Books 2011

January

Empress of Mijak – Karen Miller

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture – Yoshio Sugimoto (ed)

The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England – Ian Mortimer

Girl Saves Boy – Steph Bowe

Kraken – China Mieville

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen – Christopher McDougall

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend – Emily Horner

Stories – Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (eds)

Priestess of the White – Trudi Canavan

The Man Who Lives With Wolves – Shaun Ellis and Penny Junor

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N. K. Jemisin

For The Win – Cory Doctorow

The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle

Dawn – Octavia E. Butler

Adulthood Rites – Octavia E. Butler

February

Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris

A Touch of Dead – Charlaine Harris

Imago – Octavia E. Butler

Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett

The Windup Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi

Jonas: Beautiful Dead – Eden Maguire

The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

The City & The City – China Mieville

Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Tithe – Holly Black

License to Ensorcell – Katharine Kerr

The Broken Kingdoms – N. K. Jemisin

Palimpsest – Catherynne M. Valente

Kushiel’s Dart – Jacqueline Carey

March

Ship Breaker – Paolo Bacigalupi

Kitty and the Midnight Hour – Carrie Vaughn

The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff

My Soul to Take – Rachel Vincent

Delirium – Lauren Oliver

The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss (reread)

The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss

Get a Grip – Kaz Cooke (reread)

Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick

Get Another Grip – Kaz Cooke (reread)

Living With Crazy Buttocks – Kaz Cooke (reread)

Ice – Sarah Beth Durst

April

Prophecy of the Sisters – Michelle Zink

The Adamantine Palace – Stephen Deas

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You – Ally Carter

Daggerspell – Katharine Kerr (reread)

Darkspell – Katharine Kerr (reread)

Dawnspell – Katharine Kerr (reread)

Dragonspell – Katharine Kerr (reread)

A Time of Exile – Katharine Kerr (reread)

A Time of Omens – Katharine Kerr (reread)

A Time of War – Katharine Kerr (reread)

A Time of Justice – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Red Wyvern – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Black Raven – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Fire Dragon – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Gold Falcon – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Spirit Stone – Katharine Kerr (reread)

The Shadow Isle – Katharine Kerr

The Silver Mage – Katharine Kerr

City of Fallen Angels – Cassandra Clare

May

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy – Ally Carter

Behemoth – Scott Westerfeld

Huntress – Malinda Lo

Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover – Ally Carter

Late Eclipses – Seanan McGuire

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making – Catherynne M. Valente (review here)

Only The Good Spy Young – Ally Carter

Embassytown – China Mieville

June

Bitten – Kelley Armstrong

Perdido Street Station – China Mieville

Japanese Fairy Tales – Grace James (reread)

Water to Burn – Katharine Kerr (review here)

Looking for Alaska – John Green

The 99: Origins (Vol. 1) – Naif Al-Mutawa and Fabian Nicieza

Apocalypse to Go – Katharine Kerr (draft)

The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht

Halting State – Charles Stross

July

Last of the Wilds – Trudi Canavan

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

Chocolat – Joanne Harris

A Dance With Dragons – George R. R. Martin

Pelagia and the White Bulldog – Boris Akunin

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

Of Bees and Mist – Erick Setiawan

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon

August

Changeless – Gail Carriger

Blameless – Gail Carriger

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Yasutaka Tsutsui

Rumor Has It – Tami Hoag

Divergent – Veronica Roth

Wither – Lauren DeStefano

September

Bumped – Megan McCafferty

Curse of the Werewolf Girl – Martin Millar

Deadline  – Mira Grant

Aisareru Hito e Tsugu – Takaaki Kusaka

Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner

The Swan Kingdom – Zoe Marriott

Don’t Let The Turkeys Get You Down – Sandra Boynton (reread)

Red Glove – Holly Black

Dreadnought – Cherie Priest

Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town – Cory Doctorow

The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature – Jeff Vandermeer (with S. J. Chambers)

October

Hounded – Kevin Hearne

Heartless – Gail Carriger

Cold Fire – Kate Elliott

Discord’s Apple – Carrie Vaughn

After the Golden Age – Carrie Vaughn

Shards of Honour – Lois McMaster Bujold

Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor

Voices of Dragons – Carrie Vaughn

The Name of the Star – Maureen Johnson

Snuff – Terry Pratchett

Anathem – Neal Stephenson

Barrayar – Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warrior’s Apprentice – Lois McMaster Bujold

The Kingdom of Gods – N. K. Jemisin

Heart of Iron – Ekaterina Sedia

Silver Phoenix – Cindy Pon

Redemption in Indigo – Karen Lord

One Salt Sea – Seanan McGuire

November

Firethorn – Sarah Micklem (reread)

Wildfire – Sarah Micklem

Akata Witch – Nnedi Okorafor

The Shattering – Karen Healey (review here)

Old Man’s War – John Scalzi

Fury of the Phoenix – Cindy Pon

Across the Great Barrier – Patricia C. Wrede

Deathless – Catherynne M. Valente

The Vor Game – Lois McMaster Bujold

Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold

Matched – Ally Condie

Jack Cloudie – Stephen Hunt

The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

Steel – Carrie Vaughn

Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor

The Music of Razors – Cameron Rogers

December

Hark! A Vagrant – Kate Beaton (technical reread)

Zodiac – Neal Stephenson

The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle

The Cloud Roads – Martha Wells

Clockwork Prince – Cassandra Clare

Zahrah the Windseeker – Nnedi Okorafor

Ethan of Athos – Lois McMaster Bujold

Brothers in Arms – Lois McMaster Bujold

Beauty Queens – Libba Bray

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones

Dreamdark: Blackbringer – Laini Taylor

Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! – Annette Curtis Klause

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

Hex Hall – Rachel Dawkins

Mastiff – Tamora Pierce

Total Read: 156

New: 136

Rereads: 20