Current
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikowsky
My Century, by Günther Grass
Dragon’s Claw, by Steve Moore
Last books finished
Halo: The Thursday War, by Karen Traviss
Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, by Peter George
Two Brothers, by Ben Elton
One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo, by G. A. Henty
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
Next books
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas
Les Survivants, vol 1, by Leo
I think you mean *Penric’s* Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold? I bring it up to make the lives of the people who have to clean up the nomination data just that tiny bit easier. I agree that it’s excellent and it’s on my personal list also.
I don’t know if you are looking for suggestions, but some of my favorites from this year so far are:
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer is cute and funny
“Midnight Hour” by Mary Robinette Kowal is a re-imagining of some fairytale tropes that is very sad and perhaps shading into horror.
“Pocosin” by Ursula Vernon is steeped in folklore, quirky and funny-and-poignant in that Ursula Vernon way.
In Libres by Elizabeth Bear was one that I, as a former writer of a dissertation, really enjoyed.
And Damage, by David Levine was to my mind an example of the kind of fiction Puppies say they like, except done right.