The best part about books this year was discovering Octavia Butler. But the most important book I read was definitely Hillbilly Elegy.
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Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson – Jan 2, 2016

Dawn – Octavia E. Butler – Jan 26, 2016

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever – James Tiptree, Jr. – Mar 20, 2016

Matter – Iain M. Banks – Mar 22, 2016

Queers Destroy Science Fiction – Apr 12, 2016

The Drowning Eyes – Emily Foster – Apr 13, 2016

Harry Power and the Methods of Rationality – Eliezer Yudkowsky – May 18, 2016

Escape the Game – Adam Clare – May 20, 2016

We Stand On Guard – Brian K. Vaughan – May 26, 2016

Superman: Red Son – May 29, 2016

Tuf Voyaging – George R. R. Martin – June 10, 2016

The Strange Case of Ambrose Small – Fred McClement – June 11, 2016

The Hero With A Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell – June 12, 2016

The Compass Rose – Ursula K. Le Guin – June 25, 2016

The Clockwork Rocket – Greg Egan – July 15, 2016

Dust – Elizabeth Bear – July 23, 2016

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson – July 28, 2016 (re-read)

A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge – August 27, 2016

Blackmoor, the First Fantasy Campaign – Dave Arneson – Sept 4, 2016

How To Not Die – Michael Greger and Gene Stone – Sept 15, 2016

Alibaba’s World – Porter Erisman – Sept 19, 2016

Death’s End – Cixin Liu – Sept 27, 2016

Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut – Oct 9, 2016

Tiki Mugs: Cult Artifacts of Polynesian Pop – Jay Strongman – Oct 22, 2016

Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson – Oct 28, 2016 (re-read)

Wild Seed – Octavia Butler – Nov 6, 2016

The Year Of The Flood – Margaret Atwood – Dec 6, 2016

Bulk Food – Peter Watts & Laurie Channer – Dec 8, 2016

Axiomatic – Greg Egan – Dec 20, 2016

Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance – Dec 31, 2016