EvilSouthiesGoodBooks

This is a list to supplement the current GoodBooks list. It contains those books that I consider worthy of personal collection. This is quite an esteemed qualification, as I go through my bookcase every other year and throw out books I don't want any more (For instance, I gave away two normal shelves' worth of Piers Anthony a few years ago). The previous paranthesized comment also points out that I have an alternate definition of a shelf's worth of space. I stack my books sideways and two deep to cram extras into limited space. And I'm still running out of room on this fairly decently sized bookcase.

Anyway. To the books!

Series I suggest, along with where I recommend people start reading (usually the first book, occasionally not):

• First book (Series, Author)
• Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad and Mallorion, David Eddings)
• Another Fine Myth (Myth, Robert Asprin)
• Phule's Company (Phule, Robert Asprin)
• The Dragon and the George (Dragon Knight, Gordon R. Dickson)
• The Last of the Renshai (Renshai Chronicles, Mickey Zucker Reichert)
• Dragonsong (Pern, Anne McCaffrey?) (Main series starts with Dragonflight, but I like this trilogy better)
• Sing the Four Quarters (Quarters, Tanya Huff)
• Dorsai! (Dorsai, Gordon R. Dickson)
• Blood Price (Blood, Tanya Huff)
• Dawn (Xenogenesis, Octavia Butler)
• Sword Dancer (Swords, Jennifer Roberson)
• Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, Terry Goodkind)
• Magic's Pawn (Herald Mage, Mercedes Lackey) (Main series starts with Arrows of the Queen, but this trilogy is interchangable, since it's a flashback to a hundred years before Arrows, anyway)
• Orion (Orion, Ben Bova)
• Robin and the Kestrel (Bardic Voices, Mercedes Lackey)
• The Magic of Recluce (L. E. Modisett, Jr.)
• Dealing with Dragons (Dragons, Patricia Wrede)

Individual Books, or Series that just haven't gotten enough books worthy enough to read to be worth listing as a series:

• Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, by Orson Scott Card (I didn't like the three other books that were sequels to Ender's Game, although some people do)
• Good Omens, by Neil Gaimen and Terry Prachett
• Neverwhere, by Neil Gaimen (read the graphic novel)
• Sympathy for the Devil, by Holly Lisle
• The Magnificent Wilf, Gordon R. Dickson
• Rewind, by Terry England
• Lost in Translation, by Margaret Ball
• McLendon?'s Syndrome and VMR Theory, by Robert Freeza (warning: excessive slapstick)

This is going to be edited some time when I actually go through my bookcase again and remember for sure which books are in the back. And they currently aren't sorted in any way, which I'd like to do but am not sure by what criteria. (Seriousness? Genre? Depressingness?)