I just finished a reread of one of my favorite trilogies – first published as the Queen’s Quarter trilogy in the late ‘80s/early 90s and then republished as the Oran trilogy in the ‘00s. The author is Midori Snyder. These books have been out of print for decades and I’ve never met anyone else who has read or even heard of them, but they are so so good. It’s that style of pre-Twilight, pre-BookTok fantasy with incredible world building and a refusal to pull any punches that you just don’t see all that often anymore.
So now I’m curious – what are your favorite books that nobody else seems to remember or have heard of, but that you absolutely love? I personally read a lot of fantasy, science fiction, and mystery/detective fiction, so I’ll of course take recommendations, but I’m also just interested to hear about any books in any genre that seem to have disappeared entirely from literary memory, but that you personally love.
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The Blackbird Series by Freda Warrington. The Kine Trilogy by A R Lloyd, and the Duncton series by William Horwood. All read when I was a kid, and re-acquired via Abe Books as an adult. I love them just as much now as I did then. Oh, kids books – The Talking Parcel, A Walk In Wolf Wood and absolutely anything by Alan Garner. Susan Cooper needs more love, too!