Here’s what I read last year, in order of reading*. Some of them aren’t published yet. 🙂
1. Flynn, Gillian: Dark Places
2. Robson, Justina: Keeping It Real
3. Nix, Garth: Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz
4. Woolrich, Cornell: Phantom Lady
5. Robson, Justina: Selling Out
6. Kostova, Elizabeth: The Swan Thieves
7. Tobin, Paul: Prepare to Die!
8. Destefano, Merrie: Feast
9. Gilman, Laura Anne: Weight of Stone
10. Walton, Jo: Among Others
11. Barrett, Neal, Jr.: Other Seasons
12. Hurley, Kameron: God’s War
13. Woolrich, Cornell: Deadline at Dawn
14. Egan, Greg: The Clockwork Rocket
15. Egan, Greg: The Eternal Flame
16. Ferrari, Mark: Twice (MSS)
17. Harkness, Deborah: A Discovery of Witches
18. McGuire, Seanan: Discount Armageddon
19. Stross, Charles: The Family Trade
20. Tidhar, Lavie: The Bookman
21. Grant, Charles L.: The Nestling
22. Stross, Charles: The Hidden Family
23. Stross, Charles: The Clan Corporate
24. Beckett, Galen: The Master of Heathcrest Hall
25. Payton, T. Aaron: The Constantine Affliction
26. Stross, Charles: The Merchants’ War
27. Gresham, William Lindsay: Nightmare Alley
28. Stross, Charles: The Revolution Business
29. Gruber, Michael: The Witch’s Boy
30. Stross, Charles: The Trade of Queens
31. Goodwin, Jason: The Bellini Card
32. Link, Kelly: Stranger Things Happen (stories)
33. Goodwin, Jason: An Evil Eye
34. Trussoni, Danielle: Angelology
35. Kowal, Mary Robinette: Glamour in Glass
36. Nolan, William F. & George C Johnson: Logan’s Run
37. Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
38. Ellison, Harlan: The Deadly Streets (collection)
39. Ellison, Harlan: Gentleman Junkie (collection)
40. Lockhart, Ross (ed.): The Book of Cthulhu 2
41. Stephenson, Neal: Reamde
42. Grant, Mira: Blackout
43. McCammon, Robert: The Night Boat
44. McDowell, Michael: Blackwater 1: The Flood
45. Lansdale, Joe R.: Dead Aim
46. Schafer, Courtney: The Whitefire Crossing
47. Schafer, Courtney: The Tainted City
48. Vance, Jack: Magic Highways (collection)
49. Byers, Richard Lee: Blind God’s Bluff
50. Martin, George R. R.: A Storm of Swords
51. McDowell, Michael: Blackwater 2: The Levee
52. Simmons, Dan: The Fall of Hyperion
53. Long, Nathan: Jane Carver of Waar
54. Long, Nathan: Jane Carver: Swords of Waar
55. Lansdale, Joe R.: Bleeding Shadows
56. Scholes, Ken: Antiphon
57. Greatshell, Walter: Terminal Island
58. Headley, Maria Dahvana: Queen of Kings
59. Scholes, Ken: Requiem (MSS)
60. Mitchell, David: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
61. Alexander, Cassie: Nightshifted
62. Marshall, W. G.: Enormity
63. Grossman, Lev: The Magician King
64. McDowell, Michael: Blackwater 3: The House
65. Wells, Martha: The Cloud Roads
66. Wells, Martha: The Serpent Sea
67. Delaney, Joseph: The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
68. Wells, Martha: The Siren Depths
69. King, Stephen: Full Dark, No Stars (novellas)
70. Armstrong, Kelley: Amityville Horrible
71. Simmons, Dan: Lovedeath
72. Franzen, Jonathan: Freedom
73. Dornbusch, Betsy: Exile
74. Morgenstern, Erin: The Night Circus
75. McDowell, Michael: Blackwater 4: The War
76. Atwood, Margaret: The Year of the Flood
77. Dellamonica, A.M.: Indigo Springs
78. Scalzi, John: The Ghost Brigades
79. Dellamonica, A.M.: Blue Magic
80. Macallan, Ben: Pandaemonium
81. Hobson, M.K.: The Warlock’s Curse
82. Wolf, Carol: Summoning
83. Brenchley, Chaz: House of Doors
84. Wolf, Carol: Binding
85. Testerman, Doyce: Hidden Things
86. Roach, Mary: Spook
87. Hill, Joe: Horns
Wow, 87 is a new record. To compare:
2011: 73
2010: 63
2009: 44
2008: 75
2007: ~50 (I wasn’t counting like I do now)
Reading more books is a good sign, I think. (and I never tally them up till I do these entries, so I don’t have any real idea of the total before I get to the moment of counting!) I will likely finish another one today, which will go on 2013’s tally, of course.
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*Not counting New Yorkers and other magazines, or anything on the internet. Because honestly.