This was a slow reading year for me. I don’t really recall why. I do remember getting stuck in one long book that sometimes I just didn’t have the energy to get back into. I watched some TV, picked up a new hobby (blacksmithing), and committed myself pretty heavily to hurling, including lots of travel that took up precious reading time. Ah, and I spent a big portion of the middle of the year working on a political campaign, which took the vast bulk of my remaining time for months (we lost). Anyway, I read 26 books.

Four-Star Books

• When We Were Birds (Ayanna Lloyd Banwo)
• A Naked Singularity (Sergio de la Pava)
• Transcendant Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
• Mount Chicago (Adam Levin)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• The Backyard Blacksmith (Lorelei Sims)
• Why Fish Don’t Exist (LuLu Miller)
• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• Heavy (Kiese Laymon)
• Dinosaurs (Lydia Millet)

Three-Star Books

• Noor (Nnedi Okorafor)
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (Richard Fariña)
• The Invisibles, Book One Deluxe Edition (Grant Morrison)
• The Path of Daggers (Wheel of Time #8) (Robert Jordan)
• A Crown of Swords (Wheel of Time #7) (Robert Jordan)
• The Wizard Knight (Gene Wolfe)
• Woolgathering (Patti Smith)
• The Complete Bladesmith (Jim Hrisoulas)
• Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
• The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time #5) (Robert Jordan)
• The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time #4) (Rober Jordan)
• The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) (Brandon Sanderson)
• The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) (Brandon Sanderson)

Two-Star Books

• Greenland: A Novel (David Santos Donaldson)
• Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time #6) (Robert Jordan)

Fantasy

• The Path of Daggers (Wheel of Time #8) (Robert Jordan)
• A Crown of Swords (Wheel of Time #7) (Robert Jordan)
• Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time #6) (Robert Jordan)
• The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time #5) (Robert Jordan)
• The Shadow Rising (Wheel of Time #4) (Rober Jordan)
• The Wizard Knight (Gene Wolfe)
• The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) (Brandon Sanderson)
• The Well of Ascension (Mistborn #2) (Brandon Sanderson)

Sci-Fi

• Noor (Nnedi Okorafor)
• When We Were Birds (Ayanna Lloyd Banwo)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Authors of Color

• Noor (Nnedi Okorafor)
• When We Were Birds (Ayanna Lloyd Banwo)
• Transcendant Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
• Greenland: A Novel (David Santos Donaldson)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• Heavy (Kiese Laymon)

Authors Who Are Not Men

• Noor (Nnedi Okorafor)
• When We Were Birds (Ayanna Lloyd Banwo)
• Transcendant Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
• An Unkindness of Ghosts (Rivers Solomon)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• The Backyard Blacksmith (Lorelei Sims)
• Why Fish Don’t Exist (LuLu Miller)
• Woolgathering (Patti Smith)
• Dinosaurs (Lydia Millet)

Comics

• The Invisibles, Book One Deluxe Edition (Grant Morrison)

Nonfiction

• Why Fish Don’t Exist (LuLu Miller)
• The Backyard Blacksmith (Lorelei Sims)
• Woolgathering (Patti Smith)
• Heavy (Kiese Laymon)
• The Complete Bladesmith (Jim Hrisoulas)