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)