2015 Reading List

This is a record of everything I\’ve read for the first time in 2015 (or in 2016 catching up on 2015 stories, marked with *).  I\’ll update this post as I read more things!

In order to eventually create my Hugo nominating ballot for the year and help others find things they might like enough to nominate as well, I\’ve separated out science fiction or fantasy published in 2015 into its own sections according to Hugo category.  Bolded entries are ones I enjoyed enough to recommend to others as potentially Hugo-worthy work, and I\’ve also linked to the Amazon reviews I\’ve written where applicable.

2015 Novels (at least 40,000 words):

• Gemini Cell, Myke Cole
• Flex and The Flux, Ferrett Steinmetz (review of The Flux)
• State Machine, K.B. Spangler (review)
• Belt Three, John Ayliff
• Apex, Ramez Naam
• Serpentine, Cindy Pon
• Greek Key, K.B. Spangler
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
• Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear*
• Aftermath, Chuck Wendig*
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson*
• Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold* (review)
• The End of All Things, John Scalzi (author declines Hugo consideration)
• Sword, Amy Bai
• Pocket Apocalypse, Seanan McGuire
• The Just City, Jo Walton*
• Unsung Villains, Missy Meyer*

2015 Novellas (17,500 to 40,000 words):

• Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson
• Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
• The Last Witness, K. J. Parker*
• \”The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn\”, Usman T. Malik*
• \”Waters of Versailles\”, Kelly Robson*
• Envy of Angels, Matt Wallace*
• Wings of Sorrow and Bone, Beth Cato*

2015 Novelettes (7,500 to 17,500 words):

• \”Fabulous Beasts\”, Priya Sharma*
• \”Islands Off the Coast of Capitola, 1978\”, David Herter*
• The Thyme Fiend, Jeffrey Ford*

2015 Short Stories (less than 7,500 words):

• \”Variations on an Apple\”, Yoon Ha Lee
• \”Telling the Bees\”, T. Kingfisher (aka Ursula Vernon)
• \”Some Gods of El Paso\”, Maria Dahvana Headley
• \”Please Undo This Hurt\”, Seth Dickinson*
• \”Damage\”, David D. Levine*
• \”Oral Argument\”, Kim Stanley Robinson*
• \”Schrödinger\’s Gun\”, Ray Wood*
• \”Tear Tracks\”, Malka Older*
• \”Ginga\”, Daniel José Older*
• \”The Language of Knives\”, Haralambi Markov*
• \”Elephants and Corpses\”, Kameron Hurley*
• \”That Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda\’s One Hundredth Birthday Party\”, Tina Connolly
• \”Hold-Time Violations\”, John Chu
• \”The Shape of My Name\”, Nino Cipri*
• \”The Merger: A Romantic Comedy of Intergalactic Business Negotiations, Indecipherable Emotions, and Pizza\”, Sunil Patel
  
• \”At the End of Babel\”, Michael Livingston*
• \”The Log Goblin\”, Brian Staveley*
• \”Ballroom Blitz\”, Veronica Schanoes*
• \”The Ways of Walls and Words\”, Sabrina Vourvoulias*

Non-2015 works read in 2015:

• The Lives of Tao and The Deaths of Tao, Wesley Chu
• Thieftaker and Thieves\’ Quarry, D.B. Jackson
• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie
• The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdulla Bilgrami, tr. Musharraf Ali Farooqi (abandoned)
• Nine Goblins, T Kingfisher
• Worm, Wildbow (in progress)
• Libriomancer and Codex Born, Jim Hines
• Vicious, V.E. Schwab
• Blood Magic, GatewayGirl
• Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Kensei and The Devil, You Say, Jeremy Zimmerman
• The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
• Dead to Me, Mary McCoy
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, tr. Ken Liu
• The Dark Between the Stars, Kevin J. Anderson (abandoned)
• Lock In, John Scalzi
• The Rhesus Chart, Charles Stross
• Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots and Velveteen vs. The Multiverse, Seanan McGuire
• Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
• The complete Merchant Princes series, Charles Stross
• We Could Be Villains, Missy Meyer
• Helen of Sparta, Amalia Carosella
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• The Martian, Andy Weir
• \”As Good As New\”, Charlie Jane Anders
• \”The End of the End of Everything\”, Dale Bailey
• \”Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch\”, Kelly Barnhill
• \”Sleep Walking Now and Then\”, Richard Bowes
• \”Daughter of Necessity\”, Marie Brennan
• \”Brisk Money\”, Adam Christopher
• Nexus and Crux, Ramez Naam
• Fudoki, Kij Johnson
• Save the Cat, Blake Snyder
• Jumpstart Your Novel, Mark Teppo