Recommended Reading
Fiction
- Robert Shearman’s Tiny Deaths (World Fantasy Award winner, didn’t you know?)
- China Mieville Perdido Street Station (well, obviously) and Looking for Jake
- Jeff VanderMeer City of Saints and Madmen
- Margo Lanagan Black Juice and Tender Morsels
- Jack Dann The Memory Cathedral
- Jane Gaskell’s The Atlan Saga
- Sheri S Tepper’s Lands of the True Game series
- Aimee Bender Willful Creatures and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
- Steve Almond My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil BB Chow
- Neil Gaiman Coraline, Neverwhere and The Graveyard Book
- Umberto Eco Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose
- Margaret Atwood The Penelopiad and Moral Disorder
- John Ajvide Lindqvist Let the Right One In
- John Connolly The Killing Kind
- Karen Russell St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
- Lorrie Moore Like Life
- Alice Seibold Lucky
- Narelle M Harris The Opposite of Life
- Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber and The Magic Toyshop
- Emma Donoghue Kissing the Witch
- Kelly Link Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen
- Robertson Davies The Cunning Man
- Charlotte Bronte Vilette
- Barbara Hambly Immortal Blood
- Bram Stoker Dracula
Non-fiction
- Umberto Eco Mouse or Rat, Apocalypse Postponed and Faith in Fakes
- Primo Levi The Drowned and the Saved, The Periodic Table and If This Is A Man
- Ursula K Le Guin The Wave in the Mind
- Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead
- Jeff VanderMeer Booklife (not out yet! Bwahahahahaha!)
- Marina Warner From the Beast to the Blonde Fairytales and their Tellers
- Jack Zipes Don’t Bet on the Prince
- Elizabeth Harries Wanning Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
Poetry
- Anne Sexton Transformations
- Adrienne Rich The Fact of a Doorframe
