another book meme

[kengr]

(swiped from gridlore)

This time, Hugo Award winners!


Ones I've read in bold

1. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
2. They'd Rather be Right/The Forever Machine by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
3. Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
4. The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
5. A Case of Conscience by James Blish
6. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
7. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
8. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
9. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
10. Way Station by Clifford Simak
11. The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber
12. . . . And Call Me Conrad/This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
13. Dune by Frank Herbert
14. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
15. Lord of Light by Roger Zelanzy
16. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
17. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
18. Ringworld by Larry Niven
19. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
20. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
21. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
22. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
23. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
24. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
25. Gateway by Frederik Pohl
26. Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre (just read the short story it grew out of)
27. The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
28. The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
29. Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
30. Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
31. Startide Rising by David Brin
32. Neuromancer by William Gibson
33. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (just the shorter story it grew out of)
34. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
35. The Uplift War by David Brin
36. Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh
37. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
38. The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
39. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
40. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
41. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
42. Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
43. Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
44. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
45. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
46. Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
47. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
48. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
49. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
50. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
51. Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer
52. Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Retro Hugo)
54. The Mule/Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (Retro Hugo)
55. Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (Retro Hugo)

Comments

[badriya.livejournal.com]

I blame you for this! I went right off to ebay and began searching for books and forgot I was reading here.

[kengr]

Awww....

Scary thing is, I'm pretty sure that I own all of the ones I've read. And a couple of the ones I haven't. My library is kinda large. And it's accutely painful that 90% is in storage.

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Up to about 10 years ago I didn't buy so many books, but used the public library, which was close and free. I've read alot of the beginning of that list, many were in Gollanz hard-back, yellow jacket books. But there are some near the end I've not read, and I've been meaning to read some Neil Gaiman for ages. I'm bidding on 3 books but I was going to bid on 2 anyway after the bookshop visit last week at the Royal Festival Hall. They had a 3 ofr 2 offer and my friend got 2 and I got 1 and made notes for more to look out for.

[kengr]

I used the library a lot when I was younger. But I quickly ran thru everything they had (even at big libraries) and having stuff I wanted to re-read checked out was annoying.

By the time I was 17, I had a large box full of paperbacks. 20 years ago, my library was a number of boxes.

Now? The stuff in storage is a row of *packed* moving boxes stacked 6-7 feet high and 10 feet long (say 2m tall by 3m long). *Literally* tons of books. And I have a lot here in the apartment as well.

[kengr]

I read Dune on my owen after a friend recommended it. Don't care much for the rest of the series.

Left Hand of Darkness I bought and read a long, long time ago.