{"id":318,"date":"2016-01-01T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:51:03","slug":"2015-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"2015: The Year in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it through 71 books this year. It&#8217;s not as many as <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=262\">last year<\/a>, but still highly respectable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Page Count<\/strong>: around 27,128, based on statistics from LibraryThing.\u00a0 This is about 77 percent of what I read last year<\/li>\n<li><strong>Library Use<\/strong>: 47 of the 71 books (66 percent) I read were from the library. Thank you, Sacramento Public Library!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Female and Male Authors<\/strong>: I read 41 books written by women and 30 written by men. Suck it, men. It takes a conscious effort to read more books by women, but it&#8217;s worthwhile, especially if you haven&#8217;t done it before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital and Analog<\/strong>: I read 38 digital books and 33 analog (aka dead tree) books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiction and Non-Fiction<\/strong>: I read 18 non-fiction and 53 fiction books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorites<\/strong>: My favorites this year were Kameron Hurley&#8217;s books (all of them), Max Gladstone&#8217;s Craft Sequence, <em>Who Fears Death<\/em>, and <em>Wolf Winter<\/em>. The book I found most unexpectedly great was <em>All My Puny Sorrows<\/em>. It&#8217;s hard to pick favorites though because everything I read was pretty good this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><em>\u00a0The Cloud Roads<\/em> by Martha Wells<\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0The Serpent Sea<\/em> by Martha Wells<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Bone Clocks <\/em>by David Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Whispering Muse<\/em> by Sj\u00f3n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Snow Crash<\/em> by Neil Stephenson<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America<\/em>by by Linda Tirado<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Magic for Beginners<\/em> by Kelly Link<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Just City<\/em> by Jo Walton<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Martian: A Novel<\/em> by Andy Weir<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The People&#8217;s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age <\/em>by Astra Taylor<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Loitering<\/em> by Charles D&#8217;Ambrosio<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Mirror Empire<\/em> by Kameron Hurley<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Assata: An Autobiography<\/em> by Assata Skakur<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Down and Derby: The Insiders Guide to Roller Derby<\/em> by Jennifer Barbee and Alex Cohen<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Infidel<\/em> by Kameron Hurley<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Ambassador<\/em> by Bragi \u00d3lafsson<\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0Rapture<\/em> by Kameron Hurley<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination<\/em> by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>2K to 10K: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Hieroglyph: Stories &amp; Visions for a Better Future<\/em> edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Galaxy Game\u00a0<\/em>by Karen Lord<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Three Parts Dead<\/em> by Max Gladstone<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii<\/em> by James L. Haley<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>An Indigenous Peoples&#8217; History of the United States<\/em> by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Wolf Winter<\/em> by Cecilia Ekb\u00e4ck<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making<\/em> by Catherynne M. Valente<\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0 A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel<\/em> by V. E. Schwab<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Two Serpents Rise<\/em> by Max Gladstone<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>This Nonviolent Stuff&#8217;ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible<\/em> by Charles E. Cobb<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em> by Cixin Liu<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Book of Strange New Things<\/em> by Michael Faber<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Full Fathom Five <\/em>by Max Gladstone<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/em> by Claire North<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Keeper of Lost Causes<\/em> by Jussi Adler-Olsen<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Grace of Kings<\/em> by Ken Liu<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Dark Eden<\/em> by Chris Beckett<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Dune <\/em>by Frank Herbert<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People <\/em>by Elizabeth A. Fenn<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Dune Messiah<\/em> by Frank Herbert<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Philosopher Kings <\/em>by Jo Walton<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Unit<\/em> by Ninni Holmqvist<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Mother of Eden<\/em> by Chris Beckett<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Children of Dune<\/em> by Frank Herbert<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Undreground Girls of Kabul: In Search of A Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan<\/em> by Jenny Nordberg<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Shadow and Bone<\/em> by Leigh Bardugo<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>All My Puny Sorrows<\/em> by Miriam Towes<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town<\/em> by Jon Krakauer<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Dark Forest<\/em> by Cixin Liu<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Dream London <\/em>by Tony Ballantyne<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Last First Snow <\/em>by Max Gladstone<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Lies of Locke Lamora<\/em> by Scott Lynch<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Who Fears Death <\/em>by Nnedi Okorafor<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Our Endless Numbered Days<\/em> by Claire Fuller<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Rabbit Back Literature Society<\/em> by Pasi Ilmari J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen<\/li>\n<li><em>\u00a0 The Quantum Thief <\/em> by Hannu Rajaniemi<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Red Seas Under Red Skies <\/em>by Scott Lynch<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Ivory Vikings <\/em>by Nancy Marie Brown<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Fractal Prince <\/em>by Hannu Rajaniemi<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Causal Angel <\/em>by Hannu Rajaniemi<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Ancillary Justice <\/em>by Ann Leckie<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Luna: New Moon<\/em> by Ian MacDonald<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>My Real Children <\/em>by Jo Walton<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Sorcerer to the Crown <\/em>by Zen Cho<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Butterflies in November <\/em>by Au\u00f0ur Ava \u00f3lafsd\u00f3ttir<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Ancillary Sword <\/em>by Ann Leckie<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Bad Feminist <\/em>by Roxane Gay<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>The Art of Language Invention <\/em>by David Peterson<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Ancillary Mercy <\/em>by Ann Leckie<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>One of Us: Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway <\/em>by Asne Seirstad<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Lagoon <\/em>by Nnedi Okorafor<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<em>Derby Life<\/em><em>: A Crash Course in the Incredible Sport of Roller Derby<\/em> by Margot Atwell<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it through 71 books this year. It&#8217;s not as many as last year, but still highly respectable. Page Count: around 27,128, based on statistics from LibraryThing.\u00a0 This is about 77 percent of what I read last year Library Use: 47 of the 71 books (66 percent) I read were from the library. 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