This year’s reading. If I finished it, it was at least good. If it has an asterisk after it, it was great.1. Echopraxia, by Peter Watts*
2. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
3. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, edited by Tim Folger and Siddhartha Mukherjee
4. All Heads Turn when the Hunt Goes By, John Farris
- Touchstone, by Laurie R. King
- The Madonna and the Starship, by James Morrow
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Horns: A Novel, by Joe Hill*
- The Door in the Mountain, by Caitlin Sweet*
- A Taste Fur Murder, by Dixie Lyle
- The Golden Princess: A Novel of the Change, by S.M. Stirling*
- The Secret Place, by Tana French*
- The Lesser Dead, by Christopher Buehlman*
- Last Plane to Heaven by Jay Lake*
- Last Song Before Night, by Ilana C. Myer
16. N0S4A2, by Joe Hill
17. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those who survived the Great American Dustbowl, by Timothy Egan*
18. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014, edited by Tim Folger and Deborah Blum*
19. The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry*
20. Nobody’s Home, by Tim Powers
21. We Will All Go Down Together, by Gemma Files (As of this morning, I’m two stories away from being finished with this.)*
Plus some, but not all, of the stories
“The Eighth Grade History Class visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging,” by Harry Turtledove*
“Hard Stars,” by Brendan DuBois
“each thing I show you is a piece of my death,” by Gemma Files*
“Miss Violet May from the Twelve Thousand Lakes,” by Tina Connolly*
“On Disposing of a Corpse,” by Tom Jolly
“Wedding Day,” by Brian Trent
“Love is a component of this Story,” by Liz Argall
“The Devil in America,” by Kai Ashante Wilson
“Swarm, the Queen Commanded,” by K.A. Gillett
“Something going Around,” by Harry Turtledove
“Amanda Who Went Before,” by Rebecca L. Brown
“Waiting for Flashmob” by Ryan Abbott*
“Nine Lives,” by Callie Snow
“The Last Repairman,” by Dave Beynon
“The Vivisection of Sergeant Shane Eastwood,” by Matt Mikalatos
“Coffin,” by Mari Ness
“Solstice Cakes,” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman,
“Snow, Glass, Apples,” by Neil Gaiman,
“The Faery Handbag,” by Kelly Link
“Strange Attractors” by S.B. Divya
“Oceans of You,” by Pam L. Wallace
“Clasp Hands,” by Stephanie Burgis
“Mephisto,” by Alan Baxter
“English Muffin, Devotion on the Side,” by Cat Rambo*
“Guy Walks Into A Bar,” by Simon Rich*
“Ten Wretched Things about Influenza Siderius,” by Rachael K. Jones*
“Futures Market,” by Mitchell Edgeworth
