Question from a reader

[rolanni]

From deep in the comment thread of the last post, we have the following question:

If you're willing to share, I'm just curious -- how many of the favorites/current reading listed by other folks have you already read?

Well, let's see...

Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
Storm Front, Jim Butcher
entire eight books of the wizard series by Diane Duane
Sorcery and Cecilia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Arabella, Georgette Heyer
Downbelow Station, CJ Cherryh
These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
Niccolo Rising, Dorothy Dunnett
the Brother Caedfael mysteries, Ellis Peters
Uglies and Pretties, Scott Westerfield
Smoke And Ashes, Tanya Huff
the Kencyr books by P.C. Hodgell
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Lord Valentine's Castle, Robert Silverberg
Summers at Castle Auburn, The Shape-Changer's Wife, Wrapt in Crystal, Sharon Shinn
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon,Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos, Roger Zelazny
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Farmer in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein
The Threads that Binds the Bones, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Summer Country, James Hetley
Alien Taste, Wen Spencer
Rats, Bats & Vats, Eric Flint, Dave Freer
the Anthony Villiers series, Alexei Panshin
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
the Telzey Amberdon stories, James A. Schmitz
Agent of Vega, James A. Schmitz
the Joe stories, Murray Leinster
Skeen's Leap, Jo Clayton

I have tried random Pratchetts -- and, I'm sorry, but I Just Don't Get It.  No sense of humor, me.

Ditto, Gaiman.

And, having read the first Niccolo, after which I was depressed for a month, I have strong doubts that I'll ever seek out the Lymond books, though many people whose taste I respect adore them.

Comments

[sparkylibrarian.livejournal.com]

Garth Nix's Abhorsen series is very enjoyable-- it's one of my comfort rereads. And Tokyopop just translated the first volume of The Twelve Kingdoms: The Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono-- only slightly awkward, very readable, and recommended as well. She's got a fascinating universe going.

My boss is currently enjoying The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a YA novel set in WWII-era Germany. I am waiting for her to finish it now. And there was a big list of books that I bought recently, and I can't remember a one of them. Has anyone suggested Jonathan Stroud? The Amulet of Samarkand?