{"id":3229,"date":"2011-01-21T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2011-01-21T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T10:51:56","slug":"book-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/book-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a post up on HarperVoyager<\/a> 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.)”<\/em><\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

‘The Long Price’ quartet by Daniel Abraham<\/p>\n

‘The Windup Girl’ by Paolo Bacigalupi<\/p>\n

‘Surface Detail’ by Iain M Banks<\/p>\n

‘The Imago Sequence and Other Stories’ by Laird Barron<\/p>\n

‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’ by Michael Chabon<\/p>\n

‘Spellwright’ by Blake Charlton<\/p>\n

‘Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel’ by Susanna Clarke<\/p>\n

‘The Malazan Book of the Fallen’ series, by Steven Erikson<\/p>\n

‘The Court of the Air’ by Stephen Hunt<\/p>\n

‘The Last Page’ by Anthony Huso<\/p>\n

‘Thunderer’ by Felix Gilman<\/p>\n

‘Bright of the Sky’ by Kay Kenyon<\/p>\n

‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series by George RR Martin<\/p>\n

‘The City and the City’ by China Mieville<\/p>\n

‘Lavinia’, by Ursula Le Guin<\/p>\n

‘The Heir of Night’ by Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

‘Cloud Atlas’ by David Mitchell<\/p>\n

‘The Shadows of the Apt’ series by Adrian Tchaikovsky<\/p>\n

“Bitter Seeds’ by Ian Tregillis<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Young Adult:<\/h4>\n

‘Feed’ by M T Anderson<\/p>\n

‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins<\/p>\n

‘Verdigris Deep’\u00a0 by Francis Hardinge<\/p>\n

‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n

‘Dreamhunter’ & ‘Dreamquake’ by Elizabeth Knox<\/p>\n

‘Tales from Earthsea’ by Urusla\u00a0 K Le Guin<\/p>\n

‘Thornspell’ by Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

‘Wicked Lovely’ by Melissa Marr<\/p>\n

‘Abhorsen’ by Garth Nix<\/p>\n

‘The Amulet of Samarkand’ by Jonathan Stroud<\/p>\n

‘The Stone Crown’ by Malcolm Walker<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

And with honorable mentions (because they’re outside our 2000-2011 decade) for:<\/p>\n

The ‘Empire’ trilogy by Raymond E Feist and Janny Wurts<\/p>\n

‘It’ by Stephen King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-guest-blog-posts","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}