With 127 books read this year, I managed to beat last year's tally by precisely one. That's not much improvement, but one of my goals was to read more works by women, and I'm happy to say I achieved that. I read 59 books by women this year, and 67 by men. That's not quite parity, but it's closer than I've ever come (at least since I started keeping track of what I read).
Without this goal in mind, I may never have been exposed to the delights of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and my continued exploration of the works of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. LeGuin may have been delayed by years. I knocked two more of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books off the list this year and just cracked open The Deathly Hallows, but I doubt I'll finish it before midnight given the day's activites.
Reading women also bumped up the number of mainstream/literary novels I read this year, nearly doubling my non-genre reading over last year.
Rediscovering Phil Dick was the year's biggest pleasure, though. It turns out there's good reason for his reputation, and I'm glad to have read his major works.
As usual, more than half the books I read this year were published in the very recent past, despite my efforts to catch up on important works from further back in time.
Here's the list...
Without this goal in mind, I may never have been exposed to the delights of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and my continued exploration of the works of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. LeGuin may have been delayed by years. I knocked two more of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books off the list this year and just cracked open The Deathly Hallows, but I doubt I'll finish it before midnight given the day's activites.
Reading women also bumped up the number of mainstream/literary novels I read this year, nearly doubling my non-genre reading over last year.
Rediscovering Phil Dick was the year's biggest pleasure, though. It turns out there's good reason for his reputation, and I'm glad to have read his major works.
As usual, more than half the books I read this year were published in the very recent past, despite my efforts to catch up on important works from further back in time.
Here's the list...
January: 15
I Married a Dead Man (Cornell Woolrich, 1948)
The Killer Inside Me (Jim Thompson, 1952)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith, 1955)
Pick-Up (Charles Willeford, 1955)
Down There (David Goodis, 1956)
The Real Cool Killers (Chester Himes, 1959)
Armageddon 2419 A.D. (Philip Francis Nowlan, 1928)
Star Trek The Fall: Revelation and Dust (David R. George III, 2013)
The Airlords of Han (Philip Francis Nowlan, 1929)
Amazing Amy, Tattle Tale (Gillian Flynn, 2015)
The Lottery; or, The Adventures of James Harris (Shirley Jackson, 1949)
Dreamsnake (Vonda McIntyre, 1978)
Black Man (Richard Morgan, 2007)
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson, 1959)
Arslan (Mary Jane Engh, 1976)
February: 11
Star Trek the Fall: A Ceremony of Losses (David Mack, 2013)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson, 1962)
Star Bridge (Jack Williamson and James E. Gunn, 1955)
Among Others (Jo Walton, 2011)
Star Trek The Fall: The Crimson Shadow (Una McCormack, 2013)
The Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1971)
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1976)
Come Along With Me (Shirley Jackson, 1968)
Just an Ordinary Day (Shirley Jackson, 1997)
Work Done for Hire (Joe Haldeman, 2014)
Lock In (John Scalzi, 2014)
March: 11
Undercity (Catherine Asaro, 2014)
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1974)
Star Trek The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice (James Swallow, 2013)
You (Austin Grossman, 2013)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1969)
What We See When We Read (Peter Mendelsund, 2014)
The Ice Dragon (George R. R. Martin, 1980)
Alpha (Catherine Asaro, 2006)
Star Trek The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms (Dayton Ward, 2014)
Influx (Daniel Suarez, 2014)
Alfred Hitchcock’s America (Murray Pomerance, 2013)
April: 12
Rocannon’s World (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1966)
Planet of Exile (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1966)
City of Illusions (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1967)
Mad Skills (Walter Greatshell, 2011)
The Telling (Ursula K. LeGuin, 2000)
The Legion of Space (Jack Williamson, 1947)
The Hemingway Hoax (Joe Haldeman, 1990)
The Scapegoat (C.J. Cherryh, 1985)
Blackout (Connie Willis, 2010)
Seasons (Joe Haldeman, 1985)
Star Trek Enterprise Rise of the Federation:
Uncertain Logic
(Christopher L. Bennett, 2015)
Cordon Sanitaire (Timothy Zahn, 1985)
May: 5
All Clear (Connie Willis, 2010)
The 10th Victim (Robert Sheckley, 1965)
Victim Prime (Robert Sheckley, 1987)
Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie, 2013)
Ancillary Sword (Ann Leckie, 2014)
June: 9
Parasite (Mira Grant, 2013)
The Affinities (Robert Charles Wilson, 2015)
Deadline (Mira Grant, 2011)
Blackout (Mira Grant, 2012)
Finders Keepers (Stephen King, 2015)
My Real Children (Jo Walton, 2014)
What Makes This Book So Great (Jo Walton, 2014)
Star Trek Voyager: Acts of Contrition (Kirsten Beyer, 2014)
Star Trek The Next Generation: The Light
Fantastic (Jeffrey
Lang, 2014)
July: 12
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick, 1962)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick, 1965)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick, 1968)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick, 1969)
The Fold (Peter Clines, 2015)
Star Trek Section 31: Disavowed (David Mack, 2014)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke, 2004)
V-S Day (Allen Steele, 2014)
Star Wars Sequel Screenplay (Leigh Brackett, 1978)
14 (Peter Clines, 2012)
The Long Mars (Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2014)
Spirit of ’77 (David Kizzia and Bob Richardson, 2015)
August: 13
Armada (Ernest Cline, 2015)
Martian Time-Slip (Philip K. Dick, 1964)
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the
Bomb (Philip K.
Dick, 1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (Philip K. Dick, 1966)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Philip K. Dick, 1974)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick, 1977)
A Maze of Death (Philip K. Dick, 1970)
VALIS (Philip K. Dick, 1981)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Missing (Una McCormack, 2015)
The Divine Invasion (Philip K. Dick, 1981)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Philip K. Dick, 1982)
Fractured: Tales of the Canadian
Post-Apocalypse
(Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Editor, 2014)
Farthing (Jo Walton, 2006)
September: 10
Ha’penny (Jo Walton, 2007)
Half a Crown (Jo Walton, 2008)
Star Trek The Next Generation: Takedown (John Jackson Miller, 2015)
The Unteleported Man (Philip K. Dick, 1966)
Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan (Robin Maxwell, 2012)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood, 2000)
The League of Regrettable Superheroes (Jon Morris, 2015)
The Complete Peanuts 1995 to 1996 (Charles M. Schulz with an
introduction by Rifftrax and MST3K, 2015)
Peanuts Every Sunday 1952-1955 (Charles M. Schulz with a foreword
by Jonathan Rosembaum, 2013)
Peanuts Every Sunday 1956-1960 (Charles M. Schulz with a foreword
by Chuck Klosterman, 2014)
October: 7
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk (2015, David A. Goodman, Editor)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Emmuska Orczy, 1905)
Transhuman (Ben Bova, 2014)
The End of All Things (John Scalzi, 2015)
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever
Made (Greg Sestero
& Tom Bissell, 2013)
The Robber Bride (Margaret Atwood, 1993)
The Goblin Emperor (Katherine Addison, 2014)
November: 12
The Best of Connie Willis (Connie Willis, 2013)
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins, 2015)
Six Months, Three Days (Charlie Jane Anders, 2011)
Ancillary Mercy (Ann Leckie, 2015)
Lois Lane: Fallout (Gwenda Bond, 2015)
Coming Home (Jack McDevitt, 2014)
Back to the Future: A Visual History (Michael Klastorin with Randal
Atamaniuk, 2015)
The Penelopiad (Margaret Atwood, 2005)
Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger, 2009)
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)
Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1908)
December: 10
Anne of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1909)
Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix
(J.K. Rowling, 2003)
The Library at Mount
Char (Scott
Hawkins, 2015)
The Complete Peanuts
1997 to 1998
(Charles M. Schulz with an introduction by Paul Feig, 2015)
Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince
(J.K. Rowling, 2005)
Strange Itineraries (Tim Powers, 2005)
Wilderness Tips (Margaret Atwood, 1991)
The Tent (Margaret Atwood, 2006)
Chronicles of Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1912)
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell, 1877)
Genre
Fiction:
120
Nonfiction:
7
Science
Fiction: 63
Mainstream:
28
Star
Trek: 12
Fantasy:
10
Horror:
3
Peanuts
collections: 4
Top Authors
Philip
K. Dick: 14
Ursula
K. LeGuin: 8
Jo
Walton: 6
Margaret
Atwood: 5
Shirley Jackson:
5
Mira
Grant: 3
Joe
Haldeman: 3
Ann
Leckie: 3
Lucy
Maud Montgomery: 3
Charles
M. Schulz: 3
Connie
Willis: 3
Catherine
Asaro: 2
Peter
Clines: 2
David
Mack: 2
Una
McCormack: 2
Philip
Francis Nowlan: 2
J.K.
Rowling: 2
John
Scalzi: 2
Robert Sheckley:
2
Jack
Williamson: 2
Katherine
Addison: 1
Charlie
Jane Anders: 1
Randal
Atamaniuk: 1
Paolo
Bacigalupi: 1
Stephen
Baxter: 1
Christopher
L. Bennett: 1
Kirsten
Beyer: 1
Tom
Bissell: 1
Gwenda
Bond: 1
Ben
Bova: 1
Leigh
Brackett: 1
C.J.
Cherryh: 1
Susanna
Clarke: 1
Ernest
Cline: 1
Mary
Jane Engh: 1
Gillian
Flynn: 1
David R.
George III: 1
David
Goodis: 1
David A.
Goodman: 1
Walter
Greatshell: 1
Austin
Grossman: 1
James E.
Gunn: 1
Paula
Hawkins: 1
Scott
Hawkins: 1
Patricia
Highsmith: 1
Chester
Himes: 1
Stephen
King: 1
David
Kizzia: 1
Michael
Klastorin: 1
Jeffrey
Lang: 1
George
R. R. Martin: 1
Robin
Maxwell: 1
Jack
McDevitt: 1
Vonda
McIntyre: 1
Peter
Mendelsund: 1
John
Jackson Miller: 1
Silvia
Moreno-Garcia: 1
Richard
Morgan: 1
Jonn
Morris: 1
Audrey Niffenegger:
1
Baroness
Emmuska Orczy: 1
Murray
Pomerance: 1
Tim
Powers: 1
Terry
Pratchett: 1
Bob
Richardson: 1
Greg
Sestero: 1
Anna
Sewell: 1
Allen
Steele: 1
Robert
Louis Stevenson: 1
Daniel
Suarez: 1
James
Swallow: 1
Jim
Thompson: 1
Dayton
Ward: 1
Charles
Willeford: 1
Robert
Charles Wilson: 1
Cornell
Woolrich: 1
Timothy
Zahn: 1
Books by
Women: 59
Books by
Men: 67
Books by Decade
1870s: 1
1880s: 1
1900s: 3
1910s: 1
1920s: 2
1940s: 3
1950s: 7
1960s: 15
1970s: 9
1980s: 8
1990s: 4
2000s: 15
2010s: 58
