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Below I have listed books that I cannot recommend highly enough. Please use the links above to navigate this lengthy page. This is not to be considered a comprehensive list in any sense. Please email me with your recommendations ... I love to read great books!
Last update: 3/22/05
... but I haven't gone through to double-check that all the links are live since fall of '04, so don't be surprised if you find a 404 or two.
Isaac Asimov (see also Other Books )
The Complete Short Stories (2 volumes)
Ray Bradbury (see also Other Fiction )
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
Ender's Game
"The Star"
Neuromancer
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Green Hills of Earth (short stories)
The Man Who Sold the Moon (short stories)
Revolt in 2100
Orphans of the Sky
the Dune series (esp. Dune)
The Heaven Makers
Hellstrom's Hive
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Rite of Passage
Contact
The War of the Worlds
Free Live Free
The Devil in a Forest
There Are Doors
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Peace
The Book of the New Sun: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch
To date, this is all of his work that I have read, but I'm working my way through the rest, and I'm pretty confident in recommending the rest unread, based on what I have read.
Science Fiction -- Comic
Douglas Adams (see also Fantasy -- Comic )
the Hitchhiker's Guide series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything , So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless
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Fantasy
Margaret Atwood (see also Other Fiction )
The Handmaid's Tale
Darkover books (esp. Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile -- but there are 21 total, mostly good)
The Mists of Avalon
the Vlad Taltos novels: Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon, Issola (so far)
other Dragaera novels: The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After
Brokedown Palace
Tam Lin
Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
the Empire trilogy: Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire
Firelord
Beloved Exile
The Last Rainbow
Dragonsbane
Sun-Wolf and Starhawk: The Ladies of Mandrigyn, The Witches of Wenshar, The Dark Hand of Magic
the Darwath trilogy: The Time of the Dark, The Walls of Air, The Armies of Daylight
The Windrose Chronicles: The Silent Tower, The Silicon Mage, Dog Wizard
Taliesin
Merlin
Arthur
C.S. Lewis (see also Fantasy -- Children )
Till We Have Faces
The Screwtape Letters
Wicked
Song of Ice and Fire series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords (so far)
Dragonriders of Pern trilogy: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon
the Pern Plague books: Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern, Nerilka's Story
the Dragonsong trilogy: Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums
Moon-Flash
The Changeling Sea
The Throme of the Erill of Sherill
Riddlemaster trilogy: The Riddlemaster of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind
the Cygnet books: The Cygnet and the Firebrand, The Cygnet and the Swan
Deerskin
Beauty
The Blue Sword
The Hero and the Crown
the Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (so far)
Lord Valentine's Castle
Valentine Pontifex
The Mountains of Majipoor
Sorcerers of Majipoor
Lord Prestimion
Grass
The Gate to Women's Country
The Awakeners
A Plague of Angels
After Long Silence
The Hobbit or, There and Back Again
The Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King
the Lyonesse trilogy: Lyonesse, The Green Pearl, Madouc
Snow White and Rose Red
the Prydain chronicles: The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, and The High King
The Wizard of Oz etext
Alice in Wonderland etext
Through the Looking Glass etext
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Momo
The Joke Shop
Redwall
Mossflower
Mattimeo
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
C.S. Lewis (see also Fantasy )
the Narnia series: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Last Battle
The Princess and Curdie
The Light Princess
The Hounds of the Morrigan
Pamela Stearns and Ann Strugnell
The Fool and the Dancing Bear
The Wizard Children of Finn
The Castle in the Attic
Douglas Adams (see also Science Fiction -- Comic )
Dirk Gently books: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
the Demons trilogy: Here Be Demons, Demon Blues, Hooray for Hellywood
Expecting Someone Taller
the Discworld books (esp. The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd Sisters, Pyramids, Reaper Man, Witches Abroad)
Death by Sheer Torture
Corpse in a Gilded Cage
Out of the Blackout
The Cherry Blossom Corpse
The Skeleton in the Grass
A Scandal in Belgravia
The Bad Samaritan
Fete Fatale
The Masters of the House
School for Murder
G.K. Chesterton (the Father Brown mysteries)
Agatha Christie (all of her mystery stories and novels)
Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes mysteries) (here also)
Dorothy Gilman (the Mrs. Pollifax novels)
Rough Cider
The Dante Club
An Instance of the Fingerpost
The Dream of Scipio
Elizabeth Peters (the Amelia Peabody mysteries)
Ellis Peters (the Brother Cadfael mysteries)
Dorothy L. Sayers (the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries)
The Night She Died
Six Feet Under
Puppet for a Corpse
Maia
Margaret Atwood (see also Fantasy )
Alias Grace
The Robber Bride
Cat's Eye
Lady Oracle
The Edible Woman
Ray Bradbury (see also Science Fiction )
Dandelion Wine
The Illustrated Man
Long After Midnight
The Halloween Tree
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The October Country
My Antonia
the Riverworld series (esp. The Gods of Riverworld)
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Forsyte Saga etext
Travels With My Aunt
The Heart of the Matter
The Captain and the Enemy
Return of the Native etext
The Scarlet Letter etext
Twice-Told Tales (short stories) etext
Smilla's Sense of Snow
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Cider House Rules
The Hotel New Hampshire
The Tommyknockers
It
The Shining
The Autumn of the Patriarch
A Hundred Years of Solitude
The Ladies of Missalonghi
The Thorn Birds
John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey stories) (here also)
Flannery O'Connor (any of her short stories)
Metamorphoses etext
"The Pit and the Pendulum" etext
"The Telltale Heart" etext
"The Purloined Letter" etext
"A Descent into Maelstrom" etext
"The Cask of Amontillado" etext
"The Gold Bug" etext
"The Fall of the House of Usher" etext
Atlas Shrugged
Saki (H.H. Munro)
The Complete Saki
The Lady of the Lake
Much Ado About Nothing etext
The Taming of the Shrew etext
A Midsummer Night's Dream etext
Romeo and Juliet etext
Julius Caesar etext
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark etext
The Tempest etext
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cryptonomicon
The Lady or the Tiger (short stories)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer etext
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn etext
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court etext
Little Altars Everywhere
Fiction -- Children
the Wolves Chronicles (esp. Black Hearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket, and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase)
The Cockatrice Boys
Little Women etext
Eight Cousins
Rose in Bloom
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Jack and Jill
The Secret Garden etext
Robinson Crusoe
O Ye Jigs and Juleps etext
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
White Fang
The Call of the Wild
Anne of Green Gables etext
A Girl of the Limberlost etext
101 Dalmations
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
Sonnets etext
Webster's
Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
The
Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology
Morris Dictionary of Word
and Phrase Origins
Roget's
21st Century Thesaurus
Peter Bowler
The Superior Person's Book of Words
A Dictionary of Modern American Usage
Orson Scott Card (see also Science Fiction)
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
Reference -- Home
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House excerpt
How to Cook Everything
The Bread Machine Cookbook
The Bread Machine Cookbook II
Reference -- Other
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Science writing
Scott Freeman
Biological Science (college-level textbook) website
Isaac Asimov (see also Science Fiction)
The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions (popular science)
Understanding Physics (popular science)
The Lives of a Cell (popular science - essays)
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (popular science)
Liaisons of Life (popular science)
Dave Barry (humor; includes anything he's written)
Edward Gorey (includes anything he ... wrote/draw/designed)
Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons (memoir)
Garrison Keillor (humor/memoir; books and radio programs)
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (graphic novel/memoir/history in two volumes)
Hell's Angels (documentary)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essays)
James Alfred Wight (James Herriot)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (memoir)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (memoir)
All Creatures Great and Small (memoir)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (memoir)
The Lord God Made Them All (memoir)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (documentary)
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