Genre Fiction Meme
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purplecatI wasn't so interested in the general book meme doing the rounds since I'm fairly sure I'd done something very like it before but I like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
philmophlegm's take on it - that it was very focused on "literary classics".
So here'sphilmophlegm's list of genre classics.
Genre fiction book meme -
1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.
Since there are several series here I've gone for bold for read in its entirety, italics for read some, may someday read the rest and underline for read some, do not intend to read the rest.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
5. Robot series, Isaac Asimov - assuming the lot are in my "Collected Robot" book
6. Dune, Frank Herbert - lost patience around Children of Dune. Like much of my flist I think the first two are best and have always been puzzled by the general disdain for Dune Messiah I have often encountered.
7. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. Earthsea series, Ursula le Guin - I read these from the local library as a child and think I was too young. I recall almost nothing about them except that there is a big monster, somehow linked to Ged, and a lot of time is spent in boats. I keep thinking I should re-read so I have at least some grasp of the plot and characters.
9. Neuromancer, William Gibson
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
12. A Book of the New Sun series, Gene Wolfe
13. Discworld series, Terry Pratchett - I collect the Vimes books avidly but am a bit more random about the others.
14. Sandman series, Neil Gaiman
15. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
16. Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McAffery - I've read the first and was a bit "meh" about it and though I've no burning desire to read the rest, I may check them out someday.
17. Interview with the Vampire series, Anne Rice - Gave up somewhere around Queen of the Damned
18. The Shining, Stephen King
19. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin
20. The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny - I've read the first and wasn't much impressed since, I suspect, I'd already had the background explained to me at length by Amber players and I was disconcerted by the way it just stopped. I'm interested though thatlil_shepherd reckons the first five are really one novel. This tempts me to check out the rest.
21. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke - I think, I've definitely read 2010, and certainly started 2001.
22. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke - I've read a later one in the series which didn't leave me wanting to go back and read the first.
23. Ringworld, Larry Niven
24. Elric of Melnibone series, Michael Moorcock - like the Pern books I've read Elric of Melnibone and was a bit 'meh' about it. I'm not ruling out reading the rest though.
25. The Dying Earth series, Jack Vance
26. Lyonesse series, Jack Vance
27. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
28. A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R.R. Martin - I'm getting diminishing returns on these books, but haven't given up on them yet.
29. The Worm Ourobouros, E.R. Eddison
30. Conan series, Robert E. Howard
31. Lankhmar series, Fritz Leiber
32. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
33. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
34. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
35. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
36. Eon, Greg Bear
37. Book of the First Law series, Joe Abercrombie
38. Miss Marple stories, Agatha Christie
39. Hercule Poirot stories, Agatha Christie
40. Lord Peter Wimsey stories, Dorothy L. Sayers
41. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
43. Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
44. Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft - I've read a "Collected Cthulhu" volume, but I think it was Vol I or Vol 2 or something so I'm guessing there are others.
45. Inspector Wexford stories, Ruth Rendell
46. Adam Dalgliesh stories, P.D. James
47. Philip Marlowe stories, Raymond Chandler
48. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
49. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
50. The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth
51. Smiley series, John le Carre
52. Gentleman Bastard series, Scott Lynch
53. The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson
54. Watchmen series, Alan Moore
55. Maus, Art Spiegelman
56. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alan Miller
57. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
58. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
59. Chrestomanci series, Diana Wynne-Jones
60. Ryhope Wood series, Robert Holdstock
61. Wilt series, Tom Sharpe
62. Riftwar Cycle, Raymond E. Feist
63. Temeraire series, Naomi Novik
64. Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
65. His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman
66. Dragonlance series, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
67. Twilight saga, Stephanie Meyer
68. The Night's Dawn trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton
69. Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
70. Honor Harrington series, David Weber
71. Hannibal Lecter series, Thomas Harris
72. The Dark Tower series, Stephen King
73. It, Stephen King
74. The Rats series, James Herbert
75. Dirk Gently series, Douglas Adams - because of general my general fannish strangeness that occasionally asserts itself, I have boycotted these on the rather bizarre grounds that Adams should have novelised his Doctor Who episodes instead.
76. Jeeves and Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse - but I know I really ought to check these out.
77. The da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
78. The Culture Series, Iain M. Banks - I haven't read the most recent and I think there may be another I'm missing.
79. The Duncton series, William Horwood
80. The Illuminatus! trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
81. The Aberystwyth series, Malcom Pryce
82. Morse stories, Colin Dexter
83. Navajo Tribal Police stories, Tony Hillerman
84. The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
85. Enigma, Robert Harris
86. Fatherland, Robert Harris
87. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
88. The House of Cards trilogy, Michael Dobbs
89. The Dark is Rising saga, Susan Cooper
90. Psychotechnic League and Polesotechnic League series, Poul Anderson
91. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
92. Star Wars: Thrawn trilogy, Timothy Zahn
93. Ender's Game series, Orson Scott Card
94. Gormenghast series, Meryvn Peake
95. Miles Vorkosigan saga, Lois McMaster Bujold
96. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
97. Fighting Fantasy books, Ian Livingston & Steve Jackson - though if I get another boxed set of them like I did one Christmas, I will probably work through them as well, but I've no intention of ever buying another.
98. The Stainless Steel Rat series, Harry Harrison
99. The Lensman series, E.E. 'Doc' Smith
100. The Cadfael stories, Ellis Peters - I think there may be a couple at the end of the run I haven't read. I'm up to Brother Cadfael's Penance
philmophlegm's take on it - that it was very focused on "literary classics".So here's
philmophlegm's list of genre classics.Genre fiction book meme -
1) Look at the list, copy and paste it into your own journal.
2) Mark those you have read however you want.
3) Feel free to tell your friends what you thought of them.
Since there are several series here I've gone for bold for read in its entirety, italics for read some, may someday read the rest and underline for read some, do not intend to read the rest.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Foundation series, Isaac Asimov
5. Robot series, Isaac Asimov - assuming the lot are in my "Collected Robot" book
6. Dune, Frank Herbert - lost patience around Children of Dune. Like much of my flist I think the first two are best and have always been puzzled by the general disdain for Dune Messiah I have often encountered.
7. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
8. Earthsea series, Ursula le Guin - I read these from the local library as a child and think I was too young. I recall almost nothing about them except that there is a big monster, somehow linked to Ged, and a lot of time is spent in boats. I keep thinking I should re-read so I have at least some grasp of the plot and characters.
9. Neuromancer, William Gibson
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
12. A Book of the New Sun series, Gene Wolfe
13. Discworld series, Terry Pratchett - I collect the Vimes books avidly but am a bit more random about the others.
14. Sandman series, Neil Gaiman
15. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
16. Dragonriders of Pern series, Anne McAffery - I've read the first and was a bit "meh" about it and though I've no burning desire to read the rest, I may check them out someday.
17. Interview with the Vampire series, Anne Rice - Gave up somewhere around Queen of the Damned
18. The Shining, Stephen King
19. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin
20. The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny - I've read the first and wasn't much impressed since, I suspect, I'd already had the background explained to me at length by Amber players and I was disconcerted by the way it just stopped. I'm interested though that
lil_shepherd reckons the first five are really one novel. This tempts me to check out the rest.21. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke - I think, I've definitely read 2010, and certainly started 2001.
22. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke - I've read a later one in the series which didn't leave me wanting to go back and read the first.
23. Ringworld, Larry Niven
24. Elric of Melnibone series, Michael Moorcock - like the Pern books I've read Elric of Melnibone and was a bit 'meh' about it. I'm not ruling out reading the rest though.
25. The Dying Earth series, Jack Vance
26. Lyonesse series, Jack Vance
27. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
28. A Song of Ice and Fire series, George R.R. Martin - I'm getting diminishing returns on these books, but haven't given up on them yet.
29. The Worm Ourobouros, E.R. Eddison
30. Conan series, Robert E. Howard
31. Lankhmar series, Fritz Leiber
32. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
33. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
34. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
35. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
36. Eon, Greg Bear
37. Book of the First Law series, Joe Abercrombie
38. Miss Marple stories, Agatha Christie
39. Hercule Poirot stories, Agatha Christie
40. Lord Peter Wimsey stories, Dorothy L. Sayers
41. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
42. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
43. Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
44. Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft - I've read a "Collected Cthulhu" volume, but I think it was Vol I or Vol 2 or something so I'm guessing there are others.
45. Inspector Wexford stories, Ruth Rendell
46. Adam Dalgliesh stories, P.D. James
47. Philip Marlowe stories, Raymond Chandler
48. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
49. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
50. The Fourth Protocol, Frederick Forsyth
51. Smiley series, John le Carre
52. Gentleman Bastard series, Scott Lynch
53. The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson
54. Watchmen series, Alan Moore
55. Maus, Art Spiegelman
56. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alan Miller
57. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
58. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
59. Chrestomanci series, Diana Wynne-Jones
60. Ryhope Wood series, Robert Holdstock
61. Wilt series, Tom Sharpe
62. Riftwar Cycle, Raymond E. Feist
63. Temeraire series, Naomi Novik
64. Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
65. His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman
66. Dragonlance series, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
67. Twilight saga, Stephanie Meyer
68. The Night's Dawn trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton
69. Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
70. Honor Harrington series, David Weber
71. Hannibal Lecter series, Thomas Harris
72. The Dark Tower series, Stephen King
73. It, Stephen King
74. The Rats series, James Herbert
75. Dirk Gently series, Douglas Adams - because of general my general fannish strangeness that occasionally asserts itself, I have boycotted these on the rather bizarre grounds that Adams should have novelised his Doctor Who episodes instead.
76. Jeeves and Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse - but I know I really ought to check these out.
77. The da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
78. The Culture Series, Iain M. Banks - I haven't read the most recent and I think there may be another I'm missing.
79. The Duncton series, William Horwood
80. The Illuminatus! trilogy, Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
81. The Aberystwyth series, Malcom Pryce
82. Morse stories, Colin Dexter
83. Navajo Tribal Police stories, Tony Hillerman
84. The Ipcress File, Len Deighton
85. Enigma, Robert Harris
86. Fatherland, Robert Harris
87. The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
88. The House of Cards trilogy, Michael Dobbs
89. The Dark is Rising saga, Susan Cooper
90. Psychotechnic League and Polesotechnic League series, Poul Anderson
91. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
92. Star Wars: Thrawn trilogy, Timothy Zahn
93. Ender's Game series, Orson Scott Card
94. Gormenghast series, Meryvn Peake
95. Miles Vorkosigan saga, Lois McMaster Bujold
96. The Once and Future King, T.H. White
97. Fighting Fantasy books, Ian Livingston & Steve Jackson - though if I get another boxed set of them like I did one Christmas, I will probably work through them as well, but I've no intention of ever buying another.
98. The Stainless Steel Rat series, Harry Harrison
99. The Lensman series, E.E. 'Doc' Smith
100. The Cadfael stories, Ellis Peters - I think there may be a couple at the end of the run I haven't read. I'm up to Brother Cadfael's Penance
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Date: 2009-01-30 05:05 pm (UTC)