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:
- Old Man’s War, John Scalzi
- Agent to The Stars, John Scalzi
- Dancing Barefoot, Wil Wheaton
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard, JK Rowling
- Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
- New Moon, Stephanie Meyer
- 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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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.
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 =)