Library Galacticon
Reading can serve a lot of functions. Mostly, I use it to escape - for entertainment. I think that if you have
an active imagination (and I do), books are even better entertainment than movies.
You don't often hear anyone say that the movie was better than the book (unless the book was done from
the movie instead of the other way around.
I also read to get information. I'm an information junkie. If I want to learn a lot about a subject in a relatively
short time frame, I use a book.
A note to parents: NEVER deny your child a book they want!
The books below are books I personally recommend, loosely divided first by genre and then by author, and is
generated only of course from books I've read. Realize that this means they might not be books you
would recommend. You can build your own page for that if you'd like!
I have linked my site to Amazon.com to allow visitors to more actively pursue my recommendations. I actually
prefer to refer people to buy books, rather than loan them out - because after all, authors make their money this
way...and for most of them, it's not tons of it. So...go look at the description...and if you think you might like a
book I've recommended, click on the title if it's a link and buy it!
The genres represented here are.......
Children's Books - Fantasy - General Fiction -
Horror - Mystery - Non-Fiction -
Science Fiction - Spy/Thriller - Suspense
Modified 6/3/02
Bertrand R. Brinley
The Mad Scientist's Club
The New Adventures of the Mad Scientist's Club
Jean De Brunhoff
The Story of Babar the Little Elephant
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Beverly Cleary
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny, Champion of the World (The World's Greatest Father)
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
John D. Fitzgerald
The Great Brain
Return of the Great Brain
The Great Brain at the Academy
The Great Brain Reforms
The Great Brain Does it Again
More Adventures of the Great Brain
Marjorie Flack
The Story of Ping
Jean George
My Side of the Mountain
Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Ezra Jack Keats
The Snowy Day
Rudyard Kipling
Rikk-Tikki-Tavi
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
C.S. Lewis
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and his Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
A.A. Milne
Eeyore Has a Birthday
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest
Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party
Arlene Mosel
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Mary Norton
The Borrowers
The Borrowers Afield
The Borrowers Afloat
The Borrowers Aloft
The Borrowers Avenged
Robert O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H.
H.A. Rey
Curious George
Curious George Flies a Kite
Curious George Goes to the Hospital
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabon
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
Dr. Seuss
Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
Horton Hears a Who
Horton Hatches the Egg
The Lorax
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
Trumpet of the Swan
Piers Anthony
On a Pale Horse
Bearing an Hourglass
With a Tangled Skein
Wielding a Red Sword
Being a Green Mother
For Love of Evil
And Eternity
A Spell for Chameleon
Castle Roogna
Centaur Isle
Ogre, Ogre
The Source of Magic
Crewel Lye
Night Mare
Golem in the Gears
Question Quest
Harpy Thyme
Isle of View
Man from Mundania
Vale of the Vole
Dragon on a Pedestal
Heaven Cent
Roc and a Hard Place
Battle Circle
Split Infinity
Juxtaposition
Out of Phaze
The Blue Adept
Robot Adept
Unicorn Point
Phaze Doubt
David Eddings
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter's End Game
J. Gregory Keyes
Newton's Cannon
A Calculus of Angels
Empire of Unreason
George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight
The White Dragon
Dragonquest
Dragonsdawn
Freedom's Landing
China Mieville
Perdido St. Station
The Scar
Terry Pratchett
Small Gods
Soul Music
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
T.H. White
The Once and Future King
Douglas Coupland
All Families are Psychotic
Generation X
Microserfs
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Nick Hornby
About a Boy
High Fidelity
How to Be Good
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jack London
Call of the Wild
Mario Puzo
The Godfather
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Stephen King
The Dead Zone
Pet Sematary
Dean Koontz
Lightning
Watchers
Brian Lumley
Necroscope
Vamphyri!
The Source
Deadspawn
Dan Brown
The DaVinci Code
Angels and Demons
Deception Point
Bridget McKenna
Murder Beach
Caught Dead
Dead Ahead
Isaac Asimov
Understanding Physics
Kenneth Brower
The Starship and the Canoe
James Gleick
Chaos: Making a New Science
Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Spencer Johnson
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Michio Kaku
Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension
Wolfgang Langewiesche
Stick and Rudder
Steven Levy
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Gordon MacKenzie
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Steve Maguire
Debugging the Development Process
Writing Solid Code
National Geographic Society
National Geographic Atlas of the World
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Robert J. Traister
Going from C to C++
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Isaac Asimov
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
I, Robot
Gregory Benford
Heart of the Comet (with David Brin)
Alfred Bester
The Demolished Man
The Stars My Destination
Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
David Brin
The Uplift War
Startide Rising
Brightness Reef
Infinity's Shore
Glory Season
Earth
The Postman
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars
The Gods of Mars
Warlord of Mars
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars
Master Mind of Mars
Swords of Mars
Synthetic Men of Mars
Llana of Gathol
John Carter of Mars
Stephen Bury
Interface
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
The Memory of Earth
The Call of Earth
The Ships of Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn
Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
3001: The Final Odyssey
Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II
The Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed
The Songs of Distant Earth
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
Michael Crichton
Congo
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Sphere
Terminal Man
Philip Jose Farmer
Dark is the Sun (it took me a long time to remember this title, which was excellent - it's an out of print story about the very distant future)
Robert L. Forward
Dragon's Egg
Flight of the Dragonfly
Timemaster
Ellen Guon Beeman
Bedlam Boyz
Joe Haldeman
Forever War
Forever Peace
Robert Heinlein
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Glory Road
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Podkayne of Mars
Starship Troopers
Frank Herbert
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
L. Ron Hubbard
Battlefield Earth
The Invaders Plan
Black Genesis
The Enemy Within
An Alien Affair
Fortune of Fear
Death Quest
Voyage of Vengeance
Disaster
Villainy Victorious
Doomed Planet
J. Gregory Keyes
Newton's Cannon (The Age of Unreason, Book 1)
A Calculus of Angels (The Age of Unreason, Book 2)
Julian May
The Many-Colored Land
The Golden Torc
The Nonborn King
The Adversary
Jack the Bodiless
Diamond Mask
Magnificat
Perseus Spur
Orion Arm
Sagittarius Whorl
James Morrow
Only Begotten Daughter
City of Truth
Eric S. Nylund
Signal to Noise
A Signal Shattered
Frederik Pohl
Gateway
Terry Pratchett
Soul Music
Small Gods
Carl Sagan
Contact
Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age
Snow Crash
Cryptonomicon
Theodore Sturgeon
More Than Human
John Varley
Millenium
Steel Beach
Titan
Demon
Wizard
Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Deepness in the Sky
Across Realtime
Robert Charles Wilson
Darwinia
Dale Brown
Flight of the Old Dog
Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
Patriot Games
The Hunt for Red October
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Without Remorse
The Sum of All Fears
Clear and Present Danger
Debt of Honor
Executive Orders
Rainbow Six
The Bear and the Dragon
Newt Gingrich (yes, that Newt Gingrich)
1945
Robin Cook
Contagion
Mutation
Michael Crichton
A Case of Need
Airframe
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