reading list

Aug 03, 2007 11:12

Just a list for my records of books I want to try to read in the future...

Single books by prolific authors are not all listed individually, just the ones my library has and I can access.  Friend-reccomended/mentioned titles are listed whether or not library has them.

Underline - Library has this book or it is on order; Italic - I own this book; Strikeout - book has been read.  Bold - highly recommended authors whose work I enjoy and look forward to new novels coming out.  Red - requested from library (in hold queue).

Kelley Armstrong - Women of the Otherworld series (Bitten, Stolen, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, No Humans Involved, Personal Demon) - not sure if I'm going to finish this series.  I don't care for the Elena books - couldn't finish Stolen; but will try the others.

Keri Arthur - Riley Jensen series (Full Moon Rising, Kissing Sin, Tempting Evil, Dangerous Games, Embraced By Darkness); Ripple Creek series (Beneath a Rising Moon, Beneath a Darkening Moon); Nikki & Michael series (Dancing with the Devil, Hearts in Darkness, Chasing the Shadows, Kiss the Night Good-Bye); Damask Circle series (Circle of Fire, Circle of Death, Circle of Desire)

L.A. Banks - Vampire Huntress Legend series (Minion, The Awakening, The Hunted, The Bitten, The Forbidden, The Damned, The Forsaken, The Wicked, The Cursed, The Darkness)

Stephen Baxter - Destiny's Children series (Coalescent, Exultant, Transcendent, Resplendent); Time's Tapestry series (Emperor, Conqueror, Navigator, Weaver); Behemoth series (Silverhair, Long Tusk, Icebones); Manifold series (Time, Space, Origin); Time Odyssey [with Arthur C. Clarke] series (Time's Eye, Sunstorm, Firstborn); novels (Anti-Ice, Evolution, The Light of Other Days [ with Arthur C. Clarke], )

Elizabeth Bear - Jenny Casey series (Hammered, Scardown, Worldwired); Promethean Age series (Blood and Iron, Whiskey and Water); novels (Carnival, Undertow, New Amsterdam, Dust)

Carol Berg - Books of the Rai-kirah series (Transformation, Revelation, Restoration); Bridge of D'Arnath series (Son of Avonar, Guardians of the Keep, The Soul Weaver, Daughter of Ancients); novels (Song of the Beast, Flesh and Spirit, Breath and Bone)

Bruce Bethke - novels (Headcrash, Rebel Moon)

Anne Bishop - Black Jewels series (Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Darkness, Queen of Shadows, The Invisible Ring, Dreams Made Flesh, Tangled Webs); Tir Alainn series (The Pillars of the World, Shadows and Light, The House of Gaian); Ephemera (Sebastian, Belladonna)

James Blish - Cities in Flight series (A Life for the Stars, They Shall Have Stars, Earthman Come Home, The Triumph of Time [available as omnibus Cities in Flight]); After Such Knowledge series (A Case of Conscience, Doctor Mirabilis,. Black Easter: Or Faust Aleph-Null, The Day After Judgement)

Patricia Briggs - Mercy Thompson series (Moon Called, Blood Bound, Iron Kissed)

Lois McMaster Bujold - Sharing Knife series (Beguilement, Legacy); not feeling up to the Miles series yet

Jim Butcher - Dresden Files series (Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Proven Guilty, White Night); Codex Alera series (Furies of Calderon, Academ's Fury, Cursor's Fury)

Octavia E. Butler - Xenogenesis series (Dawn (listed as Xenogenesis), Adulthood Rites, Imago [omnibus is Lillith's Brood]); Patternists (Patternmaster, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Wild Seed, Clay's Ark [omnibus is Seed to Harvest]); Parable series (Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents); novels (Kindred, Fledgling)

Rachel Caine - Weather Warden series (Ill Wind, Heat Stroke, Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm, Thin Air); Morganville Vampires series (Glass Houses, Dead Girl's Dance, Midnight Alley)

Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel series (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar); Imriel series (Kushiel's Scion, Kushiel's Justice); Sundering series (Banewreaker, Godslayer)

Karen Chance - Cassie Plamer series (Touch the Dark, Claimed By Shadow, Embrace the Night)

James Clemens - Banned and the Banished series (Wit'ch Fire, Wit'ch Storm, Wit'ch War, Wit'ch Gate, Wit'ch Star); Godslayer series (Shadow Fall, Hinterland)

Storm Constantine - Wraeththu series (The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfillments of Fate and Desire); Grigori series (Stalking Tender Prey, Scenting Hallowed Blood, Stealing Sacred Fire); Magravandias series (Sea Dragon Heir, The Crown of Silence, The Way of Light); Wraeththu Histories (The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure, The Shades of Time and Memory, The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence)

Elaine Cunningham - The Changeling Detective Agency series (Shadows in the Darkness, Shadows in the Starlight)

Mary Janice Davidson - Undead series (Undead and Unwed, Undead and Unemployed, plus others).  Library will have via books on tape for first two.

Charles de Lint - Newford series (Memory and Dream, The Ivory and the Horn, Dreams Underfoot, Trader, Someplace to Be Flying, Moonlight and Vines, Tapping the Dream Tree, The Hour Before Dawn), standalones (Angel of Darkness, Forests of the Heart); others - many others

Marianne de Pierres - Parrish Plessis series (Nylon Angel, Code Noir, Crash Deluxe); Sentients of Orion series (Dark Space, Chaos Space)

Kate Elliott - Jaran series (Jaran, An Earthly Crown, His Conquering Sword, The Law of Becoming); Crossroads series (Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate)

P.N. Elrod - Barrett series (Red Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Masque, Dance of Death); Vampire Files series (Bloodlist, Lifeblood, etc); novels (The Adventures of Myhr)

Neil Gaiman - Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, Interworld (with Michael Reeves)

James Alan Gardner - novels (Expendable, Commitment Hour, Vigilant, Hunted, Ascending, Trapped, Radiant)

Laura Anne Gilman - Retrievers series (Staying Dead, Curse the Dark, Bring It On, Burning Bridges)

Simon Green - Nightside series (Something from the Nightside, Agents of Light and Darkness, Nightingale's Lament, Hex and the City, Paths Not Taken, Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth, Hell to Pay, The Unnatural Inquirer)

David Gunn - novels (Death's Head)

Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake series (Pleasures, Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin).

Elizabeth Hand - Winterlong series (Winterlong, Aestival Tide, Icarus Descending); novels (Waking the Moon, Glimmering, Mortal Love)

Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series (Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definately Dead, All Together Dead); Grave Sight series (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave); don't care for Teagarden or Shakepeare series enough to keep reading.

Kim Harrison - Rachel Morgan series (Dead Witch Walking, The Good the Bad the Undead, Every Which Way But Dead, A Fistful of Charms, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Where Demons Dare); anthology contribution (Dates From Hell)

Elizabeth Haydon - Symphony of Ages series (Rhapsody, Prophecy, Destiny, Requiem for the Sun, Elegy for a Lost Star, The Assassin King); Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme series (The Floating Island, The Thief Queen's Daughter)

Tanya Huff - Victoria Nelson series (Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt); Keeper's Chronicles series (Summon the Keeper, Second Summoning, Long Hot Summoning); Smoke series (Smoke and Shadows, Smoke and Mirrors, Smoke and Ashes); Confederation (Valor's Choice, Better Part of Valor, The Heart of Valor); Wizard Crystal series (Child of the Grove, The Last Wizard library has as omnibus Wizard of the Grove)

Harvey Jacobs - Beautiful Soup

William Kotzwinkle - The Amphora Project, The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Nancy Kress - Sleepless series (Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, Beggars Ride); Probability series (Probability Moon, Probability Sun, Probability Space); Crossfire series (Crossfire, Crucible); novels (An Alien Light, Brain Rose, Beaker's Dozen, Maximum Light)

Mercedes Lackey - Heralds of Valdemar series (Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, Arrow's Fall, By the Sword, Take a Thief, Exile's Honor, Exile's Valor)

Mercedes Lackey/Andre Norton - Halfblood Chronicles series (Elvenbane, Elvenblood, Elvenborn)

Jane Lindskold - Through Wolf's Eyes series (Through Wolf's Eyes, Wolf's Head Wolf's Heart, The Dragon of Despair, Wolf Captured, Wolf Hunting, Wolf's Blood)

Scott Lynch - Gentleman Bastard Sequence series (The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies)

Katie MacAlister - Dark One series (A Girl's Guide to Vampires, Sex and the Single Vampire, Sex Lies and Vampires, Even Vampires Get the Blues, The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires); Aisling Gray series (You Slay Me, Fire Me Up, Light My Fire, Holy Smokes)

George R.R. Martin - Song of Fire and Ice series (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons); novels (Dying of the Light, Windhaven, Fevre Dream)

John Meaney - Nulapeiron series (Paradox, Context, Resolution); novels (To Hold Infinity, Bone Song, Dark Blood)

Christopher Moore - You Suck, A Dirty Job, The Stupidest Angel #1, The Stupidest Angel #2, Fluke, Lamb, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, Island of the Sequined Nun, Bloodsucking Fiends, Coyote Blue, Practical Demonkeeping)

Richard K. Morgan - Takeshi Kovacs series (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies); novels (Market Forces, Black Man (aka Thirteen))

Chris Moriarty - novels (Spin State, Spin Control)

C.E. Murphy - Walker Papers series (Urban Shaman, Thunderbird Falls, Coyote Dreams); Negotiator series (Heart of Stone)

Garth Nix - Old Kingdom series (Sabriel, Liriel, Abhorsen, The Creature in the Case)

Joe Quirk - The Ultimate Rush

Vicki Pettersson - Sign of the Zodiac Series (The Scent of Shadows, The Taste of Night)

Tim Powers - Last Call series (Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather); novels (The Stress of Her Regard, Three Days to Never)

Terry Pratchett - Discworld series (The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic, plus many others)

Kat Richardson - Greywalker series (Greywalker, Poltergeist)

Justina Robson - Quantum Gravity series (Keeping It Real, Selling Out, Going Under); novels (Silver Screen, Mappa Mundi, Natural History, Living Next Door to the God of Love)

Mary Rosenblum - novels (Horizons, The Stone Garden, The Drylands, Chimera); as Mary Freeman - Gardening Mystery series (Devil's Trumpet, Deadly Nightshade, Bleeding Heart, Garden View)

Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles series (The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear)

Lilith Saintcrow - Dante Valentine series (Working for the Devil, Dead Man Rising, The Devil's Right Hand, Saint City Sinners, To Hell and Back)

James Schmitz - novels (The Witches of Karres, Eternal Frontier)

Allen M. Steele - Coyote series (Coyote, Coyote Rising, Coyote Rising, Spindrift); Near-Space series (Orbital Decay, Clarke County Space, Lunar Descent, The Labyrinth of Night, A King of Infinite Space); novels (The Jericho Iteration, The Weight, The Tranquillity Alternative, Oceanspace, Chronospace, Galaxy Blues)

Jeanne C. Stein - Anna Strong series (The Becoming, Blood Drive)

Sean Stewart - novels (Mockingbird, Galveston, Perfect Circle).

Charles Stross - Singularity Sky series (Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise); Merchant Princes series (The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, The Clan Corporate); novels (The Atrocity Archives, Accelerando, Glasshouse, The Jennifer Morgue, Missile Gap); collections/anthos (Toast).  Tried Singularity Sky and was bored silly.  Maybe others later.

Rob Thurman - Cal series (Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse)

Karen Traviss - Wess'Har series (City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally)

Alan F. Troop - Dragon Delasangre series (The Dragon Delasangre, Dragon Moon, The Seadragon's Daughter, A Host of Dragons)

John Twelve Hawks - Fourth Realm series (The Traveller, The Dark River)

Carrie Vaughn - Kitty series (Kitty Takes a Holiday, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty at the Midnight Hour, Kitty and the Silver Bullet)

David Weber - Honor Harrington series (On Basilisk Station, others - library on has the first)

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