(no subject)
Nov. 26th, 2017 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_rose[community profile] ladybusiness book meme
And oldie but a goodie. (And yes, the point is partly a mockery of those 100 must-read book collections that are all men except one token woman, and even the token choice in this is pointed for certain super-reactionary Quarters)
bolding ones I've read, and italicizing ones where I've read other things by that author. Unless otherwise noted, yes, I liked what I read. Starring things where I've heard good stuff. And invariably I won't be able to resist some bracketed asides.
Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (I liked her when I met her but know less about her fiction.)
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 (people talk favourably about her and they just... don't interest me and i have never put my finger on why. I may eventually try one just to see.)
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 (I was not impressed by her first book. I was impressed by her when I met her. I may yet try another story.)
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 (I read the trilogy that follows this one, and it convinced me I had no interest in reading the backstory trilogy even though I enjoyed that one.)
The God Stalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell (I've read the first book but unlike most of the others they decided to include the whole series as the must-read, so...)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
God's War by Kameron Hurley (was not that impressed.)
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr (TBH I think I used to mix her up with katherine Kurtz.)
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein*
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress*
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz (I may have read it when it was new, and I read the Camber books. I borrowed it off a friend recently because people seemed to still like it. I gave up halfway. This book has not aged well, let us say.)
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 (I read half of Akata Witch then had to return it to the library. I was enjoying the first half.)
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 * (it's on my list. I've even had it out from the library and just never got to it before the due date.)
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells (I prefer the Fall of Ile-Rien myself...)
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
And oldie but a goodie. (And yes, the point is partly a mockery of those 100 must-read book collections that are all men except one token woman, and even the token choice in this is pointed for certain super-reactionary Quarters)
bolding ones I've read, and italicizing ones where I've read other things by that author. Unless otherwise noted, yes, I liked what I read. Starring things where I've heard good stuff. And invariably I won't be able to resist some bracketed asides.
Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (I liked her when I met her but know less about her fiction.)
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 (people talk favourably about her and they just... don't interest me and i have never put my finger on why. I may eventually try one just to see.)
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 (I was not impressed by her first book. I was impressed by her when I met her. I may yet try another story.)
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 (I read the trilogy that follows this one, and it convinced me I had no interest in reading the backstory trilogy even though I enjoyed that one.)
The God Stalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell (I've read the first book but unlike most of the others they decided to include the whole series as the must-read, so...)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
God's War by Kameron Hurley (was not that impressed.)
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr (TBH I think I used to mix her up with katherine Kurtz.)
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein*
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress*
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz (I may have read it when it was new, and I read the Camber books. I borrowed it off a friend recently because people seemed to still like it. I gave up halfway. This book has not aged well, let us say.)
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 (I read half of Akata Witch then had to return it to the library. I was enjoying the first half.)
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 * (it's on my list. I've even had it out from the library and just never got to it before the due date.)
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells (I prefer the Fall of Ile-Rien myself...)
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
