500 Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Books You Should Read Before You Die - Members' Version

To continue this thread, can you please ensure that book recommendations are posted TO THIS THREAD and not to the originally posted spreadsheet, please.
 
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Coming very late to the party, I'd like to add

The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson to the list. (at 217?)

I know a lot of you have very negative feelings about Thomas Covenant, but you should try this series of 5 SF books even if you disliked T.C.
 
218 The Dreaming Jewels by Theodore Sturgeon
219 In Caverns Below by Stanton Coblentz
220 Donvan's Brain By Curt Siomak
231 The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell
231 Nightshade and Damnations by Gerald Kersh
232 The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
231 The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin volume 1 through 5 By Seabury Quinn
232. The Kane Mystic Swordsman series by Karl Edward Wagner
232 Bolo and Rogue Bolo by Keith laumner
233 The Star Rover by Jack London
234. The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
235 Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
236 Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
237 Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
238. The City of the Singing Flame Anthology by Clark Ashton Smith
239 The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
240 Conan the Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard.
241 The Dark World by Henry Kuttner
242. Black Gods Kiss by C L Moore
243 Kelly Country by A Bertram Chandler



Just a few suggestions. :)
 
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244: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Believable and real with some interesting alternative futures (now pasts, given when the book was written).

245: The Reindeer People and Wolf's Brother by Megan Lindholm
It's a long time since I read these stories, but I remember feeling very emotionally involved with the characters.

246: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
Good stories and an interesting afterword to each from Octavia herself.

247: Writers of the Future Volume 31
Contains two of my favourite short stories (by Sharon Joss and Steve Pantazis).

248: Stories Volume 1 by Ray Bradbury
Speaks for itself, methinks.

249: The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year One
A great range of fantasy stories including one of my favourites, The Sword of Loving Kindness by Chris Willrich.

250:
Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction by Robert K Silverberg
Perhaps unique in that Silverberg provides a critique of each story, including one of my favourites (Four in One by Damon Knight).
 
251 Berserker by Fred Saberhagen
252 Alas Babylon by Pat Frank
253 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Jr
254 Galactic Empires Volume 1 and 2 edited by Brain Aldiss
255 Before the Golden Age edited by Issac Asimov
256 Non-Stop by Brain Aldiss
257 Lest Darkness Falls by L Sprague De camp
258. The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
259 The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
260 The Ship of Ishtar by Abram Merritt
261 The Lost Content by C J Cutcliffe Hynd
262. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
 
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How did we forget C.J. Cherryh to this point?

263. Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
264. Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh
265. Down Below Station by C.J. Cherryh
266. Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh
 
271. Brian Aldiss, The Moment of Eclipse (his best short story collection)

272. Stanley G. Weinbaum, The Best of, 1974. (Crucial collection of the pulp SF of this pioneering author)
 
273.Silverberg (ed.) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (short stories)
274-5. Bova (ed.) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (novellas)
Does someone who knows them better want to nominate that series of anthologies credited to Asimov, a series of the great sf stories by year? -- Would that be a good way to sweep up a lot of the classic sf short stories?
How about the two-volume Treasury edited by Boucher, and the Science Fiction Argosy edited by Knight?
Interested persons can check Contento for contents.
 
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I suppose, if we're going to go in that direction, one could/should add Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions, and the Moorcock-edited best of New Worlds volume, but I'm frankly uneasy about nominating anthologies (as opposed to single-author short story collections). Maybe we could have a separate list, or separate part of the list, for anthologies?
 
277. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (can't believe that's not on here yet)
278. Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov (counted separately, you can stop with that one which is best and the rest worse)
279. Different Seasons by Stephen King (my personal favorite of his, don't like some of his other stuff)
280. Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (better than Revelation Space and should be read first. Kind of dark but brilliant)
281. Codex Alera by Jim Butcher (I liked the first two and they went downhill a bit after that but not too much)
 
276. The Drowned World JG Ballard
277. Vermilion Sands JG Ballard
278. The Status Civilisation Robert Sheckley
279. Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
290. The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
291. The Garments of Caen Barrington Bayley
292. An Alien Heat Michael Moorcock
293. The Tripods Trilogy John Christopher
294. Hothouse. Brian Aldiss
 
295. A PKD short story collection. Suggestions please, for the best one.
 
297 More that Human Theodore Sturgeon
298 The Demolished Man Alfred Bester
299 The Stars My Destination
300 Rogue Moon by Agis Budry
301 The Nitrogen Fix by Hal Clement
302 Mythago Woods By Robert Holdstock
303 Sundiver by David Brin
304 A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
305. The Tritonian Ring by L Sprague De Camp
 
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