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DrNefario
Posted 2015-02-04 7:55 AM (#9510 - in reply to #9168)
Subject: Re: I Just HAVE to Read More of that Author 2015		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		I've joined in on this one again now it has the reading levels. Once again I'm slightly abusing the premise. Back at the start of the year I made a list of 15 authors I intended to read this year. Generally people I already owned several books by but had struggled to make the time to read or had kept postponing because of challenge reading. (If challenges are getting in the way of reading something, make it a challenge to read that ) Many of them are the same writers I used for this challenge last year.

Not all of the 15 are SF/F/H writers, and one of them is new to me, so I couldn't make a full twelve from that list, but I can make nine.

My list is:

Iain Banks - I have four of his books left to read. Two are covered by this site. He was a big favourite of mine, but I hadn't read anything for several years until I read Surface Detail last year.
Agatha Christie - I have a complete set of her detective fiction, almost all collected from charity and second-hand shops, and still have over 60 to read. I need to make some ground.
Bernard Cornwell - I have two books by him I've been meaning to read for years, but keep postponing.
Graham Joyce - I have two of his books, and wanted to read one last year but never got to it. He's new to me, so I can't use him for this challenge.
John Le Carre - I had two books for him. I've already read his first novel Call for the Dead in January.
Ursula Le Guin - I had two books for Le Guin, and have already read Tehanu in January.
L E Modesitt Jr. - I have about ten of his books to read, in three series, thanks to a bit of a spree when there was a special offer last year. He doesn't seem to trouble any awards or crop up on any other lists, but I often enjoy his stuff.
Christopher Priest - I think I have three of his outstanding. Another one I hadn't read for years until last year.
Alastair Reynolds - I have four of his to read, I think. Three novels and a collection. I meant to read one of them for this challenge last year, but managed to put it off again. Reynolds is quite long and dense, so I never quite feel I can afford the time.
Adam Roberts - I actually only have one of his books in my in-tray at the moment, but he's a writer I am keen to read a lot more of.
Brandon Sanderson - When I created this list, I had six books in three series by Sanderson to read. Now I have eight books in five series.
Nevil Shute - I inherited a complete collection from my father, and want to make some headway with it. He has one book on WWE which I read last year, but there is apparently another which is SF: In the Wet. I'm not sure which book I'm going to pick, though. It might just be a lucky dip.
Jack Vance - I have a good few Vance ebooks to read as a result of more uncontrolled sale-splurging.
Jo Walton - I have two trilogies and one standalone book by Walton to read. And I quite fancy her new one.
Gene Wolfe - An old favourite I neglected for far too long until I read Soldier of Sidon for this challenge last year. I have three or four of his in my in-tray, and more on my wishlist. I often feel that Wolfe is a genuine literary titan who deserves better recognition. Like a Nobel Prize for Literature or something.

So, I'm hoping to make my nine from those, where they are actually covered by the site. Maybe I'll decide to go up to twelve if I make good progress.

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