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Monday, Jun 2, 2008

I've lost track of how many books I've read over the years. I even had a fairly decent collection at one time (numbering over 3000 books), but I had to get rid of a large portion of those to make room for my kids.

Anyway, here is a small snapshot of some of my favourites over the years...

Stephen Donaldson:

The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant...

Lord Foul's Bane
The Illearth War
The Power That Preserves
The Wounded Land
The One Tree
White Gold Wielder


John Wyndham:

Day Of The Triffids
The Kraken Wakes
The Chrysalids
The Midwich Cuckoos


Herbert George Wells:

The War Of The Worlds
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
The Island Of Dr. Moreau
The Food Of The Gods


Basil Copper:

The Great White Space
Into The Silence


Edgar Rice Burroughs:

Thuvia, Maid Of Mars
The Chessmen Of Mars
Tarzan Of The Apes


Alan Dean Foster:

Into The Out Of
Spellsinger
To The Vanishing Point

The Icerigger trilogy:

Icerigger
Mission To Moulokin
The Deluge Drivers


David Gemmell:

Waylander
Legend
Morningstar
Knights Of Dark Renown


Robert E. Howard:

The Conan stories
The Gods Of Bal-Sagoth (collection of short stories)
Solomon Kane


Katherine Kurtz:

Deryni Rising
Deryni Checkmate
High Deryni
The Bishop's Heir
The King's
The Quest For Saint Camber


Barbra Hambly:

The Darwath Trilogy:

1: The Time Of The Dark
2: The Walls Of Air
3: The Armies Of Daylight


Ian Fleming:

Dr. No
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
From Russia With Love
Live And Let Die
Thunderball
On Her Majesty's Secret Service


James Herbert:

The Rats
Lair
The Fog
The Dark


Raymond E. Feist:

Magician
Silverthorn
A Darkness At Sethanon


Dean R. Koontz:

Strangers
Cold Fire
Lightning
The Bad Place
Darkness Comes
Phantoms


Jules Verne:

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Mysterious Island


Alexander Dumas:

The Three Musketeers
Ten Years Later
Twenty Years Later
The Man In The Iron Mask
The Count Of Monte Cristo


Douglas Adams:

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Restaurant At The End Of The Universe


Clifford D. Simak:

All Flesh Is Grass
The Visitors
They Walked Like Men


Dennis Wheatley:

The Devil Rides Out
Uncharted Seas


Larry Niven:

The Mote In God's Eye
Dream Park


H. Beam Piper:

Little Fuzzy
Fuzzy Sapiens
Fuzzies and other people


Charles Dickens:

The Old Curiosity Shop
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol


Robert Louis Stevenson:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island


Isaac Asimov:

I, Robot
The Bicentennial Man


J.R.R. Tolkien:

The Hobbit
The Lord Of The Rings (complete)


Clive Barker:

Books Of Blood series
Weaveworld


Robert Jordan:

Eye Of The World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Cthulhu stories of H.P. Lovecraft

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
The Warlock In Spite Of Himself by Christopher Stasheff
Massacre River (and other 'Fargo' novels) by John Benteen
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained by John Milton
Duncton Wood by William Horwood

It's not an exhaustive list by any means, and there are many, many omissions, but I'd recommend any of these as a 'good read'.

Posted by RobertBowen, 12:30pm
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Oh, good. I saw The Lost world in there. It would have been a crime to leave it out. The man had some talent. Don't remember the titles of the books, but I also liked the one about diving into the deep of the sea, The poison belt and the one about that Alchemist guy. And of course The Hound of the Baskervilles, hell, pretty much every Sherlock Holmes out there.
Posted Jun 2, 2008 12:58 pm PT
wow, thats a comprehensive list. i don't read much fiction, i'm more of a non-fiction guy. for me, my favorite fiction book would be no country for old men, the book is even better than the movie.
Posted Jun 2, 2008 3:58 pm PT
you not read any Terry Pratchett, RB? with your taste, not least HGTTG, i think you'd like him
Posted Jun 2, 2008 4:15 pm PT
Read quite a few Terry Pratchett novels JF. I preferred his earlier Discworld novels. 'The Colour of Magic' was a breath of fresh air at the time, and I read four or five in that series. They're no longer part of my collection (game them to a friend), so they slipped my mind.

I also liked some of Piers Anthony's Xanth novels - absolutely full of puns.

artur - I've only read a few of the Holmes stories, but you're right the guy had a lot of talent. I mentioned 'The Lost World' because it doesn't get enough attention, in my view. Glad to see someone else who appreciates it, along with his other less known works.
Posted Jun 2, 2008 4:45 pm PT
I do not see Roald Dahl on your list. Have you read some of his works?
What about some of the Russian classics? Lots of great stuff there.
Oh, man, I haven't read a fictional book in a year soon. Think I'll have to pick something up this summer....
Posted Jun 2, 2008 11:13 pm PT
Quite a bit of fantasy in there. I'd *strongly* recommend you read Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Erikson ****s all over most other fantasy writers.
Posted Jun 4, 2008 2:50 pm PT
Sorry for the delay...got sidetracked.

Artur - I've not read much Dahl to be honest. The only books I remember were a couple of his children's books that I read many moons ago.

I've read Tolstoy's War and Peace (quite some time ago), but not many other Russian authors. Are there any you would particularly recommend?

fatshodan - I've not come across Erikson's works, but then, I've not really bought many books in recent years. I had a hefty collection at one time and it just became very unwieldy (I literally gave away hundreds of titles to a local charity for them to make some money), so I weaned myself off buying books for quite a while.

I'll have to hit my local library and see if I can dig up that Malazan series. My wife would probably disown me if I bought any more books at the moment...
Posted Jun 4, 2008 10:54 pm PT
Dahl's short stories are some of the best I've ever read. Really great stuff. I don't remember the name of the book, but it's a collection of various works of his.
War and Peace is awesome at times and a little hard to read when the whole society stuff is described. Great book nonetheless.
Dostoyevskij has some great books. Crime and Punishment is a hard book to read, but very good.
Posted Jun 6, 2008 2:09 am PT
good collection, good collection
Posted Oct 20, 2008 6:28 pm PT
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