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[skygiants]

A low reading year for me, and also a low review-writing year! Hopefully next year I will do better at both, which I am to be fair quite optimistic about given how much of my time and energy this year were consumed by the processes of Moving House and Getting Married, neither of which (I fervently hope!) will be factors next year.


Books:
1. The Legacy of Molly Southborne, Tade Thompson
2. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
3. Unto the Godless What Little Remains, Mario Coelho
4. The Jew of Rome, Leon Feuchtwanger
5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein
6. The City Inside, Sumit Basu
7. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, Eleonory Gilburd
8. Middlemarch, George Eliot*
9. The Bric-a-Brac Man: An Extravaganza, Russell H. Greenan
10. The Particolored Unicorn, John DeCles
11. The Graveyard Game, Kage Baker*
12. From All False Doctrine, Alice Degan
13. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, Jonathan D. Spence
14. The Memory Eater, Rebecca Mahoney
15. Armadale, Wilkie Collins
16. The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
17. Ascending, Do Not Disturb, Yue Xia Die Ying
18. The Pomegranate Gate, Ariel Kaplan
19. Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
20. The Worry Week, Anne Lindbergh
21. Star Wars: Dark Disciple, Christie Golden
22. Serpent's Reach, C.J. Cherryh
23. The Florentine Dagger, Ben Hecht
24. I Remember Christine, Oscar Lewis
25. These Burning Stars, Bethany Jacobs
26. The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker
27. The Children of the Company, Kage Baker
28. The Machine's Child, Kage Baker
29. The Sons of Heaven, Kage Baker
30. Drunk On All Your Strange New Words, Eddie Robson
31. An Unauthorized Fan Treatise, Lauren James
32. Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack
33. Wolfpack, Amelia Brunskill
34. Ancient Rockets, Kage Baker
35. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz
36. Stateless, Elizabeth Wein
37. World Running Down, Al Hess
38. Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh
39. All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolmie
40. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames, Lara Maiklem
41. Perilous Times, Thomas D. Lee
42. Something's Not Right, Cyan Wings
43. Prophecies, Libels and Dreams, Ysabeau S. Wilce
44. Fire Season, K.D. Casey
45. Bump in the Night, Isabel Holland
46. Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions, Michael Helquist
47. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris, Colin Jones
48. The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez
49. Our Game, John Le Carré
50. Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
51. The Honeys, Ryan La Sala
52. To Shape a Dragon's Breath, Moniquill Blackgoose
53. Call for the Dead, John le Carré
54. Journey Into Stone, Audrey Erskine Lindop
55. Bestseller: The Books Everyone Read, 1900–1939, Claud Cockburn
56. Competitions, Sharon Green*
57. Leech, Hiron Ennes
58. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
59. The Sherwood Ring, Elizabeth Marie Pope*
60. The Archive Undying, Emma Mieko Candon
61. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, K.J. Charles
62. A Theory of Haunting, Sarah Monette
63. A Second Chance for Yesterday, R.A. Sinn
64. Challenges, Sharon Green*
65. Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World, Kristin Ohlson
66. A Winter's Promise, Christelle Dabos*
67. The Missing of Clairdelune, Christelle Dabos*
68. The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer*
69. The Memories of Babel, Christelle Dabos*
70. The Storm of Echoes, Christelle Dabos*
71. They All Say I've Met A Ghost, Cyan Wings
72. The Self-Appointed Saint, Audrey Erskine Lindop
73. Gullstruck Island, Frances Hardinge*
74. A Murder Is Announced, Agatha Christie

Comics/manga:
1-3. March, Volumes 1-3, John Lewis
4. Azumanga Daioh (all), Kiyohiko Azuma
5. Oh Human Star (all), Blue Delliquanti
6. Asadora, Volume 1, Naoki Urasawa
7-8. Dungeon Meshi, Volumes 10-11, Ryoko Kui
9. How To Be a Werewolf, Volume 1 + all extant, Shawn Lenore
10-13.Asadora, Volumes 2-5, Naoki Urasawa
14-15. The Hazards of Love, Volumes 1-2, Stan Stanley

As per usual, if you want me to talk about anything that I haven't written up yet, just ask -- either I'll tell you in a comment or I'll prioritize making a proper post about it!

Comments

[snickfic]

I would like to hear your thoughts on A Theory of Haunting! (And I feel this must be obvious, but what do the asterisks mean?)

[imbir]

Asterisks = reread. There's usually an explanatory note about that in these posts, but it looks like it was accidentally left out this year.

[snickfic]

Aha, thank you!

[skygiants]

whoops yes thank you for filling in! this is what I get for doing it at midnight after a nine-hour drive

[sovay]

I would like to hear your thoughts on A Theory of Haunting!

Same!

[skygiants]

posted!

[aella_irene]

Yes! Me too!

[skygiants]

posted!

[skygiants]

I have posted about it!

[rachelmanija]

Wolfpack and To Shape a Dragon's Breath, please!

[skygiants]

I have now posted about To Shape a Dragon's Breath, here!

[hamsterwoman]

Seconding To Shape a Dragon's Breath!

[chestnut_pod]

Thirding!

[skygiants]

posted!

[skygiants]

posted!

[mellific]

OH LOVE TO SEE THERE ARE ASADORA POSTS!! how was your azudai experience!!!

[skygiants]

azudai experience ... glad to have finally read I think! some of it has not aged well but Sakaki is perfect to me. but on the other hand Yotsuba is MORE perfect and I COULD have been spending that time reading Yotsuba --

[mellific]

sakaki's cat acquisition arc is sooo important, i really enjoyed seeing azuma get funnier & also ldskfjdsl develop deep interest in "the passage of time as a concept" but you're so right yotsuba is the most perfect & i am SO EXCITED FOR YOUR YOTSUBA CATCHUP whenever it comes around!!!!

[imbir]

Pressing the buttons for An Unauthorized Fan Treatise and Mudlark on the ol' review vending machine, please.

Also curious about the Marie Equi book, since it stars a figure I know nothing about. Significantly less curious about The Archive Undying, but would like to know if the book contains any actual archives?

[blotthis]

secondin!

[shadaras]

I'd love to know your thoughts on:

The Spear Cuts Through Water (I loved that book! One of my favorite books this year.)

The Archive Undying (the most FatT-ass novel I've read xD I liked it a lot!)

To Shape a Dragon's Breath (a book my friends keep telling me to read but that I haven't yet read)

They All Say I've Met A Ghost (a book I suspect I'd like if I could get into reading it but right now my brain doesn't want to read webnovels online :P)

[kate_nepveu]

I also would like to hear about The Archive Undying as the FatT Discord was much enthused about it!

[skygiants]

Archive Undying DEFINITELY an extremely FatT novel

[blotthis]

seconding these as well

[aella_irene]

I would love to hear your thoughts on A Murder is Announced!

(Also, I know your feelings on A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum were equivocal, but the author has just published a History of the Roman Empire in 21 women)

[kore]

Another vote for Theory of Haunting!

[skygiants]

posted about it!

[osprey_archer]

Moving House and Getting Married, neither of which (I fervently hope!) will be factors next year.

Now imagining a Groundhog's Day type story, except that it's the year that repeats, and you are forced to get married again and and again year after year.

I realize The Sherwood Ring is a reread but I would be curious to hear your thoughts, because when I read it lo these many years ago, I was disappointed. But was it just that it wasn't The Perilous Gard? Should I give it another chance?

[raven]

What did you think of Drunk On All Your Strange New Words? I used to listen to Welcome to Our Village Please Invade Carefully while it was on and it was funny but a bit old-white-guy, I'm really intrigued as to how he does real SF.

[blotthis]

would like to add dream house and human star for thoughts if you have time

[sophia_sol]

ones I'd be particularly interested in your thoughts on:

- the archive undying
- sweet in tooth and claw
- gullstruck island

[ambyr]

I would also be interested in Sherwood Ring thoughts, as someone who just read it for the first time and went "Wow, this book has a weird structure!"

[chestnut_pod]

Wow, there was lots of good stuff in there, even if it felt like a lesser reading year! May the year to come bring only awesome successes (or at least failures that are super fun to write up afterwards).

[shati]

Seconding The Spear Cuts Through Water, but I'm also curious about The Color of Law and God's Chinese Son!