What I read: 1986

What do you care what I read in 1986? 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. Dark forces edited by Kirby McCauley
   
2. King Kobold revived by Christopher Stasheff
   
3. Bethune by Roderick Stewart
   
4. Camp concentration by Thomas M. Disch
   
5. Stalking the nightmare by Harlan Ellison
   
6. The best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
   
7. Pawn of prophesy by David Eddings
   
8. The humanoid touch by Jack Williamson
   
9. The fog by James Herbert
   
10. Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
    
11. Bio of a space tyrant 2: Mercenary
    
12. Queen of sorcery by David Eddings
    
13. Magicians gambit by David Eddings
    
14. Castle of wizardry by David Eddings
    
15. And on the eighth day by Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson)
    
16. Enchanter`s endgame by David Eddings
    
17. The best of Frederik Pohl by Frederik Pohl
    
18. The Holmes-Dracula file by Fred Saberhagen
    
19. Miracle visitors by Ian Watson
    
20. New maps of hell by Kingsley Amis
    
21. The science fiction novel edited by Basil Davenport
    
22. The house next door by Anne Rivers Siddons
    
23. The glass teat by Harlan Ellison
    
24. The long tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
    
25. Star songs of an old primate by James Tiptree, jr.
    
26. Pilgramage by Zenna Henderson
    
27. Growing up by Russell Baker
    
28. The big sleep by Raymond Chandler
    
29. 2010: Odyssey two by Arthur C. Clarke
    
30. Silverlock by John Myers Myers
    
31. The other glass teat by Harlan Ellison
    
32. Child of fortune by Norman Spinrad
    
33. Merchant's war by Frederik Pohl
    
34. A Catskill eagle by Robert B. Parker
    
35. The last days of the edge of the world by Brain Stableford
    
36. I, vampire by Jody Scott
    
37. The best of C.L. Moore C.L. Moore
    
38. Sinister barrier by Eric Frank Russell
    
39. Heroes in hell edited by Janet Morris
    
40. The history of the runestaff by Michael Moorcock
    
41. The year's best fantasy stories: 11 by Arthur W. Saha
    
42. Enterprise: The first adventure by Vonda N. McIntyre
    
43. Startide rising by David Brin
    
44. A touch of strange by Theodore Sturgeon
    
45. Foundation's edge by Isaac Asimov
    
46. Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
    
47. Bio of a space tyrant 3: Politician by Piers Anthony
    
48. Empire of the sun by J.G. Ballard
    
49. Masters of Darkness edited by Dennis Etchisson