Giving you something to read!
Okay, so I realize I've not put up any postings for a couple of weeks, what with a water pipe exploding in the house, a storm putting my phone line down, just my 19th nervous breakdown etc. And yes, I have let some people down. I am hoping the chaos is dying down long enough for me to be more coherent (inasmuch as I ever am!) in the aftermath of my job loss - July 14th, folks! But in an effort to give you something to read, I am posting my oft-requested reading recommendations - books I strongly suggest you crack if you haven't already!:
Novels:
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Claudius the God - Robert Graves
A Redbird Christmas - Fanny Flagg
The Darling Buds of May - H.E. Bates
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (yes, I know it's anti-semitic! I'm a Jew myself - get over it folks!)
Flashman - George MacDonald Frasier (and its many sequels!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Humor:
Absolutely anything by Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris or Mark Twain!
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durell
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night (entries from the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest, collected and sequels Bride of Dark and Stormy, etc.) - collected and published by Scott Rice
History:
The Histories - Herodotus
Practicing History - Barbara Tuchman
Any of the English Monarchy series by Thomas B. Costain
Disraeli - Robert Blake
Books too numerous to mention here, and yes, you REALLY don't want to get me started on my favorite discipline . . . .
Mysteries:
Crocodile on a Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters (and SOME of its sequels)
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
Death On Demand - Carolyn G. Hart
The Family Vault - Charlotte Macleod
Miss Melville Regrets - Susan Smith
Silver Pigs - Lindsay Davis
Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
The Body in the Belfry - Katherine Hall Page
Anything Goes - Jill Churchill
Malice in Magoddy - Joan Hess
And above all, the GREATEST mysteries of ALL TIME EVER:
The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
These really belong in a category unto themselves!!
Horror:
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
The Stand - Stephen King
Almost anything by Basil Copper
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
Christine - Stephen King
GRE: Graduate Record Examination General Aptitude Test - Arco Professional Examination Series of Study Guides
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fantasy:
The Adventures of Master Li and Number Ten Ox:
Bridge of Birds
The Story of the Stone
Eight Skilled Gentlemen - Barry Hughart
Lord Darcy:
Murder and Magic
Too Many Magicians
Lord Darcy Investigates - Randall Garrett
The King's Dragon:
His Majesty's Dragon
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
Any of the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
The True Game Books:
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
Jinian Footseer
Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye - Sherri S. Tepper
Tea with the Black Dragon - R.A. McAvoy
Oath of Swords - David Weber
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
Druid's Blood - Esther M. Friesner
Mathemagics - Margaret Ball
The Discworld Series of Books by Terry Pratchett
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Leguin
Cats Have No Lord - Will Shetterly
Science Fiction:
Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Windhaven - George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Any of the Vorkosigan adventures by Lois McMaster Bujold
Ten Points For Style:
The Crown Jewels
House of Shards
Rock of Ages - Walter Jon Williams
The Majipoor Books:
Lord Valentine's Castle
Majipoor Chronicles
Valentine Pontifex
Mountains of Majipoor
Sorcerors of Majipoor
Lord Prestimion - Robert Silverberg
The Liaden Universe Books:
Agent of Change
Conflict of Honors
Carpe Diem
Plan B
I Dare
Two Tales of Korval
Pilot's Choice
Balance of Trade - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
The Dream Park Series:
Dream Park
The Barsoom Project
California Voodoo Game - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
I know I'm leaving a LOT out here people! But hopefully this will give you something to chew on for those busy times when I'm not blogging! And I wouldn't mind getting a few suggestions from you . . . .
Novels:
Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Claudius the God - Robert Graves
A Redbird Christmas - Fanny Flagg
The Darling Buds of May - H.E. Bates
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (yes, I know it's anti-semitic! I'm a Jew myself - get over it folks!)
Flashman - George MacDonald Frasier (and its many sequels!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
Humor:
Absolutely anything by Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris or Mark Twain!
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durell
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night (entries from the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest, collected and sequels Bride of Dark and Stormy, etc.) - collected and published by Scott Rice
History:
The Histories - Herodotus
Practicing History - Barbara Tuchman
Any of the English Monarchy series by Thomas B. Costain
Disraeli - Robert Blake
Books too numerous to mention here, and yes, you REALLY don't want to get me started on my favorite discipline . . . .
Mysteries:
Crocodile on a Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters (and SOME of its sequels)
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
Death On Demand - Carolyn G. Hart
The Family Vault - Charlotte Macleod
Miss Melville Regrets - Susan Smith
Silver Pigs - Lindsay Davis
Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
The Body in the Belfry - Katherine Hall Page
Anything Goes - Jill Churchill
Malice in Magoddy - Joan Hess
And above all, the GREATEST mysteries of ALL TIME EVER:
The Sherlock Holmes mysteries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
These really belong in a category unto themselves!!
Horror:
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
The Stand - Stephen King
Almost anything by Basil Copper
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
Christine - Stephen King
GRE: Graduate Record Examination General Aptitude Test - Arco Professional Examination Series of Study Guides
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Fantasy:
The Adventures of Master Li and Number Ten Ox:
Bridge of Birds
The Story of the Stone
Eight Skilled Gentlemen - Barry Hughart
Lord Darcy:
Murder and Magic
Too Many Magicians
Lord Darcy Investigates - Randall Garrett
The King's Dragon:
His Majesty's Dragon
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
Any of the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
The True Game Books:
King's Blood Four
Necromancer Nine
Wizard's Eleven
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
Jinian Footseer
Dervish Daughter
Jinian Star-Eye - Sherri S. Tepper
Tea with the Black Dragon - R.A. McAvoy
Oath of Swords - David Weber
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
Druid's Blood - Esther M. Friesner
Mathemagics - Margaret Ball
The Discworld Series of Books by Terry Pratchett
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Leguin
Cats Have No Lord - Will Shetterly
Science Fiction:
Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Windhaven - George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Any of the Vorkosigan adventures by Lois McMaster Bujold
Ten Points For Style:
The Crown Jewels
House of Shards
Rock of Ages - Walter Jon Williams
The Majipoor Books:
Lord Valentine's Castle
Majipoor Chronicles
Valentine Pontifex
Mountains of Majipoor
Sorcerors of Majipoor
Lord Prestimion - Robert Silverberg
The Liaden Universe Books:
Agent of Change
Conflict of Honors
Carpe Diem
Plan B
I Dare
Two Tales of Korval
Pilot's Choice
Balance of Trade - Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
The Dream Park Series:
Dream Park
The Barsoom Project
California Voodoo Game - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
I know I'm leaving a LOT out here people! But hopefully this will give you something to chew on for those busy times when I'm not blogging! And I wouldn't mind getting a few suggestions from you . . . .
posted by Marcia | 5:32 AM
2 Comments:
I've read a number of those books. Of course some of them YOU recommended to me. (Flashman, Grace and Favor, the Dream Park series, Master Li, Lord Darcy, The Oath of Swords and its sequels)I'm still looking for the Walter Jon Williams.
What's the book where the kids release the carnivorous sheep to protect the farm?
I've been reading 'The night the bear ate Goombah' by Patrick F. MacManus and laughed so hard I cried.
You need to specify Sherlock Holmes BY Arthur Conan Doyle or you'll get the awful fanfic Seven Percent Solution and West End Horror or any other Holmes 'novel' published by permission.
I agree that the GRE ranks as horror. It was way worse than the LSAT.
My favorite Dickens was 'A Tale of Two Cities' although I must say I have not read Oliver Twist.
sew
The book you are requesting the title of is `Dark Lord of Derkholm' by Diana Wynn Jones. I did specify Sir Arthur by name, but for the record I consider The West End Horror to be one of the better imitations. I also like `The Beekeeper's Apprentice' and some of its sequels by Laurie King. I have read the McManus. You might want to look up Lewis Grizzard if you like him!
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