Tuesday 3 January 2012

Books of 2011

The Best 20 Books of 2011

A very subjective choice, fellow geeks who still like to waste their time wonderfully with printed words - keep an eye out for these.

1. Fiona McIntosh - The Quickening trilogy: Myrren's Gift, Blood and Memory, Bridge of Souls
2.Philip K. Dick - The Zap Gun
3. Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
4. John M. Ford - The Dragon Waiting
5. China Meville - Kraken
6. William Heaney - Memoirs of a Master Forger
7. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
8. Neal Asher - Orbus
9. Jack Vance - Lyonesse - Suldrun's Garden
10. Robert J. Sawyer - The WWW Trilogy: Wake, Watch, Wonder
11. Alan Campbell - Sea of Ghosts
12. Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
13. Iain M. Banks - Excession
14. Jack Vance - Tales of the Dying Earth : The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous)
15. Charles Stross - The Fuller Memorandum
16. Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail
17. Sophie Hannah - Lasting Damage
18. Naomi Novik - Empire of Ivory
19. G. W. Dahlquist - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
20. Robin Hobb - The Tawny Man Trilogy: Fool's Errand, The Golden Fool, Fool's Fate

Overall, a nice mixture of sf, fantasy and weird. Enjoy.

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