The best of the books I read this year, regardless of when they were published.

[nayad]

It seems that I read twenty-seven books this year. October was so busy that I hardly read any, and didn't keep good notes about what I did read, and then that continued for the rest of the year. Luckily for everyone in the English-reading, SFF-loving world, I have enough information to list the top three in a few categories, so here they are for

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[anonymous]

Happy New Year from Seattle. The fireworks went off on the Needle about an hour ago. My favorite novel read the previous year (regardless when published) is Couch by Benjamin Parzybok. Gotta love the post-modern mind that can spin off a quest from the act of moving a couch.

I have a Jeffrey Ford collection in my to-be-read stack. This one is called Drowned Life. I scooped it up at a going-out-of-business sale, primarily because of the good things I've heard about the one you read. I've liked most everything of his I've come across, particularly The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque.

My sf book group is reading Cherie Priest's Boneshaker in March. Looking forward to it! Our fearless leader knew he would have our attention when he said "steampunk".

[sphinx_n_herhat]

Hi. The above is from me. Forgot to log in.

[jongibbs]

If I could only ever have one book on writing, it would be Writing the Breakout Novel, by Donald Maass.

Happy New Year :)