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‡ means the entire series

The Best of the Best

  • The Gentleman Bastards Sequence - Scott Lynch ‡
  • The Kingkiller Chronicle - Patrick Rothfuss ‡
  • Creature Court - Tansy Rayner Roberts ‡
  • Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson ‡
  • The Crucible - Arthur Miller

One Level Down

  • The Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb ‡
  • The Newsfeed Trilogy - Mira Grant ‡
  • Tide Lords Quartet - Jennifer Fallon ‡
  • The Stone Mage and the Sea - Sean Williams
  • Watergivers Trilogy - Glenda Larke ‡
  • The Bridei Chronicles - Juliet Marillier ‡
  • The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
  • Liveship Traders Trilogy - Robin Hobb ‡
  • The Tawny Man Trilogy - Robin Hobb ‡

Inspiring

  • The House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  • The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
  • Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
  • Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling - Jason Thompson

Best of Casual Reading

  • The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
  • Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion
  • THe Parasol Protectorate - Gail Carriger ‡
  • The Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier ‡
  • The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan
  • The Apothecary's Daughter - Charlotte Betts

Guilty Pleasures

  • The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins ‡
  • The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson

Glad to have read

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  • The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  • Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  • The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry
  • The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Special Place

  • No Plot? No Problem! - Chris Baty
  • The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit - Chris Baty
  • Ready, Set, Novel! - Chris Baty

Sherlock Holmes

  • Best
    • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • Good
    • A Study in Scarlet
    • The Sign Of The Four
    • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • So so
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles

Harry Potter

  • Best
    • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Good
    • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • So so
    • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Doctor Who

  • The Runaway Train - Audio read by Matt Smith
  • Apollo 23 - Justin Richards

On Writing

  • Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson
  • Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction - Lisa Tuttle
  • A Dash of Style - Noah Lukeman
dec 3 2011 ∞
mar 29 2012 +