39/ Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip. Good second part of the series – unconventional, as it makes the first protagonist's fiancée the new protagonist.
https://books.rixx.de/patricia-a-mckillip/heir-of-sea-and-fire/ #rixxReads

40/ Harpist in the Wind by Patricia A. McKillip. Interesting conclusion to the trilogy. Not what I expected. Good stuff, and rewards attention to detail.
https://books.rixx.de/patricia-a-mckillip/harpist-in-the-wind/ #rixxReads

41/ The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Sadly, Bujold's Fantasy is not for me. I'll stick with the Vorkosigan saga.
https://books.rixx.de/lois-mcmaster-bujold/the-curse-of-chalion/ #rixxReads

42/ Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City by K.J. Parker. Not quite as good as the title, but decent. Roman military engineering fanfiction, in a good-ish way.
https://books.rixx.de/k-j-parker/sixteen-ways-to-defend-a-walled-city/ #rixxReads

43/ Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews. More fantastical innkeeper stories. This time – intergalactic diplomacy edition. Enjoyable comfort read.
https://books.rixx.de/ilona-andrews/sweep-in-peace/ #rixxReads

44/ One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews. The Innkeeper series with more of an ensemble cast. Not bad, but worse than the previous books, I'm probably going to stop reading here.
https://books.rixx.de/ilona-andrews/one-fell-sweep/ #rixxReads

45/ The Bone Ships by R. J. Barker. Proof that worldbuilding-focused fiction is not restricted to sci-fi. Enjoyed this a lot, though – an extremely well-built naval fantasy world, with ships and sea dragons and all kinds of great stuff.
https://books.rixx.de/r-j-barker/the-bone-ships/ #rixxReads

46/ The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow. Coming-of-age portal fantasy. Nice, but not my cup of tea.
https://books.rixx.de/alix-e-harrow/the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january/ #rixxReads

47/ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Basically Achilles fanfiction. A bit better than I make it sound but not *that* much better. Reading this so soon after War Music was not a good idea.
https://books.rixx.de/madeline-miller/the-song-of-achilles/ #rixxReads

48/ Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer. Excellent YA about a friendly AI that really only wants to look at cat pictures (and help their friends).
https://books.rixx.de/naomi-kritzer/catfishing-on-catnet/ #rixxReads

49/ Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike. Super fun fantasy satire – reminded me a lot of Pratchett, in a D&D-ish world. Managed to be often fun, mostly interesting, and occasionally genuinely hearbreaking.
https://books.rixx.de/j-zachary-pike/orconomics/ #rixxReads

50/ The March North by Graydon Saunders. Extraordinary start to an extraordinary series. I love it to pieces, as weird and unreadable as it is.
https://books.rixx.de/graydon-saunders/the-march-north/ #rixxReads

51/ Heretics by G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton is an extremely entertaining bastard. Heretics is a good read if you can tolerate him.
https://books.rixx.de/g-k-chesterton/heretics/ #rixxReads

52/ A Succession of Bad Days by Graydon Saunders. "A fairy-tale lost in a civil engineering manual", literally. Amazing stuff, if you like civil engineering manuals in your fantasy.
https://books.rixx.de/graydon-saunders/a-succession-of-bad-days/ #rixxReads

53/ Safely You Deliver by Graydon Saunders. This one is pure worldbuilding, but three books into a series is a good place for that.
https://books.rixx.de/graydon-saunders/safely-you-deliver/ #rixxReads

54/ Under One Banner by Graydon Saunders. A drop in quality, but still nice worldbuilding. Only worth it if you enjoy the series a lot.
https://books.rixx.de/graydon-saunders/under-one-banner/ #rixxReads

55/ A Mist of Grit and Splinters by Graydon Saunders. The latest Commonweal book circles back to mil sci-fi. I still enjoy the book, but it's enjoyment in spite of most of the story.
https://books.rixx.de/graydon-saunders/a-mist-of-grit-and-splinters/ #rixxReads

56/ The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang. Asian-inspired genderfun fantasy. Not compelling to me, but not terrible either.
https://books.rixx.de/j-y-yang/the-black-tides-of-heaven/ #rixxReads

57/ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. Coming-of-age novel about a trans gay Latinx boy in the US, who fights to become a brujo and solve a mystery. Well-done intersectional queer-by-default YA.
https://books.rixx.de/aiden-thomas/cemetery-boys/ #rixxReads

58/ Peter Darling by Austin Chant. Peter Pan, a trans boy, returns to Neverland to figure things out and finally grow up, by the power of Hook's pretty eyes or something.
https://books.rixx.de/austin-chant/peter-darling/ #rixxReads

59/ City of Lies by Sam Hawke. White-hat assassin siblings have to save the not-king from poison attempts and defend the realm. Nice inversion of the shining city into the decadent city on a rotting foundation.
https://books.rixx.de/sam-hawke/city-of-lies/ #rixxReads

60/ The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle. Reminded me of Princess Bride in places: very solid, always slightly unconventional fantasy, but failed to grip me. Still an enjoyable read, Beagle just can't disappoint.
https://books.rixx.de/peter-s-beagle/the-innkeepers-song/ #rixxReads

61/ The Seep by Chana Porter. Earth gets infected by aliens who give everybody amazing powers at the price of turning them into hippies. Slow and underexplored.
https://books.rixx.de/chana-porter/the-seep/ #rixxReads

62/ Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker. Short story collection - two or three really worked for me, and you can't ask more than that from a story collection.
https://books.rixx.de/sarah-pinsker/sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea/ #rixxReads

63/ Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse. Urban fantasy, set on a reservation in post-collapse America. Follows all the genre tropes – not bad, just not good either.
https://books.rixx.de/rebecca-roanhorse/trail-of-lightning/ #rixxReads

64/ Vicious by V.E. Schwab. Did not finish. Superhero story from the perspective of a villain.
https://books.rixx.de/v-e-schwab/vicious/ #rixxReads

65/ Way Station by Clifford D. Simak. Published in 1963, the story of Earth as one of many way stations in a galactic transport network, and also commentary on the Cold War. Aged well.
https://books.rixx.de/clifford-d-simak/way-station/ #rixxReads

66/ God Stalk by P.C. Hodgell. 80s fantasy that is ALL over the place. The good parts are Bas-Lag levels of fantasy city building, but the uneven pace and sheer mass of things shoved into this book make it hard to enjoy.
https://books.rixx.de/p-c-hodgell/god-stalk/ #rixxReads

67/ Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. Fantasy novel somewhere between "solid" and "excellent". Well-done apprenticeship-to-the-mysterious-spy story with vivid characters and a great world.
https://books.rixx.de/lynn-flewelling/luck-in-the-shadows/ #rixxReads

68/ Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor. St Mary masks as a history institute, but does time travel. Very fun popcorn read.
https://books.rixx.de/jodi-taylor/just-one-damned-thing-after-another/ #rixxReads

69/ Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis. Unconvincing first-contact fiction.
https://books.rixx.de/lindsay-ellis/axioms-end/ #rixxReads

70/ With the Lightnings by David Drake. Navy swashbuckling, but in space, with a touch of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lots of fun, and only the first part of a long series.
https://books.rixx.de/david-drake/with-the-lightnings/ #rixxReads

71/ Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling. Great second book in the Nightrunner series, but with some serious yikes thrown in.
https://books.rixx.de/lynn-flewelling/stalking-darkness/ #rixxReads

72/ Traitor's Moon by Lynn Flewelling. The series continues to be good fantasy, and earnestly inclusive – but it's uneasy about its inclusivity, disappointingly.
https://books.rixx.de/lynn-flewelling/traitors-moon/ #rixxReads

73/ Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling. This is where I stop reading the Nightrunner series. The protagonists are kidnapped by NOT AT ALL ARABS who proceed to torture them for the rest of the book, until they escape.
https://books.rixx.de/lynn-flewelling/shadows-return/ #rixxReads

74/ The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs. Excellent, classic book on how cities come to be, neatly paired with a small history of invention.
https://books.rixx.de/jane-jacobs/the-economy-of-cities/ #rixxReads

75/ Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies. The best history book I've ever read, going into dense detail about technology and inventions in the Middle Ages. I'm in love to the point of taking excessive notes.
https://books.rixx.de/frances-gies-joseph-gies/cathedral-forge-and-waterwheel/ #rixxReads

76/ A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles. More gay magical Victorian mystery shenanigans – the charm of the first part has worn off a little, but still good as a comfort read.
https://books.rixx.de/k-j-charles/a-case-of-possession/ #rixxReads