Ye Olde Bookshelf

The caption pretty much sums up most of the books I read. Of course I have a whole bunch of books on computers since that is my field. Databases, programming, theory, maths, graphics, economics and magazines galore.

Here are the books I had on my bookshelf at some distant point in the past and since I always borrow books from libraries I have read many more. Stars (***) indicate a book I did not much like personally. The more the stars the less it appealed to me.

Eventually I will put my books into a database but until then, this out of date list should give you an idea of my tastes.

Todo: Comics (Fathom/Marvel/Jap/Oh my goddess/Akira/Ghost in the shell)

Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery

• The Hobbit
  J.R.R Tolkien (Harper Collins 1993)
• The Lord of the Rings
  J.R.R. Tolkien (Harper Collins 1995)
  • Vol I: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Vol II: The Two Towers
  • Vol III: The Return of The King
• Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
  J.R.R. Tolkien (Unwin Paperbacks 1983)
• The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
  Stephen R. Donaldson
  • The First Chronicles
    • Vol I: Lord Foul's Bane (Del Rey & Ballantine Books 1979)
    • Vol I: Lord Foul's Bane (Harper Collins 1993)
    • Vol II: The Illearth War (Harper Collins 1994)
    • Vol III: The Power that Preserves (Harper Collins 1994)
  • The Second Chronicles (Voyager & Harper Collins 1996)
    • Vol I: The Wounded Land
    • Vol II: The One Tree
    • Vol III: White Gold Wielder
• The Earthsea Trilogy
  Ursula K. Le Guin (Penguin Books)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea
  • The Tombs of Atuan
  • The Farthest Shore
• The Artefacts of Power
  Maggie Furey (Legend 1994)
  • Vol I: Aurian
  • Vol II: Harp of Winds
  • Vol III: The Sword of Flame
  • Vol IV: Dhiammara
• Magic Kingdom of Landover Novels
  Terry Brooks (Orion)
  • Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold!
  • The Black Unicorn
  • Wizard at Large
  • The Tangle Box
• ***
  Dragons on the Sea of Night(Sunset Warrior Cycle Vol V)
  Eric Lustbader (Voyager 1997)
• Killashandra
  Anne McCaffrey (Corgi 1985)

Fiction/Science-Fiction/Cyberspace

• Partnership
  Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball (Orbit 1992)
• Cyber-Killers
  Collection Edited by Ric Alexander (Orion 1997)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
  Douglas Adams (Pan books 1993)
  • Mostly Harmless
• ***
  Hegira
  Greg Bear (Severn House Publishers 1988)
• Headlong
  Simon Ings (Voyager/Harper Collins 1999)
• Bag of Bones
  Stephen King (New English Library 1999)
• The Eon Universe
  Greg Bear (Legend)
  • Legacy
  • Anvil of Stars

Humorous

• Discworld Novels
  Terry Pratchett (Corgi)
  • The Colour of Magic
  • The Light Fantastic
  • Equal Rites
  • Mort
  • Sourcery
  • Wyrd Sisters
  • Pyramids
  • Guards! Guards!
  • Moving Pictures
  • Small Gods
  • Men at Arms
  • Soul Music
  • Interesting Times
  • Maskerade
  • Feet of Clay
  • Good Omens Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • Wings
  • The Last Continent
• ***
  GRUNTS!
  Mary Gentle (Bantam Press)
• The Midden
  Tom Sharpe (Pan 1996)
• Wilt on High
  Tom Sharpe (Pan 1985)
• Porterhouse Blue
  Tom Sharpe (Pan 1976)
• ***
  Water on the brain
  Compton Mackenzie (Penguin 1959)
• ***
  The Slaughterhouse Informer
  Edward Hyams (Longmas, Green and Co. 1955)
• The Radio-active General and Other Stories
  Robert Standish (London : Peter Davies 1959)
• Passionella and other stories
  Jules Feiffer (Collins 1960)

Historical/Mystical/Mythical

• Early Celtic Art Vols I & II
  Paul Jacobsthal (Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1944)
• Druids, Gods & Heroes from Celtic Mythology
  Anne Ross (Peter Lowe Ed. 1986)
• Wicca, A Guide for the Solitary Practicioner
  Scott Cunningham (Llewellyn Publications, Minnesota, 1999)
• Drawing Down the Moon
  (Revised and expanded edition) Margot Adler (ARKANA/Penguin 1997)
• The Celtic Crusades
  Stephen Lawhead (Voyager 1998)
  • Book I: The Iron Lance
• The Pendragon Cycle
  Stephen Lawhead (Lion Publishing 1998)
  • Book V: Grail
• DEUS
  Philip Boast (Headline book publishing 1998)

Various

• ***
  Wizard And Glass (The Dark Tower vol IV)
  Stephen King (New English Library Ed. 1998)
• Moby Dick or The White Whale
  Herman Melville (Collins 1953)
• A Writer's Notebook
  W. Somerset Maugham (Readers Union, William Heinemann, London, 1951)

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