Book Recommendations

Books I’ve — in recent years – read, finished, and recommend.

My tastes lean very strongly towards SFF and towards more literary writing styles over simpler contemporary prose. Yes, you’re free to message me anywhere just to yap about books.

2026

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers
Paladin’s Grace, by T Kingfisher

2025

The Dreaming Tree, by C J Cherryh
The Girl in the Tower, by Katherine Arden
The Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden
Winter Goddess, by Megan Barnard
Water Moon, by Samantha Sotto Yambao
Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
Records of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers
The Last Hour between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso

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\

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
Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov
Codex Alera, series by Jim Butcher
Foundation, series by Isaac Asimov