SF & Fantasy Book List

[the_siobhan]

A list that's been going around today.

Bolded the ones I've read, italics on the ones where I've read other books by the same author.

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Tithe by Holly Black
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Synners by Pat Cadigan
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Survival by Julie E. Czerneda
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
King's Dragon by Kate Elliott
Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The God Stalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
God's War by Kameron Hurley
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ash by Malinda Lo
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
Legend by Marie Lu
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E. McKenna
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
The Grass King's Concubine by Kari Sperring
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

The number of books I've read off this list is quite small - I guess I have some new authors to search out.

Comments

[silentq]

*yoink* :-) I've read and loved quite a few on that list, probably because I've made it a habit to seek out sff written by women. Looking forward to checking out the rest of them!

[greylock]

This list seems to be lacking in diversity. :P

There's a surprising number of books on this I own, and am yet to read, but there are a few I'm a tad surprised you haven't read.

Anything by Vonda N. McIntyre, Pat Cadigan and Octavia Butler all stand out to me, for example, as things I'd have paid odds you'd have read. Which may be while I don't gamble.

(I'm going to get this list originated around the last awards people got huffy over because some of the books are very new, and Scalzi's there, but there are some curious entries).

[the_siobhan]

I'm less likely to have read anything recent. And quite honestly, my memory for names is crap. It's entirely possible I've read things by some authors on the list and I just don't remember who wrote it.

[greylock]

It's entirely possible I've read things by some authors on the list and I just don't remember who wrote it.

I resemble this remark, especially for short stories.

I am pretty sure The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Cat Valente came out this year or last.

And I'd be surprised if you weren't a few degrees separated from Tanya Huff. She's a generation older, but from your part of the world and had a TV show about a vampire detective.