Collective Chronicles Reading Experience - Have We Read Everything?

Here is a list I discovered of books published in the Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks line. It does have some overlaps with the lists already posted in this thread. I've underlined everything I have read (some of which I have undoubtedly already noted in previous posts but I can't be bothered to go back and look) though not necessarily in the original editions named below or in the Gollancz reprints but in some edition, and not counting things I started to read but did not finish. I suspect others here can pretty much fill in the rest of the list, since there is little or nothing here that is particularly obscure.

 
Okay, the way to approach this list is to remove the books you've read hereon, and see if we can remove them all. I'll take out Terea's underlined books and also any I can add.


These are currently left on Gollanz Fantasy Masterworks list from Teresa - re-post with more removed if you've read them.
 
I'm having serious cognitive dissonance over the recent dates and renamed collections in the above posted lists.

As someone also noted, upthread, it's difficult enough to remember details of vast amounts of reading over more than half a century; without trying to figure TOC's of renamed collections.

That said Here's my nominations for removal from the lists:
Mythago Wood, for certs. I've read that several times.

The House on the Borderline sounds familiar.

Chronicles of Amber. A frequent flyer in Chrons discussions, over the years. I've read all of them, as many of us have.

It would be tough to find a Fritz Leiber I haven't read, certainly everything Fafrd and Mouser. Currently, in fact, I'm re-reading an e-book re release of the whole lot of them. (Under whatever Title, I'm not going upstairs to check the kindle, at this moment.) So take the two Lankmar collections off the list.

The Conan Chronicles: I've probably read most of them. Not much help from the name of the collection, without a TOC.

Likewise Vance's Tales of Dying Earth.

Likewise the Kipling Stories.

Likewise, the Clark Ashton Smith collection.

I've read some Leigh bracket collections; not necessarily what may or may not be in the '05 reissue.

Moorcock: anything "Eternal Hero" in all guises. Also a frequent flyer in Chrons discussions over the years. Off the list.

I've read Anubis Gates, not sure about the other Tim Powers, Maybe Earthquake weather, not Expiration date.









Likewise
 
I've read Fevre Dream (excellent) and Gloriana (not so excellent). I've definitely read Kipling's story "The Mark of the Beast" and some other short stories by him, but I don't think I've read that particular collection.
 
I have read

After also having removed the books read by @Hugh, @Alex The G and T and @Toby Frost the list now reads:
 
In addition to some others already removed, like the Holdstocks, I've read about 9/12 of the Brackett (which I'm leaving on the list) and Pat Murphy's The Falling Woman and Jack Williamson's Darker Than You Think (which I'm removing). (Finney and Pratt (and some Howard) are in the Pile.)
 
Removing Aegypt and the Conan Chronicles vol 2
 
Here are some genre works that might have been read just by me -- though I wouldn't be prepared to fight for them all being "major."

Benson's Lord of the World (eschatological sf)
Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (fantasy)
Jefferies's After London; or, Wild London (sf)
Lynch's Menace from the Moon (sf)
Mead's Mary's Country (sf)
O'Brien's Voyage to Alpha Centauri (religious sf)
O'Neill's Land Under England (sf)
Solovyov's Tale of the Antichrist (eschatological)
Vodolazkin's Laurus and The Aviator (fantasy and sf respectively)



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Another one perhaps read only by me -- this is a satirical futuristic novella by the noted "Fourth Inkling"):

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Can you not remove any from the Masterworks list Extollager?
(It's not really necessary to list obscure stuff that's been read, only to tick off suggestions of what's not been read, if you're read them).
 
Hugh said:
I suggest that it is very likely that no one has read (or will admit to having read) all 35 volumes of John Norman's Gor series
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Well er, you can knock off volumes 1-24 from the list.
My father in law from my first marriage had those, he was forever pressing them on me "Here, try this one now, bloody good stuff" and then discussing plots with me the following week on our next visit.
To be fair he had some good SF books as well
 
Bick said:
Can you not remove any from the Masterworks list Extollager?
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No... I hardly ever read fantasy published later than about 1970. What a lot of very recent books to be labeled as "masterworks"! We must be living in a glorious age of literary creativity to put the Elizabethans to shame.
 
Removing Grendel and Was. I can't honestly remember if I read Time and Again or another of Finney's time fantasies.
 
J-Sun said:
I think Parson's read all the Foreigner books and I'm sure others have read her fantasies.
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I have not read all the Foreigner books. I stopped reading them about book 10, and there are now 21 books in the series. --- I didn't stop for any reason other than I started reading books that were much, much, cheaper.
 
Extollager said:
No... I hardly ever read fantasy published later than about 1970. What a lot of very recent books to be labeled as "masterworks"! We must be living in a glorious age of literary creativity to put the Elizabethans to shame.
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So many more people have the ability to write and to have what they have written published. Of course a lot of the books published each year are bad and a lot are mediocre, but if only a small percentage of those are extraordinarily good, that is still a great many books—enough I imagine to put any previous era to shame. That is the advantage of progress: higher literacy, more time to write, more chances to get one's work before the public. Had the Elizabethans the same advantages, the era might have been even more glorious than it was.
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
Removing Grendel and Was. I can't honestly remember if I read Time and Again or another of Finney's time fantasies.
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@Stephen Palmer raved about Little, Big on here not so long ago, so I assume he's read that one. Me, I'm still only about 100 pages into it. New things keep cropping up that I find myself reading instead...
 
Bick said:
I expect you've read the Dunsany too?
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If all of it was reprinted in the three Ballantine books of Dunsany stories, then yes, but offhand I’m not sure it was. I imagine most of it was, at least.
 
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