2016 Reading List

This is a record of everything I’ve read in 2016, with the new-for-2016 work separated out so I can identify Hugo-eligible works.  (See also my 2015 reading list.)  2016 works that I read in 2017 (before the Hugo nomination deadline) are also listed, marked with an asterisk.  As usual, the bolded works are the ones that I plan to at least consider for inclusion on my nominating ballot.  (Which isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy the other ones!  Even trying to define a bar for what’s worth nominating is hard.)

2016 Novels (at least 40,000 words):

• Javelin Rain, Myke Cole
• Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
• Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
• Brute Force, K.B. Spangler*
• Four Roads Cross, Max Gladstone
• Once Broken Faith, Seanan McGuire
• Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal*
• Infomocracy, Malka Older*
• Chaos Choreography, Seanan McGuire
• Velveteen vs. the Seasons, Seanan McGuire
• Mechanical Failure, Joe Zieja
• Heroine Complex, Sarah Kuhn*
• Crosstalk, Connie Willis*

2016 Novellas (17,500 to 40,000 words):

• The Devil You Know, K.J. Parker
• Lustlocked, Matt Wallace
• Every Heart A Doorway, Seanan McGuire
• Izanami’s Choice, Adam Heine
• Run Time, S.B. Divya
• The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds

2016 Novelettes (7,500 to 17,500 words):

• Full of Briars, Seanan McGuire
• The Jewel and her Lapidary, Fran Wilde
• “Small Wars”, Matt Wallace
• “The Great Detective”, Delia Sherman*
• “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod*

2016 Short Stories (less than 7,500 words):

• “A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of the Fairies”, Rosamund Hodge
• “A Trump Christmas Carol”, Roz Kaveney, Laurie Penny, John Scalzi, and Jo Walton*
• “Things With Beards”, Sam J. Miller*
• “Terminal”, Lavie Tidhar*
• “Your Orisons May Be Recorded”, Laurie Penny*
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong*
• “That Game We Played During The War”, Carrie Vaughn*
• “Who Tells Your Story”, K.B. Spangler
• “Sic Semper, Sic Semper, Sic Semper”, Douglas F. Warrick

2016 Graphic Novels:

• Saga, volume 6, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

2016 Collections (not sure how I’m handling these yet):

• Cobalt City Christmas: Christmas Harder, Eric Scott deBie, Nathan Crowder, Jeremy Zimmerman, Dawn Vogel, Amanda Cherry*
• Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi*

Non-2016 works read in 2016:

• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear
• Aftermath, Chuck Wendig
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
• Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold (review)
• The Just City, Jo Walton
• The Last Witness, K. J. Parker
• “The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn”, Usman T. Malik
• “Waters of Versailles”, Kelly Robson
• Envy of Angels, Matt Wallace
• Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato
• “Fabulous Beasts”, Priya Sharma
• “Islands Off the Coast of Capitola, 1978”, David Herter
• The Thyme Fiend, Jeffrey Ford
• “Please Undo This Hurt”, Seth Dickinson
• “Damage”, David D. Levine
• “Oral Argument”, Kim Stanley Robinson
• “Schrödinger’s Gun”, Ray Wood
• “Tear Tracks”, Malka Older
• “Ginga”, Daniel José Older
• “The Language of Knives”, Haralambi Markov
• “Elephants and Corpses”, Kameron Hurley
• “The Shape of My Name”, Nino Cipri
• “At the End of Babel”, Michael Livingston
• “The Log Goblin”, Brian Staveley
• “Ballroom Blitz”, Veronica Schanoes
• “The Ways of Walls and Words”, Sabrina Vourvoulias
• Unsung Villains, Missy Meyer
• Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, Garth Nix (in progress)
• Made to Kill, Adam Christopher
• The Book of Jhereg, Steven Brust (Jhereg/Yendi/Teckla omnibus)
• The Book of Taltos, Steven Brust (Taltos/Phoenix omnibus)
• Uprooted, Naomi Novik
• Last First Snow, Max Gladstone
• The Book of Athyra, Steven Brust (Athyra/Orca omnibus)
• Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
• The Usual Path to Publication, ed. Shannon Page
• Palimpsest, Catherynne Valente (review)
• Saga, volumes 1 through 5, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• The Wicked and the Divine, vol. 1: The Faust Act, Kieron Gillen et al
• Sex Criminals, vol. 1: One Weird Trick, Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
• Ms. Marvel, vol. 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
• The Book of Dragon, Steven Brust (Dragon/Issola omnibus)
• The Winter Long, Seanan McGuire
• A Red-Rose Chain, Seanan McGuire
• Two Serpents Rise, Max Gladstone
• Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone
• Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone