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Books in 2016
Jan. 2nd, 2017 08:38 pm( Statistics under the cut! )
Ten eleven favorite new-to-me books or authors, in no particular order:
Deerskin by Robin McKinley (YA fantasy with wonderful dogs)
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (thoughtful, realistic SF)
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson (delightful DWJ-esque YA fantasy)
Hwarhath Stories by Eleanor Arnason (SF of manners among aliens)
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (inventive YA fantasy)
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (about a 19th century female naturalist)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (historical fantasy among New York immigrants)
Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison (a moving political novel about early Christians in Rome)
Three Times Table by Sara Maitland (ambiguous present-day fantasy with three generations of women)
Anaché by Maria Turtchaninoff (Swedish genderqueer YA fantasy)
Sara Lidman's works in general; I've read five of her books this year (about life as it used to be in northern Sweden).
Svetlana Alexievich's works in general; I've read two of them this year (about life in the USSR).
Huh, YA fantasy seems overrepresented in that list compared to the amount I read? Anyway. I am pleased to reach my goal this year of reading fewer American books and more Swedish ones. \o/ I suspected that reading less American books might just spill over into reading more British ones, thus keeping the amount of Anglophone books constant, but that didn't actually happen much. I also read twice as much non-fiction, but it was a fairly low level to start with.
I notice that I did not actually reread a single book this year, despite enjoying rereading a lot. I think I somehow feel that I "should" read and discover new books? To counter that, I think I'll make rereading a goal for next year.
Deerskin by Robin McKinley (YA fantasy with wonderful dogs)
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (thoughtful, realistic SF)
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson (delightful DWJ-esque YA fantasy)
Hwarhath Stories by Eleanor Arnason (SF of manners among aliens)
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (inventive YA fantasy)
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (about a 19th century female naturalist)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (historical fantasy among New York immigrants)
Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison (a moving political novel about early Christians in Rome)
Three Times Table by Sara Maitland (ambiguous present-day fantasy with three generations of women)
Anaché by Maria Turtchaninoff (Swedish genderqueer YA fantasy)
Sara Lidman's works in general; I've read five of her books this year (about life as it used to be in northern Sweden).
Svetlana Alexievich's works in general; I've read two of them this year (about life in the USSR).
Huh, YA fantasy seems overrepresented in that list compared to the amount I read? Anyway. I am pleased to reach my goal this year of reading fewer American books and more Swedish ones. \o/ I suspected that reading less American books might just spill over into reading more British ones, thus keeping the amount of Anglophone books constant, but that didn't actually happen much. I also read twice as much non-fiction, but it was a fairly low level to start with.
I notice that I did not actually reread a single book this year, despite enjoying rereading a lot. I think I somehow feel that I "should" read and discover new books? To counter that, I think I'll make rereading a goal for next year.
