67 books last year! Astonishing given how much I watch TV, but all else aside, more books than I've finished in a while. I might be getting a job, though, which will cut into all that free time.
(Recall that I read a few dozen books at a time, so I only log the ones I finish, or sometimes the ones I bail out on.)
- Dune [audio] - Frank Herbert. I started listening to the sequel and encountered reams of detail that have never made it into a screen adaptation and that I couldn't remember, so I started over.
- The Colour of Magic [audio] - Terry Pratchett.
- Dune Messiah
- Children of Dune [audio/text]
- God Emperor of Dune [audio/text]
- Heretics of Dune [audio/text] This is getting a little uncomfortably weird.
- Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert. These last two are eminently skippable.
- The Atlas Paradox
- The Atlas Complex - Olivie Blake. A difficult read: as with Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb series, I had to make an omnibus with the previous book (The Atlas Six), so I could easily look up details from the first book, which I read a couple years ago.
- The Mummy Case - Elizabeth Peters. Not sure why these can be slow reads; they're maybe a little wordy, and lots of characters I couldn't remember apart. Maybe this is what Agatha Christie books are like?
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories
- At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft.
- Ensaadi - Elisabeth Wheatley. Starting of a nice little set of novellas.
- The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg.
- Tiny House Basics - Joshua Engberg & Shelley Engberg. Written by the nice people building my Tiny Shop.
- Magic Bites [audio]
- Magic Burns [audio]
- Magic Strikes [audio/text]
- Magic Mourns [audio/text]
- Magic Bleeds [audio/text]
- Magic Slays [audio/text]
- Magic Gifts [audio/text]
- Magic Dreams [audio/text]
- Magic Rises [audio/text]
- Magic Breaks [audio/text]
- Magic Shifts
- Magic Binds
- Magic Triumphs
- Iron and Magic - Ilona Andrews. Delicious, delicious re-consumption.
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Tombs of Atuan
- The Farthest Shore
- Tehanu
- The Other Wind - Ursula K. Leguin. The Earthsea omnibus has afterwords by the author, which are great.
- Gunmetal Magic - Ilona Andrews. Never read it! But that's all of the Kate Daniels books.
- In The Bleak Midwinter [audio] - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
- Taltos
- Yendi
- Dragon
- Tsalmoth - Steven Brust. I decided to re-read the books in what is theoretically story-chronology order. It's pretty great.
- A Fountain Filled With Blood [audio] - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
- Teckla - Steven Brust.
- Sabriel
- Lirael
- Abhorsen - Garth Nix. Still amazing after all these years.
- A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World - Ryan Murdock.
- Out Of The Deep I Cry
- To Darkness and To Death
- All Mortal Flesh - Julia Spencer-Fleming. (I've decided it doesn't matter if it's been an audio or reading intake.)
- All Systems Red
- Artificial Condition - Martha Wells. MmmmmmmMurderbot. Sadly, the next audiobook is on hold.
- All Mortal Flesh - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
- Ingenious Mechanicks: Early Workbenches & Workholding - Christopher Schwarz. A lot less nerdy than it sounds: they hunt down depictions of woodworking benches of pre-modern Europe, but the only way to really feel the knowledge was to build and use them.
- The Portuguese: A Modern History - Barry Hatton.
- Horus Rising: The seeds of heresy are sown - Dan Abnett. I looked about for a recommended Warhammer 40k novel, and arbitrarily picked this sequel series written decades after the Warhammer 40k RPG began.
- Goldenhand - Garth Nix. A much-delayed first read.
- The Island God - Sarah Painter. Had to finish this one with audio, hard to focus on the text.
- Exit Strategy - Martha Wells. Mmmmmmmmurderbot
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives In North Korea - Barbara Demick. Ho. Ly. Shit.
- The Ruin of Kings
- The Name Of All Things
- The Memory of Souls
- The House of Always
- The Discord of Gods - Jenn Lyons.
- False Gods: The heresy takes root - Graham McNeill.
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