December books

Dec. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. The 7-1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton

  2. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee

  3. The Book of Magic, Gardner Dozois ed.

  4. Born a Crime: Scenes from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah (audio)

  5. Edinburgh, Alexander Chee

  6. Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett (audio, reread)
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November books

Nov. 30th, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

  2. Malice of Crows, Lila Bowen

  3. Treason of Hawks, Lila Bowen

  4. The Wrong Stars, Tim Pratt

  5. The Dreaming Stars, Tim Pratt

  6. Legendary, Stephanie Garber

  7. Alice Isn't Dead, Joseph Fink

  8. The Future is Female!, Lisa Yaszek ed.

  9. The End of the Moment We Had, Toshiki Okada

  10. This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay

  11. Vita Nostra, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko
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October books

Oct. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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Think I might have missed one or two this month, but it's been a really slow month for reading.

  1. Time's Convert, Deborah Harkness

  2. Foundryside, Robert Jackson Bennett

  3. Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski

  4. She Wants It, Jill Soloway
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September books

Sep. 30th, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell

  2. Perdita, Hilary Scharper

  3. Starless, Jacqueline Carey (audio)

  4. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, JK Rowling (reread, obvs)

  5. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, Seanan McGuire (audio)

  6. The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save its Past, Charlie English

  7. Lethal White, Robert Galbraith

  8. Barbary Station, RE Stearns

  9. Dark Orbit, Carolyn Ives Gilman

  10. Night and Silence, Seanan McGuire (audio)

  11. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua Hammer

  12. Ascension, Jacqueline Koyanagi

  13. Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi (abandoned 17%)

  14. State Tectonics, Malta Older
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August books

Aug. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik

  2. Head On, John Scalzi (audio)

  3. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers

  4. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan (abandoned 1%)
    I have picked up the Wheel of Time books repeatedly at bookstores and libraries, and always put them back. When it showed up available for ebook lending, I thought I'd try again. I barely made it through the prologue. Writing far too purple and pretentious for my taste.

  5. The Expert System's Brother, Adrian Tchaikovsky

  6. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, Seanan McGuire (audio)

  7. Kill the Farm Boy, Delilah S Dawson and Kevin Hearne (audio) (abandoned 10 mins)
    Humor too tortured.

  8. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser

  9. Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg

  10. China Dolls, Lisa See

  11. The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters

  12. The Power, Naomi Alderman

  13. As You Wish, Chelsea Sedoti

  14. A Deal with the Devil, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken

  15. Asperger's Children, Edith Scheffer

  16. So Lucky, Nicola Griffith

  17. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day, Peter Ackroyd

  18. The Giver, Lois Lowry

  19. The Year of Needy Girls, Patricia A Smith

  20. Queens of Geek, Jen Wilde

  21. Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
    This book. So many Drarry feels.

  22. Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever, Peter Rader

  23. Sabotage in the Secret City, Diane Fanning (abandoned 9%, didn't like the voice)

  24. Pretty Things, Virginie Despentes (abandoned 7%, ditto)

  25. Noumenon Infinity, Marina J Lostetter

  26. Molly and the Cat Cafe, Melissa Daley

  27. Into?, North Morgan

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July books

Jul. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

  2. Lost in Math, Sabine Hossenfelder

  3. The Bible of Dirty Jokes, Eileen Pollack

  4. Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock, Gregory Alan Thornbury

  5. Noir, Christopher Moore (audio)

  6. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

  7. Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko

  8. Ayiti, Roxane Gay

  9. Black Helicopters, Caitlin R Kiernan

  10. The Judge Hunter, Christopher Buckley

  11. Red Waters Rising, Laura Anne Gilman

  12. Passing Strange, Ellen Klages
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June books

Jun. 30th, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Afterwar, Lilith Saintcrow

  2. Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (audio)

  3. Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel

  4. Ask a Manager, Alison Green

  5. The Book of Skulls, Robert Silverberg

  6. Artificial Condition, Martha Wells

  7. Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts

  8. The Flowers of Vashnoi, Lois McMaster Bujold

  9. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  10. Things that Make White People Uncomfortable, Michael Bennett

  11. Ironclads, Adrian Tchaikovsky

  12. Trans Like Me, CN Lester

  13. Mad Hatters and March Hares, Ellen Datlow ed.
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May books

May. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Don't Call Me Princess: Girls, Women, Sex, and Life, Peggy Orenstein

  2. How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, Eugenia Cheng

  3. Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories, Kelly Barnhull

  4. Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter
    (Aka the Hamiltome, a Mother's Day present)

  5. Torn, Rowenna Miller (abandoned 40% or so--it returned itself to the library and I'm ambivalent about re-reserving it

  6. Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson

  7. The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting, Alanna Okun

  8. Stone Mad, Elizabeth Bear (audio)

  9. Space Opera, Catherynne M Valente

  10. All Systems Red, Martha Wells

  11. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol 12, ed. Jonathan Strahan

  12. Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers, Nicholas Smith

  13. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, Janet Dewart Bell

  14. Supernatural Sherlocks, Nick Rennison (an anthology of 19th and early 20th century stories of 'occult detectives'. The stories' age shows.)
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April books

Apr. 30th, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. Nemesis Games, James SA Corey

  2. Babylon's Ashes, James SA Corey

  3. Persepolis Rising, James SA Corey

  4. Flat Broke with Two Goats, Jennifer McGaha (Library Big Read)

  5. The City of Brass, SA Chakraborty

  6. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

  7. Dragongirl, Anne & Todd McCaffrey

  8. Dragon's Time, Anne & Todd McCaffrey

  9. Something Wonderful: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution, Todd S Purdum

  10. Strange Fruit, vols 1-3 (of 4) (graphic novella)



I had mostly gone off Anne McCaffrey's books due to her homophobic "tent peg" comments, but Tammie has been nostalgically rereading them, and she suggested I should read this subset because there is a poly relationship, and also the lead character is named Fiona. I'm still kind of iffy on them, for the aforesaid reasons, as well as because the women are so very very young and having sexual relationships with older men.
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March books

Mar. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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  1. In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle
    I fell in love with this character in the first few pages, and with the writing.

  2. Abaddon's Gate, James SA Corey

  3. Cibola Burn, James SA Corey
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February books

Feb. 28th, 2018 11:58 pm
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  1. An American Family, Khizr Khan
    I finally finished it, and yes, it's a wonderful book. Go read it.

  2. Of Fire and Stars, Audrey Coulthurst

  3. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Mackenzie Lee

  4. Creatures of Will and Temper, Molly Tanzer

  5. The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley

  6. River of Teeth, Sarah Gailey

  7. Cast in Deception, Michelle Sagara

  8. Wild Beauty, Anna-Marie McLemore

  9. Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren

  10. They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

  11. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, Jeff Guinn
    This is probably AJ's fault: the last time we actually hung out together he had been reading a book about Jonestown, so when I saw this title on the library browse page, I borrowed it. Morbidly fascinating, and I mean watching Jim Jones's life spiral, not the mass murder-suicide conclusion, which is exactly as horrifying as you imagine.

  12. History Is All You Left Me, Adam Silvera

  13. Caraval, Stephanie Garber


Several of my recent books come from a Tor.com essay of late last year about recent YA books featuring LGBT+ characters.
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January books

Jan. 31st, 2018 11:59 pm
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The last couple months I've been in a reading drought again. I've tried to read a few things, but just couldn't do it: Hillary's book--too depressing. An EJ Dionne analysis of the 2016 election--too appeasement of racist misogynists.

The one book I was really digging on, I started late in its check-out period, and then the same thing happened a second time when my hold came back up. I've finally got it a third time, and maybe this time I'll manage to finish it: An American Family by Khizr Khan. What I've read so far has been fascinating and well written.

  1. Caliban's War, James SA Corey

  2. The Black Tides of Fortune, JY Yang

  3. The Red Threads of Heaven, JY Yang
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