One More Book Meme

Read To Live, Live To Read!!

I'm fairly certain I've done this one before. Still, it's a lazy Sunday, and it's either this, or go take another nap. Boy, my life is hard...

Anyway, as previously seen on Leslie's, LeeAnn's & Mostly Cajun's blogs, here's the NPR Skiffy/Fantasy Book List Meme:

To follow the NPR (US National Public Radio) meme, copy this list, putting in Bold those you have read.


1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Plus, The Hobbit, Children of Hurin, Unfinished Tales, etc.

2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Plus, the rest of the series, the Dirk Gently books, etc.)

3. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
All 6 Dune novels by Frank Hebert, & 6 prequel novels by Brian Hebert

5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
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
Haven't read the 13th book. Doubt this series will ever end...

13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
Plus Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Bridge Trilogy, Burning Chrome

15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
Plus everything else the man wrote in his lifetime.

18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
Plus 2010 Odyssey Two, 2061 Odyssey Three & 3001 Final Odyssey

25. The Stand, by Stephen King
Plus about 18 others

26. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Plus Zodiac, The Baroque Cycle Trilogy, The Diamond age, & Interface

27. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
And 3 or four others. I was young and naive...

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
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
43. The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
Plus Ringworld Engineers, Most of the Known Space series, the Man-Kzin Wars, & the Niven/Pournelle & the Niven/Barnes novels.

45. The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Plus most of Sagan's non-fiction

51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
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
Only the first one and a half. Then I died of boredom and quit reading.

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
As noted above...

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
And 6 or 7 others, 3 of which I regret.

68. The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
And the King Kull series

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
74. Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi
Plus the other 4 books in the series, and Agent To The Stars

75. The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
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
It's on my shelf...

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
Plus, all the Dresden Files series
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
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
Just the first five or so.
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

Wow. That's a lot of bold type.

Missing from the list:
David Weber
John Ringo
The BattleTech series
Star Trek series
Star Wars series
And hundreds of others...