Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Outrageous Things I’ve Done for the Love of Books’ and it’s a topic I really struggled with because the most outrageous thing I’ve done is stay up too late to finish a book.
This fortnight’s Booktube SFF Awards Babbles topic, though, is ‘Great own voices SFF’, so that’s what I’m going to talk about today!
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse: Urban Fantasy is a genre full of tropes, so this First Nations-inspired novel is such a breath of fresh air. It’s dark and gritty, and so worth reading.
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: I will sing Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s praises at every opportunity, and this vampire noir novel set in Mexico City is such an underrated book. If you’ve been looking for an original vampire novel, this is it!
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin: Pretty much all of the characters in this amazing trilogy are people of colour. It’s so diverse and fantastic and one of the best fantasy trilogies ever.
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland: The best way to get me interested in the American Civil War is to include badass zombie slayers. I really enjoyed this novel, and I can’t wait for the next book!
The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj: Sadly I didn’t love this novella as much as I’d hoped I would, but it was so refreshing to encounter a setting in sci-fi that was founded by a South Asian community.
The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig: Considering I’m such a history nerd I don’t read much stories involving time travel, but I really enjoyed this novel starring a mixed race heroine written by a mixed race author. It’s about time I read the sequel!
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers: This is my favourite sci-fi novel, and the f/f romance was such a pleasant, joyous surprise.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik: One of my favourite things about this gorgeous novel was the focus on Miryem’s Jewish faith and culture. It was written so tenderly and affectionately, and made me realise how few books I’ve read involving Jewish characters that don’t also involve the Second World War.
Miranda in Milan by Katharine Duckett: Another wonderful story with a queer heroine from an own voices author. I knew I’d enjoy this novella, but I ended up loving it so much more than I’d expected to!
Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and various artists: I haven’t kept up with this series, sadly, just because graphic novels are pretty expensive, but I loved reading about a Muslim a teenager written by a Muslim author.
I haven’t read Heidi’s pirate-y book, but do remember when it came out how fun I thought it sounded! I also have it on my shelf, so I should pick it up. One of these days. 😉
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Ah yes The fifth Season, The Long Way, Spinning Silver and Ms. Marvel are all so great. And I really enjoyed The Girl from Everywhere as well. 😀 I need to get Trial of Lightining at some point. 🙂
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I really liked Dread Nation. Horror and historical fiction are 2 of my favorite genres.
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You have so many great ones on your list! 🙂
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Great post Jess! I haven’t read any of these, but now I’m interested in them 😊 The Girl From Everywhere sounds like it will be amazing because I love historical fiction!
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Trail of Lightning is on my list, and I’ve heard a ton of good things. Long Way to A Small Angry Planet is one of my favorite books too- i just love it.
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I haven’t read these yet, but so many are on my TBR like Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Spinning Silver and The Fifth Season!
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I loved Dread Nation and Spinning Silver! A lot of the others are on my TBR.
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Ms. Marvel comics sound great. I should check them out.
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You would think, since about 85% of the books I read are SFF, that I would have read some of these, but no. Not yet. It’s amazing how many books there are out there.
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I’m in completely the same boat. I’m not outrageous. I am perfectly sensible. I might sometimes stay up until the wee hours to read, might have gone to an author thing or a release party, but eh.
I am slowly making progress through Wayfarers and I’m totally in love with it. I have a few of these others on my TBR, so very excited to see them again here 🙂
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Dread Nation is one of my favorites. I’m so glad to see it on your list!
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The covers to these books are amazing! Great list!
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I really need to read Dread Nation sometime.
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Ooh I really enjoyed The Girl From Everywhere, though I also still need to read the sequel!
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Tbh I never felt like it needed a sequel, which is probably why I still haven’t read it, but I do still want to!
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I mean fair, it did seem quite nicely wrapped up in the first book. I’d just like to see more of Nix.
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about The Fifth Season.
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It’s amazing, I definitely recommend checking it out!
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I have heard great things about these books, but I’m yet to read them! #fail
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I recommend all of them! 😉
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Great post Jess! I enjoyed The Girl from Everywhere, but I haven’t read the sequel, and I still *really* need to finish The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet! I also want to get to Trail of Lightning at some point in the next few months, as it sounds amazing!
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is amazing and Trail of Lightning is such a fresh addition to the urban fantasy genre! I hope you enjoy them both. 😀
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