All the books I reviewed in 2021

Plus one I published!

This is more-or-less my last blogging day of 2021 (I may sneak a post or two in before the New Year, but I might not), so it’s time for my annual roundup of my book reviews from the year gone by. I’ve sorted this year’s books by genre (sf/f, other novels, graphic novels, YA, nonfic) and summarized the reviews with links to the full review. Here’s last year’s installment:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/required-reading/#recommended-reading

As ever, casting my eye over the year’s reading fills me with delight (at how much I enjoyed these books) and shame (at all the excellent books I was sent or recommended that I did not get a chance to read). 2021 was a hard year for all of us and I’m no exception. I ended up whiffing on *so many* astonishingly great and highly desirable books this year and I feel awful about it, to be honest.

I know what it’s like to launch a book in a pandemic (I had four books out in 2020, ugh), and I so want to get those writers’ and publishers’ books into your hands. I might actually start an aspirational “books I wish I was reading” monthly or quarterly list for 2022.

On the subject of book publishing a pandemic: last year saw the publication of the paperback of my novel Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book: