marf-books

Books I've read starting September 2016. I learned to read before this, but I didn't keep track then.

All Time Favorites

Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
Katherine Addison: The Grief of Stones
Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars
Aliette de Bodard: The Red Scholar's Wake
Lois McMaster Bujold: Beguilement
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor
Sue Burke: Semiosis
Octavia Butler: Fledgling
Shannon Chakraborty: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
S. A. Chakraborty: City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty: Kingdom of Copper
S. A. Chakraborty: Empire of Gold
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers: The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Zen Cho: The True Queen
P. Djèlí Clark: A Dead Djinn in Cairo
P. Djèlí Clark: A Master of Djinn
H. Clarke: The Scapegracers
H. Clarke: The Scratch Daughters
Hannah Che: The Vegan Chinese Kitchen
Isaac Fellman: Dead Collections
Max Gladstone: Three Parts Dead
Max Gladstone: Empress of Forever
N. K. Jemisin: A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie: Translation State
Kate Mangino: Equal Partners
Laurie J. Marks: Fire Logic
Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace
Everina Maxwell: Winter's Orbit
Naomi Novik: A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik: The Golden Enclaves
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti: Home
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti
Yotam Ottolenghi: Simple
Lina Rather: Sisters of the Vast Black
Rebecca Roanhorse: Trail of Lightning
Mary Robinette-Kowal: The Spare Man
Marshall Rosenberg: Non-Violent Communication
Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff: Set This House in Order
Matt Ruff: The Mirage
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Elder Race
Emily Tesh: Some Desparate Glory
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
Martha Wells: All Systems Red
Martha Wells: Artificial Condition
Martha Wells: Network Effect
Catherynne Valente: The Refrigerator Monologues
Nghi Vo: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Nghi Vo: Into The Riverlands
Nghi Vo: Mammoths at the Gates
Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow

2016

September '16

Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep
Kameron Hurley: God's War
Brothers Obermey/ier: Panama Papers

October '16

Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
Vernor Vinge: The Children of the Sky
Andy Weir: The Martian
Graeme Simieson: The Rosie Project

November '16

Robert Alter: Strong as Love is Death
Charles Stross: Rule 34

December '16

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
Jane Mayer: Dark Money
Tom Standage: A History of the World in 6 Glasses

2017

January '17

(5 this month, 5 YTD)

Ted Chiang: The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool: Peak
Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Shadow of the Wind
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy

February '17

(4 this month, 9 YTD)

Robert Alter: Genesis
Julia Cameron: The Artists's Way
Gwyneth Jones: Life
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee: The Spy Who Couldn't Spell

March '17

(8 this month, 17 YTD)

History of White People
Patricia Wrede: Dealing with Dragons
Patricia Wrede: Searching for Dragons
Rankin: Linux Hardening
Patricia Wrede: Calling on Dragons
Patricia Wrede: Talking to Dragons
Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country
Penny Laurie: Unspeakable Things

April '17

(5 this month, 23 YTD)

Patrick Weekes: The Palace Job
War.exe
Lois McMaster Bujold: Beguilement
Ted Chiang: Stories of your Life
Charlie Jane Anders: All The Birds In The Sky

May '17

(8 this month, 31 YTD)

Becky Chambers: The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet
Lois McMaster Bujold: Legacy
The Narcissistic Family
Lois McMaster Bujold: Passage
Lois McMaster Bujold: Horizon
Patrick Weekes: The Prophecy Con
Patrick Weekes: The Paladin Caper
Matt Ruff: Set This House in Order

June '17

(5 this month, 36 YTD)

Paolo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Robert Sapolsky: Behave
Matt Ruff: Bad Monkeys
Lois McMaster Bujold: The DreamWeaver's Dilemma
Max Gladstone: Last First Snow

July '17

(9 this month, 45 YTD)

Matt Ruff: The Mirage
N. K. Jemisin: A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Lois McMaster Bujold: Falling Free
Becky Chambers: A Closed and Common Orbit
Octavia Butler: Bloodchild, and other stories
Seannan McGuire: Every Heart A Doorway
Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction
Naomi Kritzer: Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories
N. K. Jemisin: The Broken Kingdoms

August '17

(9 this month, 54 YTD)

N. K. Jemisin: The Kingdom of Gods
Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories
David J. Schwartz: Gooseberry Bluff Community College
Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold: Barrayar
Lucy Loh and Patrick Hoverstadt: Patterns of Strategy pt 1
Lois McMaster Bujold: Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls

September '17

(9 this month, 63 YTD)

Lois McMaster Bujold: The Warrior's Apprentice
N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
Charles Stross: The Delirium Brief
Lucy Loh and Patrick Hoverstadt: Patterns of Strategy pt 2
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor Game
Charles Stross: The Family Trade
Charles Stross: The Hidden Family
Charles Stross: The Clan Corporate
Charles Stross: The Merchant's War

October '17

(10 this month, 73 YTD)

Charles Stross: The Revolution Business
N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate
Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky
Charles Stross: The Trade of Queens
N. K. Jemisin: The Awakened Kingdom
N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
Hope Nicholson: The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cetaganda
Lois McMaster Bujold: Ethan of Athos

November '17

(12 this month, 85 YTD)

Lindy West: Shrill
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti: Home
Lois McMaster Bujold: Labyrinth
Seanan McGuire: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Pia Mellody: Facing Love Addiction
Hiromi Goto and N.K. Jemisin: Systems Fail
Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity
Angus Deaton: The Great Escape
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers in Arms
Naomi Alderman: The Power
Ann Leckie: Provenance
Sy Montgomery: The Soul of An Octopus

December '17

(12 this month, 97 YTD)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Zeynep Tufekci: Twitter and Tear Gas
Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Luvvie Ajayi: I'm Judging You, The Do-better Manual
Lois McMaster Bujold: Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold: A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold: Winterfair Gifts
Jennifer Mather: Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
Nick Bantock: The Museum at Purgatory
Matt Ruff: Sewer, Gas and Electric
Jacqueline Frances: Striptastic

2018

January '18

(15 this month, 15 YTD)

Karyl McBride: Will I Ever Be Good Enough?
Naomi Novik: Uprooted
Pia Mellody: Facing Codependence
Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Victor Lavalle: The Ballad of Black Tom
Ryan North and Erica Henderson: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Joelle Jones: Lady Killer
Elizabeth Gilbert: The Signature of All Things
Tamora Pierce: Tortall, A Spy's Guide
Kai Ashante Wilson: Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Orientation
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Research
Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity
Eve Ewing: Electric Arches
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Reason

February '18

(16 this month, 31 YTD)

Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Materia
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Refine
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti, The Night Masquerade
Samuel R. Delany: Tales of Nevèrÿon
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Dissolve
Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric's Demon
Neil Gaiman: Coraline
Ryan North and Erica Henderson: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2: Squirrel You Know It's True
Tom King: Batman, I am Gotham
Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric and the Shaman
Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
Lois McMaster Bujold: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Sarah Pinsker: And Then There Were (N-One)
Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Vina Jie-Min Prasad: A Series of Steaks
Catherynne Valente: The Refrigerator Monologues

March '18

(10 this month, 41 YTD)

Ellen Klages: Passing Strange
Tamora Pierce: Tempests and Slaughter
Kevin Kwan: Crazy Rich Asians
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cryoburn
Catherynne Valente: Six-gun Snow White
Liz Ziemska: Mandelbrot the Magnificent
Kevin Kwan: China Rich Girlfriend
Lois McMaster Bujold: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Julia Cameron: The Artists's Way

April '18

(14 this month, 55 YTD)

Jarrett Walker: Human Transit
Kevin Kwan: Rich People Problems
Ada Palmer: Too like the lightning
Noelle Stevenson: Lumberjanes 1, Beware the Kitten Holy
Yasunari Kawabata: Dandelions
Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give
Megan Walen Turner: The Thief
Noelle Stevenson: Lumberjanes 2
Marshall Rosenberg: Non-Violent Communication
Marjorie Liu: Monstress
Joelle Jones: Lady Killer 2
Noelle Stevenson: Lumberjanes 3
Marjorie Liu: Monstress 2
Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric's Mission

May '18

(15 this month, 70 YTD)

N. K. Jemisin: The Killing Moon
Martha Wells: All Systems Red
Martha Wells: Artificial Condition
The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Melissa Gira Grant: Playing the Whore
Patrick Weekes: Feeder
Megan Walen Turner: The Queen of Attolia
Tamora Pierce: The First Test
K Arsenault Rivera: The Tiger's Daughter
JY Yang: The Red Threads of Fortune
Tamora Pierce: Page
Madeline Miller: Circe
Megan Walen Turner: The King of Attolia
Elizabeth Gilbert: Committed

June '18

(13 this month, 83 YTD)

Tamora Pierce: Squire
Noelle Stevenson: Lumberjanes 4
Seanan MacGuire: Beneath the Sugar Sky
JY Yang: The Black Tides of Heaven
Maggie Shen King: An Excess Male
Tom Taylor: All-new Wolverine 1
Tamora Pierce: Lady Knight
Jen Wang: The Prince and the Dressmaker
Megan Walen Turner: A Conspiracy of Kings
Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Flowers of Vashnoi
Kelly Thompson: Hawkeye #1
Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric's Fox

July '18

(11 this month, 94 YTD)

Megan Walen Turner: Thick as Thieves
Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit
Windows Internals
Hell Cat: Patsy Walker
Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny
Meik Wiking: Little Book of Lykke
Emily Wilson: The Odyssey
Marie Benedict: The Other Einstein
Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Bloodprint
N. K. Jemisin: Shades in Shadow
Max Gladstone: Three Parts Dead

August '18

(14 this month, 109 YTD)

David Moore: Not So Stories
Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few
Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol
David Gerard: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mira's Last Dance
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Prisoner of Limnos
Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep
Priya Sharma: Rag and Bone
Ahmed Saladin: Throne of the Crescent Moon
Mur Lafferty: The Shambling Guide to NYC
Collins Grammar Guide to German
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 1
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 2
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 3

September '18

(12 this month, 120 YTD)

Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 4
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 5
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 6
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Synthesis
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 7
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 8
Jenny Han: To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Mur Lafferty: Ghost Train to New Orleans
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti (in German)
John Carreyrou: Bad Blood
Netzwerk A1.1
Netzwerk A1.2
Netzwerk A2.1

October '18

(9 this month, 129 YTD)

Netzwerk A2.2
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples: Saga 9
Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog, Or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
Träume in Berlin
Aspeckte Neu B1
Fredrich von Schiller: Die Räuber
Goethe: Faust (easy version)
Goethe: Werther (easy version)
Dessa: My Own Devices

November '18

(4 this month, 133 YTD)

Franz Specht: Besserwisser: Carsten Tsara und das scharfe S
JY Yang: The Descent of Monsters
Aspeckte Neu B1.2
Becky Albertalli: Nur drei Worte

December '18

(6 this month, 139 YTD)

Grammatik aktiv
Python Cookbook
Tamora Pierce: Die Schwarze Stadt
Tamora Pierce: Im Bann der Göttin
Antje Szillat: Zusammen sind wir tierisch stark
Tamora Pierce: Das zerbrochene Schwert

2019

January '19

(4 this month, 4 YTD)

Tamora Pierce: Das Juwel der Macht
Franz Kafka: Erfahrungen
Becky Chambers: Der lange Weg zu einem kleinen zornigen Planeten
Aspekte C1.1

February '19

(4 this month, 8 YTD)

Aspekte C1.2
Prüfungstraining: Telc C1 Exam Vorbereitung
Lehrbuch: Telc C1
Sibylle Berg: Und jetzt: die Welt! oder Es sagt mir nichts, das sogenannte Draußen

March '19

(6 this month, 14 YTD)

Ödön von Horváth: Ein Dorf ohne Männer
Ann Leckie: Die Maschinen
Martha Wells: Exit Strategy
N.K. Jemisin: How Long Until Black Future Month
Charles Montgomery: Happy City
Steve Haines, Sophie Standing: Trauma ist ziemlich strange

April '19

(6 this month, 20 YTD)

Pia Mellody: The Intimacy Factor
Rowenna Miller: Torn
Brooke Bolander: The Only Harmless Great Thing
Elizabeth Bear: Dust
Stanislaw Lem: A Puzzle
Mary Roach: Bonk

May '19

(6 this month, 26 YTD)

Clark P. Djèlí: The Black God's Drums
Charles Stross: The Labyrinth Index
Lois McMaster Bujold: Knife Children
Henry Connolly: A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark
Elizabeth Bear: Chill
Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body And Other Parties

June '19

(12 this month, 38 YTD)

Engineering a Safer World
Sarah Gailey: River of Teeth
Sarah Gailey: Taste of Marrow
Emily Carroll: Through The Woods
Margaret Killjoy: The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion
Rebecca Roanhorse: Trail of Lightning
Randall Hyde: Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine
Kai Ashante Wilson: A Taste of Honey
Cathrynne Valente: Space Opera
Rebecca Roanhorse: Trail of Locusts
Tade Thompson: The Murders Of Molly Southbourne
Atul Gawande: Checklist Manifesto

July '19

(10 this month, 49 YTD)

Suzanne Palmer: The Secret Life of Bots
Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Catalysis Vol
The Narcissistic Family
Charlaine Harris: Dead After Dark
Sarah Gailey: Magic for Liars
Charlaine Harris: Living Dead in Dallas
Kelly Robson: God, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
Charlaine Harris: Club Dead
Arkady Martine: A Memory Called Empire

August '19

(6 this month, 54 YTD)

Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols: The Rust Programming Language
Amal El Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose The Time War
Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Samin Nosrat: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Caroline Criado Perez: Invisible Women
Rowenna Miller: Fray

September '19

(7 this month, 61 YTD)

Julia Cameron: The Artist's Way
Amy Rose Capetta: Once & Future
Sofia Samatar: Monster Portraits
Fonda Lee: Jade City
Anuschka Rees: The Curated Closet
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Orphans of Raspay
Becky Chambers: To Be Taught If Fortunate

October '19

(12 this month, 73 YTD)

Sheldon Solomon et al.: The Worm at the Core
Chris McChesney: The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Renee Gladman: Event Factory
Yoon Ha Lee: Ninefox Gambit
Anuschka Rees: The Curated Closet
Ann Leckie: The Raven Tower
Ivan Brunetti: Cartooning
Naomi Ito: The Nani Iro Sewing Studio
R. F. Kuang: The Poppy War
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 1
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 2
J. Y. Yang: The Ascent to Godhood

November '19

(20 this month, 94 YTD)

Priya Parker: The Art of Gathering
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 3
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 4
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 5
Fonda Lee: Jade War
Siobhan Carroll: For He Can Creep
C. E. S. Cooney: Desdemona and the Deep
Multiple authors: Ten Types of Innovation
Naomi Kritzer: The Thing About Ghost Stories
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
Brian K. Vaughan: Paper Girls Vol 6
Max Gladstone: Bookburners, Episodes 1-4
Max Gladstone: Bookburners, Episodes 5-8
Max Gladstone: Bookburners, Episodes 8-12
Max Gladstone: Bookburners, Episodes 13-16
Una McCormack: The Undefeated
Lundy Bancroft: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Vylar Kaftan: Her Silhouette, Drawn In Water
Nisi Shawl: Everfair
Aliette de Bodard: The Tea Master and the Detective

December '19

(12 this month, 106 YTD)

Rene Redzepi, David Zilber: Noma Guide to Fermentation
Ruthanna Emrys: Winter Tide
Ivan Brunetti: Cartooning
Priya Sharma: Ormeshadow
Max Gladstone: Empress of Forever
Saad Z. Hossain: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
Kerstin Hall: The Border Keeper
Jason Lutes: Berlin
Naomi Kritzer: Catfishing on Catnet
Emily Tesh: Silver in the Wood
Lina Rather: Sisters of the Vast Black
Susan Orlean: The Library Book

January '20

(10 this month, 10 YTD)

Keith Cooper & Linda Torczon: Engineering A Compiler
Charlie English: The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
David Allen: Getting Things Done
Eugie Foster: Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast
Aliette de Bodard: Lullaby for A Lost World
Meg Jay: The Defining Decade
Jennifer Giesbrecht: Monster of Elendhaven
Aliette de Bodard: Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth

February '20

(9 this month, 19 YTD)

Kameron Hurley: The Light Brigade
Becky Chambers: Zwischen zwei Sternen
Sarah Rees Brennan: In Other Lands
Elizabeth Greenwood: Playing Dead
Core Econ Textbook
Andy Duncan: Close Encounters
Nancy Kress: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor
Lois McMaster Bujold: Barrayar

March '20

(12 this month, 31 YTD)

Lois McMaster Bujold: The Warrior's Apprentice
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor Game
Kelly Robson: A Human Stain
China Miéville: This Census Taker
Carolyn Ives Gilman: The Ice Owl
P. Djèlí Clark: The Haunting of Tram Car 015
Katherine Sparrow: The Migratory Pattern of Dancers
Kij Johnson: The Man Who Bridged the Mist
John Kessel: Pride and Prometheus
David Graeber: Utopia of Rules
Operation Manual F400 Brother Innov-is
Jenny Odell: How To Do Nothing

April '20

(11 this month, 42 YTD)

Best Women's Fiction of the Year, Vol 5
Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer
Sarah Gailey: Upright Women Wanted
Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards!
Laurie J. Marks: Fire Logic
Pia Mellody: Facing Codependence
Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
Kameron Hurley: The Broken Heavens
P. Djèlí Clark: A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Steve McConnell: Software Estimation

May '20

(9 this month, 51 YTD)

Laurie J. Marks: Earth Logic
Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker: How to Understand Your Gender
Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar's Guide to the City
Laurie J. Marks: Water Logic
E. L. Konigsberg: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Martha Wells: Network Effect
N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became
Bruce Rabin: Coping With Stress for Mental and Physical Health and Longevity
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: The Dictator's Handbook

June '20

(8 this month, 59 YTD)

Nghi Vo: The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Laurie J. Marks: Air Logic
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Physicians of Vilnoc
Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider
Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell
Tomi Adeyemi: Children of Blood and Bone
Seanan McGuire: Middlegame
Matt Ruff: 88 Names

July '20

(16 this month, 75 YTD)

Tochi Onyebuchi: Riot Baby
N. K. Jemisin: Emergency Skin
Rivers Solomon: The Deep
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cetaganda
Lois McMaster Bujold: Ethan of Athos
Lois McMaster Bujold: Labyrinth
Saad Z Hossain: Djinn City
Katharine Duckett: Miranda in Milan
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers In Arms
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Emily Nagoski: Come As You Are
Alix Harrow: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Nino Cipri: Finna
Michael Ende: Momo
Marjorie Liu: Monstress Vol 1
Marjorie Liu: Monstress Vol 2

August '20

(13 this month, 88 YTD)

Marjorie Liu: Monstress Vol 3
Marjorie Liu: Monstress Vol 4
Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
Cat Rambo: Carpe Glitter
Flash Fiction Project: Nevertheless She Persisted
Alyssa Cole: A Prince on Paper
Greg Kckeown: Essentialism
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
Daniel Kahnemann: Thinking Fast and Slow
Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
Jonathan Brazee: Weaponized Math
Richard Bowes: Dirty Old Town
Sarah Pinsker: Wind Will Rove

September '20

(8 this month, 96 YTD)

Octavia Butler: Fledgling
Sonia Purnell: A Woman of No Importance
Terry Matlen: Queen of Distraction
Anne Carson: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Fran Wilde: The Jewel and Her Lapidary
Robin Wall Kimmerer: Braiding Sweetgrass
Ben Aaronovitch: Midnight Riot
Becky Chambers: Zwischen zwei Sternen

October '20

(9 this month, 105 YTD)

Gabor Maté: Scattered
C1 Deutsch book
Lois McMaster Bujold: Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Lois McMaster Bujold: A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold: Winterfair Gifts
Emily Tesh: Drowned Country
Cherie Dimaline: The Marrow Thieves
Elizabeth Gilbert: Big Magic

November '20

(10 this month, 115 YTD)

Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars
Alyssa Cole: A Duke by Default
Tom Siddell: Gunnerkrigg Court, Book 9
Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity
Elizabeth Bear: Karen Memory
Deborah Harkness: Shadow of Night
Becky Chambers: Unter uns die Nacht
Lois McMaster Bujold: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Ted Chiang: Exhalation
Tamsyn Muir: Harrow the Ninth

December '20

(8 this month, 123 YTD)

Henrik Ibsen: Ein Puppenheim, oder Nora
Claire B. Shaeffer: Couture Sewing Techniques
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Lady Astronaut of Mars
Elizabeth Bear: Stone Mad
Naomi Ito: The Nani Iro Sewing Studio
Meghan Whalen Turner: Return of the Thief
Kim Scott: Radical Candor
Lois McMaster Bujold: Masquerade in Lodi

January '21

(9 this month, 9 YTD)

P. Clark Djèlí: Ring Shout
Alyssa Cole: Once Ghosted, Twice Shy
Katherine Addison: The Angel of the Crows
Patti Palmer: Guide to Fitting
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Care Work
Nghi Vo: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Alyssa Cole: Can't Escape Love
Alyssa Cole: The AI Who Loved Me
The Sewing Book

February '21

(9 this month, 18 YTD)

Atul Gawande: Better
Casey McQuiston: Red White and Royal Blue
Alyssa Cole: How to Catch a Queen
Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
Susanna Clarke: Piranesi
Adam Kucharski: The Rules of Contagion
Charles Stross: Dead Lies Dreaming
Sarah Hogle: You Deserve Each Other
Hennesey and Patternson: Computer Architecture

March '21

(7 this month, 25 YTD)

Lois McMaster Bujold: Cryoburn
Alyssa Cole: A Princess In Theory
Everina Maxwell: Winter's Orbit
André Leon Talley: The Chiffon Trenches
Roger Scuton: Spinoza, A Very Short Introduction
Max Gladstone: Empress of Forever
Workbook: Managing Your Adult Attention Issues

April '21

(7 this month, 32 YTD)

Lois McMaster Bujold: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
Maxine Kaplan: Wench
Angeline Boulley: Firekeeper's Daughter
Arkady Martine: A Desolation Called Peace
Tor Best of 2020 Fiction
Merlin Sheldrake: Entangled Life
Yotam Ottolenghi: Simple

May '21

(12 this month, 44 YTD)

Hannah Abigail Clarke: The Scapegracers
Sarah Gailey: Worth Her Weight in Gold
Theodora Goss: Red as Blood and White as Bone
Kij Johnson: The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
Neon Yang: Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy
Neon Yang: Waiting on a Bright Moon
Sarah K Mock: Farm (and Other F Words), The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm
Rebecca Roanhorse: Black Sun
KJ Charles: Any Old Diamonds
Nino Cipri: Defekt
KJ Charles: Gilded Cage
Nnedi Okorafor: Remote Control

June '21

(10 this month, 54 YTD)

Sue Burke: Semiosis
Sue Burke: Interference
Alix Harrow: The Once and Future Witches
KJ Charles: An Unseen Attraction
The Vela: First Season
KJ Charles: An Unnatural Vice
KJ Charles: An Unsuitable Heir
Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
David Page Coffin: Making Trousers for Men & Women
Paul Stamets: Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

July '21

(6 this month, 70 YTD)

KJ Charles: Proper English
Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps Score
Martha Wells: Fugitive Telemetry
KJ Charles: Think of England
Leigh Bardugo: Six of Crows
Sönke Ahrens: How to take better notes

August '21

(8 this month, 78 YTD)

KJ Charles: The Ratcatcher's Daughter
P. Djèlí Clark: A Master of Djinn
Kelly Link: Magic for Beginners
Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns
José Luis Zárate: The Route of Ice and Salt
Aimee Ogden: Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
Nghi Vo: The Chosen and the Beautiful
Isabel Wilkerson: Caste

September '21

(9 this month, 87 YTD)

Naomi Novik: A Deadly Education
Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
Aliette de Bodard: Fireheart Tiger
Naomi Novik: Tödliche Lektion
Victor Lavalle: We Travel the Spaceways
Kristen Richardson: The Season: A Social History of the Debutante
Naomi Novik: The Last Graduate
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Sarah Hogle: Twice Shy

October '21

(7 this month, 94 YTD)

Katherine Addison: The Witness For The Dead
Christopher Buehlman: The Blacktongue Thief
Helene Wecker: The Hidden Palace
Aliya Whiteley: Skyward Inn
Oglaf: Vol 1
Octavia Butler: Fledgling
Oglaf: Vol 2

November '21

(6 this month, 100 YTD)

Catherynne M. Valente: The Past Is Red
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Visit
Everina Maxwell: Winter's Orbit
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Assasins of Thasalon
Lois McMaster Bujold: Knot of Shadows
Casey McQuiston: One Last Stop

December '21

(4 this month, 104 YTD)

Ursula Leguin: The Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Seth Dickinson: The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions are Made

2022

January 2022

(9 this month, 9 YTD)

Freya Marske: A Marvellous Light
S. L. Huang: Burning Roses
Kerstin Hall: Star Eater
Emily Nagoski: Burnout
Daryl Gregory: The Album of Dr. Moreau
Sarah Pinsker: We Are Satellites
S. Qiouyi Lu: In the Watchful City
Zin E. Rocklyn: Flowers for the Sea
Sebastian Felix Ernst, Jonas Tratz, FAKT: Berlin Maps

February 2022

(13 this month, 22 YTD)

Fonda Lee: Jade Legacy
Battle of Berlin ebook
Antony Beevor: The Fall of Berlin 1945
Martha Wells: Systemausfall
Sarah Gailey: The Echo Wife
Daryl Gregory: Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
Nikole Hannah-Jones: The 1619 Project
Stephen Graham Jones: Night of the Mannequins
Carrie Vaughn: The Ghosts of Sherwood
Lina Rather: Sisters of the Vast Black
Lina Rather: Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
Tony Le Tissier: Race to the Reichstag
Ryka Aoki: Light From Uncommon Stars

March 2022

(8 this month, 30 YTD)

Berlin Maps (Ruby Press)
TJ Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities
Martha Wells: Auf Paranoia programmiert
Martha Wells: Exit-Szenario
Martha Wells: Schneller Abgang
Charles Stross: Escape from Yokai Land
Becky Chambers: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

April 2022

(9 this month, 39 YTD)

Tamsyn Muir: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-flight Tower
Shelby Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun
Marina & Sergey Dyachenko: Vita Nostra
V. E. Schwab: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Premee Mohamed: These Lifeless Things
Kate Elliott: Servant Mage
Gabby Rivera: Juliet Takes A Breath
Donella Meadows: Thinking in Systems
Stina Leicht: Persephone Station

May 2022

(7 this month, 46 YTD)

Nicola Griffith: Spear
K.J. Parker: Sixteen Ways to Defend A Walled City
Ma-Nee Chacaby: A Two-Spirit Journey
Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow
Michael Bazzett: The Echo Chamber
Naomi Novik: In His Majesty's Service
Naomi Novik: Throne of Jade

June 2022

(7 this month, 53 YTD)

Naomi Novik: Black Powder War
Alfie Kohn: The Homework Myth
Charles Stross: Quantum of Nightmares
Katherine Addison: The Grief of Stones
Ma-Nee Chacaby: A Two-Spirit Journey
Alfie Kohn: Punished By Rewards
Saad Z. Hossain: Kundo Wakes Up

July 2022

(6 this month, 59 YTD)

Katherine Addison: The Goblin Emperor
Sebastian Felix Ernst, Jonas Tratz, FAKT: Berlin Maps
Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance: Disasters
David Richo: How to Be An Adult in Relationships
Max Gladstone: Last Exit
Yoko Tawada: Scattered All Over the Earth

August 2022

(8 this month, 67 YTD)

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo: Poor Economics
C. J. Cherryh: Foreigner
Melissa Fehr: Sew Your Own Activewear
Tom Wolf, Manuel Roy, Roberto Sassi: Secret Berlin
Tiago Forte: Building A Second Brain
Marion Deeds: Comeuppance Served Cold
Jessie Mihalik: Hunt the Stars
David Richo: How to Be an Adult in Relationships

September 2022

(7 this month, 74 YTD)

Casey McQuiston: I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Rhiannon A. Grist: The Queen of the High Fields
Juno Dawson: Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Aliette de Bodard: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls
Becky Chambers: Prayer for the Crown Shy
Eliot Schrefer: The Darkness Outside Us
Aliette de Bodard: Ghosts, Charms and Grievances

October 2022

(9 this month, 83 YTD)

Naomi Novik: The Golden Enclaves
Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth
TJ Klune: Under the Whispering Door
Kate Mangino: Equal Partners
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Elder Race
Courtney Milan: The Lady Always Wins
Connie Willis: Inside Job
Olivia Dade: Spoiler Alert
Eclipse The Moon: Jessie Mihalik

November 2022

(8 this month, 91 YTD)

Carolyn Denham: Merchant and Mills Sewing Book
Everina Maxwell: Ocean's Echo
James C. Scott: Seeing Like A State
Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Expert System's Brother
Alyssa Cole: How to Find a Princess
L. David Marquet: Turn the Ship Around
The Quilting Manual
Nghi Vo: Into The Riverlands

December 2022

(10 this month, 101 YTD)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: The Expert System's Champion
H. Clarke: The Scratch Daughters
Ruthanna Emrys: A Half-Built Garden
Sharbreon Plummer: Diasporic Threads
Olivia Dade: All The Feels
Will Larson: Staff Engineer
Georgia Bonesteel: Lap Quilting
Carolyn Forster: Big Stitch Quilting
Isaac Fellman: Dead Collections
Renaissance Woman

2023

January 2023

(8 this month, 8 YTD)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Joanne Lee Molinaro: The Korean Vegan
Dara Horn: People Love Dead Jews
Hannah Che: The Vegan Chinese Kitchen
Andrea Lawler: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Chaz Brenchley: Three Twins at the Crater School
Mary Robinette-Kowal: The Spare Man
Renaissance Periodization: Renaissance Woman

February 2023

(12 this month, 20 YTD)

Naomi Novik: A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik: The Golden Enclaves
Annie Duke: How to Decide
Freya Marske: A Restless Truth
KJ Charles: Gilded Cage
Naseem Jamnia: The Bruising of Qilwa
Hilary Sumner-Boyd, John Freely: Strolling Through Istanbul
James Scott Bell: Plot and Structure
S. A. Chakraborty: City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty: Kingdom of Copper
S. A. Chakraborty: Empire of Gold

March 2023

(8 this month, 28 YTD)

Orhan Pamuk: Memories of Istanbul
KJ Charles: Masters in this Hall
Sarah Tolmie: All the Horses of Iceland
Olivia Dade: Ship Wrecked
Martha Wells: The Cloud Roads
Martha Wells: The Serpent Sea
Martha Wells: The Siren Depths
S. A. Chakraborty: River of Silver

April 2023

(8 this month, 36 YTD)

Martha Wells: The Edge of Worlds
Martha Wells: Harbors of the Sun
Martha Wells: Stories of the Raksura
Malka Older: The Mimicking of Known Successes
Travis Baldree: Legends and Lattes
Pema Chödrön: How to Meditate
Shannon Chakraborty: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
Fonda Lee: Untethered Sky

May 2023

(8 this month, 44 YTD)

EM Anderson: The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fischer
Victoria Goddard: The Hands of the Emperor
Joss Lake: Future Feeling
Martha Wells: Stories of the Raksura 2
Arkady Martine: Rose/House
Fonda Lee: The Jadesetter of Janloon
Emily Tesh: Some Desparate Glory
Moses Ose Utomi: The Lies of the Atungo

June 2023

(5 this month, 49 YTD)

Isaac Fellman: The Two Doctors Gorski
John Bellairs: The House with the Clock in its Walls
David Macaulay: Motel of the Mysteries
Arkady Martine: Im Herzen des Imperiums
Matt Ruff: Destroyer of Worlds

July 2023

(10 this month, 59 YTD)

Max Gladstone: Dead Country
Robert Storr: Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
Parini Shroff: The Bandit Queens
Kai Cheng Thom: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Natalie Zina Walschots: Hench
Ann Leckie: The Long Game
Ann Leckie: Translation State
Amara Solari and Matthew Restall: The Maya
Valerie Valdes: Chilling Effect
Eknath Easwaran: Bhagavad Gita

August 2023