Thanks to a new job that includes a lovely 3 hours of commuting to the office (90 minutes each way) I not only seriously out-read 2022, I set a new record for total books in a year since I started counting a decade or more ago. Still obviously very Kindle Unlimited heavy as evidenced by the many instances of a series where 3, 5, 7 books all manage to get churned out and published in the span of 1 or 2 years, and their general ease of reading makes working through them pretty fast. Every year I keep thinking ‘this could give a great topic for an article’ and then don’t actually write one, so maybe my 2024 reading resolution will be to at least get back to occasionally publishing things, thus justifying the existence of this blog at all. Also present this year is literally the first time for any non-fiction book to make it onto any of these lists, with Kate Beaton’s Ducks and Don Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things. This year also saw a bit of a lean into what Goodreads at least classified as romance, most notably the Rise of the Iliri series there near the top of the list. On to a new year of reading!
(001) (2021) A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
(002) (2019) A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine
(003) (2023) Forge of the High Mage, Ian C. Esslemont
(004) (2022) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton
(005) (1970) Tau Zero, Poul Anderson
Rise of the Iliri, Auryn Hadley
(006) (2016) BloodLust
(007) (2016) Instinctual
(008) (2016) Defiance
(009) (2016) Inseparable
(010) (2016) Tenacity
(011) (2017) Resilience
(012) (2017) Dissent
(013) (2018) Upheaval
(014) (2019) Havoc
(015) (2019) Risen
(016) (2019) Hope
(017) (2013) The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
Cadicle, A.K. DuBoff
(018) (2015) Architects of Destiny
(019) (2015) Veil of Reality
(020) (2015) Bonds of Resolve
(021) (2016) Web of Truth
(022) (2016) Crossroads of Fate
(023) (2017) Path of Justice
(024) (2017) Scions of Change
Cassandra Kresnov, Joel Shepherd
(025) (2001) Crossover
(026) (2002) Breakaway
(027) (2004) Killswitch
(028) (2013) 23 Years on Fire
(029) (2014) Operation Shield
(030) (2015) Originator
The Spiral Wars, Joel Shepherd
(031) (2015) Renegade
(032) (2015) Drysine Legacy
(033) (2016) Kantovan Vault
(034) (2017) Defiance
(035) (2018) Croma Venture
(036) (2019) Rando Splicer
(037) (2020) Qalea Drop
(038) (2022) Ceephay Queen
(039) (2016) Jack of Thorns, AK Faulkner
(040) (2023) Just out of Jupiter’s Reach, Nnedi Okorafor
(041) (2023) Falling Bodies, Rebecca Roanhorse
(042) (2023) The Long Game, Ann Leckie
(043) (2023) Void, Veronica Roth
(044) (2023) The Blue Bar, Damyanti Biswas
The Orion War, M.D. Cooper
(045) (2016) Destiny Lost
(046) (2017) New Canaan
(047) (2017) Orion Rising
(048) (2017) The Scipio Alliance
(049) (2017) Attack on Thebes
(050) (2018) War on a Thousand Fronts
(051) (2018) Precipice of Darkness
(052) (2018) Airthan Ascendancy
(053) (2019) The Orion Front
(054) (2019) Starfire
(055) (2019) Race Across Spacetime
(056) (2020) Return to Sol
Opus X: Fleet Of One, Michael Anderle
(057) (2022) Second Contact
(058) (2022) Dark Shadow of Revenge
(059) (2022) Into the Unknown And Back
(060) (2022) The Hidden Terror
(061) (2022) Glory and Sacrifice
(062) (2022) The Nightmare Awakens
The Intrepid Saga, M.D. Cooper
(063) (2012) Outsystem
(064) (2015) A Path in the Darkness
(065) (2016) Building Victoria
The Galactic Sentinel, Killian Carter
(066) (2018) The North Star
(067) (2019) Enter the Shroud
(068) (2019) The Shadow Falls
(069) (2019) Battle of Gorthore
Myrtlewood Mysteries, Iris Beaglehole
(070) (2022) Accidental Magic
(071) (2022) Experimental Magic
(072) (2022) Combustible Magic
The Quantum Curators, Eva St. John
(073) (2020) The Quantum Curators and the Faberge Egg
(074) (2020) The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within
(075) (2021) The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex
(076) (2022) The Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline
(077) (2023) The Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver
Outcast Marines, James David Victor
(078) (2019) Outcasts of Earth
(079) (2019) The Kepler Rescue
(080) (2019) The Titan Gambit
(081) (2019) The Martian Incursion
(082) (2019) Invasion: Proxima
(083) (2019) Invasion: Pluto
(084) (2019) Alien Legacy
(085) (2019) Command Code
(086) (2019) Conquest of Earth
Origins of Destiny, M.D Cooper
(087) (2018) Shore Leave
(088) (2018) Masquerade
(089) (2018) Blackest Night
(090) (2018) Kill Shot
Tales of the Orion War, M.D Cooper
(091) (2016) Set the Galaxy on Fire
(092) (2018) Ignite the Stars
(093) (2019) Return to Kapteyn’s Star
The Cruel Gods, Trudi Skies
(094) (2021) The Thirteenth Hour
(095) (2022) The Children of Chaos
Star Scavengers, G.J. Ogden
(096) (2020) Guardian Outcast
(097) (2020) Orion Rises
(098) (2020) Goliath Emerges
(099) (2020) Union’s End
(100) (2020) The Last Revocater
Space Outlaw, Dominique Mondesir
(101) (2017) Breakout
(102) (2017) Stranded
(103) (2017) Revenge
(104) (2017) Repercussions
(105) (2018) Hostage
(106) (2021) Savior
Primordial Earth, Baileigh Higgins
(107 – 116) (2022) None of the books had individual titles, just Primordial Earth #1, 2, 3, etc.
Backyard Starship, J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert
(117) (2022) Echoes of Empire
(118) (2023) Song of Darkness
(119) (2023) Path of Tyrants
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Magic, Helen Harper
(120) (2017) Slouch Witch
(121) (2017) Star Witch
(122) (2017) Spirit Witch
(123) (2017) Sparkle Witch
Gunn and Salvo Series, Joshua James
(124) (2022) Starlit Path
(125) (2021) Outward Sky
(126) (2021) Infinite Grey
(127) (2021) Bygone Star
(128) (2021) Calypso End
(129) (2021) Friendly Fire
(130) (2021) Galaxy Run
(131) (2017) Dark Retreat, Grace Hamilton
Star Kingdom Trilogy, Lindsay Buroker
(132) (2019) Hero Code
(133) (2019) Ship of Ruin
(134) (2019) Shockwave
(135) (2018) Alpha Centauri, Lisa Richman, M.D. Cooper
