My last list is what I am calling "off-list," meaning books that aren't on the Hugo or Appendix N lists. Of course, then I made a list and put them on it, so now they're on-list, so maybe I should call them "other." But I'm sticking to my original term.
My off-list list started small: large major works such as Ulysses that I've owned and intended on reading for years. The Armada. Cryptonomicon. But then I started thinking about other books. I'm reading the Realm of the Elderlings series, and planned to read one each year. (Instead, I read three of them in 15 weeks; part of why I'm writing this now is I wanted to take the third off the list before I posted. The Liveship Traders, the second trilogy in this world, is really, really good.) I'm still reading the Dragon Jousters. And then there are the Star Wars books: I started reading the X-Wing novels just before I started grad school, and I'm still going. So I just started adding books.
The list has ballooned, and now is ballooning almost for the sake of ballooning. The last book I added was Atlas Shrugged, because my wife says it's good and then John Scalzi said it was good so why not.
I still haven't added everything. I can see books from where I'm sitting now that are on my mental I-should-read-that list, but are not on the reading list. But I might add them.
The O-List stands at 20,252 pages. Right now, that makes it the smallest of the three lists. It will probably, by the end, be the largest of the three lists. It contains sci-fi tie-ins, the last book of a trilogy, the three books I need to read before I read a Hugo winner, books by my favorite authors, books that haven't been published yet, a book I want to read because I like a miniature based on it, a book that Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong recommended, and books that I bought when Borders was going out of business because they looked good.
Allston, Aaron Solo
Command
Anderson, Kevin Tales
from the Mos Eisley Cantina
Asimov, Isaac Foundation
Asimov, Isaac Foundation and Empire
Asimov, Isaac Second Foundation
Banks, Iain M. Use of Weapons
Bujold, Lois Curse of Chalion
Coupland, Douglas Eleanor
Rigby
Evans, Erin Brimstone Angels
Follett, Ken World Without End
Hobb, Robin Dragon Keeper
Hobb, Robin Dragon Haven
Hobb, Robin City of Dragons
Hobb, Robin Blood of Dragons
Hobb, Robin Fool's Errand
Hobb, Robin Golden Fool
Hobb, Robin Fool's Fate
Hornby, Nick Juliet, Naked
Hornby, Nick Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Hornby, Nick More Baths, Less Talking
Joyce, James Ulysses
Lackey, Mercedes Aerie
Lovegrove, James The
Age of Ra
Mattingly, Garrett The
Armada
McCaffrey, Anne Dragonflight
McKinney, Jack The
Masters' Gambit
McKinney, Jack Before
the Invid Storm
Morrison, Boyd The
Ark
Morrison, Boyd Rogue
Wave
Murakami, Haruki Dance
Dance Dance
Murakami, Ryu Coin
Locker Babies
Novik, Naomi Crucible of Gold
Novik, Naomi Blood of Tyrants
Novik, Naomi League of Dragons
Perry, S.D. Avatar
Rand, Ayn Atlas Shrugged
Reeves-Stevens The
Fall of Terok Nor
Robinson, Kim The
Martians
Robinson, Kim Years
of Rice and Salt
Scalzi, John Lock In
Scalzi, John Old Man's War
Stackpole, Michael Isard's
Revenge
Steinberg, David This
Has All Been Wonderful
Stephenson, Neil Cryptonomicon
Sykes, Sam The City Stained Red
Wyatt, James Dragon War
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