Thea and Ana of The Book Smugglers were kind enough to invite me to write a Smugglivus post again this year. So today I am over there talking about my top 10 books read this year and what books I'm looking forward to in 2010.
I'm really pleased that so many of my recs (at least two) made your top list! So I'm moving Lips Touch: Three Times to my firmly to-buy list for my next Amazon shopping spree. I'm looking forward to reading By Mountain Bound.
Books I'm looking forward to in 2010:
The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee - due out in March 2010. It's a new standalone.
Spirit and Lens by Carol Berg - definitely!
For the next ones, I'm not sure when they are out, I can only hope sooner rather than later:
Resurrection Code by Lyda Morehouse - sequel to the LINK series. She said it started out as a prequel about Mouse, but then morphed into a sequel.
The conclusion of the Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman.
Now, if I had to do my top 10 list of 2009 (not ordered):
1. Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente. (And also A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, her second poetry collection.)
2. The Living Blood - Tananarive Due
3. The Maerlander Chronicles - Elisabeth Vonarburg
4. Fire - Krisin Cashore
5. Dread Empire's Fall: Convention of War - Walter Jon Williams (also Metropolitan)
6. Wings of Wrath - C.S. Friedman (also The Wilding)
7. Night's Master - Tanith Lee (and everything else I've read by her this year: Vivia, Elephantasm, Herione of the World, reread of The Birth Grave
8. The City and the City - China Mieville
9. Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness - Mike Allen, ed. (collecion of short stories)
(now it gets difficult)
10. Air, or Have Not Have - Geoff Ryman Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear
I read about 72 books so far this year, and not-finished (due to attention-deficit disorder, mainly) another 15.
Anastasia - I'd never heard of Tananarive Due before you mentioned her so I'm very glad you did. :) And I'm pleased to see Fire made it to your top 10 list.
The Gaslight Dogs did sound good. Lowachee is still an author I haven't read yet so that may be a good place to start since all her other books are hard to find.
I didn't know Resurrection Code ended up turning into a sequel instead of the prequel. That's interesting.
Wow, I should have some good reading ahead of me since I have a lot of the books on your top 10 list that I still need to read (Palimpsest, The Living Blood, the first Dread Empire's Fall book, and Night's Master). I want to get Wings of Wrath when it comes out in paperback and I'd really like to read the Vonarburg book as well.
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I will try and stop by. I've been very remiss at visiting the Smugglers of late :( This will change in 2010 as I will be more organized!
Merry Christmas Kristen!
Merry Christmas Orannia! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!
I'm really pleased that so many of my recs (at least two) made your top list! So I'm moving Lips Touch: Three Times to my firmly to-buy list for my next Amazon shopping spree. I'm looking forward to reading By Mountain Bound.
Books I'm looking forward to in 2010:
The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee - due out in March 2010. It's a new standalone.
Spirit and Lens by Carol Berg - definitely!
For the next ones, I'm not sure when they are out, I can only hope sooner rather than later:
Resurrection Code by Lyda Morehouse - sequel to the LINK series. She said it started out as a prequel about Mouse, but then morphed into a sequel.
The conclusion of the Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman.
Now, if I had to do my top 10 list of 2009 (not ordered):
1. Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente. (And also A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, her second poetry collection.)
2. The Living Blood - Tananarive Due
3. The Maerlander Chronicles - Elisabeth Vonarburg
4. Fire - Krisin Cashore
5. Dread Empire's Fall: Convention of War - Walter Jon Williams (also Metropolitan)
6. Wings of Wrath - C.S. Friedman (also The Wilding)
7. Night's Master - Tanith Lee (and everything else I've read by her this year: Vivia, Elephantasm, Herione of the World, reread of The Birth Grave
8. The City and the City - China Mieville
9. Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness - Mike Allen, ed. (collecion of short stories)
(now it gets difficult)
10. Air, or Have Not Have - Geoff Ryman
Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear
I read about 72 books so far this year, and not-finished (due to attention-deficit disorder, mainly) another 15.
Anastasia - I'd never heard of Tananarive Due before you mentioned her so I'm very glad you did. :) And I'm pleased to see Fire made it to your top 10 list.
The Gaslight Dogs did sound good. Lowachee is still an author I haven't read yet so that may be a good place to start since all her other books are hard to find.
I didn't know Resurrection Code ended up turning into a sequel instead of the prequel. That's interesting.
Wow, I should have some good reading ahead of me since I have a lot of the books on your top 10 list that I still need to read (Palimpsest, The Living Blood, the first Dread Empire's Fall book, and Night's Master). I want to get Wings of Wrath when it comes out in paperback and I'd really like to read the Vonarburg book as well.
Ok, I just bought Lips Touch! So I'll get to read it before the end of the year.
Anastasia - I hope you like Lips Touch!
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