So, in no particular order (because I cannot rank these books without feeling as though I have committed a great atrocity against these authors), here are my top 12 books read in 2014:
Breach Zone by Myke Cole (Ace Books)
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar (Hodder and Stoughton)
Hurricane Fever by Tobias Buckell (Tor Books)
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (Harper Voyager)
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway Books)
Zero Sum Game by SL Huang (Self-Published)
The Three by Sarah Lotz (Little, Brown, and Company)
Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter (Jo Fletcher Books)
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Orbit Books)
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
Into the Grey by Celine Kiernan (Candlewick Press)
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot Books)
Now this is the part where everyone piles on in the comments and tells me how wrong I am. How could I have missed X book? How could I have loved Y so much? Bring on your questions and accusations. I dare you!
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Honorable Mention: I Am Spock by Leonard Nemoy (Hyperion)
Your list has lots of books I LOVED on it (Ancillary Justice, Stranger in Olondria, Mirror Empire...). Makes me want to check out all the others I haven't read here.
ReplyDeleteYou mean "Ancillary Sword" :P. And I do recommend you check out all of the others. They are well worth reading :)
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