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This year’s reading list

Aside from simply writing more often, I would also like to read a lot more.   I would like to actually be able to consider myself a prolific reader once again.  So here are two lists: one from SFBC and one I made up myself. Note I crossed off books I’ve already read on the SFBC list :-)  When I finish each book, I’ll come back here and cross it off, putting the date I finished it in parenthesis next to it.

My Personal List:

  1. Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
  2. Agent to The Stars, John Scalzi
  3. Dancing Barefoot, Wil Wheaton
  4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, JK Rowling
  5. Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
  6. New Moon, Stephanie Meyer
  7. Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer

The rest are below the cut:

The SFBC List of 50 most influential novels written between 1953 and 2002

  • The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
  • Dune, Frank Herbert
  • Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
  • A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
  • The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  • The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  • The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
  • Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
  • Cities in Flight, James Blish
  • The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  • Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
  • Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
  • The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
  • Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
  • Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
  • Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
  • The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
  • The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
  • Gateway, Frederik Pohl
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
  • Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
  • The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Little, Big, John Crowley
  • Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
  • The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
  • Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
  • More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
  • The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
  • On the Beach, Nevil Shute
  • Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
  • Ringworld, Larry Niven
  • Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
  • The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
  • Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
  • The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
  • Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
  • Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
  • The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
  • Timescape, Gregory Benford
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

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    2 Responses to “This year’s reading list”

    1. halfawake Says:
      January 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM

      someone I was reading yesterday posted a 2009 resolution to read FIFTY TWO books. That is unbelievable. It would be cool to see how far you get on your reading list.

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    2. ytimynona Says:
      January 8, 2009 at 9:05 PM

      Haha I’m hoping they will all be interesting enough to read over a weekend! I added a couple more (because my friends wouldn’t stop talking about Twilight, so I figured I’ll read it just to make them happy). I’ll be crossing them off as I go along so there’s a public record of my progress =)

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