Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in.
It’s beyond me to narrow it down to a top ten list without additional criteria, so for this list I’ve excluded debuts, and tried to focus on authors I’ve either read more than one book from, or plan to very soon.
P. Djèlí Clark
Read: A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and Ring Shout. It’s impossible for me to say which of these I liked better. His Cairo setting blew me away and Ring Shout had me glued to my book.
Planning to read: The Night Doctors (short story), The Black God’s Drums, A Master of Djinn (so excited for this one)
N.K. Jemisin
Read: The Fifth Season, The City We Became, Emergency Skin. Favorite: The Fifth Season for sure, I see what all the hype was about and my Xmas pressie was books 2 and 3 from that series which I will continue asap
Planning to read: all her stuff tbh, but first finish The Broken Earth
Mary Robinette Kowal
Read: The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. These were two of my early favs last year and they moved me to tears
Planning to read: The Relentless Moon and the Glamourist Histories
Martha Wells
Read: MURDERBOT! Murderbot is wonderful, best bot that ever botted.
Planning to read: MOAR MUDERBOT! But also her Books of the Raksura and Ile-Rien series
Robert Jackson Bennet
Read: City of Stairs, instalove
Planning to read: Finish the Divine Cities trilogy, possibly Foundryside too.
Aliette de Bodard
Read: Of Dragons, Feasts of Murder – she’s on this list because even though I’ve only read a novella, I loved and I want to read all of her stuff
Planning to read: all of her stuff. I’ve got The House of Shattered Wings and In the Vanisher’s Palace on the immediate TBR, but I also want to read her Xuya books and the Fireheart Tiger one coming out this year
Jo Walton
Read: Tooth and Claw, instant favorite because dragons and historical fantasy YES
Planning to read: a bunch, though I haven’t prioritized them yet, most curious about the Hugos book atm
Yoon Ha Le
Read: Ninefox Gambit and Dragon Pearl. Loved the mix of spacey stuff with fantasy elements
Planning to read: finish Machineries of Empire and read Phoenix Extravagant
Justina Ireland
Read: Dread Nation duology and I loved it
Planning to read: Three for the Road: Stories from the World of Dread Nation, and plan to check out the rest of her stuff too because I loved her style
Mercedes Lackey
Read: Valdemar books – they were so lovely and fast-paced when I needed something comfy and easy to read
Planning to read: more Valdemar books
I also read P. Djeli Clark for the first time this year, and I’m excited to check out Mary Robinette Kowal:-)
I really want to read Tooth and Claw and I’m so excited for A Master of Djinn, too!
Fabulous list – I LOVE Jo Walton and recommend that you read Among Others very soon – I’d love to know what you think of it… And yes – The Relentless Moon is my favourite of the Robinson Kowal series, much as I absolutely loved the earlier two. I’m also planning to tuck into The Glamourist series this year, too. As for Jemisin – oh yes!! The Broken Earth series is fabulous, as is The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms… I haven’t yet got around to The City We Became. And I’ve also got A Dead Djinn in Cairo sitting on my TBR waiting to read as I haven’t read anything from this author, before… Best of luck with getting to these books:)).
There are so many good books! All this early year list making means I’ve been going round and round in circles trying to pick what to read for weeks. But I figure I’ll plan most of them into the new r/fantasy bingo that comes out next year, for February I’m sorted and March I’ll just … not sure what I’ll do in March … my plan fell apart quick
Yes… I agree with you! Sometimes we are so spoilt for choice we can get overwhelmed and overthink it a bit. But using a Bingo or challenge can help. I’m the ultimate mood reader, so I tend to avoid tying myself down quite so much. I hope you get March sorted out – but I tend not to know what I’m going to read in advance, other than my Netgalley arcs:)
MRK’s books were so good, and whenever I see a new tweet about something she’s doing with the SWFA I’m impressed.
Tooth and Claw was so much fun, unexpectedly cannibalistic, but great!