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FIC Ivanhoe					Walter Scott
FIC Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	Sijie Dai
FAN The Shadow of the Lion			Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint
						and Dave Freer 
SF  The Warmasters				David Weber and Eric Flint 
						and David Drake
SF  the Hub stories				James H. Schmitz
FAN Dragon Bones				Patricia Briggs
SF  Ambassador of Progress			Walter Jon Williams
SF  Alien Taste					Wen Spencer
SF  Trading in Futures, Changeling		Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
FAN Memory of Fire				Holly Lisle
SF  With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary Commanding	David Drake
FAN the Belisarius series			Eric Flint and David Drake
SF  Black Wine					Candas Jane Dorsey
SF  A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the	John Ringo
     Devil Dances
SF  War of Honor				David Weber
FAN Memory & Dream				Charles de_Lint
SF  Hammerfall					C.J. Cherryh
FIC Once Upon an Elephant			Ashok Mathur
SF  The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde		Norman Spinrad
SF  Emergence					David R. Palmer
SF  The Copper Crown, The Throne of Scone	Patricia Kennealy
SF  Flatlander					Larry Niven
SF  A Hole in Space				Larry Niven
SF  A World Out of Time				Larry Niven
FAN Magician					Raymond E. Feist
FAN A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan,	Ursula K. LeGuin
     The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from 
     Earthsea, The Other Wind
NON The Third Chimpanzee			Jared Diamond
FAN Daughter of Empire, Servant of Empire,	Raymond E. Feist and
     Mistress of Empire				 Janny Wurts
FIC Bel Canto					Ann Patchett
FAN the Vampire Files series			P.N. Elrod
FAN Devlin's Luck				Patricia Bray
FAN American Gods				Neil Gaiman
SF  The Free Lunch				Spider Robinson
SF  The Complete Paratime			H. Beam Piper
SF  the Skolian Empire saga			Catherine Asaro
SF  Spherical Harmonic				Catherine Asaro
FAN Metropolitan, City on Fire			Walter Jon Williams
FAN The Riddlemaster of Hed, Heir of Sea and	Patricia A. McKillip
     Fire, Harpist in the Wind
SF  Echoes of Earth				Sean Williams and
						 Shane Dix
BIO Close to the Machine			Ellen Ullman
FIC The Street Lawyer				John Grisham
FIC The Chamber					John Grisham
FAN Moonheart					Charles de_Lint
NON City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver	Douglas Coupland
BIO A Primate's Memoir				Robert Sapolsky
SF  The Quantum Rose				Catherine Asaro
SF  Limit of Vision				Linda Nagata
SF  Melancholy Elephants			Spider Robinson
FAN Soulstring					Midori Snyder
NON Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in	Barbara Ehrenreich
     America
FIC The Client					John Grisham
FIC The Partner					John Grisham
SF  The Pickup Artist				Terry Bishop
SF  Plan B, I Dare				Steve Miller and Sharon Lee 
NON A People's History of the United States	Howard Zinn
SF  The Witling					Vernor Vinge
NON Mapping Human History: Discovering		Steve Olson
     the Past Through Our Genes
FAN Forests of the Heart			Charles de_Lint
FAN Jack of Kinrowan				Charles de_Lint
SF  Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light			Ken MacLeod
FAN Spindle's End				Robin McKinley
FAN Wanderers and Islanders			Steve Cockayne
SF  Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus	Vonda N. McIntyre
FAN Kushiel's Chosen				Jacqueline Carey
SF  Diplomatic Immunity				Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Beast of the Heartland and other stories	Lucius Shepard
FAN A Caress of Twilight			Laurell K. Hamilton
FAN When the King Comes Home			Caroline Stevermer
SF  Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence in 	Melissa Scott
     Solitude, The Empress of Earth
SF  A Paradigm of Earth				Candas Jane Dorsey
FAN Kushiel's Dart				Jacqueline Carey
FAN The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual	Keith Hartman
     Corpse
FAN The Wooden Sea				Jonathan Carroll
FAN From the Teeth of Angels			Jonathan Carroll
FAN Ombria in Shadow				Patricia A. McKillip
FAN The Innamorati				Midori Snyder
FAN A Kiss of Shadows				Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  I Dare					Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
SF  The Harvest					Robert Charles Wilson
SF  The Annunciate				Severna Park
FAN Issola					Steven Brust
FIC Lost in Translation				Nicole Mones
FAN Someplace to be Flying			Charles de_Lint
SF  Soldiers of Paradise, Sugar Rain, The Cult	Paul Park
     of Loving Kindness
FIC Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books	Francesca Lia Block
SF  Heaven's Reach				David Brin
FIC The White Bone				Barbara Gowdy
SF  Loose Cannon				Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
SF  Ventus					Karl Schroeder
FIC The Poisonwood Bible			Barbara Kingsolver
FAN Galveston					Sean Stuart
FAN Wheel of the Infinite			Martha Wells
SF  the Otherland series			Tad Williams
SF  An Exchange of Hostages, Prisoner of	Susan R. Matthews
     Conscience, Hour of Judgement
SF  The Chronoliths				Robert Charles Wilson
FAN The Bone Doll's Twin			Lynn Flewelling
NON Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for		Emily Toth
     Women in Academia
FIC Cold Mountain				Charles Frazier
SF  The Telling					Ursula K. LeGuin
SF  The Snow Queen, World's End, The Summer	Joan D. Vinge
     Queen, Tangled Up In Blue
FAN The Last Hot Time				John M. Ford
SF  The Archangel Protocol			Lydia Morehouse
FAN The Land of Laughs				Jonathan Carroll
FAN The Marriage of Sticks			Jonathan Carroll
FAN Narcissus In Chains				Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  Nekropolis					Maureen F. McHugh
FAN The Dragons of the Cuyahoga			S. Andrew Swann
SF  Calculating God				Robert J. Sawyer
FAN The Sword of Maiden's Tears			Rosemary Edghill
FAN Haroun and the Sea of Stories		Salman Rushdie
NON The White Album				Joan Didion
SF  Bios					Robert Charles Wilson
SF  Memory Wire					Robert Charles Wilson
SF  Ship of Fools				Richard Paul Russo
FAN In Legend Born				Laura Resnick
SF  The Bohr Maker, Tech-Heaven,		Linda Nagata
     Deception Well, Vast
SF  Hestia					C.J. Cherryh
SF  Pilot's Choice, Plan B			Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
FAN Fevre Dream					George R.R. Martin
SF  Tuf Voyaging				George R.R. Martin
SF  Isle of the Dead, To Die in Italbar		Roger Zelazny
FAN The Unconquered Country			Geoff Ryman
NON A Civil Action				Jonathan Harr
NON Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy		Barry Hall
SF  The Glass Harmonica				Louise Marley
SF  Heart of Gold				Sharon Shinn
SF  Mendoza in Hollywood			Kage Baker
FAN the Keepers of the Hidden Ways series	Joel Rosenberg
SF  Ties of Blood and Silver			Joel Rosenberg
SF  Emile and the Dutchman			Joel Rosenberg
FAN Stardust					Neil Gaiman
FAN The Curse of Chalion			Lois McMaster Bujold
FAN The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and	Peter S. Beagle
     other odd acquaintances
SF  The Child Garden				Geoff Ryman
SF  The Ecologic Envoy,The Ecolitan Operation	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
     The Ecologic Secession,The Ecolitan Enigma	
SF  Norstrilia					Cordwainer Smith
SF  World of Ptavvs				Larry Niven
FAN Issola, Dragon, Orca, Athyra, Phoenix,	Steven Brust
     Taltos, Teckla, Yendi, Jhereg
SF  Brain Plague				Joan Slonczewski
SF  The Secret of Life				Paul McAuley
SF  In The Company of Others			Julie E. Czerneda
SF  Look to Windward				Iain M. Banks
FAN Was						Geoff Ryman
SF  Cuckoo's Egg				C.J. Cherryh
NON The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of	Miles Harvey
     Cartographic Crime
SF  The Steerswoman, The Outskirter's Secret	Rosemary Kirstein
SF  Replay					Ken Grimwood
FIC Zodiac					Neal Stephenson
SF  Dark Sky Legion				William Barton
FAN Perdido Street Station			China Mieville
FAN King Rat					China Mieville
FIC Jazz					Toni Morrison
SF  the Honor Harrington series			David Weber
NON The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My	Susan Orlean
     Encounters with Extraordinary People
FIC The Big U					Neal Stephenson
SF  Eater					Gregory Benford
SF  Stardoc, Beyond Varallan			S.L. Viehl
NON Geisha					Liza Dalby
FIC Memoirs of a Geisha				Arther Golden
SF  Acts of Conscience				William Barton
SF  Pilot's Choice				Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
NON Cyberselfish				Paulina Borsook
FIC Midnight's Children				Salman Rushdie
FAN The Riddlemaster of Hed, Heir of Sea and	Patricia A. McKillip
     Fire, Harpist in the Wind
NON Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the	Mike Gray
     Race to the Moon
NON Letters to a Young Feminist			Phyllis Chesler
FAN The Book of Kells				R.A. MacAvoy
SF  Timegods' World				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
SF  Archangel, Jovah's Angel,			Sharon Shinn
     The Allelulia Files
FAN the Anita Blake series			Laurell K. Hamilton
FAN Beneath the Vaulted Hills,			Sean Russell
     Compass of the Soul
SF  The Merro Tree				Katie Waitman
SF  The Terrorists of Irustan			Louise Marley
SF  Blind Waves					Steven Gould
FAN Nightseer					Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  The Cassini Division			Ken MacLeod
SF  The Ecologic Envoy, The Ecolitan Operation	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
SF  Jumper					Steven Gould
SF  Shards of Honor				Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Wildside					Steven Gould
SF  The Ring of Charon, The Shattered Sphere	Roger MacBride Allen
NON Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet	Stephen Jay Gould
     of Worms
NON Designing Web Usability			Jakob Nielsen
SF  Hellflower					Eluki ben Shahar
SF  A Virtual Soul				Kevin Teixeira
SF  Eon, Eternity				Greg Bear
SF  Memory					Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Candle					John Barnes
SF  Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille		Steven Brust
SF  Threshold					David R. Palmer
SF  Dykstra's War				Jeffery D. Kooistra
NON They Have a Word for It			Howard Rheingold
SF  the Liaden Universe series			Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
HUM Treks Not Taken				Steven R. Boyett
SF  Beholder's Eye, Changing Vision		Julie E. Czerneda
FAN Dragon and Phoenix				Joanne Bertin
SF  Cyteen					C.J. Cherryh
FAN Pasquale's Angel				Paul J. McAuley
FAN The Border					Marina Fitch
SF  Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls	Jane Lindskold
SF  Komarr, A Civil Campaign			Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Darwin's Radio				Greg Bear
SF  Precursor					C.J. Cherryh
FAN the Tales of Alvin Maker			Orson Scott Card
SF  The Stars Asunder				Debra Doyle and 
						 James D. Macdonald
FAN Magi'i of Cyador, Scion of Cyador		L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
FAN Darksong Rising				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
FAN Bloodrights					N. Lee Wood
SF  Faraday's Orphans				N. Lee Wood
FAN The Thief's Gamble, The Swordsman's Oath	Juliet E. McKenna
FAN The Silent Tower, The Silicon Mage, Dog	Barbara Hambly
     Wizard
FAN The Stars Compel				Michaela Roessner
SF  Secret Harmonies				Paul J. McAuley
SF  Psychlone					Greg Bear
FAN The Warrior Who Carried Life		Geoff Ryman
SF  Chanur's Legacy				C.J. Cherryh
FAN Obsidian Butterfly				Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  Aristoi					Walter Jon Williams
FAN The Stars Dispose				Michaela Roessner
SF  Valor's Choice				Tanya Huff
SF  Nimisha's Ship				Anne McCaffrey
FAN The Fire Rose				Mercedes Lackey
FIC Mr. Midshipman Hornblower			C.S. Forester 
FAN the Harry Potter series			J.K. Rowling
SF  Days of Atonement				Walter Jon Williams
SF  Fellow Travellers				Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
SF  the Trade Pact Universe series		Julie E. Czerneda
SF  Gravity Dreams				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
SF  A Civil Campaign				Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Stronghold Rising				Lisanne Norman
SF  The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium	Peter F. Hamilton
     Alchemist, The Naked Sun
FIC The Testament				John Grisham
FAN Black Light					Elizabeth Hand
FIC Timbuktu					Paul Auster
FIC Accordion Crimes				E. Annie Proulx
FAN Enchantment					Orson Scott Card
FAN World Without End, Sea Without a Shore	Sean Russell
NON The Humane Interface			Jef Raskin
SF  The Sorcerer and the Cygnet, The Cygnet	Patricia A. McKillip
     and the Firebird
FAN The Moon and the Sun			Vonda N. McIntyre
FAN The Tower in Stony Wood			Patricia A. McKillip
NON Bugs in Writing				Lyn Dupre
FAN D'Shai, Hour of the Octopus			Joel Rosenberg
NON Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for	Naomi Wolf
     Womanhood
BIO The Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and	Alice Echols
     Times of Janis Joplin
FAN The Initiate Brother, Gatherer of Clouds	Sean Russell
SF  Falcon					Emma Bull
FAN War for the Oaks				Emma Bull
FAN Swordspoint					Ellen Kushner
SF  The Rediscovery of Man			Cordwainer Smith
FAN The Song of Mavin Manyshaped, The Flight of	Sheri S. Tepper
     Mavin Manyshaped, The Search of Mavin 
     Manyshaped 
FAN Expiration Date				Tim Powers
SF  Singer from the Sea				Sheri S. Tepper
SF  Patriarch's Hope				David Feintuch
SF  Axiomatic					Greg Egan
FAN Mockingbird					Sean Stewart
FAN Obsidian Butterfly				Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  Angry Young Spaceman			Jim Munroe
SF  Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask	Jim Munroe
SF  Her Smoke Rose Up Forever			James Tiptree,Jr.
NON Information Visualization: Perception for	Colin Ware
     Design
SF  Sky Coyote					Kage Baker
SF  Ashes of Victory				David Weber
SF  The True Game (King's Blood Four,		Sheri S. Tepper
     Necromancer Nine, Wizard's Eleven)
NON The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other 	Po Bronson
     True Tales of Silicon Valley
NON The Transparent Society			David Brin
SF  Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor		C.J. Cherryh
SF  Blood Child and Other Stories		Octavia E. Butler
NON Shattered Lives: Portraits From America's	Mikki Norris and Chris Conrad
     Drug War					and Virginia Resner
FIC Motherless Brooklyn				Jonathan Lethem
SF  The Chronicles of Scar, Legacy of the	Ron Sarti
     Ancients, The Lanterns of God
SF  The Children Star				Joan Slonczewski
SF  Caviar					Theodore Sturgeon
SF  Apostrophes & Apocalypses			John Barnes
SF  When We Were Real				William Barton
SF  the Skolian Empire series			Catherine Asaro
SF  Finity					John Barnes
FAN Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness,	Lynn Flewelling
     Traitor's Moon
SF  The Prodigal Sun				Sean Williams and
						 Shane Dix
SF  the Sholan Alliance series			Lisanne Norman
HUM I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot	Scott Adams
HUM Why Cats Paint				Heather Busch and
						 Burton Silver
SF  Remnant Population				Elizabeth Moon
SF  Heroes Die					Matthew Woodring Stover
BIO I Am Jackie Chan				Jackie Chan
SF  Threats...And Other Promises		Vernor Vinge
HUM Murder at the Big Store			Diane Mayo
SF  A World Between				Norman Spinrad
NON Awakenings					Oliver Sachs
SF  the Mageworlds series			Debra Doyle and 
						 James D. Macdonald
NON An Anthropologist on Mars			Oliver Sachs
FAN Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines,	Tanya Huff
    Blood Pact, Blood Debt
FAN The Fire's Stone				Tanya Huff
SF  Bridging the Galaxies			Larry Niven
FAN The Gilda Stories				Jewelle Gomez
NON The Language of the Night			Ursula K. LeGuin
NON The Beauty Myth				Naomi Wolf
SF  Songs from the Stars			Norman Spinrad
SF  The Boat of a Million Years			Poul Anderson
FAN the Amber series				Roger Zelazny
NON In the Beginning There Was the Command Line	Neal Stephenson
FAN One for the Morning Glory			John Barnes
FIC A Song of Stone				Iain Banks
SF  Hunting Party, Sporting Chance,		Elizabeth Moon
     Winning Colors
FAN The Death of the Necromancer		Martha Wells
FAN City of Bones				Martha Wells
FAN The Riddlemaster of Hed,			Patricia A. McKillip
     Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind
SF  A Choice of Destinies			Melissa Scott
SF  The Demon Breed				James H. Schmitz
SF  Agent of Vega				James H. Schmitz
SF  The Witches of Karres			James H. Schmitz
SF  Darwinia					Robert Charles Wilson
NON The Soul of a New Machine			Tracy Kidder
FAN The Last Dragonlord				Joanne Bertin
SF  The Fires of Paratime (aka The Timegod)	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
FAN The Soprano Sorceress, The Spellsong War	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
FAN The Thief's Gamble				Juliet E. McKenna
SF  Pilgrimage, The People: No Different Flesh,	Zenna Henderson
     Holding Wonder, The Anything Box
SF  A Civil Campaign				Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Fireflood and Other Stories			Vonda N. McIntyre
FAN The Anything Box				Zenna Henderson
SF  Becoming Alien, Being Alien, Human to Human	Rebecca Ore
NON Tuesdays with Morrie			Mitch Albom
SF  The Worthing Saga				Orson Scott Card
SF  Ender's Shadow				Orson Scott Card
SF  Capitol					Orson Scott Card
SF  Fairyland					Paul J. McAuley
SF  The Golden Globe				John Varley
FIC The Archivist				Martha Cooley
SF  The Forever Hero: Dawn of a Distant Earth,	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
     The Silent Warrior, In Endless Twilight
SF  The Einstein Intersection			Samuel R. Delany
SF  the Gandalara cycle				Randall Garrett and 
						 Vicki Ann Heydron
FIC Cryptonomicon				Neal Stephenson
SF  The Nano Flower				Peter F. Hamilton
SF  The Color of Distance, Through Alien Eyes	Amy Thompson
FIC The Blue Place				Nicola Griffith
FAN Seeker's Mask				P.C. Hodgell
FAN Nobody's Son				Sean Stewart
BIO The Cuckoo's Egg				Cliff Stoll
BIO The Queen of Whale Cay			Kate Summerscale
FAN A Night in the Lonesome October		Roger Zelazny
SF  Six Moon Dance				Sheri S. Tepper
FAN King of Morning, Queen of Day		Ian McDonald
FAN Tea with the Black Dragon			R.A. MacAvoy
SF  Firestar, Rogue Star			Michael Flynn
SF  A Million Open Doors, Earth Made of Glass	John Barnes
SF  Aggressor Six				Wil McCarthy
NON The Two Cultures: and a Second Look		C.P. Snow
FAN The Outlaws of Sherwood			Robin McKinley
SF  Hellspark					Janet Kagan
SF  Of Tangible Ghosts, The Ghost of the	L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
     Revelator
BIO High Exposure				David Breashears
FAN Emerald House Rising			Peg Kerr
SF  Plan B					Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
SF  A Deepness in the Sky			Vernor Vinge
FAN the Riftwar saga				Raymond E. Feist
FAN Elsewhere, Nevernever			Will Shetterly
SF  Murder in the Solid State			Wil McCarthy
FAN The Infinity Concerto, The Serpent Mage	Greg Bear
SF  the Honor Harrington series			David Weber
FAN Daughter of Empire, Servant of Empire,	Raymond E. Feist and
     Mistress of Empire				 Janny Wurts
SF  Helm					Steven Gould
FAN the Serpentwar saga				Raymond E. Feist
FAN Dragon's Winter				Elizabeth A. Lynn
FAN The White Order				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
SF  Donnerjack					Roger Zelazny and Jane
						 Lindskold
FAN Mistress Masham's Repose			T.H. White
FAN Resurrection Man				Sean Stewart
SF  Mission Child				Maureen F. McHugh
FAN Ship of Magic				Robin Hobb
SF  Five Fates					Keith Laumer, ed
SF  the Seafort saga				David Feintuch
SF  Orbital Resonance				John Barnes
FAN Of Swords and Spells			Delia Marshall Turner
SF  The City, Not Long After			Pat Murphy
FAN Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines,	Tanya Huff
    Blood Pact, Blood Debt
SF  Cosm					Gregory Benford
SF  The Dazzle of Day				Molly Gloss
SF  The Hawk's Grey Feather, The Oak Above the	Patricia Kennealy
     Kings, The Hedge of Mist
SF  The Dispossessed				Ursula K. LeGuin
SF  Bellwether					Connie Willis
NON You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You	Molly Ivins
SF  Illegal Alien				Robert J. Sawyer
FAN The Door in the Hedge			Robin McKinley
SF  Glimmering					Elizabeth Hand
SF  Lifehouse					Spider Robinson
SF  Into the Forest				Jean Heglund
FAN Deerskin					Robin McKinley
FAN The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown	Robin McKinley
SF  To Say Nothing of the Dog			Connie Willis
SF  A King of Infinite Space			Allen Steele
FAN the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series	Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  Palace, The Eyes of God			Katharine Kerr and
						 Mark Kreighbaum 
FAN Sing the Four Quarters, Fifth Quarter,	Tanya Huff
     No Quarter
FAN Summon the Keeper				Tanya Huff
SF  Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories	Orson Scott Card
SF  Adiamante					L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
SF  Echoes of Honor				David Weber
SF  The Heritage of Hastur, Sharra's Exile,	Marion Zimmer Bradley
     Exile's Song, The Shadow Matrix
NON The Flamingo's Smile			Stephen Jay Gould
SF  In the Garden of Iden			Kage Baker
FAN Jhereg,Yendi,Teckla,Taltos,Phoenix,Athyra,	Steven Brust
     Orca,Dragon
SF  Out on Blue Six				Ian McDonald
FAN Aurian, Harp of Winds, Sword of Flame,	Maggie Furey
     Dhiammara
FAN Blue Moon					Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  Earth Abides				George R. Stewart
FAN the Deed of Paksenarrion			Elizabeth Moon
FIC Menachem's Seed				Carl Djerassi
SF  Hand of Prophecy				Severna Park
SF  The Parafaith War				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
FAN the saga of Recluce				L.E. Modesitt,Jr.
HUM Journey to Cubeville			Scott Adams
FAN Nameless Magery				Delia Marshall Turner
SF  Inversions					Iain M. Banks
HUM Casual Day has Gone Too Far			Scott Adams
FIC The Catcher in the Rye			J.D. Salinger
FIC Complicity					Iain Banks
SF  Girl With Landscape				Jonathan Lethem
SF  The Shockwave Rider				John Brunner
FAN Song for the Basilisk			Patricia A. McKillip
SF  The Sparrow, Children of God		Mary Doria Russell
FAN The Night Watch				Sean Stewart
SF  A Quantum Murder				Peter F. Hamilton
SF  Finity's End				C.J. Cherryh
HUM Zen For Cats				Henry Beard
NON Metaphors We Live By			George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
SF  Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone		Ian McDonald
NON Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human	Jared Diamond
     Societies
SF  The Exile Waiting				Vonda N. McIntyre
SF  Celestis					Paul Park
SF  The Demolished Man				Alfred Bester
SF  Psycho Shop					Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny
SF  Looking for the Mahdi			N. Lee Wood
SF  Against Infinity				John E. Stith
SF  Queen of Angels, Slant			Greg Bear
NON Writing Systems of the World		Akira Nakanishi
FIC Codex Seraphinianus				Luigi Serafini
SF  Jumper					Steven Gould
FAN Burying the Shadow				Storm Constantine
FAN the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series	Laurell K. Hamilton
SF  The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye	Jonathan Lethem
SF  Firestar					Michael Flynn
FIC The Cobweb					Stephen Bury
SF  The Family Tree				Sheri S. Tepper
FIC Invisible Cities				Italo Calvino
FAN Clouds End					Sean Stewart
SF  Evolution's Shore				Ian McDonald
FIC The God of Small Things			Arundhati Roy
SF  Komarr					Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Ammonite					Nicola Griffith
SF  Destiny's Road				Larry Niven
NON Mr. Tompkins in Paperback: Mr. Tompkins in	George Gamow
     Wonderland, Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom	
SF  As She Climbed Across the Table		Jonathan Lethem
FAN The Changeling Sea				Patricia A. McKillip
SF  Araminta Station, Ecce and Old Earth, Throy	Jack Vance
FAN the Valdemar series				Mercedes Lackey
SF  The Broken Land				Ian McDonald
NON Bully for Brontosaurus			Stephen Jay Gould
SF  Wildside					Steven Gould
SF  Archangel, Jovah's Angel,			Sharon Shinn
     The Alleluia Files
SF  the Honor Harrington series			David Weber
SF  Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change,	Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
    Carpe Diem
FAN the Riftwar saga				Raymond E. Feist
SF  The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc,	Julian May
     The Nonborn King, The Adversary
FAN Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin,	Robin Hobb
     Assassin's Quest				
SF  The Starry Rift				James Tiptree,Jr.
SF  The Summer Queen				Joan D. Vinge
BIO Close to the Machine			Ellen Ullman
SF  The Stars My Destination (aka Tiger!Tiger!)	Alfred Bester
FIC Zodiac					Neal Stephenson
FAN Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness	Lynn Flewelling
SF  Terminal Cafe				Ian McDonald
SF  Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home		James Tiptree,Jr.
FAN The Fifth Sacred Thing			Starhawk
SF  Crashlander					Larry Niven
SF  Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	Samuel R. Delany
SF  Brothers of Earth				C.J. Cherryh
SF  Archangel, Jovah's Angel			Sharon Shinn
SF  Infinity's Shore				David Brin
FAN The Shape Changer's Wife			Sharon Shinn
NON Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication	Kevin Mullet and Darrell Sano
     Oriented Techniques
NON Visual Explanations				Edward R. Tufte
SF  the Miles Vorkosigan series			Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Interface					Stephen Bury
SF  Holy Fire					Bruce Sterling
SF  The Fifth Head of Cerberus			Gene Wolfe
SF  Memory					Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  Schismatrix Plus				Bruce Sterling
FAN Walkabout Woman				Michaela Roessner
SF  Burning Bright				Melissa Scott
SF  Nimbus					Alexander Jablokov
SF  Mainline					Deborah Christian
SF  The Bewitchments of Love and Hate,		Storm Constantine
     The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire
SF  Slow River					Nicola Griffith
FIC The Hundred Secret Senses			Amy Tan
SF  My Brother's Keeper				Charles Sheffield
SF  Flatlander					Larry Niven
SF  Parable of the Sower			Octavia E. Butler
SF  12 Monkeys					Elizabeth Hand
SF  Doorways in the Sand			Roger Zelazny
FAN A Game of Thrones				George R.R. Martin
FAN One for the Morning Glory			John Barnes
SF  Rider at the Gate, Cloud's Rider		C.J. Cherryh
FAN Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles			Pat Murphy
SF  The Masters of Solitude, Wintermind		Marvin Kaye and Parke Godwin
SF  The Faded Sun: Kesrith, Shon'jir, Kutath	C.J. Cherryh
SF  The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit	Storm Constantine
FAN Waking the Moon				Elizabeth Hand
SF  The Fortunate Fall				Raphael Carter
BIO Drinking: A Love Story			Caroline Knapp
SF  Speaking Dreams				Severna Park
SF  Voice of the Whirlwind			Walter Jon Williams
FAN The Sword Smith				Eleanor Arnason
FAN Thomas the Rhymer				Ellen Kushner
SF  Quarantine					Greg Egan
SF  Fool's War					Sarah Zettel
SF  Reclamation					Sarah Zettel
SF  The Island of Doctor Death			Gene Wolfe
     and Other Stories and Other Stories
SF  Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion	Dan Simmons
FIC The Passion					Jeanette Winterson
SF  Remake					Connie Willis
SF  Picnic on Nearside				John Varley
NON The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the	Pamela McCorduck and
     21st Century				 Nancy Ramsey
FAN Drinker of Souls, Blue Magic,		Jo Clayton
     A Gathering of Stones
SF  Children of the Mind			Orson Scott Card
SF  Against Infinity				Gregory Benford
SF  Redshift Rendezvous				John E. Stith
SF  Voices of Hope				David Feintuch
SF  The Ganymede Club				Charles Sheffield
FAN Daughter of Empire, Servant of Empire,	Raymond E. Feist and
     Mistress of Empire				 Janny Wurts
SF  Amnesia Moon				Jonathan Lethem
FAN Winter Rose					Patricia A. McKillip
SF  Light on the Sound				Somtow Sucharitkul
SF  River of Dust				Alexander Jablokov
FIC Hoopi Shoopi Donna				Suzanne Strempek Shea
NON Dinosaur in a Haystack			Stephen Jay Gould
FIC The Tale of the Incomparable Prince		Tshe Ring Dbang Rhyal
NON Eight Little Piggies			Stephen Jay Gould
SF  Trouble and her Friends			Melissa Scott
SF  The Empress of Earth			Melissa Scott
SF  Shadow of the Warmaster			Jo Clayton
SF  Second Contact				Mike Resnick
SF  Psion, Catspaw, Dreamfall			Joan D. Vinge
SF  Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher	Orson Scott Card
     Columbus
SF  Gun, with Occasional Music			Jonathan Lethem
SF  Excession					Iain M. Banks
NON Persephone Returns: Victims, Heroes and	Tanya Wilkinson
     the Journey from the Underworld
SF  Challenger's Hope, Prisoner's Hope,		David Feintuch
     Fisherman's Hope
FIC Don't Tell Alfred				Nancy Mitford
SF  Songmaster					Orson Scott Card
FIC The Bourbaki Gambit				Carl Djerassi
SF  Fireship/Mother and Child			Joan D. Vinge
SF  Tuf Voyaging				George R.R. Martin
SF  Dying of the Light				George R.R. Martin
SF  Proteus in the Underworld			Charles Sheffield
SF  Skeen's Leap,Skeen's Return,Skeen's Search	Jo Clayton
SF  The Kindly Ones				Melissa Scott
SF  Five-Twelfths of Heaven,Silence in Solitude	Melissa Scott
SF  Midshipman's Hope				David Feintuch
BIO The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse	Carl Djerassi
SF  Protector					Larry Niven
SF  A World Out of Time				Larry Niven
FAN Nobody's Son				Sean Stewart
FIC Whit					Iain Banks
SF  Brightness Reef				David Brin
SF  Neverness, The Broken God, The Wild		David Zindell
NON An Anthropologist on Mars			Oliver Sachs
NON Take the Rich Off Welfare			Mark Zepenauer and
						 Arthur Naiman
FAN The Book of Atrix Wolfe			Patricia A. McKillip
SF  Cetaganda					Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  The Persistence of Vision			John Varley
SF  Merchanter's Luck				C.J. Cherryh
FAN The Riddlemaster of Hed,			Patricia A. McKillip 
     Heir of Sea and Fire, Harpist in the Wind	
SF  Fire in the Sky, The Burning Ground,	Patricia Jo Clayton
     Crystal Heat				
FAN The Forgotten Beasts of Eld			Patricia A. McKillip
SF  Wildfire					James Patrick Kelly
SF  Serpent's Reach				C.J. Cherryh
FIC Tales from the Thousand and One Nights	N.J. Dawood, trans
SF  The Venging					Greg Bear
SF  The Abyss					Orson Scott Card
SF  Shadowplay, Shadowspeer, Shadowkill		Jo Clayton
NON The Elements of Graphing Data		William S. Cleveland
SF  Between the Strokes of Night		Charles Sheffield
FAN A Sorcerer and a Gentleman			Elizabeth Willey
SF  the Miles Vorkosigan series			Lois McMaster Bujold
BIO On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back,	Donald Keene
    A Lifetime Across Cultures
SF  Kaleidescope Century			John Barnes
FAN Soldier In the Mist				Gene Wolfe
SF  The Best SF of the Year 16 ('87)		Terry Carr, ed
SF  Pennterra					Judith Moffet
SF  After Long Silence				Sheri S. Tepper
SF  Half the Day is Night			Maureen F. McHugh
SF  The Jericho Iteration			Allen Steele
SF  Carve the Sky				Alexander Jablokov
SF  Flux					Orson Scott Card
SF  Wyrms					Orson Scott Card
FAN Seeker's Mask				P.C. Hodgell
SF  Magnificat					Julian May
SF  The Worthing Saga				Orson Scott Card
FIC An American Brat				Bapsi Sidwa
FIC Cantor's Dilemma				Carl Djerassi
SF  Sight of Proteus, Proteus Unbound		Charles Sheffield
SF  Labyrinth of Night				Allen Steele
SF  the Heechee saga				Frederick Pohl
FAN Orca					Steven Brust
SF  Feersum Endjinn				Iain M. Banks
FIC Outlaws of the Marsh			Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong
						 and Sidney Shapiro, trans
NON The Visualization Toolkit:			Will Schroeder and 
    An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics	 Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen
SF  The Diamond Age				Neal Stephenson
SF  the Book of the Long Sun series		Gene Wolfe
SF  The Urth of the New Sun			Gene Wolfe
SF  Legacy					Greg Bear
NON When the Shooting Stops...			Ralph Rosenblum and
    the Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story	 Robert Karen
FAN The Devil in the Forest			Gene Wolfe
FIC Out of Time					Paula Martinac
SF  the Book of the New Sun series		Gene Wolfe
FIC The Collected Stories of Colette		Colette and Robert Phelps, ed
SF  Songs the Dead Men Sing			George R.R. Martin
SF  the Gandalara cycle				Randall Garrett and 
						 Vicki Ann Heydron
SF  Roadmarks					Roger Zelazny
SF  The Steps of the Sun			Walter Tevis
FIC Malafrena					Ursula K. LeGuin
FAN Mythago Wood, Lavondyss, The Bone Forest	Robert Holdstock
SF  Matter's End				Gregory Benford
FAN The Unconquered Country			Geoff Ryman
SF  The Wild Shore				Kim Stanley Robinson
SF  Finder					Emma Bull
SF  Two Tales of Korval				Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
NON Toy Story:					John Lasseter
    Art and Making of the Animated Film	
SF  Falling Free				Lois McMaster Bujold
NON Understanding Comics			Scott McCloud
NON Screenplay:					Syd Field
    The Foundations of Screenwriting
SF  Four Ways To Forgiveness			Ursula K. LeGuin
SF  City of Illusions				Ursula K. LeGuin
SF  Parable of the Sower			Octavia E. Butler
SF  Allies & Aliens				Roger MacBride Allen
SF  Farside Cannon				Roger MacBride Allen
SF  Forests of the Night, Emperors of Twilight,	S. Andrew Swann
    Specters of the Dawn				
SF  the Galactic Center series			Gregory Benford
FIC the Griffin & Sabine trilogy		Nick Bantock
SF  A Fire upon the Deep			Vernor Vinge
SF  Fool's Run					Patricia A. McKillip
SF  the Miles Vorkosigan series			Lois McMaster Bujold
SF  The McAndrew Chronicles			Charles Sheffield
BIO Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit		Jeanette Winterson 
SF  World of Ptavvs				Larry Niven
SF  Tripoint					C.J. Cherryh
SF  The Shattered Sphere			Roger MacBride Allen
SF  Eon, Eternity				Greg Bear
SF  Still Forms on Foxfield			Joan Slonczewski
FAN Unquenchable Fire				Rachel Pollack
SF  The Crosstime Engineer			Leo Frankowski
SF  Glass Houses				Laura J. Mixon
SF  The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party		Robert Silverberg
SF  The Flies of Memory				Ian Watson
NON Why Buildings Fall Down			Matthys Levy and 
						 Mario Salvadori 
BIO The Beauty of the Beasts			Ralph Helfer
FIC Rashomon and Other Stories			Ryunosuke Akutagawa
SF  The Peace War				Vernor Vinge
SF  Mind of my Mind				Octavia E. Butler
NON Petersen's First Guide to Astronomy		Jay M. Pasachoff
FIC Cold Sassy Tree				Olive Ann Burns
FAN Swordspoint					Ellen Kushner
NON Hyperspace					Michio Kaku
FIC Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the	Haruki Murakami
    World	
SF  Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone		Ian McDonald
FIC Barchester Towers				Anthony Trollope
FIC Persuasion					Jane Austen
FIC Emma					Jane Austen
FIC In the Eyes of Mr. Fury			Philip Ridley
FIC The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate	Nancy Mitford
FIC The Princess de Cleves			Madame de Lafayette
FIC The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories	Alexander Pushkin
FIC Local Anaesthetic				Guenter Grass 
FIC The Songlines				Bruce Chatwin
FIC I, Claudius; Claudius the God		Robert Graves
FIC Mr. Vertigo					Paul Auster
BIO Native Son					Richard Wright
FAN The Element of Fire				Martha Wells
SF  The Ring of Charon				Roger MacBride Allen
FAN The Infinity Concerto, The Serpent Mage	Greg Bear
SF  The Silent City				Elizabeth Vonarburg
FIC The Long Night of White Chickens		Francisco Goldman
NON Tun-Huang					Yasushi Inoue
FIC Cat's Eye					Margaret Atwood 
FIC The Robber Bride				Margaret Atwood 
FAN The Silent Tower, The Silicon Mage,		Barbara Hambly
    Dog Wizard 	
SF  Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change,	Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
    Carpe Diem
FAN God Stalk, Dark of the Moon			P.C. Hodgell
NON God and Golem, Inc.				Norbert Weiner
FIC Son of Laughter				Frederick Buechner
FAN The Spirit Ring				Lois McMaster Bujold
HUM Bring Me The Head of Willy the Mailboy	Scott Adams
SF  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Phillip K. Dick
BIO Black Ice					Lorene Cary
SF  the Honor Harrington series			David Weber
FAN A College of Magics				Caroline Stevermer
SF  the Miles Vorkosigan series			Lois McMaster Bujold
FAN Love and Sleep				John Crowley
FAN the Valdemar series				Mercedes Lackey
SF  Mother of Storms				John Barnes
SF  The Copper Crown, The Throne of Scone,	Patricia Kennealy
    The Silver Branch				
BIO The Periodic Table				Primo Levi
SF  Beyond Heaven's River			Greg Bear
FIC A Suitable Boy				Vikram Seth
HUM Miss Manners' Guide to the			Judith Martin
    Turn-of-the-Millenium			
BIO Nothing to Declare:				Mary Morris
    Memoirs of a Woman Travelling Alone		
SF  Songmaster					Orson Scott Card
SF  Manhattan Transfer				John E. Stith
FIC The Crow Road				Iain Banks
SF  Ammonite					Nicola Griffith
BIO Genius:					James Gleick
    The Life and Science of Richard Feynman	
SF  Wanderer, Warrior, Witch			Donald E. McQuinn
SF  Emprise, Enigma, Empery			Michael P. Kube-McDowell
FAN The Well-Favored Man			Elizabeth Willey
SF  The Doors of his Face,			Roger Zelazny
     the Lamps of his Mouth, and Other Stories
SF  My Name is Legion				Roger Zelazny
SF  The Last Defender of Camelot		Roger Zelazny
SF  Today We Choose Faces/Bridge of Ashes	Roger Zelazny
SF  The Synthetic Man (aka The Dreaming Jewels)	Theodore Sturgeon
SF  The Broken God				David Zindell
HUM The Raging Tide: or,			Edward Gorey
     The Black Doll's Imbroglio			
SF  Beyond the Veil of Stars			Robert Reed
SF  Heads					Greg Bear
SF  The Norton Book of Science Fiction		Ursula K. LeGuin and
						Brian Attebery, ed
SF  The Aliens of Earth				Nancy Kress
NON 3D Computer Graphics,			Andrew S. Glassner
     A User's Guide for Artists and Designers	
FAN the Amber series				Roger Zelazny
NON Envisioning Information			Edward R. Tufte
SF  Green Mars					Kim Stanley Robinson
SF  Diamond Mask				Julian May
FAN The Iron Dragon's Daughter			Michael Stanwick
NON The Planiverse				A.K. Dewdney
FAN Shadows Fall				Simon R. Green
SF  The Nexus					Mike McQuay
SF  The Price of the Stars, Starpilot's Grave	Debra Doyle and 
						 James D. Macdonald
FIC Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Alan Gurganus
FIC The Flight from the Enchanter		Iris Murdoch
SF  Ring of Swords				Eleanor Arnason
SF  Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change,	Steve Miller and Sharon Lee
    Carpe Diem
HUM But Not the Hippopotamus			Sandra Boynton
NON Beyond the Third Dimension			Tom Banchoff
SF  A Plague of Angels				Sheri S. Tepper
FAN The Innkeeper's Song			Peter S. Beagle
FIC The Client					John Grisham
SF  Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone		Ian McDonald
SF  Orbital Resonance				John Barnes
SF  A Million Open Doors			John Barnes
SF  Glory Season				David Brin
FIC The Accidental Tourist			Anne Tyler
SF  Vanishing Point				Michaela Roessner
SF  China Mountain Zhang	 		Maureen F. McHugh
SF  Moving Mars	 				Greg Bear
FAN A Wizard Of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan,	Ursula K. LeGuin
    The Farthest Shore  			
SF  Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead,		Orson Scott Card
    Xenocide
SF  A Door Into Ocean, Daughters of Elysium	Joan Slonczewski
NON Islands of Truth:				Ivars Peterson
    A Mathematical Mystery Tour	
FIC Anna Karenina				Leo Tolstoy


good books/series read a while ago

FIC Microserfs					Douglas Coupland
FIC Generation X				Douglas Coupland
SF  Tuf Voyaging				George R.R. Martin
SF  Windhaven					George R.R. Martin
SF  The River of Time				David Brin
HUM Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too			Edward Gorey
SF  The Ophiuchi Hotline			John Varley
SF  Picnic on Nearside				John Varley
FAN Bone Dance					Emma Bull
FAN Watership Down				Richard Adams
FAN The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The	Mary Stewart
     Last Enchantment
SF  Clay's Ark					Octavia E. Butler
SF  Patternmaster				Octavia E. Butler
SF  Wild Seed					Octavia E. Butler
SF  Dawn					Octavia E. Butler
SF  Mindstar Rising				Peter F. Hamilton
FAN The Once and Future King			T.H. White
SF  Childhood's End				Arthur C. Clarke
SF  2001					Arthur C. Clarke
SF  Passion Play				Sean Stewart
FIC War and Peace				Leo Tolstoy
SF  Mockingbird					Walter Tevis
FIC The Golden Gate				Vikram Seth
NON Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden	Douglas R. Hofstader
     Braid
SF  The Artificial Kid				Bruce Sterling
NON Sphereland					Dionys Burger
NON Flatland					Edwin A. Abbott
SF  Timescape					Gregory Benford
SF  Winterlong					Elizabeth Hand
SF  Stardance					Spider Robinson
SF  Telempath					Spider Robinson
SF  Time Pressure				Spider Robinson
SF  Mindkiller					Spider Robinson
SF  Steel Dreams				John Varley
BIO Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert Pirsig
SF  Lord Valentine's Castle			Robert Silverberg
FAN Jhereg,Yendi,Teckla,Taltos,Phoenix,Athyra	Steven Brust
NON The Visual Display of Quantitative Data	Edward R. Tufte
SF  The City, Not Long After			Pat Murphy
SF  The Falling Woman				Pat Murphy
SF  Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus	Vonda N. McIntyre
SF  Dreamsnake					Vonda N. McIntyre
FAN The Book of Kells				R.A. MacAvoy
FAN Tea with the Black Dragon			R.A. MacAvoy
SF  The Left Hand of Darkness			Ursula K. LeGuin
SF  Rocannon's World				Ursula K. LeGuin
FAN The Last Unicorn				Peter S. Beagle
SF  Cyteen					C.J. Cherryh
SF  the Chanur series				C.J. Cherryh
SF  Cuckoo's Egg				C.J. Cherryh
SF  Downbelow Station				C.J. Cherryh
SF  Forty Thousand in Gehenna			C.J. Cherryh
SF  the Riverworld series			Philip Jose Farmer
SF  Pilgrimage: The Book of the People,		Zenna Henderson
     The People: No Different Flesh		
SF  Healer					F. Paul Wilson
SF  From the Legend of Biel			Mary Staton
SF  Emergence					David R. Palmer
SF  When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun,	George Alec Effinger
     The Exile Kiss
SF  The Cyberiad				Stanislaw Lem
SF  Cosmicomics					Italo Calvino
SF  Falcon					Emma Bull
FAN War for the Oaks				Emma Bull
FAN Winter's Tale				Mark Helprin
FAN The Worm Ouroboros				E.R. Eddison
SF  The Man who Fell to Earth			Walter Tevis
SF  Deathgift					Ann Tonsor Zeddies
FAN Hart's Hope					Orson Scott Card
SF  Treason					Orson Scott Card
SF  Adulthood Rites, Imago			Octavia E. Butler
SF  Use of Weapons				Iain M. Banks
SF  Against a Dark Background			Iain M. Banks
SF  The Player of Games				Iain M. Banks
SF  Consider Phlebas				Iain M. Banks
SF  The State of the Art			Iain M. Banks
FAN the Chronicles of Narnia			C.S. Lewis
FAN A Wrinkle In Time				Madeline L'Engel
FAN the Dark is Rising series			Susan B. Cooper
SF  Brightness Falls From the Sky		James Tiptree,Jr.
SF  Imperial Earth				Arthur C. Clarke
SF  Rendezvous with Rama			Arthur C. Clarke
SF  This Immortal				Roger Zelazny
SF  Lord of Light				Roger Zelazny
SF  He, She, and It				Marge Piercy
SF  Snow Crash					Neal Stephenson
SF  Neuromancer,Count Zero,Mona Lisa Overdrive	William Gibson
SF  Burning Chrome				William Gibson
SF  the Pern series				Anne McCaffrey
SF  Ringworld					Larry Niven
SF  Blue Champagne				John Varley
SF  Titan, Wizard, Demon			John Varley
SF  Grass					Sheri S. Tepper
SF  The Gate to Women's Country			Sheri S. Tepper
SF  Blood Music					Greg Bear
SF  Queen of Angels				Greg Bear
SF  the Darkover series				Marion Zimmer Bradley
SF  The Sardonyx Net				Elizabeth A. Lynn
FAN Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun,		Elizabeth A. Lynn
     The Northern Girl 
SF  The SF Hall of Fame, Vols 1,2A,2B,3,4	various
BIO The Motion of Light on Water		Samuel R. Delany
SF  Triton					Samuel R. Delany
SF  Nova					Samuel R. Delany
SF  Babel-17					Samuel R. Delany
SF  Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	Samuel R. Delany
SF  Driftglass					Samuel R. Delany
SF  Dhalgren					Samuel R. Delany
SF  The Snow Queen,World's End,The Summer Queen	Joan D. Vinge
SF  The Silent City, In the Mother's Land	Elizabeth Vonarburg
SF  The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc,	Julian May
     The Nonborn King, The Adversary
SF  Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War	David Brin
FAN Little, Big					John Crowley
FAN Aegypt					John Crowley
FAN Beasts					John Crowley
FAN The Deep					John Crowley
FAN Engine Summer				John Crowley
FAN The Silmarillion				J.R.R. Tolkien
FAN the Lord of the Rings series		J.R.R. Tolkien
FAN The Hobbit					J.R.R. Tolkien
SF  Whipping Star				Frank Herbert
SF  the Dune series				Frank Herbert


Categories: 

SF  Science Fiction
FAN Fantasy
FIC Fiction (not SF or FAN)
NON Non-Fiction
BIO Biography (incl Autobiography)
HUM Humor


The read lately list is all the books or series that I've read lately that I deem at least good. Some are even great. New books are added to the top of the list as I read them, so check back. It's mostly science fiction and fantasy, but leavened with other things. I'd threatened for years to make a list of all the great SF, but it was too daunting a task to ever start. So I finally just started writing down good books as I read them sometime in early 1994. I reread enough that I'll eventually fill in most of the good ones.

The read a while ago list is the beginnings of a list of the ones I read before that. It's not complete - just adding as I happen to remember science fiction or fantasy stuff that I read before I started the lately list.

The by author list is the recent and past lists combined, sorted by author, with book titles for series expanded out, and in some cases with commentary. Books that I've reread will appear more than once.


Stanford Graphics Group Tamara Munzner