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2016's not done yet, but reccing:
FSF:
The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, NK Jemisin: Fantasy. Far and away my best pick
All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders
Defying Doomsday (postapocalyptic short stories: disabled and sick people surviving the end of the world), ed Tsana Dolichva
The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood: Australian near-alternate-future. Won the Stella Prize
Company Town, Madeline Ashby
Every Heart a Doorway and Rise, Seanan McGuire and Mira Grant (who are the same person)
The Expanse series, James SA Corey: space opera
The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater: finale of a great YA fantasy series
Binti, Nnedi Okorafor
Vorkosigan books, Mirror Dance through Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (obviously I rec the whole series)
Romance and romance-adjacent:
Trade Me and Hold Me, Courtney Milan: contemporary US romance
The Year we Fell Down, Sarina Bowen: US college romance
Bronwyn Parry's Goodabri trilogy: Dead Heat, Storm Clouds, Sunset Shadows: Australian crime/romantic suspense
Level Up, Cathy Yardley: cute gamer romance
Heart of the Country and Dust on the Horizon, Tricia Stringer: historical saga around early farming in the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia
Other:
Skin Painting, Elizabeth Hodgson: Aboriginal memoir in verse
The Story of my Tits: graphic memoir
Giant Days: graphic novel, realistic YA
Home Cheese Making, Ricki Carroll: does what it says on the tin
My Sister Rosa: YA, maybe thriller? (not sure how to classify.) Realistic fiction
Sidekicks, Will Kostakis: realistic contemporary YA
Last edited by meeera; 12-16-2016 at 12:32 AM.
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