mahsdad's (Jeff) 2026 Thread - Q3
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Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2026
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1mahsdad
Welcome to Q3 of 2026 and my little corner of the world
Hi, I'm Jeff. I live in San Pedro California. Moved out from Pittsburgh in 1989. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling thoughts, a whole mess of lists I'm keeping track of, my Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
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Hi, I'm Jeff. I live in San Pedro California. Moved out from Pittsburgh in 1989. I'm an avid reader. My wife might say I'm bordering on the obsessive. But then, I think that could apply to a lot of us in this group. I also enjoy photography, movies, hiking and playing games and hanging out with my family. Book-wise, I have a pretty eclectic taste in what I read and I hope to give you not so much reviews but my impressions about what I read.
What you will find here is mostly my rambling thoughts, a whole mess of lists I'm keeping track of, my Wishlist and TBR pile temptations and a smattering of my photography. I don't really make a plan for what I'm going to read thru out the year. Its mostly what strikes my fancy from the TBR piles.
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2017 2018 2019 2020
2021 2022 2023 2024
2025
Come in and sit a spell.
2mahsdad
2026 Statistics - Q3
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
July
45. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle : 15 days :
44. Those Grand Occasions at the End of the Road 🎧 : 2 days:
43. The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai 🎧: 6 days:
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
July
45. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle : 15 days :
44. Those Grand Occasions at the End of the Road 🎧 : 2 days:
43. The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai 🎧: 6 days:
3mahsdad
2026 Statistics - Q2
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
June
42. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey 🎧: 15 days:
41. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman : 14 days:
40. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr 🎧: 10 days:
39. Always One Mistake by Ace Boggess (ER): 10 days :
38. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 🎧 : 4 days :
37. More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey (GN) : 75 days :
36. The Talisman by Stephen King/Peter Straub 🎧 : 17 days :
Favorite : Always One Mistake
May
35. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien : 18 days :
34. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (K) : 27 days :
33. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie 🎧 : 10 days :
DNF The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
32. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach 🎧 : 7 days :
31. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson : 20 days :
30. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 🎧 : 6 days :
29. Black Hole Blues and other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin : 21 days :'
Favorite : There Is No Antimemetics Divsion
April
28. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 🎧 :
27. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K) :
26. The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter 🎧 :
25. Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn 🎧 :
24. Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan :
23. Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch 🎧 :
22. Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 🎧 :
Favorite : The Financial Lives of the Poets
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
June
42. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey 🎧: 15 days:
41. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman : 14 days:
40. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Jr 🎧: 10 days:
39. Always One Mistake by Ace Boggess (ER): 10 days :
38. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 🎧 : 4 days :
37. More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey (GN) : 75 days :
36. The Talisman by Stephen King/Peter Straub 🎧 : 17 days :
Favorite : Always One Mistake
May
35. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien : 18 days :
34. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (K) : 27 days :
33. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie 🎧 : 10 days :
DNF The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
32. Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach 🎧 : 7 days :
31. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives by Brad Watson : 20 days :
30. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 🎧 : 6 days :
29. Black Hole Blues and other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin : 21 days :
'Favorite : There Is No Antimemetics Divsion
April
28. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 🎧 :
27. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K) :
26. The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter 🎧 :
25. Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn 🎧 :
24. Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan :
23. Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch 🎧 :
22. Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 🎧 :
Favorite : The Financial Lives of the Poets
4mahsdad
2026 Statistics - Q1
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
March
21. Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan :
20. Thrawn by Timothy Zahn 🎧 :
19. We're Taking Everyone Down With Us by Matthew Rosenberg (GN) :
18. Shy: A Novel by Max Porter 🎧 :
17. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 🎧 :
16. John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction by John Varley 🎧 :
15. Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson :
Favorite : Wish You Were Here
February
14. The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fuglesang 🎧:
13. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski :
12. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood 🎧:
11. Cronus by P. Djeli Clark (K) :
10. The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica 🎧 :
NRN - The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
9. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli :
Favorite : Separation of Church and Hate
January
8. Old Fools and Young Hearts by Tom Bodett 🎧 :
7. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 🎧 :
6. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan :
5. The Uncool by Cameron Crowe 🎧 :
4. End of the World as We Know It edited by Christopher Golden/Brian Keene 🎧 :
3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke :
2. An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 🎧 :
1. The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin (K) :
Favorite : End of the World As We Know It
🎧 - Audio
ER - Early Review
GN - Graphic Novel
K - Kindle
March
21. Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan :
20. Thrawn by Timothy Zahn 🎧 :
19. We're Taking Everyone Down With Us by Matthew Rosenberg (GN) :
18. Shy: A Novel by Max Porter 🎧 :
17. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 🎧 :
16. John Varley Reader: Thirty Years of Short Fiction by John Varley 🎧 :
15. Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson :
Favorite : Wish You Were Here
February
14. The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fuglesang 🎧:
13. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski :
12. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood 🎧:
11. Cronus by P. Djeli Clark (K) :
10. The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica 🎧 :
NRN - The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
9. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli :
Favorite : Separation of Church and Hate
January
8. Old Fools and Young Hearts by Tom Bodett 🎧 :
7. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte 🎧 :
6. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan :
5. The Uncool by Cameron Crowe 🎧 :
4. End of the World as We Know It edited by Christopher Golden/Brian Keene 🎧 :
3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke :
2. An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 🎧 :
1. The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin (K) :
Favorite : End of the World As We Know It
5mahsdad
Audiobook Narrator
Too Many to Name - Rejection, John Varley Reader
Laural Merlington - An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
Sean Patrick Hopkins - End of the World As We Know It
Adenrele Ojo - End of the World As We Know It
Cameron Crowe - The Uncool
Tom Bodett - Old Fools and Young Hearts, Grand Occasions at the End of the Road
Imani Jade Powers - The Unworthy
Cassandra Campbell - The Heart Goes Last
Mark Deakins - The Heart Goes Last
John Fugelsang - The Separation of Church and Hate
Gary Sinese - Of Mice and Men
Joe Gaminara - Shy
Marc Thompson - Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances
Stephen Fry - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Shawn K. Jain - Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Resource
Jess Walter - Financial Lives of the Poets
William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
Mary Roach - Replaceable You
Ben McKenzie - Easy Money
Frank Muller - The Talisman
Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Tom Weiner - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Jefferson Mays - Leviathan Wakes
Arthur Morey - The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Too Many to Name - Rejection, John Varley Reader
Laural Merlington - An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States
Sean Patrick Hopkins - End of the World As We Know It
Adenrele Ojo - End of the World As We Know It
Cameron Crowe - The Uncool
Tom Bodett - Old Fools and Young Hearts, Grand Occasions at the End of the Road
Imani Jade Powers - The Unworthy
Cassandra Campbell - The Heart Goes Last
Mark Deakins - The Heart Goes Last
John Fugelsang - The Separation of Church and Hate
Gary Sinese - Of Mice and Men
Joe Gaminara - Shy
Marc Thompson - Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances
Stephen Fry - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Shawn K. Jain - Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Resource
Jess Walter - Financial Lives of the Poets
William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
Mary Roach - Replaceable You
Ben McKenzie - Easy Money
Frank Muller - The Talisman
Simon Winchester - The Professor and the Madman
Tom Weiner - A Canticle for Leibowitz
Jefferson Mays - Leviathan Wakes
Arthur Morey - The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
6mahsdad
Pulitzer's Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
2026 - Angel Down - Kraus
2025 - James READ
2024 - Night Watch
2023 - Demon Copperhead READ
2023 - Trust
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 - The Nickel Boys - READ
2019 - The Overstory - READ
2018 - Less - READ
2017 - Underground Railroad - READ
2016 - The Sympathizer READ
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See - READ
2014 - The Goldfinch - READ
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son - READ
2012 - NO AWARD
- Swamplandia - READ - Nominee
2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad - READ
2010 - Tinkers - READ
2009 - Olive Kitterridge - READ
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - READ
2007 - The Road - READ
2006 - March - READ
2005 - Gilead - READ
2004 - The Known World
2003 - Middlesex - READ
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - READ
2000 - The Interpreter of Maladies - READ
1999 - The Hours - READ
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer READ
1996 - Independence Day - READ
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - READ
1992 - A Thousand Acres - READ
- My Father Bleeds History (Maus) - READ (Special Awards & Citations - Letters)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings READ
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 - Lonesome Dove - READ
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 - Ironweed - READ
1983 - The Color Purple - READ
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces - READ
1980 - The Executioner's Song - READ
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever - READ
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 - The Killer Angels - READ
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 - Angle of Repose - READ
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner - READ
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - READ
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 - The Caine Mutiny - READ
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 - Guard of Honor - READ
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - READ
1939 - The Yearling
1938 - The Late George Apley
1937 - Gone with the Wind
1936 - Honey in the Horn
1935 - Now in November
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom
1933 - The Store
1932 - The Good Earth
1931 - Years of Grace
1930 - Laughing Boy
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - READ
1927 - Early Autumn
1926 - Arrowsmith
1925 - So Big
1924 - The Able McLaughlins
1923 - One of Ours
1922 - Alice Adams
1921 - The Age of Innocence
1920 - NO AWARD
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1918 - His Family
#list
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Pulitzer winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
2026 - Angel Down - Kraus
2025 - James READ
2024 - Night Watch
2023 - Demon Copperhead READ
2023 - Trust
2022 - The Netanyahus
2021 - The Night Watchman
2020 - The Nickel Boys - READ
2019 - The Overstory - READ
2018 - Less - READ
2017 - Underground Railroad - READ
2016 - The Sympathizer READ
2015 - All the Light We Cannot See - READ
2014 - The Goldfinch - READ
2013 - The Orphan Master's Son - READ
2012 - NO AWARD
- Swamplandia - READ - Nominee
2011 - A Visit from the Goon Squad - READ
2010 - Tinkers - READ
2009 - Olive Kitterridge - READ
2008 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - READ
2007 - The Road - READ
2006 - March - READ
2005 - Gilead - READ
2004 - The Known World
2003 - Middlesex - READ
2002 - Empire Falls
2001 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - READ
2000 - The Interpreter of Maladies - READ
1999 - The Hours - READ
1998 - American Pastoral
1997 - Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer READ
1996 - Independence Day - READ
1995 - The Stone Diaries
1994 - The Shipping News
1993 - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - READ
1992 - A Thousand Acres - READ
- My Father Bleeds History (Maus) - READ (Special Awards & Citations - Letters)
1991 - Rabbit at Rest
1990 - The Mambo Kings READ
1989 - Breathing Lessons
1988 - Beloved DNF
1987 - A Summons to Memphis
1986 - Lonesome Dove - READ
1985 - Foreign Affairs
1984 - Ironweed - READ
1983 - The Color Purple - READ
1982 - Rabbit is Rich
1981 - A Confederacy of Dunces - READ
1980 - The Executioner's Song - READ
1979 - The Stories of John Cheever - READ
1978 - Elbow Room
1977 - NO AWARD
1976 - Humboldt's Gift
1975 - The Killer Angels - READ
1974 - NO AWARD
1973 - The Optimist's Daughter
1972 - Angle of Repose - READ
1971 - NO AWARD
1970 - The collected Stories of Jean Stafford
1969 - House Made of Dawn : DNF
1968 - The Confessions of Nat Turner - READ
1967 - The Fixer
1966 - The Collected Stories of katherine Anne Porter
1965 - The Keepers of the House
1964 - NO AWARD
1963 - The Reivers
1962 - The Edge of Sadness
1961 - To Kill a Mockingbird - READ
1960 - Advise and Consent
1959 - The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1958 - A Death in the Family
1957 - NO AWARD
1956 - Andersonville
1955 - A Fable
1954 - NO AWARD
1953 - The Old Man and the Sea
1952 - The Caine Mutiny - READ
1951 - The Town
1950 - The Way West
1949 - Guard of Honor - READ
1948 - Tales of the South Pacific
1947 - All the King's Men
1946 - NO AWARD
1945 - A Bell
1944 - Journey in the Dark
1943 - Dragon's Teeth
1942 - In This Our Life
1941 - NO AWARD
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - READ
1939 - The Yearling
1938 - The Late George Apley
1937 - Gone with the Wind
1936 - Honey in the Horn
1935 - Now in November
1934 - Lamb in His Bosom
1933 - The Store
1932 - The Good Earth
1931 - Years of Grace
1930 - Laughing Boy
1929 - Scarlet Sister Mary
1928 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey - READ
1927 - Early Autumn
1926 - Arrowsmith
1925 - So Big
1924 - The Able McLaughlins
1923 - One of Ours
1922 - Alice Adams
1921 - The Age of Innocence
1920 - NO AWARD
1919 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1918 - His Family
#list
7mahsdad
Hugo's Read
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
2025 - The Tainted Cup
2024 - Some Desperate Glory
2023 - Nettle & Bone
2022 - A Desolation Called Peace
2022 - A Psalm for the Wild Built (novella) - READ
2021 - Network Effect - READ
2020 - A Memory Called Empire
2020 - This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella - READ
2019 - The Calculating Stars - READ
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 - All Systems Red - Novella - READ
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2016 - Binti - READ - Novella
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 - Ancillary Justice - READ (DNF)
2013 - Redshirts - READ
2012 - Among Others - READ
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl - READ
2010 - The City & the City
2009 - The Graveyard Book - READ
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union - READ
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 - Spin - READ
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 - Coraline (novella) - READ
2002 - American Gods - READ
2001 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - READ
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 - To Say Nothing of the Dog - READ
1998 - Forever Peace - READ
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 - The Diamond Age - READ
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
1993 - Doomsday Book READ
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 - The Uplift War - READ
1988 - Watchmen - READ - category : Other forms
1987 - Speaker for the Dead - READ
1986 - Ender's Game - READ
1985 - Neuromancer - READ
1985 - Short Story - The Crystal Spheres : David Brin READ
1985 - Novella - Press Enter : John Varley READ
1984 - Startide Rising - READ
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1982 - Short Story - The Pusher : John Varley READ
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1979 - Novella - Persistence of Vision : John Varley READ
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 - The Forever War - READ
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama - READ
1973 - The Gods Themselves - READ
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 - Ringworld - READ
1970 - Left Hand of Darkness - READ
1969 - Stand on Zanzibar - READ
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - READ
1966 - Dune - READ
1966 - This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 - Way Station - READ
1963 - The Man in the High Castle - READ
1962 - Stranger in a Strange Land - READ
1961 - A Canticle for Leibowitz - READ
1960 - Starship Troopers - READ
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 - Double Star - READ
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 - The Demolished Man - READ
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1941 - Slan - A.E. van Voigt
1943 - Beyond This Horizon - Robert Heinlein
1944 - Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
1945 - Shadow Over Mars - Leigh Brackett
1946 - The Mule - Isaac Asimov
1951 - Farmer in the Sky - READ
1954 - Fahrenheit 451 - READ
#list
Ongoing bucket list to read all the Hugo winning novels.
Bold : On the Shelf
2025 - The Tainted Cup
2024 - Some Desperate Glory
2023 - Nettle & Bone
2022 - A Desolation Called Peace
2022 - A Psalm for the Wild Built (novella) - READ
2021 - Network Effect - READ
2020 - A Memory Called Empire
2020 - This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella - READ
2019 - The Calculating Stars - READ
2018 - The Stone Sky
2018 - All Systems Red - Novella - READ
2017 - The Obelisk Gate
2016 - The Fifth Season
2016 - Binti - READ - Novella
2015 - The Three-Body Problem
2014 - Ancillary Justice - READ (DNF)
2013 - Redshirts - READ
2012 - Among Others - READ
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl - READ
2010 - The City & the City
2009 - The Graveyard Book - READ
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union - READ
2007 - Rainbows End
2006 - Spin - READ
2005 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004 - Paladin of Souls
2003 - Hominids
2003 - Coraline (novella) - READ
2002 - American Gods - READ
2001 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - READ
2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
1999 - To Say Nothing of the Dog - READ
1998 - Forever Peace - READ
1997 - Blue Mars
1996 - The Diamond Age - READ
1995 - Mirror Dance
1994 - Green Mars
1993 - A Fire Upon the Deep
1993 - Doomsday Book READ
1992 - Barrayar
1991 - The Vor Game
1990 - Hyperion
1989 - Cyteen
1988 - The Uplift War - READ
1988 - Watchmen - READ - category : Other forms
1987 - Speaker for the Dead - READ
1986 - Ender's Game - READ
1985 - Neuromancer - READ
1985 - Short Story - The Crystal Spheres : David Brin READ
1985 - Novella - Press Enter : John Varley READ
1984 - Startide Rising - READ
1983 - Foundation's Edge
1982 - Downbelow Station
1982 - Short Story - The Pusher : John Varley READ
1981 - The Snow Queen
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1979 - Novella - Persistence of Vision : John Varley READ
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
1976 - The Forever War - READ
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama - READ
1973 - The Gods Themselves - READ
1972 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
1971 - Ringworld - READ
1970 - Left Hand of Darkness - READ
1969 - Stand on Zanzibar - READ
1968 - Lord of Light
1967 - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - READ
1966 - Dune - READ
1966 - This Immortal
1965 - The Wanderer
1964 - Way Station - READ
1963 - The Man in the High Castle - READ
1962 - Stranger in a Strange Land - READ
1961 - A Canticle for Leibowitz - READ
1960 - Starship Troopers - READ
1959 - A Case of Conscience
1958 - The Big Time
1956 - Double Star - READ
1955 - The Forever Machine
1953 - The Demolished Man - READ
Retro Hugos - this are given for years when no award was given (more than 50 years ago). Of those...
1939 - The Sword in the Stone
1941 - Slan - A.E. van Voigt
1943 - Beyond This Horizon - Robert Heinlein
1944 - Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
1945 - Shadow Over Mars - Leigh Brackett
1946 - The Mule - Isaac Asimov
1951 - Farmer in the Sky - READ
1954 - Fahrenheit 451 - READ
#list
8mahsdad
Nebulas Read
Bold - On the Shelf
2024 - Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
2023 - Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence, An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution READ
2022 - A Master of Djinn - READ
2021 - Network Effect - READ
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2019 - The Calculating Stars - READ
2019 - This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella - READ
2018 - The Stone Sky
2017 - All the Birds in the Sky - READ
2016 - Uprooted
2016 - Binti - Novella - READ
2015 - Annihilation - READ
2014 - Ancillary Justice - READ DNF
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2012 - Paper Menagerie - Short Story - READ
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl - READ
2009 - Powers
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union - READ
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage - READ
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2003 - American Gods - READ
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1999 - Forever Peace - READ
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book READ
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1987 - Speaker for the Dead - READ
1986 - Ender's Game - READ
1985 - Neuromancer - READ
1985 - Novella - Press Enter : John Varley READ
1984 - Startide Rising - READ
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1979 - Novella - Persistence of Vision : John Varley READ
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1976 - The Forever War - READ
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama - READ
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1971 - Ringworld - READ
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness - READ
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
1967 - Flowers for Algernon - READ
1966 - Dune - READ
#list
Bold - On the Shelf
2024 - Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
2023 - Babel, Or, The Necessity of Violence, An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution READ
2022 - A Master of Djinn - READ
2021 - Network Effect - READ
2020 - A Song for a New Day
2019 - The Calculating Stars - READ
2019 - This Is How You Lose The Time War - Novella - READ
2018 - The Stone Sky
2017 - All the Birds in the Sky - READ
2016 - Uprooted
2016 - Binti - Novella - READ
2015 - Annihilation - READ
2014 - Ancillary Justice - READ DNF
2013 - 2312
2012 - Among Others
2012 - Paper Menagerie - Short Story - READ
2011 - Blackout/All Clear
2010 - The Windup Girl - READ
2009 - Powers
2008 - The Yiddish Policemen's Union - READ
2007 - Seeker
2006 - Camouflage - READ
2005 - Paladin of Souls
2004 - The Speed of Dark
2003 - American Gods - READ
2002 - The Quantum Rose
2001 - Darwin's Radio
2000 - Parable of the Talents
1999 - Forever Peace - READ
1998 - The Moon and the Sun
1997 - Slow River
1996 - The Terminal Experiment
1995 - Moving Mars
1994 - Red Mars
1993 - Doomsday Book READ
1992 - Stations of the Tide
1991 - Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
1990 - The Healer's War
1989 - Falling Free
1988 - The Falling Woman
1987 - Speaker for the Dead - READ
1986 - Ender's Game - READ
1985 - Neuromancer - READ
1985 - Novella - Press Enter : John Varley READ
1984 - Startide Rising - READ
1983 - No Enemy But Time
1982 - The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 - Timescape
1980 - The Fountains of Paradise
1979 - Dreamsnake
1979 - Novella - Persistence of Vision : John Varley READ
1978 - Gateway
1977 - Man Plus
1976 - The Forever War - READ
1975 - The Dispossessed
1974 - Rendezvous with Rama - READ
1973 - The Gods Themselves
1972 - A Time of Changes
1971 - Ringworld - READ
1970 - The Left Hand of Darkness - READ
1969 - Rite of Passage
1968 - The Einstein Intersection
1967 - Babel-17
1967 - Flowers for Algernon - READ
1966 - Dune - READ
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Booker Prize
2025 Flesh - David Szalay
2024 Orbital READ
2023 Prophet Song READ
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021 The Promise
2020 Shuggie Bain READ
2019 The Testaments
2019 Girl, Woman, Other
2018 Milkman READ
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo READ
2016 The Sellout READ
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings READ
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013 The Luminaries
2012 Bring Up the Bodies
2011 The Sense of an Ending
2010 The Finkler Question
2009 Wolf Hall DNF
2008 The White Tiger READ
2007 The Gathering
2006 The Inheritance of Loss
2005 The Sea
2004 The Line of Beauty READ
2003 Vernon God Little
2002 Life of Pi READ
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 The Blind Assassin
1999 Disgrace
1998 Amsterdam
1997 The God of Small Things
1996 Last Orders
1995 The Ghost Road
1994 How Late It Was, How Late
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha READ
1992 The English Patient
1992 Sacred Hunger
1991 The Famished Road
1990 Possession
1989 The Remains of the Day READ
1988 Oscar and Lucinda
1987 Moon Tiger
1986 The Old Devils
1985 The Bone People
1984 Hotel du Lac
1983 Life & Times of Michael K
1982 Schindler's Ark
1981 Midnight's Children READ
1980 Rites of Passage
1979 Offshore
1978 The Sea, the Sea
1977 Staying On
1976 Saville
1975 Heat and Dust
1974 The Conservationist
1974 Holiday
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 G.
1971 In a Free State
1970 The Elected Member
1969 Something to Answer For
International Booker Prize
2023 Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria) : trans. Angela Rodel Read
2022 Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree (India) : trans. Daisy Rockwell
2021 At Night All Blood Is Black - David Diop (France) : trans. Anna Moschovakis
2020 The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands) : trans. Michele Hutchison
2019 Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi (Oman) : trans. Marilyn Booth
2018 Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) : trans. Jennifer Croft
2017 A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman (Israel) : trans. Jessica Cohen
2016 The Vegetarian - Han Kang (South Korea) : trans. Deborah Smith Read
National Book Award Winners
2015 - Fortune Smiles READ
2014 - Redeployment READ
2012 - Beyond the Beautiful Forevers (Non-Fiction) READ
2005 - The Year of Magical Thinking - Dideon (Non-Fiction) READ
2001 - The Corrections READ
1988 - Paris Trout READ
1985 - White Noise READ
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award READ
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award READ
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award READ
1979 - Going After Cacciato - READ
1953 - Invisible Man READ
#list
2025 Flesh - David Szalay
2024 Orbital READ
2023 Prophet Song READ
2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021 The Promise
2020 Shuggie Bain READ
2019 The Testaments
2019 Girl, Woman, Other
2018 Milkman READ
2017 Lincoln in the Bardo READ
2016 The Sellout READ
2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings READ
2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013 The Luminaries
2012 Bring Up the Bodies
2011 The Sense of an Ending
2010 The Finkler Question
2009 Wolf Hall DNF
2008 The White Tiger READ
2007 The Gathering
2006 The Inheritance of Loss
2005 The Sea
2004 The Line of Beauty READ
2003 Vernon God Little
2002 Life of Pi READ
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 The Blind Assassin
1999 Disgrace
1998 Amsterdam
1997 The God of Small Things
1996 Last Orders
1995 The Ghost Road
1994 How Late It Was, How Late
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha READ
1992 The English Patient
1992 Sacred Hunger
1991 The Famished Road
1990 Possession
1989 The Remains of the Day READ
1988 Oscar and Lucinda
1987 Moon Tiger
1986 The Old Devils
1985 The Bone People
1984 Hotel du Lac
1983 Life & Times of Michael K
1982 Schindler's Ark
1981 Midnight's Children READ
1980 Rites of Passage
1979 Offshore
1978 The Sea, the Sea
1977 Staying On
1976 Saville
1975 Heat and Dust
1974 The Conservationist
1974 Holiday
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
1972 G.
1971 In a Free State
1970 The Elected Member
1969 Something to Answer For
International Booker Prize
2023 Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgaria) : trans. Angela Rodel Read
2022 Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree (India) : trans. Daisy Rockwell
2021 At Night All Blood Is Black - David Diop (France) : trans. Anna Moschovakis
2020 The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands) : trans. Michele Hutchison
2019 Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi (Oman) : trans. Marilyn Booth
2018 Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) : trans. Jennifer Croft
2017 A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman (Israel) : trans. Jessica Cohen
2016 The Vegetarian - Han Kang (South Korea) : trans. Deborah Smith Read
National Book Award Winners
2015 - Fortune Smiles READ
2014 - Redeployment READ
2012 - Beyond the Beautiful Forevers (Non-Fiction) READ
2005 - The Year of Magical Thinking - Dideon (Non-Fiction) READ
2001 - The Corrections READ
1988 - Paris Trout READ
1985 - White Noise READ
1983 - The Color Purple - hardback award READ
1981 - The Stories of John Cheever - paperback award READ
1980 - The World According to Garp - paperback award READ
1979 - Going After Cacciato - READ
1953 - Invisible Man READ
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Woman's Prize for Fiction
Got this list from Paul, another one to add to my collection.
https://womensprize.com/prizes/womens-prize-for-fiction/
1996. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
1997. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
1998. Larry's Party by Carol Chields
1999. A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
2000. When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
2001. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
2002. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2003. Property by Valerie Martin
2004. Small Island by Andrea Levy
2005. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2006. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2007. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
2008. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2009. Home by Marilynne Robinson
2010. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver On the shelf
2011. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
2012. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller READ
2013. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
2014. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimar M
2015. How to be Both by Ali Smith READ
2016. The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
2017. The Power by Naomi Alderman READ
2018. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
2019. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2020. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell On the shelf
2021. Piranesi by Susannah Clarke READ
2022. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2023. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver READ
2024. Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganesthanathan
2025. The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden
#list
Got this list from Paul, another one to add to my collection.
https://womensprize.com/prizes/womens-prize-for-fiction/
1996. A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
1997. Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
1998. Larry's Party by Carol Chields
1999. A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
2000. When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
2001. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
2002. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2003. Property by Valerie Martin
2004. Small Island by Andrea Levy
2005. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2006. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2007. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
2008. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2009. Home by Marilynne Robinson
2010. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver On the shelf
2011. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
2012. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller READ
2013. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
2014. A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimar M
2015. How to be Both by Ali Smith READ
2016. The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
2017. The Power by Naomi Alderman READ
2018. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
2019. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
2020. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell On the shelf
2021. Piranesi by Susannah Clarke READ
2022. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
2023. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver READ
2024. Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganesthanathan
2025. The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden
#list
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100 SFF/Fantasy Reads as compiled by NPR
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant...
1. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien READ
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert READ
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
6. 1984 A Novel by George Orwell READ
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ but only the 1st one
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman READ
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman READ
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King READ
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke READ
25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman READ
30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad By David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN READ
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman READ
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks READ
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett READ
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by by Cormac McCarthy READ
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi READ
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson READ
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov READ
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
#list
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant...
1. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien READ
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams READ
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert READ
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
6. 1984 A Novel by George Orwell READ
7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ but only the 1st one
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman READ
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman READ
12. The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King READ
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke READ
25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman READ
30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
32. Watership Down by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad By David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN READ
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman READ
53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks READ
55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett READ
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road by by Cormac McCarthy READ
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi READ
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson READ
76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks
84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov READ
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle READ
97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
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100 Horror Reads as compiled by NPR
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker READ
3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
7. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
8. The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs
9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And Ill Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman READ
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks READ
22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey READ
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
24. The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle READ
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross
27. The Cipher By Kathe Koja
28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ
29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
37. The Shining by Stephen King READ
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
39. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
47. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
50. The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.
51. Left Foot, Right by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman READ
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson READ
62. The Collector by John Fowles
63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill READ
70. Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
72. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
76. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker READ
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub READ
84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty READ
87. The Body by Stephen King READ
88. Its A Good Life by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. Jumbies Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman READ
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
#list
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker READ
3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James
7. The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
8. The Monkeys Paw by W. W. Jacobs
9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And Ill Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman READ
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks READ
22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey READ
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
24. The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle READ
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross
27. The Cipher By Kathe Koja
28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ
29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
37. The Shining by Stephen King READ
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
39. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
47. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon
50. The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.
51. Left Foot, Right by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman READ
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. Goblin Market by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson READ
62. The Collector by John Fowles
63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. Night They Missed the Horror Show by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill READ
70. Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
72. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
76. I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker READ
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub READ
84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty READ
87. The Body by Stephen King READ
88. Its A Good Life by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. Jumbies Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman READ
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
#list
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Esquire's 75 Best Sci-Fi books of all time.
75 - The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
74 - The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal READ
73 - Redshirts, by John Scalzi READ
72 - Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino
71 - The Ten Percent Thief, by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
70 - Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson
69 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson READ
68 - Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
67 - Contact, by Carl Sagan READ
66 - Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
65 - Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak READ
64 - Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill
63 - What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
62 - The Book of Phoenix, by Nnedi Okorafor
61 - Semiosis, by Sue Burke
60 - Excession, by Iain M. Banks
59 - The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
58 - Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
57 - This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone READ
56 - The Resisters, by Gish Jen
55 - Rosewater, by Tade Thompson READ
54 - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
53 - Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem READ
52 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess READ
51 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein READ
50 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle READ
49 - The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
48 - The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
47 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
46 - The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
45 - Neuromancer, by William Gibson READ
44 - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester READ
43 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
42 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams READ
41 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
40 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir READ
39 - Zone One, by Colson Whitehead TBR
38 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers READ
37 - Engine Summer, by John Crowley
36 - The Children of Men, by P.D. James READ
35 - Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
34 - The City & The City, by China Miéville
33 - A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
32 - Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie DNF
31 - The Stand, by Stephen King READ
30 - In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
29 - Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
28 - The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman READ
27 - 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami READ
26 - Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
25 - Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
24 - Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer READ
23 - Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood READ
22 - Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
21 - Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 - Shikasta, by Doris Lessing
19 - The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
18 - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky READ
17 - Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke READ
16 - The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
15 - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu READ
14 - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley READ
13 - The Employees, by Olga Ravn
12 - 1984, by George Orwell READ
11 - The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu TBR
10 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick READ
9 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel READ
8 - Exhalation, by Ted Chiang READ
7 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6 - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
5 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler READ
4 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
3 - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury READ
2 - Dune, by Frank Herbert READ
1 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley READ
#list
Choosing the 75 best science fiction books of all time wasn’t easy, so to get the job done, we had to establish some guardrails. Though we assessed single installments as representatives of their series, we limited the list to one book per author. We also emphasized books that brought something new and innovative to the genre—to borrow a great sci-fi turn of phrase, books that “boldly go where no one has gone before.”
75 - The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
74 - The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal READ
73 - Redshirts, by John Scalzi READ
72 - Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino
71 - The Ten Percent Thief, by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
70 - Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson
69 - Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson READ
68 - Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
67 - Contact, by Carl Sagan READ
66 - Under the Skin, by Michel Faber
65 - Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak READ
64 - Sea of Rust, by C. Robert Cargill
63 - What Mad Universe, by Fredric Brown
62 - The Book of Phoenix, by Nnedi Okorafor
61 - Semiosis, by Sue Burke
60 - Excession, by Iain M. Banks
59 - The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
58 - Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny
57 - This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone READ
56 - The Resisters, by Gish Jen
55 - Rosewater, by Tade Thompson READ
54 - Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
53 - Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem READ
52 - A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess READ
51 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein READ
50 - A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle READ
49 - The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
48 - The Body Scout, by Lincoln Michel
47 - An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
46 - The Mountain in the Sea, by Ray Nayler
45 - Neuromancer, by William Gibson READ
44 - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester READ
43 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
42 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams READ
41 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
40 - Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir READ
39 - Zone One, by Colson Whitehead TBR
38 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers READ
37 - Engine Summer, by John Crowley
36 - The Children of Men, by P.D. James READ
35 - Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
34 - The City & The City, by China Miéville
33 - A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine
32 - Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie DNF
31 - The Stand, by Stephen King READ
30 - In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes
29 - Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
28 - The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman READ
27 - 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami READ
26 - Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
25 - Ammonite, by Nicola Griffith
24 - Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer READ
23 - Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood READ
22 - Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
21 - Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
20 - Shikasta, by Doris Lessing
19 - The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
18 - Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky READ
17 - Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke READ
16 - The Complete Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
15 - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu READ
14 - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley READ
13 - The Employees, by Olga Ravn
12 - 1984, by George Orwell READ
11 - The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu TBR
10 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick READ
9 - Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel READ
8 - Exhalation, by Ted Chiang READ
7 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6 - The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
5 - Kindred, by Octavia Butler READ
4 - The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
3 - The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury READ
2 - Dune, by Frank Herbert READ
1 - Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley READ
#list
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Guardian's Top 100 Books Published in English
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels...
Take it for what its worth, but its a list, so you know I'm going to post it. LOL
100 My Ántonia
99 The Go-Between
98 The Road READ
97 Catch-22 READ
96 Pedro Páramo
95 The Return of the Native
94 The Known World
93 Invisible Cities
92 Sentimental Education
91 Life and Fate
90 Jacob's Room
89 The Left Hand of Darkness READ
88 Ragtime
87 The Line of Beauty READ
86 The Turn of the Screw
85 The Vegetarian READ
84 The Talented Mr Ripley
83 A Farewell to Arms
82 The End of the Affair
81 Buddenbrooks
80 Rebecca
79 Go Tell It on the Mountain
78 A House for Mr Biswas
77 The Rainbow
76 Dracula READ
75 The Bluest Eye
74 Nervous Conditions
73 Austerlitz
72 Our Mutual Friend
71 Kindred READ
70 Jude the Obscure
69 Crime and Punishment
68 Blood Meridian
67 The Man Without Qualities
66 The Master and Margarita
65 The Color Purple READ
64 The Good Soldier
63 White Teeth
62 Half of a Yellow Sun
61 The Rings of Saturn
60 Howards End
59 Never Let Me Go READ
58 Disgrace
57 The Sound and the Fury
56 Mansfield Park
55 The Waves
54 Orlando READ
53 The Transit of Venus
52 The Golden Bowl
51 My Brilliant Friend
50 Wide Sargasso Sea
49 A Fine Balance
48 The Metamorphosis READ
47 Vanity Fair
46 The Leopard
45 The Golden Notebook
44 Giovanni's Room READ
43 Housekeeping
42 The Magic Mountain
41 Heart of Darkness
40 Song of Solomon
39 Their Eyes Were Watching God READ
38 The Age of Innocence
37 Invisible Man READ
36 The Handmaid's Tale READ
35 Great Expectations
34 Wolf Hall DNF
33 David Copperfield
32 The God of Small Things
31 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
30 Frankenstein READ
29 Pale Fire
28 The Brothers Karamazov
27 The Trial
26 Don Quixote
25 Lolita
24 The Remains of the Day
23 Midnight's Children READ
22 Things Fall Apart READ
21 The Portrait of a Lady
20 Wuthering Heights
19 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
18 Persuasion
17 One Hundred Years of Solitude
16 Nineteen Eighty-Four READ
15 Moby-Dick READ
14 Mrs Dalloway
13 Emma
12 Bleak House
11 The Great Gatsby
10 Madame Bovary
9 Pride and Prejudice
8 Jane Eyre
7 War and Peace
6 Anna Karenina
5 In Search of Lost Time
4 To the Lighthouse
3 Ulysses
2 Beloved
1 Middlemarch
#list
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels...
Take it for what its worth, but its a list, so you know I'm going to post it. LOL
100 My Ántonia
99 The Go-Between
98 The Road READ
97 Catch-22 READ
96 Pedro Páramo
95 The Return of the Native
94 The Known World
93 Invisible Cities
92 Sentimental Education
91 Life and Fate
90 Jacob's Room
89 The Left Hand of Darkness READ
88 Ragtime
87 The Line of Beauty READ
86 The Turn of the Screw
85 The Vegetarian READ
84 The Talented Mr Ripley
83 A Farewell to Arms
82 The End of the Affair
81 Buddenbrooks
80 Rebecca
79 Go Tell It on the Mountain
78 A House for Mr Biswas
77 The Rainbow
76 Dracula READ
75 The Bluest Eye
74 Nervous Conditions
73 Austerlitz
72 Our Mutual Friend
71 Kindred READ
70 Jude the Obscure
69 Crime and Punishment
68 Blood Meridian
67 The Man Without Qualities
66 The Master and Margarita
65 The Color Purple READ
64 The Good Soldier
63 White Teeth
62 Half of a Yellow Sun
61 The Rings of Saturn
60 Howards End
59 Never Let Me Go READ
58 Disgrace
57 The Sound and the Fury
56 Mansfield Park
55 The Waves
54 Orlando READ
53 The Transit of Venus
52 The Golden Bowl
51 My Brilliant Friend
50 Wide Sargasso Sea
49 A Fine Balance
48 The Metamorphosis READ
47 Vanity Fair
46 The Leopard
45 The Golden Notebook
44 Giovanni's Room READ
43 Housekeeping
42 The Magic Mountain
41 Heart of Darkness
40 Song of Solomon
39 Their Eyes Were Watching God READ
38 The Age of Innocence
37 Invisible Man READ
36 The Handmaid's Tale READ
35 Great Expectations
34 Wolf Hall DNF
33 David Copperfield
32 The God of Small Things
31 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
30 Frankenstein READ
29 Pale Fire
28 The Brothers Karamazov
27 The Trial
26 Don Quixote
25 Lolita
24 The Remains of the Day
23 Midnight's Children READ
22 Things Fall Apart READ
21 The Portrait of a Lady
20 Wuthering Heights
19 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
18 Persuasion
17 One Hundred Years of Solitude
16 Nineteen Eighty-Four READ
15 Moby-Dick READ
14 Mrs Dalloway
13 Emma
12 Bleak House
11 The Great Gatsby
10 Madame Bovary
9 Pride and Prejudice
8 Jane Eyre
7 War and Peace
6 Anna Karenina
5 In Search of Lost Time
4 To the Lighthouse
3 Ulysses
2 Beloved
1 Middlemarch
#list
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NYPL's Reading America : 250 Years, 250 books
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/reading-america/adults.
They've put together a very interesting list of notable books that reflect on and illuminate the American Experience.
150 Adult books, 50 Kids, 50 Teens. I'm only listing the Adult books, but the link will let you see and borrow (if you have a NYPL library card) all of them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song By Kevin Young (ed.)
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American IdealsBy David Hackett Fischer
Against Interpretation and Other Essays By Susan Sontag
All In: An Autobiography By Billie Jean King
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay By Michael Chabon READ
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition By Andrew J. Bacevich (ed.)
American Pastoral By Philip Roth
American Prometheus By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
American Struggle By Jon Meacham
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes By Tony Kushner
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York By William Grimes
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X By Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir By Deborah A. Miranda
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era By James McPherson
Beloved By Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy
Brown Girl, Brownstones By Paule Marshall
Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus
Call It Sleep By Henry Roth
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation By Jeff Chang
The Carrying By Ada Limón
A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings By Peggy Noonan
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York By Tyler Anbinder
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes By Langston Hughes
Common Sense By Thomas Paine READ
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson By Emily Dickinson
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America By Laila Lalami
Country Music USA By Bill C. Malone and Tracey E. W. Laird
Cuba: An American History By Ada Ferrer
The Death and Life of Great American Cities By Jane Jacobs
Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller
Democracy Moving By Ariel Nereson
Demon Copperhead By Barbara Kingsolver READ
Devil in the Grove By Gilbert King
Dispatches By Michael Herr
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama
The Earth in the Attic By Fady Joudah
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After 1939–1962 By Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Federalist Papers By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,…
A Field Guide to American Houses By Virginia Savage McAlester
The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
Photographs by Steve Schapiro
Framing America: A Social History of American Art By Frances K. Pohl
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream By H. G. Bissinger
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga By S. H. Fernando, Jr.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century By Beverly Gage
Gilded Suffragists By Johanna Neuman
Grant By Ron Chernow
The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Great American Sports Page By John Schulian (ed.)
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary By Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America By Juan Gonzalez
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance READ
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez
How to Survive a Plague By David France
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish By Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert (eds.)
Howl, and Other Poems By Allen Ginsberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou
I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954–1965 By Pauline Kael
The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Killers of the Flower Moon By David Grann READ
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler READ
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero By David Remnick
King: A Life By Jonathan Eig
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning By Jonathan Mahler
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States By Sarah Vowell READ
Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman
Let the Record Show By Sarah Schulman
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America By Garry Wills
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration By Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung (eds.)
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York By Lucy Sante
The Lyrics: 1961–2012 By Bob Dylan
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts By Andrew Chaikin
The Men Who United the States By Simon Winchester
Miles: The Autobiography By Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong
Moby-Dick By Herman Melville READ
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs By Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
My Beloved World By Sonia Sotomayor
My Lives: A Memoir By Edmund White
My Name Is Barbra By Barbra Streisand
The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America By Kathleen DuVal
Native New Yorkers By Evan T. Pritchard
1929 By Andrew Ross Sorkin
97 Orchard By Jane Ziegelman
Ninth Street Women By Mary Gabriel
The Omni-Americans By Albert Murray
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical By Laurie Winer
Our History Is the Future By Nick Estes
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown By Lauren Hilgers
A People's History of the United States By Howard Zinn READ
Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings By Phillis Wheatley
The Piano Lesson By August Wilson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance By Leonard Peltier
Puerto Rico: A National History By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry
Reagan: His Life and Legend By Max Boot
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks By Jeanne Theoharis
Redeployment By Phil Klay READ
The Rediscovery of America By Ned Blackhawk
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams By Stacy Schiff
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt By Edmund Morris
The Second Founding By Eric Foner
1776 By David McCullough READ
She Had Some Horses By Joy Harjo
Silent Spring By Rachel Carson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches By Audre Lorde
Sisters in Law By Linda Hirshman
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (creator)
The Slip By Prudence Peiffer
Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
The Sound and the Fury By William Faulkner
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial By Kenji Yoshino
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman
Stone Butch Blues By Leslie Feinberg
The Stonewall Reader By The New York Public Library
Strangers in the Land By Michael Luo
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote By Ellen Carol DuBois
Taking Manhattan By Russell Shorto
The Taste of Country Cooking By Edna Lewis
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension By Hanif Abdurraqib
These Truths: A History of the United States By Jill Lepore
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror By Moustafa Bayoumi
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee READ
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy By Nathaniel Philbrick
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America By David Von Drehle
The Undocumented Americans By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition By the Schomburg Center for Research…
The Warmth of Other Suns By Isabel Wilkerson
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments By Saidiya Hartman
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America By Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen…
What the Constitution Means to Me By Heidi Schreck
The White Album By Joan Didion
The White Devil's Daughters By Julia Flynn Siler Women, Race & Class By Angela Davis
Working By Studs Terkel
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1: The Path to Power By Robert A. Caro
Yellow Bird By Sierra Crane Murdoch
The Young Lords: A Radical History By Johanna Fernández
#list
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/reading-america/adults.
They've put together a very interesting list of notable books that reflect on and illuminate the American Experience.
150 Adult books, 50 Kids, 50 Teens. I'm only listing the Adult books, but the link will let you see and borrow (if you have a NYPL library card) all of them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song By Kevin Young (ed.)
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American IdealsBy David Hackett Fischer
Against Interpretation and Other Essays By Susan Sontag
All In: An Autobiography By Billie Jean King
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay By Michael Chabon READ
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition By Andrew J. Bacevich (ed.)
American Pastoral By Philip Roth
American Prometheus By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
American Struggle By Jon Meacham
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes By Tony Kushner
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York By William Grimes
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X By Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir By Deborah A. Miranda
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era By James McPherson
Beloved By Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blood Meridian By Cormac McCarthy
Brown Girl, Brownstones By Paule Marshall
Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus
Call It Sleep By Henry Roth
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation By Jeff Chang
The Carrying By Ada Limón
A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings By Peggy Noonan
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York By Tyler Anbinder
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes By Langston Hughes
Common Sense By Thomas Paine READ
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson By Emily Dickinson
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America By Laila Lalami
Country Music USA By Bill C. Malone and Tracey E. W. Laird
Cuba: An American History By Ada Ferrer
The Death and Life of Great American Cities By Jane Jacobs
Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller
Democracy Moving By Ariel Nereson
Demon Copperhead By Barbara Kingsolver READ
Devil in the Grove By Gilbert King
Dispatches By Michael Herr
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama
The Earth in the Attic By Fady Joudah
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After 1939–1962 By Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson By Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Federalist Papers By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,…
A Field Guide to American Houses By Virginia Savage McAlester
The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
Photographs by Steve Schapiro
Framing America: A Social History of American Art By Frances K. Pohl
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream By H. G. Bissinger
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga By S. H. Fernando, Jr.
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century By Beverly Gage
Gilded Suffragists By Johanna Neuman
Grant By Ron Chernow
The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Great American Sports Page By John Schulian (ed.)
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary By Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America By Juan Gonzalez
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis By J. D. Vance READ
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez
How to Survive a Plague By David France
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish By Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert (eds.)
Howl, and Other Poems By Allen Ginsberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou
I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954–1965 By Pauline Kael
The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Killers of the Flower Moon By David Grann READ
Kindred By Octavia E. Butler READ
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero By David Remnick
King: A Life By Jonathan Eig
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning By Jonathan Mahler
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States By Sarah Vowell READ
Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman
Let the Record Show By Sarah Schulman
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America By Garry Wills
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration By Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung (eds.)
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York By Lucy Sante
The Lyrics: 1961–2012 By Bob Dylan
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts By Andrew Chaikin
The Men Who United the States By Simon Winchester
Miles: The Autobiography By Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong
Moby-Dick By Herman Melville READ
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs By Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
My Beloved World By Sonia Sotomayor
My Lives: A Memoir By Edmund White
My Name Is Barbra By Barbra Streisand
The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave By Frederick Douglass
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America By Kathleen DuVal
Native New Yorkers By Evan T. Pritchard
1929 By Andrew Ross Sorkin
97 Orchard By Jane Ziegelman
Ninth Street Women By Mary Gabriel
The Omni-Americans By Albert Murray
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical By Laurie Winer
Our History Is the Future By Nick Estes
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown By Lauren Hilgers
A People's History of the United States By Howard Zinn READ
Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings By Phillis Wheatley
The Piano Lesson By August Wilson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance By Leonard Peltier
Puerto Rico: A National History By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry
Reagan: His Life and Legend By Max Boot
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks By Jeanne Theoharis
Redeployment By Phil Klay READ
The Rediscovery of America By Ned Blackhawk
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams By Stacy Schiff
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt By Edmund Morris
The Second Founding By Eric Foner
1776 By David McCullough READ
She Had Some Horses By Joy Harjo
Silent Spring By Rachel Carson
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches By Audre Lorde
Sisters in Law By Linda Hirshman
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (creator)
The Slip By Prudence Peiffer
Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
The Sound and the Fury By William Faulkner
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial By Kenji Yoshino
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down By Anne Fadiman
Stone Butch Blues By Leslie Feinberg
The Stonewall Reader By The New York Public Library
Strangers in the Land By Michael Luo
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote By Ellen Carol DuBois
Taking Manhattan By Russell Shorto
The Taste of Country Cooking By Edna Lewis
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Valeria Luiselli
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension By Hanif Abdurraqib
These Truths: A History of the United States By Jill Lepore
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror By Moustafa Bayoumi
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee READ
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy By Nathaniel Philbrick
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America By David Von Drehle
The Undocumented Americans By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition By the Schomburg Center for Research…
The Warmth of Other Suns By Isabel Wilkerson
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments By Saidiya Hartman
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America By Norah O'Donnell with Kate Andersen…
What the Constitution Means to Me By Heidi Schreck
The White Album By Joan Didion
The White Devil's Daughters By Julia Flynn Siler Women, Race & Class By Angela Davis
Working By Studs Terkel
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1: The Path to Power By Robert A. Caro
Yellow Bird By Sierra Crane Murdoch
The Young Lords: A Radical History By Johanna Fernández
#list
16mahsdad
Weird Books List
From Book Riot - The 100 strange and weird "must read" books. https://bookriot.com/i-got-your-weird-right-here-100-wonderful-strange-and-unusu...
A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
An Exaggerated Murder by Josh Cook
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer READ
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Bear vs. Shark by Chris Bachelder
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (Author), Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
Cat Country by Lao She
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Dendera by Yuya Sato (Author), Edwin Hawkes (Translator), Nathan A Collins (Translator)
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain
Fram by Steve Himmer
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland READ
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Half Life by Shelley Jackson
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator)
I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood READ
Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer
Pym by Mat Johnson
Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
Sister Mine by Nalo HopkinsonSister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
Slade House by David Mitchell READ
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Bees by Laline Paul
The Blue Girl by Laurie Foos
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders READ
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
The Daughters by Adrienne Celt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosely
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Author), Lola M. Rogers (Translator)
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall READ
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Author), Christina MacSweeney (Translator) READ
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Vaults by Toby Ball
The Vegetarian by Han Kang READ
The Vorrh by B. Catling
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Jeff's Weird Additions
Help! A Bear is Eating Me by Mykle Hansen
WhaleFall by Daniel Kraus
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Cartoons - Kit Schluter
Blob: A Love Story - Maggie Su
#list
From Book Riot - The 100 strange and weird "must read" books. https://bookriot.com/i-got-your-weird-right-here-100-wonderful-strange-and-unusu...
A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons
After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss
An Exaggerated Murder by Josh Cook
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer READ
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Bear vs. Shark by Chris Bachelder
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe (Author), Alexander O. Smith (Translator)
Cat Country by Lao She
Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Dendera by Yuya Sato (Author), Edwin Hawkes (Translator), Nathan A Collins (Translator)
Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Duplex by Kathryn Davis
Escape from Baghdad! by Saad Hossain
Fram by Steve Himmer
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland READ
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
Half Life by Shelley Jackson
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Author), Michael Glenny (Translator)
I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe
Just Like Beauty by Lisa Lerner
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
Motherfucking Sharks by Brian Allen Carr
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood READ
Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
Prodigies by Angélica Gorodischer
Pym by Mat Johnson
Radio Iris by Anne-Marie Kinney
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
Sister Mine by Nalo HopkinsonSister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson
Slade House by David Mitchell READ
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Bees by Laline Paul
The Blue Girl by Laurie Foos
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders READ
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
The Daughters by Adrienne Celt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier
The Incarnations by Susan Barker
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosely
The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth Mckenzie
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (Author), Lola M. Rogers (Translator)
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall READ
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (Author), Christina MacSweeney (Translator) READ
The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks
The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
The Vaults by Toby Ball
The Vegetarian by Han Kang READ
The Vorrh by B. Catling
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell
The Wilds by Julia Elliott
Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
Zeroville by Steve Erickson
Jeff's Weird Additions
Help! A Bear is Eating Me by Mykle Hansen
WhaleFall by Daniel Kraus
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Cartoons - Kit Schluter
Blob: A Love Story - Maggie Su
#list
17mahsdad
Christmas Gifts
2015
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories - Kevin Wilson READ
The Magician's Book: A skeptic's Adventures in Narnia - Laura Miller
Burning Paradise - Robert Charles Wilson READ
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories - Hilary Mantel READ
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides READ
St. Lucy's Home for Gilrs Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell READ
2016
The Sellout - Paul Beatty READ
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi READ
Among Others - Jo Walton READ
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville DNF
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green READ
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri READ
Empire Falls - Richard Russo READ
2017
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds READ
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell DNF
Consider Phlebas - Ian M. Banks
Tenth of December - George Saunders READ
Some Luck - Jane Smiley
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess READ
Stone Spring - Stephen Baxter
The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough
The Hours - Michael Cunningham READ
Beloved - Toni Morrison DNF
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
2018
Adventures of Oliver Twist/A Christmas Carol/A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan READ
Circe - Madeline Miller READ
2019
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood READ
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson READ
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons READ
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
2020
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline READ
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers READ
2021
Intercourse/Severance: Stories Rober Olen Butler READ
Salt: A Word History - Mark Kurlansky READ
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi READ
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon READ
2022
Faulkner: Novels 1942-1954 - William Faulkner
West - Carys Davies READ
Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers READ
Shylock Is My Name - Howard Jacobson READ
Justice - Larry Watson
Lost Everything - Brian Francis Slattery READ
2023
Growing Up Yinzer - Dick Roberts READ
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vindge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley READ
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch READ
Holly - Stephen King
2024
A Psalm of the Wild Built - Becky Chambers READ
American Dirt - Jeanine Coummins
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo READ
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver READ
2025 @weird_O
Light Between Oceans - ML Stedman READ
The Arrest - Jonathan Lethem
O Pioneers - Willa Cather
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Prairie Fire - Caroline Fraser
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
#christmas
2015
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories - Kevin Wilson READ
The Magician's Book: A skeptic's Adventures in Narnia - Laura Miller
Burning Paradise - Robert Charles Wilson READ
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories - Hilary Mantel READ
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides READ
St. Lucy's Home for Gilrs Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell READ
2016
The Sellout - Paul Beatty READ
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi READ
Among Others - Jo Walton READ
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville DNF
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green READ
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri READ
Empire Falls - Richard Russo READ
2017
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds READ
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell DNF
Consider Phlebas - Ian M. Banks
Tenth of December - George Saunders READ
Some Luck - Jane Smiley
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess READ
Stone Spring - Stephen Baxter
The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough
The Hours - Michael Cunningham READ
Beloved - Toni Morrison DNF
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
2018
Adventures of Oliver Twist/A Christmas Carol/A Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan READ
Circe - Madeline Miller READ
2019
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood READ
Under the Black Flag - David Cordingly
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson READ
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons READ
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
2020
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline READ
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers READ
2021
Intercourse/Severance: Stories Rober Olen Butler READ
Salt: A Word History - Mark Kurlansky READ
Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi READ
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon READ
2022
Faulkner: Novels 1942-1954 - William Faulkner
West - Carys Davies READ
Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers READ
Shylock Is My Name - Howard Jacobson READ
Justice - Larry Watson
Lost Everything - Brian Francis Slattery READ
2023
Growing Up Yinzer - Dick Roberts READ
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vindge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley READ
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch READ
Holly - Stephen King
2024
A Psalm of the Wild Built - Becky Chambers READ
American Dirt - Jeanine Coummins
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo READ
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver READ
2025 @weird_O
Light Between Oceans - ML Stedman READ
The Arrest - Jonathan Lethem
O Pioneers - Willa Cather
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Prairie Fire - Caroline Fraser
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
#christmas
18mahsdad
2026 So Far
Books Read - 42
First Book: Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Last Book: Leviathan Wakes
Pages Read - 5,188
Hours Listened - 12 days, 5 hrs, and 28 mins
Words Read - 4,016,687
Overall sources
DTE - 29%
Audio - 57%
Digital - 14%
Unique Authors - 39
Lady Authors - 9
Authors of Color - 1
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2026 - 7
Reread - 7
Gave Away - 7
Purchased - 60
#recap
Books Read - 42
First Book: Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Last Book: Leviathan Wakes
Pages Read - 5,188
Hours Listened - 12 days, 5 hrs, and 28 mins
Words Read - 4,016,687
Overall sources
DTE - 29%
Audio - 57%
Digital - 14%
Unique Authors - 39
Lady Authors - 9
Authors of Color - 1
Total BFB/Chunksters for 2026 - 7
Reread - 7
Gave Away - 7
Purchased - 60
#recap
19mahsdad
My favorite useless chart... The Scatter Plot
These are the books I've read and when they were published.
These are the books I've read and when they were published.
20mahsdad
2026 Books of the Month
January : End of the World As We Know It edited by Christopher Golden
February : The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fuglesang
March : Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
April : Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
May : There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
June : Always One Mistake by Ace Boggess
July :
August :
September :
October :
November :
December :
#botm
January : End of the World As We Know It edited by Christopher Golden
February : The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fuglesang
March : Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
April : Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
May : There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
June : Always One Mistake by Ace Boggess
July :
August :
September :
October :
November :
December :
#botm
22mahsdad
>21 fuzzi: Thanks Fuzzi!
23mahsdad
Fantastic Foto Friday
And I almost forgot, its Friday too. So for this first Friday of the 3rd quarter, I give you a lizard in a tree....
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>4 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle : 78%
Listening - The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai : 61%
eBook - Mort by Terry Pratchett : 58%
42. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey 🎧: 15 days: A scifi chunkster that I reread on audio. A good opening book for the Expanse series. I had forgotten that it was not just a hard scifi space battle story. It is that, Earth vs Mars vs the Belters. But its also a police procedural and a first contact story, of a sort. It was a good read and I'll continue to read the rest, as they come available on Libby
Jeff's 2026 B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
And I almost forgot, its Friday too. So for this first Friday of the 3rd quarter, I give you a lizard in a tree....
Book Update
>2 mahsdad: Q2 Books
>3 mahsdad: Q1 Books
>4 mahsdad: Audiobooks
Reading - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle : 78%
Listening - The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai : 61%
eBook - Mort by Terry Pratchett : 58%
42. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey 🎧: 15 days:
A scifi chunkster that I reread on audio. A good opening book for the Expanse series. I had forgotten that it was not just a hard scifi space battle story. It is that, Earth vs Mars vs the Belters. But its also a police procedural and a first contact story, of a sort. It was a good read and I'll continue to read the rest, as they come available on LibbyJeff's 2026 B.A.S.S tracking document
#ff
24SilverWolf28
Happy New Thread!
25mahsdad
>24 SilverWolf28: Thanks Silver
26mahsdad
Posting counts. There were some conversations in Paul's thread about how the counts have been down recently. I was curious how mine have been doing, realizing that I am not the most frequently visited thread in the group (not that there's anything wrong with that) ;)
For the last 9 years or so, I've just be automatically creating a new thread every quarter, whether I needed to or not, just made it cleaner. So my averages for Q1 and Q2 over that time are
Q1 - 245 (This quarter was 250)
Q1 - 231 (This quarter was 216)
So I guess it swings in roundabouts for me. But maybe I'm padding my numbers by adding more and more lists every quarter. LOL I'm up to 11.
For the last 9 years or so, I've just be automatically creating a new thread every quarter, whether I needed to or not, just made it cleaner. So my averages for Q1 and Q2 over that time are
Q1 - 245 (This quarter was 250)
Q1 - 231 (This quarter was 216)
So I guess it swings in roundabouts for me. But maybe I'm padding my numbers by adding more and more lists every quarter. LOL I'm up to 11.
27quondame
Happy new thread, Jeff!
>23 mahsdad: What a perfect capture of a lively bit of fauna among the flora.
>23 mahsdad: What a perfect capture of a lively bit of fauna among the flora.
28PaulCranswick
Love the topper, Jeff.
Love the lists too (unsurprisingly for me of course!).
Happy new thread.
Love the lists too (unsurprisingly for me of course!).
Happy new thread.
31weird_O
Thanks for the lists, Jeff. A Fourth of July resolution is to get back on board with the books and the reading and the socializing. Thinking is plenty difficult in 99° heat, especially with fans but not air conditioning. But I am carrying on. Going to socialize with friends. They have pool!!!
32mahsdad
I find it hilarious that in the books read in 2026, 4 out of the top 5 are Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Has any one read them? Are they that good, or are they just the obsession of the moment.
#6, 14, 17, 21, and 23, are also Matt Dinniman works
#6, 14, 17, 21, and 23, are also Matt Dinniman works
33mahsdad
>27 quondame: Thanks Susan!
>28 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul, glad to oblige with the lists ;)
>29 msf59: Hi Mark, Happy 4th to you too. Regarding Paddy. The first 3/4s of it, it was just okay, it wasn't really hitting with me. But now that I'm well into the last 1/4, its gaining on me, much more personable, much more to grab a hold of. Ultimately when I finish it (today or tomorrow), its a win.
>30 SirThomas: Thanks Thomas!
>31 weird_O: Hiya Bill, glad to bombard you with lists too. LOL. That's too bad that its soooo hot for you guys back East. Yeah finding a pool to wallow in is a must. Or come on out to the coast. Its a balmy 76 right now. (sorry, had to poke the bear, with our weather)
>28 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul, glad to oblige with the lists ;)
>29 msf59: Hi Mark, Happy 4th to you too. Regarding Paddy. The first 3/4s of it, it was just okay, it wasn't really hitting with me. But now that I'm well into the last 1/4, its gaining on me, much more personable, much more to grab a hold of. Ultimately when I finish it (today or tomorrow), its a win.
>30 SirThomas: Thanks Thomas!
>31 weird_O: Hiya Bill, glad to bombard you with lists too. LOL. That's too bad that its soooo hot for you guys back East. Yeah finding a pool to wallow in is a must. Or come on out to the coast. Its a balmy 76 right now. (sorry, had to poke the bear, with our weather)
35mahsdad
New Book - Audio
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (read by Jefferson Mays)
The second book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .
#newbook
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey (read by Jefferson Mays)
The second book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .
"Mei?" Miss Carrie said. "Please put your painting work away now. Your mother is here." It took here a few seconds to understand what the teacher was saying, not because Mei didn't know the words - she was four now, and not a toddler anymore - but because they didn't fit with the world as she knew it. Her mother couldn't come get here. Mommy had left Ganymede and gone to live on Ceres Station.
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36elorin
>32 mahsdad: I finished the most recent Dungeon Crawler Carl book last week or so. They are fun, funny, and geeky delight in my opinion. They are LitRPG which some people will hate but I found interesting. Reading them was like inhaling candy floss - I loved them but there's not a lot of depth to them especially in the beginning. But Carl has a moral code and stands up for it and the lore dumps in the later books are a bit meatier than the first volume (which is mostly leveling up and killing monsters).
37mahsdad
>36 elorin: I'm sure I'd like them, but I've always been hesitant because they've always been just in hardback whenever I've seen them in the stores, and their audio versions are exclusive to Audible (I think) and I'm not going to pay for my audio habit (I'm a Libby guy)
39SilverWolf28
>37 mahsdad: They're also on Kindle Unlimited.
40mahsdad
>39 SilverWolf28: Yeah, I'm not a fan of KU. Plus these seem like tailor made audio books for me, and they are Audible exclusives, can't even get them in a library, and that's a non-starter for me too.
if I do by ebooks, I typically get them from Kobo/Rakutan and then I convert them over and side load them onto my Kindle.
if I do by ebooks, I typically get them from Kobo/Rakutan and then I convert them over and side load them onto my Kindle.
