firecat can't resist a book list, very large number in a series

[firecat]

59 sff books by women and 1 by a man. Longish "back cover" descriptions of the books at the link, with spoilers, if you're a purist about spoilers (https://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2016/08/08/60-essential-science-fiction-fantasy-reads.html)

bold means I read it
strikethru means I didn't like it (but isn't a comment on the quality of the book in any objective sense. I dislike some classics).
!!! means I really liked it and recommend it

What do you recommend? What would you like to know about the ones I've read?

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop
Tithe by Holly Black
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Synners by Pat Cadigan
Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Survival by Julie E. Czerneda
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
King's Dragon by Kate Elliott
Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
Slow River by Nicola Griffith
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The God Stalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Valor's Choice by Tanya Huff
God's War by Kameron Hurley
!!! The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
!!! The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress (I read the short story, not the novel)
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
!!! Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ash by Malinda Lo
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
Legend by Marie Lu
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (!!! for the short story)
The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E. McKenna
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
The Grass King's Concubine by Kari Sperring
!!! The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
!!! Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

You didn't like The Snow Queen?

[firecat]

Nope, although I read it so long ago that I don't remember why I didn't like it.

[boxofdelights]

I am immensely fond of Frances Hardinge. Fly By Night hooked me good and hard, but it is definitely a children's book.

I would like to recommend Cloud Roads but first I need to know: what did you dislike about Foreigner?

[firecat]

Thanks for the recommendation!

I didn't care about the characters and wasn't in the mood to read about racism.

[pameladean]

I really loved Range of Ghosts. It's a unique (as far as I know) mixture of the domestic and the epic. Then again, I feel I should mention that some of the books you didn't like are among my favorites, so our tastes may not line up.

I didn't realize I was on the list. I missed that entry somehow. Wow.

P.

[firecat]

Thanks for the recommendation and calibration, and congratulations for making the list!