Closing out the year with some opinionated accolades! This year, I've with great difficulty held it to twenty-five, giving precedence to genre reads and a couple of small presses. As per uzh, books are in arbitrary (alphabetical by author) order; links go back to original mention on this blog, in an omphaloskeptical sort of way.
- The Pirates! In an Adventure with the Romantics, Gideon Defoe
- The Beauty and the Sorrow, Peter Englund
- Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
- In the Woods and The Likeness, Tana French
- Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Patrick Hamilton
- 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
- Railsea, China Mieville
- The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton and The Importance of Being Wicked, Miranda Neville
- The Adjustment, Scott Phillips
- NW, Zadie Smith
- Love Slave, Jennifer Spiegel
- Liar & Spy, Rebecca Stead
- Limit, Keiko Suenobu
- Kitty Cornered, Bob Tarte
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Days of Blood and Starlight, Laini Taylor
- Not Quite a Husband and Ravishing the Heiress, Sherry Thomas
- Zone One, Colson Whitehead
- The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
And in the "my friends are super talented" category:
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