Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading: 2006

My new issue of Locus Magazine arrived in the mail. It's an issue I was eagerly awaiting because it lists Locus' picks for 2006. I have many of these books on my shelves, but have yet to read most of them since I'm still catching up with previous years. Listed below are the novels selected by Locus. Follow the link to see all categories and selections.

SF novels

* Polity Agent, Neal Asher (Tor UK)
* The Armies of Memory, John Barnes (Tor)
* Emperor, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Ace)
* Carnival, Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
* Idolon, Mark Budz (Bantam Spectra)
* Babylon, Richard Calder (PS Publishing)
* End of the World Blues, Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* Eifelheim, Michael Flynn (Tor)
* Nova Swing, M. John Harrison (Gollancz; Bantam)
* The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Knopf; Picador)
* Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon (Penguin; Cape)
* Keeping It Real, Justina Robson (Gollancz; Pyr)
* Horizons, Mary Rosenblum (Tor)
* Mathematicians in Love, Rudy Rucker (Tor)
* Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
* The Clan Corporate, Charles Stross (Tor)
* Glasshouse, Charles Stross (Orbit; Ace)
* Matriarch, Karen Traviss (Eos)
* Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
* Farthing, Jo Walton (Tor)
* Blindsight, Peter Watts (Tor)

Fantasy novels

* The Thousandfold Thought, R. Scott Bakker (Penguin Canada; Overlook Press)
* The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier (Murray; Pantheon)
* Ilario, Mary Gentle (Gollancz; Eos - 2 vol)
* Forest Mage, Robin Hobb (Voyager; Eos)
* Majestrum, Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
* The Blood Knight, Greg Keyes (Ballantine Del Rey; Tor UK)
* Lisey's Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
* The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra)
* Trial of Flowers, Jay Lake (Night Shade Books)
* Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
* The Virtu, Sarah Monette (Ace)
* The Vengeance of Rome, Michael Moorcock (Jonathan Cape)
* The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow (Morrow)
* The Tourmaline, Paul Park (Tor)
* Three Days to Never, Tim Powers (Subterranean Press; Morrow)
* The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross (Golden Gryphon Press; Ace)
* Shriek: An Afterword, Jeff VanderMeer (Tor UK; Tor)
* The Demon and the City, Liz Williams (Night Shade Books)
* Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
* Fugitives of Chaos, John C. Wright (Tor)

First novels

* The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie (Gollancz; Pyr)
* A Shadow in Summer, Daniel Abraham (Tor)
* The Patron Saint of Plagues, Barth Anderson (Bantam Spectra)
* Crystal Rain, Tobias S. Buckell (Tor)
* Scar Night, Alan Campbell (Tor UK; Bantam Spectra)
* The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam; Viking UK)
* The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue (Cape; Doubleday)
* The Green Glass Sea, Ellen Klages (Viking)
* The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
* Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon / Throne of Jade / Black Powder War (Del Rey; Voyager), as Temeraire: In the Service of the King (SFBC)
* The Burning Girl, Holly Phillips (Prime Books)
* Summer of the Apocalypse, James Van Pelt (Fairwood Press)

YA Books

* Spirits That Walk in Shadow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
* The Pinhoe Egg, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins Children's Books UK; Greenwillow)
* Do the Creepy Thing, Graham Joyce (Faber and Faber)
* Magic Lessons, Justine Larbalestier (Penguin/Razorbill)
* Voices, Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion Children's; Harcourt)
* The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 4: Sir Thursday, Garth Nix (Allen & Unwin; Scholastic)
* Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; HarperTempest)
* A Darkling Plain, Philip Reeve (Scholastic UK; Eos)
* The Last Days, Scott Westerfeld (Penguin/Razorbill)
* Midnighters, Book Three: Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld (Eos)
* Specials, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)

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