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Have Read

2012

  • Spin -- Robert Charles Wilson

2011

  • 7th Sigma -- Steven Gould
  • Anathem -- Neal Stephenson
  • The Gods Themselves -- Isaac Asimov
  • The Graveyard Book -- Neil Gaiman
  • Halting State -- Charles Stross
  • The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
  • The Name of the Wind -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Wise Man's Fear -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Ready Player One -- Ernest Cline
  • The Windup Girl -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Zodiac -- Neal Stephenson

Before 2011

  • Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Xenocide
  • Children of the Mind
  • Ender's Shadow
  • Shadow of the Hegemon
  • Shadow Puppets
  • Shadow of the Giant
  • ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand
  • THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand
  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • ANTHEM by Ayn Rand
  • CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
  • DUNE by Frank Herbert
  • BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
  • ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
  • LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
  • THE STAND by Stephen King
  • THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams
  • ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card
  • THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
  • FARENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams
  • IT by Stephen King
  • THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
  • THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
  • Neuromancer -- William Gibson
  • Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
  • Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  • Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
  • Halting State
  • The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
  • American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)

Unread

  • WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand
  • I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
  • Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
  • Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham
  • Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner
  • The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
  • THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein
  • A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute
  • GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
  • GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
  • SHANE by Jack Schaefer
  • TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute
  • A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving
  • THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles
  • BELOVED by Toni Morrison
  • THE WORM OUROBOROS by E.R. Eddison
  • THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
  • LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
  • MOONHEART by Charles de Lint
  • ABSALOM, ABSALOM! by William Faulkner
  • OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
  • WISE BLOOD by Flannery O'Connor
  • UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
  • FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies
  • SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYING by Charles de Lint
  • ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
  • HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
  • YARROW by Charles de Lint
  • AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft
  • ONE LONELY NIGHT by Mickey Spillane
  • MEMORY AND DREAM by Charles de Lint
  • TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
  • THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
  • TRADER by Charles de Lint
  • THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
  • THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
  • BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
  • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
  • ON THE BEACH by Nevil Shute
  • A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
  • GREENMANTLE by Charles de Lint
  • THE LITTLE COUNTRY by Charles de Lint
  • THE RECOGNITIONS by William Gaddis
  • STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert Heinlein
  • THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
  • SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
  • THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson
  • AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
  • TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
  • INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
  • THE WOOD WIFE by Terri Windling
  • THE MAGUS by John Fowles
  • THE DOOR INTO SUMMER by Robert Heinlein
  • ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
  • I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
  • AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS by Flann O'Brien
  • THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
  • GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton
  • THE PUPPET MASTERS by Robert Heinlein
  • V. by Thomas Pynchon
  • DOUBLE STAR by Robert Heinlein
  • CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY by Robert Heinlein
  • BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
  • LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
  • ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
  • A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
  • THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
  • SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by Ken Kesey
  • MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
  • MULENGRO by Charles de Lint
  • SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy
  • MYTHAGO WOOD by Robert Holdstock
  • ILLUSIONS by Richard Bach
  • THE CUNNING MAN by Robertson Davies
  • THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
  • The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
  • Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
  • Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
  • Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
  • The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
  • Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)
  • Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner 85% (77)
  • The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner 88% (80)

Both Hugo and Nebula Winner

  • American Gods: Read
  • Forever Peace
  • Doomsday Books: have
  • The Mars Trilogy
  • Neuromacner: read
  • Enders Game: read
  • Speaker for the Dead: read
  • Startide Rising
  • The Fountains of Paradise: read
  • Dreamsnake
  • Gateway
  • The Forever War: read
  • The Dispossessed
  • Rendezvous with Rama: read
  • The Gods Themselves: read
  • Ringworld
  • The Left hand of Darkness
  • Dune: read

Books that Inspire Action

  • Enders Game
  • Dune