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Personal: Book List (non-music)
I've got two sections here: books I want to read and (further down the page) books I recommend. Check 'em out. Anticipated Books
 This is a sort of selfish section where I'm keeping track of books not yet published (or out only in hardcover) that I'm excited about. Click on the book title to read about the book at Amazon.com and purchase it at a discount (and support this site at the same time).
- Robert Crais
- L.A. Requiem (out June 15, 1999; read several reviews from advance copies by clicking on the title) (mystery)
- George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings (out in hardcover now; not sure when paperback is coming out but probably late this year. Read 100+ reviews by clicking on the title. Book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire; see 1) (fantasy)
- Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass (out August 1, 1999; book 3 of His Dark Materials trilogy; see 1 and 2) (fantasy; sometimes labeled as "young adult" but my wife and I just like 'em)
Recommended Books
I recommend the following books. Click on the book title to read about the book at Amazon.com and purchase it at a discount (and support this site at the same time).
- Greg Bear
- Queen of Angels (the sequel, Slant, was good but not as good) (science fiction with mystery elements)
- Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game (science fiction)
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (science fiction)
- Robert Crais
- The Elvis Cole series: The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town, Free Fall, Voodoo River, Sunset Express (mystery)
- Donald Hall
- Old and New Poems (poetry)
- Mark Helprin
- A Soldier of the Great War (fiction)
- Ellis Island and Other Stories and A Dove of the East and Other Stories (short stories)
- (Winter's Tale (fiction) and Memoir from Antproof Case (fiction) were both good, and beautifully written, but I got the most out of the books I listed above)
- Mark Jarman and David Mason, ed.
- Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (poetry)
- George R. R. Martin
- A Game of Thrones (book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire; book 2 is out in hardcover but I have not read it yet. As good or (I think) better than Robert Jordan at the start of his mammoth fantasy series, and much better than what Jordan is putting out now) (fantasy)
- Gregory McDonald
- The Fletch books--all the good old ones are out of print. Try a library or a used book store (mystery)
- Jack Miles
- God: A Biography (theology)
- Walter M. Miller
- A Canticle for Leibowitz (science fiction)
- James Morrow
- Towing Jehovah (fantasy)
- Philip Pullman
- The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife (first two books from the His Dark Materials trilogy; third is out August 1, 1999) (fantasy)
- Dan Simmons
- The far-future science fiction series Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion (science fiction)
- Rex Stout
- The Nero Wolfe/ Archie Goodwin series: Fer-De-Lance, Death of a Doxy, Champagne for One, Over My Dead Body, In the Best Families, A Right to Die, The Silent Speaker, The Golden Spiders, etc.--only a few of the approx. 50 mysteries are reprinted. Try a library or used book store for more. (mystery)
- Wislawa Szymborska
- view with a grain of sand (poetry)
- Tad Williams
- anything he's written, particularly the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series of The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, To Green Angel Tower Pt. 1, To Green Angel Tower Pt. 2 (fantasy). The Otherland series (still in progress) beginning with Otherland: City of Golden Shadow (science fiction) looks potentially good also.
- Gene Wolfe
- anything he's written, particularly The Book of the New Sun (Shadow & Claw, Sword & Citadel, The Urth of the New Sun). The Book of the Long Sun (Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, final book I haven't made through yet) is good too but I liked New Sun better (science fiction/ fantasy)
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