• Rereading The Kingkiller Chronicles, which I’ve decided are probably my favorite fantasy ever written, partly because they reward rereading so enormously — I bet I’ve read them seven or eight times at this point.
• Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss. She’s a scientist studying moss, and is Native American, and manages to combine the scientific tradition with native spiritual & botanical traditions in a remarkably coherent way, much more so than most attempts I’ve seen to bridge that divide.
• Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway (2017), about a group of people trying to build something good around the margins of dystopian culture; strongly influenced by burner and maker culture.
• N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season & sequellae. More fantasy. These are terrific: really innovative worldbuilding and a great protagonist.
• Ted Chiang, Exhalation: Stories. One of contemporary science fiction’s finest and least prolific authors; he seems to publish a couple of stories a year. This collection is as good as you’d expect from reading his previous one, Stories of Your Life and Others.

There are a whole lot of others since my last #books post, but there’s a start, at least 🙂