What I read: 1985

What do you care what I read in 1985? 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. The Maltese falcon by Dashiel Hammett
   
2. Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled by Harlan Ellison
   
3. The year's best fantasy stories: 10 by Arthur W. Saha
   
4. Virgin planet by Poul Anderson
   
5. The female man by Joanna Russ
   
6. Mutant by Henry Kuttner
   
7. The best of L. Sprague de Camp by L. Sprague de Camp
   
8. The day of the triffids by John Wyndham
   
9. The golden apples of the sun by Ray Bradbury
   
10. The warlord of the air by Michael Moorcock
    
11. The best of C.M. Kornbluth by C.M. Kornbluth
    
12. Triton by Samuel R. Delany
    
13. The worlds of Frank Herbert by Frank Herbert
    
14. Bio of a space tyrant 1: Refugee by Piers Anthony
    
15. The wanderer by Fritz Leiber
    
16. The blue world by Jack Vance
    
17. The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick
    
18. Heechee rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
    
19. Killer by David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner
    
20. Thorns by Robert Silverberg
    
21. Conan the rebel by Poul Anderson
    
22. The best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith
    
23. Medea: Harlan`s world edited by Harlan Ellison
    
24. 5 odd edited by Groff Conklin
    
25. The haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
    
26. The quintessence of Ellery Queen edited by Anthony Boucher
    
27. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    
28. The warlock in spite of himself by Christopher Stasheff
    
29. The drowned world by J.G. Ballard
    
30. The shores of space by Richard Matheson
    
31. Tolkein: a biography by Humphrey Carpenter
    
32. Fevre dream by George R.R. Martin
    
33. The best of Raymond Z. Gallun by Raymond Z. Gallun
    
34. So long and thanks for all the fish by Douglas Adams
    
35. Image of the beast by Philip Jose Farmer
    
36. Strange eons by Robert Bloch
    
37. Nine hundred grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty
    
38. Love by Leo Buscaglia
    
39. Davey by Edgar Pangborn