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are you going to read them alphabetically, too? *NM* Camilla Send a noteboard - 11/09/2009 10:11:48 AM
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.

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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.
*MySmiley*
structured procrastinator
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I do... and this is why. - 09/09/2009 06:19:48 PM 761 Views
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I have far more than that. - 09/09/2009 03:07:58 PM 763 Views
Well I don't see you posting a list, missy. - 09/09/2009 06:20:48 PM 817 Views
See, I can't help but buy them. - 09/09/2009 07:14:40 PM 830 Views
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Wow, you have 4 of my absolute favorite books on here - 09/09/2009 07:01:37 PM 779 Views
Maybe they'll become my favorites too! *NM* - 09/09/2009 07:27:46 PM 388 Views
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Re: You're right - 10/09/2009 07:45:08 AM 765 Views
Actually... - 10/09/2009 05:58:33 PM 691 Views
Agreed with your picks and comments. - 09/09/2009 10:02:12 PM 804 Views
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That is awesome. Now I want to do a list. - 10/09/2009 04:11:06 AM 727 Views
Here's my list. - 10/09/2009 05:20:23 AM 769 Views
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How can you HATE Brave New World??? - 12/09/2009 06:29:54 AM 915 Views
Powerfully. *NM* - 12/09/2009 07:22:39 AM 406 Views
are you going to read them alphabetically, too? *NM* - 11/09/2009 10:11:48 AM 488 Views
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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 825 Views
You read ... alphabetically? - 11/09/2009 10:09:26 AM 875 Views
Re: You read ... alphabetically? - 11/09/2009 12:00:32 PM 848 Views
Only 'til I get through the list. - 11/09/2009 06:17:02 PM 723 Views
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There is absolutely no good reason to... - 11/09/2009 02:31:14 PM 758 Views
I'm intrigued by the premise. - 11/09/2009 06:19:57 PM 729 Views
Spin more time reading and less time list making - 11/09/2009 08:15:09 PM 766 Views
I fear you don't understand! - 11/09/2009 09:33:04 PM 675 Views
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