Ubik, Philip K. DickOnes I've read are in bold print. I'm so glad I started reading science fiction as early as I did.
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin (I've read the first 2.)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Gormenghast series, Mervyn Peake
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
Kindred, Octavia Butler
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The City & The City, China Miéville
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Zone One, Colson Whitehead
The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
The Time Quartet, Madeleine L’Engle
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Female Man, Joanna Russ
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Dune Chronicles, Frank Herbert
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Neuromancer, William Gibson
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
The Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
Discworld, Terry Pratchett (I haven't read all of them, but I'm working on it.)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Among Others, Jo Walton
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
Witch World, Andre Norton
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Little, Big, John Crowley
The Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McCaffrey
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede
The Castle trilogy, Diana Wynne Jones
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Another Science Fiction Book List
I've decided there are as many of these lists on the internet as there are people on the internet, and yet I still love them. Here (via SF Signal) is a list from Flavorwire of "50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read":
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I have read 14 of these, more or less. I agree that s-f is a bug easier to catch in one´s teens. Probably, the need to escape anything resembling real life is greater...
ReplyDeletei figure if i hadn't started so young there would be no way to catch up on the older stuff. as it is i find it impossible to keep up with even the major works that come out. at least this way i've read most of the foundational classics.
DeleteCatching up with the older stuff can be really difficult. Some of the really good authors of the 40's and 50's like Clifford Simak and A.E. Van Vogt are out of print and because they are treasured are rarely found used.
Deletethat's the truth! simak was one of my favorites back in the day, and now i find many haven't even heard of him. most of what i read by him i found in the library in short story collections, and "way station" is the only book by him i own. It's wonderful, and i can't imagine why it's not still in print. i think "city" is also out of print. sad.
DeleteI've read:
ReplyDeleteThe Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
The Dune Chronicles, Frank Herbert (only the first one)
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
So, that's 12 lines of reading, with Potter and Lewis being 7 books each, Tolkien 3, and only 1 of the Dunes. Better than you thought, huh?
--A Pal
i thought you read ender's game and the once & future king,
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