Test 1, 2, 3.

Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper
Spear of Light by Brenda Cooper
Building Harlequin's Moon by Brenda Cooper & Larry Niven [re-read]

Nimona by ND Stevenson
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin [re-read]
The Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler [re-read; book starts in 2024: it's all sci-fi years from here on out, kids]
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler [re-read; the first time I read this I kind of resented it for ruining the hopeful ending of the first book (as sequels are wont to do), but I felt better about it this time around (also Octavia Butler predicted MAGA in 1998!)]

Jumper by Steven Gould [re-read]

Started:
The Last Human by Zack Jordan


Due to tumblr discourse, I feel like I should specify that I'm not reading to better myself or impress other people. I'm reading to have fun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

World War Z by Max Brooks [re-read]

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Fledgling by Octavia Butler [re-read]

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke [re-read; also saw the movie for the first time]

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [re-read]

Frostwing by Richard A. Knaak [re-read; did not actually contain the scene I thought I vividly remembered from it and was overall kind of meh]

Cell by Stephen King [re-read; curious to see the movie]

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson [re-read]

Started Robogenesis also by Daniel H. Wilson.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
by Orson Scott Card [all re-read one last time before discarding because of the author being a terrible person]

Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Dead Voices by Abigail McDaniels

The Devourers by Indra Das

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

They're all rereads this year, and as "predicted" lots of Robert Jordan:

The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan
Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan


Currently in the middle of Crossroads of Twilight. (You'll never guess who wrote it!)

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the series which has page counts and word counts and hours of audio... I've got a ways to go before I'm finished, but I'm hoping to be done by 2020.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams [re-read]

Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward [re-read]
Starquake by Robert L. Forward

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Dark Water's Embrace by Stephen Leigh [re-read]

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [re-read]

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Kraken by China Miéville

Monster Island by David Wellington

Kindred by Octavia Butler [re-read]

Monster Nation by David Wellington
Monster Planet by David Wellington

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

Starting out the new year with more Earthsea: The Other Wind

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan [re-read]
The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

World War Z by Max Brooks [re-read]

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks [re-read]
The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks [re-read]
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks

The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin [re-read]
The First Immortal by James L. Halperin [re-read]

Sabriel by Garth Nix [re-read]

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge

The Ear, The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams [re-read]
(For some reason I though I hadn't read it, but then realized I had and kept going anyway.)
And then started the new year off with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams [re-read].

To my fannish_library_fest posts:

Fannish Bindings for a Fannish Library

A Lyrical Ode to Libraries
And I've got two more to add: White Blank Page by Mumford & Sons and Do It Anyway by Ben Folds Five ("sometimes you'll like the cover and that's precisely why you'll love the book").

[Almost] forgot the ficlet.

Why is it that when I read fiction about a topic I'm interested in, I could read for days, but when I try to read non-fiction about a topic I'm interested in, I read for five minutes until... Bored Now: Kitty! And then I drag myself back and read some more until Bored Now: Internets! And it's not for lack of interest. I mean, the whole reason I took "Topics in American Book History" was wanting it to be about the structural and manufacturing processes of book production, but while there were hints of it throughout the course, the majority of it was cultural analysis of what does it all meeeeeeeeeaaaaaan? So, for my "Formal Essay" final writing project whatchamawhosit, I decided to do a research paper on the stuff I wanted from the course, so that I would actually get the information. And it is interesting! Like the switch from leather to cloth and casing-in versus binding on boards and changing it so that instead of one person binding the book start to finish, it's all assembly line tasks, so that they could hire less skilled workers on the cheap and eventually replace them with machines (who will eventually rise up and take over the earth!).
So here I am all, "I want to know this!" and my brain is just like, "Nope, naptime!"

Library of the Living Dead.

So, I've been reading Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow, and it just occurred to me this morning how seasonally appropriate it is what with it being about Decomposing Zombie Jesus's half-sister (on the god side).
So far my favorite part is ( I wouldn't consider it a spoiler, but just in case. )
And I realize I probably shouldn't find that to be quite so, well... heartwarming, but I'm me, so I do.