This week’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is “Top Ten Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More”, which… I’m not quite sure if I can do, since I tend to go on sprees. Let’s see what I can manage.
- Steven Brust. I’ve only so far read Jhereg, though I know I’m gonna read the rest of the series.
- Laura Lam. I’ve read one of the short Vestigial Tales, but not the main series.
- Phyllis Ann Karr. I loved Idylls of the Queen (and wrote part of my dissertation on it). Lucky for me, I have a few more of her books waiting in my queue.
- Steven Erikson. I’ve got almost the whole Malazan series to go. I might have to reread Gardens of the Moon by the time I get round to that, though.
- Philip Reeve. I’ve read Here Lies Arthur, and have a bunch of others on my list.
- Jorge Luis Borges. This is more because, much as I wanted it to, The Book of Imaginary Beings didn’t wow me.
- Italo Calvino. Same goes, with Invisible Cities. There’s a lot I wanted to love.
- James Morrow. I haven’t actually quite finished This is the Way the World Ends yet, but it fascinated me the way he managed to draw me in, despite my usual aversion to comic novels of any kind.
- Kameron Hurley. I’ve actually only finished reading her book of essays. I really need to read God’s War and Mirror Empire.
- Lucius Shepard. I’ve only read The Dragon Griaule, and that was just fascinating, the weirdness of the world and the way he built it up.
Oh, I could manage after all. What about everyone else?
I haven’t finished it yet, but Borges’s Marina turned into a good book a third of the way in, if you want to start there?
Dang it, I copypasta’d wrong 😛 Ficciones is what I meant. But I don’t remember if short stories are your cuppa?
Hmm, sounds good, I shall have to look out for that one. Short stories, hm, it depends; they have to be done right.