My Reading Preferences
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
So very long in coming, here it is. Nowhere near the entire list, but a hundred will keep you reading for decades (personal experience).
These are the Authors I have read (100 of them). I was presented with a challenge a couple years back to see if I could list that many.
There are plenty more, but these are the most significant in my recollection. Some of these Authors put out complete CRAP. But that
is significant. All the works by all the authors affected me or are still affecting me in some way. Eventually I will have good titles to go with the authors, but it must be minded that I am LAZY.
1. Victor Appleton (Tom Swift)
2. Frank Herbert (Dune)
3. Aristotle (Smart Guy)
4. Harry Harrison (Bil the Galactic Hero, Stainless Steel Rat)
5. Aesop (Fabled to be great)
6. Herman Hesse (Siddhartha)
7. Hans Christian Andersen (Shoes and such)
8. Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
9. Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron)
10. James Herriot (Veterinary Philosophy)
11. Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide, Dirk Gently)
12. Robert Jordan (Fantasy)
13. Piers Anthony (Isle of Woman, Incarnations)
14. Stephen King (Gunslinger)
15. Richard Adams (Watership Down)
16. Donald Michael Kraig (Magical Theory)
17. Isaac Asimov (Sci-Fi)
18. C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, Lion Witch Wardrobe)
19. Robert Aspirin (Sci-Fi)
20. Stephen Lawhead (Historical medieval)
21. L. Frank Baum (THE WIZ)
22. Louis L’Amour (Westerns)
23. Marion Zimmer Bradley (Mists Of Avalon)
24. Tennyson (Poetically Spiffy)
25. Marvin Minsky (Sci-Fi)
26. B. and L. Schwartz (Honestly can’t remember what title)
27. Jimmy Buffett (Parrots Normal Writers)
28. Musashi (5 Rings, complement to Sun Tzu)
29. Terry Brooks (fantasy)
30. Dan Millman (philosophy)
31. Raymond Buckland (Pagan)
32. A.A. Milne (Pooh)
33. Miguel De Cervantes (Tilts)
34. Thomas Mallory (Le Morte D’ Arthur
35. Orson Scott Card (Fantasy)
36. Jim Marrs (Conspiracy junk)
37. Arthur C. Clarke (SPACE!)
38. Edain McCoy (Pagan)
39. C.J. Cherryh (Faded Sun Trilogy)
40. Anne McCaffrey (Dragons!)
41. Geoffrey Chaucer (Canterbury’s finest)
42. Frank Perettie (Piercing writer)
43. Alesdair Crowley (Pagan)
44. Plato (Philosophical)
45. Michael Chreighton (Scientific Sci-fi)
46. Terry Pratchett (Funny Fantasy)
47. Jacquelin Carey (Kushiel’s ChosenDartAvatar)
48. Edgar Alan Poe (Pendulous Pen)
49. Tom Clancy (Military Stories)
50. Jennifer Roberson (Writes Books, fantasy, yay)
51. Samuel Clemens (TOM and HUCK)
52. John J. Robinson (Freemason)
53. Storm Constantine (Wraiththu)
54. Ayn Rand (Very selfish philosophy)
55. James Clemens (Fantasy)
56. Anne Rice (Vampires Galore (and other weird stuff))
57. Scott Cunningham (Pagan)
58. Melanie Rawn (Dragon Prince)
59. J. F. Cooper (Last of the Mohicans)
60. Sir Walter Raleigh (Great stuff)
61. Lewis Carrol (Looking through Glass)
62. Silver Ravenwolf (Pagan)
63. Charles Dickens (Wonderful)
64. Starhawk (Pagan)
65. Arthur Conan Doyle (Elementary)
66. Socrates (Dusty thinking)
67. Roald Dahl (Peachy)
68. Shakespeare (Dead)
69. Alexander Dumas (Musketeers)
70. William Shatner (HORRIBLE WRITER, fair starship captain)
71. Stephen R. Donaldson (Covenants)
72. Mary Shelley (Frankly Scary)
73. Maggie Furey (Fantasy)
74. Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasured)
75. Anne Frank (Diaretic)
76. R. A. Salvatore (Fantasy and Star Wars)
77. Alan Dean Foster (Funny Sci-fi)
78. Dr. Seuss (Great Guy)
79. J. and S. Farrar (Pagan)
80. E. E. Smith (Classic Sci-fi)
81. William Goldman (Princess Bride)
82. J. R. R. Tolkien (LORD!!!)
83. David Gemmel (Okay Fantasy)
84. Edred Thorsson (Runes)
85. God (Bible, duh)
86. Sun Tzu (Art of War)
87. Robert Greene (48 Laws)
88. Trevallion (Shibumi)
89. Brothers Grimm (Faerie Tails)
90. Jules Verne (All Wet)
91. Khalil Gibran (Poet of my heart)
92. E. B. White (Goosie)
93. William Gibson (TECH, Invented cyberspace)
94. Orson Wells (World War)
95. John Grisham (Legal stuff zzzzzz….)
96. Margaret Weiss (See Tracy Hickman)
97. Ernest Hemingway (Really nice)
98. Janny Wurts (Master of Whitestorm)
99. Robert Heinlein (THE MASTER of Sci-fi and social ideas)
100. Tad Williams (Otherland)