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The 2008 Books
It's that time again. And since I am currently fluttering around waving my hands ineffectually at the sheer volume of stuff I have to get done in the next two days to put on New Year's, meet some deadlines, and save the universe on time -- and will not have time to pick up a new book before Thursday -- this is a good displacement activity. :p
(The 2008 Grand Metrics wait until the day of. Because me, I'm still writing.)
This year in books:
#1 -- M. John Harrison, Nova Swing
#2 -- Barth Anderson, The Patron Saint of Plagues
#3 -- Stephen King, The Waste Lands
#4 -- Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
#5 -- Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
#6 -- Patricia McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe
#7 -- Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
#8 -- Stephen King, Song of Susannah
#9 -- Julia Alvarez, !Yo!
#10 -- Stephen King, The Dark Tower
#11 -- Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
#12 -- Paul Melko, Singularity's Ring
#13 -- Sarah Prineas, The Magic Thief
#14 -- Sarah Monette, The Bone Key
#15 -- Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come
#16 -- Michelle West, The Broken Crown
#17 -- Nick Sagan, Edenborn
#18 -- Karl Schroeder, Permanence
Not-#19 -- Joel Shepherd, Crossover
#19 -- Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
#20 -- Nick Sagan, Everfree
#21 -- Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam, Therefore, Repent!
#22 -- Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
#23 -- Patricia McKillip, The Moon and the Face
#24 -- James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
#25 -- Caitlin R. Kiernan, Murder of Angels
#26 -- Michael Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel
#27 -- China Mieville, Un Lun Dun
#28 -- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
#29 -- Caitlin R. Kiernan, Silk
#30 -- Sandra McDonald, The Outback Stars
#31 -- Iain Banks, A Song of Stone
#32 -- Mike Carey, The Devil You Know
#33 -- Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
#34 -- Robert Charles Wilson, Bios
#35 -- Mike Carey, Vicious Circle
#36 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Passage
#37 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy
(REREAD) -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
#38 -- Mike Carey, Dead Man's Boots
Not-#39 -- Jay Lake, Mainspring
(REREAD) -- Shannon Hale -- Princess Academy
#39 -- Sean Stewart, Galveston
#40 -- Sean Stewart, Passion Play
#41 -- Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
#42 -- Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
#43 -- John Crowley, The Solitudes
#44 -- Scott Bakker, Neuropath
#45 -- Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
#46 -- Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
#47 -- Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
#48 -- Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus
#49 -- Naomi Novik, Victory of Eagles
Not-#50 -- David Devereux, Hunter's Moon
#50 -- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
#51 -- Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
#52 -- John Crowley, Love and Sleep
#53 -- M.T. Anderson, Feed
(REREAD) -- Patricia McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn
#54 -- Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and the Gone
#55 -- Sean Stewart, Nobody's Son
#56 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Memoranda
Not-#57 -- Holly Phillips, The Engine's Child
#57 -- Sean Stewart, Mockingbird
#58 -- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man
#59 -- Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace
#60 -- Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
#61 -- Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
#62 -- Ekaterina Sedia, Alchemy of Stone
#63 -- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle
Not-#64 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Shadow Year
#64 -- Paulina Wyrzykowksi, The Year of Numbers
#65 -- Patricia McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
#66 -- Sir Walter scott, Ivanhoe
#67 -- Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden
#68 -- Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan
#69 -- Richard Adams, Watership Down
#70 -- Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography
#71 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice
#72 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
#73 -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
#74 -- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
#75 -- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
#76 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda
#77 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos
#78 -- Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
#79 -- Nicole Kornher-Stace, Desideria
#80 -- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
I pretty much did not do book reports this year. School ate me, and then when it spat me out, job-hunting and my sister's wedding and new-jobbing ate me. I have spent an immense amount of time this year being eaten by something or other.
Things I went silly over and/or handsold while I was still regularly at the bookstore: the Dark Tower books, right up to the end; The Bone Key; Nick Sagan's Edenborn; The Dragons of Babel; all three Mike Carey books; The Physiognomy; Life As We Knew It; all, every single one, of the Sean Stewart books, but especially Nobody's Son, which somehow opened up the perfect little black box in which I keep my most treasured things and slipped in without letting anything out, and now it is welded to the most important bits of me and we will never part; and The Year of Numbers, which I may well book report later, because those of you who read non-genre fiction really ought to pick this up. I say this with the startlement and delight you get when you buy the book because you know the author and it turns out to be just impeccably crafted.
There was actually quite a lot of reading in there I was happy with in general, despite me feeling like this was a year where I couldn't find a damn book to read for my life (I am, again, Not The Target Audience for at least this fall's batch of new releases). You'll note there's a lot of backlist in there and a chunk of out-of-genre stuff. I went exploring; what can I say?
My to read shelf is still horrifically light. Hopefully by the time I finish the Bujolds and double back for Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns and Co. (I read series in gulps. I do not wait a year for a new volume, I just wait for them all), they will have made me some books I want to read again.
(The 2008 Grand Metrics wait until the day of. Because me, I'm still writing.)
This year in books:
#1 -- M. John Harrison, Nova Swing
#2 -- Barth Anderson, The Patron Saint of Plagues
#3 -- Stephen King, The Waste Lands
#4 -- Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
#5 -- Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
#6 -- Patricia McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe
#7 -- Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
#8 -- Stephen King, Song of Susannah
#9 -- Julia Alvarez, !Yo!
#10 -- Stephen King, The Dark Tower
#11 -- Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
#12 -- Paul Melko, Singularity's Ring
#13 -- Sarah Prineas, The Magic Thief
#14 -- Sarah Monette, The Bone Key
#15 -- Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come
#16 -- Michelle West, The Broken Crown
#17 -- Nick Sagan, Edenborn
#18 -- Karl Schroeder, Permanence
Not-#19 -- Joel Shepherd, Crossover
#19 -- Ilona Andrews, Magic Burns
#20 -- Nick Sagan, Everfree
#21 -- Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam, Therefore, Repent!
#22 -- Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool
#23 -- Patricia McKillip, The Moon and the Face
#24 -- James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
#25 -- Caitlin R. Kiernan, Murder of Angels
#26 -- Michael Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel
#27 -- China Mieville, Un Lun Dun
#28 -- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
#29 -- Caitlin R. Kiernan, Silk
#30 -- Sandra McDonald, The Outback Stars
#31 -- Iain Banks, A Song of Stone
#32 -- Mike Carey, The Devil You Know
#33 -- Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
#34 -- Robert Charles Wilson, Bios
#35 -- Mike Carey, Vicious Circle
#36 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Passage
#37 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Physiognomy
(REREAD) -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
#38 -- Mike Carey, Dead Man's Boots
Not-#39 -- Jay Lake, Mainspring
(REREAD) -- Shannon Hale -- Princess Academy
#39 -- Sean Stewart, Galveston
#40 -- Sean Stewart, Passion Play
#41 -- Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
#42 -- Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
#43 -- John Crowley, The Solitudes
#44 -- Scott Bakker, Neuropath
#45 -- Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
#46 -- Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
#47 -- Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
#48 -- Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus
#49 -- Naomi Novik, Victory of Eagles
Not-#50 -- David Devereux, Hunter's Moon
#50 -- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
#51 -- Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels
#52 -- John Crowley, Love and Sleep
#53 -- M.T. Anderson, Feed
(REREAD) -- Patricia McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn
#54 -- Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and the Gone
#55 -- Sean Stewart, Nobody's Son
#56 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Memoranda
Not-#57 -- Holly Phillips, The Engine's Child
#57 -- Sean Stewart, Mockingbird
#58 -- Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man
#59 -- Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace
#60 -- Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
#61 -- Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
#62 -- Ekaterina Sedia, Alchemy of Stone
#63 -- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle
Not-#64 -- Jeffrey Ford, The Shadow Year
#64 -- Paulina Wyrzykowksi, The Year of Numbers
#65 -- Patricia McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head
#66 -- Sir Walter scott, Ivanhoe
#67 -- Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden
#68 -- Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan
#69 -- Richard Adams, Watership Down
#70 -- Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography
#71 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice
#72 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game
#73 -- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
#74 -- Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
#75 -- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
#76 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda
#77 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos
#78 -- Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing
#79 -- Nicole Kornher-Stace, Desideria
#80 -- Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
I pretty much did not do book reports this year. School ate me, and then when it spat me out, job-hunting and my sister's wedding and new-jobbing ate me. I have spent an immense amount of time this year being eaten by something or other.
Things I went silly over and/or handsold while I was still regularly at the bookstore: the Dark Tower books, right up to the end; The Bone Key; Nick Sagan's Edenborn; The Dragons of Babel; all three Mike Carey books; The Physiognomy; Life As We Knew It; all, every single one, of the Sean Stewart books, but especially Nobody's Son, which somehow opened up the perfect little black box in which I keep my most treasured things and slipped in without letting anything out, and now it is welded to the most important bits of me and we will never part; and The Year of Numbers, which I may well book report later, because those of you who read non-genre fiction really ought to pick this up. I say this with the startlement and delight you get when you buy the book because you know the author and it turns out to be just impeccably crafted.
There was actually quite a lot of reading in there I was happy with in general, despite me feeling like this was a year where I couldn't find a damn book to read for my life (I am, again, Not The Target Audience for at least this fall's batch of new releases). You'll note there's a lot of backlist in there and a chunk of out-of-genre stuff. I went exploring; what can I say?
My to read shelf is still horrifically light. Hopefully by the time I finish the Bujolds and double back for Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns and Co. (I read series in gulps. I do not wait a year for a new volume, I just wait for them all), they will have made me some books I want to read again.