I asked for book recommendations on the fediverse and oh my goodness got so many suggestions. I wanted to share the list of all that came up in case others want to dig into this stuff. I asked specifically for
- naturalist writing a la Muir or Abbey but about Alaska (I picked up Arctic Dreams but want more)
- time travel / multiverse stuff, like Sliding Doors etc
- great heists, fiction or non-
- fiction featuring non-traditional families (queer, poly, etc.)
- fantasy with really weird or different systems of magic, like Max Gladstone's Craft series
So most of this is falls into one of these themes, but also some stuff doesn't. I made this list quickly and sloppily, please forgive mispellings, missing author names, etc. Here's the list, sorted first by most common recs then alpha by title.
✔️ marks things I've already read myself (not much!)
💰 marks what I bought for myself (at first, I'll almost certainly be returning to this list later)
- 5x Broken Earth trilogy (N.K. Jesmin) ✔️
- 4x This Is How You Lose The Time War ✔️
- 3x Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikosvsky)
- 3x Coming Into The Country (John McPhee) 💰
- 3x Replay (Ken Grimwood)
- 2x Bobiverse series (Dennis E. Taylor)
- 2x Dark Tower series (King) ✔️
- 2x Mistborn series (Sanderson)
- 2x Moonbound (Robin Sloan)
- 2x The Feather Thief 💰
- 2x The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz) ✔️
- 2x The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur)
- 2x The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson)
- A Half-Built Garden (Ruthanna Emrys)
- Alif The Unseen
- All The Unseen (Michael Rutger)
- A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
- Anansi’s Gold
- Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
- Annals of the Former World (McPhee)
- Appleseed (Matt Bell)
- Babel by RF Kuang
- Books of Babel series (Josiah Bancroft)
- Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) ✔️
- Dark Matter
- Doors of Eden
- Draft No. 4 (McPhee)
- End of an Era (Robert Sawyer)
- Founders trilogy (Robert Jackson Bennett) 💰
- Gentlemen Bastards series (Scott Lynch)
- Gideon the Ninth
- Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
- Infinity Gate
- Let This Radicalize You (Mariame Kaba and Kelly Haye) 💰
- Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)
- Long Way To A Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers) 💰
- Mikeweed series
- Mr Penubra's 24-hour Book Store (Robin Sloan) ✔️
- Oranges (McPhee)
- Oxford Time Travel series (Connie Willis)
- Powder Mage series (Brian McClellan)
- Running Close To The Wind (Alex Rowland)
- Sourdough (Robin Sloan)
- Steerswoman series (Rosmary Kirstein) ✔️
- The All-Consuming World
- The Art Thief
- The Black God’s Drums
- The Cartographers
- The Control of Nature (McPhee)
- The Dog of the South (Charles Portis)
- The End of Y (Michael Rutger)
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Clair North)
- The Gardner Heist
- The Gods Are Bastards (DD Webb)
- The Gone World
- The Maid
- The Mountain In The Sea
- The Stack (Annika Norlin)
- The Time Ships (Stephen Baxter)
- Those Beyond the Wall (Micaiah Johnson)
- Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) ✔️
- Uncommon Carriers (McPhee)
- Vellum and Ink (Hal Duncan)
- Vlad Taltos series (Steven Brust)
What an incredible list! It’s always inspiring to see such enthusiasm for reading. For those diving into naturalist writing, I completely understand the love for Muir and Abbey, especially when it comes to the beauty of Alaska. Speaking of exploration, if you ever need help organizing your thoughts or crafting essays about these books, check out https://academized.com/cheap-research-paper writing service. They offer great assistance in refining your ideas and making them shine! As for the time travel and fantasy recommendations, I can't wait to see what everyone else suggests. This is going to be a fantastic reading adventure!