2014 Reading List

I'm aiming to finish at least 50 books this year. Let's see how that goes, shall we?

Click the book titles to go straight to my review where available. Not all have reviews, partly because I don't time to review everything I read, and partly because I only intend to review speculative & historical fiction on this blog.

Finished

1. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (Non-fiction, Computer Science)
2. Breach Zone by Myke Cole (Urban Fantasy)
3. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Urban Fantasy, YA) 
4. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Lit Fic)
5. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Space Opera) 
6. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente  (Mythic Fantasy)  
7. The Seeing Stone by Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi (Fantasy, Middle Grade) 
8. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (Epic Fantasy) 
9. Somewhere in France: A Novel of the Great War by Jennifer Robson (Historical Romance)
10. Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (Historical Fiction, Lit Fic)
11. Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2012 in 24 Hours by James Foxall (Non-fiction, Computer Science)  
12. Pantomine by Laura Lam (Fantasy, LGBT, YA) 
13. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Riply (Non-fiction, Psychology, Sociology) 
14. A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Fantasy)
15. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Dystopian, YA)
16. Child of a Hidden Sea by A. M. Dellamonica (Portal Fantasy)
17. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Fantasy) 
18. Static by L. A. Witt (Science-fiction, Romance, LGBT) 
19. The Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy #1) by Robin Hobb (Epic Fantasy) 
20. Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy #2) by Robin Hobb (Epic Fantasy) 
21. Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran (Urban Fantasy, Short Stories) 
22. The Lost (The Lost #1) by Sarah Beth Durst (Urban Fantasy)
23. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) by Robin Hobb (Epic Fantasy)

 

Currently Reading/ On My TBR Pile

1. Shadowplay by Laura Lam (Fantasy) 
2. Le Horla et autres contes fantastique by Maupassant (French, Short Stories)
3. Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang (Non-fiction, China)
4. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society by Norman J. W. Thrower (Non-fiction, Geography)

Diversity in Reading 

I also plan to read consciously - and diversely - this year. That means reading an equal number of male and female authors, and trying more books written by queer and/or non-white authors, or containing queer and/or non-white protagonists. Expect graphs and suchlike at the end of the year!