As with every year past for many years, here is a compiled list of books read for the year. I may not review everything I read, but I try to track it all and at least acknowledge it here.
Books read will come in many formats: serialized in magazines (less often than when I was young), eBooks, pBooks (paper) and aBooks (audio) (yes, format doesn't matter, it all counts).
Number of books read (as of December 30, 2014): 186. Books read:
Poul Anderson: Three Hearts and Three Lions (pBook) (December).
Stephen Baxter: Vacuum Diagrams (eBook) (November).
Brian Michael Bendis & Divers Hands: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 01—Cosmic Avengers (eBook) (June). Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 02—Angela (eBook) (July). Age of Ultron (pBook) (September). Avengers Assemble (pBook) (October). Avengers (no sub-title, Avengers 1-6, 2011) (pBook) (October). Avengers Volume 02 (pBook) (October). Avengers Volume 03 (pBook) (October). Avengers Volume 04 (AVX) (pBook) (October).
Gregory Benford: The Galactic Center Companion (eBook) (April).
Jorge Luis Borges: A Universal History of Iniquity (pBook) (March). Labyrinths (pBook) (December).
Ed Brubaker: The Marvels Project—Birth of the Super Heroes (pBook) (October). Captain America: Winter Soldier (pBook) (October). Captain America: The Man With No Face (pBook) (October).
Algis Budrys: Benchmarks—Galaxy Bookshelf (pBook) (March).
Octavia Butler: Kindred (eBook) (May).
Philip J. Caputo: A Rumor of War (aBook) (March).
Chris Claremont: Star-Lord: The Hollow Crown (eBook) (July). Star-Lord: Worlds on the Brink (eBook) (July). Star-Lord: Tears for Heaven (eBook) (July).
Arthur C. Clarke: Prelude to Space (eBook) (August). Against the Fall of Night (eBook) (August). Sands of Mars (eBook) (December).
Glen Cook: The Black Company (aBook) (July). Shadows Linger (aBook) (August). The White Rose (aBook) (August).
Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 (eBook) (April). Atlantis: Three Tales (eBook) (May).
August Derleth and James Turner (editors): Tales from the Cthulhu Mythos (eBook) (August)
David Drake: Leary of the RCN 01: With the Lightnings (aBook) (April). Leary of the RCN 02: Lt. Leary, Commanding (aBook) (May). Leary of the RCN 03: The Far Side of the Stars (aBook) (June). Leary of the RCN 04: The Way to Glory (aBook) (June). Some Golden Harbor (aBook) (July). When the Tide Rises (aBook) (August). In the Stormy Red Sky (aBook) (August).
Gerry Dugan, Brian Poselhn & Divers Hands: Deadpool Volume 01 (pBook) (October).
Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (aBook) (December).
Warren Ellis: Ignition City (pBook) (February). Anna Mercury: The Cutter (pBook) (February). Ministry of Space (pBook) (February). Ocean (pBook) (February). Global Frequency (eBook) (October). Planetary Volume 01: All Over the World and Other Stories (eBook) (October). Planetary Volume 02: The Fourth Man (eBook) (October). Planetary Volume 03: Leaving the 20th Century (eBook) (October). Planetary Volume 04: Spacetime Archaeology (eBook) (October). Aetheric Mechanics (eBook) (November). Transmetropolitan Volume 01—Back on the Street (Issues 01-06) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 02—Lust for Life (Issues 07-12) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 03—Year of the Bastard (Issues 13-18) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 04—The New Scum (Issues 19-24) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 05—Lonely City (Issues 25-30) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 06—Gouge Away (Issues 31-36) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 07—Spiders Thrash (Issues 37-42) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 08—Dirge (Issues 43-48) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 09—The Cure (Issues 49-54) (eBook) (December). Transmetropolitan Volume 10—One More Time (Issues 55-60, I Hate It Here, Filth of the City) (eBook) (December).
Eric Flint & David Weber: Crown of Slaves (aBook) (October).
Matt Fraction and Divers Hands: My Life as a Weapon (Hawkeye 01) (pBook) (April); Little Hits (Hawkeye 02) (pBook) (April). L.A. Woman (Hawkeye 03) (pBook) (October); Rio Bravo (Hawkeye 04) (pBook) (October). Invincible Iron Man 09: Demon (pBook) (October).
Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (pBook) (January). Sandman 01: Preludes & Nocturnes (eBook) (December). Sandman 02: Doll's House (eBook) (December). Sandman 03: Dream Country (eBook) (December). Sandman 04: Season of Mists (eBook) (December). Sandman 05: The Game of You (eBook) (December). Sandman 06: Fables & Reflections (eBook) (December). Sandman 07: Brief Lives (eBook) (December). Sandman 08: World's End (eBook) (December). Sandman 09: The Kindly Ones (eBook) (December). Sandman 10: The Wake (eBook) (December).
Fred Gallagher (with Rodney Caston): Megatokyo Omnibus 01 (Volume 01-03) (pBook) (April).
Charles E. Gannon: Fire with Fire (eBook) (May).
William Gibson: Burning Chrome (aBook) (December). Neuromancer (aBook) (December).
Debra Hamel: Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History (eBook) (March). It Was a Dark and Stormy Tweet—Five Hundred First Lines in 140 Characters or Less (eBook) (December).
James Hilton: Lost Horizon (eBook) (August).
Kenneth Hite: Tour De Lovecraft—The Tales (eBook) (July).
William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland (aBook) (July) (Again: pBook, November) (Again: aBook, November) (Again: aBook. December) (Again: pbook. December. Last time for the year, promise! (review here).
Sean Howe: Marvel Comics—The Untold Story (pBook) (August).
Masashi Kishimoto: Naruto 01 (pBook) (February). Naruto 02 (pBook) (February). Naruto 03 (pBook) (February). Naruto 04 (pBook) (March). Naruto 05 (pBook) (April). Naruto 06 (pBook) (April).
Anne Leckie: Ancillary Justice (eBook & aBook) (April).
Stan Lee & Associates: Avengers Masterworks 001 (eBook) (June).
Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (aBook) (February).
H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (eBook) (February).
R.A. MacAvoy: Tea with the Black Dragon (eBook and pBook) (September) (and again, September, aBook and eBook). Twisting the Rope (aBook and eBook) (September).
Bill Mantlo & Divers Hands: Rocket Raccoon—Tales from Half World (eBook) (July).
Karl Marlantes: Matterhorn (aBook) (January). (Marlantes served in the USMC in the Vietnam War and it is more than possible that this book was based in part on his experiences there. Every time I thought he had thrown everything possible at me, the reader, the book is kicked up a notch. Gut-wrenching, emotionally-draining and an amazing tale.)
Michael Moorcock, Chris Roberson, Francesco Biagini: Elric—The Balance Lost 01 (eBook) (June). Elric—The Balance Lost 02 (eBook) (June). Elric—The Balance Lost 03 (eBook) (June).
C.L. Moore: Black God's Kiss (pBook) (January). Northwest of Earth (pBook) (February).
Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely: We3 (eBook) (November)
Linda Nagata: The Red—First Light (eBook) (May).
Jamie Noquchi: The Yellow Peril 01: Back to the Grind (eBook) (December). The Yellow Peril 02: The Client is Always (eBook) (December).
Patrick O'Brian: Master & Commander (aBook) (July). Post Captain (aBook) (August).
David Petersen: Mouse Guard—Fall 1152 (eBook) (November).
Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards! (eBook) (October).
Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (aBook and eBook) (May).
Sofia Samatar: A Stranger in Olondria (aBook and eBook) (May).
Charles Sheffield: Vectors (eBook) (February). Hidden Variables (eBook) (March). Sight of Proteus (eBook) (March). The Compleat MacAndrew (eBook) (March). Summertide (eBook) (March).
Clifford D. Simak: City (aBook) (March). The Werewolf Principle (pBook) (December). The Goblin Reservation (pBook) (December). A Choice of Gods (pBook) (December) (And again for Werewolf, Goblin and Choice in December. Podcast preparation.).
Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01: The End of the Story (pBook) (December). The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02: The Door to Saturn (pBook) (December). The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 03: A Vintage from Atlantis (pBook) (December). The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 04: The Maze of the Enchanter (pbook) (December). The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 05: The Last Hieroglyph (pBook) (December). The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith (pBook) (December). (Omnibus review here.)
Jonathan Strahan (editor): Engineering Infinity (eBook) (June). Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier (eBook) (June). Reach for Infinity (eBook) (June). Edge of Infinity (eBook) (August). The Starry Rift (eBook) (August).
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: The Roadside Picnic (aBook) (January).
Howard Tayler: Schlock Mercenary 01: The Tub of Happiness (eBook) (November). Schlock Mercenary 02: The Teraport Wars (eBook) (December). Schlock Mercenary 03: Under New Management (eBook) (December).
Sun Tzu: The Art of War (aBook) (April).
Jack Vance: The Dying Earth (aBook) (May). Magnus Ridolph (eBook) (July).
Jeff VanderMeer: Southern Reach 01: Annihilation (pBook and aBook) (April) (September) (yes, three times). Authority (eBook and aBook) (September). Acceptance (eBook and aBook) (September).
Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples: Saga 01 (eBook) (June).
Vernor Vinge: Rainbows End (aBook) (March).
David Weber (editor): More Than Honor (aBook) (January). In Service of the Sword (aBook) (September). Worlds of Honor (aBook) (September). Changer of Worlds (aBook) (September). In Fire Forged (aBook) (September). Beginnings (aBook) (October). War of Honor (aBook) (October). The Shadow of Saganami (aBook) (October). At All Costs (aBook) (October). Storm from the Shadows (aBook) (November).
Helene Wecker: The Golem and the Jinni (aBook and eBook) (May).
Andy Weir: The Martian (aBook and eBook) (May).
Chuck Wendig: Miriam Black 01: Blackbirds (aBook) (December). The Kick-Ass Writer (pBook) (December).
Roger Zelazny: A Night in the Lonesome October (pBook) (October).
I ended 2013 by reading this book and began 2014 by listening to Neil Gaiman read it. What was a creepy and wonderful read became and creepy and wonderful listen, made more wonderful by Gaiman's treatment of the story. Whether it is his words or not, he is an ace narrator.
Books read (in chronological order): 001: The Ocean at the end of the Lane (Gaiman). 002: The Roadside Picnic (Strugatsky Brothers). 003: Black God's Kiss (Moore). 004: Matterhorn (Marlantes). 005: More Than Honor (Weber). 006: Ignition City (Ellis). 007: Anna Mercury (Ellis). 008: Ministry of Space (Ellis). 009: Ocean (Ellis). 010: Solaris (Lem). 011: At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft). 012: Northwest of Earth (Moore). 013: Naruto 01 (Kishimoto). 014: Naruto 02 (Kishimoto). 015: Naruto 03 (Kishimoto). 016: Vectors (Sheffield) 017: Hidden Variables (Sheffield) 018: A Rumor of War (Caputo) 019: Sight of Proteus (Sheffield) 020: Benchmarks (Budrys) 021: City (Simak) 022: The Compleat MacAndrew (Sheffield). 023: Naruto 04 (Kishimoto). 024: A Universal History of Iniquity (Borges). 025: Rainbows End (Vinge). 026: Reading Herodotus (Hamel). 027: Summertide (Sheffield). 028: Ancillary Justice (Leckie). 029: My Life as a Weapon (Fraction). 030: Little Hits (Fraction). 031: Babel-17 (Delany). 032-034: Megatokyo Omnibus 01 (Gallagher). 035: Naruto 05 (Kishimoto). 036: Naruto 06 (Kishimoto). 037: The Galactic Center Companion (Benford). 038: With the Lightnings (Drake). 039: The Art of War (Tzu). 040 and 041: Annilihation (VanderMeer). 042: Lt. Leary, Commanding (Drake). 043: The Martian (Weir). 044: The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon). 045: The Golem and the Jinni (Wecker). 046: A Stranger in Olondria (Samatar). 047: The Red—First Light (Nagata). 048: Fire with Fire (Gannon). 049: The Dying Earth (Vance). 050: Kindred (Butler). 051: Atlantis: Three Tales (Delany). 052: The Far Side of the Stars (Drake). 053: Avengers Masterworks Volume 001 (Lee, et al). 054: Elric—The Balance Lost 01 (Moorcock, et al). 055: Elric—The Balance Lost 02 (Moorcock, et al). 056: Elric—The Balance Lost 03 (Moorcock, et al). 057: Engineering Infinity (Strahan). 058: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1: Cosmic Avengers (Bendis & Divers Hands). 059: The Way to Glory (Drake). 060: Saga 01 (Vaughan & Staples). 061: Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier (Strahan). 062: Reach for Infinity (Strahan). 063: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 02: Angela (Bendis). 064: Rocket Raccoon: Tales from Half-World (Mantlo). 065: Star-Lord—The Hollow Crown (Claremont). 066: Master & Commander (O'Brian). 067: Tour De Lovecraft (Hite). 068: Magnus Ridolph (Vance). 069: Some Golden Harbor (Drake). 070: The House on the Borderland (Hodgson). 071: The Black Company (Cook). 072: Worlds on the Brink (Claremont). 073: Tears for Heaven (Claremont). 074: Shadows Linger (Cook). 075: When the Tide Rises (Drake). 076: Prelude to Space (Clarke). 077: Lost Horizon (Hilton). 078: The White Rose (Cook). 079: Post Captain (O'Brian). 080: In the Stormy Red Sky (Drake). 081: Tales from the Cthulhu Mythos (Derleth & Turner). 082: Edge of Infinity (Strahan). 083: The Starry Rift (Strahan). 084: Against the Fall of Night (Clarke). 085: Marvel Comics—The Untold Story (Howe). 086: In the Service of the Sword (Weber). 087: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy). 088: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy) (yes, again). 089: Worlds of Honor (Weber). 090: Changer of Worlds (Weber). 091: Annilihation (VanderMeer) (yes, a third time). 092: Twisting the Rope (MacAvoy). 093: Age of Ultron (Bendis). 094: Authority (VanderMeer). 095: Acceptance (VanderMeer). 096: In Fire Forged (Weber). 097: Beginnings (Weber). 098: War of Honor (Weber). 099: The Marvels Project (Brubaker). 100: Deadpool Volume 01 (Dugan & Posehn). 101: Captain America—Winter Soldier (Brubaker. 102: Avengers Assemble (Bendis). 103: Global Frequency (Ellis). 104: Avengers (Bendis). 105: Crown of Slaves (Flint & Weber). 106: Guards! Guards! (Pratchett). 107: The Shadow of Saganami (Weber). 108: Avengers Volume 02 (Bendis). 109: Avengers Volume 03 (Bendis). 110: Avengers Volume 04 (AVX) (Bendis). 111: At All Costs (Weber). 112: Invincible Iron Man 09: Demon (Fraction). 113: Captain America: The Man With No Face (Brubaker). 114: L.A. Woman (Hawkeye 03) (Fraction). 115: Rio Bravo (Hawkeye 04) (Fraction). 116: Planetary Volume 01 (Ellis). 117: Planetary Volume 02—The Fourth Man (Ellis). 118: Planetary Volume 03—Leaving the 20th Century (Ellis). 119: Planetary Volume 04—Spacetime Archaeology (Ellis). 120: Storm from the Shadows (Weber). 121: Aetheric Mechanics (Ellis). 122: The House on the Borderland (Hodgson) (again). 123: A Night in the Lonesome October (Zelazny). 124: Schlock Mercenary 01—The Tub of Happiness (Tayler). 125: Mouse Guard—Fall 1152 (Petersen). 126: We3 (Morrison & Quitely). 127: Vacuum Diagrams (Baxter). 128: The House on the Borderland (Hodgson). 129: Sandman 01—Preludes & Nocturnes (Gaiman). 130: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01—The End of the Story (Smith). 131: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02—The Door to Saturn (Smith). 132: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 03—A Vintage from Atlantis (Smith). 133: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 04—The Maze of the Enchanter (Smith). 134: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 05—The Last Hieroglyph (Smith). 135: The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith (Smith). 136: The Yellow Peril 01—Back to the Grind (Noquchi). 137: The Yellow Peril 02—The Client is Always (Noquchi). 138: Sandman 02—Doll's House (Gaiman). 139: The House on the Borderland (Hodgson). 140: Labyrinths (Borges). 141: Schlock Mercenary 02—The Teraport Wars (Tayler). 142: Sandman 03—Dream Country (Gaiman). 143: Miriam Black 01—Blackbirds (Wendig). 144: Burning Chrome (Gibson). 145: The House on the Borderland (Hodgson). 146: Neuromancer (Gibson). 147: Schlock Mercenary 03—Under New Management (Tayler). 148: Sandman 03—Dream Country (Gaiman). 149: Sandman 04—Season of Mists (Gaiman). 150: Sandman 05—The Game of You (Gaiman). 151: Sandman 06—Fables & Reflections (Gaiman). 152: Transmetropolitan Volume 01—Back on the Street (Ellis). 153: Transmetropolitan Volume 02—Lust for Life (Ellis). 154: Transmetropolitan Volume 03—Year of the Bastard (Ellis). 155: Transmetropolitan Volume 04—The New Scum (Ellis). 156: Transmetropolitan Volume 05—Lonely City (Ellis). 157: Transmetropolitan Volume 06—Gouge Away (Ellis). 158: Transmetropolitan Volume 07—Spiders Thrash (Ellis). 159: Transmetropolitan Volume 08—Dirge (Ellis). 160: Transmetropolitan Volume 09—The Cure (Ellis). 161: Transmetropolitan Volume 10—One More Time (Ellis). 162: Three Hearts and Three Lions (Anderson). 163: The Werewolf Principle (Simak). 164: The Goblin Reservation (Simak). 165: A Choice of Gods (Simak). 166: Sandman 07—Brief Lives (Gaiman). 167: Sandman 08—World's End (Gaiman). 168: Sandman 09—The Kindly Ones (Gaiman). 169: Sandman 10—The Wake (Gaiman). 170: It Was a Dark and Stormy Tweet—Five Hundred First Lines in 140 Characters or Less (Hamel). 171: Ancillary Justice (Leckie). 172: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy). 173: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy) (yes, again). 174: Twisting the Rope (MacAvoy). 175: The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon). 176: A Stranger in Olondria (Samatar). 177: Authority (VanderMeer). 178: Acceptance (VanderMeer). 179: The Golem and the Jinni (Wecker). 180: The Martian (Weir). 181: Sands of Mars (Clarke). 182: The Kick-Ass Writer (Wendig). 183: The Werewolf Principle (Simak) (again). 184: The Goblin Reservation (Simak) (again). 185: A Choice of Gods (Simak) (again). 186: The Name of the Rose (Eco).
(Sequential count corrected for undercounting when doing duplicate reads across book formats; exact reading sequence not corrected.)
Paper Books: 052.
Electronic Books: 087.
Audio Books: 047.
Sometimes I have swapped between multiple versions of one title, but I'm listing is as electronic or paper or audio if that's the main way I listened to it.
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