Book Recommendations
Sep. 2nd, 2011 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've just spent a couple of hours scrolling through this post on Charles Stross' blog, getting book recommendations from answers to his question of what's the most important novel of the past ten years (given his audience, there's a strong SF bent to the answers). He followed up with this post, narrowing the field to eliminate men.
My to-read list is burgeoning and I'm excited to know about many books I'd never heard of and have others I've glanced at bumped up the queue.
Enjoy!
My to-read list is burgeoning and I'm excited to know about many books I'd never heard of and have others I've glanced at bumped up the queue.
Enjoy!
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:24 pm (UTC)I think Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks should be on that list. That's on my top 10 of best books ever read.
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:09 pm (UTC)Most of my favorite sf is written by women, although I was having a tough time coming up with a title in the last 10 years. Connie Willis is amazing, I have to agree.
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:11 pm (UTC)Is this list of books supposed to be just sf/fantasy? I thought it covered all genres.
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:21 pm (UTC)There aren't that many books that are co-written.
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Date: 2011-09-07 03:21 pm (UTC)It's funny, because another friend of mine just posted basically the same question on FB - can you name a literary (I guess that means non-genre) novel from the last 3 decades that isn't sad or depressing? I couldn't think of any. and that's why I don't care to read them, either!
I love SF and historical fiction and then all variety of YA, although that skews toward fantasy, too :P.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:23 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm really glad that you enjoyed it so much and that you encouraged me to read it.
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Date: 2011-09-08 12:27 am (UTC)Anyhow, I'm glad you enjoyed it and don't feel like it was a waste of your time.
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Date: 2011-09-03 05:09 am (UTC)