2004 books

[jinian]

Total books read in 2004: 283

• Fiction: 229
  
  • SF: 173, roughly 80% fantasy
  
  
  • Kids' or YA: 86


• Nonfiction: 37


• Comics/manga: 17

(Nonfiction included a little poetry. Comics included a drawn memoir which would otherwise have been nonfiction. The subcategories of fiction are nonexclusive. Whether something was YA was entirely up to me.)

A big year. I did more nonfiction reading than this, but I don't read most textbooks cover to cover.

Top ten fiction books new to me in 2004:
1. A Fistful of Sky, Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
2. The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson.
3. The Steerswoman's Road, Rosemary Kirstein.
4. White Midnight, Dia Calhoun.
5. Sunshine, Robin McKinley.
6. Cotillion, Georgette Heyer.
7. The Beacon at Alexandria, Gillian Bradshaw.
8. Sorcery and Cecilia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.
9. Persuasion, Jane Austen.
10. The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale.

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Hm. Since almost everything on your list scored high with me too (though I read a lot of them before 2004, so they didn't show up on my list for last year), I think I'll bump the Robinson and the Calhoun further up my to-be-read list.

(I'm still holding off on the Kirsteins, by dint of doggedly ignoring the siren call of the two I already have.)