The 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List is up, and we are honored to have several pieces of short fiction and a number of books included! Each year, the February issue of Locus Magazine features a reading list compiled through the consensus of Locus editors and reviewers, which results in a variety of titles to be added to your TBR pile. This year we are so pleased to have work from Tor authors including Charlie Jane Anders, Malka Older, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Kameron Hurley, and many more featured in the Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, and Non-Fiction categories. Click through for our full list of included works, and happy reading!
Novels – Science Fiction
- Company Town by Madeline Ashby
- False Hearts by Laura Lam
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- Faller by Will McIntosh
- Alien Morning by Rick Wilber
- Impersonations by Walter Jon Williams
- Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson
Novels – Fantasy
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- A Shadow of All Light by Fred Chappell
- Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone
- Eterna and Omega by Leanna Renee Hieber
- The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley
- Necessity by Jo Walton
- Cloudbound by Fran Wilde
Novels – Horror
- The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher
- Good Girls by Glen Hirshberg
- Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
Young Adult Books
- Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
First Novels
- Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis Chen
- The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
- Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine
- Infomocracy by Malka Older
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Non-Fiction
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
Novellas
- The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
- Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker
- A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
Novelettes
- “The Art of Space Travel” by Nina Allan
- “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” by P. Djeli Clark
- “Red as Blood and White as Bone” by Theodora Goss
- “The Night Cyclist” by Stephen Graham Jones
- “The Great Detective” by Delia Sherman
- “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” by Fran Wilde
Short Stories
- “The Story of Kao Yu” by Peter S. Beagle
- “The City Born Great” by N.K. Jemisin
- “Something Happened Here, but We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was” by Paul McAuley
- “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar
- “La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine
- “That Game We Played During the Way” by Carrie Vaughan
- “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong
- “Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left” by Fran Wilde
You can see the full list of recommended novels, short fiction, non-fiction, and art books on the Locus website.
