30 "What Do You Mean You Haven't Read That?" books for geeks

[lilisonna]

Outlawcoon (with help from a few of us) came up with the following list of 30 classic geek books for our generation. Not good geek books. Not even books that will stand the test of time -- although many of them have and will. Just 30 books that we find surprising to discover geeks haven't read

Comments

[cnoocy]

That's Watchmen, by Moore. Why are some of these series and others first volumes of series?

[touchstone]

Hrm. Yeah, I suppose 1 should have been Fellowship of the Ring. I don't honestly remember what the first Sandman book was titled :)

[lightbearer]

Tolkein considered LotR to be one book. I think that's a good enough reason to count it as one book.

Sandman is slightly different, I suppose. Either Preludes & Nocturnes (first) or Season of Mists (iconic), I suppose.

[lilisonna]

Because we are random and unpredictable like that. :-)

[cnoocy]

If you were to turn this into a quiz or something, it should be a little more well-defined with either the first volume, the entire series, or one item in the series noted. Or hey, give those different typographical conventions.