Stories I've
read and love:
The Wizard Knight (duology), Gene Wolfe
In the Eye of Heaven and In
a Time of Treason, David Keck
A City in Winter and Veil
of Snows, Mark Helprin
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K.
Le Guin
Legendarium, J. R. R.
Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
Mythago Wood, Robert
Holdstock
The Gormenghast novels (including “A Boy in
Darkness”), Mervyn Peake
Leaf by Niggle, J. R. R. Tolkien
The Illiad, Homer
The Commons, Matthew
Hughes
Anathem, Neal
Stephenson
Genesis, Bernard
Beckett
Quincunx, Charles
Palliser
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
Kala Imperial and Trafalgar,
Angélica Gorodischer
Stories I’ve
read and think are very good:
Well of the Unicorn, Fletcher Pratt
Islandia, Austin
Tappan Wright
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and
the Fall of the Niblungs, William Morris
The Orphan’s Tales: in the Night
Garden, Catherynne Valente
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and Ladies of Grace Adieu and
Other Stories, Susanna Clarke
Invisible Cities, Italo
Calvino
The King of Elfland's daughter, Lord
Dunsany
The Devil's Detective, Simon Kurt
Unsworth
Science
fiction I love:
Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr.
Dune, Frank
Herbert
ConSentiency Series (Matter of
Traces, Tactful Saboteur, Whipping Star, Dosadi Experiment) Frank
Herbert
Destination Void, Frank
Herbert
The Godmakers, Frank
Herbert
The Heaven Makers, Frank
Herbert
The Dispossessed, Ursula K.
Le Guin
The Santaroga Barrier, Frank
Herbert
Poetry I
love:
My old favorite poet, Gerard Manley
Hopkins:
The Windhover (at bartleby.com)
[and anything else Hopkins ever
wrote]
Stories I’ve read
and think rather good:
Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan
Stroud
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
The Princess Bride, William
Goldman
Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn
The Islar: A Narrative of Lang 3, Mark Saxton
Thomas the Rhymer, Ellen
Kushner
The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
Lud-In-the-Mist, Hope
Meerlees
Magicians and Mrs. Quent, Galen
Beckett
Black Pearl, O'Dell,
Scott
Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham,
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Hengis Hapthorn: Majestrum, The
Spiral Labyrinth, Hespira, Matthew Hughes
The Other, Matthew
Hughes
Template, Matthew
Hughes
Black Brillion, Matthew
Hughes
Stonefather, Orson Scott
Card
The Alchemist, Paolo
Bacigalupi
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
Fun Home, Alison
Bechdel (Are You My Mother? is
good too!)
Ransom, David
Malouf
Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete, Gene
Wolfe
Old Man and the Sea, Ernest
Hemmingway
The Russia House and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John
Le Carre
Stories and Authors
I always appreciate:
Douglas Adams: [Anything]
Theodore Sturgeon: The Cosmic Rape / To
Marry Medusa, The synthetic man /The dreaming jewels
Jim Butcher: Harry Dresden
Ray Bradbury: [Anything]
A. Lee Martinez: The Automatic Detective
Robin Hobb: Assassin's Apprentice & Farseer
Trilogy
Orson Scott Card: The Lost Gate, Ender’s Game
Lois McMaster Bujold: Miles Vorkosigan Series
Dana Stabenow: Kate Shugak Series
John Scalzi: Redshirts, Old Man’s War, After the Coup, The
Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, The Human Division
Watt-Evans, Lawrence: Ethshar Series, The Fall of the Sorcerers, Obsidian
Chronicles, Touched by the Gods
Jacqueline
Carey, Santa Olivia
Norman
Spinrad: The Void Captain's
Tale
Dave Duncan: Ill Met in the Arena, King's Blades
Michael Scott
Rohan: Winter of the World
David A.
Gemmell: Rigante Series, Troy
Trilogy