Read this, not that.

[geekchick]

So, I'm almost done mainlining Kage Baker's "The Company" series and will need something else shortly. I do have a bunch of stuff sitting around waiting to be read, but right about now I feel like a teenager looking at the full refrigerator ("There's nothing to eat!") or like a late-night viewer flipping through cable channels ("There's nothing on."): lots of options, none of which seem appealing right at the moment.

I turn to you, oh friends list. What should I read next?

Suggestions for titles on the unread list that you think I should go ahead and read or for something completely unrelated are welcome. Extra bonus points if I can get it from my local library. I'll read pretty much any genre although I'm not all that keen on stuff like self-help most of the time. Cheesy romance? Will read it. Biography? In theory, depending on the subject. SF? Fantasy? Yup. Police procedurals? Those too. Dense scientific tomes? Will read them, although it will take me much longer than a Harlequin vampire romance. If you want to see the sorts of things I've been reading, the books - YYYY tags are my reading lists.

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[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon!

[geekchick]

I've got A Breath of Snow and Ashes and The Fiery Cross on the "to be read" list, but it's been so long since I read any of the rest of the series that I think I need to go back and re-read the whole thing. =)

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

I have a novel-length fanfic that I'm putting out on Monday (eeeeep!). I may be able to provide it in Kindle format, if you have one...

Sorry, I'm a shameless self-pimping whore!

[geekchick]

Monday? Eee! I don't have a Kindle or anything of the sort, alas.

[kmusser]

Off of your unread list I'd go with "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" an excellent read.

If you'd like something in a similar vein as The Company book I'd seek out "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis, a great time travel book, more humorous than Baker.

I was going to suggest "The City & The City" because I just finished it, but I see you've already read that. If you'd like something similarly bizarre, but I'd say more fun, seek out anything by Matt Ruff.

[inkedandkinked.livejournal.com]

Charles Bukowski novels
Haruki Murakami novels
Gabriel Garcia Marquez novels
or the way appropriately titled Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

I'll second Haruki Murakami with the caveat that they can be heavy on th WtF and probably aren't as good when read back to back. YMMV of course.

[geekchick]

I read Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman last year and for the most part really liked it. Short stories, so it could be read in small doses.

[inkedandkinked.livejournal.com]

I agree that Murakami may be difficult if read consecutively, but I read in cycles and devour everything I can find once I find an author I like. So I read lots of Murakami back to back. I started with a wild sheep chase although something like dance dance dance may be a better place to begin.

Enjoy!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I liked Bujold's Sharing Knife series, which may be enough of a non-space-opera-with-romantic-overtones that you'd like it?

BTW, I'm nearly through the three Scalzi books you gave me for my birthday! I've done more reading-for-pleasure this summer than in perhaps the previous two years combined...