A couple people have asked about my reading list (books I want to read eventually) so I'm blogging it. These are collected from random recommendations and reviews I've read online, as well as books I just...want to read. Here we go:
The Farseer Trilogy (Robin Hobb)
- I've read the Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb. She's a master fantasist.
Song of Albion series (Stephen Lawhead)
- reading the Pendragon Cycle by the same guy.
Dune (Frank Herbert)
The Arthurian Saga (Mary Stewart)
- because King Arthur is awesome.
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
Interview With a Vampire (Anne Rice)
- I think I need to read this for some vampire fiction that isn't Twilight.
Night Watch
- almost purely because Ellie asks me if I've read it every time I talk to him.
Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian)
- the movie was superlative.
Sophie's World and Through a Glass Darkly (Jostein Gaardner)
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Star of the Morning, The Mage's Daughter, Princess of the Sword (Lynn Kurland)
Buried Fire, The Leap, The Last Siege (Jonathan Stroud)
- he wrote the Bartimaeus trilogy, which I love.
Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin)
The Fionavar Tapestry (Guy Gavriel Kay)
- both of the above recommended by Limyaael (see link on the left)
King Raven trilogy (Stephen Lawhead)
- again, writer of the Pendragon Cycle
Deerskin, The Outlaws of Sherwood, Sunshine (Robin McKinley)
- I adore Robin McKinley. 'Nuff said.
Winter Rose (Patricia McKillip)
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
- I've heard it said that it should be a requirement for every fantasy lover to have read this series.
Ithanalin's Restoration, The Spell of the Black Dagger, The Misenchanted Sword (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
- do these not sound epic?
Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice (Steven Erikson)
Memory, Sorrow, Thorn (Tad Williams)
Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle (Matthew Woodring Stover)
The Vlad Taltos series (Steven Brust)
- again, recommended by Limyaael
Time Master trilogy (Louise Cooper)
How To Read Literature Like a Professor
- yep, LDM, it's on there.
Way of Shadows (Brent Weeks)
Hexwood (Diana Wynne Jones)
Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Joseph R. Bast)
Ecoscam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (Ronald Bailey)
- the above two from my chemistry textbook. If I'm going to be a global warming/environmentalism skeptic, I want to be an informed one.
And there you have it. If anyone can tell me that any of these are not worth reading, then please speak up - it's a really long list and I'd like to get to the best ones.
Quote of the Week: "Bookends around here are like unicorns. They're around when you don't need one but when you want one, they're never there."
4 comments:
Fwee! Thanks for posting this! *reads through it*
I've read part of the first Song of Albion book. It was good, I just got distracted by some other book. Dune, I got distracted too. As a sci-fi fan, I feel like I should read it, but I found it a bit slow and hard to follow. Flowers for Algernon... *sniffs* very nice, sad story. I bet you'll like the King Raven trilogy- Robin Hood rewritten! I've only had the chance to read the first one, so far.
*copies the list to her own to-read list*
Yes, you absolutely must read a Discworld novel. Terry Pratchett is to fantasy what Douglas Adams is to sci fi. I especially liked "Pyramids". (Which is about a young assassin who is the son of Pharaoh. Hilariously epic.)
I didn't really like A Great and Terrible Beauty, actually. Maybe if I would have read the whole trilogy... but that one alone was a bit, eh, boring for me.
I have a couple of books you need to add if you haven't read them before. Yesh.
The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale. (Especially Enna Burning.)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. (I wouldn't bother with Gaiman's other fantasy novels... too much, ahem, graphic adult content. But this one was amazing. Gaiman writes the most amazing villains ever!)
Yes, I definitely need to read something by Neil Gaiman. I've added your recommendations - thanks! I hope to get through them before this list gets taller than I am. Heh.
Ahahaha your list could not be more different from mine. I love you.
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