For those who attended my presentation at PNWA, here is the book list I promised:

LANDSCAPES OF FANTASY. A presentation by Kay Kenyon

The Books

Mythic

• The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Last Unicorn, Peter Beagle
• American Gods, Neil Gaiman

Fairy

• A Green and Ancient Light, Frederic Durbin
• Roses and Rot, Kat Howard
• Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen Kushner

Folkloric

• Uprooted, Naomi Novik
• The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden

Magic Realism

• Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
• IQ84, Haruki Murakami

New Weird

• The Vorrh, Brian Catling
• Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

Vampire

• The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates
• Anno Dracula (Bk 1), Kim Newman

Romantic

• The Sharing Knife: Beguilement, Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Leopard King, Ann Aguirre

Epic – classical

• The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (a collection)
• Kushiel’s Dart, Jacqueline Carey
• Savages, K.J. Parker

Epic – Rogues and Grimdark

• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
• The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie
• Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erickson

Sword & Sorcery

• Elric the Stealer of Souls, Michael Moorcock (collection)
• Throne of the Crescent Moon, Saladin Ahmed

Military

• Soldiers Live, Glen Cook
• Javelin Rain, Myke Cole

Gunpowder

• Thieves’ Quarry, D.B. Jackson
• Crucible of Gold, Naomi Novik

Manners

• Glamour in Glass, Mary Robinette Kowal
• Swordpoint, Ellen Kushner

Gaslamp

• Soulless, Gail Carriger

Weird West

• The Native Star, M.K. Hobson
• Jacaranda (novella), Cherie Priest
• Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman

Dieselpunk

• The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, ed. Sean Wallace (anthology)
• Hard Magic, Larry Correia

WWI & WW2

• The Bloody Red Baron, Kim Newman
• At the Table of Wolves, Kay Kenyon

Secondary Worlds

• Troubled Waters, Sharon Shinn
• The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells

Urban Fantasy

• Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
• Hounded, Kevin Hearne

Contemporary

• The Shape of Desire, Sharon Shinn
• The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
• American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett