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20 Nov 2009

Add This to the Bookshelf

I bought a few new books. Or at least it started as just a few new books. I wanted to catch up on classic sci-fi books that I had never read. And then it turned into some classic fantasy as well. And then a few classic cyberpunk books. And after that I had to get some random fantasy to try out something new. And then a few classic books. Oh and a graphic novel.

November 2009 - Catching up on reading

From left to right:

  1. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  2. Anathem – Neal Stephenson
  3. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  4. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
  6. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
  7. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  8. The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
  9. Virtual Light – William Gibson
  10. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
  11. The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
  12. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
  13. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
  14. The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
  15. The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
  16. Singularity 7 – Ben Templesmith
  17. The Mortal Instruments Trilogy – Cassandra Clare
    • City of Bones
    • City of Ashes
    • City of Glass
  18. The Wheel of Time, first three books – Robert Jordan
    • The Eye of the World
    • The Great Hunt
    • The Dragon Reborn

I’m going to be reading these for the next few years…

I’d like to thank The Sword and Laser, Mark Miltenburg and a few other people for these fine suggestions.

Tags: best, book, nerd

This entry was posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 8:24 pm by Michael Hartog and is filed under Books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Add This to the Bookshelf”

  1. Bex says:
    November 27, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    You have a lot of books to read… glhf!

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  2. Bex says:
    November 27, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    Also:

    The bottom of your blog says:

    Michael Hartog is proudly powered by WordPress :P

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  3. Michael Hartog says:
    November 28, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Whoopsies, fixed so I look less like the Energizer bunny and more like people.

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  4. Molly says:
    February 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    Heeey
    As far as classics go I think you should add Neuromancer by William Gibson if you havent yet.
    There is some modern stuff I’d add too but Im a book fiend. Still; lemme know if you are interested.

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  5. Michael Hartog says:
    February 8, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    I actually read Neuromancer just before grabbing all these books. Gibson’s writing feels a bit wonky but I did like the book. I’ve heard it gets better with re-reads.

    And once I finish up with these and maybe follow up some with the rest of their series I’ll start looking for more books.

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