I have a lot to say about 2009–it was an amazing year for me, full of enormous life changes that are still very much in process–but I am not ready to make that post yet.
So instead, here is the list of books I read last year, in order of when I finished them. The numbers are down from last year–44 instead of 75. See above re enormous life changes. 🙂
Patchett, Ann: Run
Simmons, Dan: The Terror
King, Stephen: The Dark Half
Forster, E.M.: Howards End
Russell, Mary Doria: The Sparrow
Dunant, Sarah: The Birth of Venus
Shannon, Harry: Daemon
Deniz, Mark & Amanda Pillar [eds.]: Voices
Kay, Guy Gavriel: Tigana
Burdett, John: Bangkok Haunts
Acevedo, Mario: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
Henry, Mark: Road Trip of the Living Dead
Scholes, Ken: Long Walks, Last Flights, and other Strange Journeys
Palmatier, Joshua: The Skewed Throne
Palmatier, Joshua: The Cracked Throne
Palmatier, Joshua: The Vacant Throne
Burdett, John: Bangkok 8
deLint, Charles: Mulengro
Priest, Cherie: Fathom
Butcher, Jim: Furies of Calderon
Sebold, Alice: The Almost Moon
Wolfe, Gene: The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Inman, C. San: I Didn’t Want To Go On Your Stupid Quest Anyway (draft)
Monk, Devon: Magic in the Blood
Lake, Jay: Endurance (first draft, dailies)
Sigler, Scott: Infected
Bear, Elizabeth: Blood and Iron
White, Randy Wayne: Black Widow
Williams, Liz: Snake Agent
Bragelonne (pub): Crossing the Boundaries (stories)
Scholes, Ken: Lamentation
Scholes, Ken: Canticle (ARC)
Brozek, Jennifer & Amanda Pillar [eds.]: Grants Pass
Mieville, China: Perdido Street Station
Fox, Daniel: Dragon in Chains
McGuire, Seanan: Rosemary and Rue
Lethem, Jonathan: The Fortress of Solitude
Ferrari, Mark: The Book of Joby
Brenchley, Chaz: Disposession
Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker
Brenchley, Chaz: Shelter
Heinlein, Robert A.: Friday
Williams, Liz: The Demon and the City
Fox, Daniel: Jade Man’s Skin (ARC)
Plus, of course, the usual New Yorkers, Locuses, Interzones, Black Statics, and other magazines; as well as blogs, emails, random articles, road signs, cereal boxes, and gum wrappers found on the sidewalk.
Oh and plus writing too. And crit work for others (though, frankly, less of it this year than before–see above re enormous life changes).
Happy New Year, happy reading!