book meme!

[fiarra]

I have things to post about and I plan on taking pictures of my new room to show the internets, but right now I am too busy taking on 200+ open firefox tabs and a rewatch of season 1 of Sailor Moon... so have a meme!


NPR published a list of 100 best sci-fi books. (I think this is the one that had the poll going where you had to pick 10 out of a list? idk)

Bold for read it
Italics for partially read
Underline for planning to read it
Strike-through for never ever reading

1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card - I... like Speaker for the Dead better. In fact, it is one of my top 5 favorite books of ALL TIME.
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin - have read 1.5 books in the series. I definitely plan on finishing
6. 1984, by George Orwell - I really hated this book....
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan - I think I have read the first... 6? 7? I know I own them all... somewhere.
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson - LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY LOVE OF WILLIAM GIBSON. (or not, we will be here all night)
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss - My little brother LOVES these books. I heard him talk at a book-signing once. He is an amusing man and also a nerd.
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut - I have never read Vonnegut. I feel like this is a failing of my life
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
22. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
23. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
24. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King - I was on a Stephen King kick for a couple years in HS, but the library never had all of these.
25. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
26. The Stand, by Stephen King
27. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson - MUCH LIKE GIBSON, IF I START TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE HIS BOOKS, WE WILL BE HERE FOR A WHILE.
28. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
29. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
31. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
32. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey - I owned this book for 4 years before I opened it. I never looked back once I did...
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keys - Had to read for school.
39. The War Of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley - I have a vivid memory of sitting in the car in 9th grade on the way to swim practice, reading this book.
43. The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien - does 10 page into it count as partially? :x Tolkien, you use SO MANY words.
47. The Once And Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman - I have read exactly one Gaiman book in my life. I know, I know.
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson - I own a copy, but have yet to start it. <3
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks
55. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks - these books were my LIFE for a while.
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore - One of my boyfriends loved this series. I read one of them and was entertained, but my brother liked them better and stole them all away.
74. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson - I JUST FINISHED THIS AND OH MY GOD <3
76. Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher - I picked up the first book of this series at Borders on the sale. Looking forward to it.
87. The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley - I got like 30 pages into the book then got distracted by something shiny
93. A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony - I think I read the first 5? I liked Incantations of Immortality better.
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

I feel like there is a lot less bold than there could be. And I KNOW I have read a fuck-ton of fantasy/sci-fi... so idk what's up with that.

Comments

[jadziadrgnrdr.livejournal.com]

Inara! \o/

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

It's a terrible list, is what's up with it.

[dreamabella.livejournal.com]

I've read only 6 of these. Yikes! Oh well, this just adds more books to my to-read list. :0)

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

Liara!

[jadziadrgnrdr.livejournal.com]

Indeed!!!

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

and one foxy lookin FemShep : O

[thedreademperor.livejournal.com]

The Codex Alera gets much better after the first book, which is merely ok, so don't let it scare you off it it doesn't wow you.

[starsparkle333.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning! I will definitely try to stick with it past the first book. :D

[jadziadrgnrdr.livejournal.com]

:DDD

I am so excite for Mass Effect 3! \o/

[x-serenade.livejournal.com]

My life goal is to get through all of these.

Yay for Sailor Moon! ♥