Books I read in 2024 Masterpost
#0: A Memory Called Empire (Arcady Martine, Tor Books, 2019)
#1: A Desolation Called Peace (Arkady Martine, Tor Books, 2021)
#2: Exordia (Seth Dickinson, Tor Books, 2024)
#3: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives Inside Your Home (Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, Harper Perennial, 2020)
#4: The King In Yellow (Robert W. Chambers, Warbler Classics (originally F. Tennyson Neely), 1895)
#5: Katana-Ra (Jay Libby (based on an outline by Kosala Ubayasekara), W.R.K.S. Games (self-published), 2023)
#6: Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha (Greg Stafford Steve Perrin Jeff Richard Jason Durall and friends, Chaosium Inc., 2019)
#7: Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë under the pen name Ellis Bell, Thomas Newby, 1847)
#8: Moby Dick (Hermann Melville, Independent Publisher (originally Harper & Brothers), 1851)
#9: Saevus Corax Deals With the Dead (K.J. Parker (pen name of Tom Holt), Orbit Books, 2023)
#10: A Legacy of Spies (John le Carré, Viking Press, 2017)
#11: Saevus Corax Captures the Castle (K.J. Parker (pen name of Tom Holt), Orbit Books, 2023)
#12: Karl Marx (Isaiah Berlin, Times Inc. Books, 1963)
#13: The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon, HarperCollins, 2007)
#14: Final Girls Support Group (Grady Hendrix, Berkley Books, 2021)
#15: Slow Horses (Mick Herron, Soho Crime, 2010)
#16-18: The Scholomance Series (Naomi Novik, Del Rey Books, 2020-2022)
#19-22: The Apothecary Diaries, Volumes 4-7 (Natsu Hyūga with illustrations by Touko Shino, published by Shufunotomo, English translation by J-Novel Club, 2021-2023)
#23: The Saint of Bright Doors (Vajra Chandrasekera, Tor Books, 2023)
#24: Agent Running in the Field (John le Carré, Viking Books, 2019)
#25: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run (Hirohiko Araki, Shueisha, serialized 01/19/2004-04/19/2011 in Weekly Shonen Jump for the first 24 chapters followed by Ultra Jump monthly thereafter)
#26: Fire Warrior (Simon Spurrier, Black Library Publishing (an imprint of Games Workshop), 2003)
The Rules
1: unless tagged #spoilers, any novel I post will not contain plot spoilers but may contain vibe spoilers or allusion to events; I may talk about what the story is About that the dust jacket or my own synopsis may not make obvious but I won't tell you who killed somebody or a cool twist
2: I'd I post a book here it is because I finished it and liked it, OR I finished it and need to untangle why I didn't. Novels I simply don't enjoy I don't finish anymore, as a rule, but I may break it if something about it compels me to finish it. I've only had to do it twice in the last year, but both novels were so antithetical to my enjoyment that it made me actually feel mad about trying to read them.
3: I'm not gonna rate them. I don't like ratings systems, I'm not gonna try to hammer something into a number, and forcing it is just going to be dumb. I did think about making a 7 point criteria list that if a novel met it I would declare perfect, but that's too much work. Maybe in a lull of books or something I'll hammer one out. If I do, one point will be "did it contain a character wielding a sword flicking the blood from their blade before sheathing it?"
4: no rereads. I have a bad habit of returning to old books series when I have so many books that interest me that I'd like to break, so for 2024 unless I need to for something wild like a series entry I'm not expecting, no rereads.
5: There's gonna be some nonfiction in here. I've got a couple of things at the top of my to-read list that are political or social in nature, but if you're following me or reading these you probably can attune yourself to my political stances to know what's up pretty quickly. That said, I'm gonna talk about social shit occasionally even outside of those, so idk if that's a big deal but, yknow.
6: fuck it, we ball
