What I’m Reading: 2025

Bold titles are still in progress. If I was really book blogging, I’d write more about the starred titles.

1. Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, by Michael J. Benton, illustrated by Bob Nicholls. (See the companion website Dinosaur feathers and colour for an accessible synopsis of the science behind recent advances in dinosaur paleontology.)
2. ★ New Adventures in Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan.
3. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.
4. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #4, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.
5. The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks.
6. The Profitable Artist, published by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
7. Playing with Pop-ups, by Helen Hiebert. (Packed with inspiration for papercraft mail art!)
8. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist, by Jane Rosenberg.
9. ★ The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, edited by Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams.
10. The Mercy of Gods, by James S. A. Corey.
11. ★ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers.
12. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon, by Julie Phillips.
13. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #49, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant.
14. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers.
15. Never Say You Can’t Survive, by Charlie Jane Anders.
16. Where the Axe is Buried, by Ray Nayler.
17. Twelve Trees, by Daniel Lewis.
18. Blacks on John Brown, edited by Benjamin Quarles.
19. ★ Alpha 6, edited by Robert Silverberg.
20. The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi.
21. The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth.
22. Osama, by Lavie Tidhar.
23. Nebula Award Showcase 60, edited by Stephen Kotowych.
24. ★ The Jerry Rescue, by Angela Murphy.
25. ★ Liberation Day, by George Saunders.
26. Las batallas en el desierto, de José Emilio Pacheco.
27. Galactic North, by Alastair Reynolds.
28. New Edge Sword & Sorcery #2, edited by Oliver Brackenbury.

Comics

I read comics on Hoopla via the library. Here are graphic novels I’ve read and series I’ve kept up with so far this year.

• Paper Girls: The Complete Story (Image Comics), written by Brian K. Vaughan with art by Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, and Jared K. Fletcher.
• Conan the Barbarian (Titan Comics), written by Jim Zub with art by Rob De La Torre, Doug Braithwaite, and Danica Brine.
• The Savage Sword of Conan (Titan Comics), by various writers and artists.
• The Witcher (Dark Horse Comics), by various writers and artists.
• The Eternaut (Hora Cero 1957—1959/Fantagraphics 2015), by Héctor Germán Oesterheld with art by Francisco Solano López, translated by Erica Mena and Martin Hadis
• ★ Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the US, by Caitlin Cass.
• Blue Book (Dark Horse Comics), written by James Tynion IV with art by Michael Avon Oeming.

Posted on Sunday, January 12th, 2025. Tags: reviews.