Now updated to cover the end of the year
William S Burroughs - Junky
Becky Chambers - Record Of A Spaceborn Few
Martin Fitzgerald - Ruth And Martin's Album Club
Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning
Stuart Jefferies - Grand Hotel Abyss
T Kingfisher - Swordheart
T Kingfisher - Minor Mage
Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars
Ann Leckie - Provenance
Yoon Ha Lee - Revenant Gun
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones And The Six
Seanan McGuire - One Salt Sea
Seanan McGuire - A Red Rose Chain
Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With The Band
John Scalzi - Head On
As ever, bold font of greatness indicates a five-star rating - only awarded once this year (possibly a sign of too much comfort reading?).
Genre-wise, we've got
SF - 5
Fantasy - 4
Autobiography - 3
Biography - 1
Music - 1
Contemporary fiction - 1
To save creating an additional post and messing up the end of the blog, here's the reading recommendations from the first half of 2020. Classics in CAPS, for want of a bold function in these comments.
ReplyDeleteBen Aaronovitch - False Value
James Acaster - Perfect Sound Whatever
Zen Cho - Sorceror To The Crown
William Gibson - The Peripheral
Alix E Harrow - The Ten Thousand Doors of January
T Kingfisher - The Paladin's Grace
Elmore Leonard - Raylan
Elmore Leonard - Riding The Rap
Mhairi McFarlane - If I Never Met You
Maureen F McHugh - China Mountain Zhang
Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
Susan Orlean - The Library Book
Pete Paphides - Broken Greek
GEOFF RYMAN - 253
Charles Stross - The Delirium Brief
And for the second half of 2020
ReplyDeleteMaya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Jenny Colgan - Christmas At The Island Hotel
OMAR EL AKKAD - AMERICAN WAR
Jasper Fforde - The Constant Rabbit
CLIVE JAMES - CLIVE JAMES ON TELEVISION
Me - Elton John
Nick Kent - The Dark Stuff
Juliet E McKenna - The Green Man's Heir
SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA - MEXICAN GOTHIC
DAVID OLUSOGA - BLACK AND BRITISH: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY
Taylor Jenkins Read - The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
Ursula Vernon - Digger
And now, reading recommendations from the first half of 2021!
ReplyDeleteAgatha Christie - Murder On The Orient Express
Namwali Serpell - The Old Drift
T Kingfisher - The Seventh Bride
Juliet E McKenna - The Green Man's Foe
Bob Mould - See A Little Light: The Trail Of Rage And Melody
Naomi Novik - A Deadly Education
J K Rowling - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azbakhan
Ann & Jeff Vandermeer - The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories
Francesca Wade - Square Haunting: Five Writers In London Between The Wars
Connie Willis - Doomsday Book
Second half of 2022 top reads
ReplyDeleteMichael Azerad - Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991
S A Chakraborty - The Kingdom Of Copper; The Empire Of Gold
Tracy Deonn - Legendborn
Rob Halford - Confess: The Autobiography
Tamsyn Muir - Harrow The Ninth
Rainbow Rowell - Wayward Son
DOROTHY SAYERS - GAUDY NIGHT
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY - CAGE OF SOULS; Bear Head; Dogs Of War
Aiden Thomas - Cemetery Boys
Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
ReplyDeleteMichael Cox - The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines
Tom Holland - Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Dan Jones - Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Charles Stross - The Bloodline Feud; Quantum of Nightmares