> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andrewliptak.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Here's what I read in 2021 - URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/2021-reading-list-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books/ - Published: 2021-12-31T15:15:27.000Z - Updated: 2021-12-31T15:15:27.000Z - Description: 52 books in 52 weeks - Author: Andrew Liptak - Tags: Book List As has been an annual tradition on my blog and here on *Transfer Orbit*, I've been tracking what I've been reading. My goal the last couple of years has been to hit 52, and by god, I made it this year, something that hasn't happened since 2018, when I hit 74 books. I only hit 42 in 2019, and 44 in 2020, so it's nice to finally hit that elusive goal. Here's the lists from the last couple of years: - [2020 list](https://www.andrewliptak.com/what-i-read-in-2020/) / [2020 best of the year](https://www.polygon.com/22220762/best-books-2020-sci-fi-fantasy?ref=andrewliptak.com) - [2019 list](https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/what-i-read-in-2019-books-science-fiction-fantasy-history-reading) / [2019 best of the year](https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/13/21012122/best-books-science-fiction-fantasy-2019?ref=andrewliptak.com) - [2018 list](https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2018/12/6/all-the-books-i-read-in-2018-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-history) / [2018 best of the year](https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18127146/best-sci-fi-fantasy-books-2018-jemisin-chambers-kowal-liu-valente?ref=andrewliptak.com) What's the secret? As always, just carving out time and muscling through distractions. In 2018, I made a conscious decision to read for 45-60 minutes a day in the morning, after the kids went off to school and before I logged into work. It feels like there's been more distractions in the last couple of years, and where I might spend 10-15 minutes before bed reading, I might just scroll through Twitter or Instagram, something I really am trying to stop doing. My goal for 2022? Same as before: 52 books. I'm hoping to make more time in the mornings to read, and I bought a nice brass bedside lamp to help me read before bed. Hopefully that'll help me chug through the ever-growing pile of books that I'd *like* to read. --- 1. *Ministry for the Future* by Kim Stanley Robinson ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/climate-science-fiction-ministry-for-the-future-veil/)) 2. *Busted Synapses* by Erica L. Satifka 3. *Stuffed,* Vol. 1 4. *Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage* by Justina Ireland 5. *Remote Control* by Nnedi Okorafor 6. *The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming* by James Lawrence Powell ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/climate-science-fiction-ministry-for-the-future-veil/)) 7. *The Labyrinth* by Simon Stälenhag 8. *The Once and Future Witches* by Alix E. Harrow 9. *The Space Between Worlds* by Micaiah Johnson ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/the-space-between-worlds-is-a-clever-read-about-power-and-parallel-worlds/)) 10. *Hench* by Natalie Zina Walschotts ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/hench-natalie-zina-walschots-superheroes-realism-review/)) 11. *Armies of Those I Love* by Ken Liu 12. *Veil* by Eliot Peper ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/climate-science-fiction-ministry-for-the-future-veil/)) 13. *Fire Cannot Kill A Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Official Untold Story of the Epic Series* by James Hibberd ([Related](https://www.andrewliptak.com/ten-years-of-games-of-thrones-george-rr-martin-adaptations-fans/)) 14. *Stuffed: Magic Kingdom* 15. *Network Effect* by Martha Wells ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/murderbot-martha-wells-network-effect-fugitive-telemetry-interview/)) 16. *The Ragman’s Memory* by Archer Mayor 17. *Fugitive Telemetry* by Martha Wells ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/murderbot-martha-wells-network-effect-fugitive-telemetry-interview/)) 18. *Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction* by Michelle Nijhuis ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/beloved-beasts-hummingbird-salamander-michelle-nijhuis-jeff-vandermeer/)) 19. *Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America* by Kathleen Belew 20. *True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee* by Abraham Reisman 21. *Questland* by Carrie Vaughn ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/carrie-vaughn-questland-author-interview-fantasy-lotr-immersion/)) 22. *The Galaxy and the Ground Within* by Becky Chambers ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/becky-chambers-wayfarers-galaxy-and-the-ground-within-sci-fi-interview/)) 23. *Paper Girls vol. 1*, by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang 24. *Hummingbird Salamander* by Jeff VanderMeer ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/beloved-beasts-hummingbird-salamander-michelle-nijhuis-jeff-vandermeer/)) 25. *Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World* by Dan Koeppel 26. *The True Story of a Made-Up Thing* by Jacob Goldstein 27. *2034: A Novel of the Next World War* by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stravidis 28. *Get Together: How to build a community with your people* by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto 29. *Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging* by Sebastian Junger 30. *Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi* by Charles Soule 31. *The Haunting of Tram Car 015* by P. Djèlí Clark ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/p-djeli-clark-interview/)) 32. *A Master of Djinn* by P. Djèlí Clark ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/p-djeli-clark-interview/)) 33. *Foundation* by Isaac Asimov ([Related](https://www.andrewliptak.com/apple-isaac-asimov-foundation/)) 34. *A Desolation Called Peace* by Arkady Martine ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/science-fiction-first-contact-desolation-conquerors-martine-zahn/)) 35. *Campaigns & Companions* by Andi Ewington and Rhianna Pratchett 36. *Bubble* by Jordan Morris, Sarah Morgan, Tony Cliff, and Natalie Riess 37. *The Empire’s Ruin* by Brian Staveley ([Review](https://www.andrewliptak.com/brian-staveley-the-empires-ruin-fantasy-review/) \+ [Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/brian-staveley-empires-ruin-fantasy-interview/)) 38. *Blacktop Wasteland* by S.A. Cosby 39. *The Unbroken* by C.L. Clark 40. *Falling* by T.J. Newman 41. *A Psalm for the Wild-Built* by Becky Chambers ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/becky-chambers-wayfarers-galaxy-and-the-ground-within-sci-fi-interview/)) 42. *My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Graham Jones 43. *Grave Reservations* by Cherie Priest 44. *The Art and Soul of Dune* by Tanya Lapointe 45. *My Father’s Things* by Wendy Aldiss 46. *Tales Too Ticklish to Tell* by Berkeley Breathed 47. *The Silver Arrow* by Lev Grossman 48. *Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age* by Annalee Newitz 49. *Leviathan Falls* by James S.A. Corey ([Interview](https://www.andrewliptak.com/the-expanse-interview/) / Review to come) 50. *The Annual Migration of Clouds* by Premee Mohamad 51. *American Comics: A History* by Jeremy Dauber 52. *A Spindle Splintered* by Alix E. Harrow --- As noted before, I'm gunning for 52 books again in 2022... starting with some of the holdovers from 2021 that I didn't quite get to. What are you hoping to read this year?