40. 1636: The Saxon Uprising by Eric Flint
41. Ring of Fire II edited by Eric Flint ( Read more... )

27-28. A Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin - Counts as two for length. I enjoyed the novel quite a bit, but it's time to admit that GRRM isn't really writing Ice and Fire novels anymore. Like Tad Williams and latter-day Robert Jordan, he's writing 1000-page chunks that end in cliffhangers ( Read more... )

23. Blackout by Connie Willis. Hugo Award Nominee. Will talk about this more once I read its sequel/second half, All Clear

24. Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold. Hugo Award Nominee. The latest Miles Vorkosigan novel, this was a delightful, fun read which made a roadtrip up to Tennessee seem mercifully short. But while Ms Bujold has written many ( Read more... )

22. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

I listened to this massive biography as an audiobook, read by the always excellent Scott Brick. (It's almost long enough for me to count it as a double, but not quite.) Despite its length, Chernow's thesis is simple: that Washington, far from being the flat, lifeless figure we see in Stuart's paintings of him ( Read more... )

21. Against All Things Ending by Stephen Donaldson

Book Three of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

I first started reading Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books in the 8th grade with Lord Foul's Bane. In hindsight, I was probably too young, though no lasting damage seems to have been done. I can still find no better words to describe the series ( Read more... )

My book list numbers are behind compared to most years. Some of that is having a girlfriend; some of that is planning and taking such a big vacation.

A third reason is that I've spent more time than usual this year reading comics, almost all DC.

15. Preludes to Blackest Night: Rage of the Red Lanterns and Agent Orange by Geoff Johns and Sins ( Read more... )

33. All Rustles and Whispers by Sarah Kelderman (unpublished)
34. Ebon Blade by Rebecca Shelley (unpublished) -- these were both for the novel swap.
35. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins ( Read more... )

9. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett.

The fifth Discworld novel, this one was a little underwhelming--Pratchett seemed to have several good pieces of jokes--half making fun of wizards and half making fun of 1001 Arabian Nights--but never quite seemed to make them mesh into something larger and novel-like.

10. Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton ( Read more... )