Bookpost Index

Micro-reviews of everything I read that I can form an opinion on. 

Last updated  8/9/25 

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Bookpost 1 (8/15/19)

• River of Teeth (Sarah Gailey)
• Quantum Thief, Fractal Prince, Causal Angel (Hannu Rajaneimi)
• Unsouled (Will Wight)
• Accelerando (Charles Stross)
• The Red Plague (Jack London)
• Of Sheep and Battle Chicken (Logical Premise)
• Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
• Worm (John McCrae)
• Foreigner (C.J. Cherryh)
• Dawn (Octavia Butler)
• Time and the Gods (Lord Dunsany)
• Luna: New Moon (Ian McDonald)
• The King in Yellow (Robert Chambers)
• Winter Tide (Ruthanna Emrys)

Bookpost 2 (9/10/19)

• Sabriel & Lirael (Garth Nix)
• The Collapsing Empire (John Scalzi)
• The Vela Episode 1 (SL Huang)
• The Black Tides of Heaven (Jy Yang)
• Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer)
• The Silent Tower (Barbara Hambly)
• City of Saints and Madmen (Jeff Vandermeer)
• Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
• Burn (James Patrick Kelly) 
• The Only Harmless Great Thing (Brooke Bolander)
• The Emperor's Blades (Brian Stavely)
• The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle) 

Bookpost 3 (11/18/19)

• Who Fears Death, Binti (Nnedi Okorafor)
• Autonomous (Annalee Newitz)
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Seth Dickenson)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Tade Thompson)
• Please Pass the Guilt (Rex Stout)
• Abhorsen (Garth Nix)
• The Interface Series (9Mother9Horse9Eyes9)
• The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) 

Bookpost 4 (5/4/20)

• Gentlemen of the Road (Michael Chabon)
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union (Michael Chabon)
• Wild Cards 1 (ed. GRRM)
• All Systems Red (Martha Wells)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Seanan McGuire)
• Do You Dream of Terra Two? (Temi Oh)
• Proxima, Ultima (Stephen Baxter)
• Plot it Yourself (Rex Stout)
• City of Brass (S.A. Charkaborty)
• From a Certain Point of View (various)
• Sisters of the Vast Black (Lina Rather)
• The Stars are Legion (Kameron Hurley)
• UNSONG (Scott Alexander)

Bookpost 5 (8/29/20)

• Silver in the Wood (Emily Tesh)
• The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Strangest of All (ed. Julie Novakova)
• Gulliver of Mars (Edwin Lester Arnold)
• Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
• Jingo (Terry Pratchett)
• Galactic Derelict (Andre Alice Norton)
• Heretics of Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, The Chinese Bell Murders (Robert Van Gulik) 

Bookpost 6 (12/18/20)

• Sorcerer of the Wilddeeps (Kai Ashante Wilson)
• The Secret Tomb (Maurice Leblanc)
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett)
• Dangers Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison)
• Ventus (Karl Schroeder) 

Reread Post: Lord of the Rings (5/21/25) 

Bookpost 7 (12/18/21)

• Beowulf (trans. Thomas Meyer)
• Cordelia's Honor (Lois McMaster Bujold)
• Pandora's Star (Peter Hamilton)
• Invader, Inheritor (C.J. Cherryh)
• The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon)
• Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler)
• Dinosaur Summer (Greg Bear)
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Gene Wolfe) 

Bookpost 8 (4/22/22)

• The Sharing Knife, Parts 1 & 2 (Lois McMaster Bujold) 
• Tales of a Dark Continent (Morthoron)
• Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
• A History of What Comes Next (Sylvain Neuvel) 
• Circe (Madeline Miller)
• When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (Nghi Vo)
• Hammers on Bone (Cassandra Khaw) 

Reread Post: Wizard of Earthsea 

Bookpost 9 (8/22/22)

• The Phoenix Empress (K. Arsenault Rivera) 
• Various Elric Stories (Michael Moorcock)
• Ring of Swords (Eleanor Arneson)
• Grace of Kings (Ken Liu)
• Lud-in-the-Mist (Hope Mirrlees)
• The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)
• Making Money (Terry Pratchett)
• Machine (Elizabeth Bear)
• The First Sister (Linden Lewis)

Reread Post: Book of the New Sun, part 1

Reread Post: Book of the New Sun, part 2 

Bookpost 10 (1/6/23)

• Urth of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe)
• Hegira (Greg Bear)
• Empress of Salt and Fortune (Nghi Vo)
• Forge of God (Greg Bear)
• A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine)
• Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• The Cherokee Syllabary (Ellen Cushman) 
• Elder Race (Adrian Tchaikovsky) 

Bookpost Special: Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart (2/11/23)

Bookpost 11 (4/13/23)

• Children of Ruin (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Something About Eve (James Branch Cabell)
• Monster, vol 1 (Naoki Urasawa)
• Uzumaki (Junji Ito)
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts (Ogi Odas and Sai Gaddam)
• Voyage to Arcturus (David Lindsay)
• Etidorhpa (John Uri Lloyd) 

Bookpost 12 (6/8/23)

• The Hall of the Mountain King (Judith Tarr)
• Children of Memory (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Always Coming Home (Ursula K. LeGuin)
• The Lady Who Picked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window (Rachel Swirsky)
• Move Underground (Nick Mamatas)
• Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch) 

Bookpost 13 (7/25/23)

• The Sparrow (Doria Russell)
• Border Keeper (Kerstin Hall)
• A Strange Manuscript Found Inside a Copper Cylinder (James de Mille)
• Medea: Harlan's World (Harlan Ellison et al)

Bookpost 14 (9/17/23)

• The Wizard Knight (Gene Wolfe)
• Delta-V (Daniel Suarez)
• Sacred and Terrible Air (Robert Kurvitz)
• Goddess of Atvatabar (William Richard Bradshaw)
• Shards of Earth (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Scud: The Disposable Assassin (Rob Schrab) 

Bookpost 15 (1/23/24)

• Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K. LeGuin)
• Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)
• Some Desperate Glory (Emily Tesh)
• Knights of Sidonia, vol 1-6 (Tsutomu Nihei)
• The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C. Clarke)
• Moon of Crusted Snow ( Waubesheg Rice)
• Carrie (Stephen King) 

Bookpost 16 (5/11/24)

• And What Can We Offer You Tonight (Premee Mohammed)
• These Prisoning Hills (Christopher Rowe)
• All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
• A Stranger in Olondria (Sofia Samatar)
• Exordia (Seth Dickenson)
• There is No Antimemetics Division (qntm)
• The Prince of Milk (Exurb1a) 

Bookpost 17 (8/19/24)

• Story of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
• Flatland (Edwin A. Abbot)
• The Madman (Kahlil Gibran)
• The Northern Caves (nostalgabraist)
• The Book of Japanese Folklore (Thersa Matsuura)
• The Complete Poems of Enheduana, the World's First Author (trans. Sophus Helle)
• Native Tongue (Suzette Haden Elgin) 
• House of Rust (Khadija Abdalla Bajaber)
• Burning Roses (S.L. Huang) 
• Gyo (Junji Ito)
• Golden Kamuy, vols 1~14 (Satoru Noda) 

Bookpost 18 (1/20/25)

• Books of the South (Glen Cook)
• Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction (Joseph Dan)
• Echoes of Mist-Land (Aubertine Woodward Moore)
• Little Fuzzy (H. Beam Piper)
• House of Suns (Alastair Reynolds)
• Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges)
• The Marigold (Andrew F. Sullivan)
•  Gods of the North (Robert E. Howard)
• The Door to Saturn (Clark Ashton Smith)
• The Unspoken Name (A.K. Larkwood) 

Bookpost Special: House of the Rain King (3/15/25) 

Bookpost 19 (8/9/25)

• Tales from Failed Anatomies (Dennis Detwiler)
• Strange Authorities (John Scott Tynes) 
• Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon) 
• The Cruel Empire of Tsan-Chan (Christian Read)
• Avatars, Inc (Various)
• Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European (Mallory & Adams)
• Highly Complex Syllable Structure (Shelece Easterday)
• What Lies Beneath (Chris Scaffidi)
• Architect of Worlds (Jon Zeigler)
• Red Nails (R.E. Howard)
• Monstrum (Arnold Kemp)
• The Epiphany of Gliese 581 (Fernando Borretti)
• Etidorhpa (again) (John Uri Lloyd)