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I’m finally officially putting into writing my “To Read” list.  This is both for accountability as well as for me to simply keep track of it all!  Input on the current list and suggestions for additions are always welcome!

For more info about it, click here for the blog post I made.  Otherwise, without further ado…The List (in alphabetical order by author; those marked with an asterisk are currently in my library at home, waiting to be read).

Bradbury, Ray

  • Fahrenheit 451

Brouwer, Sigmund

  • Broken Angel

Card, Orson Scott

  • The Ender Saga
    • Xenocide
    • Children of the Mind
    • A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
  • The Shadow Saga
    • Ender’s Shadow
    • Shadow of the Hegemon
    • Shadow Puppets
    • Shadow of the Giant
  • Probably others, but let’s get past these first, shall we?

Chesterton, G.K.

  • Father Brown stories
  • The Man Who Was Thursday
  • Orthodoxy

Donaldson, Stephen R.

  • The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
    • Lord Foul’s Bane
    • The Illearth War
    • The Power That Preserves

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  • The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (in progress)

Gaiman, Neil

  • Anansi Boys
  • The Graveyard Book

Homer

  • The Iliad*
  • The Odyssey*

Lawhead, Stephen

  • The Dragon King Saga*
    • In the Hall of the Dragon King
    • The Warlords of Nin
    • The Sword and the Flame

Lewis, C.S.

  • A Grief Observed
  • The Great Divorce
  • The Problem of Pain
  • The Space Trilogy
    • Out of the Silent Planet
    • Perelandra (in progress)
    • That Hideous Strength

Ludlum, Robert

  • The Bourne Identity
  • The Bourne Supremacy
  • The Bourne Ultimatum

Overstreet, Jeffrey

  • The Auralia Thread series
    • Raven’s Ladder (awaiting release)

Paolini, Christopher

  • Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 3)

Poe, Edgar Allen

  • The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe* (in progress)

Rowling, J.K.

  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard*

Shelley, Mary

  • Frankenstein*

Tolkien, J.R.R

  • The Children of Hurin

Wells, H.G.

  • The Time Machine*
  • The Invisible Man*

Other Recommended Reading That May Or May Not Make It To The Actual List

  • Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon
  • Robert Jordan — Wheel of Time series
  • Jim Butcher — The Dresden Files series
  • Dan Simmons — Hyperion

Progress:

2008

  • Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
  • Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
  • American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (my review)

2009

  • Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
  • Auralia’s Colors, by Jeffrey Overstreet (my review)
  • Cyndere’s Midnight, by Jeffrey Overstreet (my review)
  • Tuck by Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Marvel Chronicle: A Year by Year History by Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort, and Matthew Manning
  • Offworld by Robin Parrish
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

2 Comments »

  1. Put «Neverwhere» at the top of your Gaiman list, or at most at the top of your reading list. It’s fantastic!! «Anansi Boys» is good (though not quite as good as «American Gods» in the opinion of my roommate and I}, but «Neverwhere» is just incredible in terms of a well-crafted story. Also, if you haven’t already, check out Alan Moore’s «Watchmen». I just finished it and couldn’t put it down the entire time I was reading it. I’m not a comic book guy, but this was like reading a “legit” novel.

    Have you considered putting Jeff Lindsay’s “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” on the list. The third season of the Showtime series is coming this week and I can’t wait!!

    One more: Have you read Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita”? The Diana Burgin/Katherine O’Connor translation is probably the best, unless of course you’re fluent in Russian.

    Comment by David Philip Norris | September 23, 2008

  2. You, sir, have clearly not been here in a while! I am a strong advocate of Watchmen and have been pushing both the book and the upcoming movie here on the site for a while! :-) It’s one of the most terrific reads in recent years. Check it out: http://knightowl73.wordpress.com/tag/watchmen/

    Thanks for the other suggestions. I will check them out!

    Comment by KnightOwl73 | September 23, 2008


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