Reading Roundup Wrapup: August 2021

Pick of the month: We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker. I read a lot of award-finalist science fiction books this month. This just came out this year, so it's not on any ballots yet—but it will absolutely be on my ballot for the 2022 Hugo Awards. Pinsker is a skilled short story writer, and We Are Satellites shows her transferring those skills to long fiction with great effect. This book hit me hard.

All books read:
1. Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
2. Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
3. Doctor Who: EarthWorld by Jacqueline Rayner
4. The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse, and the Gump; the story being A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, pictured by John R. Neill
5. The Good Soldier: Collected Comic Strips from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Andrew Cartmel, Mike Collins, Dan Abnett, Lee Sullivan, Paul Cornell, et al.
6. The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
7. We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker
8. The Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
9. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
10. The Great Cities Trilogy, Book One: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
11. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
12. Spider-Ghost: Dog Days Are Over by Seanan McGuire, Takeshi Miyazawa, Rosi Kämpe, et al.
13. Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
14. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
15. The Murderbot Diaries: Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells 

All books acquired:
1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Ascendance by David R. George III
2. Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill
3. Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells
4. The Great Cities Trilogy, Book One: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
5. Star Trek: Picard: Rogue Elements by John Jackson Miller

All books remaining on "To be read" list: 669 (down 2)

Though my increases are usually small these days, that's my first decrease since February.