Year-End Book Wrap-Up 2024

Posted by melydia on January 3, 2025 No comment

Books Read in 2024:
1. Calvin by Martine Leavitt
2. Seeing Me Naked by Liza Palmer
3. A Girl Like Any Other by Sophie Labelle
4. Good Night Turtles by Adam Gamble
5. I Can Has Cheezburger by Eric Nakagawa
6. Artsy Cats Board Book by Angie Rozelaar
7. Peep On a Perch by Andrea Posner-Sanchez
8. Excuse Me While I Disappear by Laurie Notaro
9. Hammered by Kevin Hearne
10. Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
11. Starship: Mutiny by Mike Resnick
12. Dragon America by Mike Resnick
13. The Museum of Hoaxes by Alex Boese

Audiobooks Listened to in 2024:
1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2. Emma by Jane Austen
3. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
4. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
5. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
6. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
7. The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
8. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish by Dorothy Gilman
9. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
10. Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
11. Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy by Melissa de la Cruz
12. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley
13. Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
14. Mechanical Failure by Joe Zeija
15. Have Sword, Will Travel by Garth Nix
16. When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton
17. Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland
18. Cress by Marissa Meyer
19. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
20. How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
21. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
22. A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
23. Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
24. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
25. Communication Failure by Joe Zeija
26. Congratulations, By the Way by George Saunders
27. Doll Bones by Holly Black
28. Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
29. Fairest by Marissa Meyer

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Year-End Book Wrap-Up 2023

Posted by melydia on February 25, 2024 No comment

Books Read in 2023:
1. Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
2. In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
3. Dot Journaling by Rachel Wilkerson Miller
4. My Life as an Experiment by A.J. Jacobs
5. Here Speeching American by Kathryn Petras
6. Embassy of the Dead by Will Mabbitt
7. The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop and Kurt Wiese
8. Constable and Toop by Gareth Jones
9. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht
10. Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green
11. The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
12. The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken
13. Children of God by Maria Doria Russell

Audiobooks Listened to in 2023:
1. American Ghost by Hannah Nordhaus
2. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
3. The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
4. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
5. I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron
6. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
7. Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean
8. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
9. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
10. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
11. A Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion by Simon Barnes
12. The Body by Bill Bryson
13. The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
14. Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar
15. Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
16. Frontier Grit by Marianne Monson
17. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
18. Humble Pi by Matt Parker
19. The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt
20. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
21. The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean
22. The Running Man by Stephen King
23. Magyk by Angie Sage
24. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
25. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
26. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
27. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
28. Beauty by Robin McKinley
29. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
30. Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

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Year-End Book Wrap-Up 2022

Posted by melydia on January 25, 2023 No comment

Why yes, much of my year was taken up reading the entire Expanse series, how could you tell?

Books Read in 2022:

  1. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
  2. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  3. Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni
  4. Suck on this Year by Denis Leary
  5. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  6. Scouts in Bondage by Michael Bell
  7. The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister by George R.R. Martin
  8. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  9. Teeth by Sandra Halford
  10. Is There Life in Outer Space? by Franklyn M. Branley
  11. Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey
  12. Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
  13. Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
  14. Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
  15. Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey
  16. Bye Bye, Binary by Eric Geron and Charlene Chua
  17. Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
  18. The Goldilocks Variations by Allan Ahlberg
  19. Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey
  20. Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
  21. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee [reread]
  22. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
  23. Dinosaur Therapy by James Stewart and K Romey
  24. This Book is For You by Worry Lines

Audiobooks Listened to in 2022:

  1. The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
  2. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
  3. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
  4. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
  5. The Last Ever After by Soman Chainani
  6. The Shining by Stephen King
  7. Tombstone by Tom Clavin
  8. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
  9. Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond
  10. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  11. Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
  12. The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  13. Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld
  14. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  15. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
  16. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  17. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  18. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
  19. Word by Word by Kory Stamper
  20. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  21. Mirror’s Edge by Scott Westerfeld
  22. Doctor Who – 12 Doctors 12 Stories by various
  23. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Year-End Book Wrap-Up 2021

Posted by melydia on January 10, 2022 No comment

Didn’t do a whole lot of reading this year. Too much else going on.

Books Read in 2021:

  1. Soonish by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
  2. Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton
  3. The Search for God and Guinness by Stephen Mansfield
  4. Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  5. A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
  6. Redshirts by John Scalzi
  7. Flim-Flam! by James Randi

Audiobooks Listened to in 2021:

  1. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
  2. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
  3. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
  4. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Gilbraith
  5. Every Tool’s a Hammer by Adam Savage
  6. How To by Randall Munroe
  7. Mobituaries by Mo Rocca
  8. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  9. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
  10. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  11. The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  12. The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
  13. Chime by Franny Billingsley
  14. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
  15. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
  16. I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
  17. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  18. Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

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Year-End Book Wrap-Up 2020

Posted by melydia on March 3, 2021 No comment

Yes I know how ridiculously late this is.

Books Read in 2020:

  1. Hope Abandoned by Mark Perrott
  2. The Secret Diary of Tiddles, Aged 3 3/4 by Gemma Correll
  3. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
  4. Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon
  5. Mallworld by Somtow Sucharitkul
  6. Hot or Not by Jessica Campbell
  7. Happy Cat Day by Tiger and Stu Hample
  8. Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle
  9. Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
  10. The Wonderling by Mira Bartok
  11. The Creative License by Danny Gregory
  12. The Little World of Liz Climo by Liz Climo
  13. The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist
  14. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  15. Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
  16. Stranger Planet by Nathan Pyle
  17. Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

Audiobooks Listened to in 2020:

  1. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
  2. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
  3. It by Stephen King
  4. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
  5. Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
  6. Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
  7. More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
  8. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
  9. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale
  10. Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman
  11. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

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