Steampunk Recs?

[avalonestel.livejournal.com]

Off-topic majorly, here, but I was wondering, does anyone here have any good recommendations for books with steampunk settings? I've read the Matt Cruse series by Kenneth Oppel and I've been hearing some good things about Leviathan, but otherwise, I'm pretty lost. I love steampunk and would like a few recs to read for ideas for a story I want to write. Help, please?

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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Dreamhunter and Dreamquake, both by Elizabeth Knox, and Nine Pound Hammer by John Claude Bemis. All great books.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

The delightful Larklight series by Phillip Reeve. It's from the juvenile section; very quick reading, clever, hilarious, and fun.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

What about The Golden Compass and sequels? Those might be considered steampunk, too.

[peanut13171.livejournal.com]

Death of a Necromancer by Martha Wells. The "sequels", where the main character of DoaN has a bit part is, partly set in a fantasy Victorian type of France/Italy/Britain and half in a pre-industrial world. The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy consists of: The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, The Gate of Gods. One of my favorite series/autjhors.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Also by Philip Reeve, for an older audience than the (wonderful) Larklight books -- Mortal Engines and its 3 sequels Predator's Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher has some steampunk elements, as well.

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

It's on my shelf to read, so I can't really give it a personal, glowing recommendation, but you might look into The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt. I can't find my copy right now or I'd give you the synopsis.
It focuses on two orphans in London. That's about all I remember. XD

[cindy-pon.livejournal.com]

i'm told that leviathan is by scott westerfield?
i've not read any of his YA and just ordered
his latest. am eager to read it!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Eoin Colfer's Airman feels really steampunk though it's actually a historical. It's all about the way it's told...

It's steampunk in the way that the Jules Verne science fiction now is steampunk.

[adalanne.livejournal.com]

You probably have a decent list by now, but how about Boneshaker (http://www.amazon.com/Boneshaker-Sci-Fi-Essential-Books/dp/0765318415)? It's next in my to-read pile and has been getting great reviews, and everyone I know who's read it loved it. (Publishers Weekly calls it "a must-read for the discerning steampunk fan;" can't get better than that, eh?)