![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Books recs?
A couple months ago I was making noise about starting a local Dallas bookclub - had the blog up, the flyers made, the books picked out, and then it just kind of... fizzled. Curse you, winter months!
So, I'm giving it another go. Today I'm borrowing my sister and we'll go 'round and put the flyers up, next Sunday will be the first, get-to-know-you meeting. Excellent!
But it feels like the book list needs an overhaul. We'll discuss it at the meeting, I hope, but was wondering if any of y'all had suggestions (especially for books by non-western authors). The club will focus on Fantasy and Scifi that are female, queer, and CoC centric, the books need to be SFF that meet at least one (preferably more) of those criteria. Any ideas?
The current list:
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Fire Logic by Laurie J Marks*
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler*
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey*
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F Mchugh
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling*
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Books I'm thinking about swapping in include Liar (Justine Larbalestier), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie), and The Twelve Kingdoms, Volume 1: Sea of Shadow (Fuyumi Ono).
So, I'm giving it another go. Today I'm borrowing my sister and we'll go 'round and put the flyers up, next Sunday will be the first, get-to-know-you meeting. Excellent!
But it feels like the book list needs an overhaul. We'll discuss it at the meeting, I hope, but was wondering if any of y'all had suggestions (especially for books by non-western authors). The club will focus on Fantasy and Scifi that are female, queer, and CoC centric, the books need to be SFF that meet at least one (preferably more) of those criteria. Any ideas?
The current list:
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Fire Logic by Laurie J Marks*
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler*
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey*
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F Mchugh
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling*
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Books I'm thinking about swapping in include Liar (Justine Larbalestier), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie), and The Twelve Kingdoms, Volume 1: Sea of Shadow (Fuyumi Ono).
no subject
I really enjoyed both Kushiel's Dart and Bone Doll's Twin, and I'm about 40 pages through Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and really liking it so far. It reads kind of like Tanith Lee with +10 anti-imperialism added, and the world building's both original and interesting.
no subject
Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a great book. And if you've read Un Lun Dun (also very good), you can combine that awesome and read
no subject