Reading list

[tinyjo]

Ok, I'm going on holiday for 2 weeks in a month or so and my shelf is bare so I need a shopping list for a big trip to Borders (or possibly Amazon). The only things I can remember that have been recommended to me recently are Light by M. John Harrison and The Scar by China Mieville. So, recommend me stuff. It doesn't have to be genre. It doesn't have to be novels. It does have to be available in paperback in the UK. Stuff by authors I haven't read yet particularly welcome (although most of you probably don't know what I've already read so that's not particularly helpful :) ).

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Have you read Perdido Street Station already? It's better if you don't read The Scar first as I think it spoils it slightly. I loved The Scar.

Other than that, I'm sure you mentioned you'd read "Carter Beats the Devil"? Are you up to date with your Christopher Brookmyres? I've just reread "The Sacred Art of Stealing" and I'd forgotten how good it is.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Actually I haven't read any Christopher Brookmyre at all - I think it was on my todo list and then my absentmindedness kicked in :) Pick one for me.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I would say you should start with "Quite Ugly One Morning", but it's quite short and I know what it's like when you run out of things to read on holiday so instead I'll recommend One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night (http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book4.htm) and if you can't find that one A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away (http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book6.htm). Unless you're flying. Don't read The Sacred Art Of Stealing (http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book7.htm) till you've read "A Big Boy..." though, it's not strictly a sequel but it might spoil the first book for you.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have read Perdido St Station btw. It took me quite a while to get into it but once I forced myself past the halfway point it suddenly grabbed and wouldn't let go.