Justin Ackroyd’s Book List
The Australian Connection:
Deborah Biancotti – A Book of Endings
John Harwood – The Seance
Anthony O’Neill – The Unscratchables
Justine Larbalestier – How to Ditch Your Fairy
Karen Warron – Slights
Scott Westerfeld – Leviathan
Is this list influenced by crime fiction?
Jedediah Berry – The Manual of Detection
Michael Cox – The Meaning of Night; The Glass of Time
Charlie Huston – The Joe Pitt series: Already Dead; No Dominion; Half the Blood of Brooklyn; Every Last Drop; My Dead Body
Richard Kadrey – Sandman Slim
China Mieville – The City & The City
Jack O’Connell – The Resurrecionist
The laguage, the imagination:
Catherynne M. Valente – The Orphan’s Tales: In The Night Garden; The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coins and Spice; Palimpsest
Memoirs:
Christopher Fowler – Paperboy
Graham Joyce – Simple Goalkeeping Made Spectacular
It’s Jenny’s fault (my wife):
Robert Holdstock – Avilion
It’s Lucy’s fault (my daughter):
Cornelia Funke – Inkheart; Inkspell; Inkdeath
Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell – Barnaby Grimes: The Phantom of Blood Alley (and the previous three books in the series.
The young adult connection:
John Connolly – The Gates
Patrick Ness – The Knife of Never Letting Go; The Ask and the Answer
Phillip Reeve – Fever Crumb
Next year…
Jasper Fforde – Shades of Grey
And just because I want to mention this writer:
Arnaldur Indridason – Jar City; Silence of the Grave; Voices; The Draining Lake; Arctic Chill; Hypothermia
