Since I re-booted my blog at the end of summer here is my full reading list for 2014. I've bold the exceptional reads, and italicized the boring and disappointing ones.
I should also note that I have a few stories by Benjanun Sriduangkaew on my list, but this was before I found out she is supposedly a notorious hate blogger.
Non-Fiction
Zealot,
Reza Aslan
The
Vanished Library, Luciano Canfora
Herculaneum:
Past and Future, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Novellas
Return,
Peter S. Beagle
Messenger’s
Legacy, Peter V. Brett
The
Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, Ted Chiang (re-read)
The
Madonna and the Starship, James Morrow
The
Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss
Scale
Bright, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
Dream
Houses, Genevieve Valentine
Anthologies/Collections
Upgraded,
Neil Clarke
Midnight
and Moonshine, Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter
Twenty-First
Century Science Fiction, David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Conservation
of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee
Lowball,
George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass
Dangerous
Women, George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Rogues,
George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Forever
in the Memory of God, Peadar O’Guilin
The
Sword of Destiny, Andrzej Sapkowski
Reach
for Infinity, Jonathon Strahan
Lights
in the Deep, Brad Torgersen
Beyond
the Rift, Peter Watts
Novels
Foxglove
Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
Half
a King, Joe Abercrombie
The
Widow’s House, Daniel Abraham
Half
of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
vN,
Madeline Ashby
Oryx
and Crake, Margaret Atwood
Ruin
and Rising, Leigh Bardugo
Lexicon,
Max Barry
Turbulence,
Samit Basu
Resistance,
Samit Basu
A
Fine and Private Place, Peter S. Beagle
The
Innkeeper’s Song, Peter S. Beagle
The
Tropic of Serpents, Marie Brennan
Existence,
David Brin
Red
Rising, Pierce Brown
Hurricane
Fever, Tobias S. Buckell
Skin
Game, Jim Butcher
A
Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias
Cibola
Burn, James S.A. Corey
Unwrapped
Sky, Rjurik Davidson
Enemies
at Home, Lindsey Davis
Terra
Incognita, Ruth Downie
Food
for the Gods, Karen Dudley
Kraken
Bake, Karen Dudley
Zadayi
Red, Caleb Fox
Anansi
Boys, Neil Gaiman
Full
Fathom Five, Max Gladstone
Hild,
Nicola Griffith
The
Volunteer, Peadar O’ Guilin
The
Gospel of Loki, Joanne M. Harris
The
Secret of Abdu el Yezdi, Mark Hodder
The
Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley
The
Memory of Water, Emma Itäranta
The
Leopard, K.V. Johansen
The
Way to Babylon, Paul Kearney
Riding
the Unicorn, Paul Kearney
The
Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Ancillary
Sword, Ann Leckie
The
Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
A
Taste fur Murder, Dixie Lyle
The
World of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin, Elio M. Garcia Jr., and Linda
Antonsson
Travel
Light, Naomi Mitchison
All
Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park
The
Bees, Laline Paull
Feet
of Clay, Terry Pratchett
Hogfather,
Terry Pratchett
The
Causal Angel, Hannu Rajaniemi
Swamplandia!,
Karen Russell
Blood
Song, Anthony Ryan
Tower
Lord, Anthony Ryan
Veil
of the Deserters, Jeff Salyards
Words
of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson
The
Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (re-read)
Blood
of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (re-read)
Time
of Contempt, Andrzej Sapkowski
Baptism
of Fire, Andrzej Sapkowski
Wild
Cards X: Double Solitaire Melinda M. Snodgrass
The
Septembers of Shiraz, Dalia Sofer
Something
More Than Night, Ian Tregillis
The
Girls at the Kingfisher Club, Genevieve Valentine
Annihilation,
Jeff VanderMeer
Echopraxia,
Peter Watts
The
Great Glass Sea, Josh Weil
The
Martian, Andy Weir
Three
Princes, Ramona Wheeler
Benighted,
Kit Whitfield
The
People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara
Land
of Love and Drowning, Tiphanie Yanique
Total:
90
Some
Stats:
Science Fiction – 33 36.7%
Fantasy – 45 50%
Fiction – 15 16.7%
Anthologies – 12 13.4%
2014 Releases – 46 51.2%
Debut Novels – 20 22.3%
New Authors – 32 35.6%
Women Authors – 35 38.9%
Compared to last year I read a few less science fiction, fiction/literature, and anthologies/collections. Debuts and new authors held steady. Books I read more of include fantasy, new releases, and women authors.
Short
Stories
“Without
Faith, Without Law, Without Joy”, Saladin Ahmed
“Little
Knife”, Leigh Bardugo
“Gordon,
the Self-made Cat”, Peter S. Beagle
“Exhalation”,
Ted Chiang
“The
Water that Falls on You from Nowhere”, John Chu
“The
Weight of a Blessing”, Aliette de Bodard
“Ship’s
Brother”, Aliette de Bodard
“In
the Age of Iron and Ashes”, Aliette de Bodard
“Wakulla
Springs”, Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
“La
Santisima”, Teresa Frohock
“The
Angelus Guns”, Max Gladstone
“The
Astronomer Who Met the North Wind”, Kate Hall
“The
Ink Readers of Doi Salet”, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
“The
Ninety-Ninth Bride”, Catherine F. King
“The
Lady Astronaut of Mars”, Mary Robinette Kowal
“Mountain
Ways”, Ursula Le Guin
“The
Pirate Captain’s Daughter”, Yoon Ha Lee
“Architectural
Constraints”, Yoon Ha Lee
“Wine”,
Yoon Ha Lee
“The
Contemporary Foxwife”, Yoon Ha Lee
“The
Bonedrake’s Penance”, Yoon Ha Lee
“The
Plague”, Ken Liu
“Build-a-Dolly”,
Ken Liu
“The
Silk Merchant”, Ken Liu
“The
Litigation Master and the Monkey King”, Ken Liu
“The
Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”, Ken Liu
“A
Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”, Ken Liu
“The
Clockwork Soldier”, Ken Liu
“Reborn”,
Ken Liu
“The
Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009”,
Ken Liu
“Seventh
Day of the Seventh Moon”, Ken Liu
“Driftings”,
Ian McDonald
“Observations
About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois
to Cedar Rapids, Iowa”, Carmen Maria Machado
“‘Possum
Trot”, J. Harley McIlrath
“The
Lost Sepulcher of Huascar Capac”, Paul Park
“I
Met a Man Who Wasn’t There”, K.J. Parker
“The
Things We Do For Love”, K.J. Parker
“Heaven
Thunders the Truth”, K.J. Parker
“Safe
House”, K.J. Parker
“The
Last Log of the Lachrimosa”, Alastair Reynolds
“Dawn
and the Maiden”, Sofia Samatar
“Selkie
Stories Are for Losers”, Sofia Samatar
“Wake-Rider”,
Vandana Singh
“Woman
of the Sun, Woman of the Moon”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Chang’e
Dashes from the Moon”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Silent
Bridge, Pale Cascade”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“If
You Were a Dinosaur, My Love”, Rachel Swirsky
“Sing”,
Karin Tidbeck
“86,87,88,89”,
Genevieve Valentine
“Six-Gun
Snow White”, Catherynne M. Valente
“Salvage”,
Carrie Vaughn
“The
Colonel”, Peter Watts
“Daedalum,
the Devil’s Wheel”, E. Lily Yu
“The
Urashima Effect”, E. Lily Yu
No comments:
Post a Comment