I was looking for something to read, so I asked on Facebook. My genre request: science fiction / speculative fiction / mystery. But no vampires, unicorns or heavy dystopian books, because I had a migraine. However, there is horror, darkness, and fantasy in this list. As well as some books that don’t fit these three genres.
Update!
Use this reading list to help you play Summer Book Bingo, a joint effort of Seattle Arts & Lectures and Seattle Public Library. Dates: May 23 through Labor Day; entries must be received by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. And you can tweet a picture of your completed entry (#BookBingoNW2016 @SeaArtsLectures @SPLBuzz)!
Because finding old FB posts is next to impossible, here are the recommendations, and I added some of my own to the thread.
(Links to Amazon; many are available on Overdrive from your library.)
Recommendations are suitable for jumpstarting reading lists, in general. Here’s the SPL Summer Book Bingo list:
- Author is SAL speaker
- Banned
- Collection of poetry
- Collection of short stories
- Cookbook or food memoir
- From your childhood
- Local author
- Memoir
- More than 100 years old
- Non-fiction
- Novel
- Out of your comfort zone
- Prize-winner
- Read outloud
- Recommended by a friend
- Recommended by a librarian
- Recommended by an independent bookstore
- Re-read
- Set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit
- Translated from another language
- You finish reading in a day
- You’ve been meaning to read
- Young adult
- #WeNeedDiverseBooks
Sci-Fi
A.C. Weisbecker
A.R. Kahler
- The Immortal Circus (book one of trilogy)
Arthur C. Clarke
Audrey Niffenegger
C.J. Cherryh
Charles Stross
- Laundry Files (series)
China Mieville
- Perdido Street Station (book one of series)
Chloe Neill
- Chicagoland Vampires (series)
Clive Barker
David Mitchell
- Bone Clocks (1) and Slade House (2)
- Cloud Atlas
Diana Gabaldon
- Outlander (book one of series)
Emily St. John Mandel
Erin Morgenstern
Ernest Cline
James S. A. Corey
- The Expanse (series)
Garth Nix
- Abhorsen Trilogy
- The Keys to the Kingdom (series)
Genevieve Valentine
Helene Wecker
James R. Wells (local)
Jim C. Hines
Kage Baker
Kate Atkinson
Kate Wilhelm (Northwest)
Ken Grimwood
Kristine Smith
- Jani Killian Chronicles (series)
Lois McMaster Bujold
- Vorkosigan Saga (series)
Martin Seay
Nisi Shawl (local)
Patrick Rothfuss
Ramez Naam
- Nexus (book one of series)
Robert A. Heinlein
Robin Sloan
Scott Meyer
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Sheri Tepper
Spider Robinson
Terry Pratchett
Tim Powers
- Last Call (book one of series)
- The Stress of Her Regard
Mystery
Brendan DuBois
Dorothy Sayers
J.K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith)
Janet Evanovich
Kate Wilhelm (Northwest)
Kris Nelscott
Toni McGee Causey
Other
Hunter Thompson
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (popular culture)
J. K. Rowling
Joe Hill
- 20th Century Ghosts (horror)
Liane Moriarty
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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