Comment by ChristopherDrum

I tried to read a mix of things, especially "classics I never got around to." I didn't meet my personal target of 30 books (got sidetracked writing my blog), but definitely read things that stuck with me.

Notable and beautiful

- "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead

- "Blind Sight" by Meg Howrey

- "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin

Non-fiction

- "Workflow"

- "Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D"

- "Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems"

The rest (all first-time reads)

- "Absolution" by Jeff Vandermeer (I enjoyed it but it was kind of unnecessary)

- "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte (I don't get the fascination with it)

- "Strange Pictures" by Uketsu (odd)

- "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein

- "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke

- "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick

- "Mickey 7" by Edward Ashton

- "Fugitive Telemetry" and "System Collapse" by Martha Wells

- "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson (I was surprisingly into it)

- "Glass Houses" by Madeline Ashby

- "Cover Her Face" by P.D.James

- "The Crystal Shard" by R.A.Salvatore (I needed to see what Drizzt is all about)

- "James" by Percival Everett (maybe my biggest disappointment of the year)

- "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

- "Some Desperate Glory" by Emily Tesh

- "Sea of Rust" by C. Robert Cargill