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10 Books, More Or Less

December 31, 2013 By Mark Draughn 2 Comments

There’s a meme of sorts going around, the rules to which are: “List 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, just the ones that have touched you.” The rules don’t specify fiction, but that’s how most people seem to interpret it.

Here’s my list:

  1. The Mote In God’s Eye. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
  2. Protector. Larry Niven.
  3. Ringworld. Larry Niven.
  4. Iceworld. Hal Clement.
  5. Salem’s Lot. Stephen King.
  6. The Forever War. Joe Haldeman.
  7. All My Sins Remembered. Joe Haldeman.
  8. Stand On Zanzibar/The Jagged Orbit. John Brunner.
  9. In the Ocean of Night/Across the Sea of Suns. Gregory Benford.
  10. Hyperion/The Fall of Hyperion/Endymion/The Rise of Endymion. Dan Simmons.
  11. Arc Light. Eric L. Harry.
  12. Revelation Space. Alastair Reynolds.
  13. A Fire Upon the Deep. Vernor Vinge.
  14. Pandora’s Star/Judas Unchained. Peter F. Hamilton.

That’s a lot more than 10, but I’d have had to “think too hard” to cut it down to just 10.

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  1. Jim Jurica says

    February 12, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    I’m a fan of nearly every author on your list. But confess I’ve only read 3 of these… lots of Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut and H.P. Lovecraft have stayed with me. :)

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  2. Mark Draughn says

    February 12, 2014 at 8:08 pm

    I read a lot of early Stephen King, but I trailed off sometime after Gerald’s Game. I’ve been meaning to read Lovecraft for a while now — even bought a collection for my Kindle — but I haven’t gotten around to it. Vonnegut never interested me for some reason…

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