2022
Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
These Truths - Jill Lepore
Lords and Ladies - Terry Pratchett
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
2021
Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
Practical Typography - Matthew Butterick
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
The Galaxy and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers
Snuff - Terry Pratchett
Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Space Opera - Catherynne Valente
Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
A Desolation called Peace - Arkady Martine
Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Revenant Gun - Yoon Ha Lee
Raven Strategem - Yoon Ha Lee
Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
Princes Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower - Tamsyn Muir
Caliban's War - James S. A. Corey
Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey
2020
A Memory called Empire - Arkady Martine
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Network Effect - Martha Wells
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
That's a lot of scifi in one book!
The Red Threads of Fortune - J.Y. Yang
2019
To Be Taught, If Fortunate - Becky Chambers
Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronivoch
Whew last one, now back to normal life.
Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovich
The Tangled Tree - David Quammen
I recommend this book, it tracks the evolution of the idea of trees in evolution! Primarily about Carl Woese and horizontal gene transfer.
Empire Star - Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany
The Black Tides of Heaven - J.Y. Yang
Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovich
Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovich
Whispers Underground - Ben Aaronovich
Moon over Soho - Ben Aaronovich
Midnight Riot (Rivers of London) - Ben Aaronovich
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
what a terrifically kind book
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Life in Code - Ellen Ullman
The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free - Cory Doctorow
The Curse of Bigness - Tim Wu
Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
2018
The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
Provenance - Ann Leckie
read this at the same time to get through Bad Blood
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
lots of takeaways about power
Bakkhai - Anne Carson / Euripides
Read this out loud with friends
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
real fun, problematic, liked the pace of it
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish - David Rakoff
After months of looing for this book used at Dog Eared I finally found it! I could help but hear David's voice in my head as I read it. The rhyme scheme taught me to pronounce french words, the meter was a puzzle I could usually work out but would mess up just enough to keep me on my toes. I couldn't help but move my lips.
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Wow this was fun. Are... power and sexuality what all realistic fiction books are about?
The Birthday of the World and other stories - Ursula Le Guin
Let's play with gender! Also generation ships.
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin