2017 Reading List

Everything I read in 2017, with 2017-published works separated out and bolded if I’m considering nominating them for Hugos.  (I’ve also included 2017 works that I read for Hugo consideration in 2018; those are marked with an asterisk.)  See 2016 and 2015 lists.  (And for what it’s worth, there are plenty of works that I enjoyed quite a bit but am unlikely to nominate; don’t take the lack of bolding as an indication that I didn’t like it!)

2017 Novels (at least 40,000 words):

• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
• The Brightest Fell, Seanan McGuire
• Rebel Seoul, Axie Oh
• Stoneskin, K.B. Spangler
• Siege Line, Myke Cole
• Clockwork Boys, T. Kingfisher
• Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant
• Jade City, Fonda Lee*
• The Glass Town Game, Catherynne Valente*
• Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty*
• Barbary Station, R.E. Stearns*
• Terminal Alliance, Jim Hines*
• Magic for Nothing, Seanan McGuire
• The “Wonderful” Wizard of Futhermucking Oz, Matt Youngmark
• Deadlands: Boneyard, Seanan McGuire
• At the Table of Wolves, Kay Kenyon

2017 Novellas (17,500 to 40,000 words):

• Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor
• Idle Ingredients, Matt Wallace
• Buffalo Soldier, Maurice Broaddus
• Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, Seanan McGuire
• Gluttony Bay, Matt Wallace
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells*
• The Dispatcher, John Scalzi*
• Greedy Pigs, Matt Wallace
• Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant

2017 Novelettes (7,500 to 17,500 words):

• “Remote Presence”, Susan Palwick*
• “The Worshipful Society of Glovers”, Mary Robinette Kowal*
• “The Secret Life of Bots”, Suzanne Palmer*
• “Three May Keep A Secret”, Carlie St. George*

2017 Short Stories (less than 7,500 words):

• “Origin Story”, T. Kingfisher
• “Down and Out in Rl’yeh”, Catherynne Valente
• “The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant”, Rachael K. Jones*
• “The Heart’s Cartography”, Susan Jane Bigelow*
• “Utopia, LOL?”, Jamie Wahls*
• “Let Pass the Horses Black”, T. Kingfisher

Non-2017 works read in 2017:

• Brute Force, K.B. Spangler
• Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Beast, Brie Spangler
• Heroine Complex, Sarah Kuhn
• Crosstalk, Connie Willis
• “A Trump Christmas Carol”, Roz Kaveney, Laurie Penny, John Scalzi, and Jo Walton
• Cobalt City Christmas: Christmas Harder, Eric Scott deBie, Nathan Crowder, Jeremy Zimmerman, Dawn Vogel, Amanda Cherry
• Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
• All the InCryptid short stories available on Seanan McGuire’s website (23 total as of February 2017)
• Infomocracy, Malka Older
• “Things With Beards”, Sam J. Miller
• “Terminal”, Lavie Tidhar
• “That Game We Played During The War”, Carrie Vaughn
• “The Great Detective”, Delia Sherman
• The Jewel and her Lapidary, Fran Wilde
• “Your Orisons May Be Recorded”, Laurie Penny
• “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers”, Alyssa Wong
• “The Visitor from Taured”, Ian R. MacLeod
• The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds
• The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
• Pride’s Spell, Matt Wallace
• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
• “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies”, Brooke Bolander
• Snowflake War Journal, Jeremy Zimmerman
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
• A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers
• “You Are Not the Hero of This Story”, Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
• Jackalope Wives And Other Stories, T. Kingfisher
• The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (in progress)
• Death’s End, Cixin Liu
• All The Birds In The Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold
• “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay”, Alyssa Wong
• “Touring with the Alien”, Carolyn Ives Gilman
• “The Art of Space Travel”, Nina Allan
• TODO: Short stories
• Pay Me, Bug!, C.B. Wright
• “The First Snow of Winter”, Caroline M. Yoachim
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Without a Summer, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Valour and Vanity, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Of Noble Family, Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson
• The Rebirths of Tao, Wesley Chu
• “Penric’s Demon”, Lois McMaster Bujold