Book Recommendations from Aussiecon IV

Here are some of the book recommendations I noted down from two panels at Aussiecon IV, The Best SF Novel You Never Read and This Is The Way The World Ends, the panel about YA apocalyptic fiction. Some YA fiction has found its way on to the first and some books for adults are included in the YA list!

Of necessity, this post doesn't include book reviews, since I mostly haven't read the books yet. Perhaps readers here will be intrigued enough to check them out. I certainly intend to – when I can afford books again! I've also quoted the blurbs from the Pocket Program Book about these two panels.

The Best SF Novel You've Never Read:

More than 350,000 books are published every year. With such a vast amount of material flooding the market across the world, it's easy for great literature to get lost in the crowd. What are the best under-appreciated novels of the past ten years, the books that – despite immense originality and quality – never found the proper audience. A panel of experts point to some diamonds in the rough.

Claire Brialey, Gail Carriger, Mike Scott
( The first list )

This Is The Way The World Ends: Post-apocalyptic YA spec fic

What happens after the Collapse? Young adult readers want to know!

Leanne Hall, Seanan McGuire, Gina Goddard

( The second list )