I made a few excellent choices this year, especially in my non-fiction reads. The Great Railway Bazaar and West with the Night are two of my favorite books of all time, and I only just read them this year.

My resolution to reread more books was largely successful, though because I chose to reread a few series, it doesn't feel like I covered as wide a spread as I intended. I got through the Long Sun and Short Sun books by Gene Wolfe, and The Black Company series by Glen Cook, and even though that took quite a bit of time, it only feels like I read three books.

Fantasy-wise, I got through The Terror by Dan Simmons, but it took me half the year to do it. I started in early summer, and only just finished last week. I really enjoyed it, but it was a lot to chew on. It was a very powerful story, and I'm still thinking about the ending.

This was also the year I finally read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, also by Dan Simmons, and also excellent.

I also got into JG Ballard this year, reading The Drowned World and High Rise, with Concrete Island at the top of my to-read pile.

I tried to enjoy Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy this year, but could only get through Annihilation. I had to force myself through that one, and didn't really make it through very much of Authority before giving up altogether. I know a lot of people liked them, they just weren't for me.

This was also the year I let audiobooks become a part of my life. I listened to (but did not read) The Martian, The Years of Rice and Salt by KSR, and American Gods. I gave up on quite a few other audiobooks, finding either the narrator or the writing style difficult to follow in that format, but in the three cases listen above, I felt like it worked very well. I'll continue searching for more things to listen to next year.

Next year my reading resolution is to hunt down some more old non-fiction books I remember enjoying and give them another go. I'm increasingly of the mind that books only count the second time through.

I'd also like to read more Robert Graves, specifically his translation of Homer. I'd like to read a few more Gene Wolfe books, including a long-delayed trip into the Latro series, which I've put off, knowing it's going to be great, but take me a long time.

Lastly, I'd like to fill in some book SF gaps by reading The Demon Princes series by Jack Vance, which I've never read, as well as Rendezvous with Rama by Clarke, which I've also never read.