Post by En on Dec 21, 2003 0:37:04 GMT -5
Okay, so we're compiling lists of stuff to read for people who have finished HP 1-5 and LotR. So here goes:
FANTASY
1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
2. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit (prequel)
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
3. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone (prequel)
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
4. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
5. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
6. The Gormenghast Books by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
7. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
8. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
9. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
10. Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary by Pamela Dean
11. The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
12. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
13. The Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
14. Books by Alan Garner:
Elidor
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The Moon of Gomrath
SCIENCE FICTION
1. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
2. stuff by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
3. The Ender Books by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
4. 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama
5. stuff by Michael Crichton
Andromeda Strain
Sphere
Jurassic Park etc.
6. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
7. stuff by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
8. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
9. Contact by Carl Sagan
10. stuff by William Sleator
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
House of Stairs
Singularity
11. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
12. 1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World
13. stuff by Daniel Pinkwater
Alan Mendelssohn, the Boy from Mars
Lizard Music
Right, anyone want to review any of these or add more? Please include the author's name
FANTASY
1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
2. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit (prequel)
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
These are some more books written by J.R.R. Tolkien:
Leaf By Niggle
On Fairy Stories
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On and On
Smith of Wooton Major
And some works published posthumously:
Sir Gawain, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
The Father Christmas Letters
The Silmarillion
Pictures bt JRR Tolkien
Mr Bliss
Finn and Hengest
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Roverandom
And of course, The History of Middle Earth by Christopher Tolkien:
I The Book of Lost Tales Part I
II The Book of Lost Tales Part II
III The Lays of Beleriand
IV The Shaping of Middle Earth
V The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI The Return of the Shadow
VII The Treason of Isenguard
VIII The War of the Ring
IX Sauron's Defeated
X Morgoth's Ring
XI The War of the Jewels
XII The Peoples of Middle Earth
Leaf By Niggle
On Fairy Stories
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On and On
Smith of Wooton Major
And some works published posthumously:
Sir Gawain, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
The Father Christmas Letters
The Silmarillion
Pictures bt JRR Tolkien
Mr Bliss
Finn and Hengest
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Roverandom
And of course, The History of Middle Earth by Christopher Tolkien:
I The Book of Lost Tales Part I
II The Book of Lost Tales Part II
III The Lays of Beleriand
IV The Shaping of Middle Earth
V The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI The Return of the Shadow
VII The Treason of Isenguard
VIII The War of the Ring
IX Sauron's Defeated
X Morgoth's Ring
XI The War of the Jewels
XII The Peoples of Middle Earth
3. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Over Sea, Under Stone (prequel)
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
4. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
5. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
6. The Gormenghast Books by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan
Gormenghast
Titus Alone
7. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
8. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
9. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
10. Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary by Pamela Dean
11. The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
12. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
13. The Earthsea series by Ursula LeGuin
14. Books by Alan Garner:
Elidor
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The Moon of Gomrath
SCIENCE FICTION
1. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
2. stuff by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
3. The Ender Books by Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
4. 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama
5. stuff by Michael Crichton
Andromeda Strain
Sphere
Jurassic Park etc.
6. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
7. stuff by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
8. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
9. Contact by Carl Sagan
10. stuff by William Sleator
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
House of Stairs
Singularity
11. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
12. 1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World
13. stuff by Daniel Pinkwater
Alan Mendelssohn, the Boy from Mars
Lizard Music
Right, anyone want to review any of these or add more? Please include the author's name