The dust from digging around in them made me sneeze more times than I can count. This list is possibly missing a few, as I'm adding some from memory that are sitting at my parents' place. They asked me for some fancy books to put on their shelves so they could look cultured, so I left most of my "classics" there.
~ ~ ~
Richard Adams ~ Watership Down
Dante Alighieri ~ The Divine Comedy
Margaret Atwood ~ Oryx & Crake
Ray Bradbury ~ Quicker Than the Eye, R is for Rocket, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes
David Brin ~ Startide Rising, Earth
Orson Scott Card ~ Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow
Jacqueline Carey ~ Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar
David Chandler ~ The Campaigns of Napoleon
Winston Churchill ~ The World Crisis, The Second World War Volumes III - VI, A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Tom Clancy ~ Red Rabbit
Susanna Clarke ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Michael Crichton ~ Disclosure, Prey
e.e. cummings ~ Complete Works
Norman Davies ~ Europe
Miguel de Cervantes ~ Don Quixote
Charles de Lint ~ Svaha
Charles Dickens ~ Oliver Twist
Richard Dowden ~ Africa
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas ~ The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Hal Duncan ~ Vellum
Lord Dunsany ~ The King of Elfland's Daughter
Gwynne Dyer ~ The Mess They Made, Climate Wars
Steven Erikson ~ House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds
Umberto Eco ~ Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Jasper Fforde ~ The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
Neil Gaiman ~ Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things
William Gibson ~ Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Golding ~ Lord of the Flies
David Halberstam ~ The Coldest Winter
Robert A. Heinlein ~ A Stranger in a Strange Land
Robin Hobb ~ Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny, Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
Homer ~ The Iliad
Victor Hugo ~ Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley ~ Brave New World
Alexander Irvine ~ A Scattering of Jades
James Joyce ~ Finnegans Wake, The Dubliners
Franz Kafka ~ The Metamorphosis
Guy Gavriel Kay ~ A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emporers
Stephen King ~ The Dark Tower VII, Pet Semetery, The Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half, Needful Things, The Talisman, Cycle of the Werewolf, Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Desperation, The Regulators, The Green Mile, Black House, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Dreamcatcher, Lysa's Story, The Bachman Books, Thinner, Four Past Midnight, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Everything's Eventual, Skeleton Crew
Rudyard Kipling ~ Best Short Stories
Dean Koontz ~ Odd Hours
Ursula K. Le Guin ~ The Left Hand of Darkness
C.S. Lewis ~ The Chronicles of Narnia, Surprised By Joy
Sir Thomas Malory ~ Le Morte D'Arthur
George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle ~ Windhaven
Robert K. Masse ~ Peter the Great
Herman Melville ~ Moby Dick
China Mieville ~ The City & The City
Walter M. Miller Jr. ~ A Canticle For Leibowitz
Patrick O'Brien ~ Master and Commander
George Orwell ~ 1984, Animal Farm
Mervyn Peake ~ Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
Terry Pratchett ~ Mort
Philip Pullman ~ The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Ayn Rand ~ Atlas Shrugged
Melanie Rawn ~ Stronghold, The Dragon Token, Skybowl, The Ruins of Ambrai, The Mageborn Traitor
Kim Stanley Robinson ~ Years of Rice and Salt, Green Mars, Red Mars
Carl Sagan ~ Contact
Robert Sawyer ~ Hominids, Calculating God
William Shakespeare ~ The Complete Works
Dan Simmons ~ The Terror, Ilium, Olympos, Summer of Night, The Hollow Man, Carrion Comfort, Children of the Night, Song of Kali
Neal Stephenson ~ Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Confusion, System of the World
Bram Stoker ~ Dracula
Matthew Stover ~ Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars (various authors) ~ Destiny's Way, Force Heritic I - III, The Final Prophecy, The Unifying Force
Sheri S. Tepper ~ The Visitor
Leo Tolstoy ~ War and Peace
Jeff VanderMeer ~ City of Saints and Madmen
H.G. Wells ~ The Outline of History
T.H. White ~ The Once and Future King
Jack Whyte ~ The Skystone, The Singing Sword, The Eagle's Brood, The Saxon Shore, Sorcerer I & II, Uther
Tad Williams ~ Shadowmarch
Gene Wolfe ~ The Wizard, The Book of the Long Sun, Latro in the Mist, Castleview, There Are Doors
Roger Zelazny ~ Lord of Light
~ ~ ~
Total (counting collections as one): 176 books to read.
I'm basically never going to read them all. Ever.
~ ~ ~
Richard Adams ~ Watership Down
Dante Alighieri ~ The Divine Comedy
Margaret Atwood ~ Oryx & Crake
Ray Bradbury ~ Quicker Than the Eye, R is for Rocket, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes
David Brin ~ Startide Rising, Earth
Orson Scott Card ~ Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow
Jacqueline Carey ~ Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar
David Chandler ~ The Campaigns of Napoleon
Winston Churchill ~ The World Crisis, The Second World War Volumes III - VI, A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Tom Clancy ~ Red Rabbit
Susanna Clarke ~ Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Michael Crichton ~ Disclosure, Prey
e.e. cummings ~ Complete Works
Norman Davies ~ Europe
Miguel de Cervantes ~ Don Quixote
Charles de Lint ~ Svaha
Charles Dickens ~ Oliver Twist
Richard Dowden ~ Africa
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Alexandre Dumas ~ The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
Hal Duncan ~ Vellum
Lord Dunsany ~ The King of Elfland's Daughter
Gwynne Dyer ~ The Mess They Made, Climate Wars
Steven Erikson ~ House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll the Hounds
Umberto Eco ~ Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Jasper Fforde ~ The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear
Neil Gaiman ~ Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things
William Gibson ~ Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Golding ~ Lord of the Flies
David Halberstam ~ The Coldest Winter
Robert A. Heinlein ~ A Stranger in a Strange Land
Robin Hobb ~ Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny, Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate
Homer ~ The Iliad
Victor Hugo ~ Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley ~ Brave New World
Alexander Irvine ~ A Scattering of Jades
James Joyce ~ Finnegans Wake, The Dubliners
Franz Kafka ~ The Metamorphosis
Guy Gavriel Kay ~ A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium, Lord of Emporers
Stephen King ~ The Dark Tower VII, Pet Semetery, The Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half, Needful Things, The Talisman, Cycle of the Werewolf, Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia, Rose Madder, Desperation, The Regulators, The Green Mile, Black House, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Dreamcatcher, Lysa's Story, The Bachman Books, Thinner, Four Past Midnight, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Everything's Eventual, Skeleton Crew
Rudyard Kipling ~ Best Short Stories
Dean Koontz ~ Odd Hours
Ursula K. Le Guin ~ The Left Hand of Darkness
C.S. Lewis ~ The Chronicles of Narnia, Surprised By Joy
Sir Thomas Malory ~ Le Morte D'Arthur
George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle ~ Windhaven
Robert K. Masse ~ Peter the Great
Herman Melville ~ Moby Dick
China Mieville ~ The City & The City
Walter M. Miller Jr. ~ A Canticle For Leibowitz
Patrick O'Brien ~ Master and Commander
George Orwell ~ 1984, Animal Farm
Mervyn Peake ~ Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone
Terry Pratchett ~ Mort
Philip Pullman ~ The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Ayn Rand ~ Atlas Shrugged
Melanie Rawn ~ Stronghold, The Dragon Token, Skybowl, The Ruins of Ambrai, The Mageborn Traitor
Kim Stanley Robinson ~ Years of Rice and Salt, Green Mars, Red Mars
Carl Sagan ~ Contact
Robert Sawyer ~ Hominids, Calculating God
William Shakespeare ~ The Complete Works
Dan Simmons ~ The Terror, Ilium, Olympos, Summer of Night, The Hollow Man, Carrion Comfort, Children of the Night, Song of Kali
Neal Stephenson ~ Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, The Confusion, System of the World
Bram Stoker ~ Dracula
Matthew Stover ~ Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars (various authors) ~ Destiny's Way, Force Heritic I - III, The Final Prophecy, The Unifying Force
Sheri S. Tepper ~ The Visitor
Leo Tolstoy ~ War and Peace
Jeff VanderMeer ~ City of Saints and Madmen
H.G. Wells ~ The Outline of History
T.H. White ~ The Once and Future King
Jack Whyte ~ The Skystone, The Singing Sword, The Eagle's Brood, The Saxon Shore, Sorcerer I & II, Uther
Tad Williams ~ Shadowmarch
Gene Wolfe ~ The Wizard, The Book of the Long Sun, Latro in the Mist, Castleview, There Are Doors
Roger Zelazny ~ Lord of Light
~ ~ ~
Total (counting collections as one): 176 books to read.
I'm basically never going to read them all. Ever.
Warder to starry_nite
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This message last edited by Nate on 10/09/2009 at 08:22:41 AM
/NSSP: My fabled "to-read" list.
- 09/09/2009 07:45:04 AM
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... dan brown?
- 09/09/2009 11:23:21 AM
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Copy....Aaaannnnd pasted. Excellent *NM*
- 09/09/2009 02:13:47 PM
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I accept no responsibility for this! *NM*
- 09/09/2009 06:20:06 PM
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No worries. I've actually read about 9 of the books on there, so I figure we have similar tastes. *NM*
- 09/09/2009 06:59:11 PM
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I have far more than that.
- 09/09/2009 03:07:58 PM
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Well I don't see you posting a list, missy.
- 09/09/2009 06:20:48 PM
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See, I can't help but buy them. 
- 09/09/2009 07:14:40 PM
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- 09/09/2009 07:14:40 PM
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Post it! I get a kick out of seeing how organized others are. Plus this list gave me some ideas. *NM*
- 09/09/2009 07:17:56 PM
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Really? How many others would care though? I could nb it to you. *NM*
- 10/09/2009 03:51:38 AM
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If you don't want to post it, no pressure, I'd definitely love to see a copy though 
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- 10/09/2009 07:08:24 AM
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*NM*
- 10/09/2009 07:08:24 AM
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I collect too many other things to dedicate all my resources to books.
- 09/09/2009 07:19:44 PM
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I love anal. 
- 10/09/2009 03:51:12 AM
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- 10/09/2009 03:51:12 AM
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Really? You just don't seem the type. *NM*
- 10/09/2009 07:52:25 AM
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I'm assuming this is sarcasm...
- 10/09/2009 09:01:41 PM
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Sarcasm? Never heard of it. *NM*
- 10/09/2009 11:08:00 PM
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Wow, you have 4 of my absolute favorite books on here
- 09/09/2009 07:01:37 PM
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Agreed with your picks and comments.
- 09/09/2009 10:02:12 PM
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Fine, you guys!
- 10/09/2009 07:51:16 AM
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- 10/09/2009 09:54:43 PM
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- 10/09/2009 09:54:43 PM
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That is awesome. Now I want to do a list.
- 10/09/2009 04:11:06 AM
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Here's my list.
- 10/09/2009 05:20:23 AM
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It's fun, isn't it? 
- 10/09/2009 07:50:25 AM
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- 10/09/2009 07:50:25 AM
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I am reading David Halberstam ~ The Coldest Winter right now and it is great
- 12/09/2009 06:47:27 AM
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You read ... alphabetically?
- 11/09/2009 10:09:26 AM
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Only 'til I get through the list.
- 11/09/2009 06:17:02 PM
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Re: Only 'til I get through the list.
- 11/09/2009 06:29:29 PM
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Re: Only 'til I get through the list.
- 11/09/2009 06:41:06 PM
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- 11/09/2009 07:04:37 PM
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- 11/09/2009 07:04:37 PM
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Spin more time reading and less time list making
- 11/09/2009 08:15:09 PM
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- 11/09/2009 08:15:09 PM
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I fear you don't understand!
- 11/09/2009 09:33:04 PM
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