a less rare look ahead
Jan. 8th, 2022 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraSo, last year I took a look at what books were ranked as top priority on my giant possibly-read list, here, and I thought it would be fun to revisit that and do it again.
Last year I had seven: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 2, Willowweep Manor, A Desolation Called Peace, Fugitive Telemetry, Alecto the Ninth, The Last Graduate, and Witness for the Dead, of which I read the five that actually came out.
This year I still have MFTIMv2, Alecto the Ninth and also now Nona the Ninth, and have added Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, Lina Rather's followup to Sisters of the Vast Black, and Across a Field of Starlight from Blue Delliquanti. I am not entirely sure why the Rather gets to be a priority 1 and other exciting sequels like the Unspoken Name sequel or Tess of the Road sequel are down in priority 2, but I guess it was just my mood when adding them? (I have like 40-something books in priority 2 so I am not going to list them all, although some of them have been sitting there for a long time and should probably get downgraded.) (In practice I read a lot of priority 3 stuff for reasons of external timing... all my Hugo reading and book club reading gets listed as a 3, since I have other ways of keeping track of it, and then I'll be trying to read 2021 stuff that I might want to nominate until I switch to reading 2022 stuff I might want to nominate, so older stuff just gets perpetually put off...)
Last year I had seven: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 2, Willowweep Manor, A Desolation Called Peace, Fugitive Telemetry, Alecto the Ninth, The Last Graduate, and Witness for the Dead, of which I read the five that actually came out.
This year I still have MFTIMv2, Alecto the Ninth and also now Nona the Ninth, and have added Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, Lina Rather's followup to Sisters of the Vast Black, and Across a Field of Starlight from Blue Delliquanti. I am not entirely sure why the Rather gets to be a priority 1 and other exciting sequels like the Unspoken Name sequel or Tess of the Road sequel are down in priority 2, but I guess it was just my mood when adding them? (I have like 40-something books in priority 2 so I am not going to list them all, although some of them have been sitting there for a long time and should probably get downgraded.) (In practice I read a lot of priority 3 stuff for reasons of external timing... all my Hugo reading and book club reading gets listed as a 3, since I have other ways of keeping track of it, and then I'll be trying to read 2021 stuff that I might want to nominate until I switch to reading 2022 stuff I might want to nominate, so older stuff just gets perpetually put off...)
