What's Next? Tell Me What to Read.

[akirlu]

I'm almost done with Charlie's Accelerando, and I don't yet know what I'm reading next. I want something wonderful, gripping, clever, engaging, and fun. Deep Thought not required. Non-fiction either, I'm not in that mood. Any suggestions? What have you rilly been mad about, lately? Any totally zany historical mysteries I should know about?

What I want, I realize, is Sorcery and Cecilia or the Temeraire books for the first time, again. Alas, that's not an option. Or possibly the Jasper Pffforddde books done right. But, ditto. Also okay would be a first reading of His Dark Materials. Too late. So, what's frothy or fantastical but fabulous?

Of course, it's the brink of NaNoWriMo, and I want to use that as a lever to get some work done on one of these dang books cluttering up my head, so if I am going to have fiction reading at all, it should be clunky, and dumb, and full of stupid inconsistencies that punt me out of the text at regular intervals, so I guess I'm open to suggestions for that kind of book as well. But then, I know there are plenty of Harry Dresden books yet untried, so it's less urgent.