Recommended novels from a 2002 reference book

In 2002, the American Library Association published
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Readers' Advisory: the Librarian's Guide to Cyborgs, Aliens, and Sorcerers, a 230-page reference book by Derek M. Buker.

Buker detailed five books in a short chapter titled “Mars”:

• Climbing Olympus (1994), by Kevin J. Anderson

• Moving Mars (1993), by Greg Bear

• Mars (2000), by Ben Bova

• Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), by Robert A. Heinlein

• Red Mars (1992), by Kim Stanley Robinson

And listed 28 “other recommended titles”:

• White Mars; or, The Mind Set Free (1999), by Brian Aldiss

• The Greening of Mars (1984), by Michael Allaby and James Lovelock

• Hard Sell (1990), by Piers Anthony

• Total Recall (1989), by Piers Anthony

• Solis (1994), by A. A. Attanasio

• Voyage (1996), by Stephen Baxter

• The Martain Race (1999), by Gregory Benford

• Voyage to the Red Planet (1990), by Terry Bisson

• The Martian Chronicles (1950), by Ray Bradbury

• Martian Time-Slip (1964), by Philip K. Dick

• The Far Call (1978), by Gordon R. Dickson

• Mars Prime (1992), by William Dietz

• Semper Mars (1998), by Ian Douglas

• Jesus on Mars (1979), by Philip Jose Farmer

• Article 23 (1998) by William R. Forstchen

• Double Star (1956), by Robert A. Heinlein

• Podkayne of Mars (1963), by Robert A. Heinlein

• Red Planet (1949), by Robert A. Heinlein

• Mars Crossing (2000), by Geoffrey Landis

• Out of the Silent Planet (1938), by C. S. Lewis

• Red Dust (1993), by Paul J. McAuley

• Man Plus (1976), by Frederik Pohl

• Mining the Oort (1992), by Frederik Pohl

• Icehenge (1984), by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Man O’ War (1996), by William Shatner

• Frontera (1984), by Lewis Shiner

• Labyrinth of Night (1992), by Allen M. Steele

• Martian Viking (1991), by Tim Sullivan

With “Derek’s Pick”:

• Red Mars (1992), by Kim Stanley Robinson

And “Best Pick for the Reluctant Reader”:

• Climbing Olympus (1994), by Kevin J. Anderson

Interesting choices, with about half from the 1990s!