Tuesday, March 6, 2012

My Favorite Books of All Time, As Yet Unordered

You know those books that you can't help but read over and over again? The ones that stick in your heart and in your mind? These are mine.

Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Prospected Books for 2012

Last year, I challenged myself to read 100 books in one year. Start to finish. Once I decided to run it through Goodreads, it also became clear that I wasn't allowed to count books I read more than once in that year toward my count. So I officially read 101 books, though about 10 I read twice in the same year.

This year, I obviously must have a 100-book goal as well, but I wanted to outline some of the books I plan to read this year.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Indian in the Cupboard / The Return of the Indian / The Secret of the Indian by Lynn Reid Banks
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Wraeththu by Storm Constantine
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (I finally finished American Gods and now am so in love with it it hurts.)
The Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
A Point of Honor by Dorothy J. Heydt
Howl's Moving Castle, The Castle in the Air, and The House of Many Doors by Diana Wynne Jones
Ringworld by Larry Niven
As many books as possible by Naomi Novik
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Eric & subsequent Discworld books by Terry Pratchett
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman
The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

A modest proposal so far, I know, but I've been planning to read some of these for years. @_@ It's time to get around to it. I'll probably keep adding to it.