Fanatical Pupil

Here’s another books read member from pi90katana (found via my Neal Stephenson Google Alert):

Update: Oops… I accidentally published this without actually doing it… Here’s how it’s going to go: Bold for books I’d recommend, and underline for ones I’ve read but wouldn’t recommend…

Fantasy Book Meme

Lord Of the Rings Trilogy – J R R Tolkien
The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
Harry Potter Series – J K Rowling
Wheel of Time Series – Robert Jordan
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – C S Lewis
A Song of Ice & Fire – George R R Martin (Not the whole series, but the first book was good)
The Belgariad Series – David Eddings (First book is sitting on my shelf)
Wizard’s First Rule – Terry Goodkind
Magician – Raymond E Feist
His Dark Materials Trilogy – Philip Pullman
The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K Le Guin
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
The Farseer Trilogy – Robin Hobb
The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King (I’ve actually only read the second book, but I have the first now, and will start it soon)
Dark Elf Trilogy – R A Salvatore
A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Watership Down – Richard Adams
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Mists Of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley (I tried to read this one a while back)
Dragonlance Chronicles – Weis & Hickman
Good Omens – Gaiman & Pratchett
Thomas Covenant – The Unbeliever – Stephen Donaldson
Redwall – Brian Jacques
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny (Want to read this one at some point)
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
The Lord Of the Flies – William Golding
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Memory, Sorrow & Thorn Series – Tad Williams
Sabriel – Garth Nix
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
The Once & Future King – T H White
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
On a Pale Horse – Piers Anthony
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Alanna: The First Adventure – Tamora Pierce
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Outlander – Dianna Gabaldon
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Left Behind – LaHaye & Jenkins
Beowulf – Unknown Author
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Screwtape Letters – C S Lewis
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Neverending Story – Michael Ende
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (Sitting on my shelf)
The Chronicles of Prydain – Lloyd Alexander
Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
The Odyssey – Homer
Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K Hamilton
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Watchmen – Moore & Gibbons
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Tigana – Guy Gavriel Kay
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
Perdido Street Station – China Mieville
Kushiel’s Dart – Jacqueline Carey
Batman – The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
The Silmarillion – J R R Tolkien
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
Dealing With Dragons – Patricia C Wrede
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Malloreon – David Eddings
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
Magic’s Pawn – Mercedes Lackey
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
The Last Unicorn – Peter S Beagle
Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Lamb – Christopher Moore
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
Death Gate Cycle – Weis & Hickman
Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
Inferno – Dante Alighieri
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
Howl’s Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley
The Amulet of Samarkan – Jonathan Stroud
Daughter of the Blood – Anne Bishop
Beauty – Robin McKinley
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper

Sci-Fi Meme

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury **
1984 – George Orwell
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel – Margaret Atwood I
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – Edwin A. Abbott
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Hyperion – Dan Simmons
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven
Dune – Frank Herbert
Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Shadow & Claw: The First Half of ‘The Book of the New Sun’ – Gene Wolfe
Foundation (Foundation Novels) – Isaac Asimov
The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
Out of the Silent Planet – C.S.Lewis
Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
A Fire Upon The Deep – Vernor Vinge
Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
Caves of Steel – Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds
Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven
Valis – Philip K. Dick
Time Enough for Love – Robert A. Heinlein
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer – Neal Stephenson
A Deepness in the Sky – Vernor Vinge
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Doomsday Book – Connie Willis
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
Ringworld – Larry Niven
The Cyberiad – Stanislaw Lem
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M. Miller Jr. (Sitting on my shelf)
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny
Startide Rising – David Brin
The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence – Peter F. Hamilton
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Incredible Shrinking Man – Richard Matheson
Gray Lensman – Edward E. Smith
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Postman – David Brin
To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Philip Jose Farmer
The Fountains of Paradise – Arthur C. Clarke
His Master’s Voice – Stanislaw Lem
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. LeGuin
Eon – Greg Bear
A Stainless Steel Trio – Harry Harrison
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
The Uplift War – David Brin
Burning Chrome – William Gibson
Ilium – Dan Simmons
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
The Door into Summer – Robert A. Heinlein
Way Station – Clifford D. Simak
Fiasco – Stanislaw Lem
The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars – Arthur C. Clarke
The Gods Themselves – Isaac Asimov
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
Use of Weapons – Iain M. Banks
City – Clifford D. Simak
More Than Human – Theodore Sturgeon
A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Gateway – Frederik Pohl
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick
Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card
A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
Citizen of the Galaxy – Robert A. Heinlein
The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel – Ursula K. Le Guin
Puppet Masters – Robert A. Heinlein
The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Blood Music – Greg Bear
Have Space Suit, Will Travel – Robert A. Heinlein
The Chrysalids – David Harrower