This post is so I have somewhere to send people when they ask me which book of mine they should read first. Click on the links to learn more about each book.
WARNING: If you consider knowing whether a book has a happy or a sad ending to be a spoiler do not read this:
Novels with unambiguously happy endings:
How To Ditch Your Fairy
Team Human
Novels with endings that might make you tear your hair out:
Liar
Razorhurst
My Sister Rosa
“Thinner than Water” in Love is Hell (though I consider this novella to have a happy ending many readers disagree with me)
Novels with endings that might make you cry in a sad way:
Razorhurst
My Sister Rosa
“Thinner than Water” in Love is Hell (Beats me why, but many readers have reported crying.)
Novels that just end with no resolution and WHY DID YOU DO THAT, JUSTINE?!
Fantasies:
Magic or Madness trilogy (contemporary with magic)1
How to Ditch Your Fairy (contemporary, different world, very mild superpowers)2
Liar (contemporary [redacted] because it might be a lie)
“Thinner than Water” in Love is Hell (contemporary with faerie)
Zombies v Unicorns (self-explanatory)
Team Human (contemporary, vampires and zombies)
Razorhurst (historical, ghosts)
Realist novels:
Liar
My Sister Rosa (Though I could mount a strong argument that psychopaths are monsters.)
Historicals:
Razorhurst (1932 Sydney)
Thrillers:
Liar (psychological)
Razorhurst (gangsters and cops trying to kill protags)
My Sister Rosa (psychological)
Anthologies/Short stories:
Daughters of Earth (I edited this collection of 20th century feminist science fiction with accompanying essays by feminist scholars)
Zombies v Unicorns (I edited this one with Holly Black)
“Thinner than Water” in Love is Hell
“Little Red Suit” in Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean
Non-fiction:
Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
Daughters of Earth
Novels with sex:
Magic or Madness trilogy
Liar
Razorhurst (very little)
My Sister Rosa
Novels without sex:
How To Ditch Your Fairy
Team Human
Humorous Books:
How To Ditch Your Fairy
Team Human
Zombies v Unicorns (Mine and Holly Black’s bantering in between the short stories is funny and so are some of the stories.)
- Out of print. I include the trilogy to be complete and who knows one day it might be back in print.
- I can also make an argument that this one is science fiction. Most readers disagree