2021 MARI READS BOOKS

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1	#	Title	Author	Started	Finished	What I thought

2	1	Mismatch	Kat Holmes	12/30/20	1/3/21
3	2	Cross-Cultural Design	Senogo Akpem	1/8/21	1/8/21	it's alright
4	3	The Lathe of Heaven	Ursula K Le Guin	1/17/21	1/18/21	wild, a little dry in prose, but very good
5	4	Earthlings	Sayaka Murata	1/19/21	1/20/21	deeply strange
6	5	New Suns	various	1/9/21	1/29/21	at least so far, not my fave anthology
7	6	Howl's Moving Castle	Diana Wynne Jones	1/30/21	2/3/21	pretty good?
8	7	Go Home!	various	1/29/21	2/8/21
9	7.5	Raven Stratagem	Yoon Ha Lee	1/1/21	2/9/21	gonna record my re-reads this year too
10	8	The Dragon Pearl	Yoon Ha Lee	2/10/21	2/11/21	good!
11	9	The Office of Historical Corrections	Danielle Evans	2/26/21	2/27/21	really great
12	10	Where the Wild Ladies Are	Aoko Matsuda	3/4/21	3/4/21	very fun
13	11	Beowulf: A New Translation	Maria Dahvana Headly	2/13/21	3/4/21	I didn't really like it but hey
14	12	White Tears, Brown Scars	Ruby Hamad	3/1/21	3/11/21
15	12	How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe	Charles Yu	3/8/21	3/12/21	i requested this book 3 years ago and now my library has it i guess
16	13	Sansei and Sensibility	Karen Tei Yamashita		3/27/21	a very specific vibe
17	14	Bestiary	K-Ming Chang	3/11/21	3/31/21	oyeyemi-esque, I don't rly know what happened
18	15	Memorial	Bryan Washington	4/3/21	4/3/21	loved it!!
19	16	Days of Distraction	Alexandra Chang	2/20/21	4/12/21	this feels like a book about my life
20	17	The Poppy War	RF Kuang	4/13/21	4/13/21	oooooof
21	18	The Dragon Republic	RF Kuang	4/14/21	4/14/21	more oof
22	19	The Burning God	RF Kuang	4/15/21	4/15/21	ooooooooooof
23	20	Tokyo Ueno Station	Yu Miri	4/28/21	4/28/21
24	21	To Hold Up the Sky	Liu Cixin		5/7/21	it's alright
25	21.5	Raven Stratagem	Yoon Ha Lee			only my second time re-reading this year
26	22	Klara and the Sun	Kazuo Ishiguro	6/25/21	6/28/21	I liked it
27	23	The Bird King	G Willow Wilson	7/4/21	7/4/21	mmmm
28	24	Gideon the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir	07/14/21	07/14/21	this book gave me nightmares for 2 days
29	25	Harrow the Ninth	Tamsyn Muir	7/15/21	7/16/21	what do you MEAN the third book isn't out until sometime in 2022
30	26	Breasts and Eggs	Mieko Kawakami	7/16/21	7/18/21	resonant
31	27	GOD LEVEL KNOWLEDGE DARTS	Desus and Mero	7/19/21	7/20/21	now I have a book for people to read after I tell them to read books about space genocide/necromantic genocide/genocide genocide
32	28	The Vanished Birds	Simon Jimenez	7/19/21	7/21/21	sort of, sort of, sort of, what Cloud Atlas wanted to be
33	29	A Memory Called Empire	Arkady Martine	7/24/21	7/27/21	the critique of colonialism wasn't as spicy as I was hoping for
34	30	Gods of Jade and Shadow	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	8/12/21	8/14/21	hits all its beats, nothing new, but well done
35	31	All Systems Red	Martha Wells	8/15/21	8/15/21	fun
36	32	The End of Everything: Astrophysically Speaking	Katie Mack	8/1/21	8/28/21	useful
37	33	Ancillary Justice	Ann Leckie	8/29/21	8/31/21	fine
38	34	Piranesi	Susanna Clarke	8/31/21	8/31/21	hmmm
39	35	Artificial Condition	Martha Wells	9/8/21	9/8/21
40	36	Rogue Protocol	Martha Wells	9/9/21	9/9/21
41	37	Exit Strategy	Martha Wells	9/13/21	9/13/21
42	38	Network Effect	Martha Wells	9/13/21	9/14/21	really the premier series to read if you're worried about being behind on your reading goals
43	39	Fugitive Telemetry	Martha Wells	9/14/21	9/14/21	I didn't like this book nearly as much as the other 5
44	40	Staff Engineer	Will Larson	9/7/21	9/17/21	interesting
45	41	Essential Japanese Grammar		8/16/21	9/17/21	does this even count as a book
46	42	The Just City	Jo Walton	9/14/21	9/17/21	nah, I didn't like this at all
47	42.5	Ninefox Gambit	Yoon Ha Lee	9/19/21	9/23/21	re-read
48	43	King of Scars	Leigh Bardugo	9/28/21	9/29/21	this world is so eurocentric but I'm still gonna read the next book
49	44	Detransition, Baby	Torrey Peters	9/27/21	9/30/21	i liked it!
50	45	The Raven Boys	Maggie Seifvater	10/1/21	10/1/21	I'm not sure I liked it enough to read 2 more
51	46	Measure What Matters	John Doerr	9/1/21	10/1/21	it's not really worth reading imo
52	47	Ninth House	Leigh Bardugo	10/1/21	10/8/21	that was a lot (happy Halloween y'all)
53	48	Iron Widow	Xiran Jay Zhao	10/9/21	10/12/21	generally lives up to the hype
54	49	Seeing Ghosts	Kat Chow	10/8/21	10/12/21	i cried
55	50	A Deadly Education	Naomi Novik	10/14/21	10/14/21	very fun
56	51	The Book of Form and Emptiness	Ruth Ozeki	10/16/21	10/29/21	Ozeki books are always a real race to the finish line
57	52	Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness			11/14/21	simply sad
58	53	The Last Graduate	Naomi Novik	12/12/21	12/13/21	delightful, I cried
59	54	Rule of Wolves	Leigh Bardugo	12/15/21	12/15/21	I am free
60	55	Black Sun	Rebecca Roanhorse	12/22/21	12/22/21	intense!
61	56	A Desolation Called Peace	Arkady Martine	12/22/21	12/25/21	mmmm
62	57	Crying in H Mart	Michelle Zauner	12/28/21	12/28/21	waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
63	58	The Veiled Throne	Ken Liu	12/28/21	12/30/21	I don't want to read the fourth one but I supposed I'll read the fourth one
64		Design Justice	Sasha Costanza-Chock	1/2/21
65		Because Internet
66		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance		11/20/21		I am not into it
67		Working in Public	Nadia Eghbal	11/20/21	1/5/22	finished in 2022
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