A Partial List of Things I've Read, 2022

January
Silk and Steel (anthology)
The Thousand Eyes, AK Larkwood
The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee (novella)

February
Carrying the Fire, Michael Collins
The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake
Spear, Nicola Griffith
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Vanished Birds, Simon Jimenez

March
Kalpa Imperial, Angelica Gorodischer (tr. Ursula LeGuin)
Under Fortunate Stars, Ren Hutchings
The Confidence Men, Margalit Fox
Last Exit, Max Gladstone
The Discord of Gods, Jenn Lyons
Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett

April
Trafalgar, Angelica Gorodischer (tr. Amalia Gladhart)
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
The Chancellor, Kati Morton
The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey
She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
How to Take Over the World, Ryan North
The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means, John Scalzi (novella)

May
Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky (novella)
A Spindle Splintered, Alix Harrow (novella)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard (novella)
Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
Assumed Name, Ricardo Piglia
Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells
Across the Green Grass Fields, Seanan McGuire (novella)
The Past is Red, Catherynne Valente (novella)
City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (reread)

June
Dawnshard, Brandon Sanderson (novella)
The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (novella)
A Mirror Mended, Alix Harrow (novella)
City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett (reread)
City of Miracles, Robert Jackson Bennett (reread)
The Cartographers, Peng Shepard
Black Widow by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee (comic)

July
Hild, Nicola Griffith
Seven Games, Oliver Roeder
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, Adam Minter
Deathless, Catherynne Valente
The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon

August
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Steerswoman, Rosemary Kirstein
The Outskirter’s Secret, Rosemary Kirstein
The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales, Yoon Ha Lee (flash fiction collection)
The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein
The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton

September
France: An Adventure History, Graham Robb
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
Imagine a City, Mark Vanhoenacker

October
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (anthology)
Untethered Skies, Fonda Lee (novella)
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Batman, Tom King and Lee Weeks (comic)
What If? 2, Randall Munroe
Station Eternity, Mur Lafferty

November
Deathstroke, Christopher Priest (comic)
The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler
Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves, Andrew Krivak (poetry)
The Stars Undying, Emery Robin
Singer Distance, Ethan Chatagnier
Galatea, Madeline Miller (short story)
The Mimicking of Known Successes, Malka Older (novella)
The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson
The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz

December
Into Shadow (anthology)
Rose/House, Arkady Martine (novella)
The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson
The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
All the Horses of Iceland, Sarah Tolme (novella)
Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin
Feed Them Silence, Lee Mandelo (novella)
River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers (novella)
The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway
(in progress) Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay

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