This is basically an ongoing recommendations page. “Champions of the Genre” are what I call books that I think represent the best of the what a genre can do.
♦ STILL UNDERGOING CONSTRUCTION ♦
ADULT:
|
Title |
Author | Themes/Subjects Tackled |
| City of Blades (The Divine Cities 2) | Robert Jackson Bennett | Middle-aged WoC|Warfare|PTSD |
| The Traitor Baru Cormorant | Seth Dickinson | Lesbian MC |Imperialism | Economics |
| The Realm of the Elderlings series | Robin Hobb | Depression|Loneliness | PTSD|Non-Binary character |Gay characters |
| The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | Oppression|PoC cast|Polyamory |
| The Bedlam Stacks | Natasha Pulley | |
| The Golem and the Jinni | Helen Wecker | |
| Borderline | Mishell Baker | BPD|Bisexual MC|Disabilities |
YOUNG ADULT:
– Finnickin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
– A Monter Calls by Patrick Ness
– His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
– The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
– The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
Pages Below the Vaulted Sky 