What's on my book shelves..
Jan. 7th, 2012 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatOh lovely day weather wise today. It was in the 60s. In January no less. Very mild January. Not complaining. I like mild January's. Hoping this lasts. But often we get a mild January and a brutal February and March (which is why I hate those months.).
Started taking inventory of my bookshelves while watching The Secret Circle this afternoon. (Yes, it is so good that I started inventoring my bookshelves during it. Although to be fair I started blogging during Louis. TV has to work hard nowadays to hold my attention. I may give up on both soon. They aren't working for me - it may be mood or where I am currently in my life - I've really no idea. I never know exactly why certain tv shows work for me and other's don't. I'm about as moody and compulsive about tv as I am about everything else.)
White Bookshelf on the wall near the bedroom - it has three shelves, and so far no books falling off them, unlike my other ones. I need to either buy new bookshelves or get rid of books.
1. Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler (this was when I was researching rituals for my horror novel, which I finished writing, but have done nothing with. Some of the rituals in this book are silly beyond words.).
2. Children of God - Mary Doria Russell (sequel to the Sparrow...which was better, this was a bit on the preachy side and reminds me a lot of The Poisonwood Bible - except science fiction.)
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Suzannah Clark ( a trendy book around a cool idea, whose writing still kept putting me to sleep and it is impossible to lug around - I made the mistake of buying the hardback, should have waiting for paperback or e-book.)
4. The Scarlett Pimpernel - Baroness Orzy (loved this book as a kid)
5. Summer Tree by Guy Gaverial Kay (probably shouldn't have read before Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, because as a result was incredibly disappointed by Ms. Dean's book, which felt sort of derivative after Kay's novels.)
6. Wandering Fire by Guy Gaverial Kay (book one of the triology started with Summer Tree - actually a really good rendering of Welsh Celtic Mythology - specifically the Mabinogion Tales)
7. Master & Margahrita by Mikahail Bulgakov
8. Timesteps - a poetry chapbook by John M Ford
9. Walk in Shadows (noir horror stories) by Nicholas Kraufman (the creator of one of my defunct book groups)
10. Samauri Garden - Gail Tskyama (read and reviewed this online)
11. Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. (read and reviewed this online)
12. Beach Walk - Bill Lloyd (this is a book by one self-published relatives...if I told you which one, I'd be giving too much away. Most of his books are noir or business man thrillers featuring a consultant as the hero. This was an attempt at a romance novel.)
13. Heart of Darkness and selections from the Congo by Joseph Conrad (boring book, seriously it put me to sleep. Conrad always does that to me.)
14. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
15. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
16. The Great Railway Bazarr by Paul Theroux (this is a travel book - nonfiction)
17. Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes...(I blame my flist for tempting me...it put me to sleep too, read Confederacy of Dunces instead and thank me later.)
18. The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Easy by Bette Hagman (yeah right - only if you have a huge kitchen)
19. Cyteen by C. J Cherryh ( I may read this after the Steve Healy book)
20. Gluten Free Bible by JAx Peters Lowell (just one of many cookbooks I own - have four now)
21. Sometimes in America and a Life in a Year at the New Yorker by Alexander Chancellor
22. The Social Animal - Eliot Aronsen (yes, I read this believe it or not, took a class and everything)
23. Norton Anthology of Poetry - 3rd Edition
24. Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Steig Larrson ( I read and reviewed it online)
25. Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
26. Why Buffy Matters - The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox (actually one of the better published essay collections on the series...most of them read like marketing collages.)
27. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolover (I have the oddest desire to send this book to Twilight fans...it's about Mormon/Fundamentalist Christian missionaries in Africa..quite painful, the Book of Mormon it's not.)
28. The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney (what is it with self-help gurus and broad generalizations?)
29. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
30. Teresa of Avilla - Catherine Medwick (I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this - biographies with footnotes tend to put me to sleep)
31. Swann's Way by Marcel Prouste ( reviewed and discussed online...it entertained for a bit then put me to sleep)
32. Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin
33. Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
34. Canupus in Argus by Doris Lessing (an impossible to read sci-fi book and about the same size as Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel except in paperback..so impossible to lug around too. Bit like reading technical abstracts off a computer module.)
35. Zombie - by Joyce Carol Oats (I don't why I keep buying Joyce Carol Oats..I hate her writing style - it grates on my nerves, but I think I've decided I'm supposed to like her or something.)
36. Labrynthes by Luis Jurges Borges ( I wonder if he's better in his native language?)
37. Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (some day I'll get around to reading this, did read the Heinlein version - the Puppet Masters)
38. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (did you know this is free now on e-books..or Kindle? Me neither.)
39. Minority Report & Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (maybe I should go on a Philip K. Dick reading binge?)
40. Darwin's Radio - by Greg Bear
41. Under the Skin by Michael Faber (the creepy description in the first chapter seduced me into buying it, but I'm never in the mood to read a creepy, scary book.)
42. Inkspell by Funke (Sequel to Inkheart. I probably shouldn't have given in and watched the movie version of Inkheart or tried to read Inkheart first. Tried that book and got bored. Which more or less killed my interest for Inkspell - which I've been told was the better book.)
43. Italy in Mind - short stories, editor Alice Leccese Powers
44. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson
45. A Clockwork Orange - by Anthony Burgess (I keep trying or meaning to read it. Probably would have worked better if I hadn't watched the movie first. Did read the 21st Chapter though - for a Buffy meta, don't ask.)
46. The Ticket that Exploded by William S. Burroughs
47. Sister Wolf by Ann Arensberg
48. Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte (probably should save us both some time now and state I own almost all of his books, but have only managed to read two of them - Flanders Panel and Seville Communion.)
49. Sex, Drugs, & Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
50. The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammett
51. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte (see above - I got bored. The movie is weird - called the Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp and directed by Roman Polanski)
52. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
53. Dracula by Bram Stoker (got bored about 3/4ths through and gave up.)
54. The Stars are my Destination by Alfred Bester
55. Haunted by Joyce Carol Oats
56. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
57. Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Bosten Women's Health Book Collective (you don't really read this book)
58. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (ditto)
59. Guy Gaverial Kay's The Darkest Road. (part of the Summer Tree, Wandering triology)
60. Proven Guilty - by Jim Butcher (should save us both some time and state I own and read all the Dresden files either in paperback, hardback or on the Kindle - I'm an addict, I admit it.)
61. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
62. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dosteovesky (I keep trying to get in the right mood for this book)
63. Human Wishes by Robert Hass (a Chinese Doctor from Shanghai that I briefly dated via the internet was into this writer's poetry)
64. The Prince by Machiavelli (if you want to understand politics and business, you sort of need to read this book).
65. Beyond Good & Evil by Neitzche (sort of similar to The Prince actually)
66. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
67. Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters (again save us both some time by mentioning own and read all five of the Vicky Bliss Mysteries or is that six?)
68. Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters (see above)
69. A Feast of Crows by George RR Martin (sort of goes with Martin too - I own all of the Song of Ice and Fire series...although that may end if I can't get through Feast and Dragons.)
70. Washington Square by Henry James (this was made into the classic film The Heiress with Montgomery Cliff - and probably shouldn't have seen the film first.)
71. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jetters (a highly annoying self-help book that a career counselor talked me into)
72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (again save us both time - I own and have read all of them)
73. The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez Reverte
74. The Gullah PRince by Bill Lloyd (I own all his books on the account of being related to him, you can get this one on the Kindle now and it is by far the best. Delves into the folklore of The Gullah in South Carolina.)
75. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
76. The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
77. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen (loved this, skip his novels and just read his essays)
78. Hostile Takeover by Bill Lloyd (read)
79. Don't Mess with Jenny Lee by Bill Lloyd (haven't read or I can't remember it)
80. Readings in Social Psychology by Lesko (yes, read it)
81. Being Dead - Jim Crace (too bloody depressing)
82. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (sort of falls into that trendy book group with dialect)
83. The Game by AS Byatt (Posession it's not)
84. The Deadline by D.eMarco (weird thriller about the business world)
Bookshelf two...
85. Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett (will save us both time and effort and mention that I own all of Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and have read them too. There's about 5-6 books in all.)
86. Are we Human by Dorothy L. Sayers
87. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
88. Murder of Angels by Caitlin Kiernan
89. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
90. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (I got annoyed by all the generalizations.)
91. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (short stories)
92. Endymion by Dan Simmions (sequel to Hypernion)
93. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Prachett (The Amazing Maurice was better, so was Good Omens.)
94. Sacred Symbols of the Celts
95. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison (yes, I've read and own all the Kim Harrison Rachel Morgan series too...there's about 7 of them, I think.)
96. Dance, Dance, Dance by Murkami (couldn't get in the mood. But rather liked Kafka on the Shore by the same guy.)
97. Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Lieber (read these...not bad. Actually really scary and creepy.)
98. Learning a Trade - A Craftsman's Notebooks - by Reynolds Price (the writers notes and journal on the writing process)
99. Gotham - a History of New York City by Burrows and Wallace
100. Whiskey & Water by Elizabeth Bear (she used to be on my flist - I tend to buy books by people on the flist, must support each other, you know. Although...I don't tend to go too far. I bought four of her novels...only made it through one of them.)
101. A Kiss of Shadows by LK Hamilton (free book)
102. Knitting for Anarchists by Zilborge (you should see how I knit - I don't count and don't use patterns, my sisinlaw adores my methodology - she knits more or less the same way. Except she can measure and sew, I, alas, cannot. )
103. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (again I made the mistake of seeing the tv series first)
104. How to Sell Your Novel by Elizabeth Lyons
105. In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Orphane Tales ) by Catherynne M. Valente. (if you are on my flist and I know you wrote a book, I probably bought it and read it or tried to. Also bought Nancy Kay Shapiro's What Love Mean's to You People - which I can still remember, so it was better than I thought. I gave it away. Sort of wish I hadn't. It was different than everyone elses and better written.)
106. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (I tried, but I'm guessing reading info about the writer...prior to the attempt, probably wasn't a good idea. The writer is a bit of an ass, no, really.)
107. Inkheart by Funke (As previously stated? I might like Inkspell better)
108. Search of Tarot by Anne Lionnett
109. The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King (brilliant - one of the few edited books of short stories that I've actually read 99% of the stories in. All great selections. Weird, considering, I rarely agree with King on stuff.)
110. Spook Country - William S. Gibson
111. Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swaneck (sp?) - (was disappointed in it, to be honest - reminded me a little of Guy Gaverial Kay and Pam Dean's Tam Lin, but I liked those more.)
112. Meditation for Dummies (found out later that you can't learn Meditation from a book.)
113. Accounting for Dummies (not sure you can learn accounting either...for that matter)
114. Labyrnthe - Kate Moss (it sounded similar to the book I wrote and gave up on getting published, but can't seem to get into it.)
115. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (sort of the Chinese version of Grapes of Wrath.)
116. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear (not bad)
117. Blindsight (too intellectual...I got lost in the philosophical mutterings and went to sleep as a result)
118. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (note to self stop watching the film versions first)
119. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (oddly the fastest moving of the books)
120. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Atwood writes for English Lit majors who are still English Lit majors)
121. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (ditto)
122. All Together Dead by Charlain Harris (I tried and gave up...the writing was so bad it got in the way. I read the ones before it, they weren't as bad. Sort of fluffy.)
123. Looking for Peyton Place by B. Delinskey (gift from my Aunt)
124. An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
125. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (If you want to understand how this guy thinks - buy this book. OR his vision? Buy this book.)
126. Maps and Legends - Reading & Writing along the Boarderlands by M. Chabon
127. Novel and Short Story Writers Market
128. Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (not a quick read)
129. How I got Published - various writers tell you how they got themselves published (because I enjoy torturing myself)
130. The Other by Tom Tyron (also own Harvest Home - which basically makes Pam Dean's Tam Lin, A Dark Matter, and a Secret History seem like kids books in comparison - this one scares the pants off you.)
131. Harry Potter and The Socerer's Stone (sigh I couldn't have found this earlier and given it to my neice so my mom didn't have to buy one?)
132. Til We Have Faces - CS Lewis (from college, did a paper on it...it's based on the Psyche/Cupid myth but from one of the sister's points of view)
133. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (Demon correspondence, sort of funny, but very preachy)
134. Time and Again by Jack Finney (Best time travel book that I've read)
135. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffengger (I think I'm scared off by the sentimental premise?)
136. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole (painfully funny book that one can't forget...it is painful. Possibly amongst the most painful I've read)
137. Breakfast in Babylon by Esther Martin (about squatting in vacant apartments - I met the author and have a signed copy)
138. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner is better, trust me, it really is)
139. The Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (haunting in how accurate a depiction it is of certain things we are doing now.)
140. The Ordinary Seaman by Francis Goldman (also met the author and have a signed copy)
145. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (If I read it? I do not remember it. Which unfortunately is the case with a lot of Morrison. Except for Beloved...that book you can't forget.)
146. Underworld by Don DeLillo (got a lot of people stopping and chatting with me on the subway when I read this one. It's good. But White Noise says the same things and is a lot shorter.)
147. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (If I read it, I do not remember it. But still remember her short story the Petrified Man, which I read in high school.)
148. The Adventures of Sally by PG Wodehouse (to save time - should mention, I bought and read and own a lot of PG Wodehouse Bertie Wooster novels - they were my happy books...in the late 1990s and early 0's.)
149. Right Ho, Jeeves by PG. Wodehouse
150. Carry on, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
151. Do Butler's Burgle Banks by PG Wodehouse
152. The Imitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (I told you I go on reading binges, right?)
153. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (best haunted house book ever)
154. The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne (I bought it for my neice but never got around to giving it to her. She has the complete stories of Winnie the Pooh from me now, so there's no point.)
155. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (I did read this. Movie is good too).
156. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (I tried! I tried! It was sooo depressing!)
157. Sixty Spins of a Lopsided Wheel by Richard Lloyd (yes another relative, this round poetry).
158. Chairman by Bill Lloyd
159. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (I've been told that I write like Anne Tyler, I've never been sure what to make of this. The internet believes I write like Raymond Chandler, not sure what to make of that either. This book was interesting, but vaguely remember it)
160. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (loved this as a teenager)
161. Murder Games by Bill Lloyd
162. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin (better than all the other books so far, can't wait until the series gets there...then again, not sure how they will do it - very bloody book - makes the Game of Thrones episode Baelor look like a walk in the park by comparison.).
163. The Awakening by LA Banks (haven't read it)
164. Mildred Pierce by James M Cain (ditto)
165. Hammered by Elizabeth Bear (tried to read it)
166. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston (like reading a gut-wrentching prose poem in dialect)
167, The Rhineman Exchange by Robert Ludlum
168. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein (I read it, I don't remember much of it)
169. Sophie's World by Josestein Gardner - (imagine Alice's Adventures or rather Sophie's through Philosophy...entertaining read.)
170. Dune by Frank Herbert (read a long time ago)
171. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (again probably shouldn't have watched the films first)
172. Minion by LA Banks (probably should have read Awakening first...)
173. Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey (really enjoyed this one.)
174. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (could not finish...got repetitive by about page 500. And it's 1000 pages. Anthem was shorter and said it all. Me to Popster: People who say Atlas Shrugged is the best book ever, make me wonder about their intelligence. Popster: Or more likely, its the only book they've bothered to read. LOL! Considering I couldn't finish it...)
175. Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey (Eh...I liked both the movie and the book - recommend both. The movie starred Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes.)
176. Zorro by Isabelle Allende (maybe I should read this next?)
177. A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhentsyn ( I read, I do not remember it)
178. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (at some point, I decided to emulate my Dad and collect every classic noir novel written - it was short-lived, for me, not him.)
179. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levine (as scary as the movie)
180. The Cobra Event by Richard Preston (don't remember it)
181. A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
182. Hannibal by Thomas Harris (couldn't get into it)
183. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (The movie is better)
184. Marathon Man by William Goldman (movie with Dustin Hoffman better)
185. Obsidian Butterfly by L. K. Hamilton (best of the Anita Blake series)
186. Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (truly haunting sci-fi space novel with an intriguing lead character - memorable)
187 GIG - Americans Talk About their Jobs (really good book about what people do for a living. Sort of similar to Studs Terkel's Working.)
188. Barrons Law Dictionary
189. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
190. The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathon Carroll (creepiest and most innovative vampire novel that I've read)
191. Sex, Lies, Murder, Fame by Lolita Files ( a satire of the publishing industry)
192. The World According to Garp by John Irving (movie was better and again, probably shouldn't have seen it first.)
193. Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie (couldn't finish - wanted to kick the characters)
194. The Echo by Minette Walters (can't remember it)
195. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
196. Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young
197. Wicked by Gregory Macquire (better than the musical)
198. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (some great essays by M. Atwood and also has the Yellow Wallpaper)
199. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (haven't read)
200. The Family Tree by Sherri Teppar (couldn't finish)
201. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
202. Virus Hunter - CJ Peters (non-fiction)
203. A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines
204. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
205. All I Did Was Ask by Terry Gross (read - a bunch of interviews)
206. The Annotated Brothers Grimm edited by Marla Tatar
207. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
208. Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein
209. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
210. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (great book, haunting, and marvelous. Remember it well. Also inspired a miniseries and a movie, yet the book is still better and resonates even more.)
211. The Elements of Style by STrunk and White and Kalman - with illustrations. (every writer's companion)
212. The World's Most Dangerous Places - Fielding (funny book)
213. Film Noir Reader 2 - by Alan Silver and JAmes Ursini (great book)
214. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (he tells what it was like to work on every film from Butch and Sundance to All the Presidents Men, and includes the screenplay to Butch and Sundance.)
215. Which Lie did I Tell by William Goldman (the sequel and just as good - inside story on the Princess Bride)
216. On Writing by Stephen King (favorite Stephen King book next to the Short Story one he edited)
217. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology by Ellis (you can tell I had a background in Celtic mythology, can't you? Also research for first book and maybe why I'm so harsh on Pam Dean's Tam Lin and other books of that sort).
218. Primitive Mythology - The Masks of the Gods by Joseph Campbell (okay, I own way too many Campbell myth books and I bought them before I realized I didn't agree with him and that he pushed everyone's buttons. I blame the Buffy fanboards for these purchases.)
219. Oriental Mythology - The Masks of the Gods - Joseph Campbell (see above)
220. Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology - The Age of Fables
221. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (sigh, overrated)
222. The Origin and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
223 Celtic Art by Miranda Green (I actually met her once)
224. The Celtic Druid's Year - John King
225. Shenanoah Voices -Folklore, Legends, and Traditions of the Valley - John Heatwole
226. The Last Hot Time - John M Ford (I tried but couldn't get into it)
227. Gray's Anatomy - thought it would help with my drawing and medical terminology
228. The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
229. Arabat by Clive Barker (part one of a series of kids books)
230. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville (a bank heist and a romance...sort of cool, but fun, did not help that the romantic lead has the same physical description as my kid brother...that is a turn off).
231. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice (writing as AN. RouGlaire - an erotic version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale)
232. Fox Evil by Minette Walters
233. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (could not finish it, liked Bellweather better)
234. Perdido Street Station by China Melville - (a good example of the writing getting in the way of the story-telling.)
235. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
236. Different Seasons - by Stephen King (short stories)
237. The Afterlife by John Updike (short stories)
238. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
239. The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
240. Sunshine by Robin McKinely (the best romantic vampire novel that I've ever read)
241. The Rape of Europa - the Fate of Europes Treasures in the Third Reich and in the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas (about art forgery and theft)
242. The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw (boring writer)
243. The New Catholic American Bible (interesting in how it differs from the King James Version)
244. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
245. Working with Your Chakras - White
246. Oranges aren't the only fruit by Jeannett Wintersen
247. The Year 1000
248. A Fine Balance by Mistry
249. Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold (couldn't finish)
250. Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
251. The River King by Alice Hoffman
252. Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
253. The Wedding by Dorothy West
254. Guillver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
255. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (excellent depiction of moral turpitude and how the way to hell is paved with the best of intentions. Sci-fi for cultural anthropology majors.)
256. Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (as you can see - I don't index and I liked this one the best of her books)
257. The Island of Dr. Monroe by HG Wells (disturbing novel)
258 Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
259. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by HG Wells
260. Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
261. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
261. Man and His Symbols edited with introduction by Carl G. Jung (best of the myth books)
262. Oedipus The King - Sophocles (read, and re-read)
263. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (don't remember)
264. The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge (The Snow Queen was better)
265. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
266. The Brothers Karamazov
267. Ghost Story by Peter Straub (eh, again, probably shouldn't have seen the movie first - was a good movie though, great cast.)
268. Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper (skip all her books but Grass)
269. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (as good as the movie, oddly enough)
270. On the Road by Jack Keroauc ( I couldn't get into it)
271. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (one of the best sci-fi novels I've read)
272. Main Street by Upton Sinclair
273. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
274. The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
275. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
276. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
277. On the Beach by Neville Shute (liked A Town Like Alice better, less depressing, also Alas, Bablyon was better.)
278. Wildseed by Octavia Butler
279. Kindred by Octavia Butler (next to Time and Again, the best time travel tale I've read, haunting and painful.)
280. Rose's Daughter by Robin McKinely
281. Deerskin by Robin McKinely
282. If You Could See Me - Peter Straub
283. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart - a Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was
284.The Sibyl in Her Grave - by Sarah Caudwell
And a bunch in boxes under my bed that I don't feel like rifling through or my bed stand for that matter, not to mention the 65-73 books archived on the Kindle. In short about 300 and some.
Started taking inventory of my bookshelves while watching The Secret Circle this afternoon. (Yes, it is so good that I started inventoring my bookshelves during it. Although to be fair I started blogging during Louis. TV has to work hard nowadays to hold my attention. I may give up on both soon. They aren't working for me - it may be mood or where I am currently in my life - I've really no idea. I never know exactly why certain tv shows work for me and other's don't. I'm about as moody and compulsive about tv as I am about everything else.)
White Bookshelf on the wall near the bedroom - it has three shelves, and so far no books falling off them, unlike my other ones. I need to either buy new bookshelves or get rid of books.
1. Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler (this was when I was researching rituals for my horror novel, which I finished writing, but have done nothing with. Some of the rituals in this book are silly beyond words.).
2. Children of God - Mary Doria Russell (sequel to the Sparrow...which was better, this was a bit on the preachy side and reminds me a lot of The Poisonwood Bible - except science fiction.)
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Suzannah Clark ( a trendy book around a cool idea, whose writing still kept putting me to sleep and it is impossible to lug around - I made the mistake of buying the hardback, should have waiting for paperback or e-book.)
4. The Scarlett Pimpernel - Baroness Orzy (loved this book as a kid)
5. Summer Tree by Guy Gaverial Kay (probably shouldn't have read before Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, because as a result was incredibly disappointed by Ms. Dean's book, which felt sort of derivative after Kay's novels.)
6. Wandering Fire by Guy Gaverial Kay (book one of the triology started with Summer Tree - actually a really good rendering of Welsh Celtic Mythology - specifically the Mabinogion Tales)
7. Master & Margahrita by Mikahail Bulgakov
8. Timesteps - a poetry chapbook by John M Ford
9. Walk in Shadows (noir horror stories) by Nicholas Kraufman (the creator of one of my defunct book groups)
10. Samauri Garden - Gail Tskyama (read and reviewed this online)
11. Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr. (read and reviewed this online)
12. Beach Walk - Bill Lloyd (this is a book by one self-published relatives...if I told you which one, I'd be giving too much away. Most of his books are noir or business man thrillers featuring a consultant as the hero. This was an attempt at a romance novel.)
13. Heart of Darkness and selections from the Congo by Joseph Conrad (boring book, seriously it put me to sleep. Conrad always does that to me.)
14. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
15. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
16. The Great Railway Bazarr by Paul Theroux (this is a travel book - nonfiction)
17. Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes...(I blame my flist for tempting me...it put me to sleep too, read Confederacy of Dunces instead and thank me later.)
18. The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Easy by Bette Hagman (yeah right - only if you have a huge kitchen)
19. Cyteen by C. J Cherryh ( I may read this after the Steve Healy book)
20. Gluten Free Bible by JAx Peters Lowell (just one of many cookbooks I own - have four now)
21. Sometimes in America and a Life in a Year at the New Yorker by Alexander Chancellor
22. The Social Animal - Eliot Aronsen (yes, I read this believe it or not, took a class and everything)
23. Norton Anthology of Poetry - 3rd Edition
24. Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Steig Larrson ( I read and reviewed it online)
25. Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint
26. Why Buffy Matters - The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox (actually one of the better published essay collections on the series...most of them read like marketing collages.)
27. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolover (I have the oddest desire to send this book to Twilight fans...it's about Mormon/Fundamentalist Christian missionaries in Africa..quite painful, the Book of Mormon it's not.)
28. The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney (what is it with self-help gurus and broad generalizations?)
29. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
30. Teresa of Avilla - Catherine Medwick (I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this - biographies with footnotes tend to put me to sleep)
31. Swann's Way by Marcel Prouste ( reviewed and discussed online...it entertained for a bit then put me to sleep)
32. Dance of Dragons by George RR Martin
33. Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington
34. Canupus in Argus by Doris Lessing (an impossible to read sci-fi book and about the same size as Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel except in paperback..so impossible to lug around too. Bit like reading technical abstracts off a computer module.)
35. Zombie - by Joyce Carol Oats (I don't why I keep buying Joyce Carol Oats..I hate her writing style - it grates on my nerves, but I think I've decided I'm supposed to like her or something.)
36. Labrynthes by Luis Jurges Borges ( I wonder if he's better in his native language?)
37. Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (some day I'll get around to reading this, did read the Heinlein version - the Puppet Masters)
38. Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (did you know this is free now on e-books..or Kindle? Me neither.)
39. Minority Report & Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick (maybe I should go on a Philip K. Dick reading binge?)
40. Darwin's Radio - by Greg Bear
41. Under the Skin by Michael Faber (the creepy description in the first chapter seduced me into buying it, but I'm never in the mood to read a creepy, scary book.)
42. Inkspell by Funke (Sequel to Inkheart. I probably shouldn't have given in and watched the movie version of Inkheart or tried to read Inkheart first. Tried that book and got bored. Which more or less killed my interest for Inkspell - which I've been told was the better book.)
43. Italy in Mind - short stories, editor Alice Leccese Powers
44. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson
45. A Clockwork Orange - by Anthony Burgess (I keep trying or meaning to read it. Probably would have worked better if I hadn't watched the movie first. Did read the 21st Chapter though - for a Buffy meta, don't ask.)
46. The Ticket that Exploded by William S. Burroughs
47. Sister Wolf by Ann Arensberg
48. Queen of the South by Arturo Perez Reverte (probably should save us both some time now and state I own almost all of his books, but have only managed to read two of them - Flanders Panel and Seville Communion.)
49. Sex, Drugs, & Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
50. The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammett
51. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte (see above - I got bored. The movie is weird - called the Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp and directed by Roman Polanski)
52. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
53. Dracula by Bram Stoker (got bored about 3/4ths through and gave up.)
54. The Stars are my Destination by Alfred Bester
55. Haunted by Joyce Carol Oats
56. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
57. Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Bosten Women's Health Book Collective (you don't really read this book)
58. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (ditto)
59. Guy Gaverial Kay's The Darkest Road. (part of the Summer Tree, Wandering triology)
60. Proven Guilty - by Jim Butcher (should save us both some time and state I own and read all the Dresden files either in paperback, hardback or on the Kindle - I'm an addict, I admit it.)
61. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
62. Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dosteovesky (I keep trying to get in the right mood for this book)
63. Human Wishes by Robert Hass (a Chinese Doctor from Shanghai that I briefly dated via the internet was into this writer's poetry)
64. The Prince by Machiavelli (if you want to understand politics and business, you sort of need to read this book).
65. Beyond Good & Evil by Neitzche (sort of similar to The Prince actually)
66. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
67. Night Train to Memphis by Elizabeth Peters (again save us both some time by mentioning own and read all five of the Vicky Bliss Mysteries or is that six?)
68. Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters (see above)
69. A Feast of Crows by George RR Martin (sort of goes with Martin too - I own all of the Song of Ice and Fire series...although that may end if I can't get through Feast and Dragons.)
70. Washington Square by Henry James (this was made into the classic film The Heiress with Montgomery Cliff - and probably shouldn't have seen the film first.)
71. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jetters (a highly annoying self-help book that a career counselor talked me into)
72. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (again save us both time - I own and have read all of them)
73. The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez Reverte
74. The Gullah PRince by Bill Lloyd (I own all his books on the account of being related to him, you can get this one on the Kindle now and it is by far the best. Delves into the folklore of The Gullah in South Carolina.)
75. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
76. The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner
77. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen (loved this, skip his novels and just read his essays)
78. Hostile Takeover by Bill Lloyd (read)
79. Don't Mess with Jenny Lee by Bill Lloyd (haven't read or I can't remember it)
80. Readings in Social Psychology by Lesko (yes, read it)
81. Being Dead - Jim Crace (too bloody depressing)
82. The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (sort of falls into that trendy book group with dialect)
83. The Game by AS Byatt (Posession it's not)
84. The Deadline by D.eMarco (weird thriller about the business world)
Bookshelf two...
85. Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett (will save us both time and effort and mention that I own all of Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and have read them too. There's about 5-6 books in all.)
86. Are we Human by Dorothy L. Sayers
87. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
88. Murder of Angels by Caitlin Kiernan
89. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
90. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (I got annoyed by all the generalizations.)
91. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (short stories)
92. Endymion by Dan Simmions (sequel to Hypernion)
93. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Prachett (The Amazing Maurice was better, so was Good Omens.)
94. Sacred Symbols of the Celts
95. The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison (yes, I've read and own all the Kim Harrison Rachel Morgan series too...there's about 7 of them, I think.)
96. Dance, Dance, Dance by Murkami (couldn't get in the mood. But rather liked Kafka on the Shore by the same guy.)
97. Conjure Wife/Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Lieber (read these...not bad. Actually really scary and creepy.)
98. Learning a Trade - A Craftsman's Notebooks - by Reynolds Price (the writers notes and journal on the writing process)
99. Gotham - a History of New York City by Burrows and Wallace
100. Whiskey & Water by Elizabeth Bear (she used to be on my flist - I tend to buy books by people on the flist, must support each other, you know. Although...I don't tend to go too far. I bought four of her novels...only made it through one of them.)
101. A Kiss of Shadows by LK Hamilton (free book)
102. Knitting for Anarchists by Zilborge (you should see how I knit - I don't count and don't use patterns, my sisinlaw adores my methodology - she knits more or less the same way. Except she can measure and sew, I, alas, cannot. )
103. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (again I made the mistake of seeing the tv series first)
104. How to Sell Your Novel by Elizabeth Lyons
105. In the Cities of Coin and Spice (Orphane Tales ) by Catherynne M. Valente. (if you are on my flist and I know you wrote a book, I probably bought it and read it or tried to. Also bought Nancy Kay Shapiro's What Love Mean's to You People - which I can still remember, so it was better than I thought. I gave it away. Sort of wish I hadn't. It was different than everyone elses and better written.)
106. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (I tried, but I'm guessing reading info about the writer...prior to the attempt, probably wasn't a good idea. The writer is a bit of an ass, no, really.)
107. Inkheart by Funke (As previously stated? I might like Inkspell better)
108. Search of Tarot by Anne Lionnett
109. The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King (brilliant - one of the few edited books of short stories that I've actually read 99% of the stories in. All great selections. Weird, considering, I rarely agree with King on stuff.)
110. Spook Country - William S. Gibson
111. Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swaneck (sp?) - (was disappointed in it, to be honest - reminded me a little of Guy Gaverial Kay and Pam Dean's Tam Lin, but I liked those more.)
112. Meditation for Dummies (found out later that you can't learn Meditation from a book.)
113. Accounting for Dummies (not sure you can learn accounting either...for that matter)
114. Labyrnthe - Kate Moss (it sounded similar to the book I wrote and gave up on getting published, but can't seem to get into it.)
115. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (sort of the Chinese version of Grapes of Wrath.)
116. Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear (not bad)
117. Blindsight (too intellectual...I got lost in the philosophical mutterings and went to sleep as a result)
118. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov (note to self stop watching the film versions first)
119. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (oddly the fastest moving of the books)
120. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Atwood writes for English Lit majors who are still English Lit majors)
121. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (ditto)
122. All Together Dead by Charlain Harris (I tried and gave up...the writing was so bad it got in the way. I read the ones before it, they weren't as bad. Sort of fluffy.)
123. Looking for Peyton Place by B. Delinskey (gift from my Aunt)
124. An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
125. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (If you want to understand how this guy thinks - buy this book. OR his vision? Buy this book.)
126. Maps and Legends - Reading & Writing along the Boarderlands by M. Chabon
127. Novel and Short Story Writers Market
128. Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (not a quick read)
129. How I got Published - various writers tell you how they got themselves published (because I enjoy torturing myself)
130. The Other by Tom Tyron (also own Harvest Home - which basically makes Pam Dean's Tam Lin, A Dark Matter, and a Secret History seem like kids books in comparison - this one scares the pants off you.)
131. Harry Potter and The Socerer's Stone (sigh I couldn't have found this earlier and given it to my neice so my mom didn't have to buy one?)
132. Til We Have Faces - CS Lewis (from college, did a paper on it...it's based on the Psyche/Cupid myth but from one of the sister's points of view)
133. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis (Demon correspondence, sort of funny, but very preachy)
134. Time and Again by Jack Finney (Best time travel book that I've read)
135. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffengger (I think I'm scared off by the sentimental premise?)
136. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole (painfully funny book that one can't forget...it is painful. Possibly amongst the most painful I've read)
137. Breakfast in Babylon by Esther Martin (about squatting in vacant apartments - I met the author and have a signed copy)
138. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner is better, trust me, it really is)
139. The Three Stigmata of Palmer K. Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (haunting in how accurate a depiction it is of certain things we are doing now.)
140. The Ordinary Seaman by Francis Goldman (also met the author and have a signed copy)
145. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (If I read it? I do not remember it. Which unfortunately is the case with a lot of Morrison. Except for Beloved...that book you can't forget.)
146. Underworld by Don DeLillo (got a lot of people stopping and chatting with me on the subway when I read this one. It's good. But White Noise says the same things and is a lot shorter.)
147. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty (If I read it, I do not remember it. But still remember her short story the Petrified Man, which I read in high school.)
148. The Adventures of Sally by PG Wodehouse (to save time - should mention, I bought and read and own a lot of PG Wodehouse Bertie Wooster novels - they were my happy books...in the late 1990s and early 0's.)
149. Right Ho, Jeeves by PG. Wodehouse
150. Carry on, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
151. Do Butler's Burgle Banks by PG Wodehouse
152. The Imitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (I told you I go on reading binges, right?)
153. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (best haunted house book ever)
154. The House at Pooh Corner by AA Milne (I bought it for my neice but never got around to giving it to her. She has the complete stories of Winnie the Pooh from me now, so there's no point.)
155. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (I did read this. Movie is good too).
156. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (I tried! I tried! It was sooo depressing!)
157. Sixty Spins of a Lopsided Wheel by Richard Lloyd (yes another relative, this round poetry).
158. Chairman by Bill Lloyd
159. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (I've been told that I write like Anne Tyler, I've never been sure what to make of this. The internet believes I write like Raymond Chandler, not sure what to make of that either. This book was interesting, but vaguely remember it)
160. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (loved this as a teenager)
161. Murder Games by Bill Lloyd
162. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin (better than all the other books so far, can't wait until the series gets there...then again, not sure how they will do it - very bloody book - makes the Game of Thrones episode Baelor look like a walk in the park by comparison.).
163. The Awakening by LA Banks (haven't read it)
164. Mildred Pierce by James M Cain (ditto)
165. Hammered by Elizabeth Bear (tried to read it)
166. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston (like reading a gut-wrentching prose poem in dialect)
167, The Rhineman Exchange by Robert Ludlum
168. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein (I read it, I don't remember much of it)
169. Sophie's World by Josestein Gardner - (imagine Alice's Adventures or rather Sophie's through Philosophy...entertaining read.)
170. Dune by Frank Herbert (read a long time ago)
171. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (again probably shouldn't have watched the films first)
172. Minion by LA Banks (probably should have read Awakening first...)
173. Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey (really enjoyed this one.)
174. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (could not finish...got repetitive by about page 500. And it's 1000 pages. Anthem was shorter and said it all. Me to Popster: People who say Atlas Shrugged is the best book ever, make me wonder about their intelligence. Popster: Or more likely, its the only book they've bothered to read. LOL! Considering I couldn't finish it...)
175. Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey (Eh...I liked both the movie and the book - recommend both. The movie starred Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes.)
176. Zorro by Isabelle Allende (maybe I should read this next?)
177. A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhentsyn ( I read, I do not remember it)
178. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (at some point, I decided to emulate my Dad and collect every classic noir novel written - it was short-lived, for me, not him.)
179. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levine (as scary as the movie)
180. The Cobra Event by Richard Preston (don't remember it)
181. A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
182. Hannibal by Thomas Harris (couldn't get into it)
183. Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (The movie is better)
184. Marathon Man by William Goldman (movie with Dustin Hoffman better)
185. Obsidian Butterfly by L. K. Hamilton (best of the Anita Blake series)
186. Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (truly haunting sci-fi space novel with an intriguing lead character - memorable)
187 GIG - Americans Talk About their Jobs (really good book about what people do for a living. Sort of similar to Studs Terkel's Working.)
188. Barrons Law Dictionary
189. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
190. The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathon Carroll (creepiest and most innovative vampire novel that I've read)
191. Sex, Lies, Murder, Fame by Lolita Files ( a satire of the publishing industry)
192. The World According to Garp by John Irving (movie was better and again, probably shouldn't have seen it first.)
193. Tell Me Lies by Jennifer Crusie (couldn't finish - wanted to kick the characters)
194. The Echo by Minette Walters (can't remember it)
195. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
196. Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young
197. Wicked by Gregory Macquire (better than the musical)
198. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (some great essays by M. Atwood and also has the Yellow Wallpaper)
199. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (haven't read)
200. The Family Tree by Sherri Teppar (couldn't finish)
201. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
202. Virus Hunter - CJ Peters (non-fiction)
203. A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines
204. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
205. All I Did Was Ask by Terry Gross (read - a bunch of interviews)
206. The Annotated Brothers Grimm edited by Marla Tatar
207. Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
208. Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein
209. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
210. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (great book, haunting, and marvelous. Remember it well. Also inspired a miniseries and a movie, yet the book is still better and resonates even more.)
211. The Elements of Style by STrunk and White and Kalman - with illustrations. (every writer's companion)
212. The World's Most Dangerous Places - Fielding (funny book)
213. Film Noir Reader 2 - by Alan Silver and JAmes Ursini (great book)
214. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (he tells what it was like to work on every film from Butch and Sundance to All the Presidents Men, and includes the screenplay to Butch and Sundance.)
215. Which Lie did I Tell by William Goldman (the sequel and just as good - inside story on the Princess Bride)
216. On Writing by Stephen King (favorite Stephen King book next to the Short Story one he edited)
217. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology by Ellis (you can tell I had a background in Celtic mythology, can't you? Also research for first book and maybe why I'm so harsh on Pam Dean's Tam Lin and other books of that sort).
218. Primitive Mythology - The Masks of the Gods by Joseph Campbell (okay, I own way too many Campbell myth books and I bought them before I realized I didn't agree with him and that he pushed everyone's buttons. I blame the Buffy fanboards for these purchases.)
219. Oriental Mythology - The Masks of the Gods - Joseph Campbell (see above)
220. Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology - The Age of Fables
221. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (sigh, overrated)
222. The Origin and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
223 Celtic Art by Miranda Green (I actually met her once)
224. The Celtic Druid's Year - John King
225. Shenanoah Voices -Folklore, Legends, and Traditions of the Valley - John Heatwole
226. The Last Hot Time - John M Ford (I tried but couldn't get into it)
227. Gray's Anatomy - thought it would help with my drawing and medical terminology
228. The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
229. Arabat by Clive Barker (part one of a series of kids books)
230. A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville (a bank heist and a romance...sort of cool, but fun, did not help that the romantic lead has the same physical description as my kid brother...that is a turn off).
231. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice (writing as AN. RouGlaire - an erotic version of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale)
232. Fox Evil by Minette Walters
233. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (could not finish it, liked Bellweather better)
234. Perdido Street Station by China Melville - (a good example of the writing getting in the way of the story-telling.)
235. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
236. Different Seasons - by Stephen King (short stories)
237. The Afterlife by John Updike (short stories)
238. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
239. The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
240. Sunshine by Robin McKinely (the best romantic vampire novel that I've ever read)
241. The Rape of Europa - the Fate of Europes Treasures in the Third Reich and in the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas (about art forgery and theft)
242. The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw (boring writer)
243. The New Catholic American Bible (interesting in how it differs from the King James Version)
244. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
245. Working with Your Chakras - White
246. Oranges aren't the only fruit by Jeannett Wintersen
247. The Year 1000
248. A Fine Balance by Mistry
249. Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold (couldn't finish)
250. Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
251. The River King by Alice Hoffman
252. Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
253. The Wedding by Dorothy West
254. Guillver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
255. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (excellent depiction of moral turpitude and how the way to hell is paved with the best of intentions. Sci-fi for cultural anthropology majors.)
256. Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (as you can see - I don't index and I liked this one the best of her books)
257. The Island of Dr. Monroe by HG Wells (disturbing novel)
258 Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones
259. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by HG Wells
260. Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
261. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
261. Man and His Symbols edited with introduction by Carl G. Jung (best of the myth books)
262. Oedipus The King - Sophocles (read, and re-read)
263. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (don't remember)
264. The Summer Queen by Joan D. Vinge (The Snow Queen was better)
265. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
266. The Brothers Karamazov
267. Ghost Story by Peter Straub (eh, again, probably shouldn't have seen the movie first - was a good movie though, great cast.)
268. Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper (skip all her books but Grass)
269. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (as good as the movie, oddly enough)
270. On the Road by Jack Keroauc ( I couldn't get into it)
271. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (one of the best sci-fi novels I've read)
272. Main Street by Upton Sinclair
273. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
274. The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
275. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
276. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
277. On the Beach by Neville Shute (liked A Town Like Alice better, less depressing, also Alas, Bablyon was better.)
278. Wildseed by Octavia Butler
279. Kindred by Octavia Butler (next to Time and Again, the best time travel tale I've read, haunting and painful.)
280. Rose's Daughter by Robin McKinely
281. Deerskin by Robin McKinely
282. If You Could See Me - Peter Straub
283. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart - a Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was
284.The Sibyl in Her Grave - by Sarah Caudwell
And a bunch in boxes under my bed that I don't feel like rifling through or my bed stand for that matter, not to mention the 65-73 books archived on the Kindle. In short about 300 and some.
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Date: 2012-01-08 11:03 am (UTC)That's probably one of my all-time favourites. Read it if you haven't already.
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Date: 2012-01-08 03:25 pm (UTC)Definitely agree with you there. I first read it aged just eleven, and it continues to be one of my favourite books of all time. No other time travel book even comes close!
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