Jubilee Event Book Roundup
It’s taken a little longer than I had planned, but here is the post promised at the event on 12/11/2022, rounding up the books which were recommended, as well as the ones read from. I don’t know about you, but my TBR just got even longer!
Readers
Kevan Manwaring – read from Windsmith. You can find a full list of Kevan’s books here: Books – Kevan Manwaring
Tiffani Angus – read from an as-yet unpublished short story. Find out more about Tiffani and her work here: Publications (tiffani-angus.com)
James Bennett – read from The Dust of the Red Rose Knight, an upcoming release as part of Books on the Hill Press’ dyslexic friendly series. Follow James here: Amazon.co.uk: James Bennett: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle
David Green – read from The Devil Walks in Blood. Find out more about David and his books here: book inner | My Site (davidgreenwriter.com)
Stewart Hotston – read from the as-yet unpublished Monstrous Detective Agency. Follow Stewart here: Stewart Hotston – Hope, Anger and Writing
Sue York – read from her recently published collection, Starless and Bible Black. You can learn more about Sue here: Amazon.co.uk: SUSAN YORK: Books, Biography, Blogs, Audiobooks, Kindle
Environmentalism in SFFH Panel Recommendations
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Lorax by Dr Seuss
Farewell to Shady Glade by Bill Peet
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (short story)
Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ghost Species by James Bradley
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Swarm by Frank Schatzing
The Road by Cormack McCarthy
Composite Creatures by Caroline Hardaker
Piranesi by Susannah Clarke
Economics in SFFH Panel Recommendations
Nonfiction
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber,
A Postcapitalist Politics, J.K. Gibson Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics
The Dawn of Everything David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
Fiction
Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik
Court of Broken Knives, Anna Smith Spark
If, Then, Matthew De Abaitua
Ash: A Secret History, Mary Gentle
Trouble on Triton, Samuel R. Delany
The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Unbroken, C. L. Clarke
The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi
Politics in SFFH Panel Recommendations
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
The Tyranny of Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America, Lani Guinier
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward