2022 Booklist

Fucking hell, 2021 was awful. We'll be living with it past my lifetime. Thank Bob people are still writing books.

1. Leviathan Falls - James S.A. Corey. Hats off to the guys for a very long, satisfying ending to the series.
2. The Black God's Drums
3. A Master of Djinn - P. Djèlí Clark. Unrelated universes.
4. Record Of A Spaceborn Few
5. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers. She does very well at the low-conflict "social" science fiction.
6. The Untold Story - Genevieve Cogman. Tying up the previous 7 novels admirably.
7. Dead Lies Dreaming - Charles Stross. Nice.
8. To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers.
9. The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker.
10. Red Sister
11. Grey Sister
12. Holy Sister - Mark Lawrence. Well. That was satisfying.
13. The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi. The Japanese word kaiju means something like "monster," generally understood to mean Godzilla and things like it. Highly recommended.
14. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig.
15. Sierra Six - Mark Greaney. Yay, another Gray Man novel!
16. Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky.
17. Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds. I had it in my head that this was a novella, but at 273,000 words this is even longer than his other novels.
18. Winterlight - Kristen Britain.
19. The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake. Meh, though I'll at least try the sequel, when it comes.
20. The City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty.
21. Battle of the Linguist Mages - Scotto Moore. A gonzo space opera, much like Space Opera.
22. The Kingdom of Copper
23. The Empire of Gold - S.A. Chakraborty. Mmm, delicious.
24. House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds. Nice standalone mystery space opera.
25. The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece - Eric Siblin.
26. Eyes of the Void - Adrian Tchaikovsky.
27. Amongst Our Weapons - Ben Aaronovitch. Another magnificent entry in the Peter Grant series, this time woven with Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition (hence the title) and references to Doctor Who (which the author used to write for).
28. Edges
29. Silver - Linda Nagata. Maybe the only thing I've bought after reading a Kindle sample.
30. Stone In The Skull - Elizabeth Bear.
31. Through the Evil Days - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
32. The Red-Stained Wings
33. The Origin of Storms - Elizabeth Bear. Well. That was satisfying.
34. The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman.
35. The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd.
36. Needle - Linda Nagata. Neat universe, chugging along.
37. Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir. For fuck's sake. I had to smoosh this together with the sequels so I could look up references, and ended up re-reading whole chunks of the previous books, and I'm still confused.
38. And Now The Shipping Forecast - Peter Jefferson. I heard a radio interview with the author. Pretty cool—about (surprisingly) the Shipping Forecast the BBC reads a few times per day, which I'd never heard of.
39. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin. Holy shit that's a good book.
40. Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson.
41. Making Money - Terry Pratchett.
42. The Cartographer's Secret - Tea Cooper. I got it just because it had "cartographer" in the title, but it turns out to be a lovely historical novel set in 1850s-1910s rural Australia.
43. The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg - Eva St. John.
44. Notorious Sorcerer - Davinia Evans.
45. The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within
46. The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex - Eva St. John.