What I read: 1987

What do you care what I read in 1987? 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. Neuromancer by William Gibson
   
2. The best of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick
   
3. Callahan's crosstime saloon by Spider Robinson
   
4. Crash by J.G. Ballard
   
5. Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
   
6. A mobid taste for bones by Ellis Peters
   
7. Blue champagne by John Varley
   
8. Trespass by Fletcher Knebel
   
9. The virgin & the wheels by L. Sprague de Camp
   
10. Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
    
11. Fuzz by Ed McBain
    
12. Three hearts and three lions by Poul Anderson
    
13. The best of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber
    
14. The warlock unlocked by Christopher Stasheff
    
15. The adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
    
16. Taming a seahorse by Robert B. Parker
    
17. Different seasons by Stephen King
    
18. Ceremony by Robert B. Parker
    
19. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
    
20. Radio free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
    
21. Raven: Swordsmistress of chaos by Richard Kirk
    
22. Looking for Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker
    
23. Dream park by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
    
24. Wild cards edited by George R.R. Martin
    
25. Fatherhood by Bill Cosby
    
26. Armageddon rag by George R.R. Martin
    
27. Not this August by C.M. Kornbluth
    
28. Strangers from the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonnano
    
29. Fouth side of the triange by Ellery Queen (Avram Davidson)
    
30. City at world's end by Edmond Hamilton
    
31. My discovery of America by Farley Mowat
    
32. What's become of screwloose by Ron Goulart
    
33. Little heroes by Norman Spinrad
34. Deathbird stories by Harlan Ellison
    
35. The damnation game by Clive Barker
    
36. Why not you and I by Karl Edward Wagner
    
37. The black curtain by Cornell Woolrich
    
38. Hitler victorious edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
    
39. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
    
40. Raven: A time of ghosts by Richard Kirk
    
41. Vampire junction by S.P. Somtow
    
42. Wasp by Eric Frank Russell
    
43. Bio of a space tyrant 4: Executive
    
44. God save the child by Robert B. Parker
    
45. The wild shore by Kim Stanley Robinson
    
46. Psycho by Robert Block
    
47. Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
    
48. How much for just the planet? by John M. Ford
    
49. Another fine myth by Robert Asprin
    
50. Time travellers strictly cash by Spider Robinson
    
51. Beyond armageddon edited by Walter M. Miller, jr. and Martin H. Greenberg
    
52. First flight by Chris Claremont
    
53. Myth conceptions by Robert Asprin
    
54. Tom O'Bedlam by Robert Silverberg
    
55. The thin man by Dashiell Hammett
    
56. Skraelings by Carl Sherrell
    
57. Man of two worlds by Frank and Brian Herbert