Best books of 2011
Jan. 5th, 2012 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI hear on the interwebs that Hugo nominations have opened. I'm not a voter, but I guess this is as good a time as any to recap the books I found best in 2011?*
Fiction:
1. Jo Walton, Among Others.
2. Elizabeth Bear, The Sea Thy Mistress.
3. Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze.
4. Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal - Reviewed at Tor.
5. Elizabeth Bear, Grail - Reviwed at Tor.
6. Daniel Fox, Hidden Cities - Reviewed at Ideo.
7. Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho - Reviewed at Ideo.
Nonfiction:
While the fiction was all published in 2011, the nonfiction - well, wasn't.
1. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah.
2. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land.
3. David Brewer, The Greek War of Independence.
4. Jean Froissart, Chronicles. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
5. Ciarán Carson, The Táin: A New Translation of the Táin Bó Cuailgne.
6. Usama ibn Munqidh, The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades.
7. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Landfalls.
Today I have written much of a Funding Application of DOOM. And a review. Eleven or twelve hours of consistent work, with only a couple of short breaks. My brain, it is scraped quite clean.
And tomorrow, I must finish the FAoD. Onwards! Death or glory!
*I meant to do it before the New Year. But I got... distracted.
Fiction:
1. Jo Walton, Among Others.
2. Elizabeth Bear, The Sea Thy Mistress.
3. Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze.
4. Chris Wooding, The Iron Jackal - Reviewed at Tor.
5. Elizabeth Bear, Grail - Reviwed at Tor.
6. Daniel Fox, Hidden Cities - Reviewed at Ideo.
7. Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho - Reviewed at Ideo.
Nonfiction:
While the fiction was all published in 2011, the nonfiction - well, wasn't.
1. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah.
2. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land.
3. David Brewer, The Greek War of Independence.
4. Jean Froissart, Chronicles. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
5. Ciarán Carson, The Táin: A New Translation of the Táin Bó Cuailgne.
6. Usama ibn Munqidh, The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades.
7. Tim Macintosh-Smith, Landfalls.
Today I have written much of a Funding Application of DOOM. And a review. Eleven or twelve hours of consistent work, with only a couple of short breaks. My brain, it is scraped quite clean.
And tomorrow, I must finish the FAoD. Onwards! Death or glory!
*I meant to do it before the New Year. But I got... distracted.
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Date: 2012-01-05 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 01:27 pm (UTC)(On the plus side, though, it's a good thing I didn't try to do this particular application last year. I would never have been able to write it half as well as I am now - which still isn't brilliantly, but hurrah for being able to see one's progress?)
Er. I will stop rabbitting on now.
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Date: 2012-01-05 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-05 04:09 pm (UTC)