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What are your top 5 books most wanted as ebooks?
It's a great time for ebooks, with more and more titles becoming available. Still there are tons of great books out there that aren't available as ebooks so I was wondering what are your five most wanted unavailable ebooks?
Here are mine (although the list might change from time to time)... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Quote:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Quote:
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Quote:
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa Quote:
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Quote:
I might have thrown Catch 22 on the list, but supposedly it's coming from Open Road Media. |
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Off the top of my head.
The Henry Reed books from my childhood. I remember them still some 40 years later and would love to sit down with the whole collection on my Kindle. A Canticle for Liebowitz, a seminal work of post-apocalyptic fiction. The Andromeda Strain. I read this back in high-school and thought I'd re-read it on my Kindle only to find it isn't available. Blood Music by Greg Bear, a short novel that presages a lot of what's been done in nanotech sci-fi. That's only four, I'd have to think for a while to come up with the fifth. |
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I'll need time to think, but I was disappointed to see that only one or two of the Gregory Mcdonald Fletch books are available.
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The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
The Arrows trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and the Dragonsinger trilogy by Anne McCaffrey—two of my favorite reads from my tween years that I love to go back and indulge in. The Cadfael series. Jean Auel's Earth's Children series. Robert Heinlein's entire works—some have been released. But that's already way more than five... -Marcy |
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AnemicOak, I'm shocked at the books on your list that aren't available as ebooks. Anne Frank? Western Front? These seem like no-brainers to turn into digital formats.
Anyway, just a few on my list: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle I'm sure there's more that I'm not thinking of right now. Just a note that these are books I've never read and probably won't until they become available in ebook format. |
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I, too, would have to take time to think of 5 that I'd like to personally own in e-book editions that I know for sure don't already exist. Thus far, what springs to mind is: Connie Willis, Doomsday Book. Barry Hughart, The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (technically three books, but they keep getting omnibused, so I'm counting as one). |
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Thanks, I'll take a look.
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These are for the most part representational of books that need to be made available as ebooks
Cosmos - Carl Sagan (this would work especially well as a special edition for the iPad, a la; The Elements) Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology - Isaac Asimov (I would love to see all of Asimov's non-fiction books available as ebooks) Orbital Decay - Allen M. Steele (And all the other holes in his early Near Earth booklist) Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? - G. M. Ford (and all the rest of the un-ebookified Leo Waterman detective mysteries) The Rainy City - Earl Emerson (and all the other Thomas Black and Mac Fontana detective mysteries) .... and so many more.... |
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Hmm...2 off the top of my head are:
Christy by Catherine Marshall and Julie by Catherine Marshall I'm sure I can think of 3 more later...at least. |
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The Harry Potter series: this is a tragedy. Also the books after Hunger Games.
All of a sudden I'm curious if Catch-22 is available as an ebook. Hmm. I'll have to go try and search it out! Nope! That's ridiculous if you ask me. |
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John MacDonald. Not a great book but this was the one that got me hopelessly hooked on reading. In fact, I'd like the whole Travis McGee series in eBooks
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It's not currently, but supposedly Open Road has the rights and will be issuing one. Of course it's likely to be expensive when they do.
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Mockingbird and The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis
John Crowley's _Little, Big_ and _Engine Summer_ Marge Piercy is also under-represented, everyone should read _Woman on the Edge of Time_, _He, She, and It_, and _Gone to Soldiers_. Happily, Margaret Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale_ is available and at a reasonable price. |
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The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell (cheating this is 4 books)
The Milagro Beanfield War Hanta Yo by Ruth Hill Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot Please let me know if anyone knows of a site to get any of these. Thanks & Cheers Last edited by makani; 07-12-2010 at 10:19 PM. Reason: needed to add the last sentence |
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