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This is embarrassingly late even for Lunar New Year. I'm hoping "better late than never" still applies.

As with sequential art, I totally sucked at writing things up this year. Grad school: worst time suck ever! Sadly, this means I haven't reviewed almost half of the books on my best-of list. As usual, the list of books here are my favorites read in 2009, not published 2009. And in fact, I have some books on the list that are being published this year, thanks to the wonder of ARCs.

This year, I continued to do , despite completely failing to post at the comm. I think I was doing better in terms of percentages than I was last year, and then I hit November, school started really sucking, and all I could read were historical romances, which are super White. As such, I have roughly the same percentages of women and POC read this year as I did last year. At least there was no backsliding?

I feel like I should say something more intelligent about what I was reading, except I don't think I was a particularly intelligent reader this year.

Anything not linked in the giant list has not been written up; feel free to ask me about anything in the comments.

( Kim Anderson, A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood )

( M.T. Anderson, Octavian Nothing: The Kingdom on the Waves )

( Minister Faust, From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain )

( Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms )

( N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms )

( Many Ly, Roots and Wings )

( Ramesh Menon, The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering )

( Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved )

( Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body )

( Sonia Shah, ed., Dragon Ladies )

Also recommended: Swati Avasthi, Split; Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember; Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss and Santa Olivia; Kristin Cashore, Fire; Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, The Graveyard Book; Joey W. Hill, A Witch's Beauty; Nisi Shawl, Filter House; Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl; and Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer.

Total read: 122 (8 rereads)
45 by women of color, 60 by POC, 101 by women

( All books read in 2009 )

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*looks at date*

Er. Better late than never?

Once again, I read fewer books this year. On the other hand, only two books less than last year, so I think that is not bad, considering that I started grad school and all! And I managed to blog every book I read, with the exception of rereads.

The biggest change for me in 2008 was starting the

50books_poc challenge; namely, to read 50 books by POC in a year. I had originally done it from IBARW to IBARW (August 2007 to August 2008), but it's nice to know that I met it for the calendar year of 2008 as well. If anyone's interested about why, I wrote up why I count and how the challenge affected me during IBARW 3. Next year, my goal is to increase the percentage of books by POC so that it's over 50% of all the books I read, total. I'm still trying to make it enough of a habit that I won't have to count, and it's rather embarrassing to see the huge jump in numbers once I started making an effort. The gap between 13 books by POC versus 64 is enormous and indicative of my own aversive racism; it didn't actually take that much effort to find those 51 additional books (although a large part of that is thanks to my local libraries, and aversive racism plays its own role in book selection in libraries as well).

It is nice to see that I do not have to worry much about the percentage of women I'm reading.

As always, feel free to ask about anything here.

( Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian )

( M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party )

( Atul Gawande, Complications and Better )

( Justina Chen Headley, Girl Overboard )

( Maggie Helwig, Where She Was Standing )

( Angela Johnson, The First Part Last )

( David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach )

( Andrea Smith, Conquest )

( Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales )

( Elizabeth E. Wein, The Mark of Solomon )

( Also recommended )

Total read: 129 (6 rereads)
51 by women of color, 64 by POC, 104 by women

( Complete list of books read in 2008 )

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First of all, if you don't know anything about this book, I would suggest reading it just like that. If you do know the premise, it doesn't spoil the book at all, as the book is brilliant, but I think the extra frisson of discovery would be awesome. I'm still a little sad that I saw the Library of Congress categories the book was in when I checked it out on the library catalogue.

Second: read this. It's a look into 18th-century science and the American Revolutionary War and a critique of that war. It's also a brilliant pastiche of letters and diaries and, of course, Octavian's diary. Also, just in case you were confused like I was, it's definitely not about Roman senators. It's also much more than all the elements above, but saying what it is would be ruining the surprise.

( Spoilers for the book )

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buymeaclue's review (spoilers)
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minnow1212's review (spoilers)
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tenemet's review (no spoilers)

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