Kingkiller, Vampire Earth, Pern, Landover and the Inheritance Cycle stretch beyond one book.
Sean O'Leary's Reading Journey
Stories Return. Meaning Changes.
Series • Rereading • Listening • Discovery
The 2011 archive follows stories across several books and sometimes through more than one reading. Epic fantasy, post-apocalyptic resistance, mysteries, classics, history and audiobooks form a year built around a reader's willingness to return, listen again and keep traveling through a world after the first door has closed.
Reading Archive // Volume 04
2011
22 Completed Entries
Five audiobook completions add performance, voice and rhythm to the reading year.
Egypt, science, satire and classic literature keep the archive connected to the human record.
A familiar book can become a different experience when revisited at another time.
The Complete Record // 22 Entries
Books Sean O'Leary completed in 2011
Follow the year chronologically through 21 distinct titles and 22 finished reading entries. The two audiobook completions of The Name of the Wind are retained because Sean recorded each completion on a different date. Every entry includes paths to Goodreads and Bookshop.org for further discovery.
22
Completed entries
21
Distinct titles
5
Audiobook completions
Passage 01 // January–May
Entries 01–07
Darkness, hidden histories and widening worlds
01
Yesterday's Darkness
Carl Henegan
02
Tale of the Thunderbolt
E. E. Knight • Vampire Earth, Book Three
03
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss • The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
04
Dog Days
John Levitt • Dog Days, Book One
05
Wayward Son
Tom Pollack with Jim Alves and John Loftus
06
Black Orchids
Rex Stout • A Nero Wolfe Mystery
07
Billions and Billions
Carl Sagan
Passage 02 // July–August
Entries 08–12
Satire, Egypt, conspiracy and a story heard twice
08
Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain
09
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Nina Burleigh
10
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss • The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
11
Hard Whispers
Pamela Martin and Carl Henegan
12
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss • The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One
Stories Built Across Books
Some questions need more than one volume.
The 2011 archive repeatedly follows characters and ideas from one book into the next. Readers who enjoy that longer journey can continue into The Rating Game, Sean O'Leary and Em Green's four-book literary series about authors, ambition, ratings, algorithms and the machinery that decides what gets seen.
Passage 03 // September–October
Entries 13–15
Afterlives, dragon songs and an invisible stranger
13
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri • LibriVox Edition
14
The Masterharper of Pern
Anne McCaffrey • Dragonriders of Pern
15
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Passage 04 // November–December
Entries 16–22
Resistance, inheritance and the end of the year
16
Valentine's Rising
E. E. Knight • Vampire Earth, Book Four
17
Valentine's Exile
E. E. Knight • Vampire Earth, Book Five
18
Inheritance
Christopher Paolini • The Inheritance Cycle, Book Four
19
Eragon
Christopher Paolini • The Inheritance Cycle, Book One
20
A Princess of Landover
Terry Brooks • Magic Kingdom of Landover, Book Six
21
Eldest
Christopher Paolini • The Inheritance Cycle, Book Two
22
Valentine's Resolve
E. E. Knight • Vampire Earth, Book Six
Continue the Reading Conversation
Follow Sean beyond the annual lists
Sean's current review channels carry the archive forward with book discussions, library visits and reflections on the ideas that science fiction and fantasy make possible.
Sean O'Leary's Video Reviews
Watch Sean discuss books, writers, libraries, speculative worlds and the questions that continue after a story ends.
Sean O'Leary's Written Reviews
Follow Sean's reading activity on Goodreads and visit his author page to discover the books he has written himself.
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