Charles de Lint: probably _Moonlight and Vines_ or _The Ivory and the Horn_ Emma Bull: _War for the Oaks_ Steven Brust: _Jhereg_, or go _The Phoenix Guards_ for a lighter theme Lois Bujold: _Curse of Chalion_ and _Paladin of Souls_ Diane Duane: _So You Want to Be a Wizard?_ Barbara Hambly: _The Time of the Dark_ and (especially!) _Dragonsbane_ Diana Wynne Jones: _The Tough Guide to Fantasyland_ Katharine Kerr: _Daggerspell_ Jack Vance: _The Dying Earth_
If you want to warp her for life/be extraordinarily subversive:
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Date: 2005-03-01 07:52 pm (UTC)Emma Bull: _War for the Oaks_
Steven Brust: _Jhereg_, or go _The Phoenix Guards_ for a lighter theme
Lois Bujold: _Curse of Chalion_ and _Paladin of Souls_
Diane Duane: _So You Want to Be a Wizard?_
Barbara Hambly: _The Time of the Dark_ and (especially!) _Dragonsbane_
Diana Wynne Jones: _The Tough Guide to Fantasyland_
Katharine Kerr: _Daggerspell_
Jack Vance: _The Dying Earth_
If you want to warp her for life/be extraordinarily subversive:
Eric Flint: _The Philosophical Strangler_ and _Forward the Mage_
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman: _The Fall of the Kings_
China MiƩville: _Perdido Street Station_
Sean Stewart: _Clouds End_
Michael Swanwick: _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_
If you find her reading _Sheepfarmer's Daughter_, give her _Curse of Chalion_ as an antidote, immediately. Or _Small Gods_. Or preferably both.