Book Lust Books

Here are all the titles in Book Lust.  Right now it is just the first in the series.  Duplicates have been removed and the ones crossed off are ones I have read.  The ones in italics are ones I know I have a copy of (my ebook collection is extensive and unmanageable)

• The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron
• The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
• Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
• Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
• Hitty Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
• Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
• The sea is blue, by Marie Lawson
• The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• Crazy Creek by Evelyn Sibley Lampman
• Wait for Marcy by Rosamond du Jardin
• Green Eyes by Jean Nielsen
• The Casket and the Sword by Norman Dale
• Dream Gold by David Severn
• Going on Sixteen by Betty Cavanna
• Minnow on the Say by Philippa Pearce
• The Kid from Tomkinsville  by John R. Tunis
• Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel by Richard Bausch
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
• Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre
• Paperboy, The by Pete Dexter
• A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• English Passengers: A Novel by Matthew Kneale
• Little, Big by John Crowley
• Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel by Andrea Barrett
• The Second Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
• Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
• After You’ve Gone, Stories by Alice Adams
• Superior Women by Alice Adams
• Families and Survivors by Alice Adams
• The Stories of Alice Adams by Alice Adams
• In The Gloaming: Stories by Alice Elliott Dark
• Naked To The Waist by Alice Elliott Dark
• Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
• The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman
• Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
• Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
• Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
• Men Giving Money, Women Yelling by Alice Mattison
• The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
• Hilda and Pearl by Alice Mattison
• Animals by Alice Mattison
• Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
• Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
• At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
• A Bigamist’s Daughter by Alice Mcdermott
• That Night by Alice McDermott
• Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
• Open Secrets by Alice Munro
• The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
• Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker
• Meridian by Alice Walker
• Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
• Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
• The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy
• Moo by Jane Smiley
• Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed
• The Handmaid of Desire: A Novel by John L’Heureux
• Changing Places by David Lodge
• Small World by David Lodge
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury
• Stepping Westward by Malcolm Bradbury
• History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
• Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury
• To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
• Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
• In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross
• The Theban Mysteries by Amanda Cross
• The James Joyce Murder by Amanda Cross
• Murder in the Museum of Man by Alfred Alcorn
• Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes
• Flint by Paul Eddy
• Flint’s Law by Paul Eddy
• Saint Mike by Jerry Oster
• Pieces of Modesty by Peter O’Donnell
• Dragon’s Claw by Peter O’Donnell
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
• The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge
• What the Ice Gets : Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 by Melinda Mueller
• The Cage by Audrey Schulman
• Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration by David Roberts
• National Geographic Expeditions Atlas by National Geographic Society
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
• The Other Side of Everest : Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson
• The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukree
• Left for Dead : My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
• The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la by Todd Balf
• Barrow’s Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy by Fergus Fleming
• Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole by Fergus Fleming
• Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World’s Most Dangerous Waters by Derek Lundy
• Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
• Sahara: A Natural History by Marq de Villiers
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo by Michela Wrong
• The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
• Erasure by Percival Everett
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
• High Cotton by Darryl Pinckney
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
• Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
• The Culture of Disbelief by Stephen L. Carter
• Live at Five by David Haynes
• The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
• John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
• Sunday You Learn How to Box: A Novel by Bil Wright
• Not a Day Goes By: A Novel by E. Lynn Harris
• Liar’s Game by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Milk in my Coffee by Eric Jerome Dickey
• For the Love of Money by Omar Tyree
• A Do Right Man by Omar Tyree
• Two Cities: A Love Story by John Edgar Wideman
• Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Jazz by Toni Morrison
• Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
• A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
• What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
• Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
• He Say, She Say by Yolanda Joe
• The Hatwearer’s Lesson by Yolanda Joe
• Bebe’s By Golly Wow by Yolanda Joe
• This Just In by Yolanda Joe
• The Itch by Benilde Little
• Blues Dancing by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
• Tumbling by Diane Mckinney-whetstone
• Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do by Valerie W. Wesley
• Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
• The Hand I Fan With by Tina Mcelroy Ansa
• A Long Way from Home by Connie Briscoe
• Big Girls Don’t Cry by Connie Briscoe
• Sisters and Lovers by Connie Briscoe
• Wild Embers by Anita Richmond Bunkley
• Starlight Passage by Anita R. Bunkley
• Black Gold by Anita R. Bunkley
• Pride by Lorene Cary
• Good Fences by Erika Ellis
• Healing by Gayl Jones
• Corregidora by Gayl Jones
• Mosquito by Gayl Jones
• Do Unto Others by Kristin Hunter Lattany
• Serpent’s Gift by Helen Elaine Lee
• Water Marked by Helen Elaine Lee
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
• Bailey’s Cafe by Gloria Naylor
• All-Bright Court by Connie Rose Porter
• Her Own Place by Dori Sanders
• Clover by Dori Sanders
• The Good Negress by A. J. Verdelle
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
• Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa by Francesca Marciano
• Antonia Saw the Oryx First by Maria Thomas
• White Man’s Grave by Richard Dooling
• Darkest England by Christopher Hope
• The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
• Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
• The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• The Famished Road by Ben Okri
• Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
• The Rape of Shavi by Buchi Emecheta
• So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
• Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
• God’s Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane
• A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiongo
• Diaries of Jane Somers by Doris Lessing
• Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
• Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie
• Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes by Sheila Nickerson
• Road Song by Natalie Kusz
• A Cold-Blooded Business  by Dana Stabenow
• Murder on the Iditarod Trail  by Sue Henry
• The Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley
• Tatiana by Dorothy M. Jones
• People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present  by Howard Zinn
• The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H.W. Brands
• There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America by Vincent Harding
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
• The Long Death; the Last Days of the Plains Indian
  The American Century by Harold Evans
• Dreamland by Kevin Baker
• Paradise Alley  by Kevin Baker
• In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
• City of Light by Lauren Belfer
• Underworld by Don DeLillo
• The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
• Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America
• Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion by Janet Witalec
• Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers
• Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature
• Red On Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Wind from an Enemy Sky by D’Arcy McNickle
• Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
• House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
• The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
• Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
• Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King
• Flutie by Diane Glancy
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
• The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
• The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens
• Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
• Arabian Sands by W THESIGER
• News from Tartary by Peter Fleming
• The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
• Looking for Lovedu: A Woman’s Journey Through Africa by Ann Jones
• In Siberia by Colin Thubron
• Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings by Jonathan Raban
• Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
• The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz
• Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge by Jill Fredston
• Ways of Seeing by John Berger
• About Looking by John Berger
• Sense of Sight by John Berger
• The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
• Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes
• The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes
• John Updike: Just Looking: Essays on Art by John Updike
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade S. Wong
• Growing Up Asian American: An Anthology by Maria Hong
• Bone by Fae M. Ng
• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
• Blu’s Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Moon Cakes by Andrea Louie
• Donald Duk by Frank Chin
• Homebase by Shawn Wong
• American Knees by Shawn Wong
• Typical American by Gish Jen
• Mona In the Promised Land by Gish Jen
• The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Yuri Minatoya
• China Boy by Gus Lee
• Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
• Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
• The Mind’s Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context by Timothy Ferris
• The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
• Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Stardust: Supernovae and Life: The Cosmic Connection by Mary Gribbin
• Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets by E.C. Krupp
• The Box of Stars: A Practical Guide to the Mythology of the Night Sky by Catherine Tennant
• The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo
• The Dork of the Cork by Chet Raymo
• Magnificent Universe by Ken Croswell
• Full Moon by Michael Light
• The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
• A Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
• When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
• Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
• Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
• The Only Daughter by Jessica Anderson
• Wrack by James Bradley
• True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
• Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell
• Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital
• Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally
• Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
• Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
• That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton
• Dirt Music by Tim Winton
• Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
• Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
• Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• The Breaking Wave by Nevil Shute
• A Good Enough Parent by Bruno Bettelheim
• Child’s birthright: In defense of mothering by Selma H Fraiberg
• Between Parent and Child by Dr. Haim G. Ginott
• Summerhill School by A. S. Neill
• The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
• Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass
• Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan
• My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd
• Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe’s Worst
• Massacre Since World War II by David Rohde
• The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
• S.: A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
• The View from Pompey’s Head by Hamilton Basso
• The Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso
• A Touch of the Dragon by Hamilton Basso
• The Greenroom by Hamilton Basso
• Sun in Capricorn by Hamilton Basso
• Days Before Lent by Hamilton Basso
• Court-house square by Hamilton Basso
• Cinnamon Seed by Hamilton Basso
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill
• Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
  by Michael Lewis
• The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders by Connie Bruck
• Den of Thieves by James Brewer Stewart
• Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
• How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy
• The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe by Dervla Murphy
• Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
• French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore
• Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure by Barbara Savage
• Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman’s Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China & Vietnam by Erika Warmbrunn
• Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
• Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey by Goran Kropp
• Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy by Anne Mustoe
• Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
• Miss Lizzie. by Walter Satterthwait
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Weep No More by Janet Stevenson
• Untouchable by John Banville
• Grant by Max Byrd
• Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
• Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds
• The Last Canyon by John Vernon
• The Death of Che Guevara by Jay Cantor
• Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
• Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park by Marie Winn
• Parts Unknown: A Naturalist’s Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places by Tim Gallagher
• Birders: Tales of a Tribe by Mark Cocker
• Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos
• The Sibley Guide to Birds by David Allen Sibley
• Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviour by David Sibley
• The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen
• Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds by Chris Chester
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
• Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel
• The Lecturer’s Tale by James Hynes
• Kill Your Darlings: A Novel by Terence Blacker
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb by Thomas Powers
• Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by General Leslie R. Groves
• Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken
• Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
• Phyllis by E. V. Cunningham
• Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering by Wendy Lesser
• The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading by Francis Spufford
• A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
• Patience and Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go About the Quixotic Task of Preserving a Legacy by Nicholas A. Basbanes
• A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books
• For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World
• Literature, Revised and Expanded by Clifton Fadiman
• Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading by Steven Gilbar
• The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• Testing The Current by William Mcpherson
• The Assault by Harry Mulisch
• Audrey Hepburn’s Neck by Alan Brown
• Isaac and His Devils by Fernanda Eberstadt
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• The Rotters’ Club by Jonathan Coe
• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• The Funnies by J.Robert Lennon
• Glimmer  by Annie Waters
• Plum & Jaggers by Susan Richards Shreve
• Nine months in the life of an Old Maid by Judith Rossner
• Ancestral Truths by Sara Maitland
• Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
• The Mutual Friend by Frederick Busch
• Closing Arguments by Frederick Busch
• Girls by Frederick Busch
• Don’t Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch
• The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
• Harry and Catherine: A Love Story by Frederick Busch
• A Memory of War by Frederick Busch
• Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life by Frederick Busch
• Children in the Woods by Frederick Busch
• Long Way from Home by Frederick Busch
• War Babies by Frederick Busch
• Sometimes I Live in the Country by Frederick Busch
• Absent Friends by Frederick Busch
• Too Late American Boyhood Blues by Frederick Busch
• Invisible Mending by Frederick Busch
• Take This Man by Frederick Busch
• Rounds by Frederick Busch
• Hardwater country by Frederick Busch\
• Manual Labor by Frederick Busch
• Breathing Trouble by Frederick Busch
• I Wanted a Year Without Fall by Frederick Busch
• Letters to a Fiction Writer by Frederick Busch
• When people publish: Essays on writers and writing by Frederick Busch
• Hawkes: A Guide to His Fictions by Frederick Busch
• The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie
• Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
• Golden Days by Carolyn See
• Greetings from the Golden State by Leslie Brenner
• The Diamond Lane by Karen Karbo
• If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now by Sandra Tsing Loh
• The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
• Tales of the Cityby Armistead Maupin
• More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
• Babycakes by Armistead Maupin
• Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
• Sure of You by Armistead Maupin
• We’re Not Here by Tim Mahoney
• The Tribes of Palos Verdes by Joy Nicholson
• East Bay Grease by Eric Miles Williamson
• Last Bongo Sunset by Les Plesko
• The Lady with the Alligator Purse by Ernest Finney
• Jumping the Green by Leslie Schwartz
• Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell
• A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
• The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
• Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
• Jump by Marianne Ackerman
• A Year of Lesser by David Bergen
• A Good House by Burnard
• Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
• Whats Bred In the Bone by Robertson Davies
• The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan
• Headhunter by Timothy Findley
• Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
• The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
• The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be by Farley Mowat
• Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
• In the Language of Love by Diane Schoemperlen
• The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
• The Englishman’s Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
• The Republic of Love by Carol Shields
• The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
• Catch as Cat Can by Rita Mae Brown
• Claws and Effect by Rita Mae Brown
• Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton’s Polar-Bound Cat by Caroline Alexander
• Of Cats and Men: Stories by Nina de Gramont
• Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror by James Hynes
• Metzger’s Dog: A Novel by Thomas Perry
• The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
• The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun
• A Cat in the Manger by Lydia Adamson
• Catnap: A Midnight Louie Mystery by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Nine Lives to Murder by Marian Babson
• The Norths Meet Murder by Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
• Key to Death: A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery by Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
• The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory
• The Fur Person by May Sarton
• Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey
• Cats in May by Doreen Tovey
• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
• Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
• Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell
• The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks
• What She Saw… by Lucinda Rosenfeld
• I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
• Cupid and Diana by Christina Bartolomeo
• Trials of Tiffany Trott by Isabel Wolff
• Making of Minty Malone by Isabel Wolff
• Thirty-Nothing by Lisa Jewell
• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
• Dog Handling by Clare Naylor
• Girls’ Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
• Getting Over It by Anna Maxted
• Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
• Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• A Dream of Red Mansions by Xueqin Cao
• Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• Stories of the Wall by Dai Houying
• Waiting by Ha Jin
• The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
• Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
• Red Azalea by Anchee Min
• Spider Eaters by Rae Yang
• Son of the Revolution by Heng Liang
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now by Jan Wong
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
• The Night Before Christmas: The Heirloom Edition by Clement Clarke Moore
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
• Rovert Kapilow: Chris Van Allsburg’s Polar Express by G Schirmer Inc
• Santa Calls by William Joyce
• Little Porcupine’s Christmasnby Joseph Slate
• Red Ranger Came Calling by Berkeley Breathed
• Hilary Knight’s Twelve Days of Christmas
• Father Christmas Letters by J. R. R Tolkien
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara
• The Night Inspector
• A Soldier’s Book by Joanna Higgins
• The Year of Jubilo by Howard Bahr
• The Black Flower by Howard Bahr
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
• In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
• Weep No More by Janet Stevenson
• Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell
• The Sands of Pride by William R. Trotter
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
• The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
• Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 by Shelby Foote
• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
• With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
• Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman
• Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command by Douglas Southall Freeman
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
• All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkins
• The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their
• Brothers by John C. Waugh
• A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Chestnut
• Mary Chestnut’s Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
• April 1865: The Month That Saved America  by Jay Winik
• American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally
• Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War by William C. Davis
• Atlas Of The Civil War by James M. McPherson
• The Blue and the Gray by ed., Henry Steele Commager
• A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire by Fletcher Pratt
• The road to Sardis by Stephanie Plowman
• Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Tides of War by Steven Pressfield
• The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford
• The Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff
• Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
• The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
• Aristotle Detective by Margaret Doody
• The Eye of Cybele by Daniel Chavarria
• The Godless Man by Paul Doherty
• The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves
• The Venus Throw: A Mystery of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor
• Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor
• Last Seen in Massilia by Steven Saylor
• A Twist at The End by Steven Saylor
• The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
• Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
• Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
• First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
• The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough
• Fortune’s Favorites by Colleen McCullough
• Caesar’s Women by Colleen McCullough
• Caesar by Colleen McCullough
• The October Horse: A Novel of Caesar and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre
• Berlin Game by Len Deighton
• Mexico Set by Len Deighton
• London Match by Len Deighton
• The Endless Game by Bryan Forbes
• Spy Wednesday by William Hood
• Soul of Viktor Tronko by David Quammen
• The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
• The Tears of Autumn
• Little America by Henry Bromell
• Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago
• Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
• Addie: A Memoir by Mary Lee Settle
• The Odd Women by George Gissing
• The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin
• The Persian Bride by James Buchan
• The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran by Robin Wright
• Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran by Elaine Sciolino
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Things Fall Apart: With Related Readings by Chinua Achebe
• Wild Life by Molly Gloss
• Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide by Robert Michael Pyle
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
• Old Glory – An American Voyage by Johathan Raban
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Tender Is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald
• Living Well Is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
• Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill
• Close Range by Annie Proulx
• Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan
• The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
• Women of Silk by Gail Tsukiyayma
• A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• The Spectator Bird by Wallace Earle Stegner
• Moviegoer by Walker Percy
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
• Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch
• Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank
• Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
• One Dry Season:In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley by Caroline Alexander
• Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40 by Robert Polito
• Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s by Jim Thompson
• Fast One by Paul Cain
• The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
• Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
• Night and the City by Gerald Kersh
• The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
• The Black Curtain by Cornell Woolrich
• Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich
• The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
• The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich
• Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich
• The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
• The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
• POP.1280 by Jim Thompson
• The Grifters by Jim Thompson
• Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis
• Run Man Run by Chester Himes
• The End of a Primitive by Chester Himes
• In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
• Cockfighter by Charles Ray Willeford
• The Difference  by Charles Willeford
• The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown
• Murder in the Madhouse by Jonathan Latimer
• The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
• Paradiso. by Jose Lezama Lima
• Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
• Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
• The Color of Summer: or The New Garden of Earthly Delights by Reinaldo Arenas
• Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
• Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
• Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
• Midnight Sandwiches at the Mariposa Express by Beatriz Rivera
• Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes
• The Lazarus Rumba by Ernesto Mestre
• The Chin Kiss King by Ana Veciana-Suarez
• In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd by Ana Menendez
• Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology
• Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction
• Cuba Diaries by Isadora Tattlin
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson
• Signal to Noise by Eric S. Nylund
• Tea From An Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan
• Dervish Is Digital by Pat Cadigan
• Software by Rudy Rucker
• Wetware by Rudy V. B. Rucker
• The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
• Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling
• Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
• Holy Fire  by Bruce Sterling
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Hackers by Various
• Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Castle by Franz Kafka
• The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War by Jaroslav Hasek
• Catch-22: A Novel by Joseph Heller
• Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
• I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
• Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima
• Sins For Father Knox by Skvorecky Josef
• Miracle Game by Josef Skvorecky
• The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Joke by Milan Kundera
• Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else by Daniela Fischerová
• City, Sister, Silver by Jachym Topol
• Year of the Frog by Martin M. Simecka
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations  by Charles Dickens
• The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
• The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
• The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
• Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
• Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
• The Belly of Parisn by Émile Zola
• Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux
• The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science by Mark Jaffe
• The Bonehunters’ Revenge: Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age by David Rains Wallace
• Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia by Michael Novacek
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer by Barbara Kerley
• Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science by Deborah Cadbury
• The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin by Christopher Mcgowan
• National Geographic Dinosaurs by Paul Barrett
• Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman
• Mother of the Bride: The Dream, the Reality, the Search for a Perfect Dress by Ilene Beckerman
• The Fashionable Mind: Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981 by Kennedy Fraser
• Scenes from the Fashionable World by Kennedy Fraser
• Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress by Anne Hollander
• Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander
• The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
• West with the Night by Beryl Markham
• Martha Quest: A Novel by Doris Lessing
• Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949 by Doris Lessing
• Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
• I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
• White Mischief by James Fox
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey

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