Why not? Sharing my reading lists. Those I’ve reviewed have been linked. I tend to review books from a series together, saving on time and flooding. Thoughts and what not about books or authors are more than welcome. I’m pretty ADD when it comes to reading, having something for different mindsets.
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[THE GUARDIAN'S SF/F LIST]
Read 2009:
29. Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
28. Charles de Lint: Moonlight and Vines
27. Robert Silverberg: Majipoor Chronicles
26. Robert Heinlein: Tunnel in the Sky
25. DAW Books: Preview Sampler
24. Tony Kushner: Angels in America- Perestroika
23. Orson Scott Card: Treasure Box
22. Tony Kushner: Angels in America- Millennium Approaches
21. Ursula Le Guin: the Compass Rose
20. P.R. Frost: Hounding the Moon
19. Neil Gaiman: the Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish
18. Wilkie Collins: the Black Robe
17. Robert Asprin: Myth Conceptions
16. Alison Bechdel: Split-Level Dykes to Watch Out For
15. Oscar Wilde: Salome
14. Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere’s Fan
13. Wilkie Collins: the Moonstone
12. Carlo Collodi: the Adventures of Pinocchio
11. Vilhjálmur Stefánsson: My Life With the Eskimo
10. Anthology: Ravens in the Library
09. Ted Andrews: Animal Speak
08. William Goldman: the Princess Bride
07. Ursula Le Guin: the Lathe of Heaven
06. Larry Kirwain: Mad Angels (5 plays)
05. Frank Herbert: the Book of Frank Herbert
04. Catherynne Valente: Palimpsest
03. Rachel Green: An Ungodly Child
02. Anthology: Legends- Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
01. Margaret Atwood: Bodily Harm
Read 2008:
28. Paulo Coelho: the Alchemist
27. Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead
26. Irene Radford: Guardian of the Freedom
25. Irene Radford: Guardian of the Promise
24. Irene Radford: Guardian of the Vision
23. Irene Radford: Guardian of the Trust
22. Irene Radford: Guardian of the Balance
21. Robert Asprin: Another Fine Myth
20. Mercedes Lackey: Arrows of the Queen
19. Orson Scott Card: Rebekah
18. Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game
17. Mercedes Lackey: Take a Thief
16. P.R. Frost: Moon in the Mirror
15. Mercedes Lackey: Exile’s Valor
14. Mercedes Lackey: Exile’s Honor
13. Mercedes Lackey: Oathblood
12. Mercedes Lackey: Oathbreakers
11. Mercedes Lackey: Oathbound
10. Mercedes Lackey: Brightly Burning
09. Rod Serling: New Stories from the Twilight Zone
08. Andre Norton: Catfantastic
07. Mercedes Lackey: Magic’s Price
06. Mercedes Lackey: Magic’s Promise
05. Mercedes Lackey: Magic’s Pawn
04. Mercedes Lackey: the Silver Gryphon
03. Mercedes Lackey: the White Gryphon
02. Mercedes Lackey: the Black Gryphon
01. DAW publishing: 1980 Annual World’s Best SF
Read 2007:
10. John Perkins: Shapeshifting: Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation
09. David Sedaris: Dress Your family in Courdoroy and Denim
08. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
07. Charles de Lint: Memory & Dream
06. Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
05. Peter Beagle: the Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle
04. Ursula LeGuin translation: Tao Te Ching
03. Margaret Atwood: the Handmaid’s Tale
02. Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
01. Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys
Read 2006:
13. Peter Shaffer: Shrivings
12. Peter Shaffer: Five Finger Exercise
11. Leslie Feinberg: Drag King Dreams
10. Anthony Rapp: Without You
09. Tony Kushner: Angels in America Parts 1 & 2
08. Robert Wolff: Original Wisdom- Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
07. Mercedes Lackey: Four and Twenty Blackbirds
06. Dan Brown: Angels & Demons
05. Dan Brown: the DaVinci Code
04. Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
03. Ruth Ozeki: All Over Creation
02. Neil Gaiman: American Gods
01. Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha
Further Back:
Michael Crawford: Parcel Arrived Safely: Tied With String
Betty DeGeneres: Love, Ellen
Peter Shaffer: Equus
Fiction to Read: (Already on shelves)
José Eduardo Agualusa: the Book of Chameleons
Richard Bach: Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston
K.J. Bishop: the Etched City
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Firebrand
Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods- Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Orson Scott Card: rest of Ender’s Game series
Orson Scott Card: Seventh Son
Miguel de Cervantes: the Dialogue of the Dogs
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
Stephen Chbosky: the Perks of Being a Wallflower
Michael Ende: the Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschitchte)
P.R. Frost: Faery Moon
Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
Neil Gaiman: Coraline
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
Ursula Le Guin: Earthsea series (rest of or re-read)
Ursula Le Guin: Hainish Cycle books
Ursula Le Guin: A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
Khaled Hosseini: the Kite Runner
Tanya Huff: the Enchantment Emporium
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables (French version)
Moises Kaufman: Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Mercedes Lackey: Foundation
C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis: Perelandra
Ann-Marie MacDonald: the Way the Crow Flies
Gregory Maguire: Wicked
Richard Matheson: I Am Legend
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
James Morrow: the Last Witchfinder
Audrey Niffenegger: the Time Traveler’s Wife
Carolyn Parkhurst: Dogs of Babel
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand: the Fountainhead
Ayn Rand: Selfishness
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Robert Silverberg: Lord Valentine’s Castle
Robert Silverberg: Valentine Pontifex
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Passions and Other Stories
John Steinbeck: the Winter of Our Discontent
Koji Suzuki: Ring
Catherynne Valente: the Orphan’s Tales, I & II
Scott Westerfield: So Yesterday
Doug Wright: I Am My Own Wife
Roger Zelazny: Changeling
Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light
Stefan Zweig: Chess Story
Non-fiction to Read: (In no real particular order)
Patrick Harding: Collins Mushroom Miscellany
Jennifer 8. Lee: the Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Howard Lyman (the mad cowboy): No More Bull
Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Sean Hepburn Ferrer: Audrey Hepburn, an Elegent Spirit: A Son Remembers
Kevin Danaher: The Year in Ireland
Miriam MacNeil: The Silver Bough- Scottish folk-lore & belief
Califia: Mortal Companion
Califia: Public Sex: the Culture of Radical Sex
Irving Abella & Harold Troper: None is Too Many- Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948
Gershon Winkler: Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism
Rebecca Stein: Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
James Endredy: Ecoshamanism
Carlos Castaneda: Teachings of Don Juan
Robert Ghost Wolf: Changing the Tides of Fear
Ronald Hutton: Triumph of the Moon
Irene Spencer: Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement
Acharya S: Christ Conspiracy, Greatest Story Ever Told
G. K. Chesterton: Heretics, Orthodoxy… something
Koran
Talmud
the Guardian’s SF/F List:
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Douglas Adams
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Non-Stop
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Brian W Aldiss
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Foundation
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Isaac Asimov
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid’s Tale
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Margaret Atwood
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In the Country of Last Things
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Paul Auster
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The Drowned World
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JG Ballard
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Crash
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JG Ballard
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Millennium People
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JG Ballard
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The Wasp Factory
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Iain Banks
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Consider Phlebas
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Iain Banks
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Weaveworld
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Clive Barker
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Darkmans
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Nicola Barker
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The Time Ships
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Stephen Baxter
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Darwin’s Radio
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Greg Bear
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Vathek
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William Beckford
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The Stars My Destination
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Alfred Bester
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Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury
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Lost Souls
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Poppy Z Brite
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Wieland
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Charles Brockden
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Brown Rogue Moon
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Algis Budrys
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The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Coming Race
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EGEL Bulwer-Lytton
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A Clockwork Orange
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Anthony Burgess
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The End of the World News
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Anthony Burgess
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A Princess of Mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Naked Lunch
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William Burroughs
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Kindred
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Octavia Butler
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Erewhon
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Samuel Butler
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The Baron in the Trees
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Italo Calvino
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The Influence
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Ramsey Campbell
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
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Lewis Carroll
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Nights at the Circus
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Angela Carter
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The Passion of New Eve
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Angela Carter
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
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Michael Chabon
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The Man who was Thursday
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GK Chesterton
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Childhood’s End
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Arthur C Clarke
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Susanna Clarke
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Hello Summer, Goodbye
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Michael G Coney
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Girlfriend in a Coma
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Douglas Coupland
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House of Leaves
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Mark Danielewski
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Pig Tales
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Marie Darrieussecq
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The Einstein Intersection
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Samuel R Delaney
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Philip K Dick
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The Man in the High Castle
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Philip K Dick
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Camp Concentration
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Thomas M Disch
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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Umberto Eco
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Under the Skin
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Michel Faber
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The Magus
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John Fowles
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American Gods
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Neil Gaiman
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Red Shift
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Alan Garner
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Neuromancer
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William Gibson
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Herland
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Lord of the Flies
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William Golding
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The Forever War
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Joe Haldeman
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Light
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M John Harrison
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The House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Robert A Heinlein
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Dune
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Frank L Herbert
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The Glass Bead Game
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Herman Hesse
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Riddley Walker
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Russell Hoban
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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James Hogg
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Atomised
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Michel Houellebecq
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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The Unconsoled
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Shirley Jackson
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The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James
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The Children of Men
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PD James
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After London; or, Wild England
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Richard Jefferies
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Bold as Love
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Gwyneth Jones
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The Trial
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Franz Kafka
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Flowers for Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
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The Shining
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Stephen King
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The Victorian Chaise-longue
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Marghanita Laski
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Uncle Silas
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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The Earthsea Series
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Ursula Le Guin
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula Le Guin
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Solaris
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Stanislaw Lem
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Memoirs of a Survivor
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Doris Lessing
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The Chronicles of Narnia
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CS Lewis
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The Monk
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Matthew Lewis
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A Voyage to Arcturus
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David Lindsay
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The Night Sessions
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Ken Macleod
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Beyond Black
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Hilary Mantel
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Only Forward
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Michael Marshall
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Smith I Am Legend
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Richard Matheson
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Melmoth the Wanderer
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Charles Maturin
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The Butcher Boy
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Patrick McCabe
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The Road
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Cormac McCarthy
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Ascent
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Jed Mercurio
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The Scar
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China Mieville
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Ingenious Pain
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Andrew Miller
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Walter M Miller
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Jr Cloud Atlas
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David Mitchell
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Mother London
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Michael Moorcock
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News from Nowhere
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William Morris
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Beloved
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Toni Morrison
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Haruki Murakami
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Ada or Ardor
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Vladimir Nabokov
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The Time Traveler’s Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger
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Ringworld
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Larry Niven
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Vurt
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Jeff Noon
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The Third Policeman
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Flann O’Brien
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The Famished Road
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Ben Okri
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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George Orwell
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk
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Nightmare Abbey
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Thomas Love Peacock
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Titus Groan
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Mervyn Peake
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The Space Merchants
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Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth
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A Glastonbury Romance
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John Cowper Powys
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The Discworld Series
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Terry Pratchett
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The Prestige
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Christopher Priest
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His Dark Materials
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Philip Pullman
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Francois Rabelais
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Ann Radcliffe
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Revelation Space
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Alastair Reynolds
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The Years of Rice and Salt
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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JK Rowling
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Satanic Verses
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Salman Rushdie
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The Female Man
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Joanna Russ
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Air
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Geoff Ryman
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The Little Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Blindness
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Jose Saramago
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How the Dead Live
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Will Self
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Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
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Hyperion
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Dan Simmons
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Star Maker
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Olaf Stapledon
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dracula
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Bram Stoker
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The Insult
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Rupert Thomson
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The Hobbit
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JRR Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings
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JRR Tolkien
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Mark Twain
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Sirens of Titan
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Kurt Vonnegut
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The Castle of Otranto
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Horace Walpole
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Institute Benjamenta
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Robert Walser
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Lolly Willowes
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Affinity
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Sarah Waters
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The Time Machine
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HG Wells
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The War of the Worlds
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HG Wells
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The Sword in the Stone
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TH White
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The Old Men at the Zoo
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Angus Wilson
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The Book of the New Sun
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Gene Wolfe
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Orlando
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Virginia Woolf
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Day of the Triffids
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John Wyndham
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The Midwich Cuckoos
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John Wyndham
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
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