Sometimes you get too comfortable with your old favourites, and new to me is always good. 5 years ago

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland. 6 years ago

Kate Atkinson
Douglas Coupland
Alice Munro
Helen Dunmore
Jane Smiley
Michael Chabon

... 6 years ago

Amy Tan
Bernard McLaverty
Jane Austen
Dave Eggers
Truman Capote 6 years ago

Digging to America

Back When We Were Grownups

Breathing Lessons

The Amateur Marriage

The Accidental Tourist

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Ladder of Years

Saint Maybe

A Patchwork Planet

If Morning Ever Comes

Earthly Possessions

Clock Winder

Searching for Caleb

Morgan’s Passing

Celestial Navigation

A Slipping-Down Life

The Tin Can Tree

bold = already read 6 years ago

Property Of

The Drowning Season

Angel Landing

White Horses

Fortune’s Daughter

Illumination Night

At Risk

Seventh Heaven

Turtle Moon

Second Nature

Practical Magic

Here on Earth

Local Girls

The River King

Blue Diary

The Probable Future

Blackbird House

The Ice Queen

Bold = already read

There are teen books as well, but getting through these first. 6 years ago

and they put an ad for allconsuming right next to this entry. they know what they are doing. 7 years ago

Short stories again. Why do I always get short stories?? 7 years ago

I missed reading Neil Gaiman. I don’t know why I hadn’t read AG before now, but I am a better person for having done so.

It encouraged me to make a list of all the gods I knew by heart, which is considerable, in my journal. I plan on adding to the list as I learn about more Gods. As I was making the list though, I was asking my husband & my sister’s bf to help, and they were calling out things like “burt reynolds” and “bill clinton” which made the book that more impressive to me. 7 years ago

A collection of short stories that touch on all of Asimov’s major themes… space, computers, and stuff. I didn’t realize, and think it is awesome that I have a first printing of this book – it just wouldn’t be right to read this book on paper that wasn’t yellowing.

I had only read one of the stories, “Jokester”, prior to picking up the book. Unfortunately (for me), “Jokester” is probably the best story in the series, and one of the only ones I can remember the name of. By and large, I found the book amusing and easy to read. The quotes about computers make me laugh. 7 years ago

Welcome back to the Galaxy, Tara. It’s been a long time.

I don’t know why I always feel slightly intimidated by Asimov, he presents a really easy read.

This particular book won the Hugo, good for it. Although I don’t think that it should necessarily stand alone, it works okay without knowing all the other Foundation books. Which is really good, since I read those years ago and kind of forgot what had happened. Since Asimov took so long to get back to writing about the Foundations, I thought I could take a similar hiatus in reading them. I particularly like how he revisits the history without (1) doing it all in the first chapter or (2) going at lenght about it where you feel like you have to skim through all the shit you have already read.

The plot is okay. I don’t think that Gaia was as interesting as it could be. It was just kind of repetitive – “I am Gaia, I am Gaia, blah.” I liked it better when the Second Foundationers where the guys I rooted for… and this book makes it feel like you would be stupid to root for only mentalic powers…

Not that I don’t like collective consciousness as an idea, I just think other people described it better/more interestingly.

Onwards to my new Asimov read – Earth is Room Enough. 7 years ago

Really basic rags-to-riches story.

I didn’t particularly like Thorby (or whatever you want to call him as his name changes 15 times in the course of the book), the main character, because he was so easily swayed into the new “adventures.” He started as a scrappy, fast running, hard to catch boy. How did that get removed so thoroughly?

But I love reading Heinlein. It just makes the world disappear and float away. He can write a story with a crappy main character that I don’t particularly like better than everyone else that I read. 7 years ago

The Danzig Trilogy
The Tin Drum (1959)
Cat and Mouse (1963)
Dog Years (1965)
Four Plays (1967)
Speak out! Speeches, Open Letters, Commentaries (1969)
Local Anaesthetic (1970)
From the Diary of a Snail (1973)
In the Egg and Other Poems (1977)
The Meeting at Telgte (1981)
The Flounder (1978)
Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1982)
The Rat (1987)
Show Your Tongue (1987)
Two States One Nation? (1990)
The Call of the Toad (1992)
The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1996)
My Century (1999)
Crabwalk (2002) 7 years ago

Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words (1972)
Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits (1973)
The Sex Magicians (1973)
The Book of the Breast (1974)
Illuminatus! trilogy (1975) (with Robert Shea)The Eye in the Pyramid
-The Golden Apple -
LeviathanCosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977)
Neuropolitics (1978) (with Timothy Leary and George Koopman)
The Game of Life (1979) (with Timothy Leary)
The Illuminati Papers (1980)
Schrödinger’s Cat trilogy (1980-1981)The Universe Next Door
-The Trick Top Hat -
The Homing Pigeon
Masks of the Illuminati (1981)
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles:
The Earth Will Shake (1982)
The Widow’s Son (1985)
Nature’s God (1991)
Right Where You Are Sitting Now (1983)
-Prometheus Rising (1983) -
The New Inquisition (1986)
Wilhelm Reich in Hell (1987)
Natural Law, or Don’t Put a Rubber on Your Willy (1987)
Coincidance (1988)
Neuropolitique (1988) (with Leary & Koopman) [revision of Neuropolitics]
Ishtar Rising (1989) [revision of The Book of the Breast]
Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (editor, with Rudy Rucker and Peter Lamborn Wilson)
Quantum Psychology (1990)
Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth (1991)
Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: An Illustrated Screenplay (1992)
Chaos and Beyond (1994) (editor and primary author)
Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death (1995)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1997)
-Everything Is Under Control (1998) -
TSOG: The Thing That Ate the Constitution (2002)
email to the universe (2005) 7 years ago

Pre-Ender’s Game works
Capitol (1978)
Hot Sleep (1978)
A Planet Called Treason (1978)
Songmaster (1979)
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980)
Hart’s Hope (1983)
The Worthing Chronicle (revised edition of Hot Sleep and Capitol) (1983)
Saints (1983)

The Ender saga
Ender’s Game (1985)Speaker for the Dead (1986)Xenocide (1991)Children of the Mind (1996)
First Meetings (collection of short stories) (2002)

The Shadow series
Ender’s Shadow (“parallel” novel to Ender’s Game) (1999)
Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)
Shadow Puppets (2002)
Shadow of the Giant (2005)

The Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son (1987)Red Prophet (1988)
Prentice Alvin (1989)
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
Heartfire (1998)
The Grinning Man (short story, published in Legends) (1998)
The Yazoo Queen (short story, published in Legends II) (2003)
The Crystal City (2003)
Master Alvin (forthcoming)

The Homecoming Saga
The Memory of Earth (1992)
The Call of Earth (1992)
The Ships of Earth (1994)
Earthfall (1995)
Earthborn (1995)

The “Women of Genesis” series
Sarah (2000)Rebekah (2001)
Rachel and Leah (2004)
The Wives of Israel (forthcoming)

Other post-Ender’s Game works
Cardography (short story collection) (1987)
Wyrms (1987)
Treason (revised edition of A Planet Called Treason) (1988)
The Folk Of The Fringe (1989)
The Abyss (1989) (with James Cameron)
Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990)
The Changed Man (short story collection) (1992)
Flux (short story collection) (1992)
Cruel Miracles (short story collection) (1992)
Monkey Sonatas (short story collection) (1993)
Eye For Eye / Tunesmith (Tor double novel) (1990) (Eye For Eye is by Card, Tunesmith is by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.)
The Worthing Saga (1990) (revision of The Worthing Chronicle)
Lost Boys (1992)
Lovelock (1994) (with Kathryn H. Kidd)
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Treasure Box (1996)
Stone Tables (1997)
Homebody (1998)
Enchantment (1999)
Magic Mirror (1999) (children’s book, art by Nathan Pinnock)
Robota (2003) (art by Doug Chiang)
Magic Street (2005)
Pastwatch: The Flood (forthcoming)
Rasputin (forthcoming) (with Kathryn H. Kidd)
Ultimate Iron Man [1] (graphic novel) (2005) 7 years ago

(1971) Another Roadside Attraction(1976) Even Cowgirls Get the Blues(1980) Still Life with Woodpecker(1984) Jitterbug Perfume(1990) Skinny Legs and All(1994) Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
(2000) Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
(2003) Villa Incognito
(2005) Wild Ducks Flying Backwards 7 years ago

The Joke (1967; Eng. trans., 1982)Laughable Loves, a collection of short stories originally published in the 1960s (Eng. trans., 1974)Life Is Elsewhere (1969; Eng. trans., 1974)
The Farewell Waltz, 1976 (Previous title translation: The Farewell Party)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979; Eng. trans., 1980)The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984; Eng. trans., 1984)
Jacques and His Master
Immortality, 1990Slowness, 1994Identity, 1998
Ignorance, 2000
The Drop Curtain, 2005 7 years ago

1955
Solar Lottery
1956
The World Jones Made
The Man Who Japed
1957
Eye in the Sky
The Cosmic Puppets
1959
Time Out of Joint
1960
Dr. Futurity
Vulcan’s Hammer
1962
The Man in the High Castle
1963
The Game-Players of Titan
1964
Martian Time-Slip
The Simulacra
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The Penultimate Truth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1965
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
1966
The Crack in Space
Now Wait for Last Year
The Unteleported Man
1967
Counter-Clock World
The Zap Gun
The Ganymede Takeover with Ray Nelson
1968
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1969
Ubik
Galactic Pot-Healer
1970
A Maze of Death
Our Friends from Frolix 8
1972
We Can Build You
1974
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
1975
Confessions of a Crap Artist
1976
Deus Irae with Roger Zelazny
1977
A Scanner Darkly
1981
Valis
-The Divine Invasion -
1982
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
1983
The Unteleported Man (expanded edition)
1984
Lies, Inc.
1985
Radio Free Albemuth
Puttering About in a Small Land
In Milton Lumky Territory
1986
Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
1987
Mary and the Giant
1988
The Broken Bubble
Nick and the Glimmung (for children)
1994
Gather Yourselves Together 7 years ago

“Greater Foundation” series

The Robot series:
The Caves of Steel (1954)
The Naked Sun (1957)
The Robots of Dawn (1983)
Robots and Empire (1985)
The Positronic Man (1993)

Galactic Empire series:
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
The Stars, Like Dust (1951)
The Currents of Space (1952)
Foundation series:
Foundation (1951)Foundation and Empire (1952)Second Foundation (1953)Foundation’s Edge (1982)
Foundation and Earth (1986)
Prelude to Foundation (1988)
Forward the Foundation (1993)

Novels not part of a series
The End of Eternity (1955)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
The Gods Themselves (1972)
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain (1987)
Nemesis (1989)
Nightfall (1990)
The Ugly Little Boy (1992)

Short story collections

I, Robot (1950)
The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
-Earth Is Room Enough (1957) -
Nine Tomorrows (1959)
The Rest of the Robots (1964)
Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
The Early Asimov (1972)
The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
The Complete Robot (1982)
The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
Robot Dreams (1986)
Azazel (1988)
Gold (1990)
Robot Visions (1990)
Magic (1995) 7 years ago

Early Heinlein novels

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1939)
Methuselah’s Children (1941)
Beyond This Horizon (1942)
Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
Space Cadet (1948)
-Red Planet (1949) -
Sixth Column aka The Day After Tomorrow (1949)
-Farmer in the Sky (1950) (Retro Hugo Award, 1951) -
Between Planets (1951)
The Rolling Stones aka Space Family Stone (1952)
The Puppet Masters (1951)
Double Star (1956) (Hugo Award, 1956)
Starman Jones (1953)
The Star Beast (1954)
Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
Time for the Stars (1956)
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
The Door into Summer (1957)
-Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958) -
-Starship Troopers (1959) (Hugo Award, 1960) -

Mature Heinlein novels

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) (Hugo Award, 1962)
Podkayne of Mars (1963)
Glory Road (1963)Farnham’s Freehold (1965)The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) (Hugo Award, 1967)
I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
-Time Enough For Love (1973) -

Late Heinlein novels

The Number of the Beast (1980)
-Friday (1982) -
-Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984) -
-The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) -
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)

Short fiction

“Future History” short fiction
Life-Line (1939)
Misfit (1939)
The Roads Must Roll (1940)
Requiem (1940)
“If This Goes On—” (1940)
Coventry (1940)
Blowups Happen (1940)
Solution Unsatisfactory (1940)
Universe (1941)
“—We Also Walk Dogs” (1941)
Common Sense (1941)
-Methuselah’s Children (1941) -
Logic of Empire (1941)
Space Jockey (1947)
“It’s Great to Be Back!” (1947)
The Green Hills of Earth (1947)
Ordeal in Space (1948)
The Long Watch (1948)
Gentlemen, Be Seated! (1948)
The Black Pits of Luna (1948)
Delilah and the Space Rigger (1949)
-The Man Who Sold the Moon (Retro Hugo Award, 1951) -

Other short fiction

Waldo (1940)
They (1941)
“—And He Built a Crooked House—” (1941)
By His Bootstraps (1941)
Lost Legacy (1941)
Elsewhen (1941)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)
-Magic, Inc. (1942) -
Jerry Was a Man (1947)
Our Fair City (1948)
Gulf (1949)
The Year of the Jackpot (1952)
Project Nightmare (1953)
Sky Lift (1953)
The Menace From Earth (1957)
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957)
“—All You Zombies—” (1959)
Searchlight (1962)
Free Men (1966)

Collections

The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950)Waldo & Magic, Inc. (1950)
The Green Hills of Earth (1951)
Orphans of the Sky (1951)
Assignment in Eternity (1953)
Revolt in 2100 (1953)
The Menace from Earth (1959)
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1959)
Expanded Universe (1980)

Nonfiction

Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen (1992)
Tramp Royale (1992) 7 years ago

Goal Two: Find everything they have written.
Goal Three: See what I have already read.
Goal Four: See what I just bought from that book sale that I can read soon.
Goal Five: Keep this goal up for a really long time because it will be hard as hell to find all these books. 7 years ago