Rating

5 stars –  Excellence + Permanent Collection Worthy

Barbery, Muriel – The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Bellairs, John – The Curse of the Blue Figurine

Brett, Peter V. – The Warded Man

Calvino, Italo – If on a winter’s night a traveler . . .

Campbell, Jack – The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

Carr, John Dickson – Castle Skull

Christie, Agatha – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Clarke, Arthur C. – Expedition to Earth

Dick, Philip K. – Clans of the Alphane Moon

Goncharov, Ivan – Oblomov

Gunn, James E. – Station in Space

Higgins, Peter – Wolfhound Century

Junger, Ernst – The Glass Bees

Leiber, Fritz – The Big Time

McNeill, Graham – False Gods

Nabokov, Vladimir – Bend Sinister

Vance, Jack – The Languages of Pao

      White, James – The Escape Orbit

4 stars – Great

Adams, Douglas – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Anderson, Poul – Shield

Asimov, Isaac – Foundation

Asimov, Isaac – Foundation and Empire

Asimov, Isaac – Second Foundation

Asimov, Isaac – I, Robot

Asimov, Isaac – The Caves of Steel

       Baxter, Alan – The Gulp

Bellairs, John – The Mummy, The Will, and The Crypt

Bester, Alfred – The Dark Side of the Earth

Bradley, Alan – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

       Brazill, Paul D. – Gumshoe Blues

Britain, Kristen – Green Rider

Bruce, Leo – Case for Three Detectives

Brunner, John – The Whole Man

Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and The Margarita

Burroughs, Edgar Rice – A Princess of Mars

Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand – The Journey to the End of the Night

Christie, Agatha – The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Christie, Agatha – The Murder on the Links

Christie, Agatha – The Big Four

Christie, Agatha – Peril at End House

Christopher, John – The Lotus Caves

Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games

Compton, D. G. – Synthajoy

Cook, Glen – The Black Company

Counter, Ben – Galaxy in Flames

Dembski Bowden, Aaron – Soul Hunter

Dick, Philip K. – The Penultimate Truth

     Dick, Philip K. – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

       Dick, Philip K. – Now Wait For Last Year

Disch, Thomas M. – Echo Round His Bones

      Faulkner, William – Knight’s Gambit

Fforde, Jasper – Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

Greaney, Mark – The Gray Man

Gunn, James E. – This Fortress World

Harrison, Harry – The Stainless Steel Rat

Howey, Hugh – Wool

Kaminsky, Stuart M. – Death of a Dissident

King, Laurie R. – The Moor

Laumer, Keith – Envoy to New Worlds

Lawrence, Mark – Prince of Thorns

Leblanc, Maurice – Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar

Lem, Stanislaw – The Investigation

Leskov, Nikolai – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District

      McIntyre, Vonda M. – The Entropy Effect

McNeill, Graham – Fulgrim

Miéville, China – The City and The City

Mishima, Yukio – The Sound of Waves

Morden, Simon – Equations of Life

Nabokov, Vladimir – The Defense

Orczy, Baroness E. – The Scarlet Pimpernel

Pessl, Marisha – Night Film

Pehov, Alexey – Shadow Prowler

Pohl, Frederik – Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn – Diving Into The Wreck

Roshwald, Mordecai – Level 7

Saberhagen, Fred – Berserker

Saberhagen, Fred – Brother Assassin

Sanderson, Brandon – Steelheart

Sayers, Dorothy L. – Clouds of Witness

Saylor, Steven – Roman Blood

Sheckley, Robert – Citizen in Space

Sheckley, Robert – Untouched By Human Hands

Sigel, Scott – Alive

Simak, Clifford D. – All Flesh is Grass

Simak, Clifford D. – Ring Around the Sun

Simak, Clifford D. – Time is the Simplest Thing

Sladek, John – Tik-Tok

Soseki, Natsume – The Three-Cornered World

Tanizaki, Junichiro – Devils in Daylight

      Willis, Dan – In Plain Sight

Zweig, Stefan – Chess Story

3 stars

Abe, Kobo – The Woman in the Dunes

Anderson, Poul – The Long Way Home

Andrews, Ilona – Magic Bites

Babel, Isaac – Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Banks, Iain M. – Consider Phlebas

Bellairs, John – The Figure in the Shadows

Berenson, Alex – The Faithful Spy

Bester, Alfred – The Demolished Man

Black, Holly – White Cat

Brett, Simon – A Nice Class of Corpse

Brown, Eric – The Devil’s Nebula

Brown, Rita Mae – Wish You Were Here

      Brunner, John – The Atlantic Abomination

Brunner, John – The Stardroppers

Brust, Steven – Jhereg

Calvino, Italo – The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount

Carr, John Dickson – It Walks By Night

Carriger, Gail – Soulless

Carriger, Gail – Etiquette & Espionage

Chekhov, Anton – Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

Child, Lee – Killing Floor

       Child, Lincoln – Terminal Freeze

Clarke, Arthur C. – Childhood’s End

Clement, Hal – Needle

Connelly, Michael – The Black Echo

Corey, James S. A. – Leviathan Wakes

Del Rey, Lester – Marooned on Mars

Dick, Philip K. – VALIS

Dick, Philip K. – Eye in the Sky

Dick, Philip K. – Ubik

Dick, Philip K. – Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Dick, Philip K. – Our Friends From Frolix 8

Farmer, Philip Jose – To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Gibson, William – Neuromancer

Gilman, Dorothy – The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

“Grant, Maxwell” – The Living Shadow

Green, Simon R. – The Dark Side of the Road

Green, Simon R. – Dead Man Walking

Greene, Graham – The Ministry of Fear

Gunn, James E. – The Joy Makers

Gunn, James E. & Jack Williamson – Star Bridge

Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hamilton, Edmond – Captain Future and the Space Emperor

Harrison, Harry – One Step From Earth

Heyer, Georgette – Why Shoot a Butler?

Household, Geoffrey – Rogue Male

       Izumi Kyoka – Japanese Gothic Tales

Jameson, Hanna –The Last

Karpyshyn, Drew – Star Wars: The Old Republic – Revan

Kaufman, Amie & Jay Kristoff – Illuminae

Koontz, Dean – Odd Thomas

Kornbluth, C. M. – The Explorers

Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund – Autobiography of a Corpse

Larsson, Stieg – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Lee, Tanith – Indigara

Leinster, Murray – The Brain-Stealers

Leinster, Murray – Twists in Time

Lem, Stanislaw – Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Marsh, Ngaio – A Man Lay Dead

Matheson, Richard – The Shores of Space

McKinney, Jack – Genesis

Miéville, China – Embassytown

Miller, jr., Walter M. – The View From The Stars

Miller, jr., Walter M. – A Canticle for Leibowitz

Monk, Devon – Magic to the Bone

Monk, Devon – Magic in the Blood

Moon, Elizabeth – Trading in Danger

Nabokov, Vladimir – Invitation to a Beheading

Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire

Parker, Steve – Rynn’s World

Pessl, Marisha – Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Pohl, Frederik (ed.) – Star Science Fiction 1

Pratchett, Terry – Wyrd Sisters

Reichs, Kathy – Deja Dead

Reichs, Kathy – Death du Jour

Reichs, Kathy – Fatal Voyage

Rollins, James – Subterranean

Roth, Veronica – Divergent

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn – The Disappeared

Sayers, Dorothy L. – Whose Body?

Setiawan, Erick – Of Bees and Mist

Sheckley, Robert – Pilgrimage to Earth

Silverberg, Robert – Recalled to Life

Simak, Clifford D. – Cosmic Engineers

Simak, Clifford D. – They Walked Like Men

Simak, Clifford D. – Way Station

Simak, Clifford D. – Time and Again

Simenon, Georges – Pietr the Latvian

Taylor, Brad – One Rough Man

White, James – Hospital Station

 2 stars

Aaronovitch, Ben – Midnight Riot

Amis, Martin – Time’s Arrow

Anderson, Poul – Question and Answer

Baldacci, David – Memory Man

Ballard, J. G. – High-Rise

Ballard, J. G. – The Wind From Nowhere

Bass, Jefferson – Carved in Bone

Child, Lincoln – Deep Storm

       Connelly, Michael – The Black Ice

Crombie, Deborah – A Share in Death

       Green, Simon R. – Very Important Corpses

Gunn, James E. – Future Imperfect

       Heinlein, Robert A. – Beyond This Horizon

Hemingway, Ernest – Men Without Women

Janifer, Laurence – Survivor

       Kinberg, Margot – A Matter of Motive

Kornbluth, C. M. – Search the Sky

Maine, Charles Eric – High Vacuum

Mishima, Yukio – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Mishima, Yukio – The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

      Nicholas, Chad – Nightmare

Parker, T. Jefferson – The Room of White Fire

Riggs, Ransom – Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Simenon, Georges – The Carter of La Providence

Stross, Charles – The Atrocity Archives

White, James – Star Surgeon

White, James – The Secret Visitors