Yuletide recommendations

[carbonel]

I finally made my way through the entire 2008 Yuletide treasury, including the New Year's resolutions, at least in the categories that I had any remote interest. It's interesting how length of story seems to have a positive correlation with quality of story, at least IMO.

Bone Dance by Emma Bull
A Host of Sparrows

Diana Wynne Jones - Chronicles of Chrestomanci
A Unicorn in Central Park

Diana Wynne Jones - Homeward Bounders
To Be of Use

Ellen Kushner - Swordspoint series
An Anatomy of the World

Diane Duane - Young Wizards series
Balance

Madeleine L'Engle - Austin Murry OKeefe families
By the Waves We Left Behind

Fairy Tales
Cloak and Dagger
Fire, Measured by What Doesn't Burn
Skin
Verity

Lois McMaster Bujold - Vorkosigan series
Comitatus
Escaping Gravity
Proposals and Propositions
The Balls of the Bel
Tides of Stars I
Tides of Stars Intermission
Tides of Stars II

Ian Fleming - James Bond series
Even Tough Guys Need Some R&R
Of Some Use

Homicide: Life on the Street
Everything Else Is Homicide

H Beam Piper - Little Fuzzy
Friends in Need

Diana Wynne Jones - The Ogre Downstairs
Growing Together

The Devil Wears Prada (movie)
Her Rightful Place

A A Milne - Winnie the Pooh
In Which Worlds Collide and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime

Georgette Heyer - Cotillion
Kissing Cousins

Georgette Heyer - The Masqueraders
Lord Barham Contrives

Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub
The Prodigals

Guy Gavriel Kay - The Fionavar Tapestry
No Man of Fionavar

Jane Austen - Emma
Poignant Sting

Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Print the Legend

Medium
Proof
Sunglasses at Night

Diane Duane - Young Wizards Series
Terminus

Anne McCaffrey - Dragonriders of Pern
The Free of Pern

Mythology - Greek and Roman
this is not a chick flick

Blood Ties
Trans Fusion
 
Homer - The Iliad and the Odyssey
Turn and Turn Again

Cabaret
Willkomen

Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Ribbons and Laces

Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Thomas the Rhymer

Shakespeare - Henry VI plays
An Exchange of Favours

Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
Argosy

Shakespeare - Henry IV plays
Chimes at Midnight

Shakespeare - Hamlet
Wittenberg Days

Susan Cooper - Dark is Rising series
Cold Dawn
One Goes Alone

Tamara Pierce - Tortall series
in misfortune, we hunt

Tamora Pierce - Circle of Magic series
The Greatest Potter in Emelan

Zenna Henderson - The People series
Moab

Tanya Huff - Blood and Smoke series
Nyquil, Succubi, and Other Tall Tales
When the Smoke Clears

Terry Pratchett - Discworld
Queen of the Cats

xkcd
The Amazing Adventures of Hat Guy and the Girl Who Stole His Hat

Steven Brust - Dragaeran Universe
The Ambush

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
The Starkadder Switchback: A Fitz Fortune Thriller

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Weather Continues Very Fine

Mary Renault - The Charioteer
Far from all intentional ill-doing

Mary Poppins (movie)
Wind in the East

Naomi Novik - Temeraire series
Only a Signal Shown

I'd appreciate knowing if anyone finds these useful, since it took rather a while to create and code up the list.

Comments

[sherrold.livejournal.com]

*Definitely* useful -- there's a bunch here I hadn't seen rec'd yet!