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In no particular order at all here are the books I'm considering for my year end review of books published in 2011. Note I read quite a few books published prior to 2011 not included here.
- Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick
- Ganymede by Cherie Priest
- All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen
- The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
- Seed by Rob Ziegler
- The Emperor's Knife by Mazarkis Williams
- God's War by Kameron Hurley
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu
- Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine
- Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
- Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan
- The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
- Ico: Castle in the Mist by Miyuki Miyabe
- The Rift Walker by Clay & Susan Griffith
- Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey
- The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell
- Machine Man by Max Barry
- Spellbound by Blake Charlton
- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
- Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh
- The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- Brave New Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams
- Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson
- Hounded by Kevin Hearne
- The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
- * None are considered Horror, but a couple have elements. Seems I didn't gravitate to much in the way of Horror in general this year, which might mean a reading goal for 2012.
- * Just one is an anthology despite reading a few this year.
- * 5 are Steampunky.
- * 8ish are Sci-Fi.
- * About half are debuts. This may be due to my predilection towards new authors.
So what did I leave off the list? Any other observations?
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4 comments:
I still have to get to a lot of these but Ready Player One rocked it hard. Rothfuss was over long and lost some of the magic of The Name of the Wind. God's War surprised in a good way. I have to thank you for that one.
Wow, great list! The Winds of Khalakovo, Robopocalypse, A Dance with Dragons, and The Wise Man's Fear are already on my TBR shelf but I suspect I'll be adding a few of these others once I get a chance to check them out.
Ah! Thanks for reminding me of Desert of Souls, which I didn't remember forgetting... or something perhaps more sensical than that.
Other really good books (among others) in 2011: Zoo City, Embassytown, The Quantum Thief, Germline, and Journal of a UFO Investigator. (Speaking of Among Others I've heard really good things about it, but haven't quite gotten to it yet this year.)
I haven't read Zoo City, Germline, Among Others, or Journal of a UFO Investigator so I can't comment on them yet.
The Quantum Thief I had in my best of 2010 list since I read the UK version, but it certainly belongs on best of lists.
I had some deep problems with Embassytown that prevented it from making this list. I loved some of the ideas Mieville came up with especially playing with language, but I felt too disconnected from the characters and the middle of the book it s a bit of a mess. I still think Mieville is brilliant. It just didn't work for me.
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