Books read, Jul-Dec 2015

[bironic]

(cont. from here)

26. Grey - EL James
27. China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh
28. My Brief History - Stephen Hawking (skim) & Travelling to Infinity - Jane Hawking (skim)
29. [Textbook for work]
30. A Patient's Guide to PCOS - Walter Futterweit (reread)
31. Uprooted - Naomi Novik
32. Blood & Gold - Anne Rice (reread)
33. Saga vol. 5 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
34. The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
35. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie (reread)
36. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie (reread)
37. Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie
38. Step Aside, Pops! - Kate Beaton
39. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
40. The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander - partial
41. The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin (reread)

Happy to talk about any of them if you like.

And that was that. We'll call it a baseline to compare 2016 to, since I hadn't counted books before. In any case, the last couple of years have been better than those preceding, since I moved & started taking the bus to work instead of driving.

Expected reads for early this year:

- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
- Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Andrew Moore
- Neil Gaiman's recent book that a coworker lent me
- Dark Orbit by Carolyn Gilman
- Get in Trouble (short stories) by Kelly Link
- The Dark Forest and/or The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- High time to try something from N.K. Jemisin, seriously
- Hm: And could this finally be the year of Vorkosigan?

Maybe some audiobooks, too. Recommendations always welcome for fem-positive SF/F (particularly SF).

Comments

[thedeadparrot]

The Fifth Season came out this year, and it's the first one in a series, so you don't have to have read anything else by her to understand it. I don't know if it's the best one to start with, but it's definitely the best one from her I've read so far.