2020 Booklist

Reading-books!

It's been 2020, so somewhat fewer books because I watched a lot of TV. On the other hand, 10 of those books were the weighty tomes of The Malazan Book of the Fallen...

1. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss.
2. The Soldier - Neal Asher. Not sure I want to continue with this series.
3. City of Strife - Claudie Arsenault.
4. The Warship - Neal Asher.
5. The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie.
6. The Last Policeman
7. Countdown City
8. World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters. Sad, but not exactly depressing, and excellent reads.
9. All Systems Red
10. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells. The Murderbot Diaries. Pretty awesome.
11. Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse - Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Finally! After seeing the printed copy languish, this piece of academic bedtime reading is done.
12. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells. mmmmmmm Murderbot
13. Dead Beat
14. Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher. There's a lot that is pulpy about these books, but also an undeniable fun and originality.
15. The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman. Turns out the reason I don't read war books is because they're thick with monotonous detail. But now I know why the Treaty of Versailles, World War 2, and the European Union all happened.
16. White Night
17. Small Favor - Jim Butcher.
18. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells. MUUUUURRRRRDEERRRRRRBOOOOOT!
19. Turn Coat - Jim Butcher.
20. This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Definitely the best time-travel sci-fi epistolary romance novella I've ever read. (It is genuinely good.)
21. False Value - Ben Aaronovitch.
22. Ghost Story
23. Cold Days
24. Skin Game - Jim Butcher.
25. The Lost Plot - Genevieve Cogman. A quick re-read before catching up on the 2 sequels I missed.
26. Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher.
27. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder. Not exactly whetting my appetite for Nobel Prize-winning literature.
28. The Eight - Katherine Neville. Enh. Good enough to finish reading, not good enough to recommend to others.
29. The Last Emperox - John Scalzi.
30. Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson. 206,000 words! Chewed through it in a weekend and change.
31. The Beating of His Wings - Paul Hoffman. A very odd ending to a very odd trilogy, but I'm glad it's over since I started reading it in like 2012.
32. The Vine Witch - Luanne G. Smith. Both cute and engaging.
33. Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson. 266,000 words! They don't get any shorter, but hey, only 8 left!
34. Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson. 345,000 words, but it really does fly by.
35. House of Chains - Steven Erikson. Quite enjoying this series.
36. The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust. First book in re-reading his Dragaera novels, in chronological order.
37. Midnight Tides
38. The Bonehunters - Steven Erikson. They're getting longer, but still going down easy.
39. A Gentleman's Game - Greg Rucka. A novel in the world of Rucka's Queen & Country comics, which I have yet to read.
40. Reaper's Gale
41. Dust of Dreams
42. The Crippled God- Steven Erikson. And that's it for the 3.3 million-word original 10 novels! Time for a break reading some other stuff, before I open the rest of the books in that universe.
43. Unconquerable Sun - Kate Elliott. The author clearly had wonderful fun gathering all the proper names, and it's a fun book.
44. A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik. Yaaaaay she's such a great author.
45. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman.
46. Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America - Ross Coen. Not a gripping read, one of those books where you can listen to the Radiolab episode and that's probably enough.
47. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Theodora Goss. SO. CHARMING.
48. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff. Great. The TV series is also great, more so in some ways, but both worthwhile.
49. Circe - Madeline Miller. Fantastic.
50. The Shepherd's Crown - Terry Pratchett. Finally completing my Tiffany Aching re-read.
51. Minor Mage - Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher). Adorable and creative as always.
52. The Human - Neal Asher. Presumably the last of a trilogy, this was 161,000 words of almost entirely space combat.

Audiobooks, mostly ended by the pandemic, since I don't drive anywhere.

1. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson.