Ha'penny

10 best books like Ha'penny (Jo Walton): The Fated Sky, Turning Darkness Into Light, The Only Harmless Great Thing, The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan, The Survival of Molly Southbourne, Mrs. Miniver, The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library), Arcadia, I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, Articulated Restraint

The Fated Sky

Author

Mary Robinette Kowal

The Fated Sky continued the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars. It is 1961, and the International Aerospace Coalition has established a colony on the moon. Elma York, the noted Lady Astronaut, is working on rotation, flying shuttles on the moon and returning regularly...

Turning Darkness Into Light

Author	Marie Brennan
ISBN	0765377616

As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study.

When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series...

The Only Harmless Great Thing

Author	Brooke Bolander
ISBN	1250169488

In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.

These are the facts.

Now these two tragedies are...

The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan

Author	Sherry Thomas
ISBN	1620148048

CHINA, 484 A.D.

A Warrior in Disguise
All her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed...

The Survival of Molly Southbourne

Author

Tade Thompson

Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind?

A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them left alive. A set of rules that no longer apply.

Molly Southbourne is alive. If she wants to survive, she’ll need to run, hide, and be ready...

Mrs. Miniver

Author	Jan Struther
ISBN	0156631407

Ok finished the book. One final thought to complete the review. Mrs. Miniver did have something rather excellent to say on marriages and social life. She said that there was often one of a pair that you liked less than the other, or that one of them would always outshine the other (don't we all know couples...

The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback (Everyman's Library)

Author	Raymond Chandler
ISBN	0375415025

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savor the unique and utterly compelling fictional...

Arcadia

Author	Jim Crace
ISBN	0140276009

Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality...

I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land

Author

Connie Willis

Jim is in New York City at Christmastime shopping a book based on his blog—Gone for Good—premised on the fact that “being nostalgic for things that have disappeared is ridiculous.” Progress decides for people what they need and what’s obsolete. It’s that simple. Of course, not everyone...

Articulated Restraint

Author	Mary Robinette Kowal
ISBN	1250241308

3.5 stars for this SF short story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted here on Fantasy Literature:

Ruby Donaldson, an astronaut stationed on the Neutral Buoyancy Lab or NBL, is nursing a severely sprained ankle, which she twisted while practicing a Charleston Flip in a dance rehearsal,...