Found via The Virtual Stoa, the latest meme looks interesting, but all Chris’s choices are too high brow, obscure or specialised for me. So I’m starting two new lists here.
Rules: ‘You copy the list [of books] from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don’t have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements.’
Fiction
- Douglas Adams
- Iain Banks (with or without the ‘M’)
- C S Forester
- Neil Gaiman
- Mary Gentle
- Peter F Hamilton
- Patrick O’Brian
- Terry Pratchett
- Alastair Reynolds
- Vernor Vinge
Non-Fiction
- Robert T Bakker
- Jared Diamond
- Richard Fortey
- Danny Goodman
- Steve Jones
- David Keys
- Jakob Nielsen
- N A M Rogers
- Simon Winchester
- Lynne Truss
Hmm, on the subject of that last name, I wonder how many people still have copies of Eats, Shoots and Leaves? And how many people have sent one to the charity shop? Christmas 2003, my brother received two copies and I received one. Does this mean that twice as many people think that he’s a pedant?