I am a voracious reader. I always have a book or three on me. My recent trip to the UK turned into a book-buying extravaganza. I'm finally leaving the realm of SF for high quality (I hope!) fiction.

      Personal Faves

        Grass, Sheri Tepper
        Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
        Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey
        The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley
        Witch Week, Diana Wynne Jones
        Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills
        The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

      Books I've Recently Read That I Really Liked

        Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
        The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
        Eating Memories, Patricia Anthony
        All Over But The Shoutin', Rick Bragg
        The Snow Queen, Joan Vinge
        The Merro Tree, Katie Waitman
        Hyperion, Dan Simmons
        Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
        A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge
        The Dylanist, Brian Morton
        Evensong, Gail Godwin


      Floating Around - To Be Read, Or Just Read

        Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
        We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Philip Gourevitch
        Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
        Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
        Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
        East of the Mountains, David Guterson
        Waiting for the Galactic Bus, Parke Godwin
        Blue River, Ethan Canin
        The World and Other Places, Jeanette Winterson

      Authors

        David Brin
        Orson Scott Card
        Roger Zelazny
        Sheri Tepper
        David Eddings
        Robin McKinley
        Raymond Feist
        Anne McCaffrey
        Terry Pratchett
        Isaac Asimov
        Susan Cooper
        C.S. Lewis
        J.R.R. Tolkien
        James Baldwin
        Octavia Butler
        Diana Wynne Jones
        Agatha Christie


        Nothing else leaps to mind right now... Off to eat ice cream!