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N.K. Jemisin's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 10 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2022)

Favorite books recommended by N.K. Jemisin’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Recommendations, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/nk-jemisin-favorite-books/.

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Martha Wells · Buy on Amazon
"What looks like a stock story isn’t. But that isn’t this story’s greatest asset; the worldbuilding is. This is a rich, complex, plausibly exotic fantasy world like nothing on earth, described so vividly that I’d love to go visit it. (Except I’d get eaten in 5 minutes.) Moon’s people are one of the most intelligently-constructed fantasy races I’ve seen in awhile — science fictionally so, though the story manages to retain the wonder and magic of fantasy. Add to that characters who stick with y..."
Neil Clarke · Buy on Amazon
"A collection of compact space epics anthologized by Neil Clarke and written by some of the biggest stars and up-and-comers in the genre…over all this anthology is mostly hits, remarkably few misses. Highly recommended."
Damian Duffy and John Jennings · Buy on Amazon
"A worthy and powerful supplement to a classic."
Nisi Shawl · Buy on Amazon
"It’s soaring, high-minded stuff, and Shawl does a marvelous job of demonstrating the capabilities of the steampunk subgenre, which too often sacrifices the richness of actual, global history in favor of Victorian fetishization and racial exclusion."
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · Buy on Amazon
"Darkly ironic worldbuilding is the real treat of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things , which posits that vampires are a species that coexists with humans, most recently amid the human underworld. The core of the tale is a parallel of colonialism, in which indigenous vampires of Mexico — once partnered with the Aztecs — are threatened by amoral, disease-carrying European vampires encroaching on their drug trade and feeding territory."
Yoon Ha Lee · Buy on Amazon
"The story is dense, the pace intense, and the delicate East Asian flavoring of the math-rich setting might make it seem utterly alien to many readers — yet metaphors for our own world abound…Readers willing to invest in a steep learning curve will be rewarded with a tight-woven, complicated but not convoluted, breathtakingly original space opera."
Indra Das · Buy on Amazon
"A chilling, gorgeous saga that spans several centuries and many lands…Readers will savor every bite."
Martha Wells · Buy on Amazon
"An adorable little set of almost old-school science fiction."
Cover of Unexpected Stories
Octavia E. Butler · Buy on Amazon

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