Authors & Titles

I love books¹ and I love to read. Here's some evidence of my reading tastes. Pick your category and click on "Author" or "Title" for that subset of my collection. If it isn't immediately obvious why a particular title is under a particular category, so be it!

Anths (SF): Editor / Title Art: Author / Title Autobio: Author / Title Biography: Author / Title Cartoons: Author / Title Cinema: Author / Title Colls (SF): Author / Title Comix: Author / Title Comix (NF): Author / Title Computing: Author / Title Cookery: Author / Title Current: Author / Title Diaries: Author / Title Engineering: Author / Title Factual (SF): Author / Title FanFic: Author / Title Funny (F): Author / Title Funny (NF): Author / Title Geography: Author / Title Graphic: Author / Title Graphics: Author / Title Historical: Author / Title History: Author / Title Journalism: Author / Title Juvenilia: Author / Title Language: Author / Title Letters: Author / Title Life: Author / Title Literary: Author / Title Mags (SF): Editor / Title Maths: Author / Title Media: Author / Title Medical: Author / Title Misc (NF): Author / Title Modern: Author / Title Music: Author / Title Novels (SF): Author / Title Parody: Author / Title Photography: Author / Title Playscripts: Author / Title Poetry: Author / Title Politics: Author / Title Satire: Author / Title Science: Author / Title Screenplays: Author / Title Sexuality: Author / Title SF - shorts: Author / Title Society: Author / Title Thought: Author / Title Thrillers: Author / Title Travel: Author / Title Typography: Author / Title Video/TV: Author / Title

Some titles in my collection also turn up at the Neglected Books site. Other opinions do exist, of course, concerning the 100 best novels (Take 2!) and the 100 best works of non-fiction. (Thinks: how silly is that, to rank non-fiction?)

Opinions doubtless divide, too, around the idea that only seven or so basic plots exist: Overcoming the monster, Rags to riches (or, in the case of The Space Merchants, t'other way round), Quest, Voyage and return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Christopher Booker also adds both Rebellion and Mystery to the mix. His book "The Seven Basic Plots" took around 34 years to research and write, and is most enticing.

Footnote

¹  This is currently neither a book shop nor a lending library, though that philosophy may mutate if I need another retirement hobby. As the man sitting in his book-lined study said "Only fools lend books; all these books once belonged to fools!" If you think the titles yield any insight into my psyche, you could be right.