Book list
I tend not to do memes but this is one that caught my eye, and of course Alger did it, which means all the cool kids will be doing it on monday.
1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand, by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God’s Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel’s Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis
Kinda makes me look like a slacker, actually, 44/100. I think a lot of this is due to the fact that in the early 90’s I dropped SF in favor of more nonfiction/adventure stuff, and murder mystery.
And Al Gore’s little invention is taking up a bunch of my time, too, last 20 some years.
(edited to add a link to Mark Alger which I woefully forgot yesterday, dumbass that I occasionally am)
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You’ve read Silmarillion? That’s boring enough to cause brain damage!
Ed: Put your hands on a copy of “The Way Farer” by Dennis Schmidt.
No worse piece of SF/Fantasy has ever been written, and trust me on this, I know. I’ve read “The Eye of Argon”. This is why you need to publish your stuff, it’s a brasilian times better than a lot of shit that has been published and sold.
Not my genre, but I’ve read a few of them; The Eyre Affair, The Princess Bride, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, Watership Down, and 1984. (SisterFed says I MUST read The Outlander series…)
Certainly not enough to post the whole list ! ;)
Know what I’m a-gonna do? I’m going to shlep you what I’ve got of the latest rewrite project, all 60-ish pages of it. I bet you’ll come over here and threaten to expose yourself to me until I find a publisher… :P
NOOOOOO NOT THE SACK! NOT THE SACK! AIIGHHHHhh….
Worse than that. I’ll rub my sweaty giant nutsack on all the door handles so you’ll be trapped in the house. Publish this stuff, you dirtbag. Keeping it to yourself is just wrong.
Before you go pressuring people to jump into the self-pub thicket, check it out. It’s not rocket science, but it’s not falling off a log drunk, either. Not that that’s an excuse for not publishing good shit, mind. There I agree with you. Just sayin’s all.
M
Self pub would be better than losing excellent work, but my suggestion to Ed has ALWAYS been a real pub house.
Oh. Sorry. Misread you there. Or projected, one.
M
Could well be that I’ve lost the ability to use the English language, which is highly possible.
What? No “Footfall” on that list?
not my list, I just copied it from others
It is not a very comprehensive list, as Mark pointed out in his post.
Two LeGuin novels, but neither of them The Lathe of Heaven? Oy.
Read the list. Not sure what the count should be as have read enough to start forgetting the ones towards the front end. Would be interested in reading eds stuff.