2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003
This list is not necessarily complete (especially before 2005). In particular, it does not include books I haven’t finished, even if I didn’t set them aside until two-thirds or more of the way through.
Some of these have been written up in posts with the books tag (or see the sitemap). Someday I may actually link to the posts.
2011
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, Donna Spencer
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Prince of Thorns, Mark Lawrence
From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll [physics]
Shadow’s Son, Jon Sprunk
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin
The Princess Curse, Merrie Haskell
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
The Golden Cord, Paul Genesse
The Third Sign, Gregory A. Wilson
The Dip, Seth Godin [business/productivity]
White Cat, Holly Black
The Black Prism, Brent Weeks
The Crimson Pact, vol. 1
The Personal MBA, Josh Kauffman [business]
Trickster’s Choice, Tamora Pierce
Circle of Magic: Sandry’s Book, Tamora Pierce
Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, Colleen Jones [business]
The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
Switched, Amanda Hocking
The Shadow Speaker, Nnedi Okorafor
Trouble in Mudbug, Jana DeLeon
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You, Ally Carter
One Second After, William R. Forstchen
The Godfather, Mario Puzo [mainstream]
2010
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin
The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson
Unbroken Chain, Jaleigh Johnson
The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
Dragonborne, Chandra Ryan
The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
Ink in the Blood, Chandra Ryan
Blood, Smoke, and Mirrors, Robyn Bachar
Permission Marketing, Seth Godin [business]
The Flying Eyes, J. Hunter Holly
Linchpin, Seth Godin [business]
All Marketers Are Liars, Seth Godin [business]
Personal Demon, Kelley Armstrong
Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Jill Myles
Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys [mainstream]
2009
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie (most of the stories) [mainstream]
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson
People of the Weeping Eye, Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear [historical]
Scene and Structure, Jack Bickham [writing]
Mainspring, Jay Lake
Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier
Magic or Madness, Justine Larbalestier
Cracked Up To Be, Courtney Summers [mainstream YA]
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Demon’s Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan
Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls [memoir]
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Patriot Witch, C. C. Finlay
Busted Flush, George R. R. Martin (ed.)
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Cast in Fury, Michelle Sagara
Chicken with Plums, Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
2008
A Song in Stone, Walter H. Hunt
March, Geraldine Brooks
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
Any Given Doomsday, Lori Handeland
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett
Ragamuffin, Tobias Buckell
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
2007
Farthing, Jo Walton
The Death of the Necromancer, Martha Wells
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
The Outback Stars, Sandra McDonald
The Android’s Dream, John Scalzi
Ink, Hal Duncan
Cast in Secret, Michelle Sagara
Greywalker, Kat Richardson
A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L’Engle
A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear
When the King Comes Home, Caroline Stevermer
In the Forest of Forgetting, Theodora Goss
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Cold Dark Matter, Alex Brett [mystery]
Dead Water Creek, Alex Brett [mystery]
Harry Potter 1-6, J.K. Rowling
These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Secret Atlas, Michael A. Stackpole
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Devlin’s Honor, Patricia Bray
Valley of the Soul, Tamara Siler Jones
Cast in Shadow, Michelle Sagara
Cast in Courtlight, Michelle Sagara
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Alan Garner
2006
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
His Excellency, Joseph J. Ellis [biography]
Devlin’s Luck, Patricia Bray
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
Vellum, Hal Duncan
Tall, Dark, & Dead by Tate Hallaway
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (audio)
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Tim Pratt
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Threads of Malice, Tamara Siler Jones
Crystal Rain, Tobias Buckell
Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff [mainstream YA]
A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin
Way of the Cheetah, Lynn Viehl [writing]
2005
Ghosts in the Snow, Tamara Siler Jones
Alphabet of Thorn, Patricia McKillip
Melusine, Sarah Monette
Master and Commander (abridged, audio), Patrick O’Brian
Warprize, Elizabeth Vaughan
My Antonia, Willa Cather (audio)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
The Family Trade, Charlie Stross
Inventing a Nation, Gore Vidal (audio)
Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen (audio)
Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen (audio)
Hammered, Elizabeth Bear
The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking (audio, incomplete?)
2004
Vincalis the Agitator, Holly Lisle
A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman (audio, about 3/5)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
The Seekers, Daniel J. Boorstin (audio, abridged)
2003
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (audio)
Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie (audio)
a collection of Agatha Christie short stories (audio)
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (audio)
[whatever I read before November]
