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 Ether Chronicles” series by Zoe Archer
“Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences” series by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
“The Iron Seas” series by Meljean Brook
“The Parasol Protectorate” series by Gail Carriger
Timeless
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/book-monday-timeless-by-gail-carriger/
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/maeve-alpin-reviews-gail-carrigers-timeless/
Heartless
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/book-monday-heartless/
Blameless
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/lolita-suzannes-best-steampunk-books-of-2010/
Changeless
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/book-monday-gail-carrigers-changeless/
Souless
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/book-review-soulless-by-gail-carriger/
“The St. Croix Chronicles” by Karina Cooper
Heart of Brass by Kate Cross
Heart’s Blood by Gail Dayton
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/book-review-hearts-blood-by-gail-dayton/
Return to Avalon by O.M. Grey
Avalon Revisited by O.M. Grey
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/visiting-lolita-candace-reviews-avalon-revisited/
“Vampire Empire” series by Clay and Susan Griffith
The Rift Walker
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/book-monday-guest-review-the-rift-walker/
The Greyfriar
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/book-monday-guest-review-the-greyfriar/
“Strangely Beautiful” series by Leanna Hieber
“Burton & Swinburne” series by Mark Hodder
Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder
God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/book-monday-god-save-the-queen-by-kate-locke/
Ghosts of Manhattan and Ghosts of War by George Mann
The Falling Machine and Heart of Smoke and Steam by Andrew Mayer
Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster
“The Legend Chronicles” by Theresa Meyers
“Age of Steam” series by Devon Monk
Aladdin and the Wonderfully Infernal Device by Tee Morris
Perdito Street Station by China Mieville
Clockwork Heart by Dru Pagliassotti
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/book-monday-dru-pagliassottis-clockwork-heart/
Whitechapel Gods by: S.M. Peters
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/in-which-o-m-grey-reviews-whitechapel-gods/
The Anubis Gate by Tim Powers
Boneshaker and Dreadnaught by Cherie Priest
The Buntline Specal by Mike Resnick
Night of Fire by Nico Rosso
The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia
The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling
“Phaeton Black, Paranormal Investigator” series by Jillian Stone
Steampunk (Short Stories) by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (editor)
Steampunk Reloaded (Short Stories) by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer (editor)
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/lolita-suzannes-best-steampunk-books-of-2010/
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/book-monday-steampunk-reloaded-review-and-arc-giveaway/
Clockwork and Corsets (anthology)
The Omnibus of Doctor Bill Shakes (anthology)
The Steampunk Bible (anthology)
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber
Android Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and BenWinters
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/book-monday-android-karenina/
Steamed: A Steampunk Romance by Katie MacAlister
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/book-review-steamed-a-steampunk-romance/
The Dark Victorian: Risen by Elizabeth Watasin
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/guest-book-review-the-dark-victorian-risen/
YA/Middle Grade
“The Magnificent Devices” novels by Shelley Adina
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
“The Clockwork Chronicles” series by Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis
Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
The Girl in the Steel Corset and The Girl in the Clockwork Collar by Kady Cross
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/book-monday-the-girl-in-the-steel-corset/
Cuttlefish by Dave Freer
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Dearly Departed and Dearly Beloved by Lia Habel
Darker Still and The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart by Leanna Renee Hieber
“The Iron Codex” series by Caitlin Kittredge
The Clockwork Three by Matthew Kirby
Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear
Planesrunner and Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands, and The Kairos Mechanism 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
Book 1
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/book-monday-the-hunchback-assignments/
The Dark Deeps book 2
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/lolita-suzannes-best-steampunk-books-of-2010/
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Taylor
Thomas Riley by Nick Valentino
Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/book-monday-scott-westerfelds-leviathan/
The Faerie Ring by: Kiki Hamilton
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/book-monday-the-faerie-ring/
The Iron Thorn by: Caitlin Kittredge
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/book-monday-the-iron-thorn/
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
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/why-i-adore-girl-genius/
Jonah Hex
Lady Mechanika
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Les Aventures Extraordinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec
Steampunk (Wildstorm)
Steamypunk
As Timeless as Stone, As timeless as Magic, and To Love a London Ghost by Maeve Alpin
Prehistoric Clock and The Mysterious Lady Law by Robert Appleton
A Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale and The Bewitching Tale of Stormy Gale by Christine Bell
Cruel Numbers by Christopher Beats
A Clockwork Christmas by J.K. Coi
Island of Icarus by Christine Danse
Like Clockwork by Bonnie Dee
Badlands and Clockwork Mafia by Seleste Delaney
Love in a Time of Steam by Elizabeth Darvill
Full Steam Ahead by Nathalie Gray
Asher’s Invention by Coleen Kwan
Alchemy of Desire by Christa McHugh
Kilts and Kraken, Steam and Sorcery, and Photographs and Phantoms by Cindy Spencer Pape
Magazines
Steampunk Tales
Dr. Fantastique’s Worlds of Wonder
Gaslamp Fantasy
Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula: the Adventure of the Solitary Grave by: John H. Watson
Edited by: Christian Klaver
Sherlock Holmes and Watson: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Whaler by: John H. Watson Edited by: Christian Klaver
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/holmes-like-youve-never-seen-him-before/
Short Stories
Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate by: David Erik Nelson
https://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/tucker-is-a-trip/
*This is by no means a definitive list
updated 9/6/2012
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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
Also,
Emperor’s Edge Series by Lindsay Buroker.
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May I also add His Black Wings by Astrid Yrigollen? Its a brillant steampunk homage to Beauty and the Beast.