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
