Ash Kingery

I read stuff this year. Obviously. I also love making lists. It fills my heart with glee to use bullet points. So I’ve made a list of the books I read (to completion) this year, and I’ve bolded and underlined my top 10 favorites. This does not include audiobooks (though I don’t listen to very many of those), re-reads, or comics/graphic novels (because I read a metric crap-ton of comics, and that’s what my League of Comic Geeks account is for. No, I won’t tell you what my username is).

Nonfiction books are marked with an asterisk.

• The Ancient City* – Peter Connelly and Hazel Dodge
• Artificial Condition – Martha Wells
• The Atomic Chef* – Steven Casey
• The Best of All Possible Worlds – Karen Lord
• The Book of Bill – Alex Hirsch
• The Chalice of the Gods – Rick Riordan
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Devil House – John Darnielle
• Earwig and the Witch – Diana Wynne Jones
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries – Heather Fawcett
• Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
• the Gentleman Bastard series (complete) – Scott Lynch
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora
  • Red Seas Under Red Skies
  • The Republic of Thieves
• The Grace of Kings – Ken Liu
• Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay
• House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Imaginary Corpse – Tyler Hayes
• In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
• Into Thin Air* – Jon Krakauer
• Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Man Who Made Vermeers* – Jonathan Lopez
• Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Narrow Road Between Desires – Patrick Rothfuss
• The Nevernight Chronicle series (complete) – Jay Kristoff
  • Nevernight
  • Godsgrave
  • Darkdawn
• No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
• Notes from the Burning Age – Claire North
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
• Playing with Fire – Derek Landy
• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
• Rapture Ready!* – Daniel Radosh
• Redshirts – John Scalzi
• The Ship of Dreams* – Gareth Russell
• The Song of the Lioness series (partial) – Tamora Pierce
  • Alanna: The First Adventure
  • In the Hand of the Goddess
• The Sons of El Rey – Alex Espinoza
• Star Wars: Death Troopers – Joe Schreiber
• Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View – Various authors
• The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
• Trust the Plan* – Will Sommer
• We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
• World War Z – Max Brooks

That’s 45 books! Not bad, not bad.

Technically, the Gentleman Bastard sequence is not complete, but I’ve put that in the same box as the other fantasy series that I don’t expect to be finished any time soon. If ever I should open that box and find a new book inside, I will probably faint.