Books To Read

I needed a random spot to put the books I want to read... so here goes:
Books crossed out without a date were read pre-2012.
50Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read 
some of these are series so definitely more than 50 books :-P 

  1. Ubik, Philip K. Dick
  2. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
  3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
    1. The Fellowship of the Ring
    2. The Two Towers
    3. The Return of the King
  4. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  5. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
  6. A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
  7. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  8. The Gormenghast series, Mervyn Peake
    1. Titus Groan
    2. Gormenghast
    3. Titus Alone
  9. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
  10. Kindred, Octavia Butler
  11. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
  12. Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
  13. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke (read 9/2013 - Enjoyable)
  14. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  15. The City & The City, China Miéville
  16. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
  17. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
  18. Zone One, Colson Whitehead
  19. The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
    1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  20. The Time Quartet, Madeleine L’Engle
    1. A Wrinkle in Time
    2. A Wind in the Door
    3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
    4. Many Water
  21. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
    1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    2. Prince Caspian
    3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    4. The Silver Chair
    5. The Horse and His Boy
    6. The Magician's Nephew
    7. The Last Battle
  22. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  23. The Female Man, Joanna Russ
  24. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
  25. Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson
  26. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
  27. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  28. The Dune Chronicles, Frank Herbert
    1. Dune (1965)
    2. Dune Messiah (1969)
    3. Children of Dune (1976)
    4. God Emperor of Dune (1981)
    5. Heretics of Dune (1984)
    6. Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)
  29. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  30. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
  31. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
  32. Neuromancer, William Gibson
  33. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
  34. The Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
    1. Prelude to Foundation
    2. Forward the Foundation
    3. Foundation
    4. Foundation and Empire
    5. Second Foundation
    6. Foundation's Edge
    7. Foundation and Earth
  35. Discworld, Terry Pratchett
  36. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  37. Among Others, Jo Walton
  38. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  39. The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
  40. The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
  41. Witch World, Andre Norton
  42. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
  43. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
  44. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  45. Little, Big, John Crowley
  46. The Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McCaffrey
    1. Dragonflight
    2. Dragonquest
    3. The White Dragon
    4. Dragonsong
    5. Dragonsinger
    6. Dragondrums
  47. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Charles Yu (read 9/2013 - AWESOME!)
  48. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede
    1. Dealing with Dragons
    2. Searching for Dragons
    3. Calling on Dragons
    4. Talking to Dragons
  49. The Castle trilogy, Diana Wynne Jones
    1. Howl's Moving Castle
    2. Castle in the Air
    3. House of Many Ways
  50. The Giver, Lois Lowry

  1. The Illiad and The Odyssey, Homer 
  2. The Secret History, Donna Tartt - read 2012
  3. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
  4. The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor
  5. Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare 
  6. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  7. The Road, Cormac McCarthy.   
  8. Maus, Art Spiegelman
  9. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card.   
  10. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  11. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
  12. Ghost World, Daniel Clowes.   
  13. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
  14. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
  15. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  16. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  17. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
  18. 1984, George Orwell
  19. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger  
  20. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald  
  21. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  22. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  23. Lord of the Flies, William Golding.  
  24. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes.  
  25. The Trial, Franz Kafka
  26. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  27. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  28. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  29. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.    
  30. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson


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