. Kitty Goes To Washington – Carrie Vaughn
  21. A Secret Atlas – Michael A. Stackpole
  22. Crystal Rain – Tobias Buckell
  23. Lord of the Isles – David Drake
  24. Iron Man – Peter David
  25. The Ghost Brigades – John Scalzi
  26. Kitty Takes A Holiday – Carrie Vaughn
  27. The Beatles – Bob Spitz
  28. Through Wolf’s Eyes – Jane Lindskold
  29. The Disunited States of America – Harry Turtledove
  30. Reiffen’s Choice – SC Butler
  31. Jerusalem – Laurie R. King
  32. Sun of Suns – Karl Schroeder
  33. Kitty and the Silver Bullet – Carrie Vaughn
  34. Four and Twenty Blackbirds – Cherie Priest
  35. Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
  36. Essential Avengers, Volume 2 – Stan Lee, Don Heck, Roy Thomas, John Buscema
  37. Starfish – Peter Watts
  38. Magic Lost, Trouble Found – Lisa Shearin
  39. The Incredible Hulk – Peter David
  40. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow
  41. Armed and Magical – Lisa Shearin
  42. Touch of Evil – CT Adams and Cathy Clamp
  43. Lyra’s Oxford – Philip Pullman
  44. Boomsday – Christopher Buckley
  45. I Love You Beth Cooper – Larry Doyle
  46. Codespell – Kelly McCullough
  47. 2033: The Future of Misbehavior – Nerve.com editors
  48. Black & White – Lewis Shiner
  49. In the Garden of Iden – Kage Baker
  50. Jennifer Government – Max Barry
  51. Hal Spacejock – Simon Haynes
  52. Me of Little Faith – Lewis Black
  53. Orphans of Chaos – John C. Wright
  54. In The Midnight Hour – Patti O’Shea
  55. Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson
  56. Flash – LE Modessit
  57. Darkness of the Light – Peter David
  58. InterWorld – Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
  59. Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
  60. Soul – Tobsha Learner
  61. Justice Hall – Laurie R. King
  62. Eastern Standard Tribe – Cory Doctorow
  63. The Captain’s Honor – Daniel and David Dvorkin
  64. The Last Colony – John Scalzi
  65. Playing For Keeps – Mur Lafferty
  66. The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar
  67. The Game – Laurie R. King
  68. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  69. Locked Rooms – Laurie R. King
  70. Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  71. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
  72. M is for Magic – Neil Gaiman
  73. Dawn – Octavia Butler
  74. Outrageous Fortune – Tim Scott
  75. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
  76. Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
  77. Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama
  78. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
  79. Adulthood Rites – Octavia Butler
  80. War for the Oaks – Emma Bull
  81. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
  82. Jumper – Steven Gould
  83. Storm Front – Jim Butcher
  84. Dinosaur Planet Survivors – Anne McCaffrey

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    chuck Says:

    “Mistborn” – Brandon Sanderson

    I got this one in my email this week for signing up for the new Tor Books newsletter. They’re apparently launching a newly designed site, and are giving away free e-books (well, PDF files) to drum up page counts.

    Yay, free books.

    This’ll keep me going at lunchtime for a few weeks, I imagine.

    -chuck

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    chuck Says:

    Jennifer – you’ll like the “Kitty” series from Carrie Vaughn. I can tell you this now, even though I haven’t finished the first one yet.

    A hip, snarky, single girl werewolf who has a late-night call-in radio show about supernatural problems; it also looks like the author’s trying to set her up with either one of the local vampires, or perhaps the werewolf/vampire hunter guy…not sure yet.

    It’s fun, kinda like the early anita blake books, perhaps a little more econonomical and clever on the prose. You should read it.

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    chuck Says:

    couple more comments.

    I’m starting to really like Scalzi, not just because he once taped a piece of bacon to a cat, then took a picture of it and posted it on the internet.

    “Old Man’s War” was really clever; who can resist a novel whose first line is:

    “I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife’s grave. Then I joined the Army”

    It’s basically the typical “boys go off to war” novel, except the boys are all older than John McCain. Then the get new super-bodies (and deal with all the ramifications of such) and go out and fight aliens.

    “Android’s Dream” is also shaping up to be fun read – I’m really starting to get a sort of “American Adams” vibe from this guy – lots of fun, kind of absurd situations and ideas (a future religious sect involving ritual bowhunting known as the Nugentians? classic!). All wrapped around a great little “race to find the thing” story.

    Lots of nods to other classic sci-fi authors; both of these stories owe a lot, either in structure or simple little references, to Heinlein. Still, any of these stories could be easily enjoyed by someone who’s really not into scifi at all.

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    chuck Says:

    R/R/R – Hogan: just started it the other night; collection of essays and short stories. Not bad. Once I finish it, I ought to be through the box of Doug’s books for the year.

    Agent to the Stars – yeah, another Scalzi book – what can I say, I like this guy. I figure I’ll burn through his whole catalog this year easily. This one’s actually his “practice” novel that he wrote just to prove he could; never sold it to a publisher, and has since put it online for all to see. The latest in my “lunchtime reading” series….

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    chuck Says:

    a few I wasn’t necessarily fond of:

    A Secret Atlas – picked this one up because I liked the cover, mostly. It wasn’t a “bad” book per se, but took its sweet time getting around to things happening, and then, once things got rolling at all, it became really episodic; “this happened to this guy, this happened to that guy, prince goes “muah, ha ha”, rinse, repeat…” Colleen liked it more than I; perhaps I missed the throughline, as I was sick through most of the reading. I may try it again sometime. Thinking about it, though, I never quite got into the world the author was trying to build; I’ve no doubt he has all sorts of ideas about how it fits together, but he didn’t communicate it so well, at least to me.

    “Lord of the Isles” – another one of those free books from Tor; not awful, but definitely the least of the offerings so far. I think there were just too many pieces on the board overall to keep me into it; the world was better realized, though still kind of a mish-mash of stock fantasy tropes, and the secondary characters are infinitely more interesting than the “Chosen One” boy hero, which is never a good sign.

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    chuck Says:

    crossing over the 50 books line…

    highlights since last time:
    Little Brother – Cory Doctorow All sorts of people are raving about this one, and rightfully so. The book’s nominally a YA title, but that’s not a knock against it at all – a great meditation on privacy and civil rights issues, especially in terms of electronic surveillance. Read it; you’ll learn something!

    I Love You Beth Cooper – Larry Doyle The night after graduation, through the eyes of the nerdy class valedictorian who used his speech to proclaim his love for the school’s head cheerleader. The perfect novelization of the movies John Hughes should still be making.

    Codspell – Kelly McCullough – third in a great series; the adventures of a minor power in the Greek Pantheon; in a world where the gods fused magic with modern information technology and computing (code, after all, is much more efficient than blood rituals!).

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    chuck Says:

    Orphans of Chaos – a lot of interesting ideas; in fact, enough ideas for a couple of entirely different books. Any of the following ideas would make the great hook for a novel:

    • A teenage girl with the ability to perceive and project herself into 4-D space
    • A war between two supernatural forces with the earth in the balance
    • An S&M thriller with lots of tying up and spanking
    • The Greek pantheon running a modern English boarding school for nefarious purposes
    • A group of plucky teenagers, each with a special power, fighting for freedom from their captors, who have opposing special powers
    • A discussion of complex theology and geometry?

    When ALL these ideas are wedged into one 300 page book, though, it gets kind of muddled.

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    chuck Says:

    In The Midnight Hour – Another free book; Oh, Tor, why must you trick me into reading smutty romance novels laced with vague sci-fi supernatural elements? Free books, I know. There might actually have been a decent story with romantic elements here, but instead, the whole “plot” business was pushed into the deep background to make room for the graphic “undulating passion”.

    And it’s a shame, because the story, fleshed out a little bit, would probably have been really good…if they’d spent as many pages on the big plot developments and confrontations with the threatening (but barely present, sadly) adversary as they did on the smutty, smutty smut.

    The plot points in this book were treated with about as much gravity as the stereotypical “Hey lady, plumber here – need your pipes cleaned?” setup in a bad porn movie.

    Why can’t we have BOTH the interesting plot and the graphic sexuality?

    After wading into a couple of these romance novels (paranormal or no), no one can ever tell me that “proper” women don’t use pornography – they just take it in a slightly different format.

    Wanna know what else is weird? I can’t for the life of me figure out what the title of this book had to do with the story…

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    chuck Says:

    Me of Little Faith: Lewis Black discusses religion. Equally sarcastic, cynical, and, oddly, reverent. Not quite as good as Nothing Sacred, but still worth a look.

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    chuck Says:

    Well of Ascension – I’m really enjoying Sanderson’s work, even if I didn’t expect to – Mistborn was one of the first of the Tor free books, and one of the pleasant surprises in that particular promotion. The characters are basically archetypes, but you still find yourself involved in them, and their well-established, but still mysterious world (which I’m sure will be expounded upon in coming volumes).

    That, and the guy writes action scenes well; all frentic motion and opposing forces, but in a way the reader can coherently follow.

    This second book in a series falls into the not-done-nearly-enough category of “well, the good guys won – now what?”; and makes it work, and opens up a few doors to further adventures.

    I’m currently working through his first novel, Elantris; it’s not at all related to the mistborn books, but has the same flavor, with all sorts of political intrigue and cleverly implemented magickal systems.

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    chuck Says:

    The Captain’s Honor – cleaning out the crawlspaces, found this OLD Star Trek TNG tie-in novel….oh, was it bad.

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    chuck Says:

    Fahrenheit 451 – 34 years old, and I’ve never read this one before; who’d have thought? Interesting read, and filled a gaping hole in my experience.

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    chuck Says:

    Watchmen – reading it yet again (mostly in anticipation of the upcoming film version that will almost certainly disappoint); every time, I find something new and interesting. If you haven’t read this GN yet, do yourself a favor, track it down now.

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    Joy Bedwell Says:

    My favorite author is Nickolas Sparks. Try a few of his books if you didn’t already read them.
    Joy

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    chuck Says:

    Dreams from My Father: Yeah, I started this one right after the election, but it’s been moldering in my stack for a while now. Having read both President-Elect Obama’s(I still love the sound of that) books, I can say I like this one a lot better than Audacity of Hope, which kicked off this year’s reading list.

    AoH was clearly a “hey, I’m running for president!” book; an excellent example of one (I’ve read a bunch of these, and most are pretty awful), but still very guarded and not particularly personal; more an outlay of vague policy, than the “get to know the candidate” book that these are usually billed as.

    DfmF, on the other hand, is something else entirely; a personal story told well, and, unlike most books by politicians, unguarded. You really get a feel for who the author is, and how he thinks.

    I guess that’s because it wasn’t written by a politician, it was written by a law student who hadn’t yet seriously considered entering politics. I won’t say there’s anything particularly shameful admitted to in the book, but there are a few things that might (and some would argue, did) come back and bite him on the ass later. Kudos for Obama for not burying this little book he wrote years ago, and letting new readers discover it.

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    chuck Says:

    Dinosaur Planet Survivors: I’ve had this paperback lying around for probably fifteen years; I picked it up at a thrift shop or something. I waited so long because I was probably a bit McCaffrey’d out when I got it, and I always half-intended to pick up “Dinosaur Planet” and read it first. Never happened.

    The book was just okay.

    I’m leading off the new year with WWZ, which is way better so far.

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    chuck Says:

    Child of A Dead God – Another January, another Hendee “Noble Dead” book; I’ve been keeping up with this series for at least four years now. They’re all pretty much “extruded fantasy product”, but it’s good EFP; and it has vampires and a telepathic wolf – did LotR have vampires and telepathic wolves? I don’t think so.

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    chuck Says:

    twilight – so yes, I managed to scrape up a copy to see what the fuss was about; I won’t say it’s the worst book I ever read (I’d probably say that was The Legend of Rah and the Muggles); at least all the subjects and verbs agreed. I also can’t say that it’s the transcendent experience (as millions of pre-teen girls will tell you), or that it’s even particularly good.

    There was a plot buried in there somewhere, one that a skilled writer might have been able to do something with. But not this one.

    The main characters are entirely unsympathetic; edward may be a sparking (!) god physically, but is also a stalker with bi-polar issues, serious problems maturity and stilted, awkward speech patterns. Bela is, by all rights, a hot nerd chick who is vastly intelligent and has six decent guys fawning all over her between every class, but considers herself boring and ordinary and claims nobody likes her; it’s hard to get invested in, especially when these characters get together, and the book portrays the relationship as healthy.

    Buffy did this better in season two, and correctly played the “naive young girl and older bad boy” relationship as a bad idea.

    The only character I kind of liked was Alice, but since her big “vision of the future” was revealed in the final pages, I guess she’s not long for the world.

    The book wasn’t super painful, but it’ll probably be a while before I dive into any of the others – where if I understand correctly, all the authors weird sexual hang-ups and “proper” gender roles really boil up.

    Might be an interesting trainwreck, but I’m not ready for it yet.

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    chuck Says:

    Essential Doctor Strange: volume 3: Collecting 30-odd issues of “Doctor Strange” (plus a couple from “Tomb of Dracula” that tied in) from roughly 1975-1977.

    Exquisite weirdness – The Master of the Mystic Arts battles deranged Ex-bishops, Lords of the Undead, Satan himself, planets made of worms, and just for the hell of it, a space dragon he just happened to run into while going somewhere else, for no plot related reasons other than the fact that Doctor Strange spending two pages fighting a space dragon is the coolest thing ever.

    Oh, and Doc Strange gets cockblocked by Benjamin Franklin during a bicentennial-inspired time travel adventure. I wish comics were still this cool.

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    chuck Says:

    catching up on the last couple of months:

    Death’s Daughter: bought this book primarily because I’ve had a long-time TV crush on the author (she played Tara Maclay on Buffy), but was pleasantly surprised by reasonably solid urban fantasy, even if it veered a little in to SatC territory occasionally – do we really need to talk that much about shoes and designer bags, Amber?

    Zappa: Always enjoyed Zappa’s music, loved his testimony to congress in the PMRC business way back. Interesting book, even if it turns out that the great artist was also kind of an asshole.

    Zoe’s Tale: Another one of this Year’s Hugo nominees I’ve actually read. Retells “The Last Colony” story from the perspective of Zoe, teenage daughter of the protagonists. Good stuff. Write faster, Scalzi!

    Wolfkin: bought this from the author (signed) at RavenCon this year. It’s more romance-flavored Extruded Fantasy Product, but competent EFP, with all the courtly intrigue, buckling of swashes, and dark mysterious heroes you could ever want.

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    chuck Says:

    Your Inner Fish: worth a whole post on it’s own.

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    chuck Says:

    Saturn’s Children: taking me to 4 for 5 in reading this year’s Hugo nominees (just Anathem left), is this fun solar system spanning mystery taking place a couple of centuries after humanity died out, leaving it’s android servants to carry on civilization. It offers plenty to think about regarding freedom, prejudice, and personhood, as well as plenty of neat hard sci-fi stuff about space travel and AI.

    Also, lots of robot sex.

    My favorite bit, however, is the minor aside where Stross turns the evolution/creationism debate on it’s head: the androids have mostly ironclad proof that they were “intelligently designed” by a Creator race, yet a “Church of Evolution” (complete with Prophets Darwin, Gould and Dawkins) arises to deny this proof, believing that something to efficiently designed as themselves had to evolve from ‘lesser’ forms.

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    Dinosaur Planet – amongst all the RavenCon 09 swag, we picked this one up from a used bookseller. Lots of stuff in Survivors makes sense now. One niggling problem: if you’re going to make the big reveal “These are EARTH DINOSAURS on this ALIEN PLANET!”, don’t call your book Dinosaur Planet!

    Goblin Quest – snagged this whole series at C&C books from the going-out-of-business sale. The story of a lowly goblin who rises above his standard station as low-level RPG encounter fodder. Silly, light, and fun.

    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Take most of Jane Austen’s original text, add the undead, some ninjas, and a handful of anachronistic double-entendres, publish. It works surprisingly well, retains Austen’s wit amidst the mayhem, and actually fills in a couple of Austen’s plot inconsistencies. I enjoyed it tremendously.

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    been a while…rolling into 2010:

    looks like the beginning of the year; new entries from Vaughn and the Hendees, like always. Good stuff all around there.

    Crazy for God: memoir from one of the guys who got the whole evangelical anti-abortion movement going, paving the way for Falwell, Roberston, etc; then turned away from it, because it left a bad taste in his mouth. interesting reading, offering insight into that particular subculture.

    Ill Wind: first of a series by Rachel Caine; kinda lukewarm toward it (veers a little close to “paranormal romance” rather than “urban fantasy” for me), but figured I’d read it, since the author’s the GoH at RavenCon this year.

    Human Nature the novel upon which the excellent two parter from Doctor Who: Series 3 (relaunch) was based, only this novel featured the 7th Doctor rather than the 10th, (though it did feature one of the shape shifting aliens pretending to be the 10th Doctor…weird).

    Time Traders/Galactic Derelict: Couple of time travel adventures written in the late 50s by a woman who chose a male sounding pen name to get published. Interesting stuff from a cultural artifact perspective, and in the way time travel is taken as a complete given by everyone, but the rest of the tech (like spaceships and beam weapons) is taken as completely incomprehensible by the characters.

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    Digital Knight: neat little first novel with vampires and werewolves and psychics and databases. Enjoyable diversion, but what’s really cool is that the author himself dropped a comment on this very blog thanking me for reading.

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    Game Change: the book with all the dirt on the 2008 election. Didn’t learn much I hadn’t already heard at the time (well, except for the Edwards sex tape stuff – ew); but then, this is a “book of the blog” project, and I tend to run in the same internet circles as the authors. Good read, though, as it has all the goodies in one place.

    The God Engines: Scalzi tries his hand at fantasy in a small-press novella. Very interesting ideas. Still a space opera, but that’s not a bad thing. What surprised me is how terribly bleak it all was, but then, that’s not a problem either (given my HP Lovecraft kick these last couple of weeks).

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    well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? – a few highlights I haven’t made mention of in the blog proper:

    Voices of Dragons: Carrie Vaughn’s first published young adult novel; worth the read.

    Boneshaker: steampunk, airship pirates, and zombies…what’s not to like? Great story.

    Makers: very Doctorow story about all kinds of ideas, though at it’s heart, it’s about the pleasure of improvising with the materials at hand and turning someone else’s trash into something useful, affecting, and important.

    Dawn of the Dreadfuls: the prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Without the direct connection to Austen’s prose, this story actually works a bit better than the original mash-up (which was still quite enjoyable, really). Even though it’s still got the Bennetts as characters, it feels less a stunt and more an attempt to write a legitimate Regency novel with horror elements. Zombie stories are almost always an attempt to comment on some element of society using the metaphor of monsters – which is probably why Austen’s social commentary meshed so well with mobs of undead craving brains to begin with. So, worth the read, even if the whole literary-monster mash-up genre is probably close to played out.

    Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters: an old novelization from almost 40 years ago of a 3rd Doctor serial featuring the first appearance of the Silurians, who recently cropped up again in the current Matt Smith series.

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    Alternate Generals: An anthology of alternate military history that totally defeated me. I’ve owned this volume for probably a decade, and never finished it, until now, but only by technicality (I pretty much skimmed the last half). Turtledove edited – and while I generally love his stuff, I found myself bored to distraction with this one – it’s less historical exploration and more fetishizing militarism and the loneliness of command…and mostly terribly dull.

    Also, the cover promised Roman Centurions driving panzer tanks…the book delivered no such thing!

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    Deception Point: starting off 2011 with a complete piece of disposable cheese from the “Hey! Free Books!” box in the Richmond office break room. Not as completely terrible as the other three Dan Brown books I’ve read, though still pretty crap. Still, sometimes you just gotta eat that cardboard fast food cheeseburger, right? If only to remind you how good other things are.

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    Hunter: Really a short story, but I’m counting it anyway, because Wil’s a stand-up guy (at least he was in the limited email interaction I had with him a few years ago) and I enjoy his work. This is one of his first forays into fiction, a nice little sci-fi yarn that sets up a world I’m interested to hear more of. He’s released it as a pay-what-you-want story, which is a neat model – pay what you think it’s worth. In any case, I enjoyed it.

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