Fried Egg
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It's becoming a bit of a tradition now. What are you top ten books you have read this year?
Not a bad year for me although I haven't really achieved what I wanted to do (complete the Fantasy Masterworks series) nor read quite as much as I would have liked. I had a cracking January, four of my top seven I read that month. Here is my top ten:
1) The Space Merchants - Pohl, Frederik
2) Occultation and Other Stories - Barron, Laird
3) Slaughter House 5 - Vonnegut, Kurt
4) The White Hands and Other Weird Tales - Samuels, Mark
5) The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson, Shirley
6) Dark Entries - Aickman, Robert
7) Dying Inside - Silverberg, Robert
8) The Stainless Steel Rat - Harrison, Harry
9) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle, Arthur Conan
10) Starship Troopers - Heinlein, Robert A.
And some individual short stories, not in any of the collections above, that are still worth a mention:
Biggest disappointment of the year: The Dragon Waiting - Ford, John M.
Not a bad year for me although I haven't really achieved what I wanted to do (complete the Fantasy Masterworks series) nor read quite as much as I would have liked. I had a cracking January, four of my top seven I read that month. Here is my top ten:
1) The Space Merchants - Pohl, Frederik
2) Occultation and Other Stories - Barron, Laird
3) Slaughter House 5 - Vonnegut, Kurt
4) The White Hands and Other Weird Tales - Samuels, Mark
5) The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson, Shirley
6) Dark Entries - Aickman, Robert
7) Dying Inside - Silverberg, Robert
8) The Stainless Steel Rat - Harrison, Harry
9) The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle, Arthur Conan
10) Starship Troopers - Heinlein, Robert A.
And some individual short stories, not in any of the collections above, that are still worth a mention:
- "A Little Woman" by Kafka, Franz
- "On the River" by Maupassant, Guy de
- "Having the Time of his Life" by Watson, Ian
- "Next to Godliness" by Stableford, Brian
- "Deciduous Tree" by Sketchley Martin
- "Incentive" by Aldiss, Brian
Biggest disappointment of the year: The Dragon Waiting - Ford, John M.