The majority of the books are Sci-Fi and Fantasy:
1. Joan Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange
2. Barbara Hambly: The Ladies of Mandrigyn
3. Scott Lynch: Red Seas under Red Skies
4. Anne Bishop: The Shadow Queen
5. Anne Bishop: Tangled Webs
6. Cherryh C.J: Downbelow Station
7. Catherine Asaro: The Ruby Dice
8. Sarah Monette: Corambis
9. Arkadij & Boris Strugatskij: I Vålnadernas tid (Gadkij lebedi, The Ugly Swans)
10. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
11. Maria V Snyder: Poison Study
12. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
13. Stephenie Myer: New Moon
14. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
15. Maria V. Snyder: Magic Study
16. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn
17. Maria V Snyder: Fire Study
18. Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (short story)
19. Brian W. Aldiss: Randy’s Syndrome (short story)
20. Brian W. Aldiss: How An Inner Door Opened to My Heart (short story)
21. Brian W. Aldiss: Heresies of the Huge God (short story)
22. Brian W. Aldiss: Creatures of the Apogee (short story)
23. Brian W. Aldiss: Another Little Boy (short story)
24. Brian W. Aldiss: You Never Asked My Name (short story)
25. Brian W. Aldiss: The New Father Christmas (short story)
26. Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women
27. Philip K Dick: The Man in the high Castle
28. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: House of Zeor
29. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Ambrov Keon
30. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Zelerod’s Doom
31. Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
32. Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow
33. S. L. Viehl: Beyond Varallan
34. Birgitta Trotzig: De Utsatta (Swedish author)
35. C.S. Friedman: This Alien Shore
36. S. L. Viehl: Endurance
37. S. L. Viehl: Shockball
38. Vera Nazarian: Dreams of the Compass Rose
39. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
40. Carol Berg: Flesh and Spirit
41. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
42. Ann Aguirre: Wanderlust
43. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
44. Tanith Lee: The Silver Metal Lover
45. Sharon Shinn: Archangel
46. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt
47. Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
48. Linnea Sinclair: Gabriel’s Ghost
49. Moira J. Moore: Resenting the Hero
50. Moira J. Moore: The Hero Strikes Back
51. Linnea Sinclair: Shades of Dark
52. Linnea Sinclair: An Accidental Goddess
53. Moira J. Moore: Heroes Adrift
54. Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Risk
55. Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
56. Justina Robson: Selling out
57. Thomas More: Utopia
And I'm currently halfway through Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. So, 50 1/2 books = 57 1/2 stories (Aldiss' short stories were collected in one book). I'm still surprised that I read as many young adult books as I did in the beginning of the year (Meyer and Snyder). I usually don't read any at all.
1. Joan Harris: Five Quarters of the Orange
2. Barbara Hambly: The Ladies of Mandrigyn
3. Scott Lynch: Red Seas under Red Skies
4. Anne Bishop: The Shadow Queen
5. Anne Bishop: Tangled Webs
6. Cherryh C.J: Downbelow Station
7. Catherine Asaro: The Ruby Dice
8. Sarah Monette: Corambis
9. Arkadij & Boris Strugatskij: I Vålnadernas tid (Gadkij lebedi, The Ugly Swans)
10. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
11. Maria V Snyder: Poison Study
12. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
13. Stephenie Myer: New Moon
14. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
15. Maria V. Snyder: Magic Study
16. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn
17. Maria V Snyder: Fire Study
18. Brian W. Aldiss: Poor Little Warrior! (short story)
19. Brian W. Aldiss: Randy’s Syndrome (short story)
20. Brian W. Aldiss: How An Inner Door Opened to My Heart (short story)
21. Brian W. Aldiss: Heresies of the Huge God (short story)
22. Brian W. Aldiss: Creatures of the Apogee (short story)
23. Brian W. Aldiss: Another Little Boy (short story)
24. Brian W. Aldiss: You Never Asked My Name (short story)
25. Brian W. Aldiss: The New Father Christmas (short story)
26. Pamela Sargent: The Shore of Women
27. Philip K Dick: The Man in the high Castle
28. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: House of Zeor
29. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Ambrov Keon
30. Jacqueline Lichtenberg: Zelerod’s Doom
31. Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
32. Michelle Sagara: Cast in Shadow
33. S. L. Viehl: Beyond Varallan
34. Birgitta Trotzig: De Utsatta (Swedish author)
35. C.S. Friedman: This Alien Shore
36. S. L. Viehl: Endurance
37. S. L. Viehl: Shockball
38. Vera Nazarian: Dreams of the Compass Rose
39. Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind
40. Carol Berg: Flesh and Spirit
41. Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
42. Ann Aguirre: Wanderlust
43. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
44. Tanith Lee: The Silver Metal Lover
45. Sharon Shinn: Archangel
46. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt
47. Salman Rushdie: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
48. Linnea Sinclair: Gabriel’s Ghost
49. Moira J. Moore: Resenting the Hero
50. Moira J. Moore: The Hero Strikes Back
51. Linnea Sinclair: Shades of Dark
52. Linnea Sinclair: An Accidental Goddess
53. Moira J. Moore: Heroes Adrift
54. Moira J. Moore: Heroes at Risk
55. Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow
56. Justina Robson: Selling out
57. Thomas More: Utopia
And I'm currently halfway through Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star. So, 50 1/2 books = 57 1/2 stories (Aldiss' short stories were collected in one book). I'm still surprised that I read as many young adult books as I did in the beginning of the year (Meyer and Snyder). I usually don't read any at all.
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