2014 roundup
Books
January
Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie 
He Said, Sidhe Said – Tanya Huff
Rule of Three – Kelly Jamieson
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo – Zen Cho
Chimes at Midnight – Seanan McGuire
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens – Jack Weatherford
Powers – Ursula Le Guin
Conservation of Shadows – Yoon Ha Lee
Scattered Among Strange Worlds – Aliette de Bodard
Writing the Other – Nisi Shawl + Cynthia Ward
Writing Fight Scenes – Marie Brennan
February
The Warrior’s Apprentice – Lois McMaster Bujold
On a Red Station, Drifting – Aliette de Bodard
The Lord of Opium – Nancy Farmer
Red Unicorn – Tanith Lee (reread)
Why Do Dramas Do That? – Javabeans + Girlfriday
You Don’t Have to be Evil to Work Here But it Helps – Tom Holt
March
Making Sense of Japanese – Jay Rubin
Evenfall – Sonny + Ais
April
The Girl With All the Gifts – MR Carey
Remember Me – Soichiro Irons
One – Nancy Kress
Mittens – Phoenix Baker
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor – Susan Wickland + Alex Kesselheim
Rocket Surgery Made Easy – Steve Krug
While We Run – Karen Healey
The Magpie Lord – KJ Charles
May
The Steerswoman – Rosemary Kirstein
The Outskirter’s Secret – Rosemary Kirstein
Tokugawa Ieyasu – Stephen Turnbull
Samurai Women 1184–1877 – Stephen Turnbull
Japanese Warrior Monks AD 949–1603 – Stephen Turnbull
47 Ronin – John Allyn
Botchan – Natsume Sōseki (trans. Matt Treyvaud)
June
A Guide to Living with Hypermobility Syndrome – Isobel Knight
ZZT – Anna Anthropy
Invisible: Personal Essays on Representation in SF/F – various
All You Need is Kill – Sakurazaka Hiroshi
Day by Night – Tanith Lee
July
We Have Always Fought – Kameron Hurley
Dragons Can Only Rust – Chrys Cymri
Dragon Reforged – Chrys Cymri
I Am a Cat – Natsume Sōseki
August
Touch – Michelle Sagara
Cast in Flame – Michelle Sagara
Prisoner – Lia Silver
Laura’s Wolf – Lia Silver
Pleasure – Dusk Peterson
September
The Winter Long – Seanan McGuire
Survivor in Death – JD Robb
October
The Martian – Andy Weir
Spirits Abroad – Zen Cho
Ancillary Sword – Ann Leckie
November
The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
Prince of Silk and Thorns – Cherry Dare
Stranger – Sherwood Smith and Rachel Manija Brown
Wallflower – Heidi Belleau
Foxglove Summer – Ben Aaronovitch
Apple Polisher – Heidi Belleau
Love Lessons – Heidi Cullinan
Bliss – Lisa Henry and Heidi Belleau
December
Night’s Master – Tanith Lee (reread)
The Future Falls – Tanya Huff
Screenwriting 101 – Film Crit Hulk
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell – Mira Grant
Comics
January
Lazarus 1 – Greg Rucka + artists
Angel Sanctuary 1–8 (reread) – Yuki Kaori
Fullmetal Alchemist (complete) – Arakawa Hiromu
A Boy and a Girl – Jamie S Rich + Natalie Nourigat
Pandemonium – Chris Wooding + Cassandra Diaz
February
Children of the Sea 5 – Igarashi Daisuke
Silver Spoon 1–2 – Arakawa Hiromu
Grand Guignol Orchestra 3–4 – Yuki Kaori
Wild Com. – Tamura Yumi
Attack on Titan 4 – Isayama Hajime
The Devil Does Exist 1–3 (reread), 4 – Takanashi Mitsuba
Saiyuki 1–4 – Minekura Kazuya
March
Saiyuki 5–9 – Minekura Kazuya
Neon Genesis Evangelion 13 – Sadamoto Yoshiyuki
The Unwritten 8 – Mike Carey + Peter Gross
Just a Girl 1–2 (complete) – Taniguchi Tomoko
April
Deadman Wonderland 1 – Kataoka Jinsei + Kondou Kazuma
Ristorante Paradiso – Ono Natsume
Don’t Puke on Your Dad – Toby Morris
The Life Story of Bucky Barnes – Ed Brubaker + Marc Andreyko + Chris Samnee (reread)
Red She-Hulk: Route 616 – Jeff Parker + Carlo Pagulayan + Wellinton Alves (reread)
Dark X-Men – Paul Cornell + Leonard Kirk (reread)
Hinterkind 1 – Ian Edginton + Francesco Trifogli
May
Avengers Arena 1–3 – Dennis Hopeless + artists
June
Kaze Hikaru 1–5 – Watanabe Taeko
House of Five Leaves 1–2 – Ono Natsume
Dororo – Tesuka Osamu
July
All-New X-Factor 1 – Peter David + Carmine Di Giandomenico
My Love Story!! – Kawahara Kazune and Aruko
Kaze Hikaru 6–8 – Watanabe Taeko
August
Lazarus 2 – Greg Rucka + Michael Lark + Santi Arcas
Unwritten 9 – Mike Carey + artists
Conditions for Paradise – Morishima Akiko
20-Year-Old Girl x 30-Year-Old Maiden – Morishima Akiko
Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep – Mizutani Fuka
Cirque Arachne – Saida Nika
Sweat and Honey – Okazaki Mari (reread)
The Day I Become a Butterfly – Yumeka Sumomo (reread)
Same Cell Organism– Yumeka Sumomo (reread)
Love My Life – Yamaji Ebine
Seconds – Bryan Lee O’Malley
My Faith in Frankie – Mike Carey + Sonny Liew (reread)
Kaze Hikaru 9 – Watanabe Taeko
September
Avengers Undercover – Dennis Hopeless + artists
How to be Happy – Eleanor Davis
October
Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
Noragami 1 – Adachitoka
November
Unwritten 10 – Mike Carey + artists
Akira 1 – Otomo Katsuhiro
The Flowers of Evil 1 – Oshimi Shuzo
December
The Flowers of Evil 2 – Oshimi Shuzo
Hinterkind 2 – Ian Edginton + Francesco Trifogli
Finder: Third World – Carla Speed McNeil
Suicide Risk 1 – Mike Carey + Elena Casagrande
Movies
January
Oldboy
Robo Vampire 
I Love Maria
Mandrill
Resident Evil: Retribution
The Heroic Trio
Go Goa Gone
February
Rurouni Kenshin
12 Years a Slave
Elves
March
Dallas Buyers Club
Creatures from the Abyss (does not deserve anything)
Ace Attorney
The Seventh Curse
April
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (twice)
Battle of the Damned
Judge Dredd
Dredd (rewatch)
The Wind Rises
Aguirre: Wrath of God
Police Assassins
Man of Tai Chi
May
The Tournament
Showdown in Little Tokyo
The Crow (rewatch)
Samurai Cop (deserves nothing)
Dragon from Russia
June
X-Men: Days of Future Past
So Close
One Missed Call 2
Tiger Blade
Jiang Hu
Maleficent
Attack the Block
Edge of Tomorrow
Vengeance
July
What We Do in the Night
Reincarnation
The House of Magic
Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Mothers
We are the Best!
Boyhood
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets
Life After Beth
August
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Killers
Snowpiercer
Disco Godfather
Schatjes!
Guardians of the Galaxy
September
Into the Storm
Black Tight Killers
October
Crying Freeman
Battle Royale (rewatch)
Devil Foetus
Technolust
Raising Arizona
Elysium
Under the Skin
The Dead Lands
Slumber Party Massacre
Strange Circus
November
De Mai Tinh
Naksha
Frankenstein’s Army
Haunted
Mockingjay: Part One
December
The Replacement Killers
War
The Ninja Mission
The Rocket
Lust, Caution
Big Hero 6
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