favorite books

in ca. March 2025 there was a meme circulating on Bluesky prompting people to share their five favorite genres but without naming a conventional (sub)genre — “SF where the S is linguistics”, for example (from Roseanna Pendlebury), or “what if stories aren’t enough?” (from Jake Casella Brookins). in attempting to do this, I came to the conclusion that I need to have a clearer idea of what my favorite books are in the first place before I can try this. this is an attempt to compile a list.

shortlist by author

I only started keeping track of the books I read in 2010, and only systematically in 2011, so before that my records are spotty. I’m proceeding under the assumption that if something I read before 2010 (i.e., in high school or before) is genuinely a “favorite” I will have reread it since 2010. I mostly limited it to one book or series per author.

longlist by publication date

I only started keeping track of the books I read in 2010, and only systematically in 2011, so before that my records are spotty. I’m proceeding under the assumption that if something I read before 2010 (i.e., in high school or before) is genuinely a “favorite” I will have reread it since 2010. series are listed with the publication date of their first book. the longlist criterion is “book I liked a lot when I read it and continue to think positively about (in more detail than just ‘I remember liking that’)”. plays are dated to their first staging.

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