an annual post about books
Jan. 1st, 2025 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraHere's what I'm most anticipating this year, according to my big list: Alecto the Ninth (which I believe has been appearing on this list the whole time I've been doing it since 2021, making this its fifth and, let's be real, probably not final appearance), Nefarious Nights of Willowweep Manor (sequel to the Dire Days of Willowweep Manor which was on 2021's list), Emily Tesh's The Incandescent, Sarah Rees Brennan's All Hail Chaos (sequel to Long Live Evil) and Martha Wells' Queen Demon (sequel to Witch King). And Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots, which I have ranked as a two instead of a one for whatever reason but might as well be a one.
(In another sense, my most anticipated books are the twelve I'm in queues for, for which I presently have a nice range of queue positions ranging from #1 on three copies to #49 on seven copies to #12 on one copy, but which will surely become available in a couple of inconvenient simultaneous batches because that always happens.)
Of last year's list I successfully read My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2 (which like Alecto had also been on for years but unlike Alecto *actually happened*), the new Courtney Milan, and the new Murderbot, and basically everything else I listed (Rose/House, He Who Drowned the World, Thorn Hedge, Dead Cat Tail Assassins, The Lost Cause, What Feasts At Night, Brides of High Hill, Rakesfall) except for Menewood, which I continue to not be sure when I'm going to actually drop everything else for that long to reread Hild and then that. Plus a couple that went on and off the list again within the year, City in Glass and The Forbidden Book. So those are some notes about books.
(In another sense, my most anticipated books are the twelve I'm in queues for, for which I presently have a nice range of queue positions ranging from #1 on three copies to #49 on seven copies to #12 on one copy, but which will surely become available in a couple of inconvenient simultaneous batches because that always happens.)
Of last year's list I successfully read My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2 (which like Alecto had also been on for years but unlike Alecto *actually happened*), the new Courtney Milan, and the new Murderbot, and basically everything else I listed (Rose/House, He Who Drowned the World, Thorn Hedge, Dead Cat Tail Assassins, The Lost Cause, What Feasts At Night, Brides of High Hill, Rakesfall) except for Menewood, which I continue to not be sure when I'm going to actually drop everything else for that long to reread Hild and then that. Plus a couple that went on and off the list again within the year, City in Glass and The Forbidden Book. So those are some notes about books.
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