Meme

[davidgillon]

Via legionseagle and 100 SFF Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year

 

Italics = read it. Underline= not it, but another by the same author. Strikethrough = did not finish.

 

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (2014)
The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken (1981)

Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa (2001-2010)
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō by Hitoshi Ashinano (1994-2006)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) (Possibly bounced off?)
Stinz: Charger: The War Stories by Donna Barr (1987)
The Sword and the Satchel by Elizabeth Boyer (1980)
Galactic Sibyl Sue Blue by Rosel George Brown (1968)
The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (1987) (Essential Ur-reference for Urban Fantasy)
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler (1980) (Reasonably certain I tried something of hers in the 80s, and bounced)
Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey (2010)
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter (1996)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (2015)
Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant (1970)
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (1980)
Gate of Ivrel by C.J. Cherryh (1976) (Perhaps the clearest example of Cherryh's 'tell the tale through an onlooker who doesn't understand what's really happening' style)
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (2015)
Diadem from the Stars by Jo Clayton (1977)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973)
Genpei by Kara Dalkey (2000)
Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard (2010) (May have read a short or two of hers)
The Secret Country by Pamela Dean (1985)
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany (1975)
The Door into Fire by Diane Duane (1979) (I've probably read something of hers, but nothing's popping to mind)
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (2016) (Prominent as an own voices disabled writer, I should really read this)
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott (2006)
Enchantress From the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1970)
Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle (1983) (Good, but I'd say Ash if I had to pick a Gentle novel)
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss (1997)
A Mask for the General by Lisa Goldstein (1987) (I may have read this, not 100% certain, I've definitely read The Red Magician though, and that left a strong impression)
Slow River by Nicola Griffith (1995) (Read all her early stuff in Interzone, must read her latest novel, which has a disabled protagonist in a contemporary setting).
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly (1988)
Winterlong by Elizabeth Hand (1990)
Ingathering by Zenna Henderson (1995)
The Interior Life by Dorothy Heydt (writing as Katherine Blake, 1990)
God Stalk by P. C. Hodgell (1982)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (1998) (She was definitely on my list of authors to try, just not sure I ever did)
Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang (2014) (Spectacularly good action scenes)
Blood Price by Tanya Huff (1991)
The Keeper of the Isis Light by Monica Hughes (1980)
God’s War by Kameron Hurley (2011)
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta (2014)
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (2015)
Cart and Cwidder by Diane Wynne Jones (1975)
Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones (2014)
Hellspark by Janet Kagan (1988) (I think I've read stuff she's co-authored, not sure I've read this or anything else solo)
A Voice Out of Ramah by Lee Killough (1979)
St Ailbe’s Hall by Naomi Kritzer (2004)
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz (1970)
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (1987)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (1962)
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier (2005)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (2013)
Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee (Also titled Drinking Sapphire Wine, 1979) (It may be Silver Metal Lover I've read, definitely read something).
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (2016) (Think I have to declare an interest when it comes to Yoon, though this isn't one I beta'd)
Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm (1986) (This impressed me so much at the time)
Adaptation by Malinda Lo (2012)
Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1979)
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy (1983) (Can't decide if I've read it, or just heard so much about it.)
The Outback Stars by Sandra McDonald (2007)
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh (1992)
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1978) (Not sure on this one, it's a possible, fairly certain I've read stuff of hers)
The Riddle-Master of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip (1976)
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees (1926)
Pennterra by Judith Moffett (1987)
The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe (2010)
Jirel of Joiry by C. L. Moore (1969)
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2016)
The City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy (1989)
Vast by Linda Nagata (1998)
Galactic Derelict by Andre Norton (1959) (Read a huge number of Nortons as a child)
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik (2006) (lost interest the further it deviated from OTL Napoleonic geo-politics)
Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara (1993)
Outlaw School by Rebecca Ore (2000)
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (2014)
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (1983)
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (1976)
Godmother Night by Rachel Pollack (1996)
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1859)
My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland (2011)
The Female Man by Joanna Russ (1975) (Got a feeling I bumped off something of hers at an impressionable age)
Stay Crazy by Erika L. Satifka (2016)
The Healer’s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1988)
Five-Twelfths of Heaven by Melissa Scott (1985)
Everfair by Nisi Shawl (2016)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski (1986)
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart (1970)
Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree, Jr. (1978)
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (1996)
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge (1980)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2017)
The Well-Favored Man by Elizabeth Willey (1993)
Banner of Souls by Liz Williams (2004)
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (2012)
Ariosto by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1980)

Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga (2005-present)

 

Probably two thirds of these the names are familiar enough I'm questioning whether I've read something of theirs, or I'm just reacting to the name alone, and I can't go to my bookshelves to check as I'm 300 miles away from them.

Most surprised by the absence of: Elizabeth Bear

Comments

[kaberett]

P sure Nicholls still has vague beef with Bear over RaceFail (as to be fair do I, having failed to follow up particularly assiduously). I may of course be getting names confused, but that's what I'd be looking at for an explanation.

[davidgillon]

That's entirely possible.

[calissa]

Might I share this post with my online book club? When the article came out, there was a wish for a scratch poster and this seems like the next best thing.

[davidgillon]

Absolutely.

[calissa]

Thank you!