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OK, where do I start with that? B.


People are always asking where they should start reading particular authors. This series of posts working their way through the alphabet as represented by my bookshelves, is an attempt to answer those questions. The popular “A” list can be found here, and the full alphabetical index is here. Please comment to add any B writers that I may have missed, and of course to argue with my choices.
I’m linking to my posts on the books where I have made such posts.
My B shelf begins with a disturbingly large number of copies of
Destinies, a paperback SF magazine edited by Jim Baen in my own personal golden age of the late seventies and early eighties. How I loved it and waited eagerly for new copies to arrive in the bookshop! There doesn’t seem much point recommending it now but if you happen to see copies lying around it’s still worth picking up for the Spider Robinson reviews (lacerating books most people have now forgotten) the Pournelle essays on space futures and ....

United States , Al Iskandariyah , United Kingdom , Terry Bisson , Iain Banks , Jim Baen , Gemma Bull , John Barnes , David Brin , Spider Robinson , Anne Bronte , Octavia Butler , Wildfell Hall , James Blish , Anthony Burgess , Le Guin , Emily Bronte , Alfred Bester , Lois Mcmaster Bujold , Orson Scott Card , Mildred Downey Broxon , Jane Eyre , Greg Bear , Gillian Bradshaw , Lloyd Biggle Jr , Charlotte Bronte ,

Books That Grab You


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I’ve written here before about the quality of “I-want-to-read-it-osity” that some books have, a hard to define but easy to see quality which I am going to refer to as “grabbyness.” There are books you can pick up and put down and happily pick up again, and then there are books that seem to glue themselves to your brain, that utterly absorb you. There are books that are great when you’re halfway through them but that take work to get into. Right now, the kind you can put down and the kind that are hard to get into don’t cut it, because they’re hard to focus on while fretting. For me, grabbyness is a quality entirely orthogonal to actual quality. There are grabby books that are only OK and great books that are not grabby. It also has nothing to do with how ostensibly exciting they are, nor how comforting they are. There are just books that are grabby and books that are not. What I’m talking about is the power to brin ....

Papua New Guinea , Benjamin Franklin , Rainbow Rowell , Elizabeth Wein , John Barnes , Patrick Rothfuss , Peter Dickinson , Nevin Nollop , Noel Streatfeild , Garyd Schmidt , Jada Palmer , Nevil Shute , Kurt Busiek Astro , Ira Levin , Benvenuto Cellini , Lois Mcmaster Bujold , Gretchen Mcculloch , Nina Kiriki Hoffman , Jennifer Crusie , Cj Cherryh Chanur , Mary Renault , Patrick Leigh Fermor , Rosemary Kirstein , Suzanna Hersey , Don Kulik , Vicki Rosenzweig ,