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skygiantsOK, it is time for the annual books read post!
Books read, 2014:
1. Arrow's Flight, Mercedes Lackey*
2. Arrow's Fall, Mercedes Lackey*
3. Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy and Meshugas of Yiddish Theater in America, Stefan Kanfer*
4. Song of Spider-man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History, Glen Berger
5. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Ben MacIntyre
6. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son, Sholem Aleichem
7. God, Man and the Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation, ed. Nahma Sandrow
8. Wandering Stars, Sholem Aleichem
9. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss
10. Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi
11. Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
12. Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone
13. The Bird of the River, Kage Baker
14. A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar
15. The Countess Conspiracy, Courtney Milan
16. Two Serpents Rising, Max Gladstone
17. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
18. And All The Stars, Andrea K. Host
19. Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
20. Poseidon's Gold, Lindsey Davis*
21. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
22. A Thousand Words For Stranger, Julie Czernada
23. Across a Star-Swept Sea, Diana Peterfreund
24. A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, Marial Iglesias Ustet
25. Last Act in Palmyra, Lindsey Davis*
26. Unravel Me, Tahereh Mafi
27. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, Donnie Eichar
28. Friday's Child, Georgette Heyer
29. Laura's Wolf, Lia Silver
30. Hild, Nicola Griffith
31. The Hexslinger Omnibus, Gemma Files
32. City of Golden Shadows, Tad Williams
33. River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams
34. Mountain of Black Glass, Tad Williams
35. Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams
36. Legends II, ed. Robert Silverberg
37. Such Wicked Intent, Kenneth Oppel
38. Children of the Alley, Naguib Mahfouz
39. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien*
40. Gifts, Ursula K. LeGuin
41. Voices, Ursula K. LeGuin
42. Powers, Ursula K. LeGuin
43. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben McIntyre
44. Spice and Wolf: Volume 1, Isuna Hasekura
45. Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge
46. Lord of Scoundrels, Loretta Chase
47. Survival, Julie Czerneda
48. Smoke and Shadows, Tanya Huff
49. The Last Hellion, Loretta Chase
50. How Much For Just the Planet?, John Ford
51. Miss Wonderful, Loretta Chase
52. The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber*
53. I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons
54. Voices of the Night, Lydia Joyce
55. Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah, ed. Roger Bennet
56. Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
57. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens*
58. Kabu-Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor
59. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Ambelin Kwaymullina
60. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
61. Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
62. Shattered Silk, Barbara Michaels
63. Someone in the House, Barbara Michaels
64. Prisoner, Rachel Manija Brown
65. Stray, Andrea K. Host
66. The Touchstone Trilogy, Andrea K. Host
67. Gratuitous Epilogue, Andrea K. Host
68. Spellcast, Barbara Ashford
69. Joe Golem and the Drowning City, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
70. Railsea, China Mieville
71. Shadows of the Night, Lydia Joyce
72. Spice and Wolf: Volume 2, Isuna Hasekura
73. A Maggot, John Fowles
74. The Islands of Chaldea, Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones
75. Your Republic Is Calling You, Kim Young-ha
76. The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, Foster Hirsch
77. The Broken Lands, Kate Milford
78. Death of a Schoolgirl, Joanna Campbell Slan
79. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
80. The Spectator, Studs Turkel
81. Landmark Yiddish Plays, ed. Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber
82. The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan
83. Talk Sweetly To Me, Courtney Milan
84. The Blank Wall, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
85. Five Little Peppers And How They Grew, Margaret Sidney*
86. Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp
87. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
88. Spellcrossed, Barbara Ashford
89. Time to Depart, Lindsey Davis
90. Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho
91. A Posse of Princesses, Sherwood Smith
92. Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone
93. Three Lives to Live, Anne Lindbergh
94. Lagoon, Nnedi Okorofor
95. A Dying Light in Corduba, Lindsey Davis
96. The Unfinished Crime and The Girl Who Had To Die, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
97. Unspoken, Sarah Rees Brennan*
98. Untold, Sarah Rees Brennan
99. Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan
100. Writing for the Soaps, Jean Rouverol
101. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott*
102. The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era, Sam Ford, Abigal de Kosnik and C. Lee Harrington
103. Not Young, Still Restless: A Memoir, Jeanne Cooper
104. Greygallows, Barbara Michaels
105. Peppermints in the Parlor, Barbara Brooks Wallace*
106. Stranger, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
107. The ABC's of Soaps: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV, Gwyn Gilliss
108. 1632, Eric Flint*
109. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie*
110. Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie
111. Trelawny, Isabelle Holland
112. Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones*
113. Beware of the Bouquet, Joan Aiken
114. Outlaws of Sherwood, Robin McKinley*
Comics and Graphic Novels:
1. The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar
2. The Rabbi's Cat 2, Joann Sfar
3. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
4-19. Gokusen, Volumes 1-15, Kozueko Morimoto*
20. Kimi ni Todoke, Volume 1, Karuho Shiina
21. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Tony Cliff
22-24. Saiyuki, Volumes 1-3, Kazuya Minekura
I only read 114 books this year, and 24 volumes of manga/graphic novels -- that's the fewest ever since I started keeping track. Part of that is a function of moving to Boston and losing my daily commute, but I'm hoping it'll be a temporary dip as I adjust to different schedules!
Of those 114 only 13 were rereads, though (plus the 15 volumes of Gokusen), which means 101 new books overall and is not terrible. 17 were nonfiction, which is also not terrible, although that's mostly a function of my soap opera research binge towards the end of the year (which was temporarily on hold for Yuletide, but is in fact ongoing, for reasons. More on this sometime, probably.)
I am also WAY BEHIND on booklogging. Ideally most of the things I haven't written up will go up some point soon in the new year, but also, as usual, feel free to ask me about anything!
Books read, 2014:
1. Arrow's Flight, Mercedes Lackey*
2. Arrow's Fall, Mercedes Lackey*
3. Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy and Meshugas of Yiddish Theater in America, Stefan Kanfer*
4. Song of Spider-man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History, Glen Berger
5. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Ben MacIntyre
6. Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son, Sholem Aleichem
7. God, Man and the Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation, ed. Nahma Sandrow
8. Wandering Stars, Sholem Aleichem
9. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss
10. Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi
11. Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
12. Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone
13. The Bird of the River, Kage Baker
14. A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar
15. The Countess Conspiracy, Courtney Milan
16. Two Serpents Rising, Max Gladstone
17. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. LeGuin
18. And All The Stars, Andrea K. Host
19. Zoo City, Lauren Beukes
20. Poseidon's Gold, Lindsey Davis*
21. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
22. A Thousand Words For Stranger, Julie Czernada
23. Across a Star-Swept Sea, Diana Peterfreund
24. A Cultural History of Cuba During the U.S. Occupation, Marial Iglesias Ustet
25. Last Act in Palmyra, Lindsey Davis*
26. Unravel Me, Tahereh Mafi
27. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, Donnie Eichar
28. Friday's Child, Georgette Heyer
29. Laura's Wolf, Lia Silver
30. Hild, Nicola Griffith
31. The Hexslinger Omnibus, Gemma Files
32. City of Golden Shadows, Tad Williams
33. River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams
34. Mountain of Black Glass, Tad Williams
35. Sea of Silver Light, Tad Williams
36. Legends II, ed. Robert Silverberg
37. Such Wicked Intent, Kenneth Oppel
38. Children of the Alley, Naguib Mahfouz
39. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien*
40. Gifts, Ursula K. LeGuin
41. Voices, Ursula K. LeGuin
42. Powers, Ursula K. LeGuin
43. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Ben McIntyre
44. Spice and Wolf: Volume 1, Isuna Hasekura
45. Cuckoo Song, Frances Hardinge
46. Lord of Scoundrels, Loretta Chase
47. Survival, Julie Czerneda
48. Smoke and Shadows, Tanya Huff
49. The Last Hellion, Loretta Chase
50. How Much For Just the Planet?, John Ford
51. Miss Wonderful, Loretta Chase
52. The Thirteen Clocks, James Thurber*
53. I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Sylvie Simmons
54. Voices of the Night, Lydia Joyce
55. Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah, ed. Roger Bennet
56. Boy, Snow, Bird, Helen Oyeyemi
57. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens*
58. Kabu-Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor
59. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Ambelin Kwaymullina
60. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
61. Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
62. Shattered Silk, Barbara Michaels
63. Someone in the House, Barbara Michaels
64. Prisoner, Rachel Manija Brown
65. Stray, Andrea K. Host
66. The Touchstone Trilogy, Andrea K. Host
67. Gratuitous Epilogue, Andrea K. Host
68. Spellcast, Barbara Ashford
69. Joe Golem and the Drowning City, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
70. Railsea, China Mieville
71. Shadows of the Night, Lydia Joyce
72. Spice and Wolf: Volume 2, Isuna Hasekura
73. A Maggot, John Fowles
74. The Islands of Chaldea, Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones
75. Your Republic Is Calling You, Kim Young-ha
76. The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, Foster Hirsch
77. The Broken Lands, Kate Milford
78. Death of a Schoolgirl, Joanna Campbell Slan
79. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
80. The Spectator, Studs Turkel
81. Landmark Yiddish Plays, ed. Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber
82. The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan
83. Talk Sweetly To Me, Courtney Milan
84. The Blank Wall, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
85. Five Little Peppers And How They Grew, Margaret Sidney*
86. Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp
87. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick
88. Spellcrossed, Barbara Ashford
89. Time to Depart, Lindsey Davis
90. Spirits Abroad, Zen Cho
91. A Posse of Princesses, Sherwood Smith
92. Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone
93. Three Lives to Live, Anne Lindbergh
94. Lagoon, Nnedi Okorofor
95. A Dying Light in Corduba, Lindsey Davis
96. The Unfinished Crime and The Girl Who Had To Die, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
97. Unspoken, Sarah Rees Brennan*
98. Untold, Sarah Rees Brennan
99. Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan
100. Writing for the Soaps, Jean Rouverol
101. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott*
102. The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era, Sam Ford, Abigal de Kosnik and C. Lee Harrington
103. Not Young, Still Restless: A Memoir, Jeanne Cooper
104. Greygallows, Barbara Michaels
105. Peppermints in the Parlor, Barbara Brooks Wallace*
106. Stranger, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
107. The ABC's of Soaps: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV, Gwyn Gilliss
108. 1632, Eric Flint*
109. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie*
110. Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie
111. Trelawny, Isabelle Holland
112. Hexwood, Diana Wynne Jones*
113. Beware of the Bouquet, Joan Aiken
114. Outlaws of Sherwood, Robin McKinley*
Comics and Graphic Novels:
1. The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar
2. The Rabbi's Cat 2, Joann Sfar
3. Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
4-19. Gokusen, Volumes 1-15, Kozueko Morimoto*
20. Kimi ni Todoke, Volume 1, Karuho Shiina
21. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Tony Cliff
22-24. Saiyuki, Volumes 1-3, Kazuya Minekura
I only read 114 books this year, and 24 volumes of manga/graphic novels -- that's the fewest ever since I started keeping track. Part of that is a function of moving to Boston and losing my daily commute, but I'm hoping it'll be a temporary dip as I adjust to different schedules!
Of those 114 only 13 were rereads, though (plus the 15 volumes of Gokusen), which means 101 new books overall and is not terrible. 17 were nonfiction, which is also not terrible, although that's mostly a function of my soap opera research binge towards the end of the year (which was temporarily on hold for Yuletide, but is in fact ongoing, for reasons. More on this sometime, probably.)
I am also WAY BEHIND on booklogging. Ideally most of the things I haven't written up will go up some point soon in the new year, but also, as usual, feel free to ask me about anything!
