- Year of the Griffin - Diana Wynn Jones. Certainly the most British book I've read in a long time.
- Children of the Self-Absorbed - Nina W. Brown.
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson.
- Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt - Nina Burleigh.
- Small Gods - Terry Pratchett.
- Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting - Kitty Burns Florey.
- Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman. Fantastic re-telling of stories I read growing up.
- The Wee Free Men
- A Hat Full of Sky
- Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett.
- Cuisine and Empire: Cooking In World History - Rachel Laudan. That took a while.
- Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett.
- A Natural History of the Piano - Stuart Isacoff. Meh.
- Men At Arms
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- Soul Music - Terry Pratchett.
- The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Lu. So good.
- Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett. Adventures in a faraway pastiche of China and Japan, which is not inaccurate, as such, but still hasn't aged well.
- The Dark Forest
- Death's End - Cixin Lu.
- Maskerade - Terry Pratchett.
- One Fell Sweep
- Magic Bites
- Magic Burns
- Magic Strikes - Ilona Andrews. Her books go down pretty easy.
- Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett.
- Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews.
- Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett. GOLEMS!!
- Magic Slays
- Magic Gifts
- Magic Rises - Ilona Andrews. I do wish the titles were easier to keep track of.
- Sleeping Giants
- Waking Gods - Sylvain Neuvel.
- Magic Breaks - Ilona Andrews.
- Hogfather - Terry Pratchett. Dang. Dark.
- Magic Shifts
- Magic Binds - Ilona Andrews.
- The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman.
- Armor - John Steakley. Beautiful examination of the ways in which endless killing is not a good activity for humans.
- The Masked City
- The Burning Page
- The Lost Plot - Genevieve Cogman.
- The Memory of Whiteness - Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Only Human - Sylvain Neuvel.
- The Prey of Gods - Nicky Drayden. It's focused on South Africa, and I thought that meant the author was South African. Alas, she's American and just really loves South Africa. Good book, though.
- Brightness Falls From the Air - James Tiptree. Eh.
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North.
- One Was A Soldier - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
- Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve. Now a major motion picture, first book of a trilogy I will skip finishing.
- High-Rise - J. G. Ballard. That was more grotesque than I planned.
- Midnight Riot
- Moon Over Soho
- Whispers Under Ground
- Broken Homes
- Foxglove Summer
- The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch. Well. Those were tasty.
- Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig. Undecided, need to try #2.
- The Last Dragonslayer
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde. (These are two different series.)
- Mockingbird
- The Cormorant - Chuck Wendig. Creepy, but solid.
- Lost In A Good Book
- Song of the Quarkbeast- Jasper Fforde.
- Singularity Sky
- Iron Sunrise - Charles Stross. Wow, that was depressing.
- Jingo - Terry Pratchett.
- Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey.
- The Eye of Zoltar - Jasper Fforde.
- Artemis - Andy Weir.
- The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain M. Banks. Re-read of one of the best Culture novels.
- Survival
- Migration
- Regeneration - Julie E. Czerneda. The rare books meriting a re-read! Everything you could hope for in science fiction from a biology nerd.
- The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter. Decent semi-posthumous ending to the series.
- Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews.
- Spooky Action at a Distance - George Musser. Abrupt ending to an interesting book about phenomena of non-locality in various areas of physics.
- The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth - Another somewhat sudden end! A plague afflicting recent science books?
- Firebrand - Kristen Britain. This is the sixth book of the protagonist being put through traumatic experiences being used by cosmic powers, so it's understandably getting pretty grim.
- Archivist Wasp - Nicole Kornher-Stace. Holy shit, that is fucking grim.
- The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett.
- Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist.
- A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire - Amy Butler Greenfield. A rousing history of the insect-based red dye cochineal.
- Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist.
- Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology - David B. Williams.
- Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett.
- The Liminal People
- The Liminal War - Ayize Jama-Everett.
- Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them - Nancy Marie Brown. One of those history books where we can know so little for sure that the whole book is just historical background hung on a speculative theory. This is one of the better of that type, though.
- The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett.
- Echo In Time
- Time Anomaly - Lindsey Fairleigh. Somebody loooooves ancient Egyptian history.
- The Labyrinth Index - Charles Stross.
- Ricochet Through Time - Lindsey Fairleigh. Plus a couple interstitial novellas. That was satisfying.
- God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible - Adam Nicolson.
- Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik. AMAZING.
- Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente. WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ
- Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance.
- The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi. Presumably 2018? I never recorded finishing it.
New Category: Audiobooks! Free readings of public-domain works from Librivox.
- The Hour of the Dragon
- Queen of the Black Coast
- The People of the Black Circle
- Shadows In The Moonlight - Robert E. Howard.
- The Elements of Geology - William Harmon Norton. 1905! The basics haven't changed that much.
- The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft.
Comics!
- Ex Machina, Vols. 1-5. Turns out Y: The Last Man was the one thoroughly good thing Brian K. Vaughn has done so far.
- Locke & Key, Vols. 1-2. Actually a bit too creepy for me.
- Lazarus, Vols. 1-4.
- John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vols. 1-2.
- Constantine Vols. 3-4.
- Rivers of London:
- Body Work
- Night Witch
- Black Mould
- The Authority
- StormWatch - Warren Ellis et al.
- The Black Hood, Vol. 1 - Duane Swierczynski & Michael Gaydos
- Alone, Vol. 1 - Bruno Gazzotti & Fabien Vehlmann.
- Harrow County, Vols. 1-2 - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook.
- Hellboy: Into The Silent Sea - Mike Mignola et al.
- Ether, Vol. 1.
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