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Snagged from [personal profile] davidgillon, which he snagged from [personal profile] legionseagle who got the list from this blog post over at Tor.com: 100 SF/F 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)

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)

Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler (1980)

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)

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)

The Secret Country, by Pamela Dean (1985)

Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany (1975)

The Door into Fire, by Diane Duane (1979)

On the Edge of Gone, by Corinne Duyvis (2016)

Spirit Gate, by Kate Elliott (2006)

Enchantress From the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (1970)

Golden Witchbreed, by Mary Gentle (1983)

The Dazzle of Day, by Molly Gloss (1997)

A Mask for the General, by Lisa Goldstein (1987)

Slow River, by Nicola Griffith (1995)

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)

Zero Sum Game, by S.L. Huang (2014)

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)

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)

Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee (2016)

Wizard of the Pigeons, by Megan Lindholm (1986)

Adaptation, by Malinda Lo (2012)

Watchtower, by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1979)

Tea with the Black Dragon, by R. A. MacAvoy (1983)

The Outback Stars, by Sandra McDonald (2007)

China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen McHugh (1992)

Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre (1978)

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)

His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik (2006)

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)

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)



So, going by this list, it looks like I'm not very well-read at all. Though what this list really shows me is that I haven't read much of any SF/F published after 1980 -- I think that's because my main access to the genre was through school libraries and public libraries, which tend to have more older books on their shelves than book stores.

Some of these book titles (and their summaries on Wikipedia, when I look them up) ring very faint, foggy, bells. I very well could have read them, but I'm not confident enough to actually italicize them....

I'm glad Patricia McKillip is on this list. Although I read The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the book of hers that kept me up all night until I finished it was The Changeling Sea ... I had such a fiction-crush on that wizard (*blush*). And although it is not SF/F, I also really liked The Night Gift, though I acknowledge it's not a "Significant piece of Literature" of the sort that gets on lists like this (the pop culture references, put in to ground it firmly in the present, real, world, end up making it terribly dated), but it's a bittersweet exploration of how mental illness affects a close-knit group of teenage friends, and how they band together to try and help the one who's suffering.

Anyway, all that means is that I have a whole lot of good first time reading to look forward to.

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