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

[vass]

If you haven't yet read Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond books, now (i.e. a long period without school deadlines) is a good time. The first one's The Game of Kings. Reading them out of order is a very, very bad idea. The sort of bad idea accompanied thunder and ominous music in the low strings. Maybe a bassoon as well.

I just looked at your interests page, and yep, if you haven't read these already, I think they're a good pick.

Also, I'm not sure how you'd *find* them, since I'm not sure if they've made it out of Australia, but you might like Brian Caswell and Catherine Jinks. The former wrote A Cage of Butterflies and Merryl of the Stones and some others, YA science fiction and time travel respectively; and the latter wrote (chiefly) the Pagan quartet, which is YA historical fiction, accurate and irreverent, set in the Crusades. The first one's Pagan's Crusade. The title character is a Christian Arab who's become a squire. He was born in Bethlehem, "don't worry, Sir, it wasn't in a manger."