15 Books
June 19, 2009
I stole this one from a Facebook meme going around: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
The Blue Sword (Robin McKinley)
The Last Unicorn (Peter Beagle)
Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
Agyar (Steven Brust)
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
The Book of Atrix Wolf (Patricia McKillip)
Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
June 19, 2009 at 11:45 am
The Bible
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Common Sense
The Federalist
Pride and Prejudice
The Warden
Bleak House
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Atlas Shrugged
Dune
Glory Road
Prince of Foxes
Master and Commander
Paradise Lost
Day of the Triffids
June 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm
White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Paint it black (Janet Fitch)
How to kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
Practical Magic (Alice Hoffman)
Girl, interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
Rose & the beast (Francesca Lia Block)
A dirty job (Christopher Moore)
The book of lost things (John Connolly)
Veronica decides to die (Paulo Cohelo)
My sister’s keeper (Jody Picoult)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
Demon in my view (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)
Witchchild (Celia Rees)
ALice in Wonderland (Lewis Caroll)
June 19, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C S Lewis
The Two Towers – J. R. R. Tolkien
All quiet on the western front – Erich Maria Remarque
Magician – Fiest
Belgariad – David Eddings
The Sword of Shannara – Terry Brooks
Warlock in Spite of Himself – Christopher Stasheff
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
Cursors Fury – Jim Butcher
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
Necromancer Nine – Sherry S Tepper
The Pentagon Wars – Burton
Art of War – Sun Tsu
Electric Circuits – James W. Nilsson
The Patchwork Girl – Larry Niven
June 19, 2009 at 1:46 pm
1 Thousand Shrine Warrior -Jessica Salmonson
2 War of the Oaks -Emma Bull
3 American Gods -Neil Gaiman
4 Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars -Daniel M Pinkwater
5 Twilight Zone -Rod Serling
6 Dream Park -Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
7 The Illearth War -Stephen R Donaldson
8 The Grey King -Susan Cooper
9 Barlowes Guide to Extraterristials -Wayne Douglas Barlowe
10 Pet Semetary -Stephen King
11 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -J K Rowling
12 The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe -C S Lewis
13 High Speed Healing, -ed. by Leo McGrow
14 The Golden Book of the Mysterious -Jane Werner Watson and Sol Chaneles
15 Dune Frank Herbert
June 19, 2009 at 2:02 pm
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June 19, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Not in any particular order, or necessarily particularly accurate:
1- Reaper Man -Terry Prattchett
2- Kuvayi Nilliye Destani – Nazim Hikmet
3- Dracula – Bram Stoker
4- Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
5- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
6- It – Stephen King
7- Mysterious Island – Jules Verne
8- Odyssea – Homer
9- Othello – William Shakespeare
10- Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas
11- Trouble with Testosterone -Robert Sapolsky
12- Steel Caves – Isaac Asimov
13- I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
14- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
15- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
June 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm
1. Son of Interflux – Gordon Korman
2. The Stand – Stephen King
3. Ready, Okay – Adam Cadre
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
5. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
6. This Perfect Day – Ira Levin
7. Came a Spider – Edward Levy
8. All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger – Lloyd Kaufman w/James Gunn
9. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
10. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
11. Triggerfish Twist – Tim Dorsey
12. The Enormous Egg – Oliver Butterworth
13. Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in – Joe Bob Briggs
14. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
15. Patriot Games – Tom Clancy
June 19, 2009 at 8:43 pm
1. Silver On The Tree (Susan Cooper)
2. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
3. Canticle (R.A. Salvatore)
4. Another Fine Myth (Robert Asprin)
5. I The Jury (Mickey Spillane)
6. Swan Song (Robert R. McCammon)
7. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
8. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
9. The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
10. Debt Of Honor (Tom Clancy)
11. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)
12. The Road Less Traveled (M. Scott Peck)
13. Harry Potter (pick any… J.K Rowling)
14. Treasure Island (R.L. Stevenson)
15. Dragonflight (Anne McCaffrey)
Left out the Kitty books because I didn’t want to sound like a suck up… but his IS the only author site that I hang around on. I’m just saying.
June 19, 2009 at 10:07 pm
1.Watership Down (Richard Adams)
2. The Sight (David Clement-Davies)
3. Fire Bringer (David Clement-Davies)
4. Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
5. The Midnight Hour series (Carrie Vaughn) no not sucking up really am affected
6. The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice any of them will do)
7.The Unexpected Dragon (Mary Brown)
8. Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (various authors)
9. The Wolf King (Alice Borchardt)
10. Night of the Wolf (Alice Borchardt)
11. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
12. The Stand (Steven King)
13.The Silver Wolf (Alice Borchardt)
14. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
15. Glitterby Baby(Stephen Cosgrove)
June 20, 2009 at 4:07 am
Kitty & the Midnight Hour
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Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Not Even My Name (Theo Halo)
Interview With a Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Mummy (Anne Rice)
Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
New Moon (SM)
Eclipse (SM)
Breaking Dawn (SM)
The Host (SM)
Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)
Ramses (Christian Jacq)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
The Scarlett Letter
Kitty & the Silver Bullet
(OK, so I’m not afraid to be called a suck-up
June 20, 2009 at 6:02 am
In no particular order:
The Pushcart War (??? === First book I remember reading and caring about the story)
The Gunslinger (Stephen King === read first line and was hooked)
Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)
Starship Trooper (Robert Heinlein === first science fiction book I remember)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler/Charles van Doren === changed my life after my freshmen year of college)
Black Company (Glen Cook)
Dead Witch Walking (Kim Harrison === First Urban Fantasy, unless you count Vampire Lestat)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson === Favorite Cyber Punk book)
Taiko (Eiji Yoshikawa)
Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
Le Morte D’ Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory)
Armor (John Steakley)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
June 20, 2009 at 6:14 am
Oooh, so I did this without reading the other responses, boy they made me feel silly…Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Watership Down, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft…I still re-read these when I run across them on my shelf…And by far my two favorite contemporary books are ‘One foot in the Grave’ and ‘The Sharing Knife: Beguilement’ (FWIW, if you were to ask authors; it would be, again in no particular order
John Bunyan
Stephen King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Robert Heinlein
John Steakley
Neal Stephenson
Kim Harrison
Lois McMaster Bujold
Glen Cook
Michael Moorcock
Robert E. Howard
Raymond Feist — Ah, crap I forgot Magician: Apprentice/Master above….
Jerry Pournelle/Larry Niven
Dashiell Hammet
Jim Butcher
… so yeah, mostly Sci Fi and traditional fantasy, with a smattering of horror/mystery/urban fantasy)
June 20, 2009 at 10:59 am
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Midnight Predator (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Cathy’s Book (Stewart/Weisman/Brigg)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Piccoult)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Host (Stephenie Meyer)
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Libba Bray)
Peeps (Scott Westerfield)
Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Carrie Vaughn)
Weetzie Bat (Francessca Lia Block)
Tithe (Holly Black)
June 20, 2009 at 11:07 am
[...] saw this meme over at Carrie Vaughn’s blog and the whole idea of it makes me want to do it. Here’s the details: Don’t take too long [...]
June 20, 2009 at 11:08 am
[...] saw this meme over at Carrie Vaughn’s blog and the whole idea of it makes me want to do it. Here’s the details: Don’t take too long [...]
June 20, 2009 at 11:12 am
Hmmmm…. a challenge!
1 Stranger in a Strange Land by RAH
2 Starship Troopers by RAH
3 Interview with a Vampire by Ann Rice
4 Azure Bonds by Novak and Grubb
5 Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
6 A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison
7 Kitty and the Midnight Hour by… YOU
8 The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by RAH
9 Shadows of the Flame by Lydia C. Golden
10 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
12 In Death Ground by David Weber
13 Spellsinger’s Scherzo by Alan Dean Foster
14 Nightfall by Asimov and Silverburg
15 The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
Commentary – Of these books, Shadows of the Flame is listed not for being a great read, but because it is self-published and will haunt my mind as an example of what not to do in a book. Why I managed to tough through it is more a testament to masochistic tendencies. All of the rest of these books I’ve read more than once; in the case of Stranger, over 20 times now.
I will now be stealing this for my own livejournal.
June 20, 2009 at 4:36 pm
1. The Yanti (Cristopher Pike)
2. Dragon’s Blood (either one, Jane Yolen or Patricia Briggs, who’s another author people here might like)
3. Falling (Christopher Pike)
4. Childhood’s End (Arthur C. Clarke)
5. Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
6. Pretties ( Scott Westerfield)
7. The Ramayana (translated by Yamesh Menon)
8. Blue Moon Rising (Simon R. Green)
9. Dead Man Rising (Lilith Saintcrow
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
11. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
12. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
13. Alanna (Tamora Pierce)
14. Cut (Patricia McCormick)
15. Sold (Patricia McCormick)
i had to edit a lot and didn’t put any kitty books in cuz i’d think that’d be a given
June 21, 2009 at 2:04 am
Germinal (Emile Zola)
The Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinski)
The Fellowship of the Ring(JRR Tolkien)
Humanoids (Jack Williamson)
The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)
Pompeii (Robert Harris)
The Spy (James Fenimore Cooper)
The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
A Maze of Death (Philip K Dick)
King John (Shakespeare)
Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
John Carter of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (Gary Zukav)
The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
June 21, 2009 at 9:40 am
The First Test:Protector of the Small (well most any Tamora Pierce book)
Cry,the Beloved Country
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Animorphs:The Invasion
Hannah
The Box Car Children
Flight
My Side of the Mountain
The Seven Daughters of Eve
The Birth Mark
Into the Land of Unicorns
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
The Martian Chronicles
Ba Koo
June 21, 2009 at 11:15 am
I could make a list just using all of you guys as a reference/”jumping off” point…But, i’ll list just one book, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. I list it alone because i had a great teacher in grade school(4th grade, i think)who would read a chapter every day at the end of class, and i remember you could hear a pin drop as we were transfixed by the power of those words and the imagination that was fired by simple, great storytelling.
June 22, 2009 at 1:07 am
Thanks for the amazing lists, everyone!
Sorry I haven’t replied sooner, I’m on vacation, but will be back next week.
As for including my books — I’m very flattered, thank you. Of course, my inclination when people tell me the Kitty books are their favorite is to say, “But you should read Connie Willis, Steven Brust, Patricia McKillip, etc. etc., they’re so much better than me!”
June 22, 2009 at 4:32 am
In no particular Order
Cell – Steven King
The Stand – Steven King
North & South – David H. Jones
The Pelican Brief – John Grisham
Women on the Otherworld – Kelley Armstrong ( I know it’s a series, not one book. But I do love them)
Full Moon Rising – Keri Arthur
Touch of the Dark – Karen Chance
Midnight’s Daughter – Karen Chance
Midnight Hour – You
Pride – Rachel Vincent
Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Jennifer Rardin
Dante’s Girl – Natasha Rhodes
Working with the Devil – Lilith Saintcrow
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis
I know it’s a fairly odd ball list, but that’s just about sums be up
June 22, 2009 at 6:19 am
Steven Brust is amazing. I just wish he would do more writing. 8(
His “Viscount of Adrilankha” series is a fantasy novel had me speaking like a courtier for a week.
Your books have a sense of story that few others do. I love the way you make the characters fit together and that everything in the book has a reason to be there. Keep up with the self inspection and hard work. I’m sure you can be one of the greats.
June 24, 2009 at 10:01 am
The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
The Three Musketeers (Dumas)
Les Miserables (Hugo)
Murder on the Orient Express (Christie)
God of Small Things (Roi?)
Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett)
Hot Rock (Westlake)
Blue Moon Rising (Green)
Jude the Obscure (Hardy)
Guards! Guards! (Pratchett)
Nightwatch (Pratchett)
Lincoln’s Dreams (Willis)
A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)
Don Quioxte (Cervantes)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
I feel somehow less cultured for putting down so many modern ones, and so many comedies. But these are books I reread again and again.
June 24, 2009 at 10:37 am
Lord of the Rings (x3)
Cordelia’s Honour
A Civil Campaign
Memory
(Because Miles rocks, and Lois McMaster Bujold is a genius.)
Beowulf (The only text I actually studied in all 3 years at university, and wrote my dissertation on.)
Pride & Prejudice
Thief of Time
Carpe Jugulum
(Actually, I could lise a few more by PTerry – also a genius)
The Wasp Factory (Ian M. Banks – lent to me by a teacher – seriously weird)
The Handmaid’s tale (Margaret Atwood – lent to me by a different teacher – I hated it, far too depressing and heavy for me at the time. I might have to revisit and see if I still hate it at some point.)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe – I spent my fisrt weekend at uni wading through this. The first inkling of what I’d let myself in for.)
Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffegiger – because it made me cry so much)
The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper – I read and re-read it as a child, and still do now ana againas an adult)
June 26, 2009 at 12:37 pm
The Book of Three Lloyd Alexander
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan
Dune Frank Herbert
A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. LeGuin
Alamut Judith Tarr
The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
Saga of Old City Gary Gygax
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
Eyes of the Dragon Stephen King
The Dragonbone Chair Tad Williams
The Summer Tree Guy Gavriel Kay
Neuromancer William Gibson
Childhood’s End Arthur C. Clarke
Belgariad David Eddings
Interview w/ Vampire Anne Rice
Not all are great, but all invaded my mind growing up. After reading some of the others, I realized I forgot The Last Unicorn and Ringworld, amongst many others.
June 26, 2009 at 5:34 pm
one author i see consistantly in these lists is Terry Pratchett. anyone who is reading this, would you please go out on a limb, take a chance and just read one of his books. please. anything of the discworld. he is one of the funniest people i have ever read. also for brilliant english authors, has anyone heard of Simon R Green? and i feel childish saying this but Bruce Coville is a very good kids writer who has participated in the powerful anthology, Half Human.
July 21, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I’ve been collecting people on Facebook, having them post their responses to the meme and pass it on…
I’m amazed at how many Americans seem to put “To Kill a Mockingbird” on their lists. Just a constant presence. I’d love to graph the books people come up with, pick out the most common ones, aggregate the data somehow.