Wizard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Te Riu-a-Māui
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Goal: To read at least 10% outside of SF/Fantasy/Crime genres
Status: Science fiction: 45%; Fantasy 11%; Crime fiction 35%; Other fiction: 9%.
Science fiction: 42
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit. **
Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem. **
Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun. **
Robert Silverberg, The Book of Skulls. ****
Dan Simmons, Endymion. ****
Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion. *****
Sue Burke, Semiosis. ****
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, The Dead Mountaineer's Inn. ***
Robert Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle. ****
Robert Silverberg, Majipoor Chronicles. ***
Timothy Zahn, The Icarus Hunt. ***
Charles Stross, Saturn's Children. ****
Charles Stross, Neptune's Brood. ****
Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night. **
Stephen Baxter, Emperor. ***
Stephen Baxter, Conqueror. ***
Carl Sagan, Contact. *****
Stephen Baxter, Navigator. ***
Stephen Baxter, Weaver. ****
Adam Roberts, Polystom. *****
Gene Wolfe, Home Fires. ****
Stephen King, Under the Dome. **
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others. *****
Stephen Baxter, Stone Spring. ****
Stephen Baxter, Bronze Summer. ***
Stephen Baxter, Iron Winter. ****
Ted Chiang, Exhalation. *****
Neal Stephenson, Reamde. ***
Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. ****
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, The Doomed City. ****
Emma Newman, Planetfall. **
Cixin Liu, Ball Lightning. *****
Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio. *****
Greg Bear, Darwin's Children. ****
Greg Egan, The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred. ****
Alastair Reynolds, Century Rain. ****
Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns. *****
Stanislaw Lem, Fiasco. *****
Stephen Baxter, Time. *****
Stephen Baxter, Space. *****
Stephen Baxter, Origin. ****
Suzette Haden Elgin, Native Tongue. ***
Fantasy: 10
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind. ****
David Eddings, The Diamond Throne. **
David Eddings, The Ruby Knight. **
David Eddings, The Sapphire Rose. **
Neil Gaiman, Stardust. ****
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind. ****
Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear. ****
Naomi Novik, Uprooted. ***
Stephen Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane. ***
Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson, Shadows of the Short Days. **
Crime fiction: 33
Val McDermid, The Mermaids Singing. ***
Val McDermid, The Wire in the Blood. ***
Val McDermid, The Last Temptation. ***
Jo Nesbø, The Thirst. ****
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X. *****
Keigo Higashino, Salvation of a Saint. ****
Keigo Higashino, A Midsummer's Equation. ***
Michel Bussi, Don't Let Go. ***
Natsuo Kirino, Out. *****
Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque. *****
Natsuo Kirino, Real World. ****
Walter Mosley, Down the River Unto the Sea. ***
Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist. **
Lars Kepler, The Nightmare. **
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, The Absolution. ****
Ragnar Jónasson, Snowblind. ****
Ragnar Jónasson, Nightblind. ***
John-Henri Holmberg, A Darker Shade. ***
Stefan Ahnhem, Eighteen Below. ****
Stefan Ahnhem, Motive X. ****
Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström, Three Minutes. ****
Lars Kepler, The Fire Witness. **
Lars Kepler, The Sandman. ***
Soji Shimada, Murder in the Crooked House. ***
Kjell Ola Dahl, Lethal Investments. ***
Kjell Ola Dahl, The Last Fix. ****
Kjell Ola Dahl, The Man in the Window. ****
Jon Michelet, The Frozen Woman. **
Samuel Bjørk, The Owl Always Hunts at Night. ***
Samuel Bjørk, The Boy in the Headlights. ***
David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web. ***
Lars Kepler, Stalker. **
Lars Kepler, The Rabbit Hunter. **
Other fiction: 8
Derek Robinson, War Story. ****
Derek Robinson, Hornet's Sting. *****
Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron. ****
Derek Robinson, A Splendid Little War. ****
Alistair MacLean, Puppet on a Chain. **
Arthur Hailey, The FInal Diagnosis. ****
Arthur Hailey, Strong Medicine. ***
Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War. ****
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