Because I'm bored...another html tagging exercise book meme

[shadowkat]

This came out of a discussion with embers_log as response to who chooses these books for book memes anyhow. The books on this list are pulp and genre. I'm trying to pick at least ten from each. Some may be dated, but what the heck. Feel free to add on.

Rules - Bold what you've read. Italicize one's you've started. And I really don't feel like doing much else. I came up with 65 before I got tired. Really don't know how people come up with a hundred. Should clarify - it's not that I haven't read a hundred, I have, I just can't remember them. Was hard remembering these. These aren't exactly the type of books that stick with you after you read them. Well, the one's I came up with did. But you know what I mean.

1. Devil's Desire by Laurie McBaine
2. Bride of the McHugh by Jan Cox Speas
3. The Chronicles of Lymond by Dorothy Dunnett
4. The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
5. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
6. The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
7. Obsiddian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton
8. The Wildest Heart by Rosemary Rodgers
9. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
10. Dead as a Doornail by Charlain Harris
11. A Dark Adapted Eye by PD James
12. The Ice House by Minette Walters
13. High Five by Janet Evanovich
14. Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
15. A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
16. Curtain by Agatha Christie
17. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
18. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
19. The Turqoise Mask by Physllis A Whitney
20. The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet
21. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely
22. Hondo by Louis L'Amour
23. A Horseman Passed By by Larry McMurty (later entitled "Hud")
24. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
25. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas A. Harris
26. The Shining by Stephen King
28. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
29. Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
30. Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
31. Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
32. Trogan Gold by Elizabeth Peters
33. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville
34. A Few Demons More by Kim Harrison
35. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
36. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear
37. The Chronicles of Thomas A Covenant: Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
38. Andromeda Strain by Michael Crighton
39. A is for Albi by Sue Grafton
40. The Crime at Lock 14 by Georges Simenon
41. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
42. Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
43. The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum
44. Time to Kill by John Grisham
43. The Paper Chase by Scott Turow
45. Absolute Power by David Baldacci
46. The Bone is Pointed by Arthur W. Upfield
47. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
48. The Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald
49. Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
50. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
51. Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
52. The Crystal Gryphon by Andre Norton
53. The Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh
55. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
56. Grass by Sherri Tepper
57. Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
58. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
59. Good Omens by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman
60. Desert Heat by JA Jance
61. The Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald
62. The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming (note it is NOTHING like the film version.)
63. The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
64. Brat Farrar by Jospehine Tey
65. The Venetian Affair by Helene MacInnis

And I can't think of any more.

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Wow, excellent list! I only 17 of those... (I'm happy you included Jim Butcher!)
I might want to include:

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Phillip Pullman
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Nero Wolfe Mysteries by Rex Stout
Brother Cadfeal Mysteries by Ellis Peters
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
the Eyre Affaire (a Tuesday Next Mystery) by Jasper Fforde
Kiln People by David Brin (much better than The Postman)
the Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

but those still only bring you up to 75! This is hard!!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure PG Wodehouse counts as pulp. Although technically, I may have had a few that didn't either - Smilla's Sense of Snow being amongst them. But Wodehouse I think of a classic lit for some reason.

Also, I kept Philip K. Pullman off - because he was on the other list.

Ohh...Anne McCaffrey novels:

Restoree
Dragonflight
The White Dragon
The Ship Who Sang
The Crystal Singer
Pegasus
Moreta's Ride (when I actually gave up on her books)

My favorites are Restoree, The Ship who Sang, Dragonflight, and The Crystal Singer. Although Pegasus was good too - think it was Pegasus - the one about the telepaths.

I had an aunt who introduced me to CJ Cherryh, Andre Norton, Zelphia Keatley Snyder, Anne McCaffrey, and Louis L'Amoure. She also gave me The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Oh but see, I was kind of excited when I thought of Wodehouse. It is true that he isn't pulp in the usual sense (not coming out in paperback? lol) but I was thinking we could say he was light comedy (or really light romance)... and he gets left off of almost every list because even though his writing is both clever and exquisitely literate, he is just written off as too 'light'. I was actually wanting to add Max Schulman's Barefoot Boy with Cheek, and other very light/comedic novels. But it is your list, those were just suggestions I had.

And sorry about Philip K. Pullman, I didn't notice his name on the BBC list, I was also trying to avoid things that were already on that other list.

I never came close to reading all of Anne McCaffrey, but she wrote some very credible fantasy that I enjoyed a lot. I was just trying to think of authors who are read a lot, but don't get much respect.... Because actually most of them are very decent writers. In fact I would say that Dorothy L. Sayers is a great writer, but she didn't even respect her mysteries (although she couldn't resist writing herself into the series so she could marry her hero. lol).

I was wondering if someone like Mitchner should even count, because God knows I've never taken a trip over-seas without encountering one of his tombs lying around waiting to be read.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Mitchner defintely counts as does the woman who wrote The Thorn Birds whose name I can't remember even though I loved the book way back when. And light novels are fine.

Wodehouse - I consider literature, in line with Steinbeck and Shakespeare - and I've read almost all the Jeeves and Wooster novels - have about eight of them I think. But he's a step above.

Mitchner...is well pulp, with a few exceptions.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm not arguing about Wodehouse's remarkable writing skills... I'm just pointing out that he gets left off of that BBC list, and other lists of literature, he was never even given a Knighthood or any recognition for his writing.

He is beloved with good reason, but also never taught in literature classes.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The BBC America list is hardly what I'd call a list of great literature. Although I don't think that's what you are saying. (It has Bridget Jones Diary on it!)
It's more a list of "popular literature". And my list above is also mostly pop lit. The books that are over-reviewed, over-marketed, have had movies, and you see on Best-seller lists.

Wodehouse isn't really pop lit. He doesn't get assigned in college and high school classes and isn't on the Best Seller lists.