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[bookaddict43]

Another book meme! This time a list of sci-fi/fantasy books. Stolen from writersblock_va

Bold the ones you've read:
Italic the ones you WANT to read
And Strikeout the ones you only want to poke with a stick

My Score: 47/100

Asimov, Isaac The Best of Isaac Asimov 1974

Asimov, Isaac The Gods Themselves 1972

Atwood, Margaret The Handmaid's Tale 1985

Bakker, R. Scott The Prince of Nothing 2004-2007

Ballard, J.G. High Rise 1975

Banks, Iain M. Use of Weapons 1990

Beagle, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place 1960

Bester, Alfred The Stars My Destination 1956

Blish, James Cities in Flight 1955-1962

Brackett, Leigh The Long Tomorrow 1955

Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles 1950

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451 1953

Brunner, John Stand on Zanzibar 1968

Bulgakov, Mikhail The Master and The Margarita 1940

Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game 1985

Clarke, Arthur C. Rendezvous With Rama 1972

Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End 1953

Clarke, Arthur C. The Fountains of Paradise 1979

Crowley, John Little, Big 1981

Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves 2000

Dick, Philip K. The Man In The High Castle 1962

Dozois, Gardner Best of The Best: 20 Years of The Years Best SF 2005

Dozois, Gardner Best of The Best 2 2007

Dunsany, Lord The King of Elfland's Daughter 1924

Ellison, Harlan Dangerous Visions 1967

Ennis, Garth Preacher 1995-2000

Ford, John M. The Last Hot Time 2001

Gaiman, Neil American Gods 2001

Gaiman, Neil and Pratchett, Terry Good Omens 1990

Gemmell, David Legend 1984

Gibson, William Neuromancer 1984

Grimwood, Ken Replay 1987

Haldeman, Joe The Forever War 1975

Heinlein, Robert A. Starship Troopers 1959

Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger In a Strange Land 1961

Heinlein, Robert A. Have Spacesuit -- Will Travel 1958

Herbert, Frank Dune 1965 and every other book he ever wrote!

Hoban, Russell Riddley Walker 1980

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World 1931

Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House 1959

Joyce, Graham The Tooth Fairy 1998

Kay, Guy Gavriel Tigana 1990

Keyes, Daniel Flowers For Algernon 1966

LeGuin, Ursula K. The Dispossesed 1974

LeGuin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969

Lem, Stanislaw Solaris 1961

Lovecraft, H.P. The Dunwich Horror and Others 1963

Lynch, Scott The Lies of Locke Lamora 2006

MacDonald, George The Princess and The Goblin 1872

Martin, George R.R. A Song of Ice and Fire 1996-Present

Matheson, Richard I Am Legend 1954

McCarthy, Cormac The Road 2006

McDonald, Ian River of Gods 2004

Meynard, Yves The Book of Knights 1998

Mieville, China Perdido Street Station 2001

Miller Jr., Walter M. A Canticle For Leibowitz 1960

Moore, Christopher Lamb 2002

Morgan, Richard K. Black Man (aka Thirteen) 2007

Newman, Kim Anno Dracula 1992

Niven, Larry Ringworld 1970

Orwell, George 1984 1949

Pangborn, Edgar Davy 1964

Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Mystery and Imagination 1837-1845

Pohl, Frederick Gateway 1977

Pohl, Frederick and Kornbluth, C.M The Space Merchants 1953

Powers, Tim The Anubis Gates 1983

Powers, Tim The Fisher King Trilogy 1992-1997

Priest, Christopher The Glamour 1985

Robinson, Kim Stanley The Mars Trilogy 1992-1996

Russ, Joanna The Female Man 1975

Shelley, Mary Frankenstein 1818

Shephard, Lucius The Best of Lucius Shephard 2008

Shippey, Tom The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 1992

Silverberg, Robert The Book of Skulls 1972

Silverberg, Robert The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One 1970

Simak, Clifford D. City 1952

Simmons, Dan Hyperion 1990

Smith, Cordwainer The Rediscovery of Man 1993

Smith, Michael Marshall Only Forward 1998

Stapeldon, Olaf Odd John 1935

Stephenson, Neal Snow Crash 1992

Stevenson, Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886

Stewart, George R. Earth Abides 1949

Straub, Peter Ghost Story 1979

Sturgeon, Theodore More Than Human 1953

Tiptree Jr., James Her Smoke Rose Up Forever 1990

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of The Rings 1954-1955

Vance, Jack The Jack Vance Treasury 2007

Verne, Jules Journey To The Centre of the Earth 1864

Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle 1963

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughter-House Five 1969

Wells, H.G. The Time Machine 1895

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891

Wolfe, Gene The Wizard Knight 2004

Wolfe, Gene The Book of The New Sun 1980-1983

Wyndham, John The Day of The Triffids 1951

Wyndham, John The Midwich Cuckoos 1957

Zelazny, Roger Damnation Alley 1969

Zelazny, Roger Lord of Light 1967
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But where's all the other wonderful sci-fi/fantasy type books that I've loved?

The Hobbit, everything by Stephen Donaldson, I Robot for god's sake????

What books would you list?

Comments

[noandwhere.livejournal.com]

I think they're probably counting The Hobbit in with LOTR; I know I would have.

I would list everything by Terry Pratchett, of course, because I'm obsessed with the Discworld. And David Eddings' Belgariad. David Brin should certainly be on this list (ever read The Postman? Brilliant). Steven Brust's Taltos series. And I'm shocked that Andre Norton isn't on this list somewhere...

I could just keep going and going and going...*g*

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I could just keep going and going and going Me too! There's so much not on that list...

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I consider myself a Scifi/fantasy reader first and yet - I've read less books on this list that I did on the classics list

Where is David Eddings? And I echo your Donaldson query. (two of my favorites) What about Piers Anthony and shouldn't JK be on this list? So many others that I can't even think to list right now.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Of course Xanth should be there and Pern too. I should write a list myself :)

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

Yes the Pern book too. I agree you should make a new list - I would be interested in you choices. maybe do 25 instead of 100.

[truthmaker]

I don't know who put this list together but they definitely weren't average SciFi fans. There are way too many collections (seven by my count) which most folks don't read. Then again, based on some of the actual real novels on this list it seems a bit too hi-brow for my tastes.

I enjoy short stories, don't get me wrong, but a collection of short stories does not a great work of fiction make.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I so agree about the short stories!

[fanomy.livejournal.com]

For the books, I've read some that were on that list and some that were not. It does seem to have several collections. as for what I would list any book I've thought of has bean listed by others but even so the Pern books are something I would love to read again also "Dragon your majesty", anything by Robin Hov(or maybe It's Hob).


You just left me a comment on my L_J & as I'm very new to L_J, I do not know how to PM or maybe I do & just do not know It's called that.


P.s.
You can just tell English is not my first language
Word is a grate(sp?) help let me tell you.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

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