13. Wellsprings of Chaos by LE Modessitt ( Read more... )

9. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson ( Read more... )

8. Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Disclaimer: The author's a friend of mine; we met at the Taos Toolbox workshop five years ago, where I critiqued an early draft of the first chapter or two of this novel. I've been eagerly awaiting it ever since.

Throne is a tribute in some ways to the sword-and-sorcery buddy stories of years past. ( Read more... )

I read 46 books in 2011, two more than in 2010. While it's nice that I'm moving in the right direction, I'm actually a little disappointed that with all the long highway trips I took this year, I didn't amass more from audiobooks. (I started dating Amy in February, and she lives 300 miles away from me.) In large part, this is because I often chose ( Read more... )