The Sword and Laser discussion

Hi Guys

This is my top 10 books read in 2015.

1) The Martian - Andy Weir
2) Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia E. Butler
3) Udgående fartøj - Ursula Andkjær Olsen
4) Voice from the Edge, vol 1: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison
5) Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation - Richard Sennett
6) Min kamp 1 - Karl Ove Knausgård
7) Satin Island - Tom McCarthy
8) Double Star - Robert A. Heinlein
9) Song of Kali - Dan Simmons
10) Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith

total books read 153 (14,2% by women.....)

I have tried to introduced two new types of books: 1) horror 2) comics

I have have enjoyed some of the horror stuff, but generally the most I have read are mediocre.

None of the comics have reached my top 10 - they seldom have the "weight of a complete novel", but I have enjoyed them, and will continue to do so.

The two types of books i like the most this year (and the years before), at hard SF and "literary works" (whatever that means). But as you can se - I have quite a broad reading habit.

What is your top 5/10 for 2015 and why? What type of books should I read in 2016?

The best novel I read this year was One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z Danielewski. It is the first volume of a proposed twenty seven volume series that is about a young epileptic girl who finds a cat. This first volume reminded me of a pilot episode of a tv show, a fair amount of set up and providing some hints as to what will come throughout the rest of the series.

Other novels I read this year that I really liked are:
The Borthers Karamazov
American Indian Stories
Palimpsest
The Sparrow
The Hum & the Shiver
The Turquoise Ledge
Drood
The Night Circus
The Song of Achilles

There was one novel I read this year that really disappointed me, especially after some of the hype it received. It was The Queen of the Tearling.

Edit 12/22: I just realized that I called The Turquoise Ledge a novel. It is not a novel, it is a memoir.

In no particular order, I really liked:

Carry On
Ancillary Mercy
A God in Ruins
Nemesis Games
A Darker Shade of Magic
Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of the Devils
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America

1) Nemesis Games
2) Fool's Quest
3) The Fifth Season
4) The Price of Valor
5) The Aeronaut's Windlass
6) The Rebirths of Tao
7) The Autumn Republic
8) Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth
9) The Death of Dulgath
10) Uprooted

Svend wrote: "I have tried to introduced two new types of books: 1) horror 2) comics

None of the comics have reached my top 10 - they seldom have the "weight of a complete novel", but I have enjoyed them, and will continue to do so."

I see you haven't read Watchmen. I urge you to do so.

In no particularly order, these are the books that stuck with me:

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Tawny Man and Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery and Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth by Kurtis J. Wiebe
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Favorite books I read this year:
Arrows of the Queen
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
Uprooted
Elantris
City of Stairs
Reamde
Fuzzy Nation
The Goblin Emperor

Least favorite:
1Q84

@Tobias. Watchmen is now on my mental to read list :-)

Wow Not easy so many good so many not good Lets See...

Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition by Stan Sakai Last chapter today the afterward. 1200 pages of pure beauty and bliss. might be my favorite thing this year.

FANTASY..Lots of Goodies
Endsinger By Jay Kristoff a beautiful finale to a very good trilogy
A Clash of Kings by G RR Martin
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell By Susanna Clark
With Honarable Mention to
Half a War by Joe Abercrombie
The Story of Stone By Barry Hughart
Sojourn by S. A. Salvatore

SCIENCE FICTION
Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey
With Honarable mention to
Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Armada by Ernest Cline
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

BIOGRAPHY AND HUMOR
You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felecia Day
My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy: The Comic Book and My Japanese Husband STILL Thinks I'm Crazy By Grace B. Mineta
ALL GREAT! FUN

HORROR
This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It By David Wong. much better Sequel to John Dies at the End.

ALSO
Einstein's Beach House By the amazing Jacob M. Appel If youve never read any of his Short story Collections I suggest you get a couple

Im Currently reading Lost Stars and Royal Assassin Both of which I think Would go on this list if I finished

My favourite books I read in 2015, not just that came out this year, not in any particular order:
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
The Fifth Season
Tehanu
Titus Groan
The Algebraist
Half the World
The Mirror Empire
The Snow Queen
Dreamsnake
Who Fears Death
City of Stairs
Mona Lisa Overdrive

Least favourite books of the year (tie):
Leviathan Wakes, A Princess of Mars

This is hard. I've definitely read some amazing books this year. My favourites - in rough order:

The Mistborn Trilogy
A Darker Shade of Magic
The Fifth Season
Uprooted
A Face Like Glass
The Providence of Fire
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (I'm just about to finish the second book in the trilogy, which I think I like even better)

Best non-fiction:
Possessing the Pacific
The Wretched of the Earth

Least favourites:
The Palace Job
Air Awakens

Heroes Die
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The Alloy of Law
Mushoku Tensei
Son of the Black Sword
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Brothers in Valor
Renegade
Overlord #9
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The Rising of the Shield Hero, Volume 1
Trial by Fire
Firefight
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Worst) Vicious/Devil's Cape/Queen of Fire

My top 10 in order, no order within divisions.

Devil's Cape and Queen of Fire were mearly insufferably boring, Vicious was like awful in so many ways I don't know how critics like it at all.

Both Trial by Fire and Firefight both had a lot of boring bland moments hiding in the middle but were still strong enough to pull off 5s.

Overlord/Shield Hero are both a bit small which made them difficult to rate individually.

Mushoku Tensei was just the entire series in general as I read it in it's single giant webnovel form.

Heroes Die is by far #1 it's absolutely perfect and everyone should read it.

I didn't read enough books this year for a top-10 to make sense so my top-5 were:

The Wise Man's Fear
Skin Game
The Magician's Land
The Desert Spear
Elantris

I'm a bit surprised that I didn't have any SF that made the cut.

Svend wrote: "None of the comics have reached my top 10"

I have read over 150 comics (in trade). So I'll just leave my Top 10 Comics that I read this year. In no particular order-

Birthright, Vol 1: Homecoming by Joshua Williamson
Fatale Deluxe Edition, Volume One by Ed Brubaker
Nova, Vol. 1: Origin by Jeph Loeb
Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar
Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man by Jason Aaron
Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope by Rick Remender
Black Science, Vol. 1: How to Fall Forever by Rick Remender
Alex + Ada Vol. 1-3 by Jonathan Luna
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick by Matt Fraction
Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

Dharmakirti wrote: "The best novel I read this year was One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z Danielewski. It is the first volume of a proposed twenty seven volume series that is about a young ..."

Did you read The Familiar Vol. 2? How did you think it compared?

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Did you read The Familiar Vol. 2? How did you think it compared?"

Not yet. It's sitting on my bookshelf at home but I'm waiting until I finish reading Almanac of the Dead before I begin.

I only rated 3 books 5 stars this year:

The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
Rivers of London by Ben Aaeronovitch

Rounding out my top ten, in no particular order would be these 7 picked from the 30 I rated 4 stars:
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, the Fast Lane and Me
Dauntless
Seven Years in Tibet
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Robin Hobb The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set
The Android's Dream
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

I only read 7 of the S&L picks this year and unfortunately 3 of those made it into my bottom 10.

1) The Traitor Baru Cormorant
2)Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle
3) Bitter Greens
4)Tooth and Claw
5)The Death of the Necromancer
6)Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1
7)East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise
8)The Ladies of Mandrigyn
9) Twelve Kings in Sharakhai
10) The Last Unicorn

The only one that wouldn't be categorized as scifi/fantasy is Monster, but I enjoyed it.

Nemesis Games
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The Aeronaut's Windlass
Golden Son
Feed
Bitch Planet, Vol 1: Extraordinary Machine
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Volume 2
River of Stars
The Water Knife ( my clear number 1)
Parable of the Sower

Sami wrote: "8)The Ladies of Mandrigyn"

The Sun Wolf and Starhawk series is so good. Some of my very favorite books.

Sad to say I don't have a top 10 for 2015

The top for me this year are:
Old Man's War
The Martian

Also 5 stars:
Old Man's War - the series
Memoirs of a Geisha
Girl, Interrupted

The rest just didn't meet expectation.

2015 is the first year where I read quite a lot, and it's really hard to just select 10, so here it goes:

1. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
2. Dune by Frank Herbert
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
4. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. The Stranger by Albert Camus
7. The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
8. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
9. Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
10. The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

These are the ones I enjoyed the most this year;

1 Use of Weapons
2 Parable of the Sower
3 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
4 The Dispossessed
5 Station Eleven
6 The Girl with All the Gifts
7 Malice
8 More Than Human
9 Promise of Blood - whole series
10 Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

I haven't read much this year, but out of 10 or so novel(la)s these were the ones I'd consider top picks:

Originator by Joel Shepherd
Renegade by Joel Shepherd
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
The Serpent by Claire North

2 books by an old favourite author, and 2 by what's rapidly becoming a new favourite.

Read a few more comics, these were the best:
Death Vigil: Volume 1
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act (+rest of series)

I'm still reading Maplecroft, which might make my top 10 depending on how the third act plays out.

I gave 7 books 5 stars this year:

The Art of Big Hero 6 - art book
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal - graphic novel
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why - graphic novel
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed - graphic novel
How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country - humor/history
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna - graphic novel
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta - graphic novel

My top genre books all got 4 stars and coincidentally there are 7 of them:

A Calculated Life - quiet, terrifying SF future
Deadly Shores - epic action on an alternate Earth
First Light - well-done milSF
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - really good indie Firefly-esque SF
The Skull Throne - Epic continuation of the Fantasy series
The Tropic of Serpents - excellent entry into alt-history Fantasy series
Turbulence - superheroes in India

Some of my favorites from this year.

The Republic of Thieves incidentally, his short story, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane was highly entertaining as well. Caught that one in Rogues.
This year I read the Matthew Swift series starting with A Madness of Angels, bringing the number of urban fantasy series I like up to two (along with Dresden Files).
I was in the camp that found The Goblin Emperor to be totally charming.
City of Stairs was great and I am looking forward to the sequel.
Earth Girl series was one of the better world-built YA series I've ever read, at least to start. I think it veered toward awesome over reasonableness toward the end, but I still enjoyed it.

My top ten that fit into swords and lasers (including a few rereads) are:

1. North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud (a blend of dark fantasy and horror SO GOOD read it now)
2. Kindred by Octavia Butler (time travel)
3. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. (so good I have a crossover podcast about it)
4. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
5. Slade House by David Mitchell (I read it twice!)
6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (reread for SFF Audio readalong)
7. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
8. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson (which I also got signed by the author this year)
9. Archangel by Marguerite Reed
10. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

I will restrict my list to Sword and Laser Book Club reads.
I will extend the list to include the whole 12.

1. The Sparrow
2. Time and Again
3. Station Eleven
4. A Canticle for Leibowitz
5. Wyrd Sisters
6. City of Stairs
7. The Goblin Emperor
8. Uprooted
9. Annihilation
10. Arrows of the Queen
11. The Traitor Baru Comorant
12. The Sword of Rhiannon

Here's my S&L themed list. I didn't read more than 10 sci fi/fantasy books this year (didn't read much at all since I got a kid a few months ago), so here they are from most to least liked:

1. Cosmos (this counts, right?)
2. Nemesis Games (best book in The Expanse so far)
3. House of Suns
4. Troika (short but sweet)
5. Pushing Ice (a lot of Reynolds on here this year)
6. The Gunslinger
7. The Songs Of Distant Earth
8. The Drawing of the Three (liked this much less than The Gunslinger, actually)
9. Alan Wake
10. Old Man's War (didn't care too much for this one)

Tobias wrote: "9. Alan Wake"

Have you played the game and if so, does the book do a good job of capturing the feel of the game?

I loved Alan Wake. I never knew they had written a book based on it.

Here are my five star fantasy and sci-fi reads from 2015:

1. The Bone Doll's Twin (The Tamír Triad, #1) by Lynn Flewelling
2. Hidden Warrior (The Tamír Triad, #2) by Lynn Flewelling
3. The Oracle's Queen (The Tamír Triad, #3) by Lynn Flewelling
4. Casket of Souls (Nightrunner, #6) by Lynn Flewelling
5. The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles #1) by Michael J. Sullivan
6. The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles #2) by Michael J. Sullivan
7. The Death of Dulgath (The Riyria Chronicles #3) by Michael J. Sullivan
8. The Price of Valor (The Shadow Campaigns, #3) by Django Wexler
9. Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2) by Robin Hobb
10. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) by Robin Hobb
11. Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) by Robin Hobb
12. Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2) by Robin Hobb
13. Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3) by Robin Hobb
14. The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
15. Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy, #1) Robin Hobb
16. Half the World (Shattered Sea #2) by Joe Abercrombie
17. Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) by Scott Lynch
18. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
19. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
20. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
21. Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
22. Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson

Don't even ask me to attempt to pare the list down to 10, or to tell you exactly why I rated one book from a series five stars and not the others. It just goes that way.

Tassie Dave wrote: "Tobias wrote: "9. Alan Wake"

Have you played the game and if so, does the book do a good job of capturing the feel of the game?

I loved Alan Wake. I never knew they had written a book based on it."

Love the game. The book is an OK adaptation which captures the feel of the game just fine. Not the best prose, but good enough. 3/5 aka "liked it". Review.

Valyssia wrote: "or to tell you exactly why I rated one book from a series five stars and not the others. It just goes that way."

Series are uneven and some books are simply better than others.

Books I rated 5 stars:
The Shadow of the Wind
The Goblin Emperor
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Friday on My Mind: A Frieda Klein Novel (Book 5)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Demolished Man

I'm not even going to try to give them any order.

I only have 3 for this year:

The Sparrow
The Goblin Emperor
Uprooted

I only gave two books 5-star ratings this year, The Grace of Kings and The Three-Body Problem. I think a close number three would be The Goblin Emperor.

I gave a fair few a 4-star rating. It was overall a good year for reading books I enjoyed this year. I think I gave more 4-star ratings than I usually do, anyway. My 2015 shelf has the full list this year.

I wish that I had read more books (33 as of now, 34 later today), but that's in part a function of work and stuff. Hopefully 2016 is better in that regard.

In no particular order, my top 10 (er, 12) reads this year:

1. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

2. Noragami 01

3. You're Never Weird on the Internet

4. Modern Romance

5. Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (entire series was very fun.)

6. I Bring the Fire: Part I Wolves (entire series)

7. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

8. The Red Tent

9. Soulless (entire series is great)

10. Anansi Boys

11. Dead of Winter (entire series, again)

12. Fortune's Pawn (and again)

That's 3 funny memoirs, 1 funny non-fic, 1 manga, 2 urban fantasy, 1 historical fiction, 1 steampunk, 1 post-apoc, 1 sci-fi, and one of whatever the heck Neil Gaiman does. Now I'm realizing that all of my favorites were very light and easy reading.

Hi this is Perry and I'm just looking at what you all read this past year...I am very impressed; Valyssia has 22 that are 5 stars under her belt this year. I think I probably only read 6 books all year.

The best were:
Brandon Sanderson: Stormlight Archive
Deborah Harkness: All Souls Trilogy

Some of the beast books I've read this year include:

Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Le Bisclaveret
The House on the Borderland
The Romance of Morien
The Secret Adversary
Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys

Batter Up, Charlie Brown!
Spock Reflections
The Best of Archie Comics, Book 1

Some reflections looking at the list. No modern fantasy or SF, although I read most in those areas. The 3 books dealing with Arthur are all translated and edited by the same person. Horror was not a genre I cared for until I discovered Hogdson, now it is one of my favorite books of the year. Another pleasant surprise was a book by Agatha Christie made the list. I never thought I care for her writing, but it turned out I just don't like Miss Marple and Piouert. A different character made all the difference.

In the comics area collections claimed most of the top spots. When you're picking out the best in a 50-75 year run it is easy to pull together lots of great stories. Archie and Peanuts have both had long and sometimes exceptional histories. Rachael Rising could have made the list, but the story has yet to finish.

In no particular order, I enjoyed:

Mistborn Trilogy
City of Stairs
The Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent
Dreamer's Pool
Love Minus Eighty
Lock In

I also got the chance to re-read the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb, one of my all-time favorite fantasy trilogies. Hopefully I'll find the time to read her newest addition to the Fitz & the Fool saga, Fool's Quest in the new year.

I decided to stop lurking and actually post something for the first time here.

This year I've done a lot of rereading of books that I hadn't read in a while, in addition to the new reads. Some of my revisited titles were as good as I remembered them being, and some were not.

Rereads that were among my favorites from 2016 -
Dune
The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot

For new reads, here are the ones that round out my top 10 for the year -
The Color of Magic
The Magicians (series)
The Scar
The Martian
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Worst was by far Doomed

Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "My top ten that fit into swords and lasers (including a few rereads) are:

7. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany "

What a book.

Top 10 in no order

1. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
2. Grass
3. Uprooted
4. The Aeronaut's Windlass
5. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
6. Daemon
7. Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs
8. Red Rising
9. Cancer Ward
10. Black Rain

I have no idea how I'd rank these, but here are 10 of the best for 2015

1. Magic Breaks
2. Station Eleven
3. Written in Red - this was a complete surprise to me. I had tried to read something by the author earlier and couldn't finish it. This one blew me away and I had to immediately buy the other books in the series
4. Chaos Station first book I ever read by these authors and loved it.
5. The Magpie Lord
6. Trace of Magic
7. Traitor's Moon
8. Robin Hood Hacker Collection - way over the top thriller but lots of fun at a time I needed fun
9. Among Galactic Ruins Another "new to me" author - a great adventuree
10. Memory and Dream - I first read this book about 20 years ago and re-read it this year. Just a beautiful fantasy that speaks to my heart. I'd have to mark this as my favorite for the year

I want to list all of Michael J. Sullivan but i read most of those last year..... So. In no specific order.

1The Invisible Library.
The invisible library by Genevieve Cogman. - Magic, books, alternative worlds, elves, chaos, sherlock-esk sluthing and loads of fun.
2. Sixty-One Nails.
Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon. - Hidden beneath urban london are feyre, magic, things that go bump in the night. Its fast paced action packed fun and creates a thriving world that you want to be real.
3.4. & 5. Then all the other books in the series so far as I bought all the rest before I even finished this, and i did that in two days of virtually continual reading and very little sleep. Thats- road to bedlam, strangness & charms, the eighth court.
The Road to Bedlam
Strangeness and Charm
The Eighth Court
6. The Name of the Wind
The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I cant define why i loved this book as such, but its writen such that even the relatively mundane aspects of the main characters life is captivating and enchanting. And the special moments are really special too.
7. Bill The Vampire
Bill the Vampire by Rick Gualtieri. - Imature, sexual innuendo of the sexually deficient and frustrated, geek homage, just plain fun with vampires. Very politically inappropriate. But fun. However its likely just a bloke thing.
8. Fated
Fated by Benedict Jacka (also Chosen Veiled Cursed Taken) Kind of reminds me of Harry Dresden or The Iron Druid Chronicles. That type of book but uniquely its own. Im hooked and can not wait for the next one.
9. John Dies at the End
John Dies at the end by David Wong. This book does not follow any of the rules re writing a book. Story progression just jumps forwards to the next relevant chapter of the main characters lives, be it weeks months or more without bothering with filler. A lot of its surreal, or crazy, but its all great reading.
10. Neverwhere
Neverwhere by Neil Gainman. I finally got round to reading it, its been on my bookshelf for years and i really enjoyed it.

You know 10 seems stingy, theres at least another 10 i read and loved this year. Including loads of graphic novels. Oh well next time.

Here are the 7 best sci-fi books I've read this year:
Manifold: Time
Robopocalypse
Mother of Storms
The Water Knife
2001: A Space Odyssey
Artifact
The Company of the Dead

1. Redshirts (Scalzi)
2. Fool's Quest (Hobb)
3. Dragon Haven (Hobb)
4. Ship of Magic (Hobb)
5. Providence of Fire (Staveley)
6. Red Seas Under Red Skies (Lynch)
7. Perdido Street Station (Mieville)
8. Ready Player One (Cline)
9. The Hollow Boy (Stroud)
10. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Martin)

Books i loved this year in no particular order
Shadow and Bone
Ruin and Rising
Through the Zombie Glass
Obsidian
Onyx
Station Eleven
Uprooted
Heir of Novron
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Beautiful Creatures

I sure read a lot of ya this year :P