“Books are always better when read than explained.”
—The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
January
1. Texas Flood, The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Alan Paul and Andy Aledort
2. Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens
3. The Shores of Tripoli*, James L. Haley
4. Demelza, Winston Graham
(Book Two in the Poldark series)
5. A Flame of Pure Fire, Jack Dempsey and the Roaring ‘20s,
Roger Kahn
6. A Darker Sea*, James L. Haley
7. Why Call Them Back From Heaven?^, Clifford D. Simak
8. Many Rivers To Cross, Peter Robinson
February
9. Enough, C.D. “Tony” Hylton, III
10. Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book, Harvey Kurtzman
11. The Peripheral^, William Gibson
12. Agency, William Gibson
13. Marley, Jon Clinch
14. The Caribbean Account, Alan Furst
15. Fredericksburg!, George C. Rable
March
16. The Big Goodbye, Sam Wasson
17. The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
18. The Falcon Thief, Joshua Hammer
19. Long Range, C.J. Box
20. American Secession, F.H. Buckley
21. The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio, ed. Mark Evanier
22. Apeirogon, Colum McCann
23. Lilith ^, George MacDonald
24. Sticky Finger, The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and
Rolling Stone Magazine, Joe Hagan
25. The Mirror & The Light, Hilary Mantel
April
26. Eight Perfect Murders, Peter Swanson. Mystery
27. The Man Who Walked Through Time, Colin Fletcher
28. The Last Voyage of the Emir, David Riley
29. Hi Five, Joe Ide
30. Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee
31. Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard.
32. No Cheering in the Press Box, ed. Jerome Holtzman
33. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
34. Redhead by the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler
35. The Boy From The Woods, Harlan Coben
36. Harvey Kurtzman, The Man Who Created Mad and
Revolutionized Humor in America, Bill Schelly
37. Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
38. Broken, Don Winslow
39. Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, ed. Mark Salisbury
40. A Silent Death, Peter May
May
41. Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks
42. Trouble Is What I Do, Walter Mosley
43. Do No Harm, Max Allan Collins
44. The Sandman Companion, Hy Bender
45. Catch 22,^ Joseph Heller
46. King of the Comics, ed. Dean Mullaney
47. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest^, Ken Kesey
48. In The Tennessee Country, Peter Taylor
49. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
50. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
51. Fair Warning, Michael Connelly
June
52. Slaughterhouse Five^, Kurt Vonnegut
53. Simon the Fiddler, Paulette Jiles
54. The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún, J.R.R. Tolkien
55. Wilson, A. Scott Berg
56. The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
57. The Book of Eels, Patrik Svensson
58. Lullaby Town, Robert Crais
59. Orsinian Tales, Ursula K. Le Guin
60. Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu
61. The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin
62. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
63. Dirt, Bill Buford
July
64. Rocannon’s World, Ursula K. LeGuin
65. The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney
66. Best SF: 1971, ed. Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss
67. Dandelion Wine^, Ray Bradbury
68. Caniff, A Visual Biography, ed. Dean Mullaney
69. The Boys On The Bus, Timothy Crouse
70. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
71. Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben
72. The Magician King, Lev Grossman
73. The Revelators, Ace Atkins
74. Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
75. The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Don Winslow
August
76. City^, Clifford Simak
77. The Things They Carried^, Tim O’Brien
78. The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Anything You Can Imagine, Peter Jackson & the Making of
Middle-Earth, Ian Nathan
80. In the Memory of the Forest, Charles T. Powers
81. Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell
82. The SFWA Grandmasters, Vol. 3, ed. Frederik Pohl
83. Sharpe’s Devil, Bernard Cornwell
84. The Other Wind, Ursula K. LeGuin
85. Yellow Bird, Sierra Crane Murdoch
September
86. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
87. Bone Coda, Jeff Smith
88. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights,
John Steinbeck
89. My Life As A Villainess, Laura Lipman
90. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
91. Superman, The Unauthorized Biography, Glen Weldon
92. Slaughterhouse-Five, Ryan North & Albert Monteys
based on the novel by Kurt Vonnegut
93. The Less Dead, Denise Mina
94. Squeezeme, Carl Hiaasen
95. Monogamy, Sue Miller
October
96. His Truth Is Marching On, John Lewis and the Power
of Hope, Jon Meacham
97. The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor
98. Next to Last Stand, Craig Johnson
99. Jack, Marilynne Robinson
100. All In Color For A Dime, ed. Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson
101. H.M.S. Surprise, Patrick O’Brian
102. A Song for the Dark Times, Ian Rankin
103. Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
104. All The Devils Are Here, Louise Penny
105. The Bookseller’s Tale, Martin Latham
106. Treason’s Harbour, Patrick O’Brian
November
107. War Lord, Bernard Cornwell
108. The Searcher, Tana French
109. Gifts, Ursula K. LeGuin
110. You Have Arrived At Your Destination, Amor Towles
111. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
112. Surfacing, Kathleen Jamie
113. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
114. The Sentinel, Lee & Andrew Child
115. Astral Weeks, A Secret History of 1968, Ryan H. Walsh
116. The Law of Innocence, Michael Connelly
117. Don’t Let Go, Harlan Coben
December
118. The Tin Can Tree, Anne Tyler
119. Pappyland, Wright Thompson
120. From Elvis In Memphis, Eric Wolfson
121. The Long Ships^, Frans G. Bengtsson
122. Deryni Rising^, Katherine Kurtz
123. Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
124. Murder Ballads, Santi Elijah Holley
125. The Puppet Masters^, Robert A. Heinlein
126. She Come By It Natural, Sarah Smarsh
130. The Neil Gaiman Reader, Neil Gaiman
131. No Time Like The Future, Michael J. Fox
132. Barnaby Rudge, Charles Dickens
- Books 1 & 2 in the Bliven Putnam Naval Series
^ Re-read
“But the direction you are moving in is what matters, not the place you happen to be.”
— Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time
“ . . . she was not so naive as to think there was any necessary relation between religion and morality, or that if there was a relation it was likely to be a benevolent one.”
“ . . . if the Telling was a religion it was very different from Terran religions, since it entirely lacked dogmatic belief, emotional frenzy, deferral of reward to a future life, and sanctioned bigotry.”
— Ursula Le Guin, The Telling
“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.”
— T.H. White, That Once and Future King
“Vodka is for the skinny and scotch is for the strivers and bourbon is for the homesick.”
—Wright Thompson, Pappyland,
A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon,
and the Things That Last
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