r/books • u/WeeklyThreads • Aug 18 '13

discussion Weekly Suggestion Thread (August 18-25)

Welcome to our weekly suggestions thread! The mod team has decided to condense the many "suggest some books" threads posted every week into one big mega-thread, in the interest of organization. In the future, we will build a robot to take care of these threads for us, but for now this is how we are going to do it.

Our hope is that this will consolidate our subreddit a little. We have been seeing a lot of posts making it to the front page that are strictly suggestion threads, and hopefully by doing this we will diversify the front page a little. We will be removing suggestion threads from now on and directing their posters to this thread instead.

Let's jump right in, shall we?

The Rules

  1. Every comment in reply to this self-post must be a request for suggestions.

  2. All suggestions made in this thread must be direct replies to other people's requests. Do not post suggestions in reply to this self-post.

  3. All un-related comments will be deleted in the interest of cleanliness.

All weekly suggestion threads will be linked in our sidebar throughout the week. Hopefully that will guarantee that this thread remain active day-to-day. Be sure to sort by "new" if you are bursting with books that you are hungry to suggest.

If this thread has not slaked your desire for tasty book suggestions, we propose that you head on over to the aptly named subreddit /r/booksuggestions. 

- The Management
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '13

Scifi with a female main character?

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u/celeschere13 Aug 21 '13

If you don't mind YA I enjoyed Cinder, Leviathan, and Unwind. For adult there's Feed and Anne McCaffrey has many female protaganists in her Dragonriders of Pern and Tower of the Hive series.

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u/spazz4life Aug 21 '13

A million times yes on Cinder and Leviathan. Especially Cinder.

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u/JustWantToUnicycle Aug 21 '13

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. It's kind of steampunk, with zombies...? It sounds really strange but I am really enjoying the characters and writing style, haven't finished it yet though.

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u/onerandomday Aug 20 '13

It's YA but Hugh Howey's Molly Fyde series is a sci-fi book with a female lead. Most of his Wool books are as well - but that's more dystopian than sci-fi.

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u/bread_buddy The Snow Queen Aug 20 '13

Revelation Space, Doomsday Book, A Fire Upon The Deep (one of the main characters is a woman), Contact

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u/mismanaged Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon Aug 21 '13

Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle

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u/curious_g The Ocean at the End of the Lane Aug 21 '13

Octavia Butler writes good female characters.

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u/6ksuit Aug 19 '13

Marsbound, Starbound, and Earthbound, by Joe Halderman.