#books i read
Books I Read and Games I Played in 2019
BOOKS - 40
I’m counting novellas in a series as one entry since some are pretty short. I read a few books multiple times this year and I listed them separately but counted each only once in the final total.
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett (I’ve read Pratchett’s City Watch series so many times I’ve lost count. I ended last year starting this book, so I finished it up as 2019 started.)
- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
- The Truth by Terry Pratchett (I decided to branch out with some of Pratchett’s other Discworld books, read some that weren’t about Vimes, and began reading all the books that mentioned Vimes or where Vimes had a cameo. Big step for me.)
- Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
- Making Money by Terry Pratchett
- The Martian by Andy Weir (I took a break from Pratchett to reread what’s probably my favorite book that’s not part of a series. I actually ended up reading it three times in a row? I just like it a lot?)
- The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt (A lady in cryo wakes up hundreds of years in the future to warn of aliens, but humanity already knows about aliens by that time. Except she doesn’t mean those aliens, she means badones!!)
- The Dreaming Stars by Tim Pratt (The third one in the series wasn’t out yet and I didn’t know that when I started!!)
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (These four novellas were on my list last year too. I love them a lot and a new novel is coming out in 2020! A security robot hacks it’s own code so that it can do whatever it wants, and what it wants is to be able to watch as much tv as possible in between jobs without anyone knowing.)
- Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (Back on the Vimes-adjacent books train.)
- Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
- The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (Okay look, yes it’s the Watch books again, but my best friend started reading them for the first time, and so when she got to this one I started reading them with her so I could remember every single little detail to talk with her about.)
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Alanna: the First Adventure (Song of the Lioness book 1) by Tamora Pierce (Hoo that’s a mouthful. YA series about a girl that pretends to be a boy so she can learn to be a knight. I got a library card so I wouldn’t have to buy so many books but the wait time on this series was sooo long. Because of that I didn’t read them one after another but I’m putting them consecutively on this list anyway.)
- In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness book 2) by Tamora Pierce
- Woman that Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness book 3) by Tamora Pierce
- Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness book 4) by Tamora Pierce
- Binti, Binti: Home, and Binti: Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor (A girl gets accepted to the galaxy’s top university, except no one in her tribe is supposed to travel far from home, let alone leave the planet.)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy book 1) by N. K. Jemisin (I only ended up reading the first in the series because the books I put on hold at the library started coming in, and between that and rereading the Watch books with my friend, I kind of forgot about them, whoops. The first one was very good so I’ll definitely finish the series next year.)
- The Forbidden Stars by Tim Pratt (Thank goodness! The third book in the stars series! I didn’t have to wait long.)
- Thud! by Terry Pratchett (Yes the same Thud! that I already read this year.)
- The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust (Um, okay look, there are currently 15 books in this series and I don’t want to list them all out separately, but I read all of them in one month. They were so good that I didn’t want to do anything else until I had finished and I haven’t stopped thinking about them once I did. Have you read these books? Please talk to me about them if you have.)
- Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (Memoirs and life lessons from the ladies that do the My Favorite Murder Podcast.)
- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
- Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (I saw the movie recently and wanted to read the book, and I’ve never seen a movie based on a book that was so vastly different from the source material while still somehow feeling like the same story. A group of people are tasked with studying some weird shit happening in a particular spot of land and, no surprise, weird shit happens.)
- Authority by Jeff Vandermeer (The second book in the series. Takes place back at headquarters after the events of the first book.)
GAMES - 18
Like the books I read this year, a lot of these games were replays for me.
- Celeste
- Detroit Become Human (This was 1/3 of a fun game?)
- The Spectrum Retreat (You’re in a hotel, except maybe you’re not? The mystery stuff was fun and the puzzle stuff was cool for a while but I liked the mystery stuff better and the game turned into mostly puzzle stuff.)
- Uncharted 4 (replay)
- Rime
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Of COURSE I played as Kassandra. #arms #arms #arms)
- Tacoma (One of my favorite games of the year. You have to find out why an AI malfunctioned on a space station.)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Replay, one of my favorite games ever.)
- Observation (You have to find out why an AI malfunctioned on a space station, only you’re the malfunctioning AI.)
- The Talos Principle (I like puzzle games but the sheer number of puzzles I had to solve made it kind of tedious and the ending felt hmmmm not worth the effort?)
- Dishonored (replay)
- Dishonored 2 (reply twice, once as Corvo and once as Emily)
- Control (This game was so dope and I loved it but also I wanted to throw my controller more than once, so the highs are real high but the lows are real low. That said I did preorder the DLCs immediately once I finished.)
- Untitled Goose Game
- Link’s Awakening (Typing this made me remember that I’m still on the final dungeon whoops.)
- God of War (Holy shit y’all this game blew me away. These games have always been hyper violent and now here’s that protagonist trying his best not to let his anger get the best of him so he can teach his son how to be a good person.)
- Pokemon Sword (I chose Scorbunny.)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Shoar.)
The Best Books I Read This Year (2021 Edition)
Want to see my favorite books from this year? Up now on the #blog!
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Hello and welcome to the reading wrap-up for this year! I know in previous years I separated books by category, but this time I will simply list off all my favorites from this year. It is largely fantasy, but there are also some graphic novels, manga, and a nonfiction thrown in there.
And as always, a reminder that just because I didn’t mention a book on this list, it does not mean I didn’t…
