My favorite reads this year, in the order I read them (individual book reviews are linked from the reading log):
Nonfiction
- Super-Infinite, by Katherine Rundell
- Becoming, by Michelle Obama
- Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, by Katherine Rundell
- The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean
- The Education of an Idealist, by Samantha Power
- A Midwife’s Tale, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- The Wager, by David Grann
- The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro
- Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- An Immense World, by Ed Yong
- Medieval Horizons, by Ian Mortimer
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, by Benvenuto Cellini
- The Small and the Mighty, by Sharon McMahon
- The Notebook, by Roland Allen
- Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King
- Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
- The Dark Queens, by Shelley Puhak
Fiction
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
- The Heroes, by Joe Abercrombie
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
- The Hallowed Hunt, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower (all eight volumes so far)
- The Big Score, by K. J. Parker
- The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison
- The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul, by Victoria Goddard
- The Butcher of the Forest, by Premee Mohamed
- Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Witches of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
- The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
- City of Last Chances, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper
- The Lost Child of Lychford, by Paul Cornell
- The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler
- The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
My favorite reads this year, in the order I read them:
Nonfiction
- The Perfectionists, by Simon Winchester
- The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
- First, by Evan Thomas
- All the President’s Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- The River of Doubt, by Candice Millard
- Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
- Convictions, by John Kroger
- Indigenous Continent, by Pekka Hämäläinen
- When the Heavens Went on Sale, by Ashlee Vance
- Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood, by W. Paul Reeve
- Leadership, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Avid Reader, by Robert Gottlieb
- Ways of Being, by James Bridle
- In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
Fiction
- Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Justice of Kings, by Richard Swan
- The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison
- Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- The Will of the Many, by James Islington
- In the Woods, by Tana French
- Blood Over Bright Haven, by M. L. Wang
- Cage of Souls, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Memories of Ice, by Steven Erikson
- The Return of Fitzroy Angursell, by Victoria Goddard
- Chosen, by Benedict Jacka
- Made Things, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
My favorite reads last year, in the order I read them (and I won’t go into detail on these because I’ve already written about them in earlier posts):
Nonfiction
- The Golden Thread, by Kassia St. Clair
- The Cubans, by Anthony DePalma
- The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber & David Wengrow
- Stretching the Heavens, by Terryl L. Givens
- This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
- The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf
- The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones
- How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
- Human Errors, by Nathan H. Lents
- I Wish I’d Been There, edited by Byron Hollinshead
- Extra Life, by Steven Johnson
Fiction
- Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
- Network Effect, by Martha Wells
- The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Hands of the Emperor, by Victoria Goddard
- Babel, by R. F. Kuang
- Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
