Suggested steampunk, cyberpunk, and weird west titles?

Hey all,
I'm constructing some recommended reading lists over at my moreVikings book & comic review blog.

What would you recommend to someone looking for...

Steampunk Titles?

Cyberpunk Titles?

Weird West Titles? *Note: includes both the Western Steampunk and Horror categories' sub-genre

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Arcadia Snips and the Steamwork Consortium by Robert C. Rogers. My review of this book is on Bookvisions
Steampunk
Soulless by Gail Carriger
William Gibson, The Difference Engine
Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan (Young Adult)
China Mieville, Un Lun Dun (Young Adult)
Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone
Cheri Priest, Boneshaker
Steampunk, edited by Ann Vandermeer
Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ( Graphic Novel)

I don't know if this counts, Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack by Dean and Shannon Hale, graphic novels set in a fairytale west with touches of steampunk.

There is also Bryan Talbot, Grandville which is an mix of anthropomorphic characters and steampunk in a graphic novel.
http://www.bryan-talbot.com/grandville/

Weird West

Black Hills, Dan Simmons
Haunted Mesa, Louis L'amour
Dead In the West, Joe R. Lansdale
The Dark Tower, Stephen King
Jonah Hex graphic novels
Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns by Paul Green

Cyberpunk
Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Dr. Adder, K.W. Jeter (kind of gross and very interesting)
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
John Brunner, Shockwave Rider
Rudy Rucker, The Hacker and the Ants
Bruce Sterling, Mirror Shades (Anthology)
Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown (nonfiction)
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Vernor Vinge, True Names
There is another category which you might want to look at called Gaslight which refers to early Victorian tales of the weird. This is a link to the original stories which are often quite interesting.

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/
Thanks for your suggestions. The completed genre intros and reading lists are all up: Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Weird West, Noired, Mashup.
There is a new book by a new press that just came out by J.P. Carlson called Rex Riders . It came out in May printed by Monstrosities Inc. I enjoyed the book immensely. It is a dinosaur western written for young adults.
I see people have already noted this, but I second William Gibson's Sprawl Series - I recently reviewed the series here
Hi everyone! I am so thrilled to find you all! This is my first post here and I hope I am not repeating these books by Gordon Dahlquist. They are marvelous! "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" is the first in the series and "The Dark Volume" is the second. I believe he is working on the third book. I had the chance to interview him and he's an amazing storyteller.

This is such a great place and everyone is so helpful!

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