Sirens 2013 Reading List
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jinianFrom oyceter, with multiple typos fixed.
Books read are bolded,books started and never finished are italicized. (I'm not saying I never do that, but it sure doesn't warrant a text style.) Apparently I already pass everything but the basic requirements pretty excessively. This happens a lot.
Required
Johnson, Alaya Dawn: Racing the Dark AND Moonshine
Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer AND The Fall of the Kings
LaFevers, Robin: Grave Mercy
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Summer of the Mariposas
Two of the following (warriors)
Bell, Hilari: Fall of a Kingdom
Britain, Kristen: The Green Rider
Carson, Rae: Girl of Fire and Thorns
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling (awesome)
Chadda, Sarwat: Devil’s Kiss (annoying)
Chima, Cinda Williams: The Demon King
Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones (boring)
Cremer, Andrea: Nightshade
Gaughen, A. C.: Scarlet
Goodman, Alison: Eon (love/problems)
Healey, Karen: Guardian of the Dead (mostly love)
Kushner, Ellen: The Privilege of the Sword (ALL THE LOVE)
Lackey, Mercedes: Any Valdemar book (possibly all of them)
Maas, Sarah J.: Throne of Glass
Marchetta, Melina: Finnikin of the Rock (so great)
Pierce, Tamora: The Song of the Lioness OR Lady Knight OR Terrier (all the Pierce! only there's something really wrong with Bloodhound)
Oliver, Jana G.: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter
Roth, Veronica: Divergent
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel OR Coronets and Steel (adore the first; can't stand the protagonist of the second)
Vande Velde, Vivian: Heir Apparent
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
Two of the following (faeries)
Anderson, R. J.: Knife
Black, Holly: Tithe (meh)
Black, Jenna: Glimmerglass
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come (interesting/meh)
Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks (love!)
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin (BEST)
Dolamore, Jaclyn: Magic under Glass
Hamilton, Laurell K.: A Kiss of Shadows (I will only read these at other people's houses)
Jones, Diana Wynne: Fire and Hemlock (receptor got!)
Lindholm, Megan (w/ Brust, Steven): The Gypsy (no remaining impression; reread this?)
Livingston, Lesley: Wondrous Strange
Marr, Melissa: Wicked Lovely
Marillier, Juliet: Wildwood Dancing (good)
McGuire, Seanan: Rosemary and Rue (good series)
Melling, O. R.: The Hunter’s Moon
Mirrlees, Hope: Lud-in-the-Mist
Pope, Elizabeth: Perilous Gard (fine)
Sherman, Delia: Changeling (liked but not into the sequel)
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie (excellent series so far)
Tomlinson, Heather: Aurelie
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: Kingdoms of Elfin (whoa, why not? find this!)
Windling, Terri (w/ Datlow, Ellen): The Faerie Reel
Two of the following (monsters)
Billingsley, Franny: Chime (yay)
Blake, Kendare: Anna Dressed in Blood
Bronte, Charlotte OR Rhys, Jean: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Carriger, Gail: Soulless (amusing series)
Clement-Moore, Rosemary: Prom Dates from Hell (actually pretty great)
Compestine, Ying Chang: A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
de la Cruz, Melissa: Blue Bloods
Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
Grant, Mira: Feed (awesome series)
Halam, Ann: Dr. Franklin’s Island (Ann Halam wants to kill you with depression)
Harris, Charlaine: Dead until Dark (I like all Harris except these incredibly popular ones)
Hodkin, Michelle: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Jenkins, A. M.: Repossessed
Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
Larbalestier, Justine: Liar (amazing)
Link, Kelly: Pretty Monsters
Meyer, Stephenie: Twilight
Murphy, Pat AND Padgett, Lewis: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death (grim but good)
Peterfreund, Diana: Rampant (badass girls fight mean unicorns!!1!)
Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet OR Slice of Cherry
Ryan, Carrie: The Forest of Hands and Teeth (good zombies, sequels lose something)
Scheckley, Alisa: The Better to Hold You
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal (Tantalize was way better)
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver (boring)
Taylor, Laini: Lips Touch: Three Times
Whedon, Joss and Jeanty, Georges: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol. 1)
Yovanoff, Brenna: The Space Between
Two of the following (retold tales)
Anderson, Jodi Lynn: Tiger Lily
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
Barnhouse, Rebecca: Peaceweaver
Bernheimer, Kate: Any Gold sister book
Black, Holly: White Cat (amazing)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Mists of Avalon
Block, Francesca Lia: Roses and Bones
Bunce, Elizabeth C.: A Curse Dark as Gold
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber (fuck yeah Angela Carter)
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games (great)
Cross, Sarah: Kill Me Softly
Diemer, Sarah: The Dark Wife
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
Donoghue, Emma: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Durst, Sarah Beth: Into the Wild OR Ice
Flinn, Alex: Beastly OR A Kiss in Time OR Cloaked
George, Jessica Day: Princess of Glass OR Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Hale, Shannon: The Goose Girl OR Book of a Thousand Days OR Rapunzel’s Revenge (books about girls yes please.)
Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber OR Brown Girl in the Ring
Johnson, Kij: The Fox Woman (I like Fudoki even better)
Kerr, Peg: The Wild Swans
Kontis, Alethea: Enchanted
Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels (great/problematic)
Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted (hearts)
Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon OR Starry River of the Sky
Lo, Malinda: Ash (next one's better)
Lord, Karen: Redemption in Indigo (great)
Mantchev, Lisa: Eyes Like Stars (complex relationship with Shakepeareanism goes here)
Marillier, Juliet: Heart’s Blood
McKillip, Patricia: In the Forests of Serre OR The Cygnet and the Firebird (books by McKillip yes please.)
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin OR Rose Daughter OR Spindle’s End OR Beauty (ALL the McKinley)
Napoli, Donna Jo: Bound
Nyoka, Gail: Mella and the N’anga: An African Tale
Obrecht, Tea: The Tiger’s Wife
Oyeyemi, Helen: Mr. Fox (nifty/frustrating)
Pattou, Edith: East
Pearce, Jackson: Sisters Red OR Sweetly
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Reilly, LeAnn Neal: The Mermaid’s Pendant
Satrapi, Marjane: The Sigh
Sedia, Ekaterina: The Secret History of Moscow
Simner, Janni Lee: Thief Eyes (good)
Springer, Nancy: I Am Morgan le Fay
Tacheuchi, Naoko: Sailor Moon Vol. 1
Tomlinson, Heather: The Swan Maiden OR Toads and Diamonds
Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
Ursu, Anne (w/ Erin McGuire): Breadcrumbs
Valente, Catherynne: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (what is this OR crap)
Vande Velde, Vivian: The Book of Mordred
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything Arthurian (kinda bounced off these, sorry)
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Briar Rose OR Snow in Summer
Three of the following (this is obviously a racial diversity section, why so coy?)
Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City (very interesting)
Blackman, Malorie: Naughts and Crosses
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Conch Bearer
Enchi, Fumiko: Masks
Fagan, Deva: The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
Goto, Hiromi: Half World (enjoyed with misgivings)
Hairston, Andrea: Redwood and Wildfire
Hamilton, Virginia: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Hopkinson, Nalo: The Chaos
Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (great)
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Meminger, Neesha: Into the Wise Dark
Ogiwara, Noriko: Dragon Sword and Wind Child
Okorafor, Nnedi: Akata Witch (liked)
Ono, Fuyumi: The Twelve Kingdoms Vol. 1: Sea of Shadow
Parra, Kelly: Invisible Touch
Pon, Cindy: Silver Phoenix (enjoyed/massive problems)
Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Ninth Ward
Suma, Nova Ren: Imaginary Girls
Uehashi, Nahoko: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (awesome warrior woman)
West, Michelle: Anything (bounced off Sun Sword, read an Elantra one, not bad but still laughing at the srs people with lion heads)
Four of the following (YA section?)
Anderson, R. J.: Ultraviolet
Armstrong, Kelly: The Summoning
Berry, Julie: The Amaranth Enchantment
Bow, Erin: Plain Kate
Bracken, Alexandra: Brightly Woven
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens (surprisingly excellent)
Briceland, V.: The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Bunce, Elizabeth: Star Crossed
Burgis, Stephanie: Kat, Incorrigible
Cashore, Kristin: Fire OR Bitterblue (love Cashore)
Chima, Cinda Williams: Warrior Heir
Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising (didn't love it)
Cypess, Leah: Mistwood (kinda did love it)
Derting, Kimberly: The Body Finder
Duey, Kathleen: Skin Hunger (zomg)
Durst, Sarah Beth: Vessel
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron (worst gimmick ever)
Flewelling, Lynn: Anything
George, Jessica Day: Tuesdays at the Castle
Hale, Ginn: Wicked Gentlemen
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina (WORLDS OF YES)
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: Anything fantasy (ALL THE HOFFMAN)
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything (most the Jones)
Jones, Jaida and Bennett, Elizabeth: Havemercy (Bechdel fail)
Kittredge, Caitlin: The Iron Thorn
Knox, Elizabeth: Dreamhunter (good if it didn't Thirteenth-Child the Maori)
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
McEntire, Myra: Hourglass
McKillip, Patricia: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Pierce, Tamora: Trickster’s Choice OR The Will of the Empress (finally openly queer in the latter, yay)
Prineas, Sarah: Winterling
Rees Brennan, Sarah: Unspoken (good, no proper ending)
Reese, Jenn: Above World
Rubino-Bradway, Caitlen: Ordinary Magic
Schwab, Victoria: The Near Witch
Sherman, Delia: The Freedom Maze (excellent)
Smith, Sherwood: The Spy Princess
Spotswood, Jessica: Born Wicked
Stiefvater, Maggie: The Scorpio Races OR The Raven Boys
Stevermer, Caroline: A College of Magics (love love love)
Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Thompson, Kate: The New Policeman
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Weingarten, Lynn: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers (actually pretty great)
Whalen Turner, Megan: The Thief (awesome)
White, Kiersen: Paranormalcy
Wilce, Ysabeau: Flora Segunda (awesome)
Yolen, Jane: Anything
Four of the following (no theme detected)
Allen, Sarah Addison: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Andrews, Ilona: Magic Bites (good series)
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale (grad school!)
Bear, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Berg, Carol: The Soul Mirror
Bernobich, Beth: Passion Play
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book (surely they mean "all")
Carey, Jacqueline: Kushiel’s Dart (this trilogy good, laters boring)
Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Daniells, Rowena Cory: Anything
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (overwritten but not bad)
de la Cruz, Melissa: Witches of East End
Elliott, Kate: Cold Magic (yay)
Freeman, Pamela: Blood Ties
Friedman, C. S., Black Sun Rising (used to love these)
Gilman, Greer: Anything
Hamilton, Laurell: Anything
Hand, Elizabeth: Anything
Harris, Joanne: Rusemarks
Hobb, Robin: Anything (enjoying the dragon exploration ones, would like a plot arc though please)
Jones, Tamara Siler: Ghosts in the Snow
Katsu, Alma: The Taker
Kerr, Katharine: Daggerspell OR Darkspell (not interested)
Kiernan, Caitlin R.: The Red Tree (aaahhhh)
Lackey, Mercedes: Anything
Lee, Tanith: Any adult book
Le Guin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea (well of course)
Marks, Laurie J.: Fire Logic (ALL)
McCaffrey, Anne: Any Dragonriders of Pern book (but not Todd McCaffrey kthx)
Moon, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Moore, C.L.: Jirel of Joiry
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Neumeier, Rachel: House of Shadows
Novik, Naomi: His Majesty’s Dragon
Paxson, Diana: Anything (I am counting all those Sword and Sorceress stories)
Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker (these are pretty great)
Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
Riley, Judith Merkle: The Oracle Glass (so great!)
Sedia, Ekaterina: Alchemy of Stone (amazing)
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study (read this, skip the rest)
Snyder, Midori: Soulstring OR New Moon
Valente, Catherynne: Palimpsest
Whitfield, Kit: In Great Waters
Wisoker, Leona: Secrets of the Sands
Optional: One of the following (I am hurt that all SF is optional)
Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue
Kagan, Janet: Hellspark (READ THIS NOW)
Bujold, Lois McMcaster: Curse of Chalion
Butler, Octavia: Anything (how is THIS optional)
Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
May, Julian: Anything
Norton, Andre: Anything
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: Anything
Russ, Joanna: The Female Man
Tiptree, Jr., James: Anything (you mean ALL)
Willis, Connie: The Doomsday Book
oyceter, with multiple typos fixed. Books read are bolded,
Required
Johnson, Alaya Dawn: Racing the Dark AND Moonshine
Kushner, Ellen: Thomas the Rhymer AND The Fall of the Kings
LaFevers, Robin: Grave Mercy
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia: Summer of the Mariposas
Two of the following (warriors)
Bell, Hilari: Fall of a Kingdom
Britain, Kristen: The Green Rider
Carson, Rae: Girl of Fire and Thorns
Cashore, Kristin: Graceling (awesome)
Chadda, Sarwat: Devil’s Kiss (annoying)
Chima, Cinda Williams: The Demon King
Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones (boring)
Cremer, Andrea: Nightshade
Gaughen, A. C.: Scarlet
Goodman, Alison: Eon (love/problems)
Healey, Karen: Guardian of the Dead (mostly love)
Kushner, Ellen: The Privilege of the Sword (ALL THE LOVE)
Lackey, Mercedes: Any Valdemar book (possibly all of them)
Maas, Sarah J.: Throne of Glass
Marchetta, Melina: Finnikin of the Rock (so great)
Pierce, Tamora: The Song of the Lioness OR Lady Knight OR Terrier (all the Pierce! only there's something really wrong with Bloodhound)
Oliver, Jana G.: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter
Roth, Veronica: Divergent
Smith, Sherwood: Crown Duel OR Coronets and Steel (adore the first; can't stand the protagonist of the second)
Vande Velde, Vivian: Heir Apparent
Young, Moira: Blood Red Road
Two of the following (faeries)
Anderson, R. J.: Knife
Black, Holly: Tithe (meh)
Black, Jenna: Glimmerglass
Brennan, Marie: Midnight Never Come (interesting/meh)
Bull, Emma: War for the Oaks (love!)
Dean, Pamela: Tam Lin (BEST)
Dolamore, Jaclyn: Magic under Glass
Hamilton, Laurell K.: A Kiss of Shadows (I will only read these at other people's houses)
Jones, Diana Wynne: Fire and Hemlock (receptor got!)
Lindholm, Megan (w/ Brust, Steven): The Gypsy (no remaining impression; reread this?)
Livingston, Lesley: Wondrous Strange
Marr, Melissa: Wicked Lovely
Marillier, Juliet: Wildwood Dancing (good)
McGuire, Seanan: Rosemary and Rue (good series)
Melling, O. R.: The Hunter’s Moon
Mirrlees, Hope: Lud-in-the-Mist
Pope, Elizabeth: Perilous Gard (fine)
Sherman, Delia: Changeling (liked but not into the sequel)
Simner, Janni Lee: Bones of Faerie (excellent series so far)
Tomlinson, Heather: Aurelie
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: Kingdoms of Elfin (whoa, why not? find this!)
Windling, Terri (w/ Datlow, Ellen): The Faerie Reel
Two of the following (monsters)
Billingsley, Franny: Chime (yay)
Blake, Kendare: Anna Dressed in Blood
Bronte, Charlotte OR Rhys, Jean: Jane Eyre OR Wide Sargasso Sea
Carriger, Gail: Soulless (amusing series)
Clement-Moore, Rosemary: Prom Dates from Hell (actually pretty great)
Compestine, Ying Chang: A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales
de la Cruz, Melissa: Blue Bloods
Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
Grant, Mira: Feed (awesome series)
Halam, Ann: Dr. Franklin’s Island (Ann Halam wants to kill you with depression)
Harris, Charlaine: Dead until Dark (I like all Harris except these incredibly popular ones)
Hodkin, Michelle: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Jenkins, A. M.: Repossessed
Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian
Larbalestier, Justine: Liar (amazing)
Link, Kelly: Pretty Monsters
Meyer, Stephenie: Twilight
Murphy, Pat AND Padgett, Lewis: His Vegetable Wife AND Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Okorafor, Nnedi: Who Fears Death (grim but good)
Peterfreund, Diana: Rampant (badass girls fight mean unicorns!!1!)
Reeves, Dia: Bleeding Violet OR Slice of Cherry
Ryan, Carrie: The Forest of Hands and Teeth (good zombies, sequels lose something)
Scheckley, Alisa: The Better to Hold You
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Smith, Cynthia Leitich: Eternal (Tantalize was way better)
Stiefvater, Maggie: Shiver (boring)
Taylor, Laini: Lips Touch: Three Times
Whedon, Joss and Jeanty, Georges: The Long Way Home (Buffy, Season 8, Vol. 1)
Yovanoff, Brenna: The Space Between
Two of the following (retold tales)
Anderson, Jodi Lynn: Tiger Lily
Atwood, Margaret: The Robber Bride
Barnhouse, Rebecca: Peaceweaver
Bernheimer, Kate: Any Gold sister book
Black, Holly: White Cat (amazing)
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Mists of Avalon
Block, Francesca Lia: Roses and Bones
Bunce, Elizabeth C.: A Curse Dark as Gold
Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber (fuck yeah Angela Carter)
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games (great)
Cross, Sarah: Kill Me Softly
Diemer, Sarah: The Dark Wife
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: Palace of Illusions
Donoghue, Emma: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
Durst, Sarah Beth: Into the Wild OR Ice
Flinn, Alex: Beastly OR A Kiss in Time OR Cloaked
George, Jessica Day: Princess of Glass OR Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Hale, Shannon: The Goose Girl OR Book of a Thousand Days OR Rapunzel’s Revenge (books about girls yes please.)
Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber OR Brown Girl in the Ring
Johnson, Kij: The Fox Woman (I like Fudoki even better)
Kerr, Peg: The Wild Swans
Kontis, Alethea: Enchanted
Lanagan, Margo: Tender Morsels (great/problematic)
Levine, Gail Carson: Ella Enchanted (hearts)
Lin, Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon OR Starry River of the Sky
Lo, Malinda: Ash (next one's better)
Lord, Karen: Redemption in Indigo (great)
Mantchev, Lisa: Eyes Like Stars (complex relationship with Shakepeareanism goes here)
Marillier, Juliet: Heart’s Blood
McKillip, Patricia: In the Forests of Serre OR The Cygnet and the Firebird (books by McKillip yes please.)
McKinley, Robin: Deerskin OR Rose Daughter OR Spindle’s End OR Beauty (ALL the McKinley)
Napoli, Donna Jo: Bound
Nyoka, Gail: Mella and the N’anga: An African Tale
Obrecht, Tea: The Tiger’s Wife
Oyeyemi, Helen: Mr. Fox (nifty/frustrating)
Pattou, Edith: East
Pearce, Jackson: Sisters Red OR Sweetly
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Reilly, LeAnn Neal: The Mermaid’s Pendant
Satrapi, Marjane: The Sigh
Sedia, Ekaterina: The Secret History of Moscow
Simner, Janni Lee: Thief Eyes (good)
Springer, Nancy: I Am Morgan le Fay
Tacheuchi, Naoko: Sailor Moon Vol. 1
Tomlinson, Heather: The Swan Maiden OR Toads and Diamonds
Turgeon, Carolyn: Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale
Ursu, Anne (w/ Erin McGuire): Breadcrumbs
Valente, Catherynne: Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden OR Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (what is this OR crap)
Vande Velde, Vivian: The Book of Mordred
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything Arthurian (kinda bounced off these, sorry)
Wrede, Patricia C.: Snow White and Rose Red
Yolen, Jane: Briar Rose OR Snow in Summer
Three of the following (this is obviously a racial diversity section, why so coy?)
Beukes, Lauren: Zoo City (very interesting)
Blackman, Malorie: Naughts and Crosses
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee: The Conch Bearer
Enchi, Fumiko: Masks
Fagan, Deva: The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People
Goto, Hiromi: Half World (enjoyed with misgivings)
Hairston, Andrea: Redwood and Wildfire
Hamilton, Virginia: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Hopkinson, Nalo: The Chaos
Jemisin, N. K.: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (great)
Lowachee, Karin: The Gaslight Dogs
Meminger, Neesha: Into the Wise Dark
Ogiwara, Noriko: Dragon Sword and Wind Child
Okorafor, Nnedi: Akata Witch (liked)
Ono, Fuyumi: The Twelve Kingdoms Vol. 1: Sea of Shadow
Parra, Kelly: Invisible Touch
Pon, Cindy: Silver Phoenix (enjoyed/massive problems)
Rhodes, Jewell Parker: Ninth Ward
Suma, Nova Ren: Imaginary Girls
Uehashi, Nahoko: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (awesome warrior woman)
West, Michelle: Anything (bounced off Sun Sword, read an Elantra one, not bad but still laughing at the srs people with lion heads)
Four of the following (YA section?)
Anderson, R. J.: Ultraviolet
Armstrong, Kelly: The Summoning
Berry, Julie: The Amaranth Enchantment
Bow, Erin: Plain Kate
Bracken, Alexandra: Brightly Woven
Bray, Libba: Beauty Queens (surprisingly excellent)
Briceland, V.: The Glassmaker’s Daughter
Bunce, Elizabeth: Star Crossed
Burgis, Stephanie: Kat, Incorrigible
Cashore, Kristin: Fire OR Bitterblue (love Cashore)
Chima, Cinda Williams: Warrior Heir
Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising (didn't love it)
Cypess, Leah: Mistwood (kinda did love it)
Derting, Kimberly: The Body Finder
Duey, Kathleen: Skin Hunger (zomg)
Durst, Sarah Beth: Vessel
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
Fisher, Catherine: Incarceron (worst gimmick ever)
Flewelling, Lynn: Anything
George, Jessica Day: Tuesdays at the Castle
Hale, Ginn: Wicked Gentlemen
Hartman, Rachel: Seraphina (WORLDS OF YES)
Hoffman, Alice: Green Witch
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki: Anything fantasy (ALL THE HOFFMAN)
Jones, Diana Wynne: Anything (most the Jones)
Jones, Jaida and Bennett, Elizabeth: Havemercy (Bechdel fail)
Kittredge, Caitlin: The Iron Thorn
Knox, Elizabeth: Dreamhunter (good if it didn't Thirteenth-Child the Maori)
Lanagan, Margo: The Brides of Rollrock Island
McEntire, Myra: Hourglass
McKillip, Patricia: Ombria in Shadow OR The Alphabet of Thorn
Pierce, Tamora: Trickster’s Choice OR The Will of the Empress (finally openly queer in the latter, yay)
Prineas, Sarah: Winterling
Rees Brennan, Sarah: Unspoken (good, no proper ending)
Reese, Jenn: Above World
Rubino-Bradway, Caitlen: Ordinary Magic
Schwab, Victoria: The Near Witch
Sherman, Delia: The Freedom Maze (excellent)
Smith, Sherwood: The Spy Princess
Spotswood, Jessica: Born Wicked
Stiefvater, Maggie: The Scorpio Races OR The Raven Boys
Stevermer, Caroline: A College of Magics (love love love)
Taylor, Laini: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Thompson, Kate: The New Policeman
Wein, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Weingarten, Lynn: The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers (actually pretty great)
Whalen Turner, Megan: The Thief (awesome)
White, Kiersen: Paranormalcy
Wilce, Ysabeau: Flora Segunda (awesome)
Yolen, Jane: Anything
Four of the following (no theme detected)
Allen, Sarah Addison: The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Andrews, Ilona: Magic Bites (good series)
Atwood, Margaret: The Handmaid’s Tale (grad school!)
Bear, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Berg, Carol: The Soul Mirror
Bernobich, Beth: Passion Play
Bradley, Marion Zimmer: Any Darkover book (surely they mean "all")
Carey, Jacqueline: Kushiel’s Dart (this trilogy good, laters boring)
Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Daniells, Rowena Cory: Anything
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia: The Ill-Made Mute (overwritten but not bad)
de la Cruz, Melissa: Witches of East End
Elliott, Kate: Cold Magic (yay)
Freeman, Pamela: Blood Ties
Friedman, C. S., Black Sun Rising (used to love these)
Gilman, Greer: Anything
Hamilton, Laurell: Anything
Hand, Elizabeth: Anything
Harris, Joanne: Rusemarks
Hobb, Robin: Anything (enjoying the dragon exploration ones, would like a plot arc though please)
Jones, Tamara Siler: Ghosts in the Snow
Katsu, Alma: The Taker
Kerr, Katharine: Daggerspell OR Darkspell (not interested)
Kiernan, Caitlin R.: The Red Tree (aaahhhh)
Lackey, Mercedes: Anything
Lee, Tanith: Any adult book
Le Guin, Ursula: A Wizard of Earthsea (well of course)
Marks, Laurie J.: Fire Logic (ALL)
McCaffrey, Anne: Any Dragonriders of Pern book (but not Todd McCaffrey kthx)
Moon, Elizabeth: Anything fantasy
Moore, C.L.: Jirel of Joiry
Morganstern, Erin: The Night Circus
Neumeier, Rachel: House of Shadows
Novik, Naomi: His Majesty’s Dragon
Paxson, Diana: Anything (I am counting all those Sword and Sorceress stories)
Priest, Cherie: Boneshaker (these are pretty great)
Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
Riley, Judith Merkle: The Oracle Glass (so great!)
Sedia, Ekaterina: Alchemy of Stone (amazing)
Snyder, Maria V.: Poison Study (read this, skip the rest)
Snyder, Midori: Soulstring OR New Moon
Valente, Catherynne: Palimpsest
Whitfield, Kit: In Great Waters
Wisoker, Leona: Secrets of the Sands
Optional: One of the following (I am hurt that all SF is optional)
Elgin, Suzette Haden: Native Tongue
Kagan, Janet: Hellspark (READ THIS NOW)
Bujold, Lois McMcaster: Curse of Chalion
Butler, Octavia: Anything (how is THIS optional)
Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness
May, Julian: Anything
Norton, Andre: Anything
Rusch, Kristine Kathryn: Anything
Russ, Joanna: The Female Man
Tiptree, Jr., James: Anything (you mean ALL)
Willis, Connie: The Doomsday Book
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Date: 2012-10-19 07:12 pm (UTC)I think you would like Breadcrumbs, which is a wonderful "Snow Queen" retelling, and probably Kat, Incorrigible (which is middle-grade and frothy but really charming).
I was just rereading this again, and I find that I wish they'd put Inda with the other Sherwood Smiths on the warriors list; I think it's a much more interesting choice because of how she handles gender roles in war (men are offense, women are defense).