Book thoughts

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shreena and I were talking about books over the weekend, and the topic of "books that made you go "Whoa! That was great". Tangentially to this discussion we were talking about genres, and wondering about how favorite books fall among genres, so I decided to sit down and write out my favorite books and which (approximate!) genres they fall into. I'm posting them here to satisfy your curiousity and possibly attract some recommendations! So, Ben's favorite books:


Science Fiction

• Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
  
• Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
  
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
  
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
  
• The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
  
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  
• Tactics of Mistake; Soldier, Ask Not - Gordon R. Dickson
  

Fantasy

• Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind (shame about the rest of the series)
  
• Exiles series - Melanie Rawn
  
• A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
  
• Magician; Rise of a Merchant Prince - Raymond E. Feist
  
• Empire trilogy - Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
  
• Curse of the Mistwraith - Janny Wurts
  
• Lankhmar series - Fritz Leiber
  
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  
• The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
  

Other genres:

• The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
  
• Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  
• Les Liaisons dangereuses - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  
• Bhagavad Gita