Fantasy

23 Mar 2013 14:07

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Horror is recognized as a separate genre, but I don't read enough of it to make a separate notebook for it worthwhile. Things are different with science fiction.

I've spun off the list of recommendations into a separate page.

To read:
• Lynn Abbey, Rifkind's Challenge
• Joan Aiken, The Cockatrice Boys
• Kim Antieau, The Jigsaw Woman
• Jennifer Armintrout, Blood Ties
• Ken Asamatsu, Queen of K'N-Yan
• Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears [Review in Bookslut]
• Camille Bacon-Smith, The Face of Time
• Kage Baker
  • Dark Mondays
  • Mother Aegypt and Other Stories
  • Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key
• Jeffrey E. Barlough
  • Dark Sleeper
  • The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire
  • Strange Cargo
• Wayne Barlowe, God's Demon
• Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist
• Laird Barron, The Croning
• Peter Beagle
  • A Fine and Private Place
  • Folk of the Air
  • Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Giant Bones
  • I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
  • Innkeeper's Song
  • The Line Between
  • Tamsin
  • We Never Talk about My Brother
• Beal, Religion and Its Monsters
• Elizabeth Bear
  • Book of Iron
  • The Chains That You Refuse
  • The Eternal Sky
    3. Steles of the Sky
  • The Promethean Age
    1. Blood and Iron
    2. Whiskey and Water
    3. Ink and Steel
    4. Hell and Earth
  • Seven for a Secret
  • Shoggoths in Bloom
• Greg Bear
  • Sleepside
  • Songs of Earth and Power
• Alex Bell, The Ninth Circle
• Holly Black
  • Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
  • The White Cat
• Katherine Blake (pseud. of Dorothy J. Heydt), The Interior Life
• James P. Blaylock
  • All the Bells on Earth
  • The Digging Leviathan
  • Homunculus
  • Land of Dreams
  • Lord Kelvin's Machine
  • Night Relics
  • The Paper Grail
• Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero, The Book of Imaginary Beings
• Richard Bowes, Minions of the Moon
• Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
• Patricia Briggs, Hob's Bargain
• John Brown, Servant of a Dark God [self-presentation]
• S. G. Browne, Breathers; A Zombie's Lament
• John Brunner, The Compleat Traveller in Black
• Steven Brust
  • Agyar
  • The Viscount of Adrilankha
    1. The Paths of the Dead
    2. The Lord of Castle Black
  • the Vlad Taltos books, in order
    • Taltos
    • Phoenix
    • Athyra
    • Ocra
    • Dragon
  • Brokendown Palace
• Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity [Which I've seen stocked as non-fiction]
• Emma Bull
  • Finder
  • Territory
• James A. Burton, Powers
• Barbara Nye Byfield
  • The Glass Harmonica [=The Book of Wierd {sic?}]
  • The Man Who Made Gold [=Andrew and the Alchemist]
• Alan Campbell, Scar Night
• Ramsey Campbell
  • Ghosts and Grisly Things
  • The Hungry Moon
• Mike Carey, The Steel Seraglio
• Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
• H. O. Charles, City of Blaze
• C. J. Cherryh
  • Faery in Shadow
  • The Goblin Mirror
  • The Morgaine stories: Gate of Ivrel, Well of Shiuan, Fires of Azeroth, Exile's Gate
• M. Lucie Chin, Fairy of Ku-She
• Deborah Christian, Kar Kalim
• Michael Cisco, The San Veneficio Canon
• B. W. [=Brenda] Clough
  • The Crystal Crown
  • The Name of the Sun
  • The Realm Beneath
• Deborah Coates, Wide Open
• Harry Connolly, Child of Fire
• Storm Constantine, Sea Dragon Heir
• Dana Copithorne, The Steam Magnate
• Basil Copper, The Great White Space
• John Crowley
  • Aegypt
  • Beasts
  • Engine Summer
  • Little, Big
• Leah R. Cutter, Paper Mage
• Roald Dahl, Kiss Kiss
• Kara Dalkey
  • Euryale
  • The Nightingale
  • Steel Rose
• Richard Dansky, Firefly Rain
• Avram Davidson
  • Jackleg
  • The Other Nineteenth Century
  • Ursus of Ultima Thule
  • What Strange Stars and Skies
• Avram Davidson and Grantia Davis, Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty
• Ariane and Christian Delacampagne, Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Beastiary
• Mark Del Franco, Unshapely Things
• Charles de Lint
  • Dreams Underfoot
  • Forests of the Heart
  • The Ivory and the Horn
  • Moonlight and Vines
  • Someplace to Be Flying
• A. M. Dellamonica, Indio Springs
• Alan DeNiro, Total Oblivion, More or Less [Author's self-presentation]
• Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine
• E. R. Eddison
  • Mistress of Mistresses
  • The Worm Ouroboros
• S. L. Farrell, A Magic of Twilight
• Charles G. Finney
  • The Ghosts of Manacle
  • The Magician Out of Manchuria
  • The Old China Hands [Nonfiction]
  • The Unholy City
• John M. Ford
  • From the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Heat of Fusion
• L. L. Foster, The Awakening
• Diana Pharaoh Francis, Blood Winter
• Teresa Frohock, Miserere: An Autumn Tale
• Lorna Freeman, Covenants
• Esther Friesner
  • Child of the Eagle: A Myth of Rome
  • Mustapha and his Wise Dog
  • Spells of Mortal Weaving
  • Wishing Season
  • The Witchwood Cradle
• Neil Gaiman
  • Anasi Boys
  • Coraline
  • The Graveyard Book
  • Neverwhere
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • Stardust
• R. Garcia y Robertson, Firebird
• Richard Garfinkle, Celestial Matters
• Richard Gavin, Omens
• Patricia Geary
  • Living in Ether
  • Strange Toys
• Mary Gentle
  • 1610: A Sundial in a Grave
  • The Architecture of Desire
  • The Black Opera
  • The Book of Ash
    3. The Wild Machines
    4. Lost Burgundy
  • A Hawk in Silver
  • Ilario
  • Left to His Own Devices
  • Scholars and Soldiers
• Felix Gilman
  • Gears of the City
  • The Rise of Ransom City
• Greer Ilene Gilman
  • Moonwise
  • Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
• Laura Anne Gilman, Flesh and Fire
• Lisa Goldstein
  • Dark Cities Underground
  • The Dream Years
  • Travellers in Magic
  • Walking the Labyrinth
• Angelica Gorodischer
  • Kalpa Imperial
  • Trafalgar
• Kathryn Grant
  • The Phoenix Bells
  • The Black Jade Road
  • The Willow Garden
• Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels: Or, the Resurrection of Matthew Swift
• Elizabeth Hand
  • Last Summer at Mars Hill
  • Mortal Love
  • Waking the Moon
• M. L. N. Hanover, Black Sun's Daughter
• Kenneth J. Harvey, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
• Robin Hobb
  • Ship of Magic
  • Shaman's Crossing
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • A Fistful of Sky
  • Permeable Borders [Review by Jo Walton]
  • A Red Heart of Memories
  • The Silent Strength of Stones
  • The Thread that Binds the Bones
• Robert Holdstock
  • Ancient Echoes
  • Earthwind
  • Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
  • The Hollowing
• Madeline Howard, The Hidden Stars
• Stephen Hunt
  • The Court of the Air
  • The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
• Alexander C. Irvine, The Narrows
• John Hornor Jacobs, Southern Gods
• M. R. James, Casting the Runes, and Other Ghost Stories
• Kij Johnson
  • At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
  • The Fox Woman
• Diana Wynne Jones
  • Archer's Goon
  • Chrestomanci Quartet
  • The Dalemark Quartet
  • Dogsbody
  • Fire and Hemlock
  • The Homeward Bounders
  • The Ogre Downstairs
• Howard Andrew Jones, The Bones of the Old Ones
• Graham Joyce, Some Kind of Fairy Tale
• Richard Kadrey, Angel Scene/Teeth and Tongue Landscape
• Kirsten Imani Kasai, Ice Song
• Guy Gavriel Kay
  • A Song for Arbonne
  • The Last Light of the Sun
  • The Sarantine Mosaic: Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors
  • Tigana
• Julie Kenner, Tainted
• Jack Ketchum, Red
• Greg Keyes
  2. The Charnel Prince
  3. The Blood Knight
  4. The Born Queen
• Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Alabaster
  • Silk
  • Murder of Angels [Sequel to Silk]
  • Low Red Moon [Sequel to the excellent Threshold]
  • Tales of Pain and Wonder
  • To Charles Fort, with Love
  • The Drowning Girl
  • Two Worlds and In Between
• Stephen King
  • Bag of Bones
  • Duma Key
  • Insominia
  • Lisey's Story
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  • Rose Madder
• Kathe Koja
  • Bad Brains
  • Extremities
  • Skin
• Nancy Kress, Briar Rose
• Ellen Kushner
  • Privilege of the Sword
  • Thomas the Rhymer
• R. A. Lafferty, The Devil Is Dead
• Sarah Langan, Audrey's Door
• Marc Laidlaw, The 37th Mandala
• L. Lamplight, Prospero's Daughter
• Jay Lake
  • Trial of Flowers
• Jeanne Larsen, Silk Road
• Tanith Lee [I'm not sure why I keep bothering...]
  • Heart Beast
  • Kill the Dead
  • Sabella, or, the Blood Stone
• Ursula Le Guin
  • Lavinia
  • Malafrena
  • The Other Wind
  • Orisian Tales
  • Searoad
  • Tales of Earthsea
  • The Wind's Twelve Quarters
• Stina Leicht, Of Blood and Honey
• Jane Lindskold
  • Child of a Rainless Year
  • Legends Walking
  • Thirteen Orphans
• Kelly Link
  • Stranger Things Happen
  • Magic for Beginners
• Holly Lisle, Hawkspar
• Anne Lyle, The Alchemist of Souls
• Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
• Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • Dragon's Treasure
  • Watchtower
  • Dancers of Arun
  • The Northern Girl
• Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
• R. A. MacAvoy
  • The Belly of the Wolf
  • Damiano's Lute
  • Death and Resurrection
  • The Grey Horse
  • The Third Eagle
• Arthur Machen
• Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages
• Michael Marano, Dawn Song
• George R. R. Martin
  • A Dance with Dragons
  • Fevre Dream
• A. Lee Martinez, Monster
• Graham Masterton, A Terrible Beauty
• Anne McCaffery (ed.), Alchemy and Academe
• Robert McCammon, Swan Song
• Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
• Chandler McGrew, The Darkening
• Patricia McKillip
  • Harrowing the Dragon
  • Something Rich and Strange
  • The Throme of the Erril of Sherril [No, I don't know what that means, but it's McKillip!]
  • Wonders of the Invisible World
• Robin McKinley
  • Chalice
  • Dragonhaven
  • A Knot in the Grain
  • Pegasus
  • Spindle's End
• Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon
• George Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat
• Meyrink, The Golem
• China Mieville
  • The City and the City
  • Iron Council
  • King Rat
  • Kraken [Thanks to Henry Farrell for a copy]
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Scar
  • Un Lun Dun
• A. A. Milne, Once On a Time
• Christopher Moore
  • A Dirty Job
  • Fool
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
  • You Suck
  • Bite Me
• Alanna Morland
• Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
• William Morris
• James Morrow, Bible Stories for Adults
• Justine Musk
  • Lord of Bones
  • Uninvited
• Vera Nazarian
  • Lords of Rainbow
  • The Duke in his Castle
• Rachel Neumeier, House of Shadows
• Kim Newman
  • Bad Dreams
  • The Quorum
• Garth Nix
  • Lirael
  • Abhorsen
• Noriko Ogiwara, Dragon Sword and Wind Child
• Stewart O'Nan, The Night Country
• Rebecca Ore, Slow Funeral
• Michael Paine, The Night School
• Susan Palwick, The Necessary Beggar
• Alexei and Cory Panshin, Earth Magic
• Paul Park
  • The Tourmaline
  • The White Tyger
  • The Hidden World
• Holly Phillips
  • The Engine's Child
  • In the Palace of Repose
• Tom Piccirilli, The Night Class
• Meredith Anne Pierce
  • The Darkangel, Gathering of Gargoyles, The Pearl of the Soul of the World
  • The Firebringer, Dark Moon, The Son of Summer Stars
  • The Woman Who Loved Reindeer
• Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
• Tim Powers
  • The Anubis Gates
  • Earthquake Weather
  • Expiration Date
  • Last Call
  • On Stranger Tides
  • The Stress of Her Regard
  • Three Days to Never
• Terry Pratchett
  • Eric
  • The Last Continent
  • Moving Pictures
  • Wintersmith
• Tim Pratt
  • Little Gods
  • Spell Games
  • The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl [Recommended by David Moles]
• E. Hoffman Price
  • The Devil Wives of Li-Fong
  • The Jade Enchantress
• Cherie Priest
  • Bloodshot
  • Dreadful Skin
  • Fathom
  • Those Who Went Remain There Still
  • "Clockwork Centry" series
    1. Boneshaker
    2. Dreadnaught
  • "Eden Moore" series
    2. Wings to the Kingdom
    3. Not Flesh Nor Feathers
• Philip Pullman
  • The Amber Spyglass
  • Lyra's Oxford
• Rabkin, The Fantastic in Literature
• Cat Rambo, Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight
• Laura Resnick, Disappearing Nightly
• Kat Richardson, Seawitch
• Sile Rice, The Saxon Tapestry
• Phil Rickman
  • Chalice
  • Candlelight
  • To Dream of the Dead
• Madeline E. Robins, The Stone War
• Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
• Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
• Michelle Sagara/Michelle West/Michelle Sagara West
  • The Hidden City
  • Into the Dark Lands
  • Silence
  • The Sun Sword
    1. The Broken Crown
    2. The Uncrowned King
• Lilith Saintcrow, The Hedgewitch Queen
• Charles Saunders, Imaro II
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas
  • The Harem of Aman Akbar
  • The Healer's War
  • Last Refuge
  • Nothing Sacred
• Courtney Schafer, The Whitefire Crossing
• Darrell Schweitzer, The Shattered Goddess
• Ekaterina Sedia
  • The Alchemy of Stone
  • The Secret History of Moscow
• Michael Shea
  • Nifft the Lean and The Mines of Behomoth
  • Polyphemus
  • A Quest for Simbilis
  • Tomorrow's Men
• Delia Sherman, The Porcelain Dove
• Joseph Sherman
  • The Shining Falcon
  • The Horse of Flame
• Frances Sherwood, Book of Splendor
• Will Shetterly
  • Dogland
  • Gospel of the Knife
  • Nevernever
  • The Tangled Lands
• Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
  • Double Feature
  • (eds.) Liavek et seq.
• Michael Shevdon, Sixty-One Nails
• Susan Shwartz
  • (ed.) Arabesques
  • (ed.) Arabesques 2
  • Cross and Crescent
  • The Grail of Hearts
  • Silk Roads and Shadows
• Dan Simmons
  • Lovedeath
  • Summer of Night
• Clark Ashton Smith, A Rendezvous in Averoigne
• Midori Snyder
  • Beldan's Fire
  • Innamorati
  • New Moon
  • Sadar's Keep
• Alexandra Sokoloff
  • The Price
  • The Unseen
• William Browning Spencer
  • Irrational Fears
  • The Ocean and All Its Devices
  • Resume with Monsters
• Nancy Springer
  • Chance, and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fate
  • Fair Peril
  • Metal Angel
    1. The White Hart
    2. The Silver Sun
    3. The Sable Moon
    4. The Black Beast
• Brian Stableford, Curse of the Coral Bride
• Caroline Stevermer
  • A Scholar of Magics
  • The Serpent's Egg
  • and Patricia Wrede, Sorcery and Cecilia
  • and Patricia Wrede, The Grand Tour
• Sean Stewart
  • Galveston
  • Resurrection Man
• Peter Straub
  • Houses Without Doors
  • If You Could See Me Now
  • Julia
  • Magic Terror
• Matthew Sturges, Midwinter
• Steph Swainston, The Year of Our War
• Michael Swanwick
  • The Dragons of Babel
  • Jack Faust
• Sonya Taafe, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens
• Judith Tarr
  • A Wind in Cairo
  • Alamut
  • The Dagger and the Cross
  • Pillar of Fire
  • Arrows of the Sun
  • Spear of Heaven
• Doyce Testerman, Hidden Things
• Catherynne M. Valente
  • A Dirge for Prester John
    1. The Habitation of the Blessed
    2. The Folded World
  • Apocrypha
  • Deathless
  • 1. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
    2. The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
  • The Grass-Cutting Sword
  • A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
  • The Labyrinth
  • Oracles
  • The Orphan's Tales
    2. In the Cities of Coin and Spice
  • Palimpsest
  • This Is My Letter to the World
  • Under in the Mere
  • Ventriloquism
  • Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams
• Anne and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.)
  • The New Weird
  • Fast Ships, Black Sails
• Jeff VanderMeer
  • City of Saints and Madmen
  • Finch
  • Veniss Underground
• Sydney Van Scyoc, Drowntide
• Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show
• Evangeline Walton, Prince of Annwn
• Jo Walton
  • Among Others [Self-presentation]
  • Lifelode
  • Tooth and Claw
    Walton's version of the Matter of Britain:
    1. The King's Peace
    2. The King's Name
    3. The Prize in the Game
• Freda Warrington, Elfland
• Martha Wells, Emile and the Hollow World
• T. H. White, The Once and the Future King
• Conrad Williams
  • Decay Inevitable
  • Use Once, Then Destroy
  • The Unblemished
• Liz Williams
  • "Detective Inspector Chen" series [detective novels set in a mildly futuristic, franchised Singapore, where the traditional Chinese afterlife is is entirely real, and thoroughly integrated into the mundane bureaucracy.]
    • The Demon and the City
    • Precious Dragon
    • The Shadow Pavillion
  • Worldsoul
• Tad Williams
  • War of the Flowers
  • Shadowplay
• Walter Jon Williams, sequel to City on Fire, if and when it appears [I really don't like being left hanging like that]
• G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen
• Terri Windling, The Woodwife
• Carol Wolf, The Summoning
• Gene Wolfe
  • The Knight
  • The Wizard
• Jonathan Wood, No Hero
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbo
  • Ariosto
  • Blood Games
  • Sins of Omission
• Jane Yolen
  • Briar Rose
  • Dragon's Blood; Heart's Blood; A Sending of Dragons
  • Dragonfield
  • Except the Queen
  • Sister Light, Sister Dark
  • White Jenna
• Roger Zelanzy
  • A Dark Traveling
  • Unicorn Variations
• Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold, Donnerjack
• Sarah Zettel, Dust Girl
• Stephan Zielinski, Bad Magic