Go ahead and add any Cherryh s.f. written before the mid 1990s. I find her fantasy generally weak, and her newer s.f. has that "written for profit" quality of recycled themes and so-so writing (though her so-so writing is also better than most of what's on the market). Her earlier s.f. that I've read so far is uniformly grand.

The Pride has sequels, but the novel is complete whether you read them or not; it's also tangentially related to her Alliance/Union novels, if you want to find out just what the humans are up to in their own space. The characters in The Pride (even the human, really) don't know what's going on there, either, and don't care much, so it's fine if you don't.