This was a year full of science fiction with some detective novels thrown in. It looks like 25 of the 28 novels would be considered science fiction or fantasy. The only others were the first three on the list. The latest Philip Kerr and Benjamin Black books and the very intense historical novel The Book Thief.
I read some interesting new science fiction this year including Zone One, Bird Box, The Circle, The Water Knife and City of Mirrors. I read a couple of classics... Dan Simmons' Hyperion and Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle.
And then there were the series. Several of them. None of them were particularly outstanding but they were good enough to keep me coming back for more. All had long involved plot lines across many books. Overall an unusual collection of books this year.
- The Black-Eyed Blonde - Benjamin Black, 2014
- The Other Side of Silence - Philip Kerr, 2016
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak, 2005
- The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi, 2015
- The Circle - Dave Eggers, 2013
- Zone One - Colson Whitehead, 2011
- The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick, 1962
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons, 1989
- The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin, 2016
- Bird Box - Josh Maleman, 2014
- The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009
- The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett, 2012
- The Long War - Terry Pratchett, 2013
- The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett, 2014
- The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett, 2015
- The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett, 2016
- Island in the Sea of Time - S.M. Stirling, 1998
- The Protector's War - S.M. Stirling, 2005
- A Meeting at Corvallis - S.M. Stirling, 2006
- Against the Tide of Years - S.M. Stirling, 1999
- On an Ocean of Eternity - S.M. Stirling, 2000
- Hidden Empire - Kevin J. Anderson, 2002
- A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson, 2003
- Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson, 2004
- Scattered Suns - Kevin J. Anderson, 2005
- Of Fire and Night - Kevin J. Anderson, 2006
- Sand - Hugh Howey, 2014
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin, 1998
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