Every February, Locus Magazine comes out with their Recommended Reading List. It is an exhaustive list of all the best Speculative Fiction of the last year. Literally it is one stop shopping for your Speculative Fiction readers...all of them.
This is an excellent resource to help readers and develop your collections. First, take the list itself, and check your collections. Do you own these books? You should. These are some of the best titles in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror from 2022-- I personally review quite a few of them. Second, use it to help readers who want books in these genres, but also, to help readers who want to give these genres a try-- especially the stories and novellas. These are proven winners, titles you can suggest with ease as they were vetted by a group of experts. [see below for a list of those experts]
And they make this list every single year, so BACKLIST! You know I love the backlist. Seriously though, you need to assess your collection, you want a suggestion that is on the shelf, you want to discover a new voice in the genres [check the story, debut, and novella categories for that], you want to make a display? For all of these things and more, you need to look back more than just one year. Don't worry. I made it easy on you.
Click here to pull up a list of each year's list beginning with 2022 and going backward. It's a link that is RA and Collection Development gold.
There are many books on this year's list that I have read and reviewed too.
This is one of my favorite resources every year. It is a treasure trove of CD and RA gold. Bookmark it and use it for guaranteed crowd pleasing suggestions for all of your speculative fiction fans.
Below is the intro to the 2022 list by the editors of Locus Magazine.
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| Click here to see the list on the Locus site. |
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!
We are so pleased to share this list of excellent fiction! Published in Locus magazine’s February 2023 issue, the list is assembled by Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. We looked at 982 titles from 2022 in short fiction and long fiction. The final recommendations, trimmed down to a somewhat reasonable-length list, are our best recommendations for your consideration. We know there will be titles you loved that do not appear here; it happens every year. Any one of our recommending group would have put together a different exact list, but this is the combined sum of opinions, assessed with great affection and care for the field. There were a lot of great books this year; we could’ve recommended twice as many.
The Locus recommending group this year included EiC Liza Groen Trombi; reviews editor Jonathan Strahan; reviewers Liz Bourke, Alex Brown, James Bradley, Karen Burnham, Paul Di Filippo, Amy Goldschlager, Paula Guran, Rich Horton, Gabino Iglesias, Maya C. James, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Ian Mond, Colleen Mondor, Tim Pratt, Arley Sorg, Gary K. Wolfe, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro; staffer Bob Blough; and UK critics Cheryl Morgan and Graham Sleight. Input for the non-fiction section also came in from Niall Harrison and Farah Mendlesohn. The art books section had help from Arnie Fenner, Karen Haber, and senior editor Francesca Myman. Short fiction recommendations added in outside editors and reviewers John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Sean Dowie, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Vanessa Fogg, Maria Haskins, Rich Horton, Charles Payseur, Bogi Takács, and A.C. Wise. Some of the reviewers also wrote year-end wrap-ups, which will include their thoughts, plus some favorite books that didn’t make the final list — look for those in the coming weeks or in the February issue of the magazine, available in print and digital editions. Locus thanks all involved for their time and their expertise. Check out our reviewers takes on the year in the February issue.
You can let us know what your favorites were by voting in the 2022 Poll & Survey. The Poll decides the winners of the Locus Awards, presented in June 2023, and is open to all to vote on. The Survey helps us be a better magazine. Thank you for participating!
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