Here’s a list of books the Lolitas have reviewed. Also, visit our Steam Classics page.
The Lolitas present their Steampunk Reading List*
Some of these are really books with Steampunk Elements, but we like them anyway, and this is by no means complete and all-inclusive.
Steampunk Novels and Novellas
“The Iron Seas” series by Meljean Brook
“The Parasol Protectorate” series by Gail Carriger
Heart’s Blood by Gail Dayton
Return to Avalon by O.M. Grey
“Strangely Beautiful” series by Leanna Hieber
Perdito Street Station by China Mieville
Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti
Whitechaple Gods by S.M. Peters
The Anubis Gate by Tim Powers
Boneshaker and Dreadnaught by Cherie Priest
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling
Steampunk and Steampunk Reloaded (Short Stories) by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (editor)
Steampunk Tales (magazine)
YA/Middle Grade
“The Clockwork Chronicles” series by Derek Benz and JS Lewis
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Boneshaker by Kate Milford
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
“His Dark Materials” series by Phillip Pullman
“Hungry City Chronicles” series by Phillip Reeve
“Larklight” series by Phillip Reeve
The Invention of Hugo Cabaret by Brian Selznick
“The Hunchback Assignments” series by Arthur Slade
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino
Leviathan and Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
Classics
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Steampunk Comic Books/Graphic Novels
AlterNation
Gary Gianni’s adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Cathedral Child
Clockwork Angels
Cyborg Ivy
Five Fists of Science
Kazu Kibuishi’s Flight
Gotham by Gaslight
Girl Genius
Jonah Hex
Lady Mechanika
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Les Aventures Extraordinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec
Steampunk (Wildstorm)
Steamypunk
Love in a Time of Steam by Elizabeth Darvill
Full Steam Ahead by Nathalie Gray
*This is by no means a definitive list
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This is the best list of steampunk I have seen in years, and believe me I’ve been looking. If I had to answer “what is steampunk?” one more time….I am totally directing those people to this list!
Thanks!
I would add Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrances Novel by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris to you list. It’s the first steampunk book I read, and It’s definitly worth recommending to others.
One YA I would suggest is The Clockwork Three.
There is a book I have just completed work on, Dhampyr Heritage by EGGaddess, it is due out this May. You could check it out at her website: EGGaddess.com or mine mkias-sketchjournal.blogspot.com
May I suggest “The Friday Society”, by Adrienne Kress? http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5623269-the-friday-society