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Reading List for 2018: Freaky Fantasy. Feminism. Volleyball. Love.

1/16/2018

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​2017 rounded out to be a year where I read mostly manga. A lot of Haikyuu!!  Some yaoi (guy x guy romance) and yuri (girl x girl romance) in Japanese culture, because I had wanted to, one day, study and maybe teach a literature class on gay and lesbian life as portrayed in Japanese popular culture (manga and anime). I read some fantasy, got totally on a Robin Hobb kick (if you don't know her, you should read her). 

This year, I want to finish some books that I started in 2017 and never finished. I want to read some more fantasy and weird stuff. Keep reading my favorite manga. Here is a small list of books I hope to add to my "I've read it" list and Goodreads challenge:
  • The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories, ed. Jeff Vandermeer
  • Best American Fantasy, ed. Jeff Vandermeer
  • Haikyuu!! Volume 29. THE TWINS! Karasuno faces a rough challenge in the Nationals Volleyball Tournament, by Haruichi Furudate
  • James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by Julie Phillips. One of sci fi's greatest award-winning authors from the early days had a big secret: he was actually a she. 
  • Bad Feminist, by Roxanne Gay. I have been wanting to read this for a long time. 
  • Archivist Wasp, by Nicole Kornher-Stace. Excellent and weird take on ghosts and ghost-hunting.
  • The Signalman, by Charles Dickens 
  • The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster. This and Dickens because I have heard that both are strange little stories. Forster's tale is the only science fiction he ever wrote. 
  • Collected Stories, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.
  • The Mad Ship and Fool's Assassin (#1 in the Fitz and the Fool trilogy), by Robin Hobb (my Robin Hobb obsession will continue).
  • 19 Days, by Old Xian. Boy's love web comic of a high school boy trying to get out of the friend zone with his best friend. Hilarious and fun and positive. Chinese addition to my yaoi studies. Not really a book but my weekly web comic obsession. 
  • Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn), by Mizuho Kusanagi. Shojo (romance) adventure of an exiled princess and the dragon warriors who offer their lives for her. 
I have other books that I want to read, but for now, these will keep me busy for at least a third or half the year. 

What's on your 2018 reading list?
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