The American Library Association’s first Reading List Awards (winners as DOC link) for genre fiction includes many SF/F/H titles as chosen by a coucil of “ten librarians who are experts in readers’ advisory and collection development”. The list (with special distinction given to the first title listed in each category) goes like this:

SCIENCE FICTION

  • In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor, 2007)
  • Spook Country by William Gibson (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007)
  • Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon (Pyr, 2007)
  • Phytosphere by Scott Mackay (New American Library, 2007)
  • Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Pyr, 2007)
  • Thirteen by Richard Morgan (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2007)
  • Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, 2007)
  • The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor, 2007)
  • One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name (Baen, 2007)
  • Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, 2007)

FANTASY

  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Daw Books, 2007)
  • Territory by Emma Bull (Tor, 2007)
  • White Night by Jim Butcher (ROC/Penguin, 2007)
  • Kushiel’s Justice by Jacqueline Carey (Warner, 2007)
  • The Devil You Know by Mike Carey (Warner, 2007)
  • Acacia by David Durham (Doubleday, 2007)
  • Book of Joby by Mark Ferrari (Tor, 2007)
  • First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (Viking, 2007)
  • Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (ROC/Penguin, 2007)
  • Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin Kiernan (Roc, 2007)
  • Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Bantam Spectra, 2007)
  • City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers (Overlook, 2007)
  • A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor, 2007)
  • Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, 2007)
  • Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Harper, 2007)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, 2007)
  • Children of Hurin by J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
  • In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne Valente (Bantam Spectra, 2007)

HORROR

  • The Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow, 2007)
  • Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (Nightshade Books, 2007)
  • Shadow Coast by Philip Haldeman (Hippocampus, 2007)
  • 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (William Morrow, 2007)
  • The Missing by Sarah Langan (HarperCollins, 2007)
  • Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Solider by Mignola, Mike and Christopher Golden (Spectra, 2007)
  • The Taken by Sarah Pinborough (Dorchester, 2007)
  • The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little Brown, 2007)

[via Locus Online]

Related posts:

  1. NOMINEES: 2007 World Fantasy Awards
  2. Best American Fantasy
  3. Tayshas Reading List for Young Adult Fiction
  4. Locus 2005 Recommended Reading List
  5. 2003 Recommended Reading List

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