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Karina: 100 books
1. Name of Book: A Fire Upon the Deep
Author: Vernor Vinge
5 stars - favourite
This certainly lived up to (great, great) expectations. Beautiful hard science fiction, immensely readable, sweet and sad. Extra sillypoints for using a culture with visible Norwegian ancestry - it doesn't mean much, but it provides a hint of extra amusement for me. I will read the companion book, "A deepness in the sky", as soon as my kindle is recharged and whatever I read in the meantime is finished.
-Note: As mentioned in the first post, I will list short fiction as "books". I don't consider it "cheating", because I read more than enough door-stoppers to make up for the pagecount. This way I also avoid disturbing discrepancies between this counter and the goodreads reading challenge-counter.
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Name of book: How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story
Author: John Scalzi
4 stars
Cute little story. I very much appreciate Scalzi's style; it makes for light reading without feeling annoyingly shallow or lacking. His themes are always of interest to me, too. The title really says it all about this one.
3.Name of book: Mile 81
Author: Stephen King
3 stars
I bought this kindle single expecting to enjoy it more than I did. This is an author in need of a higher pagecount - more dwelling on gritty old men, friendships, relationships, and growing up. I love these things as narrated by Stephen King - all the horror stuff is very much secondary. "Mile 81" doesn't have the time to be much more than a little horror tale, which, naturally, makes it less appealing to me.
(But this was my first venture into Kindle Singles - I do have a history of just not liking short fiction much at all...)
4.Name of book: Forever Free
Author: Joe Haldeman
4 stars
Much better than I expected from a little novel wedged inbetween two great and famous ones (quite literally, in my wrist-breaking omnibus volume). The first 3/4 of the book has the feel of an apocalypse tale, and then the last fourth goes all amusingly weird, like old-man-chuckling-in-his-beard and flipping you off sort of weird. I liked it a lot - it's been over a year since I read "The forever war", but "Forever peace" just moved way up in my to-read pile.
5. Name of book: Stories: All-New Tales
Author: Neil Gaiman & others
3 stars
A collection of short stories supposedly under the theme "...And what happened next?" - They mostly failed to bring out the curiosity in me, though. It's hard to comment beyond that - it was all so bland. The audio version has some of my favourite narrators on board, though!
6.Name of book: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
4 stars
I had planned to read this one since the first time I heard it was being written - as I remembered the title first appearing in Palimpsest, by the same author. It's a quirky move, I can appreciate that.
The story is sweet and has a few memorably poignant paragraphs, but suffers a little bit from overall pointlessness - like many children's books do, I guess. Still, I would recommend it to anyone into dreamlike fantasty stories.
Good work so far! I am glad you liked the The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Some people in the group read didn't seem to enjoy it so much.
7.Name of book: A Deepness in the Sky
Author: Vernor Vinge
5 stars, favourite
This author, like many of my favourites, often gets accused of writing "poor characters" in reviews. I must disagree - technology and space does get a fair share of attention, which is good, because Vinge writes it so well, but it does not take attention or plot away from the people involved. I'm so glad I finally got around to reading these novels - the recently published third is already bought and ready on my kindle.
Tatum wrote: "Good work so far! I am glad you liked the The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Some people in the group read didn't seem to enjoy it so much."I was already a Valente reader - so I knew what to expect. I find her storytelling rich and style-conscious, but this, and the fairytale subjects, might be off-putting to readers who do not generally seek out that sort of thing?
8. Name of book: Galactic Pot-Healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
4 stars
I've been on a PKD-break since reading "VALIS", as I belong to the half of the fans who found themselves rather less than charmed by that particular volume. Now, half a year later, I picked up this one, which I had heard nothing at all about previously. Odd, really - because it is both engaging and coherent.
It has many of the same ingredients as my older favourites (like UBIK and Three Stigmata) - odd object-interactions, retro-futurism, telepathy, over-the-top aliens and alien planets. And ceramic pots.
(Why the hang-up on ceramics? I need to acquire a biography in hopes of answering that question.)
9.Name of book: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Author: Scott Lynch
4 stars
Easy, gritty entertainment - gritty like Richard K. Morgan, world detail like Miéville's New Crobuzon, fluid and charming - but without much in the way of depth. Which is fine - I like that not all fantasy has to be about the great good and the great evil and whatnot. Locke Lamora is a very entertaining character - I will follow him through another book or two.
Sara wrote: "Karina wrote: "9.Name of book: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Author: Scott Lynch
4 stars
Easy, gritty entertainment - gritty like Richard K. Morgan, world detail like Mié..."
It also comes heavily recommended by George R. R. Martin!
10.Name of book: Wool 3: Casting Off
Author: Hugh Howey
4 stars
I'm not very motivated to explore much of the cheap self-published stuff in the kindle store, as there is simply too much in my "known authors" TBR pile already - but I really do enjoy the little Wool dystopia. I can't remember how I came to purchase the first of them, but I'm certainly hooked. Bleak post-apocalyptic environments with opaque writing, the set-up being slowly revealed, chapter by chapter. Each of these installments cost me about as much as a cup of coffee - I consider it money well spent.
11.Name of book: Zoe's Tale
Author: John Scalzi
4 stars
Zoe's tale is a re-telling of the events in "The last colony" - but from the point of view of Zoe, the teenage girl who happens to be something like a goddess to an entire alien race.
John Scalzi does this thing - he writes characters who are so utterly likeable, you get the sneaking suspicion you are being fed a Mary Sue. In the end, though, I just conclude that a character who is both smart, funny and pleasant is quite feasible - but also quite rare. Possibly Scalzi is just more similar to me than most other authors when it comes to people preferences.
12.Name of book: Greybeard
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
3 stars
Sometimes it's hard to say if it's the book failing to hold my attention, or just attention refusing to be held. Either could be the case.
This was my first encounter with the Grand Master, Brian W. Aldiss - and yes, I do understand his elevated position as an sf author. Still, I feel unengaged by the story, in the same way I feel about perhaps half of the 50ies/60ies works I read. (I'm practising my willingness to admit this!)
I did, however, like "Greybeard" much better than the two obvious comparison works; McCarthy's "The road" and James' "The children of men". (And I am a genuine fan of the dystopia/post-apocalypse part of the book shelf!)
13.Name of book: Use of Weapons
Author: Iain M. Banks
4 stars
As much as I loathed the first of the Culture novels, having just finished the 3rd of them is a bit peculiar. I find I still have some problems with Banks' characters - I can't get involved, can't quite care about what happens to them - but for story and action, he generally delivers. This particular book is made more interesting by some tricks of storytelling and two different storylines told inbetween one another. I'll read the rest of the Culture novels (because they do have entertainment value, and I like to keep up with contemporary SF buzz), but I'm not sure I believe Banks ever loses the slightly-too-slick take on characters and character interaction.
Additionally, I read the last half of this on my brand new kindle touch; upgraded from the old kindle 3 the week it became available to ship to my country. Woo!
14.Name of book: The Naked Sun
Author: Isaac Asimov
5 stars
Second of the robot novels. I'm trying to read Asimov's works in the order he himself recommended. In this novel, the sense of the strange and estrangement is in everything - not especially subtle, maybe, but still very enjoyable to read.
Sara: I'd put him in the Science Fiction genre, rather than fantasy - not that the distinction matters to everyone, of course. :) "The naked sun" features characters first encountered in "The caves of steel" - I think they can be read independantly from one another, but it's nice to know these things.
15.Name of book: Wool 4 - The Unraveling
Author: Hugh Howey
4 stars
Fourth installment of the tiny but engaging Wool saga. This is intensely action-packed, compared to the previous stories. Dystopian, possibly post-apocalyptic rebellion? Finally exploring a little more of the world it's all set in? Yes, please.
16.Name of book: Breakfast of Champions
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
5 stars
So thoroughly enjoyable. There is that handful of authors whose works you read that makes you think, "I want to do that. I want to write these words" - Vonnegut is, predictably, one of those authors to me. As he is to so many others.
Most people know what to expect with Vonnegut, though (The effect of having the books on display in the litfic AND the sf shelves alike - in just about every book store ever), so it feels superfluous to describe the novel in detail. It's my favourite of what I've read of his bibliography so far, certainly.
17.Name of book: Brain Wave
Author: Poul Anderson
4.5 stars
Usually, when you read an SF novel published in the 50ies, you are constantly aware of it being published in the 50ies. It can get a little tiring. This novel reads surprisingly fresh and modern in that respect, while still retaining a sort of "great adventure" spirit.
What if life on earth had been kept from full intelligence, by outside influence? What if that influence went away - and suddenly the simple farm boy was not so simple anymore, and the great riddles of science no longer riddles? Then what?
18.Name of book:The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
4 stars
I've had this on my shelf for years now - finally got around to reading it as I realised it was going to appear in cinemas.
It's a sweet story - I would very likely have loved it when I was 10, or so. Being older isn't exactly stopping me from enjoying the book, but I found it a little shallow, under all the rich and distracting texture of environments, scents, ideas and characters. Reading was a couple of well spent hours!
19.Name of book: Wool 5: The Stranded
Author: Hugh Howey
4 stars
I'm a slow reader lately! Tiny books like this should be a matter of hours, not days. Anyway - I've enjoyed the Wool books, but this ending was a bit anticlimatic. A lot of the very relevant action by the end seems to have been just skipped over - which seems like a strange choice. I'll still recommend the Wool omnibus to SF readers looking into new and/or lesser known authors.
20.Name of book: Starship Troopers
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
4 stars
I'm not a great Heinlein fan - so I was very pleased to find this novel infinitely more readable than the others I've sampled. While it is undeniably Heinlein-y (obviously, a military SF tale is completely soaked in his politics) - it fits the setting in a way that makes it at least look like a stylistic choice, and not more or less randomly injected monologues. Easy, relaxing read.
21. Ernest Cline - Ready Player One5 stars, favourite
I did not expect to love this as much as I did. I started loving it after about 5 pages, when it had me humming the theme songs to the 80ies sitcoms I grew up with, and recalling all my own most epic(!) video game experiences. I thought I had started to read something over-hyped and thereby dull, and I was wrong.
But do not read this book if you do not have memories of the 80ies and/or early 90ies. Don't read it if you don't know what it means to be in love with pop culture and childhood. Don't read it if you've never been emotional about a game. Don't read it if you've never developed meaningful relationships with people you've never met in person.
If you haven't done those things, this book will be lost on you. If you have, though, you might, like me, be overjoyed. The whole thing has the energy and coziness and vague dystopian frame of all one's favourite good-bad-good old movies. Like Robocop and Flight of the Navigator and Stand by me, all at once.
I love your thoughtful reviews, Karina.Ready Player One looks interesting to me. I grew up in the 90s, and while I've never been a gamer, some of my best friends are internet friends through forums. Do you think I could enjoy this?
22. Jo Walton - Among Others5 stars
I never would have known about this novel or even the author if not for the Nebula award nominations - which is a sad thought. This was lovely!
We follow the private journal of a young bibliophile who has already saved the world, lost a sister, and been somewhat handicapped by a car crash. It's not an action-filled book; this is a story about what happens after the main event. And about growing up, making choices, connecting with people. It's a world in which people are good and come together beautifully; a coming-of-age story without dreary Teen Problems or terribly awkward boyfriend/girlfriend developments. There are fairies, but nothing is really about the fairies. Almost everything is about the beauty of books, science fiction, and interlibrary loans.
I loved it - and with all its literature name-dropping, it has done a good job of adding to my to-read list.
Kara wrote: "I love your thoughtful reviews, Karina.Ready Player One looks interesting to me. I grew up in the 90s, and while I've never been a gamer, some of my best friends are internet friends through foru..."
Yes, I think you might enjoy it anyway! Or I just say that because I clicked your username and immediately found out you're a fellow Enderverse fan. (OSC is a huge favourite of mine - and the only reason I haven't read Shadows in flight yet, is the weird delay on the kindle version - so frustrating!)
23. Asimov's Science Fiction April/May 2012James Patrick Kelly - The last judgment (novella)
4 stars
I list an issue of Asimov's as a book, as the length is certainly comparable - 2 novellas, a novelette, and some short stories. The novella "The last judgment" is, in many ways, a classic noir private investigator story, full of cigarette smoke and johnnie walker whisky. Only it's the future. Only there are no men. Instead, there are aliens and robots. I thought the really interesting bit of this story was the way gender still mattered to identity - but not to romance and relationships. These aren't issues I go out of my way to explore in SF usually, so I found it somewhat new and refreshing.
David Ira Cleary - Living in the eighties (novella)
Strange time travel story, traditional paradox stuff. Didn't quite hit the spot for me, but it's alright to see SF wrapped in unexpected surroundings - in this case it spins out among middle-aged rockers with concerns like diabetes and anti-depressants.
Rick Wilber - Something real (novelette)
World war, blimps, bombs, alternate universes/timelines; there's unsaid stuff going on, but it doesn't really make me care enough for it to get really interesting. (Possibly the novelette format is a disservice to what could have been a captivating novel?)
Tom Purdom - Bonding with Morry (short story)
Robots, robots. I liked this one. The protagonist, Morry, involuntarily gets a robot companion to look after him; campaigners for robot rights rage against him for not providing his bot with a pleasing enough face. It gets turned around beautifully.
Sandra McDonald - Sexy robot mom (short story)
This felt sort of slice-of-life-ish, except it's a slice of the life of a robot carrying human fetuses to term in her womb. Also an ice age apocalypse and gender confusion and sexual advances and... whatnot. Not focused enough for my tastes, but still amusing.
(I decided to skip the rest, for now - as I'm not a big fan of short stories, I can only take so much before I start longing for, uh, longer reading.)
24. Mats Strandberg - Sirkelen (N)4 stars
I don't read much in my native language - I've opted for English language literature since I was pretty young. So this is my first Norwegian read this year, and the most enjoyable one in several years.
The title translates to "The circle". The plot is unexceptional considering the trends - YA paranormal action stuff, happily residing in the vast genre space between Harry Potter and tv's "Misfits".
Noteworthy points are, first, the language; it comes off successfully contemporary and real, which is usually a problem. It's usually a problem because scandinavian authors try to be more faithful to correct scandinavian language than to how people actually employ it - so the reason this book works is the way the author sort of admits defeat right away and peppers the dialogue with English phrases.
Second, the culture. Teens are teens, I suppose, but there is a definite American high school drama feeling about these characters - the stereotypes, the communication, all of it. It's tempting to me to say it has more in common with scandinavian teen culture (which is mostly American) than with actual scandinavian teens. But of course, I'm a twenty-something old hag, so what would I know, anyway.
You´re from Norway?? How have I missed this information :) I´m the same as you, I hardly ever read in Finnish and when I do there´s just something there that bothers me. I think it is just what you´ve said here though. Funny how you´ve found the words to describe something that I couldn´t!
Glad I could be of service. :) I assume it's the same for everyone who sort of lives with a distinct pop culture language in one ear and a "domestic" language in the other.
25. Homer Hickam - Paco: The cat who meowed in space5 stars
You like space? More importantly, you like cats? Read this thing. It's short and sweet and made me cry sentimental cat lady tears at the end.
Hickam is an author I'll be further interested in, as in this kindle single he displays 1) good sense of humour and 2) excellent cat ownership.
26. Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip3 stars
...I can't exactly call it dull. It is PKD, after all. It takes place on Mars; it has robots, aliens, a schizophrenia epidemic, drugs and general anxiety. For a PKD fan, it is worthwhile, but it still pales compared to his really good novels. (That "Can't stop reading"-quality I found in "The man in the high castle", "Ubik", "Do androids dream of electric sheep?", and others - but not here.) The first half of the book is especially stale, while the second half does a better job of living up to expectations, where PKD really gets going with wild versions of schizophrenic episodes, time-disturbances, precognition and cloying regret.
27. Vernor Vinge - The Children of the Sky4 stars
A return to the Tine's world of "A fire upon the deep". Mixed pleasure - while I found it very enjoyable, it reads like a very obvious "middle of a trilogy" sort of book. Which is good, in a way, because it means there'll definitely be another book, which I wasn't really prepared for, and then it's bad, because it means this book didn't take on enough of the storyline I as a reader really, direly wanted it to tackle.
28. Sylvia Engdahl - This Star Shall Abide4 stars
I picked this up because of a mention in the novel "Among others". This, the first volume in what became a trilogy, reads a little like Ursula Le Guin to me - which I have mixed feelings about. There's a certain overbearing tone there, but it could be argued that it fits the story. We're on a small, mostly primitive world, where people live in a caste community, founded in religion and tradition. Our protagonist rebels against the system; he demands knowledge and tools for all. But, as it turns out, the heroic rebel isn't always right.
It makes a nice YA moral tale, all in all.
29. Sumit Paul-Choudhury - Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins4 stars
This is a digitally distributed magazine with the vast theme "the future" - I've paid attention to it because the first thing I heard about it, was a certain involvement of China Miéville and cephalopods. (You can tell a lot about a person from his or her favourite cephalopod, says Miéville. I'm a cuttlefish sort of girl.) Which it does, indeed, deliver. With pictures! The text covers numerous links to youtube videos and other material, which I had to skip over, as that sort of thing is a bit clunky on a regular kindle.
There are short stories from SF giants like Stephen Baxter (a story about sentience rights; I would like to read more along these lines), Margaret Atwood (a little visit into the MaddAddam-universe of Oryx and Crake / Year of the flood), M John Harrison, Alistair Reynolds, and more. Sprinkled all over are interviews, essays and general waffling about futurism, futurists, the future.
30. Kurt Vonnegut - Basic Training4 stars
Strange and sweet, more story-telling and less one-liner-y than other Vonnegut reads. Haley, an orphaned 16 year-old, aiming for an education in music, is uprooted and finds himself as a farmhand, included in a peculiar family. I'd say "hilarity ensues", but though Vonnegut is always funny, in this little story it is mainly the melancholy sort of funny.
31. Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky3 stars
Hah, well. First; There are many nice SF concepts in this book, not to mention biological science, which is a favourite SF topic of mine - but of course, it is all pushed aside in favor of the grand love story. Which plays out between a privileged, pale girl, and a rough, dark savage. Yes, exactly.
The part where "the savage" is first introduced was so cringeworthy to me, it probably set my rating of the book as a whole down by at least one full star. It's a shame, because the later parts painted a much more nuanced, interesting picture.
That said, I read it quickly, because it was very turn-the-page-y. Which is good, and sometimes all you want from a book. You could choose worse than this. (Also, all I really want in YA is more of the Hunger Games, which taints my opinion, I know.)
Karina wrote: "30. Kurt Vonnegut - Basic Training4 stars
Strange and sweet, more story-telling and less one-liner-y than other Vonnegut reads. Haley, an orphaned 16 year-old, aiming for an education in music, i..."
Sounds something I would like. Thanks! (:
32. James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes5 stars - favourite
I'm not sure I would have picked this one up if not for the Hugo/Nebula nominations. It's sad; when reviews describe a novel as "classic space opera", I imagine someting pretty dour, despite how much I love the genre. This is not dour, not boring, not old; I was ooh-ing and aah-ing before the end of the prologue.
Imagine humans settling the galaxy; imagine humans still being the worst enemy of other humans. Add any number of tropes: infection, first contact, ship battles, noir private investigators, crew camarederie, evil corporations, and a great handful of epic. I'm so glad this now appears to be the first of several books, because it means there's going to be more of it!
33. Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn4 stars
Out of all the robot novels, I think this one is my favourite; especially for the conclusion, contained in the last few pages. Asimov talks a lot about privacy, society, rules of sexual encounters, and, of course, whether or not a human is really very different from a robot sufficiently advanced that you can't always guess at the underlying law being followed. His characters, familiar with the Laws of Robotics, are chasing the Laws of Humanics. And, Asimov's style of writing is as grandfatherly-pleasant as ever.
Karina wrote: "33. Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn4 stars
Out of all the robot novels, I think this one is my favourite; especially for the conclusion, contained in the last few pages. Asimov talks a lot abo..."
I've been so meaning to read Asimov's robot books. I read The Positronic Man and it was amazing, but I haven't read any others.
34. Neal Stephenson - Reamde4 stars
I started on this (audiobook format) in January - and it took me until now to find enough book listening opportunities to finish it! Which should not reflect upon the novel's ability to engage, because it's really a very massive action thriller.
...Which is why it only gets 4 stars rather than 5; I knew what I was getting into, but couldn't help but be disappointed in the lack of traditional Stephenson-esque themes. There's a lot of what the negatively inclined will call infodumping, and I myself choose to think of as "interesting asides".
As this was an audiobook, I'll also put in a great thumbs up for the narrator, who fit the story perfectly, and managed a variety of accents without getting silly. Nicely done!
Snow Crash is the only Stephenson I've read so far, and I liked it. Do you think I should try Reamde or a different work of his next?
35. Joe Haldeman - Forever PeaceHaldeman's tone and style seems very different in this novel than what it was in "Forever war" and "Forever free". This volume is quite solemn, lacking in momentum through the first half, making it a bit hard to connect with any of the characters or events. I recognise it as an important book - certainly a worthy Hugo winner - but it could gain so much from a bit more work on the readability of it all.
In the near-future, wars are fought by soldiers miles away from the battlefields, when the end of the universe suddenly looms near. There is a way to prevent it, but it requires a redefinition of humanity itself. Another war is waged.
Kara wrote: "Snow Crash is the only Stephenson I've read so far, and I liked it. Do you think I should try Reamde or a different work of his next?""Snow crash" is my favourite! I also loved "The Diamond Age", and people keep telling me I need to read "Cryptonomicon", hah.
36. Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night: A Novel4 stars
More Vonnegut! I've been stockpiling the titles as they've become available as Kindle daily deals. Which is nice, because Vonnegut novels makes quick, light, but not empty, reading. This one is perhaps not the most poignant one of his, but it does have nazis in it. And the much-repeated moral lesson - you are what you pretend you are.
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January
1. Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
2. John Scalzi - How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story
3. Stephen King - Mile 81
4. Joe Haldeman - Forever Free
5. Neil Gaiman & others - Stories: All-New Tales
6. Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
7. Vernor Vinge - A Deepness in the Sky
8. Philip K. Dick - Galactic Pot-Healer
9. Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
10. Hugh Howey - Wool 3: Casting Off
February
11. John Scalzi - Zoe's Tale
12. Brian W. Aldiss - Greybeard
13. Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons
14. Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun
15. Hugh Howey - Wool 4 - The Unraveling
16. Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
17. Poul Anderson - Brain Wave
March
18. Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
19. Hugh Howey - Wool 5: The Stranded
20. Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
21. Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
22. Jo Walton - Among Others
23. Asimov's Science Fiction April/May 2012
24. Mats Strandberg - Sirkelen (N)
25. Homer Hickam - Paco: The cat who meowed in space
26. Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
April
27. Vernor Vinge - The Children of the Sky
28. Sylvia Engdahl - This Star Shall Abide
29. Sumit Paul-Choudhury - Arc 1.1: The Future Always Wins
30. Kurt Vonnegut - Basic Training
31. Veronica Rossi - Under the Never Sky
32. James S.A. Corey - Leviathan Wakes
33. Isaac Asimov - The Robots of Dawn
34. Neal Stephenson - Reamde
35. Joe Haldeman - Forever Peace
May
36. Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night: A Novel
37. Paolo Bacigalupi - The Drowned Cities
38. Housuke Nojiri - Rocket Girls
39. Orson Scott Card - Shadows in Flight
40. Kristine Tofte - Slaget på Vigrid
41. Jess Walter - Don't Eat Cat
42. Hugh Howey - First Shift - Legacy
43. John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
44. John Scalzi - Agent to the Stars
45. Hillary Jordan - When She Woke
46. China Miéville - Railsea
47. Brian Haigh - Awaken Your Perfect Self: How to Become Better Than Everybody Else
June
48. Robert J. Sawyer - Triggers
49. Kim Stanley Robinson - 2312
50. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo
51. Mira Grant - Blackout
52. Christine Tiday - Anabela por siempre
53. Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes
54. Connie Willis - Lincoln's Dreams
55. Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
July
56. James S.A. Corey - Caliban's War
57.Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth
58. John Scalzi - Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
59. Charles Stross - The Apocalypse Codex
60. Vernor Vinge - Tatja Grimm's World
61. Orson Scott Card - Earth Unaware
62. Margaret Atwood - I'm Starved for You
63. N. K. Jemisin - The Killing Moon
August
64. Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
65. Patrick Ness - The Ask and the Answer
66. Patrick Ness - Monsters of Men
67. Kristine Tofte - Vargtid (N)
68. Jonathan Gottschall - The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
69. Isaac Asimov - Robots and Empire
70. Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
71. James S.A. Corey - The Butcher of Anderson Station: A Story of The Expanse
72. Rudy Rucker - Software
73. Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint
September
74. Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine July/Aug 2012
75. Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
76. Mira Grant - San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
77. Arthur Koestler - The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
78. Terry Pratchett - Dodger
79. Dean Motter - Terminal City (Graphic novel)
80. Kjersti A. Skomsvold - Jo fortere jeg går, jo mindre er jeg (N)
81. Kjell Askildsen - Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten: Noveller (N)
82. Mike Brown - How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
83. Jim Butcher - Blood Rites
84. Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17
85. Warren Ellis - newuniversal: Everything Went White
86. Isaac Asimov - The Currents of Space
October
87. Catherynne M. Valente - Deathless
88. Paolo Bacigalupi - Pump Six and Other Stories
89. Philip Pullman - Grimm Tales for Young and Old
90. Jim Butcher - Dead Beat
91. M.T. Anderson - Feed
92. Jim Butcher - Proven Guilty
93. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (re-read)
94. Gerard Way - The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite (Graphic novel)
95. Iain M. Banks - The State of the Art
96. Gerard Way - The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
97. Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
98. William T. Tardy - Easy Spanish Reader
99. Isaac Asimov - The Stars, Like Dust
100. Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Goal of 100th book reached the 28th of October
101. Isaac Asimov - Pebble in the Sky
November
102. Orson Scott Card - Ruins
103. Mark Millar - Superman: Red Son (Graphic novel)
104. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver
105. Adam Roberts - Yellow Blue Tibia
106. Catherynne M. Valente - Silently and Very Fast
107. Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City
December
108. Lois McMaster Bujold - Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
109. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
110. Jørgen Jelstad - De Bortgjemte - og hvordan ME ble vår tids mest omstridte sykdom (N)
111. Nancy Kress - Steal Across the Sky
112. James Bowen - A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
113. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged
114. Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
115. Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks