Book List Jan/Feb/March '15
JAN:
Short Fiction:Daniel Jose Older's Kia & Gio, Benjuan Sridvangkavew's And the Burned Moths Remain, David Levine's Damage, Seanan McGuire's Velveteen vs. the Thaw, Forbid the Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears and No Sooner Met; and Cecil Castellucci's Useless Wings
New: Paula Goodlet (editor) on Grantville Gazette vol. 43-45
Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer
Weston Ochs' Reign of Blood (more Seal Team 666, now with Werewolves in Mexico)
Carrie Vaughn's Low Midnight (He's an ex-con monster hunter. She's the ghost of an adventuress and paranormal investigator living in his head. They fight crime.)
Warren Hammond'd Kop
Cherie Priest's Jacaranda (a haunted hotel story and post-script to the "Clockwork Century" series)
C,J. Stevens' Shadow Sight
Ben Aaronovitch's Foxglove Summer
C.E. Murphy's Stone's Throe (another "Spirit of the Century" novel. Featuring Josephine Baker and motorcycle races down the streets of Paris)
Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (editors) on Games Creatures Play
Patricia Wrede's Caught in Crystal
R.J. Ross' Ditto Ditto
Jim Bernheimer's Secrets of a D-List Super-Villain
David Wesley HIll's At Drake's Command
Rereads:Seanan McGuire's Half-Off Ragnarok
David Weber's A Mighty Army
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5
Graphic Novels/TPBs: Michel Fife's Copra: Round One
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa/Francesco Francavilla's Afterlife With Archie: Book 1
Chris Dimess/Matthew Roberts/Owen Gieni's Manifest Destiny: Flora & Fauna (the Lewis & Clark expedition if the journey west involved lots and lots of monsters)
Rick Remender/Matteo Scalera/Dean White's Black Science vol.1 (Extreme Sliders)
Total: 22
FEB:
Short Fiction:Brian McClellan's Return to Honor, Peter Orullian's the Hell of It, Seanan McGuire's Broken Paper Hearts and White as a Raven's Wing and Cat Rambo's Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut
New: Patricia Wrede's the Raven Ring
Steven Brust's Hawk
Jennifer Matarese's Heroine Addiction
Various Authors' Carniepunk (I can not figure out who is the editor on this excellent urban fantasy anthology is. Is it Rachel Caine? Or is she just listed first.)
Jim Hines' Unbound (the finale for his "Libriomancer" trilogy)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbo's Hotel Transylvania (I'd always meant to eventually get around to trying out Yarbo's St. Germain)
Sharon Lee/Steve Miller's Dragon in Exile
Brian McClellan's the Autumn Republic
Terry Pratchett's the Dragons at Crumbling Castle (a collection of his early short fiction)
Erin Hunter's Survivors: the Empty City (a dog point of view post apocalypse story was not as interesting as I'd hoped. At least not Hunter's version)
Brandon Sanderson's the Rithmatist (another Cosmere world, another magic system)
Harry Connolly's the Way into Chaos
Patrica Brigg's Night Broken
Rereads: none
Graphic Novels/TPBs: Rich Young (editor) Pathfinder Goblins
Kazu Kibuishi (editor) Flight vol. 5 (I'll admit I pretty much bought this just to have a physical copy of Svetlana Chmkova's "On the Importance of Space Travel)
Naomi Novik/Yishari Li's Will Supervillans Be on the Final vol. 1
Saburoata's Citrus vol. 1
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Seconds
Tom Scioli/John Barber Transformers vs. G.I.Joe vol.1
Arthur DePins' Zombillenium: Gretchen
Kevin Eastman/Tom Watz/Mateus Santojouco/Sophie Campbell's TMNT: City Fell part 2 and TMNT: Northhampton
Total: 22
MARCH:
Short Fiction: Eric Burns-White's Prosperina, Brandon Sanderson's Mitosis and Seanan McGuire's Velveteen vs. the Balance
New: Jody Lynn Nye's Strong Arm Tactics
Seanan McGuire's Pocket Apocalypse (Australia: Extra Deadly Edition)
Patrica Briggs' Dead Heat
Joe Selby's What's Through the Crooked Door? (Sadly the first of Joe's books I beta read and didn't care for)
Paula Goodlett (editor) on Grantville Gazette vol. 56-58 (I'm enjoying these later anthologies more reading them in sets of three)
Brandon Sanderson's Firefight
Alex Bledsoe's He Drank and Saw the Spider
Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes
Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds
R.J. Ross' Sunny Daze
Heather O'Malley's 300 Rains (Why does no one use contractions Heather? WHHHHHHHY?)
Blake Petit's the Pyrite War
Phil & Kaja Foglio's Agatha H & the Voice of the Castle
Rereads:Terry Pratchett's Small Gods and Nation (*sniffle*)
Graphic Novels/TPBs:James Tynion IV/Michael Dialynas' the Woods vol.1
John Layman/Rob Guillory's Chew: Chicken Tenders vol.9 (Just DAMN at the ending)
Various creators' TMNT: Villains Micro-Series vol.1 & 2
Christopher Baldwin's Little Dee Anthology vol.1 & 2
Total: 20
Short Fiction:Daniel Jose Older's Kia & Gio, Benjuan Sridvangkavew's And the Burned Moths Remain, David Levine's Damage, Seanan McGuire's Velveteen vs. the Thaw, Forbid the Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears and No Sooner Met; and Cecil Castellucci's Useless Wings
New: Paula Goodlet (editor) on Grantville Gazette vol. 43-45
Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer
Weston Ochs' Reign of Blood (more Seal Team 666, now with Werewolves in Mexico)
Carrie Vaughn's Low Midnight (He's an ex-con monster hunter. She's the ghost of an adventuress and paranormal investigator living in his head. They fight crime.)
Warren Hammond'd Kop
Cherie Priest's Jacaranda (a haunted hotel story and post-script to the "Clockwork Century" series)
C,J. Stevens' Shadow Sight
Ben Aaronovitch's Foxglove Summer
C.E. Murphy's Stone's Throe (another "Spirit of the Century" novel. Featuring Josephine Baker and motorcycle races down the streets of Paris)
Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (editors) on Games Creatures Play
Patricia Wrede's Caught in Crystal
R.J. Ross' Ditto Ditto
Jim Bernheimer's Secrets of a D-List Super-Villain
David Wesley HIll's At Drake's Command
Rereads:Seanan McGuire's Half-Off Ragnarok
David Weber's A Mighty Army
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5
Graphic Novels/TPBs: Michel Fife's Copra: Round One
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa/Francesco Francavilla's Afterlife With Archie: Book 1
Chris Dimess/Matthew Roberts/Owen Gieni's Manifest Destiny: Flora & Fauna (the Lewis & Clark expedition if the journey west involved lots and lots of monsters)
Rick Remender/Matteo Scalera/Dean White's Black Science vol.1 (Extreme Sliders)
Total: 22
FEB:
Short Fiction:Brian McClellan's Return to Honor, Peter Orullian's the Hell of It, Seanan McGuire's Broken Paper Hearts and White as a Raven's Wing and Cat Rambo's Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut
New: Patricia Wrede's the Raven Ring
Steven Brust's Hawk
Jennifer Matarese's Heroine Addiction
Various Authors' Carniepunk (I can not figure out who is the editor on this excellent urban fantasy anthology is. Is it Rachel Caine? Or is she just listed first.)
Jim Hines' Unbound (the finale for his "Libriomancer" trilogy)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbo's Hotel Transylvania (I'd always meant to eventually get around to trying out Yarbo's St. Germain)
Sharon Lee/Steve Miller's Dragon in Exile
Brian McClellan's the Autumn Republic
Terry Pratchett's the Dragons at Crumbling Castle (a collection of his early short fiction)
Erin Hunter's Survivors: the Empty City (a dog point of view post apocalypse story was not as interesting as I'd hoped. At least not Hunter's version)
Brandon Sanderson's the Rithmatist (another Cosmere world, another magic system)
Harry Connolly's the Way into Chaos
Patrica Brigg's Night Broken
Rereads: none
Graphic Novels/TPBs: Rich Young (editor) Pathfinder Goblins
Kazu Kibuishi (editor) Flight vol. 5 (I'll admit I pretty much bought this just to have a physical copy of Svetlana Chmkova's "On the Importance of Space Travel)
Naomi Novik/Yishari Li's Will Supervillans Be on the Final vol. 1
Saburoata's Citrus vol. 1
Bryan Lee O'Malley's Seconds
Tom Scioli/John Barber Transformers vs. G.I.Joe vol.1
Arthur DePins' Zombillenium: Gretchen
Kevin Eastman/Tom Watz/Mateus Santojouco/Sophie Campbell's TMNT: City Fell part 2 and TMNT: Northhampton
Total: 22
MARCH:
Short Fiction: Eric Burns-White's Prosperina, Brandon Sanderson's Mitosis and Seanan McGuire's Velveteen vs. the Balance
New: Jody Lynn Nye's Strong Arm Tactics
Seanan McGuire's Pocket Apocalypse (Australia: Extra Deadly Edition)
Patrica Briggs' Dead Heat
Joe Selby's What's Through the Crooked Door? (Sadly the first of Joe's books I beta read and didn't care for)
Paula Goodlett (editor) on Grantville Gazette vol. 56-58 (I'm enjoying these later anthologies more reading them in sets of three)
Brandon Sanderson's Firefight
Alex Bledsoe's He Drank and Saw the Spider
Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes
Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds
R.J. Ross' Sunny Daze
Heather O'Malley's 300 Rains (Why does no one use contractions Heather? WHHHHHHHY?)
Blake Petit's the Pyrite War
Phil & Kaja Foglio's Agatha H & the Voice of the Castle
Rereads:Terry Pratchett's Small Gods and Nation (*sniffle*)
Graphic Novels/TPBs:James Tynion IV/Michael Dialynas' the Woods vol.1
John Layman/Rob Guillory's Chew: Chicken Tenders vol.9 (Just DAMN at the ending)
Various creators' TMNT: Villains Micro-Series vol.1 & 2
Christopher Baldwin's Little Dee Anthology vol.1 & 2
Total: 20