2020: The Year in Books

Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in magazines.

Number of books read (as of December 31, 2020): 066.

Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within author):

Iain M. Banks: The Culture 01—Consider Phlebas (aBook) (August).

M.A.R. Barker: The Empire of the Petal Throne—The World of Tekumel (pBook) (January). Swords & Glory, Volume 02—Tekumel Player's Handbook—The World of the Petal Throne (pBook) (January).

MAR Barker & Jeff Dee: Bethorm—The Plane of Tekumel (pBook) (January).

Albert A. Bell: The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 01—All Roads Lead to Murder (eBook) (October).

Larry Bond and Chris Carlson: Jerry Mitchell 01—Dangerous Ground (eBook) (July).

Christopher Brown: Rule of Capture (eBook) (August).

John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider (aBook) (December).

Lois McMaster Bujold: Vorkosiverse 02—Shards of Honor (aBook) (March). Vorkosiverse 03—Barrayar (aBook) (March). Vorkosiverse 01—Falling Free (aBook and eBook) (April). Vorkosiverse 04—The Warrior's Apprentice (aBook) (April). Vorkosiverse 05—The Vor Game (aBook) (April). Vorkosiverse 06—Cetaganda (aBook) (May). Vorkosiverse 07—Ethan of Athos (aBook) (July). Vorkosiverse 08—Brothers in Arms (aBook) (July). Vorkosiverse 09—The Borders of Infinity (aBook) (July). Vorkosiverse 10—Mirror Dance (aBook) (December). Vorkosiverse 11—Memory (aBook) (December). Vorkosiverse 12—Komarr (aBook) (December).

Tom Clancy: Ryanverse 02—Patriot Games (eBook) (February).

Dean Engelhardt and Robin D. Laws: Absinthe in Carcosa (pBook) (January).

William Gibson: Stub 01—The Peripheral (eBook and aBook) (February).

Joe Haldeman: Worlds 01—Worlds (eBook) (June). Worlds 02—Worlds Apart (eBook) (July). Worlds 03—Worlds Enough and Time (eBook) (July).

Barbara Hambly: The Windrose Chronicles 01—The Silent Tower (eBook) (August).

John Harper: Blades in the Dark (pBook) (January).

Robert A. Heinlein: Beyond This Horizon (eBook) (July). Future History 01—The Man Who Sold the Moon (eBook) (December). Future History 02—The Green Hills of Earth (eBook) (December). The Menace from Earth (eBook) (December).

William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderlands (eBook and aBook) (May).

Robin D. Laws: The Yellow King Roleplaying Game 01: Paris. The Yellow King Roleplaying Game 02: The Wars. The Yellow King Roleplaying Game 03: Aftermath. The Yellow King Roleplaying Game 04: This is Normal Now (all pBooks) (all January).

Robin D. Laws, John Sead, Peter Freeman: The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game (pBook) (July).

Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser 04—Swords Against Wizrardry (aBook) (October).

Nicholas Meyers: The Seven Percent Solution (eBook) (February).

C.L. Moore: Northwest of Earth (eBook) (December).

Patrick O'Brian: Aubrey–Maturin 01—Master & Commander (eBook and pBook) (September). Aubrey–Maturin 02—Post Captain (eBook and pBook) (October).

Steve Perrin, Greg Stafford & Co.: RuneQuest (Second Edition) (pBook) (January).

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael 00—A Rare Benedictine—The Advent of Brother Cadfael (eBook) (February). Brother Cadfael 01—A Morbid Taste for Bones (eBook) (February). Brother Cadfael 02—One Corpse Too Many (eBook) (February). Brother Cadfael 03—Monk's Hood (eBook) (November). Brother Cadfael 04—St. Peter's Fair (eBook) (November). Brother Cadfael 05—The Leper of Saint Giles (eBook) (December). Brother Cadfael 06—The Virgin in the Ice (eBook) (December).

Tim Powers: The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (eBook) (January). The Drawing of the Dark (eBook) (January). Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (eBook) (January).

Kim Stanley Robinson: Science in the Capital 01—Forty Signs of Rain (aBook) (November). Science in the Capital 02—Fifty Degrees Below (aBook) (December). Science in the Capital 03—Sixty Days and Counting (aBook) (December).

Cordwainer Smith: The Best of Cordwainer Smith (aBook) (November).

Neal Stephenson: The Baroque Cycle 01—Quicksilver (aBook) (October). (Note: The books in this series were originally published as a trilogy in hardcover. These editions are from the paperback edition, where each hardcover was split into multiple smaller volumes.)

Gary B. Trudeau: 40—A Doonesbury Retrospective—Book 01 (70–79) (eBook) (October).

Gene Wolfe: The Sorcerer's House (eBook) (July).

Jack Vance: Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth (aBook) (April). Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld (aBook) (September.)

A.E. van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle (eBook) (October).

Roger Zelazny: Doorways in the Sand (eBook) (June). A Night in the Lonesome October (pBook) (October).

Books read (in chronological order, master list): 001: The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (Powers). 002: The Drawing of the Dark (Powers). 003: Down and out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (Powers). 004: A Rare Benedictine (Peters). 005: A Morbid Taste for Bones (Peters). 006: The Peripheral (Gibson). 007: One Corpse Too Many (Peters). 008: The Seven Percent Solution (Meyers). 009: Patriot Games (Clancy). 010: Shards of Honor (Bujold). 011: Barrayar (Bujold). 012: Falling Free (Bujold). 013: The Dying Earth (Vance). 014: The Warrior's Apprentice (Bujold). 015: The Vor Game (Bujold). 016: Cetaganda (Bujold). 017: The House on the Borderlands (Hodgson). 018: Doorways in the Sand (Zelazny). 019: Worlds (Haldeman). 020: Worlds Apart (Haldeman). 021: The Sorcerer's House (Wolfe). 022: Ethan of Athos (Bujold). 023: Brothers in Arms (Bujold). 024: The Borders of Infinity (Bujold). 025: Worlds Enough and Time (Haldeman). 026: Beyond This Horizon (Heinlein). 027: Dangerous Ground (Bond and Carlson). 028: Rule of Capture (Brown). 029: The Silent Tower (Hambly). 030: Consider Phlebas (Banks). 031: Master & Commander (O'Brian). 032: The Eyes of the Overworld (Vance). 033: All Roads Lead to Murder (Bell). 034: Post Captain (O'Brian). 035: Quicksilver (Stephenson). 036: A Night in the Lonesome October (Zelazny). 037: Swords Against Wizrardry (Leiber). 038: 40—A Doonesbury Retrospective—Book 01 (70–79). (Trudeau). 039: Voyage of the Space Beagle (van Vogt). 040: The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Smith). 041: Forty Signs of Rain (Robinson). 042: Monk's Hood (Peters). 043: St. Peter's Fair (Peters).044: The Leper of Saint Giles (Peters). 045: The Man Who Sold the Moon (Heinlein). 046: The Virgin in the Ice (Peters). 047: The Green Hills of Earth (Heinlein). 048: Fifty Degrees Below (Robinson). 049: The Menace from Earth (Heinlein). 050: The Shockwave Rider (Brunner). 051: The Empire of the Petal Throne—The World of Tekumel (Barker). 052: Swords & Glory, Volume 02—Tekumel Player's Handbook—The World of the Petal Throne (Barker). 053: Bethorm—The Plane of Tekumel  (Barker & Dee). 054: Absinthe in Carcosa (Engelhardt and Laws). 055: Blades in the Dark (Harper). 056: Paris (Laws). 057: The Wars (Laws). 058: Aftermath (Laws). 059: This Is Normal Now (Laws). 060: The Dying Earth ( Laws, Sead and Freeman). 061: RuneQuest Second Edition (Perrin, Stafford & Co.). 062: Mirror Dance (Bujold). 063: Northwest of Earth (Moore). 064: Memory (Bujold). 065: Komarr (Bujold). 066: Sixty Days and Counting (Robinson).

Paper Books: 013.

Electronic Books: 030.

Audiobooks: 024.

Sometimes I have swapped between formats, so the totals of those three formats may not equal the total for books read in a year.