We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and it's no different for a writer like myself. Everything you read influences your own writing style and choices, and of course your later reading habits. And here are mine!The order of this list is roughly chronological (i.e. when I read it, not when it was written), not a ranking of quality and/or preference. Also, a warning: most of these, like my writing, are SFF, and especially the early ones were written at a time when SFF was white male dominated—it shows. Take them with the appropriate amount of salt.