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Neil Gaiman's Summer Reading List
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series THE SANDMAN, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel GOOD OMENS. His first book for children, THE DAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. ANGELS & VISITATIONS, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any. Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel NEVERWHERE into a film for Jim Henson films.
 ARCHER'S GOON
by Diana Wynne Jones
Berkley
ISBN: 0064473562
I'm reading this aloud to my daughter, Maddy, at a chapter a night. A family versus a mysterious family who control, but cannot leave, a small English town. Really funny, scary, exciting, and like everything Diana does, perfectly crafted.
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Putnam
ISBN: 0399149864
His forthcoming book. I'm reading it in manuscript. He's turned the eye that created cyberspace in books like Neuromancer onto the present and created a place that's both familiar and strange. I'm reading this presently and loving it.
THE AMERICAN FANTASY TRADITION
edited by Brian Thomsen
Tor
ISBN: 0765301520
Over quarter of a million words of short stories written over the last couple of hundred years in THE AMERICAN FANTASY TRADITION --- stories by writers like Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, Frank R. Stockton and R.A. Lafferty, Harlan Ellison and Washington Irving. I'm really looking forward to rereading old favourites and discovering new ones.
 THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVACADO OF DEATH (in Five Novels)
by Daniel Pinkwater
Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0374423296
656 pages
I've loved this book since I was 22. I'll be reading it to my daughter next. It may very possibly be the funniest book ever written for kids that adults love too. Everything Pinkwater writes is magic. (There are four other books in the Five Novels collection. Read them all. Then buy Four Novels, which comes after.)
WHITE APPLES
by Jonathan Carroll
Tor
ISBN: 0765303884
384 pages
Carroll is a magician. Any year with a new Jonathan Carroll novel in it is a good one. I'm looking forward to this book.
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