Lachlan's Reading List

Here's a list of books I intend / hope to read someday. It's more to remind myself than anything. So why make it public? Good question! Maybe to hold myself to it somewhat?
To salvage my poor student finances (hey, Squarespace doesn't pay for itself) books that I already own have priority over books I'd have to purchase; and, because I feel very embarrassed to admit that I haven't read books people gave to me five or ten years ago, gifts have priority within those. To limit this embarrassment as much as possible - a humiliation triage, if you will - I've also ranked those based on when I first received them. Otherwise, the books are sorted by author's surname, or, with journals/magazines, the title of the magazine. For anthologies, the editor is listed.
Also, anthologies are marked with *; books that are part of a series, with +; and books that are next in a series, with ++. Non-fiction books are underlined; reading for research is bolded.

Please feel free to make suggestions, especially when it comes to diversity! I recognise that this list is dominated by white males (isn't everything?), something I'd love to address.

See Also: Every Book I've Ever Read

Updated 2022-02-13

In Progress

• Kate Grenville - The Writing Book

• Robert Jordan - Winter’s Heart

• Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces

Next Up

• New SF/Fantasy: +Frank Herbert - Children of Dune

• New other: Jane Messer - Hopscotch

• Reread: +Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight

• Anthology: *Isaac Asimov - The Great SF Stories 9: 1947

• Non-fiction: Studs Terkel - The Good War: An Oral History Of World War II

Gifts / Loans

• +Mervyn Peake - The Gormenghast Trilogy

• +Tad Williams - The Dragonbone Chair

• +Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice

• +Peter F. Hamilton - The Abyss Beyond Dreams

• +Gregory David Roberts - The Mountain Shadow (Read Shantaram first)

• +Phillip Pullman - The Book of Dust

• +Lee Child - The Midnight Line

• Jerry Seinfeld - Is This Anything?

• Trent Dalton - Boy Swallows Universe

• Stephen King - The Stand

• J. M. Miro - Ordinary Monsters

Owned

• Various authors - The Holy Bible: English Standard Version

• Buzz Aldrin, John Barnes - Encounter with Tiber

• +Paolo Bacigalupi - The Alchemist

• +Greg Bear - The Forge of God

• *Bethesda - Books of Skyrim

• *Holly Black - Zombies Vs. Unicorns

  • Tithe

• *Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon - Streets of Shadow

• Emily Brönte - Wuthering Heights

• Ryan Browne - Blast Furnace

• ++Lois McMaster Bujold, Lillian Stewart Carl, John Helfers - The Vorkosigan Companion

• ++Isobelle Carmody - The Stone Key

• Michael Carroll - Earths of Distant Suns

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• +Harry Connolly - The Way Into Chaos

• *Ellen Datlow - Lovecraft's Monsters

• Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

• +William C Dietz - Freehold

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

• +Dave Duncan - The Reluctant Swordsman

• *George Alec Effinger - Budayeen Nights

• Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

• Richard P. Feynman - Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

• Thomas S Flowers - Reinheit

• +Alan Dean Foster - Spellsinger

• Neil Gaiman - Signal to Noise

• +Terry Goodkind - Wizard's First Rule

• +Steven Gould - Jumper

• +Barbra Hambly - The Time of the Dark

• *Sarah Hans - Steampunk World

• *David G Hartwell - The Sword & Sorcery Anthology

• Homer - The Illiad

  • The Odyssey

• *Imagined Realms: Book 1

• *Henry Lawson - The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

• +John Lewis - March: Book One

• HP Lovecraft - Call of Cthulhu

• *George RR Martin - Rogues

• +George RR Martin - The Hedge Knight

• Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto

• Jeff McComsey - Mother Russia

• John Milton - Paradise Lost

• Alan Moore - From Hell

• +Michael G Munz - A Shadow in the Flames

• +John Murphy - Mission Veritas

• Travis Norwood - Sugar Scars

• *Shannon O'Leary - The Big Feminist BUT

• Georges Perec / Gilbert Adair - A Void

• Duncan Ralston - Gristle & Bone

  • Salvage

• Matthew Reilly - Troll Mountain

• Alex Robinson - Too Cool to be Forgotten

• Mark Rosenfelder - The Language Construction Kitlet

• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - The Healer's War

• *Brian Thomas Schmidt - Decision Points

• ++XJ Selman - Buried Hope III: Monsters in the Mines

• Dennis Sharpe - Wednesday

• Dan Simmons - Song of Kali

• Southerly: Volume 77, Issue 1

• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Bram Stoker - Dracula

• Michael J Sullivan - Hollow World

• JRR Tolkien - The Silmarillion

• Mark Tredinnick - The Little Red Writing Book

• *Nightmare Magazine: Issue 1

• Various authors - The Quran

• *Voiceworks #108: Retrograde

• Larry Weiner - Paradise Rot

• HG Wells - The Time Machine

  • The Invisible Man

• Wil Wheaton - The Happiest Days of Our Lives

• *Young Writers Showcase 12

• +Timothy Zahn - The Blackcollar

Not owned

• Edwin A. Abott - Flatland

• Walter Alvarez - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

• Darren Anderson - Imaginary Cities

• KA Applegate - +The Mayflower Project

• Isaac Asimov - +The Caves of Steel

  • *Foundation's Friends

• Margaret Atwood - +Oryx and Crake

  • The Handmaid's Tale

• Robert T. Bakker - Raptor Red

• Ian M. Banks - The Player of Games

• Jeffrey O. Bennet & Seth Shostak - Life in the Universe

• Lois McMaster Bujold - The Spirit Ring

  • *Proto Zoa

• Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

• Geoffrey Chaucer & Joseph Glaser - The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse

• *Ted Chiang - Exhalations: Stories

• Arthur C. Clarke - Encounter at Dawn

• Danielle Clode - Killers In Eden: The True Story Of Killer Whales And Their Remarkable Partnership With The Whalers Of Twofold Bay

• Neil Comins - What if the Moon Didn't Exist

• Michael Crichton - Sphere

• Jared Diamond - The Third Chimpanzee

• Phillip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

• Dougal Dixon - After Man: A Zoology of the Future

• Cory Doctorow - Attack Pattern

• ++Stephen Donaldson - The Last Dark

• Steven Erikson - Gardens of the Moon (Malazan)

• Lexi Freiman - Inappropriation

• Stephen Fry - Mythos

• Rebecca Giggs - Fathoms

• +James Gunn - Transcendental

• Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus

  • Sapiens

• Roger Hanlon, Mike Vecchione, Louise Allcock - Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates

• ++Halo - Divine Wind (Troy Denning)

• Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

• Anthony Horowitz - ++Russian Roulette

  • +Raven's Gate

• Annie Jacobsen - Area 51

• Robert Jordan - Conan the Invincible

  • The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time

• Stephen King - On Writing

  • *Skeleton Crew

  • It

  • The Shining

  • Misery

• Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed

  • The Left Hand of Darkness

  • The Word for World is Forest

  • The Bones of the Earth

  • +A Wizard of Earthsea

• CS Lewis

  • +Space Trilogy

    • Out of the Silent Planet

    • Perelandra

    • That Hideous Strength

  • The Discarded Image

• +Cixin Liu & Ken Liu - The Three Body Problem

• David Lodge - Making Shapely Fiction

• HP Lovecraft (an awful person who wrote some interesting things) - Call of Cthulhu

  • The Whisperer in Darkness

• Herman Melville - Moby-Dick

• China Miéville - Kraken

• David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

• Randall Munroe - How To

• *Garth Nix - Across the Wall

• *Ryan North - This is How You Die

• Abraham Pais & Roger Penrose - Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

• +Andrew Peterson - On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

• Terry Pratchett - Mort

• Matthew Reilly - The One Impossible Labyrinth

• +Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram

• ++*Kim Stanley Robinson - The Martians

• Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country

• Greg Sestero - The Disaster Artist

• +Star Wars - Aftermath

  • Catalyst

• Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age

• JRR Tolkien - Roverandom

  • Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

  • The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún

• Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time

• Mark Twain?

• Eugene Paul Wigner - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Science

• David Wong - John Dies at the End

  • This Book is Full of Spiders

• Hanya Yanagihara - The People in the Trees

Things I've Been Thinking About Re-reading

• Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park

• +Raymond E. Feist - Riftwar Saga

• Anthony Horowitz - Alex Rider

• +Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time

• +CS Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

• +Christopher Paolini - The Inheritance Cycle

• +Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials

• +Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

• Robert Charles Wilson - Spin

Crossed Off

• J. W. Rinzler - The Making of Star Wars

• Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

• Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead

• Orson Scott Card - Xenocide

• Orson Scott Card - Children of the Mind

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - The Last Wish

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - The Sword of Destiny

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - Blood of Elves

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - Time of Contempt

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - Baptism of Fire

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - The Tower of the Swallow

• Matthew Reilly - The Three Secret Cities

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - The Lady of the Lake

• Andrzej Sapkowski & David French - Season of Storms

• George R. R. Martin with Ello M. Garcia Jr. and Linda Antonsson - The World of Ice & Fire

• Steve Brusatte - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World

• Ryan North - To Be or Not to Be

• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

• K. A. Applegate - Search for Senna

• Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

• K. A. Applegate - Land of Loss

• Voiceworks #111: Riff

• Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle

• Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything

• Voiceworks #112: Drag

• Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

• Voiceworks #113: Flare

• Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World

• Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless

• Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species

• Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt

• Eoin Colfer - And Another Thing

• Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel

• Troy Denning - Halo: Silent Storm

• Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn

• Mark Rosenfelder - The Planet Construction Kit

• Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others

• Troy Denning - Halo: Oblivion

• Troy Denning - Halo: Retribution

• Kelly Gay - Halo: Smoke and Shadow

• Charles Petzold - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

• Kelly Gay - Halo: Renegades

• Robert Jordan - The Shadow Rising

• Tobias Buckell - Halo: Envoy

• David Miller - That Glimpse of Truth

• Dr Grainne Cleary - Your Backyard Birds

• Scott Kelly - Endurance

• Matt Forbeck - Halo: Legacy of Onyx

• Peter Menhorst et. al. - The Australian Bird Guide

• Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan

• Various Artists - From A Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

• Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven

• Matthew Reilly - The Two Lost Mountains

• Robert Jordan - Lord of Chaos

• Matt Forbeck - Halo: Bad Blood

• Troy Denning - Halo: Shadows of Reach

• Robert Jordan - A Crown of Swords

• Frank Herbert - Dune

• Robert Jordan - The Path of Daggers

• Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah

• Max Brooks - Closure, Limited

• Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water

• Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic

• Randall Munroe - What If? 2

• Randall Munroe - What If?

• Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide

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