Book Recommendations

[lillibet]

I've just spent a couple of hours scrolling through this post on Charles Stross' blog, getting book recommendations from answers to his question of what's the most important novel of the past ten years (given his audience, there's a strong SF bent to the answers). He followed up with this post, narrowing the field to eliminate men

Comments

[jelazakazone]

Interesting that so many of the recommendations are books by men. The last book I read by a man was in March! In fact, only 3 of the 19 books I've read this year are by men.

I think Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks should be on that list. That's on my top 10 of best books ever read.

[jelazakazone]

My favorite sf novels are written by a married pair. I was wondering what he makes of that.

Is this list of books supposed to be just sf/fantasy? I thought it covered all genres.

[lillibet]

I don't think it was supposed to be just SF/F, but the results were skewed by his readership's taste.

[whitebird]

I seem to have a somewhat skewed shelf of SF/F books, in regards to proportion of male to female authors. (In that I have a pretty good selection of female authors.) I got to about comment 100 or so of the second post, and I still hadn't seen a lot of authors that I have mentioned at all. (Although Stross did mention S. L. Viehl, so that was nice.)