Fantasy Top Ten

N.K.Jemisin
August 16, 2016
​Paperback, 448 pp.

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Curtis Craddock
August 29, 2017
​Hardcover, 409 pp.

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Anthony Ryan.
July 5, 2016.
​Hardcover, 576 pp. 

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Dan Wells.
November 15, 2016
​Paperback, 416 pp. 

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Brandon Sanderson
November 22, 2016
​Hardback, 672 pp.

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Stephen R. Donaldson.
September 6, 2016
Paperback, 320 pp.

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Brandon Sanderson;
January 26,, 2016
Hardcover; 448pp.

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Mary Robinette Kowal.
August 16, 2016
Hardcover, 304 pp.

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Robert Jackson Bennett,.
January 26, 2016
Paperback, 496 pp.

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Brandon Sanderson,
February 17, 2017
​E-book, approx 28,000wds.

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Nisi Shawl.
September 6, 2016
Paperback, 384 pp.

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Top Five -- Last Two Years

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Other Top Lists

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Top New Books with Airships

Because sometimes you just want medieval airplanes.

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Top New Books with Female Leads

Because, yes, women are more than scenery or sex objects in distress in fantasy settings too. 

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Books  We  Put  Down

DISCLAIMER: There are those who refuse to walk out of a movie, or put down a book. We are not among them: if you lose interest in a book, and you're not also stressed or overworked or unduly distracted by life, there's usually a good reason. Maybe the story was too slow, or the characters were flat. The setting was stereotypical. The writing sucked. Or... it just wasn't your thing. And we fully acknowledge that last thing is a thing: literature, and appreciation thereof, is subjective. So while we're pretty sure everyone will like what's on the Top Ten, we're not sure you won't love what's on this list too. But for us, for whatever reason, they didn't hold us til the end. (Listed in no particular order.)

January 5, 2016; Angry Robot
Steal the Sky has all the things that should make it great: doppelgangs, airships, political intrigue and humorous rogues. But somewhere in a long flight back from Mexico the plot meandered once too often... and we moved on. 

 October 2015; self-published
We'd decided we hadn't reviewed enough self-published stuff, and while Dalglish is one of the best-selling self-pubbed fantasy writers (and is now traditionally published and successful), this was an early work, and needed some polish. 

October 27, 2015; Baen Books
This is the right kind of book for a particular kind of person--think Conan the Barbarian male escapism. Decently written but just not our cup of tea.