2016 Year-In-Review: Books I Read
Dec. 29th, 2016 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThis year, I read 38 books, significantly more than last year’s 27 or the dozen-or-so in most preceding years. Emphasizing reading books rather than the internet, along with getting very few comics and new rpg books, meant that I was dedicating most of my reading time to prose.
By type: 16 Kindle books, 11 other ebooks, 11 physical books.
While speculative fiction was a heavily emphasized genre, there was also a bunch of modern drama and assorted movie-style books that Amazon gave me for free. I read nine anthologies/short story collections, three humorous memoirs, two non-fiction and two self-help books. I think the variety helped (especially reading “easy” books outside of my normal wheelhouse), and many of the short stories were read conveniently on my phone while ARR was playing nearby.
In terms of authors: Three Scalzi books, two L’Engles, one Pratchett, one Gaiman and one Carey. (Which my to-read list echoes for next year, actually.) Richard Roberts came recommended and I suspect I’ll read his remaining novels in the coming year. I’m also likely to hunt down more by Mary Robinette Kowal, Nalo Hopkinson, and/or Kelly Link.
By type: 16 Kindle books, 11 other ebooks, 11 physical books.
While speculative fiction was a heavily emphasized genre, there was also a bunch of modern drama and assorted movie-style books that Amazon gave me for free. I read nine anthologies/short story collections, three humorous memoirs, two non-fiction and two self-help books. I think the variety helped (especially reading “easy” books outside of my normal wheelhouse), and many of the short stories were read conveniently on my phone while ARR was playing nearby.
In terms of authors: Three Scalzi books, two L’Engles, one Pratchett, one Gaiman and one Carey. (Which my to-read list echoes for next year, actually.) Richard Roberts came recommended and I suspect I’ll read his remaining novels in the coming year. I’m also likely to hunt down more by Mary Robinette Kowal, Nalo Hopkinson, and/or Kelly Link.
