Here are our favorite books published in 2011. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book. You can read some of our thoughts about these books in this post. In the comments, let us know if you agree, and what books we missed that are on your Best of 2011 list.
ADULT SFF
CHILDREN / YOUNG ADULT
ANTHOLOGIES/ STORY COLLECTIONS
AUDIOBOOKS (older books released in audio format in 2011)
December 30th, 2011. FanLit | Best of the Year | 12 comments |
Elizabeth Campbell went to Dragon*Con last weekend and wrote in to tell us about bookseller Larry Smith.
Larry Smith, Bookseller, is a conventions bookstore. He and Sally Kobee sell new science fiction and fantasy books in hardback, trade, and mass market bindings. They are out of Ohio, so in addition to Dragon*Con, we see them at ConText.
They’ve been doing this for freaking ever, they know freaking everybody, and it seems like they have every single freaking book in stock. Sally seems to know what you’re looking for before you do.
September 6th, 2011. FanLit | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
Elizabeth Campbell wrote in to tell us about a bookstore she loves. Orielis’ Books is an internet bookseller located in the Chapel Hill area. They attend the local SFF conventions:
“Orielis’ Books are always in the vendor room at the Cons we get to attend in the Virginia/North Carolina area. They are an online used books business, and build their “brick and mortar” by wheeling in their treasure-crates of books into the hotel for the duration of the weekend.
I love having them at the Cons,
August 23rd, 2011. FanLit | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Each of us has listed a few of our our favorite 2010 releases (hover over the cover to see who recommends each book). This year we’ve added an audio category — these are books that were released on audio for the first time in 2010. Read some of our comments about these books in this post.
Children / Young Adult
Anthologies
2010 Audiobooks
December 29th, 2010. FanLit | Best of the Year | 8 comments |
It’s quite a bit longer this year because we added a few new reviewers. Mostly we did not read the same books, but special mention goes to the first 10 novels which were highly recommended by more than one of us. Hover over the cover to see who recommends each book.
Children / Young Adult
Anthologies
January 1st, 2010. FanLit | Best of the Year | 2 comments |
Those folks at Tor are good sports — they’re offering a copy of The Gathering Storm to the winner of our renaming contest (see post below), so be sure to enter with all of your ideas! Thanks, Tor!!
Bill is looking forward to judging your titles as he’s reading the book. As for me, I’ll be purchasing The Gathering Storm on Tuesday from Audible.com. ~Kat
October 25th, 2009. FanLit | Giveaway! | no comments |
Everyone’s talking about Tor’s upcoming release of The Wheel of Time: The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
Bill‘s got a copy in his hot little hands and we’ll be posting his review on October 27 at 12:01 am.
Meanwhile…. some of us aren’t too crazy about this cover art…
So, let’s have some fun with it! Can you suggest a BETTER title for a book with this cover? Put your title below. You may enter as many titles as you like.
October 24th, 2009. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 29 comments |
FanLit’s own Robert Rhodes was recently interviewed by Jason M. Waltz, founder of Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE). RBE publishes Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure which includes Rob’s story “To Be a Man”. You can read Greg’s review of Return of the Sword here. This interview is reprinted here with Mr Waltz’s permission.
Jason Waltz: What drives your art? What forces you, rides you, hustles you, controls you until its latest needs have been met? What really drives you to create speculative fiction art,
February 2nd, 2009. FanLit | Robert Rhodes | Author Interviews | 1 comment |
Joe Abercrombie‘s The Last Argument of Kings and Brandon Sanderson‘s The Hero of Ages (both trilogy enders) top our list this year. In fact, those of us who read any Abercrombie or Sanderson novels named them as favorite authors this year. Another mention goes to last year’s favorite: Patrick Rothfuss. Those of us who finally got around to reading his 2007 debut novel this year put it at the top of our lists.
Children / Young Adult
January 1st, 2009. FanLit | Best of the Year | no comments |
We’ve named Patrick Rothfuss‘s The Name of the Wind as FanLit’s Favorite Book of 2007. Since this is our first year in existence, this is our first award ever. Mr. Rothfuss’s response: “That’s so cool. I’m proud to be your first….”
January 1st, 2008. FanLit | Best of the Year | 2 comments |
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