Book rec time!

[penmage]

All right, people, I want book recs. I'm looking for good things to read over the summer.

There are 80-odd people who read this journal, and most of you read a lot. I want at least one rec (though feel free to give me more) from each of you.

I'm looking for something I've never read before. It doesn't have to be SF/F - in fact, I think I'd prefer if it wasn't (not that you can't also recommend SF/F.)

Thanks to y'all in advance.

Comments

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

Any of these and, in general, anything else by the authors that you can find.

Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon
Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree
Gillian Bradshaw, The Beacon at Alexandria
Gene Wolfe, There Are Doors
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Madeleine L'Engle, A House Like a Lotus
Jeff Noon, Vurt
Emma Bull, Finder
Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game
Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown
John Birmingham, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
EM Forster, A Room With a View
John Crowley, Little Big
Ursula K LeGuin, Malafrena
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Jack Vance, Lyonesse
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Eleanor Cameron, The Court of the Stone Children
Arthur Ransome, We Didn't Mean to go to Sea
Peter S Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
Diana Wynne Jones, Homeward Bounders
Dorothy L Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
Susan Cooper, Seaward
Diane Duane, So You Want to be a Wizard
Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
Margaret Mahy, The Catalogue of the Universe
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
Cynthia Voigt, A Solitary Blue

[klimtomaniac.livejournal.com]

Guy Gavriel Kay, The Summer Tree

Have you read the whole Fionavar Tapestry? It has been years since I last read it and it is still one of my favourites. I think that is a must re-read for me this summer. His other books are also excellent and his recent book of poetry is phenomenal.

[alecto23.livejournal.com]

Yep, I have read the whole thing. I cheated and just cut and pasted the title-author list I did of one of those book memes that was going around earlier. Full text of the two entries on the subject is here and here, if you're interested.

Tigana is possibly my single favourite book of his; I'm finding his later stuff kind of repetitious thematically. Although there were nice bits in The Lions of Al-Rassan. But even repetitious GG Kay is pretty good! Haven't read his poetry; will have to see if I can find it.