Mosley & et al., The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Ultimate Reading List
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The book consists of nineteen chapters by genre, each listing half dozen or so 'classics' followed by a couple dozen 'more great reads', which tend to mix in recent popular titles.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 118
Publication: Alpha Books, 2007
Compile Notes
Compiled SF, fantasy, and horror chapters, plus a few titles from popular fiction and literary fiction chapters, all of them listed below.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 118
Publication: Alpha Books, 2007
Compile Notes
Compiled SF, fantasy, and horror chapters, plus a few titles from popular fiction and literary fiction chapters, all of them listed below.
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Pan, 1979)
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (Rex Collings, 1972)
- Brian W. Aldiss, Hothouse (Faber and Faber, 1962)
- Steve Alten, Meg (Headline, 1997)
- Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years (Tor, 1989)
- Kelley Armstrong, Bitten (Viking, 2001)
- Catherine Asaro, The Charmed Sphere (Luna, 2004)
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (series, 1951-1953)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- L. A. Banks, Minion (St. Martin's Griffin, 2003)
- Clive Barker, Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vols. I-III (Sphere, 1984)
- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (Viking, 1968)
- Peter Benchley, Jaws (Doubleday, 1974)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist (Harper & Row, 1971)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Knopf, 1983)
- David Brin, The Uplift War (Phantasia Press, 1987)
- Terry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara (Ballantine, 1977)
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion (HarperCollins/Eos, 2001)
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press, 1998)
- Ramsey Campbell, Nazareth Hill (Forge, 1997)
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (Tor, 1985)
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random House, 2000)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity (Doubleday, 1954)
- Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Knopf , 1969)
- Gail Dayton, The Compass Rose (Luna, 2005)
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lest Darkness Fall (Henry Holt , 1941)
- David Drake, Lord of the Isles (Tor, 1997)
- Tananarive Due, The Between (HarperCollins, 1995)
- David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (Del Rey , 1982)
- Harlan Ellison, ed by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont, The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective (The Nemo Press, 1987)
- Guy Endore, The Werewolf of Paris (Farrar and Rinehart, 1933)
- Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Putnam, 1971)
- John Farris, The Fury (Playboy, 1976)
- Raymond E. Feist, Talon of the Silver Hawk (HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002)
- Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Hodder Headline/Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (BBC Books, 1996)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night (Ballantine Del Rey, 1988)
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures (Ace, 1993)
- Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (Ace, 2001)
- Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (St. Martin's, 1988)
- Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking (HarperTorch, 2004)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Tanya Huff, Blood Lines (DAW, 1993)
- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Viking, 1959)
- Brian Jacques, Redwall (Hutchinson, 1987)
- Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World (Tor, 1990)
- Caitlín R. Kiernan, Threshold (Roc, 2001)
- Stephen King, The Stand (Doubleday, 1978)
- Dean Koontz, Watchers (Putnam, 1987)
- Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian (Little, Brown, 2005)
- Mercedes Lackey, Joust (DAW, 2003)
- Marc Laidlaw, The 37th Mandala (St. Martin's, 1996)
- Stephen R. Lawhead, Byzantium (HarperCollins/Voyager, 1996)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968)
- Tanith Lee, Biting the Sun (Bantam Spectra, 1999)
- Fritz Leiber, The First Book of Lankhmar (Gollancz, 2001)
- Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (Random House, 1967)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Geoffrey Bles, 1950)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (unknown, 1796)
- Bentley Little, The Store (Headline, 1996)
- Jeff Long, The Descent (Crown, 1999)
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked (HarperCollins, 1995)
- George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (Bantam Spectra, 1996)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight (Ballantine, 1968)
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsong (Atheneum, 1976)
- Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song (Pocket , 1987)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné (DAW, 1976)
- Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping (St. Martin's, 1992)
- Kim Newman, Anno Dracula (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
- Larry Niven, Ringworld (Ballantine, 1970)
- Andre Norton & Sherwood Smith, Echoes in Time (Tor, 1999)
- Andre Norton, Wizards' Worlds (Tor, 1989)
- Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Ballantine Del Rey, 2006)
- Stewart O'Nan, A Prayer for the Dying (Henry Holt, 1999)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (St. Martin's, 1977)
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Gollancz, 1992)
- Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Relic (Forge, 1995)
- M. J. Putney, Stolen Magic (Ballantine Del Rey, 2005)
- James Reese, The Book of Shadows (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2002)
- Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Knopf , 1976)
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury, 1997)
- Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Villard, 1996)
- John Saul, Nightshade (Ballantine, 2000)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Robert Silverberg, The Alien Years (HarperCollins/Voyager, 1998)
- Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle (Harper & Row, 1980)
- Clifford D. Simak, Way Station (Doubleday, 1963)
- Linnea Sinclair, Wintertide (Medallion Press, 2004)
- Scott Smith, The Ruins (Knopf, 2006)
- Wen Spencer, Wolf Who Rules (Baen, 2006)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (George Munro, 1886)
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Constable , 1897)
- Peter Straub, The Throat (Borderlands Press, 1993)
- Patrick Süskind, Perfume (Knopf, 1986)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Allen & Unwin , 1937)
- Harry Turtledove, The Guns of the South (Ballantine, 1992)
- Carrie Vaughn, Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Warner Aspect, 2005)
- Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (J. Hetzel, 1864)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- T. H. White, The Once and Future King (Collins , 1958)
- Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair (DAW, 1988)
- Jack Williamson, The Black Sun (Tor, 1997)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- F. Paul Wilson, The Keep (Morrow , 1981)
- Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia (Tor, 1998)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (Penguin, 2004)
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