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From 2002 P.B. (Pre-Blog), there's a Washington Post article in which authors name some favorite books. The short version:

• Michael Chabon: R Is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury.
• Thomas M. Disch: Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin.
• Neil Gaiman: Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty.
• Ellen Datlow: Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison and The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural.
• James Hynes: Chronopolis and Other Stories by J.G. Ballard.
• Sheila Williams: What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown.
• Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket): Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed.
• Peter Straub: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Terry Pratchett: The Evolution Man by Roy Lewis.
• Nancy Kress: The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• John Clute: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
• Gordon van Gelder: In Signs of Life, Course of the Heart by M. John Harrison.
• Daniel Pinkwater: Mount Analogue by René Daumal.
• Diana Wynne Jones: Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff.
• Poppy Z. Brite: Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled by Harlan Ellison.
• Kelly Link: The Wolves of WilloughbyChase by Joan Aiken.
• John Crowley: The Priest by Thomas M. Disch and Being Dead by Jim Crace.

Share: | Posted by John on Wednesday September 27, 2006 - 1:20 PM | Category: Books | © 2006 SF Signal

Crap - I've read none of those books. So little time, so many books...

Posted by ScottSh on Thursday September 28, 2006 at 9:14 AM

Me neither, except for the 2 LeGuins. Scary!

Posted by Stefan on Thursday September 28, 2006 at 3:21 PM

The Evolution Man is a very, very funny book.

Posted by PapayaSF on Monday October 02, 2006 at 1:28 AM