As with all great reading lists, some of these books were chosen for their influence, some for their ability to spark impassioned discussions, and some simply because they’re great reads!

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Guests of Honor and Faculty - Theme Books

2020 Sirens Guests of Honor

• The Lemonade Reader
• Searching for Sycorax
• Sycorax’s Daughters (editor, with Linda D. Addison and Dr. Susana Morris)

• Wicked As You Wish
• The Never Tilting World
• The Bone Witch Series (The Bone Witch, The Heart Forger, The Shadowglass)
• The Girl from the Well Series (The Girl from the Well, The Suffering)

• When We Were Magic
• Upright Women Wanted
• Magic for Liars
• American Hippo (includes River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow)
• The Fisher of Bones
• Steven Universe issues 29, 30, 31, and 32 (with Rii Abrego and Missy Peña)

• “Away with the Wolves” in Uncanny (2019) [read online]
• “An Augmented Reality” in The Atlantic (2018) [read online]
• “From the Void” in Shimmer (2018) [read online]
• “Bread and Milk and Salt” in Tor.com (2018) [read online]
• “STET” in Fireside (2018) [read online]
• “All the Stars Above the Sea” in Uncanny (2018) [read online]
• “A Lady’s Maid” in B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2017) [read online]
• “The Art of Asterculture” in Tor.com (2017) [read online]

• “What Makes a Story Queer?” in B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2019) [read online]
• “Fear of the Female Voice” in Tor.com (2017) [read online]
• “The Hubris of Icarus: Women Who Fly into the Sun” in Tor.com (2017) [read online]
• “A Woman, Explaining Things” in B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2017) [read online]
• “Why Millennials Yearn for Magical School” in Uncanny (2017) [read online]
• “On Feasting” in B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2017) [read online]
• “Facing Facts: American Identity Is Based on Alternate History” in Tor.com (2017) [read online]
• “Storytelling Through Costume: The Woman in White” in Tor.com (2017) [read online]
• “Mentally Ill Women Belong in Your Stories, Too” in Tor.com (2016) [read online]
• “Why We Write About Witches” in Tor.com (2016) [read online]
• “Do Better: Sexual Violence in SFF” in Tor.com (2016) [read online]

• The Green Bone Saga (Jade City and Jade War)
• The Exo Series (Exo and Cross Fire)
• Zeroboxer

• “The Overcast” [read online]
• “Universal Print” [read online]

2020 Sirens Studio Guest of Honor

• Mañana: Latinx Comics from the 25th Century (forthcoming 2020)
• Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy
• Power & Magic: Immortal Souls
• Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
• Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology Volume 2 (forthcoming)

2020 Sirens Studio Faculty
(who have published work)

Please see above for works by Kinitra D. Brooks, Rin Chupeco, and Fonda Lee.

• “The Tea Princess Chronicles” [read online]

• Driftwood
• Turning Darkness into Light
• The Ree Varekai Series (Cold-Forged Flame and Lightning in the Blood)
• The Memoirs of Lady Trent Series (A Natural History of Dragons, The Tropic of Serpents, Voyage of the Basilisk, In the Labyrinth of Drakes, and Within the Sanctuary of Wings)
• The Onyx Court Series (Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire)
• The Doppelganger Series (Warrior and Witch)

• New Worlds, Year One
• New Worlds, Year Two

• Miss Meteor (with Tehlor Kay Mejia)
• Dark and Deepest Red
• Blanca & Roja
• Wild Beauty
• When the Moon Was Ours
• The Weight of Feathers

Guests of Honor and Faculty - Theme Books

2020 Villains Theme Books

Guests of Honor and Faculty - Theme Books