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You read ... alphabetically? Camilla Send a noteboard - 11/09/2009 10:09:26 AM
I often have people tell me "you should read this book next!" And then I tell them that it'll be a while before I get to that book, and they usually say "oh, just move this towards the top of your list!" Well, this is why that's not going to work.

I started with the "A" authors in January of '08. I'm currently in the E-G range, with more books having been added to the A-E range in the meantime - but those have been moved to the bottom of the list, in the interest of fairness (and me not going insane [er]).


I don't think I have ever come across anyone even considering that seriously before.

I'm going to be at this for a while.

David Louis Edelman ~ Geosynchron

Steven Erikson ~ The Lees of Laughter’s End, Dust of Dreams

Jaine Fenn ~ Principles of Angels

William Forstchen ~ Ice Prophet, The Flame Upon the Ice, A Darkness Upon the Ice

Pat Frank ~ Alas, Babylon (reading now)

Ronald H. Fritze ~ Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions

Felix Gilman ~ Thunderer (reading now), Gears of the City

Che Guevera ~ The Motorcycle Diaries

Peter F. Hamilton ~ The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God, The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void

Graham Hancock ~ Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind


Here add The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway.

Robert Harris ~ Pompeii

Robert Heinlein ~ Stranger in a Strange Land

Robin Hobb ~ Fool’s Errand, Golden Fool, Fool’s Fate

Cecelia Holland ~ Two Ravens

Fred Hoyle ~ A For Andromeda

Samantha Hunt ~ The Invention of Everything Else

Jeremy Robert Johnson ~ Extinction Journals

Michio Kaku ~ Physics of the Impossible

Guy Gavriel Kay ~ Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emperors

Stuart Kelly ~ The Book of Lost Books

Ken Kesey ~ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest


Here, you should add Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down from the Stars by Frank Key.

Greg Keyes ~ The Briar King, The Charnel Prince, The Blood Knight, The Born Queen

Stephen King ~ The Stand

Russell Kirkpatrick ~ Across the Face of the World, In the Earth Abides the Flame, The Right Hand of God, Path of Revenge

Dean Koontz ~ Lightning

Elizabeth Kostova ~ The Historian

Stephen R. Lawhead ~ The Paradise War, The Silver Hand, The Endless Knot

Stanislaw Lem ~ Solaris


Oooh. You need to add His Master's Voice and The Perfect Vacuum and Cyberiad to this. You cannot skip some of his best work.

John Ajvide Lindqvist ~ Let the Right One In

Scott Lynch ~ The Republic of Thieves

Ken Macleod ~ Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, Engine City

Nevin Martell ~ Looking for Calvin and Hobbes

Lee M. Martinez ~ In the Company of Ogres

Richard Matheson ~ I Am Legend

Jack mcDevitt ~ The Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, Omega, Cauldron

Ian McDonald ~ River of Gods

Scott McGough ~ Time Spiral, Planar Chaos (Timothy Sanders), Future Sight (John Delaney)

Herman Melville ~ Moby-Dick

David Michaelis ~ Schulz and Peanuts

China Miéville ~ The City and the City

Lee Miller ~ Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony

Walter M. Miller, Jr. ~ A Canticle for Liebowitz

John Milton ~ Paradise Lost

Richard Morgan ~ Altered Carbon

Kate Mosse ~ Labyrinth, Sepulchre

Sylvia Nasar ~ A Beautiful Mind

Flann O’Brien ~ The Third Policeman

Chuck Palahniuk ~ Fight Club

Tudor Parfitt ~ The Lost Ark of the Covenant

John Allen Paulos ~ Irreligion

Christopher Potter ~ You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe

Tim Powers ~ Three Days to Never

Terry Pratchett ~ Nation

Christopher Priest ~ Inverted World

Philip Pullman ~ The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass


Really, you don't have to.

Thomas Pynchon ~ Against the Day

Ayn Rand ~ The Fountainhead


Seriously? Ayn Rand? You have a limited time on this planet, a billion books to read, and you have that on your list?

John D. Rateliff ~ Mr. Baggins, Return to Bag End

Philip Reeve ~ Mortal Engines

Alastair Reynolds ~ Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap

Kim Stanley Robinson ~ Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, The Years of Rice and Salt, 40 Signs of Rain, 50 Degrees Below, 60 Days and Counting

James Rollins ~ The Last Oracle

Jed Rubenthel ~ The Interpretation of Murder

Brandon Sanderson ~ Warbreaker

Frank Schatzing ~ The Swarm

Ken Scholes ~ Lamentation

David Sedaris ~ When You Are Engulfed In Flames

Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson ~ The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Dan Simmons ~ Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, Drood

William Sleator ~ House of Stairs

Robert Louis Stevenson ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

S.M. Stirling ~ Dies the Fire

Bram Stoker ~ Dracula

Whitley Streiber ~ 2012: The War of Souls

Charles Stross ~ Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise

P.L. Travers ~ Mary Poppins

Karen Traviss ~ City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch

John Twelve Hawks ~ The Traveler

Neil deGrasse Tyson ~ The Pluto Files

Jeff VanderMeer ~ Shriek: an Afterword, The New Weird

Jack Vance ~ Tales of the Dying Earth

Jules Verne ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island

David Wallace ~ Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

H.G. Wells ~ The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds

Scott Westerfeld ~ The Risen Empire

Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray


And, surely, all his plays?

Sean Williams ~ The Crooked Letter, The Hanging Mountains

Tad Williams ~ Shadowplay

Robert Charles Wilson ~ Spin

Jeanette Winterson ~ The Stone Gods

Chris Wooding ~ Retribution Falls

Gene Wolfe ~ The Book of the New Sun

Roger Zelazny ~ Lord of Light


It is excellent.

Joe Abercrombie ~ The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, The Last Argument of Kings

R Scott Bakker ~ Neuropath

Iain M. Banks ~ The Algebraist, Consider Phlebas

Stephen Baxter ~ Flood, Ark, Coalescent, Transcendent, Exultant, The Light of Other Days

Elizabeth Bear ~ Blood and Iron, Whiskey and Water

Greg Bear ~ City at the End of Time, Darwin's Radio

Alfred Bester ~ The Stars My Destination

Dan Brown ~ Digital Fortress


You have to be joking. I repeat: limited tim &c.

John Brown ~ Servant of a Dark God

Tobias S. Buckell ~ Ragamuffin, Sly Mongoose

G.K. Chesterton ~ The Man Who Was Thursday

Dominic Cooper ~ Men at Axlir

Philip K. Dick ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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/NSSP: My fabled "to-read" list. Craig - 09/09/2009 07:45:04 AM 993 Views
... dan brown? jh - 09/09/2009 11:23:21 AM 616 Views
Indeed. Craig - 09/09/2009 06:18:32 PM 600 Views
You disappoint. jh - 09/09/2009 07:53:54 PM 630 Views
My work here is done. Craig - 09/09/2009 08:46:03 PM 675 Views
You actaully have a list? PhotoJim - 09/09/2009 12:26:44 PM 675 Views
I do... and this is why. Craig - 09/09/2009 06:19:48 PM 648 Views
Copy....Aaaannnnd pasted. Excellent *NM* Bryce - 09/09/2009 02:13:47 PM 449 Views
I accept no responsibility for this! *NM* Craig - 09/09/2009 06:20:06 PM 372 Views
No worries. I've actually read about 9 of the books on there, so I figure we have similar tastes. *NM* Bryce - 09/09/2009 06:59:11 PM 344 Views
I have far more than that. rebelaessedai - 09/09/2009 03:07:58 PM 649 Views
Well I don't see you posting a list, missy. Craig - 09/09/2009 06:20:48 PM 700 Views
See, I can't help but buy them. rebelaessedai - 09/09/2009 07:14:40 PM 719 Views
Post it! I get a kick out of seeing how organized others are. Plus this list gave me some ideas. *NM* Brian - 09/09/2009 07:17:56 PM 353 Views
Really? How many others would care though? I could nb it to you. *NM* rebelaessedai - 10/09/2009 03:51:38 AM 340 Views
If you don't want to post it, no pressure, I'd definitely love to see a copy though *NM* Brian - 10/09/2009 07:08:24 AM 353 Views
That's why it's an NSSP, silly. *NM* Craig - 10/09/2009 07:51:58 AM 371 Views
I think the bar for post no one cares about is pretty low *NM* random thoughts - 11/09/2009 09:50:47 PM 359 Views
I collect too many other things to dedicate all my resources to books. Craig - 09/09/2009 07:19:44 PM 613 Views
I love anal. rebelaessedai - 10/09/2009 03:51:12 AM 633 Views
Really? You just don't seem the type. *NM* Craig - 10/09/2009 07:52:25 AM 630 Views
I'm assuming this is sarcasm... rebelaessedai - 10/09/2009 09:01:41 PM 636 Views
Sarcasm? Never heard of it. *NM* Craig - 10/09/2009 11:08:00 PM 392 Views
I think it's a geology thing. *NM* Nate - 11/09/2009 12:51:23 AM 375 Views
You're thinking of scapulas. *NM* Craig - 11/09/2009 02:05:15 AM 397 Views
Peter F Hamilton Geoff - 09/09/2009 03:42:38 PM 792 Views
Actually Craig - 09/09/2009 06:21:42 PM 654 Views
Oh good Geoff - 09/09/2009 06:28:04 PM 751 Views
Wow, you have 4 of my absolute favorite books on here Brian - 09/09/2009 07:01:37 PM 662 Views
Maybe they'll become my favorites too! *NM* Craig - 09/09/2009 07:27:46 PM 344 Views
You're right Seriana Sedai - 09/09/2009 08:03:22 PM 624 Views
Re: You're right Brian - 10/09/2009 07:45:08 AM 652 Views
Actually... Seriana Sedai - 10/09/2009 05:58:33 PM 582 Views
Agreed with your picks and comments. PhotoJim - 09/09/2009 10:02:12 PM 685 Views
Re: Agreed with your picks and comments. Brian - 10/09/2009 07:47:49 AM 654 Views
Fine, you guys! Craig - 10/09/2009 07:51:16 AM 682 Views
Seriana Sedai - 10/09/2009 09:54:43 PM 641 Views
don't bother it is dated random thoughts - 11/09/2009 09:53:22 PM 672 Views
I'm so confused now... Craig - 12/09/2009 07:21:38 AM 622 Views
Awww. Seriana Sedai - 14/09/2009 05:12:15 AM 875 Views
That is awesome. Now I want to do a list. Nate - 10/09/2009 04:11:06 AM 613 Views
Here's my list. Nate - 10/09/2009 05:20:23 AM 668 Views
It's fun, isn't it? Craig - 10/09/2009 07:50:25 AM 690 Views
How can you HATE Brave New World??? random thoughts - 12/09/2009 06:29:54 AM 805 Views
Powerfully. *NM* Craig - 12/09/2009 07:22:39 AM 362 Views
are you going to read them alphabetically, too? *NM* Camilla - 11/09/2009 10:11:48 AM 432 Views
Hells no. Nate - 11/09/2009 11:29:46 PM 694 Views
Re: Hells no. Camilla - 12/09/2009 10:34:31 AM 666 Views
I am reading David Halberstam ~ The Coldest Winter right now and it is great random thoughts - 12/09/2009 06:47:27 AM 710 Views
You read ... alphabetically? Camilla - 11/09/2009 10:09:26 AM 774 Views
Re: You read ... alphabetically? Geoff - 11/09/2009 12:00:32 PM 725 Views
Only 'til I get through the list. Craig - 11/09/2009 06:17:02 PM 614 Views
Re: Only 'til I get through the list. Camilla - 11/09/2009 06:29:29 PM 715 Views
Re: Only 'til I get through the list. Craig - 11/09/2009 06:41:06 PM 532 Views
Camilla - 11/09/2009 07:04:37 PM 589 Views
There is absolutely no good reason to... Jacob - 11/09/2009 02:31:14 PM 637 Views
I'm intrigued by the premise. Craig - 11/09/2009 06:19:57 PM 613 Views
Spin more time reading and less time list making random thoughts - 11/09/2009 08:15:09 PM 654 Views
I fear you don't understand! Craig - 11/09/2009 09:33:04 PM 563 Views
that is so alien to me random thoughts - 11/09/2009 09:42:25 PM 723 Views
Re: that is so alien to me Craig - 12/09/2009 07:25:06 AM 516 Views
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