Reading Roundup Wrapup: July 2019

Pick of the month: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Ain't it the way of it? Months and months where I have one "pretty good" book as an obvious best... and then a month where I read not just one excellent book, but two! It was hard for me to pick between Spinning Silver (a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel) and Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time (a SantaThing gift), as both were moving, insightful, gorgeously written books. I ended up settling on Spinning Silver because I felt it stuck the landing better than Gap of Time did. (Not that Gap had a bad ending, just that it began more strongly than it ended.)

All books read:
1. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship by Una McCormack
2. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
3. The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
4. Transformers: The Wreckers Saga by Nick Roche with James Roberts
5. Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee
6. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Book I: The Persistence of Memory by David Mack
7. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
8. The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale retold by Jeanette Winterson
9. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Book II: Silent Weapons by David Mack
10. Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett
11. The Invasion by Peadar O’Guilin
12. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

All books acquired:
1. Always Coming Home: Author's Expanded Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. Nemesis Games: Book Five of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
3. Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
4. Follow the River by Albert Mayer
5. Stringtown on the Pike: A Tale of Northernmost Kentucky by John Uri Lloyd
6. Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Volume 9: Upheaval by Yoshiki Tanaka
7. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke
8. The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells by Ben Bova
9. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
10. Star Trek: Discovery: The Enterprise War by John Jackson Miller

Books remaining on "to be read" list: 651 (up 2)
Books remaining on "to review" list: 3 (down 2)

Almost cleared out my review backlog. Amazing!