As you can see below, I had quite a lot to choose from. I'll get around to finishing all one hundred and thirty-six of them eventually, but I've gone for Edge of Light by Robert Silverberg as my book of the day.
It's an omnibus of five novels. I read the first two, and they were brilliant, but I never read the other three. (I've read a lot of his other books in the meantime, just not those ones.)
I love an omnibus, but as shown below I hardly ever finish them. Many of these are books I'm very fond of, like Songs of the Dying Earth.
(Titles and credits are from Goodreads and not checked; only first credited contributor listed; apologies for any errors in titles or attribution.)
- 52: Companion, Grant Morrison
- A Journey: My Political Life, Tony Blair
- A Logic Named Joe, Murray Leinster
- A Long Night at Abu Simbel, Penelope Lively
- A Pair From Space, James Blish
- Army of Darkness Omnibus, Volume 1, Sam Raimi
- Avant l'Incal (l'intégrale), Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Barnacle Bill The Spacer, And Other Stories, Lucius Shepard
- Be a Sex-Writing Strumpet, Stacia Kane
- BFS Journal Spring 2011, Allen Ashley
- BFS Journal Autumn 2011, Peter Coleborn
- BFS Journal Autumn 2012, Ian Hunter
- BFS Journal Spring 2012, Lou Morgan
- BFS Journal Summer 2011, Peter Coleborn
- BFS Journal Winter 2010, Sam Stone
- BFS Journal Winter 2011/2012, Peter Coleborn
- Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams, C.L. Moore
- Book of Prefaces, Alasdair Gray
- Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird
- Carmen et autres nouvelles, Prosper Mérimée
- Cities In Dust (Wasteland, #1), Antony Johnston
- Citizen Rex, Mario Hernandez
- Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson
- Colomba et autres nouvelles, Prosper Mérimée
- Complete Stories, Rudy Rucker
- Darkness, Mist And Shadows: Volume 1 And 2: The Collected Macabre Tales Of Basil Copper, Basil Copper
- Do Not Pass Go, Joel Lane
- Doctor Who: The Child of Time, Jonathan Morris
- Doctor Who: Vanishing Point, Stephen Cole
- Don Juan, George Gordon Byron
- Don Quixote de La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Edge of Light: The Robert Silverberg Omnibus, Robert Silverberg
- Empire Star / The Tree Lord of Imeten, Samuel R. Delany
- Essential Killraven, Vol. 1, Neal Adams
- Essential Punisher, Vol. 1, Gerry Conway
- Essential Works of Foucault (1954-1984), Volume 3: Power, Michel Foucault
- Fever Dream And Other Fantasies, Robert Bloch
- Filboid Studge, The Story Of A Mouse That Helped, Saki
- Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein, Horace Walpole
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Gotrek & Felix: The First Omnibus, William King
- Great Stories of Crime and Detection Volume II (The Twenties and Thirties), Various
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), J.K. Rowling
- How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee
- Isis Unbound, Allyson Bird
- La Compagnie des glaces 1, Georges-Jean Arnaud
- Let the Galaxy Burn, Marc Gascoigne
- Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation, Edwin Lester Arnold
- Lion Time In Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories, Volume 6), Robert Silverberg
- Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon
- May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, Graham Greene
- McSweeney's #10, Michael Chabon
- McSweeney's #27, Dave Eggers
- McSweeney's #45, Dave Eggers
- Mrs. Pepperpot Stories, Alf Proysen
- Nancy Drew Files: #66,96, Carolyn Keene
- Night Watch (Discworld, #29), Terry Pratchett
- Noddy: A Classic Treasury, Enid Blyton
- NOS4A2: A Novel, Joe Hill
- Odyssey, William Shatner
- Postscripts 14, Nick Gevers
- Ragmop, Rob Walton
- Rain, Conrad Williams
- Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy
- Rising Stars Compendium, J. Michael Straczynski
- Rupert: A Collection Of Favourite Stories, Alfred Bestall
- Rustblind and Silverbright - A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories, David Rix
- Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories, Leigh Brackett
- Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford
- Showcase Presents: Ambush Bug, Keith Giffen
- Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Jack Kirby
- Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, Vol. 1, John Albano
- Showcase Presents: Justice League of America, Vol. 2, Gardner F. Fox
- Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger, Vol. 1, Robert Kanigher
- Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery, Vol. 1, Len Wein
- Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1, Joe Kubert
- Showcase Presents: The War That Time Forgot, Vol. 1, Robert Kanigher
- Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin
- Space War (Professor Jameson Space Adventure #3), Neil R. Jones
- Star Trek: Logs 7–10, Alan Dean Foster
- Starstruck Deluxe Edition, Elaine Lee
- Stonewielder, Ian C. Esslemont
- Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti
- Test Pattern: Jonathan Hickman Collection, Volume 1, Jonathan Hickman
- The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3), Philip Pullman
- The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, John Kessel
- The Best American Comics 2011, Alison Bechdel
- The Best Of Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber
- The Best of McSweeney's, Dave Eggers
- The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Volume 1, Anonymous
- The Burning Circus, Johnny Mains
- The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus: Tourist Season, Double Whammy And Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen
- The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison
- The Chandler Collection: Volume 1, Raymond Chandler
- The Collected Stories, Katherine Mansfield
- The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard
- The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
- The Dirty Dozen: The Best 12 Commando Books Ever!. Edited by George Low, George Low
- The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2), Stephen King
- The Dudley Smith Trio, James Ellroy
- The Ends of the Earth, Lucius Shepard
- The Expelled (Penguin Mini Modern Classics), Samuel Beckett
- The Finder Library, Volume 1, Carla Speed McNeil
- The Five Great Novels Of James M. Cain., James M. Cain
- The Halfling: And Other Stories, Leigh Brackett
- The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus, John Franklin Bardin
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, Stephen Jones
- The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16, Gardner R. Dozois
- The Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters, Gardner R. Dozois
- The Matrix Comics Vol 1, Geof Darrow
- The New Avengers Vol. 1, Brian Michael Bendis
- The New Nature of the Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion, #9), Michael Moorcock
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Planet of the Double Sun (Professor Jameson #1), Neil R. Jones
- The Polish Officer, Alan Furst
- The Richard Laymon Collection, Volume 4: Beware / Dark Mountain, Richard Laymon
- The Sam Gunn Omnibus, Ben Bova
- The Savage Sword of Conan, Volume 3, Roy Thomas
- The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Penguin Classics), Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe
- The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions, Ann VanderMeer
- The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Timothy Ferris
- Them: Adventures with Extremists, Jon Ronson
- Time Patrol, Poul Anderson
- Un Lun Dun, China Miéville
- Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
- Unexpected Journeys, Juliet E. McKenna
- Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray
- Valérian et Laureline l'Intégrale, volume 2, Pierre Christin
- Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
- War and Peace (Konemann Classics), Leo Tolstoy
- Warlock, Andre Norton
- Yesterday's Tomorrows, Rian Hughes
- Young Miles (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #2), Lois McMaster Bujold
- Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings, Sam Stone
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