I wrote an earlier
entry today, but what the hell. These seem to be mostly the older "classic"
works in F & SF, which means they don't match my taste much, and a lot of the ones
I've read only once were read long ago -- my college boyfriend had a very good
library. My comments are in italics. I stole this from
href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/bafleyanne/40090.html#cutid1">Baf.
Key:
* = I've read it
** = I've read it multiple times
# = Started but never finished, or have read some books in series
Science Fiction Novels
*Dune, Frank Herbert
**The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
#The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac
**Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
*A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
#Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (I read only the short-story version)
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
*The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
#Neuromancer, William Gibson
*Startide Rising, David Brin
*The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
*Nineteen Eight-Four, George Orwell
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
#The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
**Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
*Ringworld, Larry Niven
#2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
#The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
*The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Way Station, Clifford D. Simak
Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
City, Clifford D. Simak
*Cyteen, C.J. Cherryh
*Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
*Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
**The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein
Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
**Have Space Suit -- Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
**Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
**The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
#"Riverworld" series, Philip Jose Farmer
Fantasy Novels
*The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
**The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
"Earthsea" series, Ursula K. Le Guin
**Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"Gormenghast" series, Mervyn Peake
**The Once and Future King, T.H. White
*Little, Big, John Crowley
**Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
*"The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", Stephen R. Donaldson
**Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
"The Belgariad", David Eddings
**The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
*The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
"The Dying Earth" series, Jack Vance
**The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
*Dracula, Bram Stoker
**The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
*The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Stand, Stephen King
Watership Down, Richard Adams (I really should read this one)
**The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
**Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein
Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
*"Alvin Maker" series, Orson Scott Card (sort of a compromise rating -- I've
read the first two more than once, but never got to the third.)
**A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
*Witch World, Andre Norton
"The Fionavar Tapestry", Guy Gavriel Kay
Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
*"Discworld" series, Terry Pratchett (same sort of compromise)
*"Elric" series, Michael Moorcock
Replay, Ken Grimwood
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
"Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" series, Fritz Leiber (I want to read these, just haven't
come across them)
**The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp
But no Connie Willis, no de Lint, no Lackey, no Bull, Shetterley, Windling, Dean,
Yolen, MacAvoy, Gaiman. Also, no children's fantasy but Alice and Oz: no
MacDonald, Nesbit, Cooper, Rowling, Goudge, Travers, Duane. More is Imcompleat
here than just Sir Harold de Shea.