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sarahmichiganBook No. 67 was "Affliction" by Russell Baker. This is only my second book by Banks ("The Rule of Bone" was my first), and I am impressed. This is a beautifully-written book about a not-very-likeable character. The palpable feeling of dread that built up over the course of the book, combined with Banks' powers of description, kept me reading. It is a little slow going in the beginning but definitely builds momentum.
Book No. 68 was "Four Roads Cross" (Craft Sequence #5) by Max Gladstone. There's a battle in Alt Coloumb over the god Kos Everburning and his consort, Seril, the moon goddess. Most people thought Seril was dead until recently, and the public knowledge that she is still alive and supported by Kos throws Kos's financials into disarray and open the city to a legal battle. I like how Gladstone wove characters, places, and loose end plot points from previous books into this one. We get to meet Tara again. She was a beginner Craftswoman in the first book but has come into her own by "Four Roads." I liked how the relationship between Cat and Raz was developed as well.
Book No. 69 was "The Woman in Cabin 10" by Ruth Ware as an audiobook. British Journalist Laura Blacklock thinks she is going to be writing a puff piece about a new luxury cruise ship for her travel magazine but ends up believing she's witnessed a murder. But nobody will believe her. A twisty-turn plot kept me reading, and the author kept me guessing far past the half-way point what was really going on. I saw some reviewers say they found the main character, Lo, unlikeable. However I could identify with how off-kilter you can be if you're sleep deprived and traumatized as Lo was in the beginning of the book. I liked this quite a bit and am interested in reading more by Ruth Ware. I also appreciated the audiobook reader - she did a variety of British and Scandinavian accents well and even a passable Brooklyn accent.
Year-end stats:
Audiobooks:14 books, 20 percent
Fiction: 43 books, 62 percent
Non-fiction: 26 books, 38 percent
Female authors: 33 books (some anthologies with multiple female authors), 48 percent
LGBT authors: 12 books, 17 percent
POC authors: 19 books, 27.5 percent
Classics: 5 books, 7 percent
Re-reads: 2
I met all my goals for reading diversely, and I was especially happy about the high number of POC and LGBT authors I read this year.
Favorites:
Fiction:
-"Stones for Ibarra" by Harriet Doerr
-"The Child Garden" by Geoff Ryman
-"Four Roads Cross" by Max Gladstone
-"The Trespasser" by Tana French
-"Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
-"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
Classic:
-"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Nonfiction:
-"The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal" by Jonathan Mooney
-"To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care" by Cris Beam
-"Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison" by Shaka Senghor
-"Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady" by Susan Quinn
-"When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Graphic books:
"My Friend Dahmer" by Derf Backderf
"March: Book 3" by John Lewis
1. The Two Towers [fiction]- JRR Tolkien (unabridged audiobook)
2. The Argonautika [epic poetry/fiction]- Apollonios Rhodios, transl. Peter Green
3. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care [nonfiction]- Cris Beam
4. The Jazz [fiction]- Melissa Scott
5. Live from Golgotha [fiction]- Gore Vidal
6. Stones for Ibarra [fiction]- Harriet Doerr
7. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot [nonfiction/memoir]- John Callahan
8. The Tresspasser [fiction]- Tana French (unabridged audiobook)
9. The Decameron [fiction]- Giovanni Boccaccio
10. March: Book 2 [graphic nonfiction]- John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, ill. Nate Powell
11. Ordinary Light [nonfiction/memoir]- Tracy K. Smith
12. The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal [nonfiction]- Jonathan Mooney
13. March: Book 3 [graphic nonfiction]- John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, ill. Nate Powell
14. The Vegetarian [fiction]- Han Kang
15. First three volumes of the "Bitch Planet" comic series [graphic fiction]- Kelly Sue DeConnick, ill. Valentine DeLandro
16. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal [nonfiction]- Mary Roach (unabridged audiobook)
17. Bad Monkeys [fiction]- Matt Ruff
18. The Book of Negroes [fiction]- Lawrence Hill
19. The Rules of Attraction [fiction]- Bret Easton Ellis
20. How to Grow Up [nonfiction/memoir]- Michelle Tea
21. The Book of Genesis [fiction/mythology]- ill. R. Crumb
22. The Terranauts [fiction]- T.C. Boyle (unabridged audiobook)
23. The Galaxy Game [fiction]- Karen Lord
24. The Chapel of Ease - a Tufa novel [fiction]- Alex Bledsoe
25. Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight [nonfiction]- by Martin Gardner
26. Born on the Fourth of July [nonfiction/memoir]- Ron Kovic
27. My Friend Dahmer [graphic nonfiction]- Derf Backderf
28. The Return of the King [fiction]- JRR Tolkien (unabridged audiobook)
29. The Bishop's Daughter [nonfiction/memoir]- Honor Moore
30. The Red Parts [nonfiction/memoir]- Maggie Nelson
31. Bury Your Dead [fiction]- Louise Penny
32. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements [fiction & essays]- ed. Walidah Imarisha & adrienne maree brown
33. On the Move: A Life [nonfiction/memoir]- Oliver Sacks (unabridged audiobook)
34. What Happened to You? Writing by Disabled Women [nonfiction/fiction/poetry]- ed. Lois Keith
35. The Astrologer's Daughter [fiction]- Rebecca Lim
36. Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities [nonfiction]- Jackson Wright Shultz
37. The Dew Breaker [fiction]- Edwidge Danticat
38. Blameless in Abaddon [fiction]- James Morrow
39. Wonder [fictoin]- RJ Palacio (unabridged audiobook)
40. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Unexpurgated [nonfiction/memoir]-ed. Joan Acocella, transl. Kyril Fitzlyon
41. WARP: The Reluctant Assassin [fiction]- Eoin Colfer (unabridged audiobook)
42. Don Quixote [fiction]- Miguel Cervantes, transl. Edith Grossman
43. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir [nonfiction/memoir]- Haruki Murakami
44. Lysistrata [fiction/drama]- Aristophanes (transl. Sarah Ruden)
45. Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity [nonfiction/memoir]- Sil Lai Abrams
46. The Child Garden - or a Low Comedy [fiction]- Geoff Ryman
47. What the Dead Know [fiction]- Laura Lippman (unabridged audiobook)
48. The Andromeda Strain [fiction] - Michael Crichton
49. Saving Fish from Drowning [fiction]- Amy Tan
50. Little Fires Everywhere [fiction]- Celeste Ng (unabridged audiobook)
51. Full Fathom Five [fiction]-y Max Gladstone
52. Jam on the Vine [fiction]- LaShonda K. Barnett
53. Lottery [fiction]- Patricia Wood
54. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life [nonfiction]- Andy Miller
55. Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady [nonfiction]- Susan Quinn (unabridged audiobook)
56. Prodigal Summer [fiction]- Barbara Kingsolver
57. The Princess Diarist [nonfiction/memoir]- Carrie Fisher (unabridged audiobook)
58. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir [nonfiction/memoir]- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
59. A Little Life [fiction]- Hanya Yanagihara
60. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories [fiction/short stories]- Flannery O'Connor
61. Last First Snow [fiction]- Max Gladstone
62. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [fiction]- Carson McCullers
63. Blankets [nonfiction/graphic memoir]- Craig Thompson
64. Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague [graphic nonfiction]- Joyce Brabner, ill. Mark Zingarelli
65. The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) [fiction]- Rick Riordan (unabridged audiobook)
66. Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison [nonfiction/memoir]- Shaka Senghor
Book No. 68 was "Four Roads Cross" (Craft Sequence #5) by Max Gladstone. There's a battle in Alt Coloumb over the god Kos Everburning and his consort, Seril, the moon goddess. Most people thought Seril was dead until recently, and the public knowledge that she is still alive and supported by Kos throws Kos's financials into disarray and open the city to a legal battle. I like how Gladstone wove characters, places, and loose end plot points from previous books into this one. We get to meet Tara again. She was a beginner Craftswoman in the first book but has come into her own by "Four Roads." I liked how the relationship between Cat and Raz was developed as well.
Book No. 69 was "The Woman in Cabin 10" by Ruth Ware as an audiobook. British Journalist Laura Blacklock thinks she is going to be writing a puff piece about a new luxury cruise ship for her travel magazine but ends up believing she's witnessed a murder. But nobody will believe her. A twisty-turn plot kept me reading, and the author kept me guessing far past the half-way point what was really going on. I saw some reviewers say they found the main character, Lo, unlikeable. However I could identify with how off-kilter you can be if you're sleep deprived and traumatized as Lo was in the beginning of the book. I liked this quite a bit and am interested in reading more by Ruth Ware. I also appreciated the audiobook reader - she did a variety of British and Scandinavian accents well and even a passable Brooklyn accent.
Year-end stats:
Audiobooks:14 books, 20 percent
Fiction: 43 books, 62 percent
Non-fiction: 26 books, 38 percent
Female authors: 33 books (some anthologies with multiple female authors), 48 percent
LGBT authors: 12 books, 17 percent
POC authors: 19 books, 27.5 percent
Classics: 5 books, 7 percent
Re-reads: 2
I met all my goals for reading diversely, and I was especially happy about the high number of POC and LGBT authors I read this year.
Favorites:
Fiction:
-"Stones for Ibarra" by Harriet Doerr
-"The Child Garden" by Geoff Ryman
-"Four Roads Cross" by Max Gladstone
-"The Trespasser" by Tana French
-"Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
-"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
Classic:
-"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Nonfiction:
-"The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal" by Jonathan Mooney
-"To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care" by Cris Beam
-"Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison" by Shaka Senghor
-"Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady" by Susan Quinn
-"When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Graphic books:
"My Friend Dahmer" by Derf Backderf
"March: Book 3" by John Lewis
1. The Two Towers [fiction]- JRR Tolkien (unabridged audiobook)
2. The Argonautika [epic poetry/fiction]- Apollonios Rhodios, transl. Peter Green
3. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care [nonfiction]- Cris Beam
4. The Jazz [fiction]- Melissa Scott
5. Live from Golgotha [fiction]- Gore Vidal
6. Stones for Ibarra [fiction]- Harriet Doerr
7. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot [nonfiction/memoir]- John Callahan
8. The Tresspasser [fiction]- Tana French (unabridged audiobook)
9. The Decameron [fiction]- Giovanni Boccaccio
10. March: Book 2 [graphic nonfiction]- John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, ill. Nate Powell
11. Ordinary Light [nonfiction/memoir]- Tracy K. Smith
12. The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal [nonfiction]- Jonathan Mooney
13. March: Book 3 [graphic nonfiction]- John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, ill. Nate Powell
14. The Vegetarian [fiction]- Han Kang
15. First three volumes of the "Bitch Planet" comic series [graphic fiction]- Kelly Sue DeConnick, ill. Valentine DeLandro
16. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal [nonfiction]- Mary Roach (unabridged audiobook)
17. Bad Monkeys [fiction]- Matt Ruff
18. The Book of Negroes [fiction]- Lawrence Hill
19. The Rules of Attraction [fiction]- Bret Easton Ellis
20. How to Grow Up [nonfiction/memoir]- Michelle Tea
21. The Book of Genesis [fiction/mythology]- ill. R. Crumb
22. The Terranauts [fiction]- T.C. Boyle (unabridged audiobook)
23. The Galaxy Game [fiction]- Karen Lord
24. The Chapel of Ease - a Tufa novel [fiction]- Alex Bledsoe
25. Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight [nonfiction]- by Martin Gardner
26. Born on the Fourth of July [nonfiction/memoir]- Ron Kovic
27. My Friend Dahmer [graphic nonfiction]- Derf Backderf
28. The Return of the King [fiction]- JRR Tolkien (unabridged audiobook)
29. The Bishop's Daughter [nonfiction/memoir]- Honor Moore
30. The Red Parts [nonfiction/memoir]- Maggie Nelson
31. Bury Your Dead [fiction]- Louise Penny
32. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements [fiction & essays]- ed. Walidah Imarisha & adrienne maree brown
33. On the Move: A Life [nonfiction/memoir]- Oliver Sacks (unabridged audiobook)
34. What Happened to You? Writing by Disabled Women [nonfiction/fiction/poetry]- ed. Lois Keith
35. The Astrologer's Daughter [fiction]- Rebecca Lim
36. Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities [nonfiction]- Jackson Wright Shultz
37. The Dew Breaker [fiction]- Edwidge Danticat
38. Blameless in Abaddon [fiction]- James Morrow
39. Wonder [fictoin]- RJ Palacio (unabridged audiobook)
40. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, Unexpurgated [nonfiction/memoir]-ed. Joan Acocella, transl. Kyril Fitzlyon
41. WARP: The Reluctant Assassin [fiction]- Eoin Colfer (unabridged audiobook)
42. Don Quixote [fiction]- Miguel Cervantes, transl. Edith Grossman
43. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir [nonfiction/memoir]- Haruki Murakami
44. Lysistrata [fiction/drama]- Aristophanes (transl. Sarah Ruden)
45. Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity [nonfiction/memoir]- Sil Lai Abrams
46. The Child Garden - or a Low Comedy [fiction]- Geoff Ryman
47. What the Dead Know [fiction]- Laura Lippman (unabridged audiobook)
48. The Andromeda Strain [fiction] - Michael Crichton
49. Saving Fish from Drowning [fiction]- Amy Tan
50. Little Fires Everywhere [fiction]- Celeste Ng (unabridged audiobook)
51. Full Fathom Five [fiction]-y Max Gladstone
52. Jam on the Vine [fiction]- LaShonda K. Barnett
53. Lottery [fiction]- Patricia Wood
54. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life [nonfiction]- Andy Miller
55. Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady [nonfiction]- Susan Quinn (unabridged audiobook)
56. Prodigal Summer [fiction]- Barbara Kingsolver
57. The Princess Diarist [nonfiction/memoir]- Carrie Fisher (unabridged audiobook)
58. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir [nonfiction/memoir]- Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
59. A Little Life [fiction]- Hanya Yanagihara
60. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories [fiction/short stories]- Flannery O'Connor
61. Last First Snow [fiction]- Max Gladstone
62. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [fiction]- Carson McCullers
63. Blankets [nonfiction/graphic memoir]- Craig Thompson
64. Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague [graphic nonfiction]- Joyce Brabner, ill. Mark Zingarelli
65. The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) [fiction]- Rick Riordan (unabridged audiobook)
66. Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison [nonfiction/memoir]- Shaka Senghor
