What do I need to read?

[kennahijja]

My f-list is wise and perceptive and well-read, so here's the problem:

I'm badly out of good books. That, and my birthday isn't all that far off, so I would have an excuse for hitting Amazon. But as it is, I'm even out of books I know I desire madly. Hence, I'll ask you. What would you rec? What excited you recently?

What *do* I like? Fantasy, horror, SF if it's character-driven and not technology-heavy. Slashy, dark, unusual, stylistically beautiful, erotic. Other genres if the themes fit.

Examples that rocked my world... Carey's 'Kushiel' series, Friedman's 'Coldfire', McMaster Bujold's 'Miles Vorkosigan' series, McKillip's 'Riddlemaster' trilogy. General fondness for MZB, Guy Gavriel Kay, C J Cherryh, Octavia Butler... Storm Constantine, apart from the undisciplined plots. Liked Lynn Flewelling's 'Nightrunner' series for the slash, but otherwise it's too cliched for me... Not much into the Tolkien clone type stuff...

Suggestions will be lovingly huggled! :)

And if anyone ever stumbled across a list of homoerotic fantasy novels, I'd so love to see that :).

Comments

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Lately I have read "Death - the high cost of living" and "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gayman, "Nation" by Terry Pratchett, and I am currently on "Kafka on the shore" by some Japanese guy I can't remember. I'm about 1/3 through and it's fascinating. I have heard that the ending is somewhat surprising, though, so I hope it's still ok when I've finished it.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I really need to get into Neil Gaiman, everybody adores his books and I really liked 'Good Omens' too... Thanks!

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

"Death - The high cost of living" is a graphical novel, so I thought you don't get much reading out of the price. I enjoyed it though. "The Graveyard book" and "Coraline" are both YA, Coraline being really really dark, and the Graveyard book is just awesome. Not so dark but with a dark kind of humor since most of the characters are dead people. :-)