What I read: 1984

What do you care what I read in 1984? Nothing, of course, but I do. As I get older (I was 20 in 1983 when I started keeping track of the books I read) I find myself more and more in the position of looking at a stack of books on my shelves by, say, Cornell Woolrich and they all have the word "Black" in the title. I know I've read a couple but I can't remember which ones. Fortunately, I've been maintaining a little list in a little brown book since April 1983 of all the books I've read (or at least attempted). By putting this list here it will be searchable. I may ultimately put at least some of it in something like LibraryThing, but for now I'll be putting it here. The advantage is that the blog is quick and dirty, without a lot of effort per entry. The books are in the order I read them.

By way of adding some value to the list, I'll italicize any work that I remember as being particularly wonderful

1. Moon of skulls by Robert E. Howard
   
2. Second foundation by Isaac Asimov
   
3. A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
   
4. The white plague by Frank Herbert
   
5. Good Neighbors and other strangers by Edgar Pangborn
   
6. Partners in wonder by Harlan Ellison and others
   
7. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
   
8. Bypass to otherness by Henry Kuttner
   
9. Martian timeslip by Philip K. Dick
   
10. Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
    
11. Lest darkness fall by L. Sprague de Camp
    
12. Conjure wife by Fritz Leiber
    
13. The starchild trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
    
14. The best of Stanley G. Weinbaum by Stanley G. Weinbaum
    
15. Dream makers by Charles Platt
    
16. Project Pope by Clifford D. Simak
    
17. Federation by H. Beam Piper
    
18. Thirteen o'clock by C.M. Kornbluth
    
19. Courtship rite by Donald Kingsbury
    
20. 2001: A space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
    
21. Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman
    
22. the space beyond by John W. Campbell, jr.
    
23. The stars my destination by Alfred Bester
    
24. The best of Lester del Rey by Lester del Rey, edited by Frederik Pohl
    
25. Universe 3 edited by Terry Carr
    
26. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
    
27. The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams
    
28. Life, the universe and everything by Douglas Adams
    
29. Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
    
30. Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
    
31. Neutron star by Larry Niven
    
32. The chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    
33. The iron man by Robert E. Howard
    
34. The compleat enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
    
35. The best of Edmond Hamilton by Edmond Hamilton
    
36. The golden man by Philip K. Dick
    
37. The Lazarus effect by Frank Herbert and Bill Ranson
    
38. The science fiction hall of fame, volume 2A edited by Ben Bova
    
39. The player on the other side by Ellery Queen (Theodore Sturgeon)
    
40. Nightfall and other stories by Isaac Asimov
    
41. At the mountains of madness by H.P. Lovecraft
    
42. 100 sf short short stories edited by Isaac Asimov and others
    
43. Outlaw of Gor by John Norman
    
44. The year of the quiet sun by Wilson Tucker
    
45. The worlds of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber
    
46. Preferred Risk by Edson McCann (Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey)
    
47. The man in the jungle by Norman Spinrad
    
48. The fountains of paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
    
49. A dream of Dracula by Leonard Wolf
    
50. Beyond by Theodore Sturgeon
    
51. A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, jr.
    
52. The best of Eric Frank Russel by Eric Frank Russell
    
53. Danse macabre by Stephen King