2017 Reading List

Everything I read in 2017, with 2017-published works separated out and bolded if I\’m considering nominating them for Hugos.  (I\’ve also included 2017 works that I read for Hugo consideration in 2018; those are marked with an asterisk.)  See 2016 and 2015 lists.  (And for what it\’s worth, there are plenty of works that I enjoyed quite a bit but am unlikely to nominate; don\’t take the lack of bolding as an indication that I didn\’t like it!)

2017 Novels (at least 40,000 words):

• The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
• The Brightest Fell, Seanan McGuire
• Rebel Seoul, Axie Oh
• Stoneskin, K.B. Spangler
• Siege Line, Myke Cole
• Clockwork Boys, T. Kingfisher
• Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant
• Jade City, Fonda Lee*
• The Glass Town Game, Catherynne Valente*
• Six Wakes, Mur Lafferty*
• Barbary Station, R.E. Stearns*
• Terminal Alliance, Jim Hines*
• Magic for Nothing, Seanan McGuire
• The \”Wonderful\” Wizard of Futhermucking Oz, Matt Youngmark
• Deadlands: Boneyard, Seanan McGuire
• At the Table of Wolves, Kay Kenyon

2017 Novellas (17,500 to 40,000 words):

• Binti: Home, Nnedi Okorafor
• Idle Ingredients, Matt Wallace
• Buffalo Soldier, Maurice Broaddus
• Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, Seanan McGuire
• Gluttony Bay, Matt Wallace
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells*
• The Dispatcher, John Scalzi*
• Greedy Pigs, Matt Wallace
• Rolling in the Deep, Mira Grant

2017 Novelettes (7,500 to 17,500 words):

• \”Remote Presence\”, Susan Palwick*
• \”The Worshipful Society of Glovers\”, Mary Robinette Kowal*
• \”The Secret Life of Bots\”, Suzanne Palmer*
• \”Three May Keep A Secret\”, Carlie St. George*

2017 Short Stories (less than 7,500 words):

• \”Origin Story\”, T. Kingfisher
• \”Down and Out in Rl\’yeh\”, Catherynne Valente
• \”The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant\”, Rachael K. Jones*
• \”The Heart\’s Cartography\”, Susan Jane Bigelow*
• \”Utopia, LOL?\”, Jamie Wahls*
• \”Let Pass the Horses Black\”, T. Kingfisher

Non-2017 works read in 2017:

• Brute Force, K.B. Spangler
• Ghost Talkers, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Beast, Brie Spangler
• Heroine Complex, Sarah Kuhn
• Crosstalk, Connie Willis
• \”A Trump Christmas Carol\”, Roz Kaveney, Laurie Penny, John Scalzi, and Jo Walton
• Cobalt City Christmas: Christmas Harder, Eric Scott deBie, Nathan Crowder, Jeremy Zimmerman, Dawn Vogel, Amanda Cherry
• Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
• All the InCryptid short stories available on Seanan McGuire\’s website (23 total as of February 2017)
• Infomocracy, Malka Older
• \”Things With Beards\”, Sam J. Miller
• \”Terminal\”, Lavie Tidhar
• \”That Game We Played During The War\”, Carrie Vaughn
• \”The Great Detective\”, Delia Sherman
• The Jewel and her Lapidary, Fran Wilde
• \”Your Orisons May Be Recorded\”, Laurie Penny
• \”A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers\”, Alyssa Wong
• \”The Visitor from Taured\”, Ian R. MacLeod
• The Iron Tactician, Alastair Reynolds
• The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
• Pride\’s Spell, Matt Wallace
• The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
• The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin
• \”Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies\”, Brooke Bolander
• Snowflake War Journal, Jeremy Zimmerman
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers
• A Closed and Common Orbit, Becky Chambers
• \”You Are Not the Hero of This Story\”, Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
• Jackalope Wives And Other Stories, T. Kingfisher
• The Orphan\’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (in progress)
• Death\’s End, Cixin Liu
• All The Birds In The Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• Penric and the Shaman, Lois McMaster Bujold
• \”You\’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay\”, Alyssa Wong
• \”Touring with the Alien\”, Carolyn Ives Gilman
• \”The Art of Space Travel\”, Nina Allan
• TODO: Short stories
• Pay Me, Bug!, C.B. Wright
• \”The First Snow of Winter\”, Caroline M. Yoachim
• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Without a Summer, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Valour and Vanity, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Of Noble Family, Mary Robinette Kowal
• The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson
• The Rebirths of Tao, Wesley Chu
• \”Penric\’s Demon\”, Lois McMaster Bujold