At the beginning of the year, I was finishing up a full reread of Lee & Miller’s Liaden Universe®​​ novels after getting Outcaste, Book 6 of the Tales of Tolari Space, in shape for my publisher. Toward the end, I was reading much longer works (Sanderson, Jacques) as well as pretty intensely writing The Song of Lynadria, book 7 of the Tales of Tolari Space, so I read far fewer titles. It’s not as many titles as I’d hoped to get through, slow reader that I am. The ones I didn’t get to included the rest of the series that started with Alan Smale’s Clash of Eagles along with the rest of Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive. There’s also a new Cherryh & Fancher novel to read, and a whole bunch of Chinese SF&F in translation. Sounds like a plan to start the new year.

And so, without further ado, here’s the complete list for 2024.

— Jan —
1 Bad Actors, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (reread)
2 Bread Alone, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (reread)
3 From Every Storm, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (reread)
4 The Wrong Lance, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
5 Fair Trade, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (reread)
6 Salvage Right, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (reread)
7 Hellspark, by Janet Kagan

— Feb —
8 Defiance, by C.J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher
9 Of Cinder & Bone, by Kyoko M.
10 Heart of Stone, by Johannes T. Evans
11 Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler
12 Imago, by Octavia Butler
13 The Dragons of Dorcastle, by Jack Campbell

— Mar —
14 Doors Into Change, by Sharon Lee (chapbook)
15 The Hidden Masters of Marandur, by Jack Campbell
16 Ribbon Dance (e-ARC), by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
17 Salt & Broom, by Sharon Lynn Fisher
18 Posted to Death, by Dean James
19 The Middling Afflicion, by Alex Shvartsman

— Apr —
20 The Hanging City, by Charlie N. Holmberg
21 The Emperor and the Endless Palace, by Justinian Huang
22 Death in the Spires, by KJ Charles
23 Farryn’s War, by Christie Meierz (administrative read)
24 Clash of Eagles, by Alan Smale
25 Kakistocracy, by Alex Shvartsman

— May —
26 A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
27 A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine
28 Ice & Alligators, by Angel Martinez
29 Port Eternity, by C.J. Cherryh
30 Voyager in Night, by C.J. Cherryh

— Jun —
31 Wave Without A Shore, by C.J. Cherryh
32 A Taste of Rebellion, by Rachel White
33 Double Vision, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (collection)
34 Three Twins at the Crater School, by Chaz Brenchley
35 Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, by Jessica Brody
36 Ribbon Dance, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (published edition)

— Jul —
37 Tuyo, by Rachel Neumeier
38 A Glimpse of Redemption, by Rachel White
39 Dust Up at the Crater School, by Chaz Brenchley
40 Mary Ellen, Craterian! by Chaz Brenchley
41 Rowany Goes to Summer School, by Chaz Brenchley

— Aug —
42 The Call of Revolution, by Rachel White
43 The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
44 Running Close to the Wind, by Alexandra Rowland

— Sep —
45 The Duke at Hazard, by KJ Charles

— Oct —
46 Daughter of Fire, by Sofia Robleda
47 The Magpie Lord, by KJ Charles (reread)
48 China in Ten Words, by Yu Hua
49 A Case of Possession, by KJ Charles (reread)
50 The Political Thought of Xi Jinping, by Steve Tsang & Olivia Cheung
51 The Writer’s Little Book of Naming, by Marie Brennan

— Nov —
52 Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson
53 Edgedancer, by Brandon Sanderson

— Dec —
54 Flight of Magpies, by KJ Charles (reread)
55 When China Rules the World, by Martin Jacques
Favorite line: “The Taiping Uprising’s ideology was ‘a bizarre alchemy of evangelical Christianity, primitive communism, sexual Puritanism, and Confucian utopianism.'”
56 The Postman, by Liao Shubo (short story)