Emily's A-Z Challenge

[Tonari no Emily]

A-*Isaac Asimov: The Currents of Space
B-*Pierce Brown: Red Rising
C- *Raymond Chandler : The Big Sleep
D-Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
E- *James Ellroy: The Black Dahlia
F-
G-*Lev Grossman: The Magician King
H- *Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
I-*Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
J-N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
K-*Stephen King: The Dark Tower
L- *Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed
M-Haruki Murakumi: 1Q84
N-*Garth Nix: Goldenhand
O-Nnedi Okorafor: Binti
P-*Terry Pratchett: The Long Earth
Q-
R-Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
S-*Dan Simmons: Hyperion
T-Dennis E. Taylor: We Are Legion - We Are Bob
U-
V-
W-*Lawrence Wright: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
X-
Y-
Z-Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

*Books actually completed in 2016: 13/26 (Half way woooo)
Books completed as of 1/16/19: 20/26 (Wow only 6 books left!)

[Tonari no Emily]

Well The Big Sleep wasn't fantasy, so perhaps I'll try to replace it later. Right now I think I'll just add whatever I'm reading if it fits...
But I rated it 4/5, I really appreciated the old-timey detective story, not something I usually read.

[Joseph]

Emily wrote: "Well The Big Sleep wasn't fantasy, so perhaps I'll try to replace it later. Right now I think I'll just add whatever I'm reading if it fits...
But I rated it 4/5, I really appreciated the old-time..."

But the film adaptation of The Big Sleep (which I just watched on New Year's Day) was scripted by Leigh Brackett, so I'm going to say it should count ... :)

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

And I'm aiming for letters before genre, although I'll substitute too if I can ;)

[Jenna]

I'm going to try to stick to fantasy as much as possible, but I might have to bend the rule a bit for letters like Q and X. Unless anyone has any author suggestions for the tough letters?

[Tonari no Emily]

Okay, so I haven't been reading that much fantasy. I've been into more science fiction lately. But I'll add what fits now anyway.

Re: Asimov
I really love Asimov! I just finished the Robot novels, and now working on the Empire novels, and then I'm going for his Foundation series. The Currents of Space is his second Empire novel, and I really enjoyed it. Definitely better than his first Empire, but I think I liked his Robot novels better.

The Magician King
I liked this better than the first novel, I didn't hate all the characters as much. I listened to this as an audiobook and I think I listened to it faster than I did the first, so that could have had an effect on my perception of the pacing. Also what do you know it's actually fantasy!

Hyperion
If I had known this ended in a bit of a cliff hanger I wouldn't have even started it without first having the second book at hand! I like to be warned about that kind of thing. But I did like this one a lot as well. I half listened/half read this one, and I think I should have just read it all the way through since I didn't like the female narrator at all.

[Tonari no Emily]

Wow, I forgot about this in the 3 (!) years its been since I first posted. Just updated since I'm trying to avoid studying lol

I only have 6 more to go! That was just three years of reading what I wanted. Lots of fantasy, sci-fi, and a few random non-genre fiction and non-fiction. I can definitely finish it this year, just need to find some books that fit the rest of my alphabet.

[Tnkw01]

X is a really tough one.

[Tonari no Emily]

Tnkw01 wrote: "X is a really tough one."

Yeah, I've been searching for one, and I'm really not getting much here. Might go with what I've seen on others': Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber

[Joseph]

I went with Spring Festival by Xia Jia for X when I was doing the challenge.

[Tonari no Emily]

Hmm I think I like the sound of that one a little more.