Books I May Read

Recent additions

  • Williams’ “Memory, Sorrow and Thorn” series: 1988-1993
  • Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series: 1990-2013
  • Hobb’s “Realm of the Elderlings” cycle: 1995-2017
  • Erikson’s “Malazan Book of the Fallen” series: 1999-2011
  • Carey’s “Kushiel’s Legacy” series: 2001-2008
  • Bujold’s “World of the Five Gods” series: 2001-2016
  • Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”: 2004
  • Abercrombie’s “The First Law” series: 2006-2008
  • Sanderson’s “Stormlight Archive” series: 2010-present
  • Lawrence’s “Broken Empire” series: 2011-2013
  • Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy: 2015-2017
  • Shannon’s “The Priory of the Orange Tree”: 2019

Primary list

  • Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, 1950 (second novel in the trilogy; the series began with Titus Groan, 1946)
  • Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society by Paul Goodman, 1960
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
  • The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, 1963 (English translation)
  • Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 1971 (English translation)
  • Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 1974 (English translation)
  • The Box Man by Kobo Abe, 1974 (English translation)
  • Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, 1975
  • Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić, 1988 (English translation)
  • Eternity by Greg Bear, 1988
  • The World at the End of Time by Frederik Pohl, 1990
  • Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994
  • House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, 2008
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, 2003
  • This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein, 2014
  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, 2017
  • Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman, 2017 (English translation)
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, 2017
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, 2018
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, 2019
  • Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw, 2020
  • Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth, 2025

Dumarest of Terra Series

  1. Derai by E.C. Tubb, 1968
  2. Toyman by E.C. Tubb, 1969
  3. Kalin by E.C. Tubb, 1969
  4. The Jester at Scar by E.C. Tubb, 1970
  5. Lallia by E.C. Tubb, 1971
  6. Technos by E.C. Tubb, 1972
  7. Veruchia by E.C. Tubb, 1973
  8. Mayenne by E.C. Tubb, 1973
  9. Jondelle by E.C. Tubb, 1973
  10. Zenya by E.C. Tubb, 1974
  11. Eloise by E.C. Tubb, 1975
  12. Eye of the Zodiac by E.C. Tubb, 1975
  13. Jack of Swords by E.C. Tubb, 1976
  14. Spectrum of the Forgotten Sun by E.C. Tubb, 1976
  15. Haven of Darkness by E.C. Tubb, 1977
  16. Prison of Night by E.C. Tubb, 1977
  17. Incident of Ath by E.C. Tubb, 1978
  18. The Quillian Sector by E.C. Tubb, 1978
  19. Web of Sand by E.C. Tubb, 1979
  20. Iduna’s Universe by E.C. Tubb, 1979
  21. The Terra Data by E.C. Tubb, 1980
  22. World of Promise by E.C. Tubb, 1980
  23. Nectar of Heaven by E.C. Tubb, 1981
  24. The Terridae by E.C. Tubb, 1981
  25. The Coming Event by E.C. Tubb, 1982
  26. Earth is Heaven by E.C. Tubb, 1982
  27. Melome by E.C. Tubb, 1983
  28. Angado by E.C. Tubb, 1984
  29. Symbol of Terra by E.C. Tubb, 1984
  30. The Temple of Truth by E.C. Tubb, 1985
  31. The Return by E.C. Tubb, 1997
  32. Child of Earth by E.C. Tubb, 2008