Kristin's Book Page
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| Books I'd Recommend |
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"A room without books is like a body without a
soul" --Cicero
- Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide Books
- Charlie Jane Anders
- All the Birds in the Sky
- Katherine Arden
- The Bear and the Nightingale
- Hiro Arikawa
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles
- Nicholson Baker
- The Fermata
- Nick Bantock
- Griffin & Sabine trilogy
- Julian Barnes
- A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- Greg Bear
- Darwin's Radio
- the Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage
- Robert Jackson Bennett
- City of Stairs
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ficciones
- Geraldine Brooks
- People of the Book
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- the Vorksosigan series
- Octavia Butler
- Kindred
- Italo Calvino
- If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Peter Carey
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Jonathan Carroll
- A Child Across the Sky
- Bones of the Moon
- From the Teeth of Angels
- The Marriage of Sticks
- Outside the Dog Museum
- Sleeping in Flame
- Nicholas Christopher
- Franklin Flyer
- Billy Collins
- Picnic, Lightning
- Douglas Coupland
- Microserfs
- Bradley Denton
- Lunatics
- Paul Di Filippo
- The Steampunk Trilogy
- Umberto Eco
- Foucault's Pendulum
- The Name of the Rose
- Greg Egan
- Axiomatic
- Luminous
- Jasper Fforde
- The Eyre Affair
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- William Gibson
- Neuromancer
- James Gleick
- Chaos
- Ken Grimwood
- Replay
- Alex Haley
- Roots
- Peter F Hamilton
- The Reality Dysfunction
- The Neutronium Alchemist
- Joseph Heller
- Catch-22
- Mark Helprin
- Winter's Tale
- Frank Herbert
- Dune
- Oscar Hijuelos
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Barry Hughart
- Bridge of Birds
- N.K. Jemisin
- The Fifth Season
- Paul Joannides
- The Guide to Getting it On
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- The Shadow of the Sun
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Tigana
- Stephen King
- The Stand
- The Dark Tower Series
- Ellen Klages
- Portable Childhoods
- Steve Kowit, editor
- The Maverick Poets
- William Least Heat Moon
- Blue Highways
- Gregory Maguire
- Wicked
- Alberto Manguel
- A History of Reading
- Ian McDonald
- Evolution's Shore
- China Mieville
- Perdido Street Station
- Walter Miller
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Christopher Moore
- Bloodsucking Fiends
- The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Practical Demonkeeping
- Erin Morgenstern
- The Starless Sea
- James Morrow
- Bible Stories for Adults
- City of Truth
- Towing Jehovah
- Only Begotten Daughter
- Blameless in Abaddon
- The Eternal Footman
- Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- George Orwell
- 1984
- Alan Paton
- Cry the Beloved Country
- Daniel Pinkwater
- Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars (in 5 Novels)
- Chaim Potok
- My Name is Asher Lev
- Richard Powers
- Galatea 2.2
- The Gold Bug Variations
- Tim Powers
- The Anubis Gates
- Terry Pratchett
- The Discworld Books (Small Gods, The Truth, Maskerade, etc)
- Philip Pullman
- The Golden Compass
- Tom Robbins
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- Another Roadside Attraction
- Jitterbug Perfume
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Red Mars
- Green Mars
- Blue Mars
- Matt Ruff
- Sewer, Gas & Electric
- Fool on the Hill
- Mary Doria Russell
- The Sparrow
- Will Self
- A Quantity Theory of Insanity
- Great Apes
- Sharon Shinn
- Archangel
- Dan Simmons
- Hyperion
- Fall of Hyperion
- Endymion
- Rise of Endymion
- Art Spiegelman
- Maus I and Maus II
- Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon
- Snowcrash
- The Diamond Age
- Interface (as Stephen Bury)
- Bruce Sterling
- Mirrorshades (edited by)
- Charles Stross
- Toast and Other Roasted Futures
- Vernor Vinge
- A Deepness in the Sky
- A Fire Upon the Deep
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughter-House 5
- Cat's Cradle
- Jo Walton
- Among Others
- Daniel Evan Weiss
- The Roaches Have No King
- Martha Wells
- All Systems Red
- Connie Willis
- Doomsday Book
- Robert Anton Wilson
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea
- The Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
- Roger Zelazny
- Lord of Light
- Gabrielle Zevin
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
- Zoran Zivkovic
- Impossible Stories
- Other
- Semiotext(e) SF
- Principia Discordia
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| Books I'm Currently Reading |
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"Reading is the most dangerous activity -- if
people read books, there is a distinct risk that they might start
to think. The consequences would be too terrible to imagine. There
are a million revolutions in just a handful of books" --
sborman@bach.helio.nd.edu
"Ballycumber(n): One of the six half-read books lying somewhere
in your bed." -- The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams &
John Lloyd
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The Hunter by Tana French
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| Books I Have Finished |
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| Other |
| "Some books are to be tasted; others
swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested." --Francis
Bacon
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| "'You want to know a Jew's idea of heaven?'
his father had replied... "It's an endless succession of long
winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm
room and read all the books ever written.... Not just the famous
ones, no every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading,
forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I
profoundly doubt such a place exists." ... he began transforming
his immediate environment, making it characteristic of heaven. The
whole glorious span of Dewey's decimal system soon filled the
lighthouse, book after book spiraling up the tower walls like
threads of DNA, delivering intellectual to Murray's mammalian
cortex and wondrous smells to the reptilian regions below--the
gluey tang of a library discard, the crisp plebeian aroma of a
yard-sale paperback, the pungent mustiness of a thrift-store
encyclopedia." -- James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
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"There is more than one way to burn a book.
And the world is full of people running about with lit
matches." -Ray Bradbury
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