Though it borders on sci fi, Tanith Lee's Biting the Sun (short duology in one volume) is a future dystopia and interesting from a writing technique perspective, the first-person protagonist is never named (I didn't even notice this until I read a review, after having read the book through twice!)īecause the above list also has a lot of straight characters, here are some books that deal with LGBTAQI and gender themes: She also has several fairy-tale retellings that may be of interest, like Beauty. Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown has some tropes like a dragon-slaying princess, but also has a fairly accurate literary portrayal of depression (I preferred it to The Blue Sword). Jane Yolen's Sister Light, Sister Dark mentioned above is interesting for it's well-done concept of interweaving the story with the history, myths, and legends that were told by later generations in the society, but if memory serves it ends on a cliffhanger that leads into White Jenna.
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Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn has the Unicorn as the main character and may be familiar due to the animated movie and recent comic book adaptation. Diane Duane's The Book of Night with Moon follows a (female) cat wizard on a quest against evil in roughly contemporary New York. Charles de Lint's Newford books too, which feature an ensemble cast with many central female characters and start with the short story collection Dreams Underfoot. Urban fantasy in may be a place to look given its popularity in the genre today- I tend to prefer the quieter side to the badass side, but I will second Emma Bull's War for the Oaks and also Nina Kiriki Hoffman's A Red Heart of Memories as well as Thread that Binds the Bones (if they are still available). Although the four books already on your list are lacking in strong female characters, they're also lacking in racial minorities, and here Butler would be a perfect addition for multicultural purposes. My main reason for wanting Butler in there is because of race. Not knowing what grade level and how broad-minded your school administration might be, I just want you to be aware of this as a possible issue. Also (and this depends on age level and school administration policies), beyond simple reading level, there's the issue in Fledgling of the vampire protagonist, who appears to be a girl child, engaging in physical contact with a male adult (possibly sexual, though it's been a while since I read it and I don't entirely remember). My concern is whether your students might be too young for some of these suggestions, and I'm particularly concerned about Fledgling for a middle-school audience - and perhaps even for a high-school audience outside of an advanced placement track. Your answer (6), that it could be any age level because you still enjoy Watership Down, isn't really the point. Kmiarz (2&3), though, makes a good point both about Frankenstein as fantasy rather than sci-fi and an even better point in her question about age level. Since I'm strongly in favor of including something by Butler, though, I'll go along with GirlMisanthrope on Fledgling.
For an alternative choice by Butler, there's Kindred, which she herself personally considered "fantasy" since there's no science in it (but I've yet to read Kindred so I want to be careful on recommending it). I have a little bit of a question just how "fantasy" Fledgling is versus sci-fi, but I think it could possibly fit into the"urban" fantasy genre to some degree. My personal vote is strongly in favor of including something by Octavia Butler so to that extent GirlMisanthrope and I agree. I might consider Lewis's Till We Have Faces, however. Lucy doesn't really come into her own as a protagonist until The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Lucy, charming though she is, has to share the spotlight with her siblings, and, in fact, Edmund is far more central to the story as a whole than she is. Though I like it a great deal, I really want this last work to be centered on a female protagonist. I'm afraid The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is out. (I don't care for the genre as a whole.) I haven't read Fledgling yet, but as I understand it, Octavia Butler is one of the most significant and profound female voices in sci-fi. What's her best shorter stuff?ĥ: I do love The War for the Oaks and it's just about the only urban fantasy I would even consider putting on my list.
I don't know much about Bradley's work beyond The Mists of Avalon, and that's much too long. I've included The Hobbit on my prospectives list largely because you can't talk about the modern fantasy genre without touching on Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings is too long to allow for the inclusion of anything else.Ĥ: The Blue Sword may be worth consideration.
I'm in my forties and I still enjoy reading Watership Down immensely. 3: The books can be just about any age level.
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