Monday, December 18, 2006

Dune - Battle of Corrin - Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson


Overall Rating : B- .
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A sequel in a prequel to Frank Herbert's "Dune" Trilogy. Written by his son Brian, and Kevin Anderson. Tell me, how do two authors write one story? Does one of them write the nouns, and the other one the verbs? Methinks Brian Herbert is here mostly so the family name is on the cover.
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As in any prequel, the main raison d'etre for this book is to line up everything for the original Dune episode. But the basic plot is the overused "humans versus machines" line. Gee, where have we seen that before? Terminator, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and so on. Is it now politically incorrect to slay any living beings? Can't anyone come up with a storyline that doesn't involve the evils of Artificial Intelligence?
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Literature-wise, this is "Dune Lite". Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The original Dune was an awesome book, but Dune Messiah and Children Of Dune were each a new level of tediousness and obscurity compared to their predecessors. Reading CoD was (for me at least) more of a labor than a pleasure.
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This decline in quality seems to be inherent in Trilogies. Clan of the Cave Bear is a masterpiece, interweaving a captivating storyline with a bunch of great archaeology. But its sequels go downhill quickly. Valley of Horses slowed to a crawl, and The Mammoth Hunters is nothing more than a 600-page Harlequin Romance set in caveman times. Pee-Yoo!
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And don't even get me started about Robert Jordan's Dragon Reborn series. We're on what, Book 11 now? And the plot hasn't progressed one bit since about Book 5. But I will still buy and read the newest one - out just in time for Christmas.
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But back to Dune Battle of Corrin. Overall, it keeps one's interest despite the trite storyline. Papa Herbert's chapter-beginning quotes are better (and of course, more esoteric), but at least there's less mysticism and more action in DBoC. And none of the characters (including the Bots) are the essence of pure evil and/or pure good. So we'll give it a B-, and go dust-off and re-read Dune.

Monday, December 4, 2006

2024 Book List

 
01) Something The Cat Dragged In by Charlotte MacLeod
02) Subterranean by James Rollins
03) Hermitage, Wat, and Some Murder or Other by Howard of Warwick
04) Raft by Stephen Baxter
05) The Fall of Rome by Nick Holmes
07) Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan
08) Clockwork Legion by Jamie Sedgwick
09) They Came and Ate Us by Robert Rankin
10) Daybreak 2250 AD by Andre Norton
12) Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
13) Rome and Attila by Nick Holmes
14) The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters
15) Chasing Daisy by Scott Baron
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2023 Book List

 
01) Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
02) The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch
03) Daisy's Run by Scott Baron
04) The Rembrandt Stratagem by Kellie Austin
05) Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
06) The Philosophy Book by Will Buckingham
08) Call Me A Cab by Donald E. Westlake
09) Under A Colder Sun by Greg James
10) White Night by Jim Butcher
11) Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
12) The Ninja's Daughter by Susan Spann
14) Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
15) You Are a Ghost (Sign Here Please) by Andrew Stanek
16) What If? 2 by Randall Munroe
18) Just Pardon My French by Jinx Schwartz
20) Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson
21) No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor
22) The God Particle by Leon Lederman
23) The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare by Lilian Jackson Braun
24) Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
26) A Second Chance at Eden by Peter F. Hamilton
27) Dust by Hugh Howey
28) Murder in the Queen's Armes by Aaron Elkins
30) A Count of Five by Erin L. Snyder
31) City of Endless Night by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
32) All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
33) Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34) Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt
35) Death By Disputation by Anna Castle
36) Bob Moore: No Hero by Tom Andry
37) Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
38) A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls LaNier
39) Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
40) Heat by Stuart Woods
41) A Dead Red Miracle by RP Dahlke
42) Iron Council by China Miéville
43) Pushing Daisy by Scott Baron
44) Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
45) Murder Afloat by Ruby Riverton
46) Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
47) Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
48) Phule's Company by Robert Asprin
49) Police by Jo Nesbo
50) Murphy's Luck by Benjamin Laskin
52) Knights of the Apocalypse by Benjamin Wallace
53) Razzmatazz by Christopher Moore
54) The Tapestry of Death by Howard of Warwick
55) Visions by Michio Kaku
56) The Relfe Sisters by Richard Herley
57) Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
58) The Roman Revolution by Nick Holmes
59) Night's Master by Tanith Lee
60) Darklandia by T.S. Welti
61) The King's Deception by Steve Berry
62) Stargazer by Anne Hillerman
63) Dodger by Terry Pratchett
64) Daisy's Gambit by Scott Baron
65) Hounded by Kevin Hearne
66) Huntress Moon by Alexandra Sokoloff
68) Marked By Magic by Lindsay Buroker
69) The Emperor's Second Wife by Zoe Saadia
70) Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
71) Mission Clockwork by Arthur Slade

2022 Book List


01) The Antipope by Robert Rankin
02) How The States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
03) House of Chains by Steven Erikson
04) Mad About Undead You by Carl S. Plumer
05) Seven Up by Janet Evanovich
06) The Guest by Alan Nayes
07) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
09) Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley
10) Tutti Frutti by Mike Faricy
11) Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
12) The Judas Strain by James Rollins
13) An Empire of Geese and Hats by Alan Daley
14) The Human Division by John Scalzi
15) Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
16) T-Rexes & Tax Law by Rachel Ford
17) Crossing Worlds by Zoe Saadia
18) Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
19) Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
20) The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
22) The Wrath of Cons by Robert Kroese
23) Early Riser by Jasper Fforde
24) Dead Men's Hearts by Aaron Elkins
25) A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor
26) Gasher Creek by J. Birch
27) Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
28) The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky
29) Last Shot by Mike Faricy
30) Atlantis Lost by J. Robert Kennedy
31) The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
32) Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
33) Time Travel - A History by James Gleick
34) Tiger Shrimp Tango by Tim Forsey
35) North To Paradise by Ousman Umar
36) Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn
37) Fireproof by Gerard Brennan
38) Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo
39) A Case of Conscience by James Blish
41) McNally's Dare by Vincent Lardo
42) The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
44) Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
45) Ting-A-Ling by Mike Faricy
46) The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
47) Foundation by Isaac Asimov
48) The Adventure Tournament by Nicholas Andrews
49) The Deaths of Tao by Wesley Chu
50) Hermitage, Wat and Some Nuns by Howard of Warwick
51) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
52) Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
53) Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen by H. Beam Piper
55) A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
56) Catchee Monkey by Sean Cameron
57) A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor
58) Stupid Wars by Ed Strosser and Michael Prince
59) High Desert Barbecue by J.D. Tuccille
60) The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
61) Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
62) Nostradamus Ate My Hamster by Robert Rankin
63) Ancient Egypt by DK Publishing
64) When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey
65) The Night Raiders by Marlin Williams
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2021 Book List


01) Shift by Hugh Howey
02) A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
03) Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
04) Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola by Kinky Friedman
05) The Scavenger's Daughter by Mike McIntyre
06) The Holiday Collection by The Eclective
09) Out of the Soylent Planet by Robert Kroese
10) Mr. Swirlee by Mike Faricy
11) The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
12) Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
13) Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
14) Orb by Gary Tarulli
16) The Drop by Michael Connelly
19) Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
20) Paint Your Dragon by Tom Holt
21) Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
22) How The World Works by Noam Chomsky
23) Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod
24) You Are Dead (Sign Here Please) by Andrew Stanek
25) Trivia Quiz Book, Volume 1 by Rich Meyer
26) Shadow of the Sun by Zoe Saadia
27) The Analyst by John Katzenbach
28) Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry
29) Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
30) Lacuna: Demons of the Void by David Adams
31) Pulp Reality 2 by Charles F. Millhouse (publisher)
32) Fool by Christopher Moore
33) Secret Murder: Who Shall Judge? by Ellen Kuhfeld
34) Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
35) Bite Me by Mike Faricy
36) Stiff by Mary Roach
37) The Witcher: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
38) Cold Storage by David Koepp
39) Gator a-Go-Go by Tim Dorsey
40) Falling Sideways by Tom Holt
41) The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
42) Riding The Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
43) The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
44) The Discovery of Socket Greeny by Tony Bertauski
45) Proxima by Stephen Baxter
46) Inspector Hobbes and the Bones by Wilkie Martin
47) Game 7, 1986 by Ron Darling
48) Bone Box by Faye Kellerman
49) A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor
50) Babylon by Paul Kriwaczek
51) Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
52) The Obsidian Chamber by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
53) Horded by Frances Pauli
54) Bombshell by Mike Faricy
55) 2001 - A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
56) Death by Black Hole - Neil deGrasse Tyson
57) Deep Space Boogie by Scott Baron
58) The Fall by David L. Dawson
59) The Scar by China Miéville
60) Somebody to Love? by Grace Slick
63) Backpacked by Catherine Ryan Howard
65) Belly of the Beast by Scott Baron
66) Blue Christmas by Emma Jameson
67) Napoleon's Hemorrhoids by Phil Mason.

2020 Book List


01) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
02) Memories Of Ice by Steven Erikson
03) When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
04) Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
05) The Chronicles of Banarnia by Robert Rankin
06) The Book of Dust (Vol.. 1 - La Belle Sauvage) by Philip Pullman
07) Boom! A Baby Boomer Memoir 1947-2022 by Ted Polhemus
08) A Dead Red Alibi by R.P. Dahlke
09) The Last Oracle by James Rollins
10) The Cyberiad Stories by Stanislaw Lem
11) Dark Remains by Sean McMahon
12) Skinny Legs And All by Tom Robbins
13) Last Train To Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
14) Wilderness Volume 1 - The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison
15) Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson
16) Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
17) The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
18) Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall
19) Old Bones by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
20) Inspector Hobbes and the Curse by Wilkie Martin
21) Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
22) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
23) Altdorf - The Forest Knights by J.K. Swift
24) The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
25) Exultant by Stephen Baxter
26) Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
27) The Spy in the Ointment by Donald E. Westlake
28) H2O by Irving Belateche
29) Milk! by Mark Kurlansky
30) One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
31) Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
32) The Years Ran Like Rabbits by Anna Taylor
33) Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
34) The Missing Link by Brandon Meyers and Bryan Pedas
35) The Janson Command by Paul Garrison
36) Defining Moments in (Black) History by Dick Gregory
37) The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon
38) Up The Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
39) Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
40) The Great Wall by Julia Lovell
41) An Orc on the Wild Side by Tom Holt
42) The Roswell Conspiracy by Boyd Morrison
43) Time And Again by Jack Finney
44) No Sunscreen For The Dead by Tim Dorsey
45) The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
46) Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
47) Bad Guys by Linwood Barclay
48) The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson
49) Fragments by Monique Martin
50) Burn Baby Burn by James Maxey
51) Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
52) Enigma by Catherine Coulter
53) Pan's Labyrinth by Cornelia Funke & Guillermo del Toro
54) Rabbit, Run by John Updike
55) Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
56) Grunt by Mary Roach
57) I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
58) The Nix by Nathan Hill
59) Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
60) Season of the Harvest by Michael R. Hicks
61) Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt
62) The Sacrilege by John Maddox Roberts
63) A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
64) The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
65) The Secret War by Max Hastings
66) Grumpy Old Wizards by John O'Riley
67) Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan
68) Dancing Aztecs by Donald E. Westlake
69) Anatomy of a Song by Marc Myers
71) The Pincers of Death by Toby Frost
72) Inferno by Dan Brown
73) On Drinking by Charles Bukowski

2019 Book List


01) Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
02) Fuzzy Navel by J.A. Konrath
03) Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
04) Unlikely (Kingdoms Gone - Book One) by Frances Pauli
05) Origins by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
06) A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson
07) The Bat by Jo Nesbo
08) Valhalla by Tom Holt
09) Inspector Hobbes and the Blood by Wilkie Martin
10) Paper - Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
11) The Highlander by Zoe Saadia
12) Liandra and the Dream Reader by Belart Wright
13) Aye, Robot by Robert Kroese
14) The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
15) The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
16) Stalking The Angel by Robert Crais
17) Under The Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
18) Trumpet of Triton & Mesmerized by Marlin Williams
19) What If? by Randall Munroe
20) Imperium by Robert Harris
21) Crimson Shore by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
22) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle
23) Storykeeper by Daniel A. Smith
24) Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris
25) Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters
26) Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
27) To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer
28) Hero in a Halfling by William Tyler Davis
29) Gulp by Mary Roach
30) Look For Me by Lisa Gardner
31) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
32) The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lilian Jackson Braun
33) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
34) Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
35) Snowfall On Mars by Branden Frankel
36) The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz
37) Patricians and Emperors by Ian Hughes
38) The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer
39) The Enigmatologist by Ben Adams
40) The Future, Imperfect by Ruth Nestvold
41) Death Masks by Jim Butcher
42) Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath
43) The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
44) The Sleeping Dragon by Jonny Nexus
45) Thunderhead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
46) Blood and Steam by Jamie Sedgwick
47) The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland by Barbara Silkstone
48) Veins by Drew
49) Grand Portage by Scott Seeger
50) End of Empires by Toby Frost
51) Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
52) From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
53) Magnus Chase - The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
54) Russian Roulette by Mike Faricy
55) Slabs of the Sunburnt West by Carl Sandburg
56) Embassytown by China Miéville
57) High Five by Janet Evanovich
58) The Bridge at Andau by James Michener
59) Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
60) Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez
61) The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
62) Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
63) Murder By Misrule by Anna Castle
64) 27 by Howard Sounes
65) Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
66) An Idiot In Love by David Jester
67) The Long Mars by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
68) Unthinkable by Helen Thomson
69) The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt
70) Q Is For Quarry by Sue Grafton
71) Hokas Pokas by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
72) The Burglar on the Prowl by Lawrence Block

2018 Book List


01) Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
02) 1968 by Mark Kurlansky
03) Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey
04) The God King by James A. West
05) Seven Dials by Anne Perry
06) Starship Grifters by Robert Kroese
07) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
08) The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
09) White Fire by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
10) The Grouchy Historian by Ed Asner
11) The Wizard of Time by G.L. Breedon
12) Guardian of the Red Butterfly by D.S. Cuellar
13) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
14) Doughnut by Tom Holt
15) Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
16) Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
17) Bonk by Mary Roach
18) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
19) The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
20) The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
21) Bill the Galactic Hero, Volume 1 by Harry Harrison
22) The Riddler's Gift by Greg Hamerton
23) Speaks the Nightbird, Volume 1: Judgment of the Witch by Robert McCammon
24) Tinker's War by Jamie Sedgwick
25) Burglar In The Rye by Lawrence Block
26) Dead Wake by Erik Larson
27) Beyond Hades by Luke Romyn
28) Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
29) The Eclective - The Celtic Collection by Various Authors
30) Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
31) A Dead Red Oleander by R.P. Dahlke
32) Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
33) Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton
34) Speaks the Nightbird, Volume 2: Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
35) A Brief History of the Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
36) The Fridgularity by Mark A. Rayner
37) Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
38) Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
39) Lion In The Valley by Elizabeth Peters
40) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
41) The Infernal Aether by Peter Oxley
42) Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
43) Who Discovered America? by Gavin Menzies
44) Stupefying Stories 21 edited by Bruce Bethke
45) Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
46) Pride and Honour by Nathaniel Burns
47) Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
48) The Sword of Unmaking - G.L. Breedon
49) All Things True by Greg James
50) On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg
51) Just Add Water by Jinx Schwartz
52) The Kaiser Affair by Joseph Robert Lewis
53) The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
54) Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
55) Mort by Terry Pratchett
56) Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
57) Four To Score by Janet Evanovich
58) Redliners by David Drake
59) The Congo, and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
60) Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
61) Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman
62) The Brentford Chainstore Massacre by Robert Rankin
63) The Voynich Cypher by Russell Blake
64) We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
65) The Edge of Eternity by G. L. Breedon

2017 Book List


01) Doctor Who - The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter
02) Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
03) Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
04) A Game of Battleships by Toby Frost
05) Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
06) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
07) Myth-Fits by Jody Lynn Nye
08) The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick
09) The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
10) Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
11) Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
12) The Dragon's Breath by Jamie Sedgwick
13) Ringworld by Larry Niven
14) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
15) Just Needs Killin' by Jinx Schwartz
16) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
17) Chronicles of M by Nicholas Forristal
18) Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
19) Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
20) Mourningtide by Diana Wilder
21) Voyage of the Pale Ship by Greg James
22) Djinn Rummy by Tom Holt
23) Lickety Split by Marlin Williams
24) The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
25) Paratime by H. Beam Piper
26) A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
27) Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
28) Board Stiff by Piers Anthony
29) Harvest Of Stars by Poul Anderson
30) Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide by Peter Cave
31) Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
32) Map Of Bones by James Rollins
33) The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
34) A Dead Red Cadillac by R.P. Dahlke
35) Little Bee by Chris Cleave
36) The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung
37) The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven
38) Black Harvest by Alex Lukeman
39) The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War by Thomas R. Flagel
40) Nolander by Becca Mills
41) Why Me? by Donald E. Westlake
42) The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
43) Flapjack by Daniel Ganninger
44) Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
45) Skeleton Man by Tony Hillerman
46) The Cat Who Brought Down The House by Lilian Jackson Braun
47) Origins by Andy Wallace
48) The Japanese Devil Fish Girl by Robert Rankin
49) Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
50) The Seventh Plague by James Rollins
51) The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
52) A Dead Red Heart by R.P. Dahlke
53) Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
54) The Graveyard Game by Kage Baker
55) Gilgamesh The King by Robert Silverberg
56) Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod
57) The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
58) The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters
59) The Bite On The Line by Simon Cantan
60) Railsea by China Miéville
61) The Lost Tribe of Coney Island by Claire Prentice
62) Road Games and Other Weird Tales by Marlin Williams
63) To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey
64) Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris
65) Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
66) The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison

2016 Book List


01) Weaveworld by Clive Barker
02) Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore
03) The Good, The Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt
04) Fires of Alexandria by Thomas K. Carpenter
05) Killing The Machine by Jamie Sedgwick
06) The Ruby Rattlesnake by Nicholas Erik
07) The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
08) The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
09) The Martian by Andy Weir
10) The Ultimate Inferior Beings by Mark Roman
11) Split Heirs by Lawrence Watt-Evans and Esther M. Friesner
12) The Girl In The Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
13) Wool by Hugh Howey
14) Flask of the Drunken Master by Susan Spann
15) Lord Vishnu's Love Handles by Will Clarke
16) A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born by Harry Harrison
17) The Tinkerer's Daughter by Jamie Sedgwick
18) The 14th Colony by Steve Berry
19) Three To Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
20) Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey
21) The Beginning of This, The End of That - Part 1: The End by James Matteson
22) The Door of Dreams by Greg James
23) Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
24) The Last Colony by John Scalzi
25) A Raucous Time by Julia Hughes
26) McNally's Dilemma by Lawrence Sanders
27) Dark Inheritance by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear
28) The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
29) A Provençal Mystery by Ann Elwood
30) Hour of the Octopus by Joel Rosenberg
31) One Summer - America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
32) Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
33) Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
34) Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd
35) The Abominable Showman by Robert Rankin
36) Coalescent by Stephen Baxter
37) Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
38) Quozl by Alan Dean Foster
39) The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin
40) Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
41) The Last Goddess by C.E. Stalbaum
42) Myth-ion Improbable by Robert Asprin
43) Saturnalia by John Maddox Roberts
44) The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
45) Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt
46) High Druid of Shannara - Jarka Ruus by Terry Brooks
47) Monster by A. Lee Martinez
48) The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
49) Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
50) Driving Me Nuts by P.J. Jones