I logged 65 books read last year on LibraryThing, starting with A.K. Larkwood’s fantasy novel “The Unspoken Name” (finished January 22) and ending with Catriona Ward’s un-shelvable “The Last House on Needless…
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Rooms by Lauren Oliver
Family members converge on a house in Upstate New York upon the death of Richard Walker, their secrets and disappointments mingling with those of the ghosts of two of the house’s former…
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear
Against a backdrop of corporate and political intrigue, environmental and cultural pillaging, and the unraveling of the very fabric of reality, an assassin, a knowledge broker, and a “conjure man” betray, bedevil,…
Join by Steve Toutonghi
In a near future ravaged by environmental disasters, people are able to join their consciousness with others into new, multi-bodied selves, with their previously individual bodies as mortal avatars, or “drives,” through…
City of Ash and Red by Hye-young Pyun (translated by Sora Kim-Russell)
An unnamed man travels to an unnamed country to take on an unspecified role at his employer’s home office. The foreign country is in the midst of political and social upheaval, spurred…
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Charlie Manx prowls the secret roads between our world and an evil Christmasland of the mind in his Rolls-Royce Wraith, searching for children to “rescue.” Vic McQueen, psychically damaged by both her…
Fast Eddie, King of the Bees – Robert Arellano
It dawned on me rather late in the book – around page 140 or so, as the crazy train narrative was just about to leap its last rails – that there was…