2021 Booklist

 2020 was a mere book per week! We can do better!

1. Declare - Tim Powers. He has this very roundabout, lurching way of telling a story.
2. The Loneliness of the Deep Space Cargoist - JS Carter Gilson.
3. The Mortal Word - Genevieve Cogman. Getting caught up on the Invisible Library series.
4. Gideon the Ninth
5. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir. “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” —Charles Stross. Not for the squeamish. Not sure how I feel about them.
6. Just One Damn Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor. Apparently there is another series of books about time-traveling historians, besides those of Connie Willis.
7. The Secret Chapter - Genevieve Cogman. Yesssss #6.
8. The Black Company - Glen Cook. Weird military fantasy. I see what he was going for, I just...don't care.
9. The Gray Man
10. On Target
11. Ballistic 
12. Dead Eye
13. Back Blast
14. Gunmetal Gray
15. Agent In Place
16. Mission Critical- Mark Greaney. A sympathetic assassin protagonist. I should diversify my reading right now, but these are just so much fun...
17. The Dark Archive - Genevieve Cogman. All caught up! Until December.
18. The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood - David R. Montgomery.
19. The Library of the Unwritten - A.J. Hackwith. A different sort of take on a supernatural interdimensional library.
20. The Korean War: A History - Bruce Cumings. Thought I might read a book, since what I knew about the Korean War was mostly from M*A*S*H. (As it happens, there are far worse places to start.)
21. The Archive of the Forgotten - A.J. Hackwith. Intense, but I guess that's what you'd want/expect from a series called "Hell's Library."
22. City of Bones - Martha Wells. By the author of The Murderbot Diaries. Another excellent exploration of an outsider facing discrimination in society.
23. One Minute Out - Mark Greaney. Gray Man #9. Way more intense because it's about the horrors of sex trafficking, and the first time he's written the protagonist in the first person.
24. Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots. Oh, such delightful storytelling, with matter-of-fact diversity of gender/sexuality/morals/emotions.
25. Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames. Another delightful tale, this one a fantasy-genre remix.
26. Too Like The Lightning - Ada Palmer. Interesting world. So, so tedious, until mid-story when the pace and gore of the material cause a literary whiplash. I want to know how the story ends, but without reading any sequels.
27. Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett. A mighty novella.
28. Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer. The series got better, so I guess I'll continue? It's like eating one potato chip, and maybe a whole bag is not a good feeling, but you did it anyway.
29. Relentless - Mark Greaney. Gray Man #10, bringing me up to date.
30. The Night Raven - Sarah Painter. It turns out "paranormal detective series" is a whole genre.
31. Shorefall - Robert Jackson Bennett. Wow, he's good.
32. The Silver Mark
33. The Fox's Curse - Sarah Painter.
34. Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans - David Barrie.
35. Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles - Jon Wilkman. Slow, but interesting.
36. The Keep - F. Paul Wilson. In the first few pages I was like "Didn't I watch a bad movie with this plot, on some bored Saturday afternoon as a kid?". And, yes, I did, although the book is fine.
37. The Pearl King - Sarah Painter.
38. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher. Another delightful oddment from Ursula Vernon.
39. Clockwork Boys
40. The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher again.
41. The Tomb
42. Legacies
43. Conspiracies
44. All The Rage
45. The Touch - F. Paul Wilson.
46. Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890 - Nathaniel Philbrick.
47. Hosts
48. The Haunted Air - F. Paul Wilson.
49. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers. I found this in a "positive sci-fi" list, and it really delivers.
50. Boozehound - Jason Wilson. Poorly edited, but amusing and informing enough to be worthwhile, until there's a better competitor.
51. A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers.
52. Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami - Jerry Thompson. More detail and history than I've yet had on the eventual epic destruction of settlements on the Pacific coastline.
53. Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews. A rare re-read, since there's a new book, I'd forgotten what happened in this one.
54. The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner. Cool novel about the erasure of women's lives in both history and modernity.
55. Blood Heir - Ilona Andrews. I stayed up too late reading this.
56. Swordheart - T. Kingfisher.
57. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix. I may have read this in a day. Not sure.
58. Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds.
59. Paladin's Strength - T. Kingfisher.
60. Redemption Ark
61. Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds. Oops, I found another 200,000-word space opera series.
62. Paladin's Hope - T. Kingfisher. Such amazing books.
63. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky. Absolutely wonderful.
64. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clarke. Another lovely novella in the world of A Dead Djinn In Cairo.
65. The Death of the Necromancer - Martha Wells.
66. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky. Not quite as tightly crafted, but OMG OCTOPI IN SPACE.
67. Inhibitor Phase - Alastair Reynolds.
68. Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear. Apparently I'm back in space opera territory.
69. The Wizard Hunters - Martha Wells.
70. Machine - Elizabeth Bear.
71. Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris - Christopher Kemp.