Thursday, January 22, 2009

Another Blog Meme

I just found this here and here. It seems to be a list of the novels in the speculative fiction genre (sci-fi, fantasy, horror). I'm going to follow the rules from the BBC Top 100 Books meme I did awhile back. I will:

Bold those I have read.
Italicize those I intend to read.
Underline the books I love.
Strike out the books I have no intention of ever reading or was forced to read at school and hated.
  1. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
  2. Brian W. Aldiss: Non-Stop (1958)
  3. Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)
  4. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
  5. Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin (2000)
  6. Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things (1987)
  7. Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)
  8. JG Ballard: The Drowned World (1962)
  9. JG Ballard: Crash (1973)
  10. Ian M. Banks: The Wasp Factory (1984)
  11. Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (1987)
  12. Clive Barker: Weaveworld (1987)
  13. Nicola Barker: Darkmans (2007)
  14. Stephen Baxter: The Time Ships (1995)
  15. Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio (1999)
  16. William Beckford: Vathek (1786)
  17. Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination (1956)
  18. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
  19. Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls (1992)
  20. Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland (1798)
  21. Algis Budrys: Rogue Moon (1960)
  22. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1966)
  23. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race (1871)
  24. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1960)
  25. Anthony Burgess: The End of the World News (1982)
  26. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars (1912)
  27. William Burroughs: Naked Lunch (1959) Serious Content Warning
  28. Octavia Butler: Kindred (1979)
  29. Samuel Butler: Erewhon (1872)
  30. Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees (1957)
  31. Ramsey Campbell: The Influence (1988)
  32. Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  33. Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871)
  34. Angela Carter: The Passion of New Eve (1977)
  35. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus (1984)
  36. Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) )
  37. Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End (1953)
  38. GK Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
  39. Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (2004)
  40. Michael G. Coney: Hello Summer, Goodbye (1975)
  41. Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)
  42. Mark Danielewski: House of Leaves (2000)
  43. Marie Darrieussecq: Pig Tales (1996)
  44. Samuel R Delaney: The Einstein Intersection (1967)
  45. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
  46. Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
  47. Thomas M Disch: Camp Concentration (1968)
  48. Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum (1988)
  49. Michel Faber: Under the Skin (2000)
  50. John Fowles: The Magus (1966)
  51. Neil Gaiman: American Gods (2001) Meh
  52. Alan Garner: Red Shift (1973) )
  53. William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)
  54. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland (1915) Poorly-written feminazi fantasy
  55. William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)
  56. Joe Haldeman: The Forever War (1974)
  57. M. John Harrison: Light (2002)
  58. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Huge letdown – was expecting a dark Gothic novel, ended up with a wannabe comedy with the most insufferable female character (Phoebe) ever written
  59. Robert A Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
  60. Frank Herbert: Dune (1965)
  61. Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (1943)
  62. Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker (1980)
  63. James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
  64. Michel Houellebecq: Atomised (1998)
  65. Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)
  66. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled (1995)
  67. Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
  68. Henry James: The Turn of the Screw (1898)
  69. PD James: The Children of Men (1992)
  70. Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885)
  71. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001)
  72. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925)
  73. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) Read it for school
  74. Stephen King: The Shining (1977)
  75. Marghanita Laski: The Victorian Chaise-longue (1953)
  76. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Uncle Silas (1864)
  77. Ursula K Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
  78. Ursula K Le Guin: The Earthsea series (1968-1990)
  79. Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961)
  80. Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
  81. CS Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)
  82. MG Lewis: The Monk (1796)
  83. David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)
  84. Ken MacLeod: The Night Sessions (2008)
  85. Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black (2005)
  86. Michael Marshall Smith: Only Forward (1994)
  87. Richard Matheson: I Am Legend (1954) Again: meh
  88. Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
  89. Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy (1992)
  90. Cormac McCarthy: The Road (2006)
  91. Jed Mercurio: Ascent (2007)
  92. China Miéville: The Scar (2002)
  93. Andrew Miller: Ingenious Pain (1997)
  94. Walter M Miller Jr: A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960)
  95. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004)
  96. Michael Moorcock: Mother London (1988)
  97. William Morris: News From Nowhere (1890)
  98. Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987)
  99. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995)
  100. Vladimir Nabokov: Ada or Ardor (1969)
  101. Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife (2003)
  102. Larry Niven: Ringworld (1970)
  103. Jeff Noon: Vurt (1993)
  104. Flann O'Brien: The Third Policeman (1967)
  105. Ben Okri: The Famished Road (1991)
  106. George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) That was awhile ago - need to reread it
  107. Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club (1996)
  108. Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare Abbey (1818)
  109. Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1946)
  110. Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth: The Space Merchants (1953)
  111. John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance (1932)
  112. Terry Pratchett: The Discworld series (1983- )
  113. Christopher Priest: The Prestige (1995)
  114. Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials (1995-2000) Only read the first one
  115. François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34)
  116. Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  117. Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space (2000)
  118. Kim Stanley Robinson: The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
  119. JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
  120. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988)
  121. Joanna Russ: The Female Man (1975)
  122. Geoff Ryman: Air (2005)
  123. Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry: The Little Prince (1943)
  124. José Saramago: Blindness (1995)
  125. Will Self: How the Dead Live (2000)
  126. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
  127. Dan Simmons: Hyperion (1989) YES!!!
  128. Olaf Stapledon: Star Maker (1937)
  129. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (1992)
  130. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
  131. Bram Stoker: Dracula (1897)
  132. Rupert Thomson: The Insult (1996)
  133. JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit (1937)
  134. JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1954-55)
  135. Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889)
  136. Kurt Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan (1959)
  137. Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)
  138. Robert Walser: Institute Benjamenta (1909)
  139. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Lolly Willowes (1926)
  140. Sarah Waters: Affinity (1999)
  141. HG Wells: The Time Machine (1895)
  142. HG Wells: The War of the Worlds (1898)
  143. TH White: The Sword in the Stone (1938)
  144. Angus Wilson: The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
  145. Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun (1980-83)
  146. Virginia Woolf: Orlando (1928)
  147. John Wyndham: Day of the Triffids (1951)
  148. John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
  149. Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (1924) This one sounds like the Borg from Star Trek.
Wow. I didn't do too well there. I've only read thirteen! (Want to read: 21.) But that is a seriously weird list. I mean, Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf? Where the heck was Dean Koontz? What about Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887, the third best-selling novel of the nineteenth century after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur? And why not Thomas More's Utopia, the book that founded the entire genre?

I've honestly never even heard of most of these. Guess I need to do my homework.

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