My year’s roundup of reading! 83 books, 3 of which were unpublished manuscripts. An awful lot of these are murder mysteries, and I think those were really appealing right now to me for two reasons: 1. the puzzle aspect of the plots and 2. the idea that people still care about individual deaths, while we all watch the situations in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, etc unfold with varying degrees of callousness. Favourite books this year would have to include Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, Percival Everett’s Erasure and James (both books stand alone; everything he writes is brilliant), Micaiah Johnson’s Those Beyond the Wall (but this is a sequel, if you decide to read it, read the equally good The Space Between Worlds first), Premee Mohamed’s The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain (part of a series), Natasha Pulley’s The Mars House, and Waubgeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow and its sequel Moon of the Turning Leaves. Funny, none of my favourites were murder mysteries – I may step away from those somewhat in 2025.
- Roy & Lesley Adkins, Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
- Naomi Alderman, The Future
- Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Campion #1)
- Margery Allingham, Mystery Mile (Campion #2)
- Margery Allingham, Look to the Lady (Campion #3)
- Margery Allingham, Police at the Funeral (Campion #4)
- Margery Allingham, Sweet Danger (Campion #5)
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost (Campion #6)
- Margery Allingham, Coroner’s Pidgin (Campion #12)
- Margery Allingham, More Work for the Undertaker (Campion #13)
- Charlotte Ashley, unpublished manuscript
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen and David M. Shapard, The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen and David M. Shapard, The Annotated Emma
- Jane Austen and Patricia Meyer Spacks, The Annotated Pride and Prejudice
- James Edward Austen-Leigh, ed. Kathryn Sutherland, A Memoir of Jane Austen
- Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Year Without a Summer
- Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
- Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
- Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit
- Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few
- Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
- Agatha Christie, The Big Four
- Agatha Christie, The Hollow
- Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Annalisa Crawford, One Tuesday, Early
- Jennifer Crusie, Hot Toy
- Cherie Dimaline, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
- Nicky Drayden, Escaping Exodus
- Percival Everett, Erasure
- Percival Everett, James
- Maria Grace, Courtship and Marriage in Jane Austen’s World
- Maria Grace, How Jane Austen Kept Her Cool: An A to Z History of Georgian Ice Cream
- Maria Grace, A Jane Austen Christmas: Regency Christmas Traditions
- Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened
- Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake
- Han Kang, trans. Deborah Smith, Human Acts
- Micaiah Johnson, Those Beyond the Wall
- Naomi Kanakia, The Default World
- Hiromi Kawakami, Under the Eye of the Big Bird
- Rachel Khong, Real Americans
- Lesley Krueger, Time Squared
- Ngaio Marsh, Final Curtain
- Adele Megann, unpublished manuscript
- Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds
- Premee Mohamed, We Speak Through the Mountain
- Annalee Newitz, The Terraformers
- Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope
- Claire North, Touch
- Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education
- Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate
- Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves
- Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
- Malka Older, The Mimicking of Known Successes
- Nikki Payne, Pride and Protest
- Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks
- Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms
- Natasha Pulley, The Mars House
- Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
- Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton
- Julia Quinn, To Sir Phillip, With Love
- Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow
- Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora
- Molly Rookwood, unpublished manuscript
- Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
- John Scalzi, Starter Villain
- Curtis Sittenfeld, The Man of My Dreams
- Josephine Tey, Brat Farrer
- Josephine Tey, Man in the Queue
- Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes
- Phoebe Wagner, A Shot of Gin
- Martha Wells, All Systems Red
- Martha Wells, Artificial Condition
- Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol
- Martha Wells, Exit Strategy
- Martha Wells, Network Effect
- Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry
- Martha Wells, System Collapse
- Martha Wells, Witch King
- Maud Woolf, Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
- Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(And currently reading: Ed Lin’s Ghost Month.)
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