Top Ten Books Read This Year (2024)

It’s another top ten list to round out the year, this time highlighting my favourite books read this year. This time I’m doing my best to only select one book per author or series. It’s a little early, but the books I’m reading now aren’t likely to make it into my top ten this time (if they surprise me I’ll fit them into the next year’s list!)

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Book Review: Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

When the Palleseen empire comes to town, they play for keeps, something that the melting pot city of Usmiat finds in this latest entry of the Tyrant Philosophers series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Days of Shattered Faith. Fans of the first two books will find fun surprise returns, but the meat of this book are the new cultures and people that find themselves unwittingly pitted against the Ends and Means Commission of the Palleseen empire. Perhaps more meandering in its path than before, this entry managed to hook me in all the same with the plight of Usmiat.

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Book Review: Pick Your Potion

Pick Your Potion by Ephiny Gale is a smorgasbord of short stories, delighting in the weird, the queer and the nerdy. While I found some stories ended a little too abruptly, overall I had a wonderful time seeing the myriad scenarios Gale brings to life.

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