Fantasy & Science Fiction/Theory Reading Group

(Note: the group began meeting Jan 1988; this incomplete list was begun by David Carter based on archived web pages available 20 Sep 2005. The year indicates the year of posting a given schedule of readings.)

1999
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's  Stone
Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins
Glenn Kleier, The Last Day
Thomas M. Disch, 334
C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
2000
Alan Garner, The Owl Service
Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous With Rama
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven
2001
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
Sherree R. Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Paul DiFilippo, The Steampunk Trilogy
José Saramago, Blindness
Ken Grimwood, Replay
Jack Williamson, Darker Than You Think
Jonathan Lethem, Gun, With Occasional Music
2002
Tove Jansson, Moominpappa at Sea
Christopher Priest, The Prestige
David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus
William Browning Spencer, Résumé with Monsters
Walter Moseley, Futureland
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Karl Schroeder, Ventus
2003
Nevil Shute, On the Beach
Jonathan Carroll, The Wooden Sea
Lawrence Watt-Evans, The Unwilling Warlord
Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
China Miéville, Perdido Street Station
Alan Moore, Watchmen
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Robert Charles Wilson, The Chronoliths
2004
Stanislaw Lem, His Master's Voice
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Michael Resnick, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia
Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
Neil Gaiman et al, Preludes & Nocturnes and The Doll's House
John Fowles, The Magus
Anthony Burgess, The Wanting Seed
Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics
2004-2005
Anthony C. Winkler, The Duppy
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Tim Powers, Declare
Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun
Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas, & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Edgar Rice Burroughs; The Land that Time Forgot; The People that Time Forgot; Out of Time's Abyss
Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood
Phillip Roth, The Plot Against America
2005-2006
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Charles Stross, Accelerando (Jan 2006)
Grant Morrison, Seaguy and We3
Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
Max Barry, Jennifer Government
Robin McKinley, Sunshine
Midori Snyder, The Innamorati
Clifford Simak, Way Station
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
2007
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt
Charles Burns, Black Hole
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler
Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang
Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Russell, Hoban, Riddley Walker
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
Clive Barker, Weaveworld
2008
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
Richard Matheson, I Am Legend
Russell Hoban, Linger Awhile
Robert J. Sawyer, Rollback
Jeff Smith, Bone
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
James Morrow, Towing Jehovah
Joshua Mowll, Operation Red Jericho (Book 1)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five
Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds