Winner of the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Winner of the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.

" A wonder and a joy."
--"The New York Times

"" Compelling... Never deigning to transcend the genre to which it is clearly a love letter, this outstanding (and entirely teen-appropriate) tale draws its strength from a solid foundation of sense-of-wonder and what-if."
"--Publishers Weekly", starred review

" Beautifully crafted... "Among Others "calls to those who desire a wild, magical world in place of the one they have but eventually learn that their own lives are the greatest story of all."
"--Bloomsbury Review

"" There are the books you want to give all your friends, and there are the books you wish you could go back and give your younger self. And then there's the rare book, like Jo W alton's "Among Others", that's both."
--io9.com

"An utterly amazing and beautiful book."
--"RT Book Reviews", Top Pick

Jo Walton writes science fiction and fantasy novels and reads a lot and eats great food. It worries her slightly that this is so exactly what she always wanted to do when she grew up. She comes from Wales, but lives in Montreal.