2018 Booklist

Come at me.

  1. Year of the Griffin - Diana Wynn Jones. Certainly the most British book I've read in a long time.
  2. Children of the Self-Absorbed - Nina W. Brown.
  3. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson.
  4. Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt - Nina Burleigh.
  5. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett.
  6. Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting - Kitty Burns Florey.
  7. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman. Fantastic re-telling of stories I read growing up.
  8. The Wee Free Men
  9. A Hat Full of Sky
  10. Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett.
  11. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking In World History - Rachel Laudan. That took a while.
  12. Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett.
  13. A Natural History of the Piano - Stuart Isacoff. Meh.
  14. Men At Arms
  15. I Shall Wear Midnight
  16. Soul Music - Terry Pratchett.
  17. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Lu. So good.
  18. 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.
  19. The Dark Forest
  20. Death's End - Cixin Lu.
  21. Maskerade - Terry Pratchett.
  22. One Fell Sweep
  23. Magic Bites
  24. Magic Burns
  25. Magic Strikes - Ilona Andrews. Her books go down pretty easy.
  26. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett.
  27. Magic Bleeds - Ilona Andrews.
  28. Feet of Clay - Terry Pratchett. GOLEMS!!
  29. Magic Slays
  30. Magic Gifts
  31. Magic Rises - Ilona Andrews. I do wish the titles were easier to keep track of.
  32. Sleeping Giants
  33. Waking Gods - Sylvain Neuvel.
  34. Magic Breaks - Ilona Andrews.
  35. Hogfather - Terry Pratchett. Dang. Dark.
  36. Magic Shifts
  37. Magic Binds - Ilona Andrews.
  38. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman.
  39. Armor - John Steakley. Beautiful examination of the ways in which endless killing is not a good activity for humans.
  40. The Masked City
  41. The Burning Page
  42. The Lost Plot - Genevieve Cogman.
  43. The Memory of Whiteness - Kim Stanley Robinson.
  44. Only Human - Sylvain Neuvel.
  45. 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.
  46. Brightness Falls From the Air - James Tiptree. Eh.
  47. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North.
  48. One Was A Soldier - Julia Spencer-Fleming.
  49. Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve. Now a major motion picture, first book of a trilogy I will skip finishing.
  50. High-Rise - J. G. Ballard. That was more grotesque than I planned.
  51. Midnight Riot
  52. Moon Over Soho
  53. Whispers Under Ground
  54. Broken Homes
  55. Foxglove Summer
  56. The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch. Well. Those were tasty.
  57. Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig. Undecided, need to try #2.
  58. The Last Dragonslayer
  59. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde. (These are two different series.)
  60. Mockingbird
  61. The Cormorant - Chuck Wendig. Creepy, but solid.
  62. Lost In A Good Book
  63. Song of the Quarkbeast- Jasper Fforde.
  64. Singularity Sky
  65. Iron Sunrise - Charles Stross. Wow, that was depressing.
  66. Jingo - Terry Pratchett.
  67. Persepolis Rising - James S.A. Corey.
  68. The Eye of Zoltar - Jasper Fforde.
  69. Artemis - Andy Weir.
  70. The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain M. Banks. Re-read of one of the best Culture novels.
  71. Survival
  72. Migration
  73. Regeneration - Julie E. Czerneda. The rare books meriting a re-read! Everything you could hope for in science fiction from a biology nerd.
  74. The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter. Decent semi-posthumous ending to the series.
  75. Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews.
  76. Spooky Action at a Distance - George Musser. Abrupt ending to an interesting book about phenomena of non-locality in various areas of physics.
  77. The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth - Another somewhat sudden end! A plague afflicting recent science books?
  78. 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.
  79. Archivist Wasp - Nicole Kornher-Stace. Holy shit, that is fucking grim.
  80. The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett.
  81. Magician: Apprentice - Raymond E. Feist.
  82. 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.
  83. Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist.
  84. Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology - David B. Williams.
  85. Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett.
  86. The Liminal People
  87. The Liminal War - Ayize Jama-Everett.
  88. 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.
  89. The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett.
  90. Echo In Time
  91. Time Anomaly - Lindsey Fairleigh. Somebody loooooves ancient Egyptian history.
  92. The Labyrinth Index - Charles Stross.
  93. Ricochet Through Time - Lindsey Fairleigh. Plus a couple interstitial novellas. That was satisfying.
  94. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible - Adam Nicolson.
  95. Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik. AMAZING.
  96. Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente. WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST READ
  97. Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance.
  98. The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi. Presumably 2018? I never recorded finishing it.

New Category: Audiobooks! Free readings of public-domain works from Librivox.
  1. The Hour of the Dragon
  2. Queen of the Black Coast
  3. The People of the Black Circle
  4. Shadows In The Moonlight - Robert E. Howard.
  5. The Elements of Geology - William Harmon Norton. 1905! The basics haven't changed that much.
  6. The Dunwich Horror - H.P. Lovecraft.

Comics!
  1. Ex Machina, Vols. 1-5. Turns out Y: The Last Man was the one thoroughly good thing Brian K. Vaughn has done so far.
  2. Locke & Key, Vols. 1-2. Actually a bit too creepy for me.
  3. Lazarus, Vols. 1-4.
  4. John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vols. 1-2.
  5. Constantine Vols. 3-4.
  6. Rivers of London:
    • Body Work
    • Night Witch
    • Black Mould
  7. The Authority
  8. StormWatch - Warren Ellis et al.
  9. The Black Hood, Vol. 1 - Duane Swierczynski & Michael Gaydos
  10. Alone, Vol. 1 - Bruno Gazzotti  & Fabien Vehlmann.
  11. Harrow County, Vols. 1-2 - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook.
  12. Hellboy: Into The Silent Sea - Mike Mignola et al.
  13. Ether, Vol. 1.
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