It’s that time of year again. It’s time to reveal how many books I’ve read during the past twelve months. Since 1 September 2013, I have completed the following 216 titles (since my new blog theme doesn’t show numbers for lists):
- The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
- Dark Triumph, by Robin LaFevers
- The Madman’s Daughter, by Megan Shepherd
- The Cusanus Game, by Wolfgang Jeshke
- Others of My Kind, by James Sallis
- Never Go Back, by Lee Child
- The Windsor Faction, by D.J. Taylor
- Odds Against Tomorrow, by Nathaniel Rich
- The Bat, by Jo Nesbø
- Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl, by David Barnett
- Jar City, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- This House is Haunted, by John Boyne
- The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch
- Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
- The Night Guest, by Fiona McFarlane
- I Am Forbidden, by Anouk Markovits
- Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
- The Heavens Rise, by Christopher Rice
- The Kill Room, by Jeffrey Deaver
- Homeland, by Cory Doctorow
- Niceville, by Carsten Stroud
- Hild, by Nicola Griffith
- The Sleep Room, by F.R. Tallis
- Stella Bain, by Anita Shreve
- Johannes Cabal: the Fear Institute, by Jonathan L. Howard
- The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, by Valerie Martin
- Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh
- The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
- A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
- The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett
- Plague, by Lisa Hinsley (novella)
- Rising Sun, Falling Shadow, by Daniel Kalla
- Three Parts Dead, by Max Gladstone
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, by Gregory Maguire
- The Fall of Saints, by Wanjiku wa Ngugi
- Solomon the Peacemaker, by Hunter Welles
- Heresy, by S.J. Parris
- The Zelmenyaners, by Moyshe Kulbak
- Night Film, by Marisha Pessl
- The Stone Boy, by Sophie Loubière
- Something More Than Night, by Ian Tregillis
- The Corpse-Rat King, by Lee Battersly
- The Dream Runner, by Kerry Schafer
- City of Lost Dreams, by Magnus Flyte
- The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan
- The World’s Strongest Librarian, by Josh Hanagarne
- Divergent, by Veronica Roth
- Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
- Police, by Jo Nesbø
- Wake, by Anna Hope
- Above, by Isla Morley
- Takedown Twenty, by Janet Evanovich
- Longbourn, by Jo Baker
- The Cormorant, by Chuck Wendig
- Revolutionary, by Alex Myers
- The Exiles Return, by Elisabeth de Waal
- When It’s a Jar, by Tom Holt
- A Different Kingdom, by Paul Kearney
- Europe in Autumn, by Dave Hutchinson
- Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
- The Aftermath, by Rhidian Brook
- Wolfhound Century, by Peter Higgins
- The Child Thief, by Dan Smith
- The Other Tree, by D.K. Mok
- Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal (reread)
- Glamour in Glass, by Mary Robinette Kowal (reread)
- Without a Summer, by Mary Robinette Kowal (reread)
- Saints of the Shadow Bible, by Ian Rankin
- Seven for a Secret, by Lyndsay Faye
- The Waking Engine, by David Edison
- The Woken Gods, by Gwenda Bond
- Fair and Tender Ladies, by Chris Nickson
- The String Diaries, by Stephen Lloyd Jones
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black
- A Dark Matter, by Peter Straub
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Furies, by Mark Alpert
- Three Princes, by Ramona Wheeler
- Day of the Oprichnik, by Vladimir Sorokin (novella)
- An Officer and Spy, by Robert Harris
- Allegient, by Veronica Roth
- Hyde, by Daniel Levine
- The Time Tutor, by Bee Ridgway (short story)
- Altai, by Wu Ming
- The Coming, by Andrej Nikolaidis (novella)
- London Under, by Peter Ackroyd
- Cress, by Marissa Meyer
- Silence of the Grave, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- The Quick, by Lauren Owen
- Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier
- Dominion, by C.J. Sansom
- Afterparty, by Daryl Gregory
- Voices, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- Sister Wolf, by Ann Arensberg (novella)
- Saga, volumes I, II, and III, by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples
- In the Company of Thieves, by Kage Baker (short stories)
- Rivers, by Michael Farris Smith
- The Antiquarian, by Gustavo Faveròn Patriau (novella)
- Q-23, by Paul Theroux (novella)
- Human Solutions, by Avi Silberstein (novella)
- In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, by Ruchama King Feuerman
- The Draining Lake, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- Sinful Folk, by Ned Hayes
- The Anatomy of Dreams, by Chloe Krug Benjamin
- The Colonial Hotel, by Jonathan Bennett (novella)
- The World Exchange, by Alena Graedon
- The Midnight Witch, by Paula Brackston
- Irenicon, by Aidan Harte
- Hypothermia, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- Love and Treasure, by Ayalet Waldman
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, by Gabrielle Zevin
- Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett
- The Weirdness, by Jeremy P. Bushnell
- Unwrapped Sky, by Rjurik Davidson
- A Highly Unlikely Scenario; Or, a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World, by Rachel Cantor
- The Anatomy Lesson, by Nina Siegel
- MacTeague, by Frank Norris
- Luminous Chaos, by Jean-Christophe Valtat
- Seven Kinds of Hell, by Dana Cameron
- One Night in Winter, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The Kraken King, by Meljean Brook (novella)
- The Liminal People, by Ayize Jama-Everett (novella)
- Shovel Ready, by Adam Sternbergh
- A Thing Done, by Tinney S. Heath
- The Lewis Man, by Peter May
- All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
- The Raven’s Banquet, by Clifford Beal
- Marvel 1602, by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert
- London Falling, by Paul Cornell
- The Well of Tears, by Roberta Trahan
- Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter
- Fear, by Gabriel Chevalier
- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, by Angela Carter (short stories)
- Dark Aemilia, by Sally O’Reilly
- The Farm, by Tom Rob Smith
- Halfskin, by Tony Bertauski
- Mortal Fire, by C.F. Dunn
- Midnight in Europe, by Alan Furst
- Valour and Vanity, by Mary Robinette Kowal
- A Better World, by Marcus Sakey
- Strange Bodies, by Marcel Theroux
- The Serpent of Venice, by Christopher Moore
- Traitor’s Blade, by Sebastien de Castell
- Red Winter, by Dan Smith
- Season of the Witch, by Natasha Mostert
- Outrage, by Arnaldur Indriðason
- The Setting Sun, by Bart Moore-Gilbert
- Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi
- All Those Vanished Engines, by Paul Park
- In Paradise, by Peter Matthiessen
- Forty Acres, by Dwayne Alexander Smith
- The Midnight Side, by Natasha Mostert
- Half a King, by Joe Abercrombie
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
- Warburg in Rome, by James Carroll
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Purse, by Alan Bradley
- My Notorious Life, by Kate Manning
- Sedition, by Katherine Grant
- I am Half-Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley
- Speaking From Among the Bones, by Alan Bradley
- The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches, by Alan Bradley
- The Bone Church, by Victoria Dougherty
- The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, by Tom Rachman
- Blood Red, by Mercedes Lackey
- In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan
- Unruly Places, by Alastair Bonnett
- Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (audiobook)
- The Buried Life, by Carrie Patel
- You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, by Tom Gauld
- The Severed Streets, by Paul Cornell
- The Black Hour, by Lori Rader-Day
- Silent Witnesses, by Nigel McCrery
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
- The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford (novella)
- World War Z, by Max Brooks (audiobook)
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by David Schafer
- The Denouncer, by Paul M. Levitt
- Days of Blood and Starlight, by Laini Taylor
- Villette, by Charlotte Brontë
- Dreams of Gods and Monsters, by Laini Taylor
- The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, by Ian Thornton
- My Name is Resolute, by Nancy E. Turner
- Working Stiff, by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
- The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters, by Michelle Lovic
- Top Secret Twenty-One, by Janet Evanovich
- Monuments Men, by Robert Edsel
- Sweetness #9, by Stephan Eirik Clark
- The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter, by Rod Duncan
- The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean (novella)
- The Book of Life, by Deborah Harness
- The Monster’s Wife, by Kate Horsley
- Expo 58, by Jonathan Coe
- The Android’s Dream, by John Scalzi (audiobook)
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Heist, by Daniel Silva
- Neverhome, by Laird Hunt
- Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
- Unspeakable Things, by Laurie Penny
- When Women Were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
- Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon (reread)
- Gutenberg’s Apprentice, by Alix Christie
- The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis
- Vicious, by V.E. Schwab
- City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett
- The Broken Hours, by Jacqueline Baker (novella)
- The Day of Atonement, by David Liss
- The Cartographer of No Man’s Land, by P.S. Duffy
- Help for the Haunted, by John Searles
- The Resurrectionist, by Matthew Guinn
- Written in My Heart’s Own Blood, by Diana Gabaldon
- The Frozen Dead, by Bernard Morgan
- A Little Folly, by Jude Morgan
- The Beautiful Land, by Alan Averill
- A Burnable Book, by Bruce Holsinger
- Broken Monsters, by Lauren Beukes
- Life Goes On, by Hans Keilson