What Should I Read in 2008? (Long List, With Voting)

Hi there, and welcome to 2008!

As a compulsive list-maker, I'm once again asking the The Vast Wisdom
of Usenet what books I should read this year. Below are 100 books (or
a more, counting multiple titles by a single author) of fiction I'm
considering reading in 2008. They're all books I already own in first
editions. Most likely I'll get to considerably less than 100. The
first 10 or so are books I'll probably get to, and the probable order,
whereas the rest are a little vaguer (and in alphabetical order by
author). That's where you come in. Tell me which of the books below I
should or shouldn't read, and why. If a book's not on the list, it's
probably because I've already read it, or have no interest in it,
won't get to it this year, etc., so save your electrons instead of
suggesting alternates (there are plenty of other threads for that).
And if I list Book #2 in a series, rest assured I've already read Book
#1. (The Over/Under for how many messages it takes for the first
person to ignore these caveats is "3".)

I don't promise I'll read all the highest rated works, but those most
highly praised are considerably more likely they'll be added to the
reading stack, which is what's happened the previous years I've done
this.

Manly Wade Wellman: Lights Over Skeleton Ridge
Jack Vance: The Brave Free Men
Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen
Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin & Daniel Abraham: Shadow Twin
Christopher Brookmyre: All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye
Alistair Reynolds: Chasm City
Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor
Samuel R. Delany: Driftglass
Robert E. Howard: Conan the Conqueror
Charles Stross: Halting State or Missile Gap
J. G. Ballard: The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Iain Banks: Against a Dark Background
Clive Barker: Everville
John Barnes: Kaleidoscope Century or Mother of Storms
Stephen Baxter: Traces or Mayflower II
Robert Bloch: Flowers from the Moon or Night World
Poppy Z. Brite: Plastic Jesus
Octavia Butler: Mind of My Mind or Fledgeling
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Jack Cady: The Night We Buried Road Dog
Jonathan Carroll: A Child Across the Sky or Outside the Dog Museum
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Avram Davidson: The Adventures of Dr. Esterhauzy or Joyleg
L. Sprague de Camp: A Gun for Dinosaur
Bradley Denton: Laughin' Boy
Philip K. ***: Collected Stories Volume II or Confessions of a Crap
Artist
Paul Di Filippo: Lost Pages or Fractal Paisleys
George Alec Effinger: What Entropy Means to Me
Harlan Ellison: Deathbird Stories
Philip Jose Farmer: Maker of Universes or Down in the Black Gang
Jeffrey Ford: The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
John M. Ford: The Dragon Waiting
Neil Gaiman: Snow Glass Apples
John Gardner: Freddy's Book
Ray Garton: Night Life
Jane Gaskell: The Serpent
Chris Genoa: Foop!
Peter F. Hamilton: Mindstar Rising
Nalo Hopkinson: Brown Girl in the Ring or The Salt Roads
Geoffrey Household: The Sending
Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Ha Jin: Waiting
James Patrick Kelly: Strange But Not a Stranger
Stephen King: Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass or The Colorado Kid
Russell Kirk: The Surly Sullen Bell (and yes, I've read the 2 Arkham
House collections)
Henry Kuttner and/or C. L. Moore: Mutant, Fury, Northwest Smith or No
Boundaries
R. A. Lafferty: Argo
Jay Lake: Mainspring
Joe R. Lansdale: Flaming London
Fritz Leiber: Rime Isle
Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn
Ian MacLeod: Breathmoss and Other Exhalations
Ken MacLeod: Giant Lizards from Another Star
Gregory Maguire: Wicked
David Marusek: Counting Heads
Richard Matheson: Duel or What Dreams May Come
Ian McDonald: River of Gods
Maureen McHugh: Mission Child or Nekropolis
Sean McMullen: The Miocene Arrow
Larry McMurtry: Lonesome Dove
China Mieville: King Rat or Looking for Jake
Michael Moor***: Gloriana
Richard Morgan: Broken Angels
Pat Murphy: The Falling Woman
John Myers Myers: Silverlock
William F. Nolan: Things Beyond Midnight or Wild Galaxy
Naomi Novik: Temeraire
Chad Oliver: The Shores of Another Sea or The Winds of Time
H. Beam Piper: Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
Tim Powers: Three Days to Never or Pilot Light
Rudy Rucker: Master of Time & Space or The Secret of Life or White
Light
Matt Ruff: Fool on the Hill
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
Joanna Russ: The Female Man
John Scazli: The Ghost Brigades
Karl Schroeder: Permanence or Lady of Mazes
David J. Schow: Crypt Orchids
Michael Shaara: The Herald
Michael Shea: A Quest for Simbilis
Lucius Shepard: Floater or Aztechs or Viator
Lewis Shiner: The Edges of Things or Love in Vain
Dan Simmons: The Terror
Robert Sladek: Roderick
Clark Ashton Smith: Tales of Science and Sorcery
William Browning Spencer: The Ocean and All Its Devices
Neal Stephenson: Zodiac or The Big U
Steph Swainston: The Year of Our War
Thomas Burnett Swann: The Day of the Minotaur
A. E. van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle or The War Against the
Rull
Karl Edward Wagner: Darkness Weaves
Howard Waldrop: Things Will Never Be the Same
Martha Wells: The Element of Fire
John Whitbourne: To Build Jerusalem or Binscomb Tales
Edward Whitmore: Nile Shadows
Liz Williams: The Banquet for the Lords of Night or Snake Agent
Jack Williamson: The Legion of Space
Connie Willis: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Walter Jon Williams: Conventions of War
Gene Wolfe: Pirate Freedom
Roger Zelazny: Wilderness or DonnerJack

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