Book Recommendations

Books I’ve read, finished, and recommend.

My tastes lean very strongly towards SFF and towards more literary writing styles over simpler contemporary prose. I don’t distinguish individual books versus a series on this list, but I do keep books in the same series read in the same year adjacent and in order.

2025

The Last Hour between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso
Records of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers

2024

The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden
Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson
Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson
The Sword of Kaigen, by M L Wang
The God of Endings, by Jacqueline Holland
Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
Jezebel, by Megan Barnard
The Poppy War, series by R F Kuang

2023

The Dragonbone Chair, by Tad Williams
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers
Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldtree

Older Reads, Selected

The Books of Pellinor, series by Alison Croggon
Realm of the Elderlings, series by Robin Hobb
The Wheel of Time, series by Robert Jordan
The Drenai Saga, and other Works, series by David Gemmel
Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov
Codex Alera, series by Jim Butcher
Mistborn, series by Brandon Sanderson
Foundation, series by Isaac Asimov