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.

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