Reccs

[kilroy]

Looking for published female authors that are awesome and I don't know about. I need to acquire physical books. Scifi and fantasy preferred but not necessary; trying to avoid White Wolf-esque dark urban fantasy if I can.

Already have read or acquired:
Margaret Atwood
Kage Baker
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Lois McMaster Bujold
Emma Bull
Octavia Butler
Gail Carriger
C.J. Cherryh
Susannah Clarke
Storm Constantine
Madeline l'Engle
Kelly Eskridge (need to pick up Solitaire)
Karen Joy Fowler
C.S. Friedman
Theodora Goss
Barbara Hambly
Robin Hobb
Katherine Kerr (I know, I know; but I've read her books)
Nancy Kress
Ellen Kushner (need to get back to her)
Tanith Lee
Ursula K. LeGuin
Kelly Link
Elizabeth A. Lynn (need to get back to her)
Anne McCaffrey
Patricia McKillip
Robin McKinley
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Moon
Andre Norton
Naomi Novik
Jody Lynn Nye
Jennifer Roberson
J.K. Rowling
Sharon Shinn
Joan M. Slonczewski
Sheri Tepper
James Tiptree, Jr.
Margaret Weis
Terri Windling
Connie Willis
Catherynne Valente
Jane Yolen
Sarah Zettel

Need to pick up:
Elizabeth Bear
Nicola Griffith
Elizabeth Hand
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dianna Wynne Jones
Mercedes Lackey (start with Pawn's Dream)
Susan Matthews (start with An Exchange of Hostages)
Pat Murphy (start with The City, Not Long After)

To investigate:
K.J. Bishop
Kristan Britain
Kate Elliott
Tara K. Harper
Margo Lanagan
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Melanie Rawn
Wen Spencer
Paula Volksy
Kim Wilkin
Patricia Wrede

I'll edit the lists as people make suggestions and/or mention people I forgot I have. Whaddya got?

Comments

[zvi]

N.K. Jemisin
Nalo Hopkinson

Not being familiar with White Wolfe, I don't know how you'd take:
C.E. Murphy
Carrie Vaughn (I wouldn't call the Kitty Norville series great, but they're a great deal of fun, and at least as good a literature as middling-Lackey or McCaffrey)
Kelley Armstrong

I suspect Armstrong is less what you're not looking for, if only because her werewolf books tend to be more rural than urban.

Also, not a single female author, but a husband and wife team writing under a female pseudonym, Ilona Andrews.

[kilroy]

How on Earth did I forget Nalo Hopkinson? I must be slipping. I think I've also heard of Ilona Andrews but I wasn't aware of their actual composition. :-)

Thank you for the reccs! The quest is still continuing, so it's always good to have more things to read.