WWEnd Most Read Books of All-Time

[David]

A List of their most read books of all time at World's Without End:

http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013...

I've read them all (some more than once), except one - which is at number one in their list.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've not read Ender's Game either. Keep meaning to.

[David]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I've not read Ender's Game either. Keep meaning to."

I will have to find a list to put it on. I have read 1 OS Card book, can't remember what it was though - It may even have been Ender's Game.

I have a memory like a...

[Will]

I am shocked to see that the execrable GRRM has been read more often than the only Zelazny in the top 100. Rather devalues the quality of the list as far as I'm concerned.

[Patti (baconater)]

What's GRRM?

I'm gonna feel stupid asking that, aren't i?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "What's GRRM?

I'm gonna feel stupid asking that, aren't i?"

The guy who wrote Game of Thrones. George R R Martin. Do you feel silly now?

[Will]

And the Zelazny book won both Hugo AND Nebula awards on release. Which of the others can claim that?

[Patti (baconater)]

Naw, I'm okay.

I thought it was a title, not an author.

[Jim]

Remember it's 'the most read' which is not necessarily the best.
A list of 'The most read' probably has to include the Bible and Fifty Shades of Grey :-)

[Tim]

I'm about 75% through Ender's Game at the moment (I enjoyed the film, but the book is so much better!). Of the top 24, I've read (or am reading) 22.

I *like* GRRM. As to whether he's better than Zelazny, I couldn't say - I'd not even heard of Zelazny until seeing this list.

[D.D. Chant]

Umm...

A mistake seems to have been made: none of my books are on that list...

[Tim]

D.D. wrote: "Umm...

A mistake seems to have been made: none of my books are on that list..."

Nor mine. But as Jim said, it's not a list of the best....

[Will]

Tim! You should do some penance.

Roger Zelazny is one of the all time greats, along with Philip K Dick, also sadly under represented there

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I've read a fair number of them, and some I've never heard of (yep, Zelazny Tim!). Many of the Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke books I've started over the years and never managed to finish (boring, boring, boring - although not as boring as 2001 the film, which is a triumph of interminable monotony)
But the list is a good mix of old and new, I thought

[D.D. Chant]

Tim wrote: "D.D. wrote: "Umm...

A mistake seems to have been made: none of my books are on that list..."

Nor mine. But as Jim said, it's not a list of the best...."

Ahh, that explains it!!! ;-P

[Jay-me (Janet)]

I've read quite a few & like Rosemary & Tim there are also ones I haven't heard of.
I was going through the list thinking to myself variations of ".. yes read that, not sure, definitely not, think I may have read that one, NO (& won't be adding it to my TBR list in the near future) ..."

I read a lot of sci-fi books in my teens, but can't recall all of the titles and authors - possibly if I started reading some of the books on that list I might find them familiar.

[Tim]

I used to read a lot of 'hard' SF in my teens and 20s (in those days you'd be lynched if you called it "sci-fi"!). These days I'm more into military SF and space opera. Stuff that makes me turn my brain inside out thinking through the concepts and dotting every last scientific 'i' now hits my "tl;dr" filter.

[Jim]

I know exactly where you're coming from. I decided I couldn't write hard SF (when you search for SF most of the stuff comes up as San Francisco) for pretty much the same reasons :-)