Bookworm Blues Best of 2016

I've been fortunate to meet some amazing industry people over the year, and the fact that many of them have been 100% online hasn't decreased that pleasure in the least. Sarah Chorn of Bookworm Blues is one of those people who I'm proud to know. She has impeccable taste in books, gives honest and insightful reviews, and even when it's a book she doesn't particularly love, she's able to express her opinions in a way that provides for an open door that maybe a particular work just wasn't her cup of tea and it doesn't make it a bad book.  She's also devoted many hours helping self-published authors by participating in the SPFBO (Self Publishing Fantasy Blog Off) which helps to bring high-quality fantasy fiction into the spotlight.

So it was with great honor, and extreme pleasure to find Age of Myth made Sarah's Bookworm Blues Top picks for 2016. Sarah is works tirelessly to unite readers and writers, and I'm so pleased to see how her blog has grown over the years to be one of the pre-eminent site in the fantasy blogging community.

For those who prefer text rather than pictures, here are the books along with some data about the books as gathered from Goodreads.com

Title	Author	Series	Rating	# of Reviews
A Green and Ancient Light	Frederic S. Durbin	-	4.10	416
The Devil You Know	K.J. Parker	Book 2  Saloninus	3.86	493
Borderline	Mishell Baker	Book 1 Arcadia Project	3.95	1,070
All the Birds in the Sky	Charlie Jane Anders	-	3.59	9,702
The Last Days of Magic	Mark Tompkins	-	3.24	1,008
The Wolf Road	Beth Lewis	-	4.03	1,583
Everfair	Nisi Shawl	-	3.38	265
The Forgetting Moon	Brian Lee Durfee	Book 1  Five Warrior Angels	4.28	111
The Last Days of Jack Sparks	Jason Arnopp	-	3.92	1,071
A Gathering of Shadows	V.E. Schwab	Book 2 Shades of Magic	4.35	18,188
False Hearts	Laura Lam	Book 1 False Hearts	3.79	600
Stiletto	Daniel O’Malley	Book 2 Checquy Files	4.17	6,065
Wall of Storms	Ken Liu	Book 2 Dandelion Dynasty	4.31	419
The Wheel of Osheim	Mark Lawrence	Book 3 Red Queen's War	4.38	3,976
Age of Myth	Michael J. Sullivan	Book 1 Legends of the First  Empire	4.30	5,035
=Defying Doomsday	Multiple	-	4.59	54
After Atlas	Emma Newman	Book 2 Planetfall	4.32	158