Here are the books I’ve read in the last twelvemonth and thus ends another book year:
- Roma, by Steven Saylor
- Imperium, by Robert Harris
- Blameless, by Gail Carriger
- Conspirata, by Robert Harris
- In the Balance, by Harry Turtledove
- Tilting the Balance, by Harry Turtledove
- Upsetting the Balance, by Harry Turtledove
- Striking the Balance, by Harry Turtledove
- The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink
- Devil’s Alphabet, by Daryl Gregory
- The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
- Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie
- On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers
- A Certain Slant of Light, by Laura Whitcomb
- Carrie, by Stephen King
- Android Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters
- Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville
- Moonlight Mile, by Dennis Lehane
- Worth Dying For, by Lee Child
- Walking Dead, volumes 1-6, by Robert Kirkman, et al.
- Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
- High King of Montival, by S.M. Stirling
- Kindred, by Octavia Butler
- Kill the Dead, by Richard Kadrey
- Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafor
- Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Plague, by Albert Camus
- Bone Rattler, by Eliot Pattison
- The Stranger, by Albert Camus
- Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- The Half-Made Word, by Felix Gilman
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- Thicker Than Water, by Mike Carey
- Vicious Grace, by M.L.N. Hanover
- Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, by Mark Hodder
- Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Lonely Werewolf Girl, by Martin Millar
- World Made by Hand, by James Howard Kunstler
- Kraken, by China Mieville
- Naked Heat, by Richard Castle
- Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain
- All Clear, by Connie Willis
- Pale Demon, by Kim Harrison
- A Madness of Angels, by Kim Griffin
- Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
- The Lonely Polygamist, by Barry Udall
- Malinche, by Laura Esquivel
- The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
- The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
- One of Our Thursdays is Missing, by Jasper Fforde
- Sleepers, by Lorenzo Carcaterra
- The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
- Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
- The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde
- Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland
- Something Rotten, by Jasper Fforde
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
- The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
- David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Dead Reckoning, by Charlaine Harris
- The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
- The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
- The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man, by Mark Hodder
- The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- Preacher, by Garth Ennis, et al.
- The Unincorporated Man, by Dani and Eytan Kollin
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
- The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
- Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson
- Smokin’ Seventeen, by Janet Evanovich
- The Well of Ascension, by Brandon Sanderson
- The Hero of Ages, by Brandon Sanderson
- Embassytown, by China Mièville
- The Broken Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin
- Heartless, by Gail Carriger
- Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell
- A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness
- Flashback, by Dan Simmons
- Life, On the Line, by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas
- Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell
- Kitty’s Big Trouble, by Carrie Vaughn
- Dreadnought, by Cherie Priest
- Portrait of a Spy, by Daniel Silva
- Naamah’s Blessing, by Jacqueline Carey
- The Reapers Are the Angels, by Alden Bell
- Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian, by Scott Douglas
- Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes
- Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
- The Complaints, by Ian Rankin
- These is My Words, by Nancy Turner
- Deus ex Machina, by Andrew Foster Altshul
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Fated, by S.G. Browne
Not as many as last year, but I did teach a graduate course this past summer. Oh well, something to shoot for next year.