{"id":450,"date":"2018-12-31T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T01:57:22","slug":"2018-the-11th-annual-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"2018: The 11th Annual Year in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It feels anti-climactic to post the books of the year after being able to post the books of the decade at the beginning of 2018. But, decades consist of years. We&#8217;re into the second decade of book tracking. Here&#8217;s to many more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I read 58 books, which is quite close to last year&#8217;s total of 62, and more than my annual average (52). Other vital reading stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>\u00a0Page count:<\/strong> 22,154, based on what LibraryThing lists. I am sure I didn&#8217;t exactly read this many pages, once you count appendices and notes, but it&#8217;s the best number I have.<\/li><li><strong>Library use:<\/strong> 19 library books (mostly ebooks), 2 borrowed from friends. This year I read more books that I owned. I can&#8217;t say if this is because I was working on the backlog or buying more books. We may never know.<\/li><li><strong>Female\/male authors: <\/strong>49 by female authors, 9 by male authors. When it&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s right.<\/li><li><strong>Digital and analog: <\/strong>40 digital, 18 paper. <\/li><li><strong>Fiction and non-fiction: <\/strong>39 fiction, 19 nonfiction. <\/li><li><strong>Books in other languages: <\/strong>4 books in Spanish. I really meant to read more Spanish books this year. I started out strong, but I got bogged down later in the year with exhaustion. I&#8217;ve since been diagnosed with sleep apnea and obtained a cpap. I&#8217;m hoping next year it will be easier to focus.<\/li><li><strong>Favorites: <\/strong>This question always stumps be a little because I love everything I read. <em>The City of Brass<\/em> by S.A. Chakraborty was a definite favorite, so was Cat Valente&#8217;s <em>Space Opera<\/em>. I enjoyed Kate Elliot&#8217;s women-focused stories in the Jaran series and Spiritwalker Trilogy (which I&#8217;m still reading). All the books I got from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powells.com\/indiespensable\">Powell&#8217;s Indiespensible<\/a> were stunning and made me reflect. This includes <em>Red Clocks, There There,<\/em> and<em> The Mars Room<\/em>. As for non-fiction, I think the books that have most stayed with me are <em>Prairie Fires<\/em>, which I did not expect to like that much, but the history involved was fascinating, and <em>Bodies Out of Bounds<\/em>. <em>Rage Becomes Her<\/em> and <em>Text Me When You Get Home<\/em> both distilled a mood around being a woman and getting along in this world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And now for the list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>Date Finished<\/td><td>Title<\/td><td>Author<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/6<\/td><td>The City of Brass<\/td><td>S. A. Chakraborty<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/10<\/td><td>Provenance <\/td><td>Ann Leckie<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/18<\/td><td>The Girl in the Tower<\/td><td>Katherine Arden<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/24<\/td><td>Ghost Talkers<\/td><td>Mary Robinette Kowal<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/29<\/td><td>The Ruin of Angeles<\/td><td>Max Gladstone <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/4<\/td><td>Freedom Is a Constant Struggle <\/td><td>Angela Davis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/7<\/td><td>The Will to Battle<\/td><td>Ada Palmer <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/8<\/td><td>Caramba!<\/td><td>Nina Marie Martinez<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/8<\/td><td>The Jewel and Her Lapidary<\/td><td>Fran Wilde<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/11<\/td><td>Crosstalk<\/td><td>Connie Willis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/15<\/td><td>How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective<\/td><td>Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/25<\/td><td>The Unwomanly Face of War<\/td><td>Svetlana Alexievich<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/1<\/td><td>Como agua para chocolate<\/td><td>Laura Esquivel<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/4<\/td><td>A Wrinkle in Time <\/td><td>Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/7<\/td><td>Red Clocks <\/td><td>Leni Zumas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/8<\/td><td>Everfair<\/td><td>Nisi Shawl<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/13<\/td><td>The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth about Food and Flavor<\/td><td>Mark Schatzker<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/17<\/td><td>Karen Memory<\/td><td>Elizabeth Bear<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/6<\/td><td>Hild<\/td><td>Nicola Griffith<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/13<\/td><td>Republic of Thieves<\/td><td>Scott Lynch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/18<\/td><td>Space Opera<\/td><td>Catherynne Valente<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/24<\/td><td>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City<\/td><td>Matthew Desmond<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/4<\/td><td>La Maravillosa Historia de Espa\u00f1ol<\/td><td>Francisco Moreno Fern\u00e1ndez<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/4<\/td><td>The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe <\/td><td>Kij Johnson <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5\/9<\/td><td>Invisible: How Young Women with 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