twenty-eight books I'd try to lend to you

[ursula]

I found one of those bold-the-books-you've-read memes floating around and remembered that a while back, I composed a list of science-fiction and fantasy books I would recommend to any casual observer, either for genuine quality of writing or for their qualities as junk fiction of a particularly satisfying variety.

Mirror Dance, Lois Bujold
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Heavy Time, C.J. Cherryh
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Bridge of Birds, Barry Hughart

The Lives of Christopher Chant, Diana Wynne Jones
Bold as Love, Gwyneth Jones
Divine Endurance, Gwyneth Jones
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
Lens of the World, R.A. MacAvoy
The Third Eagle, R.A. MacAvoy

Arachne, Lisa Mason
Five Children and It, E. Nesbit
N-Space, Larry Niven
Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

The Laughing Sutra, Mark Salzman
Burning Bright, Melissa Scott
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge

The Weird Colonial Boy, Paul Voermans
Enchanter's Glass, Susan Whitcher
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

Comments

Not worthy! Not Worthy!

[reasie.livejournal.com]

I feel unworthy to be in the presence of one so intensely well-read.

I'm going to have to take some time this winter while the weather sucks and catch some of these titles. I'm ashamed to say that the only ones on the list I've read are The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and The Left Hand of Darkness. I've read a lot of Cherryh, but not Heavy Time.

I was supposed to read Snow Crash for a class, for a CLASS! And I didn't.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

V. interesting. Esp. Lives of Christopher Chant as the DWJ pick. 13 out of 28 for me and Anubis Gates is On My List - perhaps I should add some of the rest of this as the 13 are pretty much all good picks.

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

I'm curious what your reasons are for including Snow Crash.

(Have otherwise added some of the books here I haven't read to The List.)

(I have read Snow Crash.)

[nobu.livejournal.com]

i have read about half of that. does this make me well read? or just having tastes coinciding with yours? or perhaps having NO LIFE WHATSOEVER!
hmm... my list would be slightly different.
little anecdote about Doomsday Book: my mother gave it to me when i flew to Ireland to read on the plane and with the idea that i should just abandon it in a hostel along the way. only, it was so good i flew home with it. heh. i am so bad at leaving books behind :)