Doesn’t include items read for work. The Agatha Christies also represent hours spent painting, since I listen to those as audiobooks while working on the mural (except for one that Dave and I listened to on a road trip).
- Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours
- Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table
- Agatha Christie, Crooked House
- Agatha Christie, Murder on the Links
- Agatha Christie, N or M?
- Agatha Christie, Peril at End House
- Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate
- Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders
- Agatha Christie, The Hollow
- Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary
- Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys
- Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery
- Agatha Christie, Third Girl
- Agatha Christie, Towards Zero
- Agatha Christie, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
- Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire
- Ava Glass, Alias Emma
- Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler
- Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop
- Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
- Catherine Cooper, The Golden Acorn
- Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts
- Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (reread)
- Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope (reread)
- Claire North, Touch (reread)
- Connie Willis, Take a Look at the Five and Ten
- Dan Chaon, Sleep Walk
- David Yoon, City of Orange
- Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
- Emily Austin, Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead
- Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
- Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow
- Farah Heron, The Chai Factor
- Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
- Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
- Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
- Jesse Q. Sutano, Dial A for Aunties
- John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons
- Kelly Robson, High Times in the Low Parliament
- Margarita Montimore, Acts of Violet
- Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #1: All Systems Red (reread)
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #2: Artificial Condition (reread)
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #3: Rogue Protocol (reread)
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #4: Exit Strategy (reread)
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #5: Network Effect (reread)
- Martha Wells, Murderbot Diaries #6: Fugitive Telemetry
- Mary Robinette Kowal, The Spare Man
- Megan Giddings, The Women Could Fly
- Nancy Kress, After the Fall Before the Fall During the Fall
- Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education (reread)
- Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate (reread)
- Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves
- Natasha Pulley, The Half-Life of Valery K
- Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
- Nghi Vo, Siren Queen
- Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun
- Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer
- Robert C. O’Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Robert Pobi, City of Windows
- Robert Pobi, Under Pressure
- Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You
- Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go In The Dark
- Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun
- Tanvi Berwah, Monsters Born and Made
- Tirzah Price, Pride and Premeditation
- Tirzah Price, Sense and Second-Degree Murder
- Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can’t Win
- Ursula K. LeGuin, A Tale of Time City
- Weike Wang, Joan is Okay
I can’t say I would recommend all of these books (Tracy Flick Can’t Win, in particular, was disappointing, and the Tirzah Price Jane Austen satires were just okay) but I did like most of them. I typically do like books I read all the way through, unless the ending ruins them, since when I am not enjoying a book, I stop reading, and so it never gets listed.
The Agatha Christie books, while of course brilliant and witty, still contain casual sexism, racism, and nationalism reflective of mainstream white British thinking of the time, so definite content warning there.
A Memory Called Empire, The Candy House, How High We Go In The Dark, and both Natasha Pulley books were favorites; the Naomi Novik and Claire North books will probably be reread in 2023 for being fun and also somehow comforting. If you have queer teens in your life, the Casey McQuiston books would make great gifts, though Red, White & Royal Blue is you-sweet-summer-child-level naive about politics.
