2013.Book39 - The Incrementalists (Brust/White)

Really disappointing. I expected a story about people trying to make the world better, and got fantasy infighting.

2013.Book38 - A Map of Time (Palma)

Good adventure/SF.

2013.Book37 - Sandman Slim (Kadrey)

Pretty good supernatural noir.

2013.Book36 - Starfish (Watts)

Excellent and grim.

2013.Book35 - The Republic of Thieves (Lynch)

Very good, long-awaited.

2013.Book34 - Libriomancer (Hines)

Very good SF/F.

2013.Book33 - A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dubois)

Excellent novel about death.

2013.Book32 - Courting Greta (Hootman)

OK romance? novel.

2013.Book31 - The Stench of Honolulu (Handy)

OK comedy.

2013.Book30 - The Hydrogen Sonata (Banks)

Good hard SF.

2013.Book29 The Shining Girls (Beukes)

Pretty good time-travel thriller.

2013.Book28 - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Jemisin)

Pretty good fantasy.

2013.Book27 - Nietzsche (Kaufmann)

Very interesting philosphical commentary.

2013.Book26 - The Age Atomic (Christopher)

OK. Noir/robots.

2013.Book25 - Shambling Guide (Lafferty)

OK. Fantasy/horror.

2013.Book24 - The Wordy Shipmates (Vowell)

Pretty good religious/american history.

2013.Book23 - Necessary Evil (Tregillis)

Excellent conclusion to the trilogy. Just awesome to re-do the first book through time travel. And the effect on characters, especially Gretel.

2013.Book22 - Influence (Cialdini)

Very good pop psych.

2013.Book21 - Blue Like Jazz (Miller)

Mostly terrible. A little good stuff about love.

2013.Book 20 - Sum (Eagleman)

Very cool inventions on afterlives, with the point being to get us to think about our actual lives.

2013.Book19 - The Power of Why (Lang)

Pretty good self-help/business book. Too much "and this secret is why this company succeeded and this company failed" just-so stories, and kind of a lack of awareness of workers' reality. Like, why should I work hard and be creating to increase corporate profits. On the other hand, the call to curiosity as a path to a happier life is pretty accurate.

2013.Book18 - London Falling (Cornell)

Really excellent fantasy noir police procedural

2013.Book17 - Griftopia (Taibbi)

Excellent political/financial reporting

2013.Book16 - The Sea-Wolf (London)

Very good nautical adventure

2013.Book15 - Fade to Black

Noir Omelas

2013.Book14 - The Born Queen (Keyes)

Pretty good epic fantasy. Doesn't really pay off the promise built up through the series. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention?

2013.Book13 - The Blood Knight (Keyes)

more good epic fantasy

2013.Book12 - Bitter Seeds (Tregillis)

Excellent alternate history novel of WWII. Really really good.

2013.Book11 - The Charnel Prince (Keyes)

Very good epic fantasy (second of four)

2013.Book10 - Atheist's Guide to Reality (Rosenberg)

Very good. All bullets crunched between powerful teeth.

2013.Book9 - Racing Through the Dark (Millar)

Pretty good autobiography of a life in pro cycling - doping and then not. Landis' book is worse, Hamilton's is better.

2013.Book8 - The Briar King (Keyes)

Very good epic fantasy.

2013.Book7 - Moneyball (Lewis)

Excellent story of the Oakland A's. "He was right, and the world was wrong"

2013.Book6 - On Religion (Caputo)

Pretty good stuff.

2013.Book5 - The Big Short (Lewis)

Excellent story of the 2008 financial crisis, sub-prime mortgages, bonds, CDOs, and CDSs.

2012.Book4 - Red Seas Under Red Skies (Lynch)

Excellent swashbuckling adventure.

2013.Book3 - Debt (Graeber)

Excellent.

2013.Book2 - Finch (Vandermeer)

Surprisingly good noir-ish fantasy, given my low expectations from his other stuff.

2013.Book1 - Killing Floor (Child)

Good thriller.