Book Recommendations
I had a post up on HarperVoyager over last weekend, in which I asked readers to “… let me know both your favorite book of the past decade and/or your top picks for 2011 Hugo Award nominations (from books published in 2010.)”
It turned more into a list of reader’s favourites generally (which is just fine!), but here’s the books posted (in alphabetical order by author’s surname.) I’ve done YA as a separate list, but using the same format:
‘The Long Price’ quartet by Daniel Abraham
‘The Windup Girl’ by Paolo Bacigalupi
‘Surface Detail’ by Iain M Banks
‘The Imago Sequence and Other Stories’ by Laird Barron
‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’ by Michael Chabon
‘Spellwright’ by Blake Charlton
‘Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel’ by Susanna Clarke
‘The Malazan Book of the Fallen’ series, by Steven Erikson
‘The Court of the Air’ by Stephen Hunt
‘The Last Page’ by Anthony Huso
‘Thunderer’ by Felix Gilman
‘Bright of the Sky’ by Kay Kenyon
‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series by George RR Martin
‘The City and the City’ by China Mieville
‘Lavinia’, by Ursula Le Guin
‘The Heir of Night’ by Helen Lowe
‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell
‘The Shadows of the Apt’ series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“Bitter Seeds’ by Ian Tregillis
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Young Adult:
‘Feed’ by M T Anderson
‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins
‘Verdigris Deep’ by Francis Hardinge
‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman
‘Dreamhunter’ & ‘Dreamquake’ by Elizabeth Knox
‘Tales from Earthsea’ by Urusla K Le Guin
‘Thornspell’ by Helen Lowe
‘Wicked Lovely’ by Melissa Marr
‘Abhorsen’ by Garth Nix
‘The Amulet of Samarkand’ by Jonathan Stroud
‘The Stone Crown’ by Malcolm Walker
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And with honorable mentions (because they’re outside our 2000-2011 decade) for:
The ‘Empire’ trilogy by Raymond E Feist and Janny Wurts
‘It’ by Stephen King