I am gobsmacked at the size of the recommended reading list for science fiction and fantasy books for 2009 as presented by Locus Online. It includes 52 novels, an even larger number of anthologies, related non-fiction titles, YA books, novellas, novellettes and short stories. If I were to actually read everything on the list, I think it would take me more than 12 months and by then their 2010 list would be out. I do own a few of the books on the list already, so maybe I'll start with those and see how it goes.

As for other books to add to your potential reading list, here are some reviews that offer possibilities. The first is for Robert Sawyer's new book, Wake. My wife just read it and thought highly of it.

Kim Stanley Robinson has a new book out called Galileo's Dream which is part sci-fi and part historical fiction which sounds something like what Neal Stephenson was trying to accomplish with his Baroque Cycle.

I am not familiar with Charlie Huston, but he recently wrote a book called Sleepless which, judging from this interview, sounds like an interesting story.

Another title that sounds like one worth seeking out is Adam Roberts's Yellow Blue Tibia, a book that was pegged as being a possible Booker Prize winner, but which was ultimately snubbed.