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I learned my basic reading skills from reading comic books as a child. I'd curl up in mum and dads' bed and devour the adventures of Casper, Hot Stuff and Richie Rich. Hot Stuff, a devil-boy who roamed the woods and could fly, was my favourite.
I've been a nut about fantasy and science fiction for as long as I can remember. The juvenile tales of Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey stories were early favourites. After discovering the fiction of Isaac Asimov (pretty much all of which I've read) the other sci-fi masters - Clarke and Heinlein - were a short step away.
Besides science fiction and fantasy, I enjoy the classics and have a fondness for children's literature. I had some good English teachers in high school, who helped give me a deeper understanding of literature; so when I went on to college, one of my majors was English Literature. I also studied American lit', Russian lit', children's lit' and James Joyce. One of my ambitions is to read every 'important' or well-known novel or short story ever written.
So here's some favourite authors and some favourite books. You might notice that, apart from a biography, there are no poets. Well, with one exception, I'm just not that big on poetry. For info on my most favourite author and most favourite book, go to Heroes and Heroines.
Authors
Isaac Asimov, Charles Dickens, Philip K Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, E Annie Proulx, Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Moorcock, James Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, L.M. Montgomery, Richard Adams, Rudyard Kipling, Nick Hornby
Greeves' Greatest 50 Books
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Lord Of The Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
My Brother Jack - George Johnston
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
The Major Plays - Anton Chekov
Arthur Rimbaud - Enid Starkie
An Alien Heat - Michael Moorcock
Martian Time-Slip - Philip K. Dick
A Canticle For Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr
Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
Watership Downs - Richard Adams
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
King Soloman's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Tiger, Tiger - Alfred Bester
Crash - J.G. Ballard
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Ulysses - James Joyce
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin
Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
Time Enough For Love - Robert Heinlein
Gateway - Frederick Pohl
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
Dying Inside - Robert Silverberg
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth - Roger Zelazny
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Was - Geoff Ryman
The Thrill of the Grass - W.P. Kinsella