book meme for people who are bad at logging books

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Most books read by one author this year?

Likely Martha Wells, followed by David Kilcullen.

Favorite new author you discovered this year?

Vina Jie-Min Prasad, if we're not counting David Kilcullen again.

Did you read any books in translation?

Yes: I read a volume of The Florentine Codex, translated from Spanish and Nahuatl, as well as lots of smaller pieces of things here and there, and half of A Small Corner of Hell, translated from Russian.

Nine books you will associate with this year?

Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works
Aliette de Bodard, In the Vanishers' Palace
Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War
David Kilcullen, Out of the Mountains
Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun
Nancy Marchant, Knitting Fresh Brioche
Anna Politkovskaya, A Small Corner of Hell (the Chechnya half)
Hannu Rajaniemi, Summerland
Sofia Samatar, Tender

Three books you are excited to read next year?

David Bowles, Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry
Amelia Hoover Green, The Commanders' Dilemma
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire