Well, this list would be books I thought were fantastic, or which had a big effect on me, rather than those which "moved" me, because that might end
up being a rather soppy list, and would also leave out some of my favourite books/writers!
Graham Joyce: Dark Fantasy & General Fiction with a DF element. Anything by this superb writer. How to Make Friends with Demons
(pub in UK as Memoirs of a Master Forger by William Heaney [pseudonym]) is his most recent novel
Octavia E Butler: Again, anything by this SF writer. Her Xenogenesis trilogy is about a poly relationship, though a complex and
disturbed one.
Robert Heinlein: SF. Many very good (and seminal!) poly novels, e.g. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange
Land, but he got carried away by his fantasies in some novels, and frankly ruined chracterisation and plot as a result.
Orson Scott Card: SF/F Also an excellent writer, though quality can vary!
Diana Wynne Jones: Fantasy. Any adult or YA novel by this fantastic writer.
Terry Pratchett: Humour/Fantasy. A brilliant writer, plenty of wry social commentary, occasionally spoiled (for me) by schoolboy humour. But
not enough to put me off the books!
Amanda Foreman: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Non-fiction (history), poly.
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen: Because she's hilarious!
Elizabeth Gaskell: Brilliant, compassionate stories. Unflinching social commentary in the face of widespread censure.
William Blake: He was a genius, and his poems reach deep.
Charles Causely: A great poet. For an Ex Far-East Prisoner of War should be required reading!
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Mary Webb: Precious Bane
Alice Walker: The Colour Purple and The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Although Grange Copeland was
brilliant, it was so painful I have not been able to read it more than once.
Neil Gaiman: Dark Fantasy
Marian Zimmer Bradley: The Catchtrap (general fiction) and her Darkover novels (SF). Darkover novels are variable in quality
as she wrote some very early in her career. Some Darkover novels are poly.
Nick Hornby: General Fiction. Hilarious and hurting.
JK Rowling: Harry Potter. Book 3 on are excellent.
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