It's a new year .... so time for the my reading-list recap for 2025. The majority of this cycle's books were Del Rey SF/F novels from the 1980s. (The special surprise was Clifford D. Simak's Mastodonia, which is by far my favorite by him.) I read a few other period-relevant texts, such as Tad Williams's first novel, but yeah, given my deep immersion in researching Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey, that was my wheelhouse last year.
Otherwise, my non-project related reading was relatively sparse. I read one long nonfiction book, A Civil Action, for my Law & Literature class that was cancelled. I read a few books for the ENGL 380: Literary Analysis class that replaced it. And I finally did Percival Everett's novel Erasure, and although some might find this sacrilegious, it's still true: the movie was better.
FINAL STATS: Altogether, I read 9175 pages (or 31 books) this semester. So, that's about the same as my total from last year. As per usual, except for A Civil Action, this total doesn't include any of my non-fiction reading, which was prodigious.
Fiction
The Drawing of the Dark, Tim Powers (300 pg)
Those Who Hunt the Night, Barbara Hambly (300)
The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly (350)
The Sword of Bheleu, Lawrence Watt-Evans (200 pg)
The Early del Rey, Lester del Rey (400 pg)
Pstalemate, Lester del Rey (200 pg)
Nerves, Lester del Rey (200 pg)
The Best of Lester del Rey (300 pg)
The Fellowship of the Talisman, Clifford D. Simak (300 pg)
Mastodonia, Clifford D. Simak (225 pg)
Special Delivery, Clifford D. Simak (200 pg)
The Visitors, Clifford D. Simak (300 pg)
A Rose-Red City, Dave Duncan (225 pg)
The Land Beyond the Gate, Lloyd Arthur Eshback (200 pg)
The Unknown, D. R. Benson, editor (200 pg)
High Deryni, Katherine Kurtz (350 pg)
Fear, L. Ron Hubbard (150 pg).
Dragon's Egg, Robert L. Forward (300 pg)
Gateway, Frederick Pohl (300 pg)
Starburst, Frederick Pohl (200 pg)
The Way the Future Was, Frederick Pohl (250 pg)
Nerilka's Story, Anne McCaffrey (150 pg)
The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson (1000 pg)
An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir (450 pg)
Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams (350 pg)
For teaching...
The Melancholy of Untold History, Minsoo Kang (225 pg)
The Praise Singer, Mary Renault (250 pg)
Extraneous....
Erasure, Percival Everett (250 pg)
The Scales of Justice, George L. Knapp (300 pg)
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr (500 pg)
The Last Incantation, Clark Ashton Smith (250 pg)
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