Locus Magazine has released their annual Recommended Reading List for 2010. The list is assembled by Locus editors, reviewers and other industry professionals. You can read list related essays by these contibutors in the February issue.

Novels - Science Fiction

• Yarn - Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
• Surface Detail - Iain M. Banks (Orbit; Orbit UK)
• Directive 51 - John Barnes (Ace)
• Chill - Elizabeth Bear (Ballantine Spectra)
• Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear (Orbit US)
• CryoBurn - Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
• The Passage - Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
• Zendegi - Greg Egan (Night Shade Books; Gollancz)
• Zero History - William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
• Feed - Mira Grant (Orbit)
• Starbound - Joe Haldeman (Ace)
• Sleepless - Charlie Huston (Ballantine)
• Brain Thief - Alexander Jablokov (Tor)
• The Dervish House - Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
• Terminal World - Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz; Ace)
• Birdbrain - Johanna Sinisalo (Peter Owen)
• Blackout / All Clear - Connie Willis (Ballantine Spectra)

Novels - Fantasy

• The Golden Age - Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive)
• The Bird of the River - Kage Baker (Tor)
• Zoo City - Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot UK; Angry Robot US)
• The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett (Ballantine Del Rey; HarperVoyager)
• Changeless - Gail Carriger (Orbit US)
• The Wolf Age - James Enge (Pyr)
• Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde (Viking; Hodder & Stoughton)
• Jade Man's Skin - Daniel Fox (Del Rey)
• The Half-Made World - Felix Gilman (Tor)
• Horns - Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz)
• Kings of the North - Cecelia Holland (Forge)
• Hespira - Matthew Hughes (Night Shade Books)
• Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada; Roc)
• The Bards of Bone Plain - Patricia A. McKillip (Ace)
• Kraken - China Miéville (Macmillan UK; Ballantine Del Rey)
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell (Random House)
• Who Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• The Folding Knife - K. J. Parker (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
• A Matter of Blood - Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz)
• The House of Discarded Dreams - Ekaterina Sedia (Prime Books)
• A Dark Matter - Peter Straub (Doubleday; Orion)
• The Fuller Memorandum - Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
• The Habitation of the Blessed - Catherynne M. Valente (Night Shade Books)
• The Sorcerer's House - Gene Wolfe (Tor)

Young Adult Books

• Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
• White Cat - Holly Black (Simon & Schuster/McElderry Books)
• Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card (Simon Pulse)
• Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
• Factotum - D. M. Cornish (Omnibus Australia; Fickling UK; Putnam)
• Thresholds - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
• Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
• The Boneshaker - Kate Milford (Clarion)
• Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press; Walker UK)
• Lord Sunday- Garth Nix (Scholastic Press; HarperCollins UK)
• I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; Harper)
• Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
• Kid vs. Squid - Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury)
• Behemoth - Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)