Ry Herman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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THE RY AWARDS PART IV -- GRAB BAG BEST CLASSIC: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier BEST CONTEMPORARY YA: The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James, by Ashely Herring Blake BEST NONFICTION: Cultish, by Amanda Montell BEST MEMOIR: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion 9/11

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BEST HORROR: Comfort Me With Apples, by Catherynne M. Valente BEST LITERARY HORROR: Our Wives Under The Sea, by Julia Armfield BEST MYSTERY: The Verifiers, by Jane Pek 11/11

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BEST WTF BOOK (tie): The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne & A Void, by Georges Perec And finally, the special award for best 2021-published book, which goes to (drum roll, please)... BEST 2021-PUBLISHED BOOK: Strange Creatures, by Phoebe North 14/14

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BEST MID-CENTURY LITERARY FICTION: Cassandra At The Wedding, by Dorothy Baker BEST EPISTOLARY NOVEL: Lady Susan, by Jane Austen BEST HISTORICAL FICTION: King Hereafter, by Dorothy Dunnett BEST ROMAN À CLEF: Our Spoons Came From Woolworths, by Barbara Comyns 10/14

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4 of 5 stars to The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros https://t.co/GwAtz6EIv6

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BEST FANTASY: The Thousand Eyes, by A. K. Larkwood BEST YA FANTASY: The Golden Enclaves, by Naomi Novik BEST URBAN FANTASY: Dead Collections, by Isaac Fellman BEST SCIENCE FANTASY: Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir BEST WEIRD FANTASY: Mr. Fox, by Helen Oyeyemi 2/11

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THE RY AWARDS PART IV -- GRAB BAG BEST CLASSIC: My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier BEST CONTEMPORARY YA: The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James, by Ashely Herring Blake BEST NONFICTION: Cultish, by Amanda Montell BEST MEMOIR: The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion 9/11

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@biblioqueer My favorite standalone queer YA fantasy: The Raven & the Reindeer, T. Kingfisher In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan Girl Serpent Thorn, Melissa Barshardoust A History of Glitter & Blood, Hannah Moskowitz The Dark Beneath the Ice, Amelinda Bérubé Strange Creatures, Phoebe North

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@WhitneyCWimbish @_letterbxmb @magpiekilljoy @ArmarnaForbes And there are trans characters in Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence -- in book 3 (Full Fathom Five) and book 6 (The Ruin of Angels). Those are the ones I can think of for now that I'd recommend.

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@WhitneyCWimbish @_letterbxmb @magpiekilljoy @ArmarnaForbes Let's see, what else ... The Necromancer Chronicles by Amanda Downum has a major trans character in the second book (The Bone Palace).