Books I've Read

Submitted by diaskeaus on Mon, 02/13/2006 - 11:25
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  1. Alighieri, Dante: Inferno
  2. Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot
  3. Baker, Kage: The Anvil of the World
  4. Beagle, Peter: The Last Unicorn
  5. Benford, Gregory: Timescape
  6. Bishop, K.J.: The Etched City *
  7. Bradbury, Ray: Something Wicked This Way Comes *
  8. Bradley, Marion Zimmer: The Mists of Avalon *
  9. Brooks, Terry: The Sword of Shannara
  10. Buck, Pearl: The Good Earth
  11. Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game
  12. Card, Orson Scott: Speaker for the Dead
  13. Card, Orson Scott: Xenocide
  14. Chabon, Michael : The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *
  15. Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
  16. Crichton, Michael: Congo
  17. Crichton, Michael: Eaters of the Dead
  18. Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park
  19. Crichton, Michael: Rising Sun
  20. Crichton, Michael: Sphere
  21. Crichton, Michael: The Andromeda Strain
  22. Crichton, Michael: The Lost World
  23. Crichton, Michael: The Terminal Man
  24. Crichton, Michael: Timeline
  25. Eddings, David: Guardians of the West
  26. Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
  27. Gaiman, Neil: Anansi Boys
  28. Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere
  29. Gaiman, Neil: Stardust (graphic novel)
  30. Gardner, John: Grendel
  31. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
  32. Goldman, William: The Princess Bride
  33. Grisham, John: The Testament *
  34. Harrison, M. John: Light
  35. Heinlein, Robert: JOB *
  36. Heinlein, Robert: Starship Troopers
  37. Hughart, Barry: Bridge of Birds
  38. Jordan, Robert: A Crown of Swords
  39. Jordan, Robert: Lord of Chaos
  40. Jordan, Robert: The Dragon Reborn
  41. Jordan, Robert: The Eye of the World
  42. Jordan, Robert: The Fires of Heaven
  43. Jordan, Robert: The Great Hunt
  44. Jordan, Robert: The Path of Daggers
  45. Jordan, Robert: The Shadow Rising
  46. Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  47. King, Stephen: The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger
  48. Kurtz, Katherine: Deryni Rising
  49. Lawhead, Stephen: Arthur
  50. Lawhead, Stephen: Byzantium
  51. Lawhead, Stephen: Dream Thief
  52. Lawhead, Stephen: Empyrion I: The Search for Fierra
  53. Lawhead, Stephen: Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome
  54. Lawhead, Stephen: Grail
  55. Lawhead, Stephen: In the Hall of the Dragon King
  56. Lawhead, Stephen: Merlin
  57. Lawhead, Stephen: Pendragon
  58. Lawhead, Stephen: Taliesen
  59. Lawhead, Stephen: The Endless Knot
  60. Lawhead, Stephen: The Iron Lance
  61. Lawhead, Stephen: The Paradise War
  62. Lawhead, Stephen: The Silver Hand
  63. Lawhead, Stephen: The Sword and the Flame
  64. Lawhead, Stephen: The Warlords of Nin
  65. LeGuin, Ursula K: A Wizard of Earthsea
  66. LeGuin, Ursula K: The Farthest Shore
  67. LeGuin, Ursula K: The Tombs of Atuan
  68. Lewis, C.S.: Out of the Silent Planet
  69. Lewis, C.S.: The Magician’s Nephew
  70. Lewis, C.S.: The Screwtape Letters
  71. Lightman, Alan: Good Benito
  72. Lord Dunsany: The King of Elfland’s Daughter
  73. MacDonald, George: The Golden Key and Other Stories
  74. Martin, George R.R.: A Game of Thrones
  75. Matheson, Richard: What Dreams May Come
  76. McKillip, Patricia: Harpist in the Wind
  77. McKillip, Patricia: Heir of Sea and Fire
  78. McKillip, Patricia: The Book of Atrix Wolfe
  79. McKillip, Patricia: The Riddle-Master of Hed
  80. Miéville, China: Perdido Street Station
  81. Milton, John: Paradise Lost
  82. Moore, Alan: Watchmen
  83. Orwell, George: 1984
  84. Paulson, Gary: Hatchet
  85. Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan *
  86. Peretti, Frank: Escape from the Island of Aquarius
  87. Peretti, Frank: The Door in the Dragon’s Throat
  88. Peretti, Frank: Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea
  89. Pullman, Philip: The Amber Spyglass
  90. Pullman, Philip: The Golden Compass
  91. Pullman, Philip: The Subtle Knife
  92. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  93. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  94. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  95. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  96. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  97. Rowling, J.K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
  98. Salinger, J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
  99. Shea, Michael: The Incompleat Nifft *
  100. Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
  101. Shippey, Tom: The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
  102. Simmons, Dan: Endymion
  103. Simmons, Dan: Hyperion
  104. Simmons, Dan: The Fall of Hyperion
  105. Simmons, Dan: The Hollow Man
  106. Simmons, Dan: The Rise of Endymion
  107. Somtow, S.P.: Dragon Fin’s Soup
  108. Somtow, S.P.: Jasmine Nights
  109. Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queen
  110. Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash
  111. Stover, Matthew: Heroes Die
  112. Stover, Matthew: Revenge of the Sith
  113. Stover, Matthew: The Blade of Tyshalle
  114. Stover, Matthew: Traitor
  115. Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  116. Sturgeon, Theodore: Godbody
  117. Sturgeon, Theodore: More Than Human
  118. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Fellowship of the Ring
  119. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit
  120. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Return of the King
  121. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Silmarillion
  122. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Two Towers
  123. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace *
  124. Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *
  125. Weis, Margaret: Dragon Wing
  126. Weis, Margaret: Dragons of Autumn Twilight
  127. Weis, Margaret: Dragons of Spring Dawning
  128. Weis, Margaret: Dragons of Summer Flame
  129. Weis, Margaret: Dragons of Winter Night
  130. Weis, Margaret: Elven Star
  131. Weis, Margaret: Fire Sea
  132. Weis, Margaret: Into the Labyrinth
  133. Weis, Margaret: Serpent Mage
  134. Weis, Margaret: The Hand of Chaos
  135. Weis, Margaret: The Seventh Gate
  136. Williams, Tad: Otherland, City of Golden Shadow
  137. Wolfe, Gene: The Claw of the Conciliator
  138. Wolfe, Gene: The Shadow of the Torturer
  139. Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway
  140. Wu, Cheng’en: Journey to the West *
  141. Xingjian, Gao: Soul Mountain *
Author Comments: 

* designates partially read

192202/26/2006

So, how was Ender's Game?

diaskeaus02/26/2006

Excellent, excellent. I read it a gazillion years ago, though, but from my memory, it was what got me started on SF.

The list is terribly incomplete. Hopefully, it'll rise up in the near future. Ender's Game, I think though, was one of the first 'big' books I ever read.

lukeprog05/26/2006

The Lawhead Arthur series was fun, no? I've also read those teen Peretti books; my favorite was The Door in the Dragon's Throat and the one with the ghost stuck in another dimension. Among his adult fiction, The Visitation was, finally, decently well-written.

When did you start compiling this list? It can't possibly be all the fiction you've read.

diaskeaus05/27/2006

I compiled this from a list in my head... I used to have a lot more books, but there was a point when I had too many boxes, and not enough room, so I went on an adventure with a friend around Chicago and left books with bookcrossing stamps on front porches. That, and I gave three boxes of books away to people still in school.

I also have a bookshelf somewhere in Illinois, at my relatives' house. So the list probably won't be finished anytime soon, unless I figure out a way to get the titles of all of those books I left in Peoria, or somehow was able to trace all the books I bookcrossed. So you are right, it's not.

I actually started reading books voraciously after I went through the first three Celtic Lawhead books. It was because of him that I both became a reader and a writer. I remember reading Peretti's series, being sick in bed one day, and my body suddenly started acting all weird. I realized it was adrenaline... I actually was stuck to the book, unable to put it down. I literally could not take my hands off the binding, and I finished that book so fast if I were to repeat it, I'd be afraid my head would fall off.

I've never had that feeling since.