These are my notes from the panel “If You Like That, Read This!” which took place at 7:00 pm on Saturday, January 22, 2022 at ConFusion 2022: Rising ConFusion in Novi, Michigan.

I moderated this panel, which was a somewhat superfluous role as the panel included only myself and Anton Cancre, filling in for Sarah Hans, who was unable to attend the panel. Since there were only half a dozen attendees, we decided to keep things informal. We pulled some chairs into a circle and went around and the room, discussing books we had read recently, and books we particularly liked and recommended to the other attendees.

The first list includes recent reads and books which came up in the conversation.

• Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (墨香铜臭), Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation 
• Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild Built
• T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones
• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Gene Wolfe, The Knight
• Tess Uriza Holthe, When the Elephants Dance
• Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
• Incite!, The Revolution Will Not be Funded
• I. Seymour Youngblood, Entomophobia
• V. Castro, Hairspray and Switchblades
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
• Gabino Iglecias, Zero Saints
• Nahual RPG
• Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind, and sequels
• Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
• Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game and sequels
• Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit
• Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle
• Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern
• Frank Herbert, Dune
• Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
• Maurice Broaddus, Pimp My Airship
• Afrofuturism in general
• Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer, The Memory Librarian
• Zig Zag Claybourne, Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe
• Max Booth III, We Need to Do Something
• Bill Campbell (editor) – Sunspot Jungle

This next list is the reading recommendations, subtitled “Read this now!!!”

• Carlos Hernandez, The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria
• Tales from the Loop
• Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War
• Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
• Betty Rocksteady, The Writhing Skies
• Sarah Hans, Entomophobia
• Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline
• John Crowley, Little, Big
• Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

All in all, it was a fun panel, and I have added a few of these titles to my ever-growing TBR pile.