End of year and I see that everyone is discussing what the best reads of the year are and what they've enjoyed the most, etc. Though a fun exercise, I always found it to be a daunting task. Among many factors that makes this exercise difficult for me, one of the main ones is once I look at my "to read" pile and notice an abundance of unread books that seem at least on the surface worthy of consideration and discussion of being among the top reads of the year in whatever category I have in mind. Also adding to that fact, books published during December that seemingly get ignored often for these types of considerations (unless you have done some advance reading).
So with that in mind, I compiled a list of books that fit into this preoccupation of mine; books that now at the end of the year I'm tracking down so I may read them. Needless to say, that it was quite a long list and quite obviously an impossibility to accomplish reading them all particularly in this short span of time.
Is anyone else facing similar dilemmas?
Here's my list of books that I've yet to read, but would like to or would've liked to have read by year end (I had to cut it a bit since it was ridiculously long, and might have overlooked some):
- Awakenings by Edward Lazellari
- Aloha from Hell by Richard Kadrey
- Dead Mann Walking by Stefan Petrucha
- Germline by T.C. McCarthy
- Infidel by Kameron Hurley
- Miserere by Teresa Frohock
- No Hero by Jonathan Wood
- One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
- Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell
- Shaedes of Gray by Amanda Bonilla
- Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin
- The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
- The Emperor's Knife by Mazarkis Williams
- The Guardians of the Desert by Leona Wisoker
- The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
- The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Sea Watch by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- The Soul Mirror by Carol Berg
- The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- Zero Sight by B. Justin Shier
Here's Mihir's list:
- Carte Blanche by Jeffrey Deaver
- Infidel by Kameron Hurley
- Miserere by Teresa Frohock
- Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin
- Spider's Revenge by Jennifer Estep
- The Goblin Corps by Ari Marmell
- The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
- Trance by Kelly Meding
Personally I've read nearly 90 books this year (low number I'd say), so it rankles me a bit that I didn't manage to read many of the books I was highly anticipating for one reason or another. Next year I think I'll need to re-organize my reading habits. Oh well, that just means that I may just have a lot of good reading ahead of me, so very much looking forward to that. Already read a 2012 book, Control Point by Myke Cole which I really enjoyed, so looks like I'm off to a good start.
