This is a bit heavy on the speculative fiction side. Turns out I like Science Fiction & Fantasy. Who knew? I probably should write some notes about the individual books, but it’s the holiday season, and I’m feeling lazy. Suffice to say, that I enjoyed nearly everything on this list. However, I would like to point out that The Expanse is a very special treat! Oh and City of Stairs? That’s a book that shouldn’t work but does somehow, and OMG is it good! And of course anything written by Scalzi or Wendig is gold.
-Enjoy!
- Zer0es (Zer0es, #1)–Chuck Wendig
- What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions—Randall Munroe
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America—Erik Larson
- The Human Division (Old Man’s War, #5)–John Scalzi
- The Butcher of Anderson Station (Expanse, #0.5)–James S.A. Corey
- Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)–Jim Butcher
- Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)–Jim Butcher
- Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)–Scott Lynch
- The Goblin Emperor—Katherine Addison
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel–John le Carre
- Elephants and Corpses: A Tor.Com Original–Kameron Hurley
- Blackbirds (Miriam Black, #1)–Chuck Wendig
- Uprooted—Naomi Novik
- Slaughterhouse-Five—Kurt Vonnegut
- Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey—Chuck Wendig
- Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, #2)–Pierce Brown
- Nemesis Games (Expanse, #5)–James S.A. Corey
- Sharpe’s Gold (Sharpe, #9)–Bernard Cornwell
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right—Atul Gawande
- City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)–Robert Jackson Bennett
- Abaddon’s Gate (Expanse, #3)–James S.A. Corey
- 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love—Rachel Aaron
- The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor’s Journal—John E. Clark
- The Corpse Archives—Kameron Hurley
- The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)–Brandon Sanderson
- Hollow World—Michael J. Sullivan
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity—David Allen
- Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8)–Terry Pratchett
- Caliban’s War (Expanse, #2)–James S.A. Corey
- Lock In (Lock In, #1)–John Scalzi
- Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)–James S.A. Corey
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)–J.R.R. Tolkien
- Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy, #1)–Pierce Brown
- Cibola Burn (Expanse, #4)–James S.A. Corey
- Grave Peril—Jim Butcher
- Terms of Enlistment—Marko Kloos
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