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SF

* Dune, Frank Herbert
* The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
* The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
* The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
* Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
* The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
* A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr
* Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
* Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
* Hyperion, Dan Simmons
* Gateway, Frederik Pohl
* The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
* More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
* Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
* Neuromancer, William Gibson
* Startide Rising, David Brin
* The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
* The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
* The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
* Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
* The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
* The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
* Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
* Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
* Ringworld, Larry Niven
* 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
* The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
* The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
* Way Station, Clifford D. Simak
Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon
* Dying Inside, Robert Silverberg
* The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
* Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
* Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
* Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
* City, Clifford D. Simak
* Cyteen, C.J. Cherryh
* Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
* Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
* The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein
Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
* Ubik, Philip K. Dick
* Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith
The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz What? By who?
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
* Have Space Suit -- Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
* Time Enough for Love, Robert A. Heinlein
* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
* The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov
* "Riverworld" Series, Philip Jose Farmer

46/53

Pretty pleased with that. A couple are on the to-be-read pile, too.


Fantasy


* The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe This isn't fantasy, it's SF!
* "Earthsea" Series, Ursula K. Le Guin
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
"Gormenghast" Series, Mervyn Peake
* The Once and Future King, T.H. White
* Little, Big, John Crowley
* Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
* "The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", Stephen R. Donaldson
* Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey arguably SF...
* "The Belgariad", David Eddings
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis You're kidding, right?
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
* "The Dying Earth" series, Jack Vance
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
* Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
* The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Stand, Stephen King
* Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
* Glory Road, Robert A. Heinlein SF too!
* Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
* "Alvin Maker" Series, Orson Scott Card
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
* Witch World, Andre Norton
"The Fionavar Tapestry", Guy Gavriel Kay
Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
* "Discworld" Series, Terry Pratchett
"Elric" Series, Michael Moorcock
* Replay, Ken Grimwood SF too!
* Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
* "Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" Series, Fritz Leiber
* The Incomplete Enchanter, Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp

24/37

And I don't like fantasy much!

I've read more than ¾ of "Little, Big", in the last few months, but I've given up for now.
Lovely writing, but tedious.

On the other hand, I gave up about a third of the way into "Gormenghast" so I'm not counting
that.

And...

The BBC Top 100

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
* Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
* Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
* Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
* Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
* The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
* Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
* Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
* Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
* Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
* Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
* Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
* The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
* The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronté
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
* Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
* The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
* Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles (as Maureen notes, I, also, have read The French Lieutenant's Woman instead)
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
* Mort, Terry Pratchett
* Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
* Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
* Watership Down, Richard Adams
* The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
* Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

23/100.

Oh dear. But as discussed on the Hamster Bounce, I've given up on reading stuff I feel I
ought to in favour of stuff I want to, which is much more important when
I've only got 70-odd years.

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