Book Recommendations

[lillibet]

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!

Comments

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the NPR lists. One of the things that I liked about this list was the genre-skew. I tend to dislike most mainstream fiction for its celebration of unhappiness. I do read non-fiction and the occasional mainstream one that sounds interesting, but most of what interests me tends to be SF/F or historical mysteries.

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

NPR had listeners submit lists of their favorite SF titles! Here it is (http://jillbertini.livejournal.com/836944.html).

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.