Ah, the famous, insurmountable, ever-looming mountain of wordy goodness shines out to you from the picture above. These are all the books I’ll be reading in the near future, barring a few additions that are bound to be added, but I don’t think there’ll be all that many (for obvious reasons). The only two books that I have on order and that are not in this picture is a hardcover edition of GRRM’s short story collection, “Dreamsongs”, and Gene Wolfe’s “Latro in the Mist”.

Let’s take a closer look at the stack:

This is my hardcover and tradeback- stack, which most often takes the highest priority when I pick my next read. From the top left and down is:

  • Charles Stross’ “The Halting State” (SF)
  • China Miéville’s “Un Lun Dun” (F)
  • Chris Wooding’s “The Fade” (SF)
  • Peadar O’Guilin’s “The Inferior” (SF)
  • John Twelve Hawk’s “The Dark River (book 2)” (SF)
  • John Twelve Hawk’s “The Traveller (book 1)” (SF)
  • Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” (Superhero comic)
  • Gordon Dahlquist’s “The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters” (F)
  • Roger Zelazny’s “The Great Book of Amber” (F)
  • Dan Simmons’ “Hyperion Omnibus” (SF)
  • R. Scott Bakker’s “The Thousandfold Thought” (F)

To the right you’re obviously seeing Neil Gaiman’s “Absolute Sandman Vol. 2″…

To the top left and down, you’re seeing:

  • Scott Lynch’s “Red Seas under Red Skies” (F) (Lim. ed.)
  • Neil Gaiman’s “Absolute Sandman Vol. 1″ (comic-book collection)

Next stack:

  • Gene Wolfe’s “There are Doors” (F)
  • Charlie Huston’s “Already Dead”(Urban fantasy)
  • Iain M. Banks’:
  • “The Wasp Factory”
  • “Against a Dark Background”
  • “The Player of Games”
  • “The Algebraist”
  • “Excession”
  • “Inversions”
  • “Feersum Endjinn”
  • “Use of Weapons”
  • Christopher Priest’s:
  • “Inverted World”
  • “A Fugue for a Darkening Isle”
  • “A Dream of Wessex”
  • “The Space Machine”
  • “The Glamour”
  • “The Prestige”
  • “The Extremes”

Next stack to the right:

  • Guy Gavriel Kay’s “Tigana” (F)
  • Peter F. Hamilton’s “The Reality Dysfunction” (SF)
  • Richard Morgan’s “Altered Carbon” (SF)
  • Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash”
  • Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked this Way Comes”
  • Fritz Leiber’s “The First Book of Lankhmar”
  • M. John Harrison’s “Viriconium”
  • Alastair Reynold’s “Chasm City”
  • Jack Vance’s “Tales of the Dying Earth”

Last stack to the right:

  • Graham Joyce’s “The Tooth Fairy” (F)
  • Daniel Abraham’s “The Long Price” (F), an omnibus of the two first installments in the “Long Price Quartet”
  • Peter Watt’s “Blindsight” (SF)

And that’s about it. I probably have more books that I haven’t read yet in my collection, but those have generally so low a priority that I doubt I’ll ever get to them. I have an idea of what I’ll be reading next after I finish Joe Hill’s short story collection, “20th Century Ghosts”, but feel free to suggest titles you’re interested in getting reviewed so that I may bump them up the pecking order.

And also feel free to call me crazy. That fact cannot be denied by anyone.