The 2010 Recommended Reading List is here! As well as directing you to the main list, I’d also like to highlight the short fiction that’s currently available online:

Novellas

• The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean Press)
• The Taborin Scale, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean Press)
• “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window“, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’10)

Novelettes

• “A Jar of Goodwill“, Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld 5/10)
• “Braiding the Ghosts“, C. S. E. Cooney (Clockwork Phoenix 3)
• “The Cage“, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor.com 7/28/10)
• “The Mad Scientist’s Daughter“, Theodora Goss (Strange Horizons 1/18-1/25/10)
• “Brownian Emotion“, Tom Holt (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “Pupa“, David D. Levine (Analog 10/10)
• “The Literomancer“, Ken Liu (F&SF 9-10/10)
• “WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!“, Meghan McCarron (Strange Horizons 5/3-5/10/10)
• “The Naturalist“, Maureen McHugh (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “Amor Vincit Omnia“, K.J. Parker (Subterranean, Summer ’10)
• “The Bodhisattvas“, Gord Sellar (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Unorthodox Dr. Draper“, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean Fall ’10)
• “Butterfly and the Blight at the Heart of the World“, Lavie Tidhar (Daily Science Fiction 9/3/10)

Short Stories

• “The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model“, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor.com 8/11/10)
• “Stereogram of the Gray Fort, in the Days of Her Glory“, Paul M. Berger (Fantasy 6/21/10)
• “Under the Moons of Venus“, Damien Broderick (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Duke of Vertumn’s Fingerling“, Elizabeth Carroll (Strange Horizons 4/5/10)
• “The Jammie Dodgers and the Adventure of the Leicester Square Screening“, Cory Doctorow (Shareable 5/25/10)
• “The Green Book“, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex 11/1/10)
• “The Interior of Mister Bumblethorn’s Coat“, Willow Fagan (Fantasy 10/11/10)
• “Fair Ladies“, Theodora Goss (Apex 8/2/10)
• “The Red Bride“, Samantha Henderson (Strange Horizons 7/5/10)
• “Futures in the Memories Market“, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Clarkesworld 6/10)
• “In-Fall“, Ted Kosmatka (Lightspeed 12/10)
• “Between Two Dragons“, Yoon Ha Lee (Clarkesworld 4/10)
• “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain“, Yoon Ha Lee (Lightspeed 9/10)
• “Second Journey of the Magus“, Ian R. MacLeod (Subterranean Winter ’10)
• “The Courtship of the Queen“, Bruce McAllister (Tor.com 5/5/10)
• “Beach Blanket Spaceship“, Sandra McDonald (Clarkesworld 7/10)
• “Seven Sexy Cowboy Robots“, Sandra McDonald (Strange Horizons 10/4/10)
• “The Isthmus Variation“, Kris Millering (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/1/10)
• “Clockwork Fairies“, Cat Rambo (Tor.com 8/20/10)
• “Elegy for a Young Elk“, Hannu Rajaniemi (Subterranean Spring ’10)
• “The Cull“, Robert Reed (Clarkesworld 9/10)
• “The Exterminator’s Want-Ad“, Bruce Sterling (Shareable 6/22/10)
• “The Monster’s Million Faces“, Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 9/8/10)
• “The Stable Master’s Tale“, Rachel Swirsky (Fantasy 7/5/10)
• “The Night Train“, Lavie Tidhar (Strange Horizons 6/14/10)
• “The Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String“, Lavie Tidhar (Fantasy 5/17/10)
• “Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale)“, Ian Tregillis (Apex 10/4/10)
• “What Doctor Gottlieb Saw“, Ian Tregillis (Tor.com 6/8/10)
• “How to Become a Mars Overlord“, Catherynne M. Valente (Lightspeed 8/10)
• “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time“, Catherynne M. Valente (Clarkesworld 8/10)
• “The Zeppelin Conductors’ Society Annual Gentlemen’s Ball“, Genevieve Valentine (Lightspeed 7/10)
• “Amarylis“, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
• “The Things“, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
• “The Children of Main Street“, A.C. Wise (Clarkesworld 12/10)
• “Standard Loneliness Package“, Charlie Yu (Lightspeed 11/10)

Wow, that’s a lot of quality fiction. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything that’s available online. Also, I’m thinking of putting together a mini-Roundtable discussion about a few of the short stories–if there any you’d like discussed in more depth, please mention it in the comments, thanks!