On Reactor, the on-line magazine run by the publishing company Tor, the frequent contributor Jo Walton was asked to put forward her ten favourite by genre. Here are some lists that X my reading habits, if almost none my favourites: to wit,
for series
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- Daniel Abraham — The Long Price Quartet (2006-9)
- Ben Aaronovich — Rivers of London (2011-ongoing) [agreed!]
- Lois McMaster Bujold —World of the Five Gods (2001-ongoing)
- Shelley Parker-Chan — Radiant Emperor (2021-23)
- Kate Elliott — The Sun Chronicles (2020-ongoing)
- N.K. Jemisin — The Broken Earth (2015-17) [missing in geophysics!]
- David Mitchell — The Thousand Autumns Series (2010-ongoing)
- Ada Palmer — Terra Ignota (2016-2021)
- Patrick Rothfuss — The Kingkiller Chronicle (2005-ongoing) [agreed!]
- Walter Jon Williams — Dread Empire’s Fall (2002-22)
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for fantasy
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- Susanna Clarke — Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004) [of course, top of the charts!]
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- John M. Ford — Aspects (2022)
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- Ann Leckie — The Raven Tower (2019)
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- Nisi Shawl — Everfair (2016)
and for science-fiction
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- Sue Burke — Semiosis (2018)
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- Cixin Liu— The Three-Body Problem (2014) [I could hardly complete the first volume…]
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- Susan Palwick — Shelter (2007)
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- Geoff Ryman — Air (2004)
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- Robert Charles Wilson — Spin (2005)
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missing, imho, e.g., Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, K.J. Parker’s Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, Martha Wells’ Murderbot series, Jaworski’s Gagner la Guerre, Anne Leckie’s Ancillary Justice series, Joe Abercrombie’s The Heroes, and some others. But since lists are personal, and always tantalizing to me, here is a potential reading list.
