I often have people tell me "you should read this book next!" And then I tell them that it'll be a while before I get to that book, and they usually say "oh, just move this towards the top of your list!" Well, this is why that's not going to work.

I started with the "A" authors in January of '08. I'm currently in the E-G range, with more books having been added to the A-E range in the meantime - but those have been moved to the bottom of the list, in the interest of fairness (and me not going insane [er]).

I'm going to be at this for a while.

David Louis Edelman ~ Geosynchron
Steven Erikson ~ The Lees of Laughter’s End, Dust of Dreams
Jaine Fenn ~ Principles of Angels
William Forstchen ~ Ice Prophet, The Flame Upon the Ice, A Darkness Upon the Ice
Pat Frank ~ Alas, Babylon (reading now)
Ronald H. Fritze ~ Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
Felix Gilman ~ Thunderer (reading now), Gears of the City
Che Guevera ~ The Motorcycle Diaries
Peter F. Hamilton ~ The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God, The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void
Graham Hancock ~ Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
Robert Harris ~ Pompeii
Robert Heinlein ~ Stranger in a Strange Land
Robin Hobb ~ Fool’s Errand, Golden Fool, Fool’s Fate
Cecelia Holland ~ Two Ravens
Fred Hoyle ~ A For Andromeda
Samantha Hunt ~ The Invention of Everything Else
Jeremy Robert Johnson ~ Extinction Journals
Michio Kaku ~ Physics of the Impossible
Guy Gavriel Kay ~ Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emperors
Stuart Kelly ~ The Book of Lost Books
Ken Kesey ~ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Greg Keyes ~ The Briar King, The Charnel Prince, The Blood Knight, The Born Queen
Stephen King ~ The Stand
Russell Kirkpatrick ~ Across the Face of the World, In the Earth Abides the Flame, The Right Hand of God, Path of Revenge
Dean Koontz ~ Lightning
Elizabeth Kostova ~ The Historian
Stephen R. Lawhead ~ The Paradise War, The Silver Hand, The Endless Knot
Stanislaw Lem ~ Solaris
John Ajvide Lindqvist ~ Let the Right One In
Scott Lynch ~ The Republic of Thieves
Ken Macleod ~ Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, Engine City
Nevin Martell ~ Looking for Calvin and Hobbes
Lee M. Martinez ~ In the Company of Ogres
Richard Matheson ~ I Am Legend
Jack mcDevitt ~ The Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, Omega, Cauldron
Ian McDonald ~ River of Gods
Scott McGough ~ Time Spiral, Planar Chaos (Timothy Sanders), Future Sight (John Delaney)
Herman Melville ~ Moby-Dick
David Michaelis ~ Schulz and Peanuts
China Miéville ~ The City and the City
Lee Miller ~ Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Walter M. Miller, Jr. ~ A Canticle for Liebowitz
John Milton ~ Paradise Lost
Richard Morgan ~ Altered Carbon
Kate Mosse ~ Labyrinth, Sepulchre
Sylvia Nasar ~ A Beautiful Mind
Flann O’Brien ~ The Third Policeman
Chuck Palahniuk ~ Fight Club
Tudor Parfitt ~ The Lost Ark of the Covenant
John Allen Paulos ~ Irreligion
Christopher Potter ~ You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
Tim Powers ~ Three Days to Never
Terry Pratchett ~ Nation
Christopher Priest ~ Inverted World
Philip Pullman ~ The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Thomas Pynchon ~ Against the Day
Ayn Rand ~ The Fountainhead
John D. Rateliff ~ Mr. Baggins, Return to Bag End
Philip Reeve ~ Mortal Engines
Alastair Reynolds ~ Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap
Kim Stanley Robinson ~ Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, The Years of Rice and Salt40 Signs of Rain, 50 Degrees Below, 60 Days and Counting
James Rollins ~ The Last Oracle
Jed Rubenthel ~ The Interpretation of Murder
Brandon Sanderson ~ Warbreaker
Frank Schatzing ~ The Swarm
Ken Scholes ~ Lamentation
David Sedaris ~ When You Are Engulfed In Flames
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson ~ The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Dan Simmons ~ Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, Drood
William Sleator ~ House of Stairs
Robert Louis Stevenson ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
S.M. Stirling ~ Dies the Fire
Bram Stoker ~ Dracula
Whitley Streiber ~ 2012: The War of Souls
Charles Stross ~ Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise
P.L. Travers ~ Mary Poppins
Karen Traviss ~ City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch
John Twelve Hawks ~ The Traveler
Neil deGrasse Tyson ~ The Pluto Files
Jeff VanderMeer ~ Shriek: an Afterword, The New Weird
Jack Vance ~ Tales of the Dying Earth
Jules Verne ~ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island
David Wallace ~ Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
H.G. Wells ~ The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
Scott Westerfeld ~ The Risen Empire
Oscar Wilde ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sean Williams ~ The Crooked Letter, The Hanging Mountains
Tad Williams ~ Shadowplay
Robert Charles Wilson ~ Spin
Jeanette Winterson ~ The Stone Gods
Chris Wooding ~ Retribution Falls
Gene Wolfe ~ The Book of the New Sun
Roger Zelazny ~ Lord of Light

Joe Abercrombie ~ The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, The Last Argument of Kings
R Scott Bakker ~ Neuropath
Iain M. Banks ~ The Algebraist, Consider Phlebas
Stephen Baxter ~ Flood, Ark, Coalescent, Transcendent, Exultant, The Light of Other Days
Elizabeth Bear ~ Blood and Iron, Whiskey and Water
Greg Bear ~ City at the End of Time, Darwin's Radio
Alfred Bester ~ The Stars My Destination
Dan Brown ~ Digital Fortress
John Brown ~ Servant of a Dark God
Tobias S. Buckell ~ Ragamuffin, Sly Mongoose
G.K. Chesterton ~ The Man Who Was Thursday
Dominic Cooper ~ Men at Axlir
Philip K. Dick ~ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?