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Books I have read in my lifetime. Sorted by Author.

* A *
Abbott, Edwin A. 
  Flatland

Achebe, Chinua
  Things Fall Apart

Adams, Douglas
  Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (twice)
  Restaurant At The End Of The Universe (twice)
  Life, The Universe, And Everything (twice)
  So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish (twice)
  Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  Long Dark Teatime of the Soul

Aldrin, Buzz (with Barnes, John)
  Encounter With Tiber

Anthony, Piers
  Tarot

Asimov, Isaac:
  Foundation series
    Foundation
    Foundation and Empire
    Second Foundation
    Foundation's Edge
    Foundation and Earth
  Robot series
    Caves of Steel
    The Naked Sun
    Robots and Empire
    Robots of Dawn
    I, Robot
  Nightfall
  Nemesis
  Stars Like Dust
  Pebble in the Sky
  Fantastic Voyage
  The Gods Themselves

Attanasio, A. A.
  Last Legends of Earth
  Solis

Atwood, Margaret
  Oryx and Crake

* B *

Ballard, J. G.
  The Crystal World 
  Cocaine Nights 

Banks, Iain
  The Business
  The Steep Approach To Garbadale (Jun 2008)

Banks, Iain M.
  Consider Phlebas
  Use of Weapons
  Inversions
  Excession
  Feersum Endjinn
  Look to Windward
  The Player of Games
  Against a Dark Background
  State of the Art
  The Algebraist
  Matter

Bantock, Nick
  The Museum at Purgatory

Barrie, J.M. 
  Peter Pan

Barton, William
  Iris

Baxter, Stephen M.
  Cilia-of-Gold (short story)
  The Light of Other Days (with Arthur C. Clarke)

Bauer, Steven
  Satyrday

Bear, Greg
  Moving Mars
  Blood Music (8/7/05)
  The Wind from a Burning Woman (8/25/05) (stories - W.f.a.B.W., Petra, The White Horse Child, Scattershot, Mandala, Hardfought)
  Darwin's Radio (8/7/06)
  Darwin's Children (9/20/06)
  Queen of Angels (2/7/07)
  Heads (9/15/07)

Belyaev, Alexander (c.f. Beliaev, Belyayev)
  Ariel
  The Head of Professor Dowell 
  Island of Wrecked Ships
  The Seller of Air
  Ruler of the World
  The Amphibious Man
  Underwater Farmers
            
Bester, Alfred
  The Stars My Destination (a.k.a. "Tiger! Tiger!")

Botton, Alain de 
  The Art of Travel

Bova, Ben
  The Winds of Altair

Bowman, David
  Let The Dog Drive

Bradbury, Ray 
  Farenheit 451
  Dandelion Wine
  Martian Chronicles

Bradley, Marrion Zimmer
  Mists of Avalon

Bronte, Charlotte
  Jane Eyre

Brunner, John 
  Stand on Zanzibar

Bulgakov, Mikhail 
  The Master and Margarita
  Dog's Heart

* C *
Card, Orson Scott
  Ender's Game
  Speaker for the Dead
  Xenocide
  Hart's Hope
  WYRMS
  Enchantment
  Folk of the Fringe
  Flux

Carroll, Lewis
  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  Through the Looking Glass

Chalker, Jack
  The Demons at Rainbow Bridge (The Quintara Marathon, Book 1)
  The Run to Chaos Keep (The Quintara Marathon, Book 2) (partway, couldn't finish)

Christopher, John
  The White Mountains
  The City of Gold and Lead
  The Pool of Fire

Clarke, Arthur C.
  2001: A Space Odyssey 
  2010: Odyssey Two 
  3001: The Final Odyssey 
  The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)

Clarke, Will
  Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)

Coelho, Paulo
  The Valkyries 

Conrad, Joseph
  Heart of Darkness

Cook, David
  Beyond the Moons (Spelljammer Novel: The Cloakmaster Cycle, Vol 1) 

Cook, Rick
  Wizard's Bane
  The Wizardry Compiled 

Cooper, Susan
  The Dark is Rising
  Seaward (Jun 2006)

Crowley, John
  Little, Big (Nov 2007)
  Aegypt cycle:
    The Solitudes (Dec 2007)

* D *
David, Peter
  Imzadi

Dean, Pamela
  The Secret Country

Defoe, Daniel
  Robinson Crusoe

Delany, Samuel R.
  Nova
  Trouble on Triton
  The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (abridged)
  Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
  Tales of Nevčr˙on
  Dhalgren
  The Einstein Intersection
  Babel-17
  The Ballad of Beta-2
  They Fly at Ciron

Dennett, Daniel Clement 
  Consciousness Explained

Denning, Troy
  Pages of Pain 

Dick, Philip K.
  The Minority Report and Other Stories
     (includes Minority Report,
     We Can Remember It For You Wholesale,
     Paycheck, and
     The Second Variety)
  The Man in the High Castle

Dillard, Annie
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Doctorow, Cory
  Eastern Standard Tribe

Donaldson, Stephen R.
  Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
    Lord Foul's Bane
    Illearth War
    The Power That Preserves
  Gap Cycle
    The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story 
    Chaos and Order: The Gap into Madness 
    The Gap into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge 
    A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power 
    This Day All Gods Die: The Gap into Ruin 

Dorris, Michael
  A Yellow Raft In Blue Water

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  Lost World

Dozois, Gardner R. (editor), with Williams, Sheila (editor)
  Isaac Asimov's Solar System

Dumas, Alexandre
  The Count of Monte Cristo
  The Three Musketeers
  Ten Years Later

Durant, Will
  The Story of Philosophy: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment (7/31/06)
  The Story of Philosophy: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists (8/21/06)

Dyson, Freeman J.
  From Eros to Gaia (03/06/2007)


* E *
Eco, Umberto
  Foucault's Pendulum
  The Name of the Rose (6/8/2006)
  The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (10/08/2006)
  Baudolino (12/09/2006)
  Island of the Day Before (12/14/2006)

* F *
Ferriss, Timothy
  The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (5/14/07)

Feynman, Richard P.
  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (02/22/2007)

Fforde, Jasper 
  The Eyre Affaire
  Lost In A Good Book (2007)

Findley, Nigel
  Into the Void (Spelljammer Novel: The Cloakmaster Cycle, Vol 2)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  The Great Gatsby

Friedman, Celia S.
  Black Sun Rising
  When True Night Falls
  Crown of Shadows

* G *
Gaiman, Neal
  Good Omens (with Pratchett, Terry)
  American Gods (twice)
  Neverwhere
  Anansi Boys

Gibson, William
  Neuromancer (3+ times)
  Count Zero
  Mona Lisa Overdrive
  Virtual Light
  Idoru
  All Tomorrow's Parties
  Burning Chrome
  Pattern Recognition
  Spook Country (Sep 2007)

Gilmore, Kate
  Enter Three Witches

Giuffre, Kenneth
  The Care and Feeding of Your Brain: How Diet and Environment Affect What You Think and Feel

* H *
Hansen, Brooks
  The Chess Garden (Jun 2006)

Heinlein, Robert
  Number of the Beast
  Time Enough for Love
  Stranger in a Strange Land
  Starship Troopers
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  The Puppet Masters

Hemingway, Ernest 
  The Old Man and the Sea

Herbert, Frank
  Dune

Hesse, Herman
  Siddhartha

Hickman, Tracy (with Margaret Weis)
  Dragonlance Series: 
    Dragons of Autumn Twilight
    Dragons of a Winter Night
    Dragons of Spring Dawning
  Darksword Trilogy: 
    Forging the Darksword (book 1)

Holt, Tom
  Expecting Someone Taller

Homer
  The Odyssey
  The Iliad

Howe, James 
  Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (with Deborah Howe)
  The Celery Stalks at Midnight (Bunnicula)

Huxley, Aldous
  Island (Dec 2006)

* I *
Ibbotson, Eva 
  Which Witch

* J *
Jacques, Brian 
  Redwall

Jones, Gwyneth
  White Queen
  North Wind  

Joyce, James
  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (8/7/06)

* K *
Kennedy, Dan S.
  No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs (No B.S. Series)

Kerouac, Jack
  On The Road
  The Dharma Bums (Nov 5, 2007)

King, J. Robert
  Blood Wars Trilogy
    Blood Hostages
    Abyssal Warriors
    Planar Powers

King, Stephen
  The Talisman

Knowles, John
  A Separate Peace

Kress, Nancy
  Brain Rose

* L *
Landis, Geoffrey A.
  Mars Crossing

Le Guin, Ursula K.
  Lathe of Heaven
  The Left Hand of Darkness
  Earthsea Trilogy:
    A Wizard of Earthsea
    The Tombs of Atuan
    The Farthest Shore

Lee, Harper
  To Kill a Mockingbird

Lem, Stanislaw
  Cyberiad

L'Engle, Madeleine 
  A Wrinkle in Time
  A Wind in the Door

Lethem, Jonathan
  Amnesia Moon
  Girl in Landscape
  Motherless Brooklyn
  Fortress of Solitude (finished Jan 26, 2004)
  As She Climbed Across The Table (Mar 23, 2008)

Lewis, Carol S.
  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  Out of the Silent Planet
  Perelandra
  The Screwtape Letters

Lightman, Alan 
  Einstein's Dreams

Lindsay, David
  Voyage to Arcturus

Lynn, Elizabeth A.
  The Northern Girl (The Chronicles of Tornor)

* M *
Malory, Thomas
  Le Morte D'Arthur (Abridged, 9.25 hrs) (Feb 2007)

Marcus, Gary
  Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind (Aug 2008)

McCaffrey, Anne
  The Chronicles of Pern: 1st Fall (The Dragonriders of Pern) 

McKillip, Patricia A.
  Riddle of Stars          

Miller, Walter M.
  Canticle for Leibowitz (hugo)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud 
  Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Avonlea

Moore, Roger E.
  The Maelstrom's Eye (Spelljammer Novel: Cloakmaster Cycle, No. 3)

Morgan, Marlo
  Mutant Message Down Under

Morgan, Richard K.
  Altered Carbon

Munroe, Jim
  Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask

Murakami, Haruki 
   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

* N *
Niffenegger, Audrey
  The Time Traveler's Wife

Nin, Anaiis
  House of Incest

Niven, Larry
  Ringworld

Noon, Jeff
  Vurt

Nylund, Eric
  Dry Water

* O *
O'Brien, Tim
  The Things They Carried

Ovid
  The Art of Love (12/12/2006)

* P *
Pearl Poet
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Philip, Neil (ed.)
  American Fairy Tales: From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories (2/27/2007)

Pike, Christopher
  Sati
  Remember Me

Pinkwater, Daniel 
  The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
  Looking for Bobowicz: A Hoboken Chicken Story

Pournelle, Jerry 
  Janissaries

Pratchett, Terry 
  Good Omens (with Gaiman, Neil)
  Discworld Novels
    Rincewind and the Wizzards arc:
      The Colour of Magic
      The Light Fantastic
      Sourcery
      Eric
      Interesting Times (4/9/2007)
      The Last Continent
    Death and Susan arc:
      Mort
      Reaper Man (8/29/2006)
      Soul Music (12/05/2005)      
      Hogfather (4/15/2007)
    City Watch arc:
      Guards! Guards! (01/13/2006)
      Men At Arms (07/22/2007)
      Feet of Clay (4/03/3008)
    The Witches arc:
      Equal Rites
      Wyrd Sisters
      Witches Abroad (07/19/2006)
      Lords and Ladies (09/01/2006)
      Maskerade (09/25/2007)
    Tiffany Aching:
      Wee Free Men
    Misc:
      Small Gods
      Pyramids
      Moving Pictures

Pullman, Philip
  His Dark Materials trilogy
    The Golden Compass (Book 1)
    The Subtle Knife (Book 2)
    The Amber Spyglass (Book 3)

Pynchon, Thomas
  Mason & Dixon
  The Crying of Lot 49 (Aug 2007)

* Q *
Quinn, Daniel
  Ishmael
  Story of B
  My Ishmael
  Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure 
  The Holy (Jan 2007)

* R *
Rand, Ayn
  Atlas Shrugged

Redfield, James 
  The Celestine Prophecy

Reed, Robert
  Hormone Jungle

Robinson, Kim Stanley
  The Mars Trilogy
    Red Mars (Jul 2008)

Rockwood, Alyn
  How Noble In Reason

Rosenthal, Chuck
  The Heart of Mars

Rowling, J.K.
  Harry Potter series
    Sorcerer's Stone
    Chamber of Secrets
    Prisoner of Azkaban
    Goblet of Fire  
    Order of the Phoenix

* S *
Saberhagen, Fred 
  Empire of the East

Salinger, Jerome David
  The Catcher in the Rye 

Scott, Sir Walter
  Ivanhoe

Simmons, Dan
  Hyperion
  Fall of Hyperion
  Endymion
  Rise of Endymion
  Ilium

Shakespeare, William
  Hamlet
  Othello
  Romeo and Juliet
  Titus Andronicus
  Twelfth Night
  Anthony and Cleopatra
  Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Winter's Tale
  All Is Well That Ends Well
  King Lear
  Macbeth
  Merchant of Venice
  Much Ado About Nothing
  Cymbeline

Slattery, Brian Francis
  Spaceman Blues: A Love Song

Sleator, William 
  Interstellar Pig

Spencer, Edmund
  The Faerie Queene

Stephenson, Neal
  Snow Crash (read Dec 11, 2003)
  The Diamond Age  
  Cryptonomicon (abridged)

Stevens, Jose
  Tao to Earth

Sterling, Bruce
  Islands in the Net
  (editor) Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

Strugatski, Arkadii and Boris
  Destination: Amalthea
  Snail on the Hillside
  (Carnivorous Things of the Century)
  Tale of the Troika
  Doomed City
  Beetle on the Anthill
  Roadside Picnic

Swanwick, Michael
  The Iron Dragon's Daughter

* T *
Thomas, Dylan
  Under Milk Wood

Tolkien, J.R.R.
  The Hobbit
  Lord of the Rings trilogy

Tolstoy, Alexei N.
  Aelita
  Giberboloid Inzhenera Garina

Twain, Mark
  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (May 9, 2007)

* V *
Valente, Catherynne M.
  Apocrypha
  Oracles
  The Orphan's Tales:
    Book of the Steppe
    Book of the Sea
    Book of the Storm
    Book of the Scald
  The Grass-Cutting Sword
  The Labyrinth
  Under In The Mere
  Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (Feb 2007)
  Alchemy of Winter
  Palimpsest

Verhelst, Peter
  Tonguecat (Dec 2007)

Verne, Jules
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  Around the World in Eighty Days
  From the Earth to the Moon, and Round the Moon
  The Mysterious Island
  A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Vinge, Vernor
  True Names and Other Dangers
  Fire Upon the Deep
  The Peace War
  Marooned in Realtime
  Across Realtime

Virgil
  The Aeneid (May 2006)

Vonnegut, Kurt
  Sirens of Titan
  Breakfast of Champions (7/30/05)
  Timequake (April 2006)

* W *
Weiss, D.B.
  Lucky Wander Boy

Wells, H.G.
  The Time Machine
  The War of the Worlds
  The Invisible Man
  First Men on the Moon

White, T.H.
  The Once and Future King

Whitemore, Hugh
  Breaking the Code (Dramatized)

Williams, Tad
  Otherland Series
    City of Golden Shadows
    River of Blue Fire
    Mountain of Black Glass
    Sea of Silver Light

Wilson, A.N.
  London: A History (7/30/07, read most of it, couldn't finish)

Wilson, Robert Anton
  Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Shea, Robert)

Winterson, Jeanette 
  Gut Symmetries

Woolf, Virginia
  Orlando
  The Waves (Jan 14, 2007)

Wyndham, John 
  Day of the Triffids

* Y *
Yolen, Jane
  (editor) Xanadu (anthology)

* Z *
Zelazny, Roger
  Amber Chronicles, 1st vol.
  Lord of Light
  The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth 
  A Night in the Lonesome October
  For A Breath I Tarry (from Last Defender of Camelot)

Zindell, David
  Neverness


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