2019 Year-In-Review: Books I Read
Jan. 2nd, 2020 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroComing out of 2019, we’re looking at 48 books read and logged, though that includes 9 graphic novels and 2 rpg sourcebooks. So really 37 prose books, pretty much in-line with the last couple of years. I’ve noticed I have a tendency to finish books in waves; I’ll burn through a whole bunch in a wave, then run out of ones I’m really excited about and then slog through one novel for two months.
By type: 23 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 22 physical books.
As is common for my tastes, I read a lot of sci-fi, a decent amount of fantasy, and a variety of non-fiction (including biographies, biology, psychology and “speculative science”). The authors list was a bit more spread out that previous years, as the winner was my three Neil Gaiman books; then two Seanan MacGuires, two Peter Clines, two Wesley Chus, and only one John Scalzi book.
Recommended standouts of the year included Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager (though I wasn’t as enthused by the sequel), Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, Peter Clines’s The Fold and Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War.
In the land of graphic novels: Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona is a delight; I very much enjoyed Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Retelling of Little Women; and The Sandman: Overture is a nice coda if you’ve read the original series. Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Hidden Witch series is also an excellent example of a lot of the YA queer-friendly indie graphic novels coming out recently.
By type: 23 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 22 physical books.
As is common for my tastes, I read a lot of sci-fi, a decent amount of fantasy, and a variety of non-fiction (including biographies, biology, psychology and “speculative science”). The authors list was a bit more spread out that previous years, as the winner was my three Neil Gaiman books; then two Seanan MacGuires, two Peter Clines, two Wesley Chus, and only one John Scalzi book.
Recommended standouts of the year included Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager (though I wasn’t as enthused by the sequel), Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, Peter Clines’s The Fold and Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose the Time War.
In the land of graphic novels: Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona is a delight; I very much enjoyed Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Retelling of Little Women; and The Sandman: Overture is a nice coda if you’ve read the original series. Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Hidden Witch series is also an excellent example of a lot of the YA queer-friendly indie graphic novels coming out recently.
