Patrick O'Leary's Staff Picks Shelf

This is what we originally got when we asked Patrick O'Leary the following question: If you worked in a bookshop, what would be on your Staff Picks shelf?

Patrick O'Leary: Oh geez! An Impossible Question! I'll narrow it down to my favorite science fiction and fantasy:

Gene Wolfe

The Book of the New Sun:

• The Shadow of the Torturer & The Claw of the Conciliator
• The Sword of The Lictor & The Citadel of The Autarch

The Book of The Long Sun:

• Nightside The Long Sun & Lake of The Long Sun
• Calde of the Long Sun & Exodus fromThe Long Sun
  

• On Blue's Water's
• In Green's Jungle's
• Return to the Whorl

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings

Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Dispossesed
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• A Wizard of Earthsea -- and the other Earthsea books
• City of Illusions
• Four Ways To Forgiveness

Spider Robinson

• Deathkiller -- collects Mindkiller and Time Pressure

James Morrow

• City of Truth
• Only Begotten Daughter
• Blameless in Abaddon

Octavia E. Butler

• Wild Seed
• Lilith's Brood

Philip K. Dick

• The Man in The High Castle
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Speaker For The Dead

William Gibson, Neuromancer

Alfred Bestor, The Stars My Destination

Lisa Goldstein, The Red Magician

C.S. Lewis

• Out of the Silent Planet
• Perelandra
• The Great Divorce
• The Narnian Tales

Frank Herbert, Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Charles Wilson, The Harvest

Patricia Anthony, Brother Termite

Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary

Damon Knight, Why Do Birds

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence

Maureen McHugh, Nekropolis

Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth

Kathe Koja, Extremities

(One oddball):

Graham Greene, The End of The Affair