What's left on the bookshelf...?

But now as to why all these unread books are up there. There're a couple of reasons. First and most importantly I want to brag about the fact I can read. And I do. Lots.

More seriously it's a pseudo-interactive experiment. If you want to find out whether a book is worth reading and you've already looked at my short reviews pages and generally agree with the comments, you can select a book from here and send me a message asking me to put it to the front of my to-read list. Within a week or so I'll post a short review about the book with my opinions. Neat, eh? If you just wait, you may be waiting a long time -- a couple of those titles have been sitting unread for over 13 years...

• Kevin J. Anderson's "Jedi Search"
  
• Piers Anthony's "Battle Circle" and "Apprentice Adept" trilogies, "And Eternity", "Demons Don't Dream" and "Isle of Women"
  
• Robert Asprin's "Thieves' World"
  
• Isaac Asimov's "Prelude to Foundation" and "Forward the Foundation"
• Nancy Baker's "The Night Inside"
• Ben Bova's "Brothers"
  
• David Brin's "Earth"
  
• Terry Brook's "First King of Shannara"
• John Brunner's "The Complete Traveller In Black"
  
• Stephen Brust's "The Phoenix Guards"
  
• Orson Scott Card's "Seventh Son"
  
• C.J. Cherryh & Mercedes Lackey "Reap the Whirlwind"
  
• Chris Claremont's "Grounded"
  
• Arthur C. Clark's "Beyond the Fall of Night"
• Arthur C. Clark & Gentry Lee's "Garden of Rama" and "Rama Revealed"
  
• Adrian Cole's "King of Light and Shadows"
  
• Pamela Dean's "The Dubious Hills"
  
• Tom Deitz's "Soul Smith"
  
• Gordon Dickson's "Soldier, Ask Not" and "The Earth Lords"
  
• David Drake's "Old Nathan"
  
• Dave Duncan's "The Hunter's Haunt"
  
• P.N. Elrod's "Red Death"
  
• Bill Fawcet's "Wizard of Tizare" and "Defenders of the Air"
  
• Alan Dean Foster's "Maori"
  
• John Gardner's "Grendel"
  
• Jane Gaskell's "The Serpent"
  
• David Gemmel's "Druss the Legend" and "The Legend of Deathwalker"
  
• William Gibson's "Virtual Light"
  
• Karen Harber's "Mutant Prime"
• Andrew Harman's "The Frogs of War"
  
• Tom de Haven's "Walker of Worlds"
  
• Paul Hazel's "The Finnbranch"
• William Horwood's "Duncton Wood"
  
• Robert Jastrow's "Journey to the Sky"
• Guy Gavriel Kay's "Tigana"
• Richard Knaak's "King of the Grey"
  
• Gentry Lee's "Bright Messengers"
• Julian May's "Many Coloured Land"
  
• Anne McCaffrey's "Lyon's Pride" and "Crystal Singer"
  
• Michael Moorcock's "Books of Corum"
  
• Larry Niven's "Books of Known Space"
• Thomas Palmer's "Dream Science"
• Lester Del Rey's "Pstalemate"
  
• Anne Rice's "Interview With the Vampire", "The Vampire Lestat", "Queen of the Damned" and "The Witching Hour
  
• Christopher Rowley's "Bazil Broketail"
  
• Fred Saberhagen's "Frankenstein Papers" and "The Black Throne"
  
• Alison Spedding's "The Road and the Hills", "The Streets of the City" and "A Cloud Over Water"
• Anthony Swithin's "Prince of Sandastre"
  
• Paul Thompson's "Riverwind the Plainsman"
• Robert Anton Wilson's "Historical Illuminati Trilogy"
  
• David Wingate's "Chung Kuo"
• Jonathan Wylie's "Other Lands"
  
• Roger Zelazny's "Isle of the Dead"
  

More serious reading includes:

• Stephen Saylor's "The Venus Throw" and "Catalina Riddle"
  
• Pierre Burton's "My Country"
  
• Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum"
  
• Stephen Levy's "Artificial Life"
  
• Alan Paton's "Cry Beloved Country"
  
• Hunter S. Thompson's "Songs of the Doomed"
  

And the entries in the contemporary thriller section are:

• Dale Brown's "Sky Masters"
• Tony Cape's "The Cambridge Theory"
• Tom Clancy's "Op Centre"
  
• Harold Coyle's "Bright Star"
• Paul Erdman's "Zero Coupon
  
• William E. Holland's "Moscow Twilight"
• Anthony Hyde's "China Lake"
• Gavin Layall's "The Secret Servants" and "The Crocus List"