To Read List
Submitted by baker on Mon, 07/11/2005 - 02:15
Tags:
- Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Virge)
- Flowers For Algernon
- The Illuminatus! (Robert Shea/Robert Anton Wilson)
- The Once and Future King (T. H. White)
- Lord Valentine’s Castle (Robert Silverburg)
- Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman)
- The Sherlock Holmes Collection (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester)
- The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
- The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
- Cat’s Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Welcome To the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov)
- Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevski)
- The Aeneid (Virgil)
- Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
- The Poetry of Robert Frost
- Edgar Allen Poe Collection
- John Cheever Collection
- Eight Modern Essayists
- Modern Poetry
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Republic (Plato)
- We (Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin)
- The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel (Margaret Atwood)
- Brave New World Revisited
- Anthem (Ayn Rand)
- This Perfect Day: A Novel (Ira Levin)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- Mockingbird (Walter Tevis)
- The Iron Heel (Jack London)
- Logan’s Run
- It Can’t Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis)
UTOPIAN STORIES
- 1985 by Anthony Burgess
- The Wanderground: Stories of Hill Women by Sally Miller Gearhart
- Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Erewhon by Samuel Butler
- News from Nowhere by William Morris
- Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
From AJDaGreat's list...
- (5). The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- (6). The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
- (8). Don Quixote by Cervantes
- (10). The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- (11). Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- (13). Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- (14). Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- (18). The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
- (19). Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- (20). Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- (22). The Red and the Black by Stendahl
- (23). The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- (24). The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- (25). Carmen by Prosper Merimee
- (26). Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- (27). Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- (29). David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- (30). A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- (31). Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- (33). Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils
- (34). Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- (35). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- (36). Idyls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- (37). Silas Marner by George Eliot
- (38). Middlemarch by George Eliot
- (40). Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
- (42). The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky
- (43). Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- (45). The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- (46). The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- (47). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- (48). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- (49). Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- (50). War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- (51). The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- (52). Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
- (53). The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- (54). The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- (55). Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- (59). The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
- (61). Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- (62). An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- (64). A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- (65). For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- (66). The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION:
- (72). The Prince by Machiavelli
- (73). The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
- (74). The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- (75). The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- (76). Das Kapital by Karl Marx
- (77). The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
- PLAYS:
- (78). Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
- (85). Tartuffe by Moliere
- (86). Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
- (87). A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
- (88). The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- (89). Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
- (91). Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- (92). Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- PHILOSOPHY:
- (93). The Nicomachaen Ethics by Aristotle
- (94). Meditations by Rene Descartes
- (95). Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- (96). The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
- (97). Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (98). Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (100). How We Think by John Dewey
From professor's list...
- Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus And Crisyde (translated by N. Coghill) (too beautiful) - 1986.
- Hermann Hesse - Gertrude (translated by Hilda Rosner) (beautiful) - 1975.
- S. E. Hinton - The Outsiders (beautiful) - 19-June-2003.
- Jack London - The Star Rover (fantastic story) - 1980.
- Robert Heinlein - Time Enough For Love (fantastic story) - 1986.
- Robert Silverberg - Dying Inside (fantastic story) - 1975.
- Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End (fantastic story) - 1982.
- Hermann Hesse - Rosshalde (beautiful) - 1977.
- Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast (Book II) (magnificent) - 1979.
- Rich Cohen - The Avengers (amazing true story of WWII resistance) - 13-Feb-2003.
- Thomas M. Disch - Camp Concentration (fantastic story) - 1974.
- Anton Andreas Guha - Ende (chilling story of nuclear war - see my review) - 03-Jun-1987.
- William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land (fantastic story) - 1974.
- Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human (fantastic story) - 1973.
- James Herbert - Fluke (fantastic story) - 1983.
"The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years (1953-2002)"
- The Science Fiction Book Club
- The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
- 11 The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe
- A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.
- 14 Children of the Atom Wilmar Shiras
- 15 Cities in Flight James Blish
- 16 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett
- 17 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison
- 18 Deathbird Stories Harlan Ellison
- The Demolished Man Alfred Bester
- 20 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany
- 21 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
- The Forever War Joe Haldeman
- Gateway Frederik Pohl
- 26 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling
- 28 I Am Legend Richard Matheson
- 31 Little, Big John Crowley
- 34 Mission of Gravity Hal Clement
- 36 The Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer Smith
- 37 On the Beach Nevil Shute
- Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
- 40 Rogue Moon Algis J. Budrys
- Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
- Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner
- Stormbringer Michael Moorcock
- Timescape Gregory Benford
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go Philip Jose Farmer
Neal Asher's Top 10 Fantasy Novels
- Waylander by David Gemmell
- Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
- Volkhavaar by Tanith Lee
- Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
- The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance
- Shiva 3000 by Jan Lars Jensen
From Iain Banks List...
- Tiger! Tiger! (Alfred Bester)
- Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge)
- The Dispossesed (Ursula K. Leguin)
- The Muller-Fokker Efect (John Sladek)
- The Pastel City (M John Harrison)
- Babel-17 (Samuel R Delany)
From icubaji's List...
- Harlan Ellison [ed] [A] Dangerous Visions 1967
- David Brin Startide Rising [S2] 1983
- Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon 1966
- Niven & Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye 1975
- Gene Wolfe The Shadow of the Torturer [S1] 1980
- H G Wells The War of the Worlds 1898
- Clifford Simak Way Station 1963
- Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars 1992
- Isaac Asimov The Gods Themselves 1972
- Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1992
- David Brin The Uplift War [S3] 1987
- John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1951
- Ben Bova [ed] [A] The Best of the Nebulas 1989
- *Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age 1995
- C J Cherryh Downbelow Station 1981
- Hal Clement Mission of Gravity 1953
- Gardner Dozois [ed] [A] The Year's Best Science Fiction [S] 1984
- Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar [S2] 1991
- Pohl & Kornbluth The Space Merchants 1953
- Clifford Simak [C] City 1952
- George R Stewart Earth Abides 1949
- Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars [S1] 1912
- Greg Bear Blood Music 1985
- Philip K Dick Ubik 1969
- James Blish A Case of Conscience 1958
- Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch 1964
- Arthur C Clarke The City and the Stars 1956
- Isaac Asimov (et al) [eds] [A] Hugo Winners/New Hugo Winners 1962
- Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise 1979
- Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1961
- Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan 1959
- Robert Silverberg [ed] [A] Science Fiction Hall of Fame 1 1970
- Ursula K Le Guin The Lathe of Heaven 1971
- Iain M Banks Player Of Games 1988
- Joan D Vinge The Snow Queen 1980
- Robert A Heinlein The Door Into Summer 1956
- James Blish [C] Earthman, Come Home 1955
- Brian Aldiss Helliconia Spring [S1] 1982
- Poul Anderson Tau Zero 1970
- Robert A Heinlein Double Star 1956
- Roger Zelazny This Immortal 1966
- Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer 1977
- E E 'Doc' Smith Grey Lensman [S4] 1951
- Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men 1930
- Frederik Pohl Man Plus 1976
- Arkady & Boris Strugatsky Roadside Picnic 1972
- Robert A Heinlein The Puppet Masters 1951
- Vonda N McIntyre Dreamsnake 1978
- David Brin The Postman 1985
- Robert A Heinlein [C] The Past Through Tomorrow 1967
- C J Cherryh Cyteen: The Betrayal [S1] 1988
- *Gibson & Sterling The Difference Engine 1990
- Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon 1999
Author Comments:
Suggestions welcome, particularly if you see a book on this list that you think is awesome or awful! The ones in bold are the ones I'll probably read first from other peoples' lists. My tastes are mostly with sci-fi and classic fiction, but it's always good to broaden your horizons.
RECENTLY FINISHED...
The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)
Utopia (Thomas More)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Gunsmith Cats: Misfire (Kenichi Sonoda)
My list seems to have got slighly mixed up. The first 16 up to 'The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley' are correct, but below that either I've never read or never recommended any of them, with the exception of 'The Forever War by Joe Haldeman' which I can recommend.
My mistake. I took those from your list titled "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books." I realize that you haven't read most of the books on that list, so I retitled the heading.