100 Books, 100 More Books, All the Words Ever

[onceupon]

There's a list of 100 book titles going around on Facebook. Apparently the BBC put this list together; the supposition is that the average person has only read 6 of the books on the list

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[ashbet]

Random Steven Brust anecdote -- I went to my first con when I was 14, and Steven Brust's wife dragged me over to meet him, because I'd written "Adrilankha" on my namebadge ^__^

*hee!*

-- A <3

[fluffysparkle]

Hemingway is like Gibson: his short work is brilliant. His longer work is a phenomenal doorstop.

Science fiction:

Foreigner by CJ Cherryh is the first book that I've read in over three years that I could not put down. That said, heavy sociological/anthropological focus, stupid wangst in the last third, some stupid torture in the last third. And, well, it's CJ Cherryh. ~The politics of aliens, expounded upon in wallowing loving detail.~ So it's not for everyone.

In The Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda was good to fair; I have a weakness for station stories and extrasensory-powered characters with contact problems, so I'm sure that contributes. Boring unconvincing romance, but the rest is fine. The first hundred-or-so pages are the best.

OH MY GOD if you read teen/tween/what do they call twelve-to-fifteen year olds now? books:

A Dark Traveling by Roger Zelazny READ THIS. Just. It's got a strong style full of delicious quirk and a nice twist of humor. Also, a werewolf.

Into The Dream by William Sleator. I can't words to

[anneth]

There is some amazing SFF coming out of the UK right now - they might not all be your cup of tea, but if you read around you will probably find one or two authors you really dig. The list is long, but a few personal favorites are China Miéville, Joe Abercrombie, Steph Swainston, Richard Morgan, Christopher Fowler, & Mark Charan Newton.

[ladyfelicity]

The Sandman series (graphic novels) by Neil Gaiman. Also, Stardust.

I just read Mercedes Lackey's "Fairy Godmother" and loved it.

There's also His Dark Materials (the trilogy with The Golden Compass) by Phillip Pullman (sp?).

[aquaflame16]

Hi, random follower (although, actually, we met in Boston, though you prob met a bajillion people that trip.) poking my head up because I can't stop myself from talking about sf/f books ;)
You've probably already read all of these, lol, but I guess I'll take a go at StumpTheRotund with a long-ish list, in no particular order, of female sf/f/spec authors.
Mostly white, alas. (Possibly all? I don't know all race/ethnicity identities.)
These are not all super amazing works of fiction with water-tight plots and nothing problematic, obviously, but they are all things I've enjoyed reading.

Catherine Asaro -- Skolian Saga books
Melissa Scott -- Trouble and Her Friends, Dreamships/Dreaming Metal and Night Sky Mine. Also worth tracking down the silence Leigh trilogy.
Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett -- the Points books
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman -- each has some solo and they have some together
Elizabeth Haydon -- Rhapsody Trilogy, etc.
Kage Baker -- The Company Novels (I'm reading this series currently.)
Sharon Shinn -- Angels/

[aquaflame16]

oh, I realized Solitaire really needs a, well, I guess a trigger warning or 4. It's a good book, but very intense, emotionally. So warnings for depression, isolation, non-sanity and prisoner/patient abuse of a sort.