Alan's List of Books
I recently got the idea in my head that it might
be a worthwhile endeavor to make a listing of the books I've read. This
will in no way be a comprehensive list, since I only started it with my
reading from mid-June 2003 on; however, I will, as the impulse strikes,
amend the list with books I've read in the past, for completeness' sake.
Still and all, I think it's safe to say this list will never be 100% representative
of everything I've ever read.
(last updated 1 June 2007)
THE CURRENT READS: the book(s) I'm reading
right now
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Gore, Al — The Assault on Reason
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Lewis, C. S. — Out of the Silent Planet
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Lewis, C. S. — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(audiobook)
(*)
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Maguire, Gregory — Wicked: The Life and Times of
the Wicked Witch of the West (audiobook)
WHAT I'VE READ: (6/2003-present)
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Algren, Nelson — Chicago: City on the Make
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Armstrong, Jerome and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga — Crashing
the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics
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Baum, L. Frank — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(audiobook)
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Braun, Lilian Jackson — The Cat Who Went Up the
Creek (audiobook)
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Brown, Dan —The Da Vinci Code
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Cabot, Meg — The Princess Diaries (audiobook)
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Cabot, Meg — The Princess Diaries, vol. II: Princess
in the Spotlight (audiobook)
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Card, Orson Scott — Ender's Game (audiobook)
(*)
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Card, Orson Scott — Ender's Shadow (audiobook)
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Card, Orson Scott — First Meetings: Three Stories
from the Enderverse
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Card, Orson Scott — Shadow of the Hegemon (audiobook)
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Card, Orson Scott — Speaker for the Dead (audiobook)
(*)
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Chandler, Raymond — Playback (audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl (audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
(audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
(audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
(audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
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Colfer, Eoin — The Artemis Fowl Files
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Colfer, Eoin — Half-Moon Investigations
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Colfer, Eoin — The Supernaturalist (audiobook)
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Colfer, Eoin — The Wish List (audiobook)
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Cross, Carlene — Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's
Wife Examines Faith
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David, Peter — "Death After Life" (from Star Trek
- Gateways, book seven: What Lay Beyond)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Starfleet Academy #2: Line of Fire
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Starfleet Academy #3: Survival
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Excalibur:
Renaissance (#10)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Excalibur:
Restoration (#11)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Gateways,
book six: Cold Wars
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Being
Human (#12)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Gods Above
(#13)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Stone
and Anvil (#14)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - After
the Fall (#15)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Missing
in Action (#16)
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David, Peter — "Stone Cold Truth" (from Star Trek:
Tales of the Dominion War)
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan — The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes (audiobook)
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan — The Sign of Four
(audiobook)
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan — A Study in Scarlet
(audiobook)
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Franken, Al — Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them: A Fair And Balanced Look at the Right
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Franken, Al — The Truth (with Jokes)
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Frankfurt, Harry G. — On Bullshit
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Gaiman, Neil — Adventures in the Dream Trade
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Gaiman, Neil — Anansi Boys
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Gaiman, Neil — Coraline (audiobook)
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Gaiman, Neil — "Monarch of the Glen" (from Legends
II, ed. Robert Silverberg)
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Gaiman, Neil — The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection
(audiobook)
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Gaiman, Neil — The Wolves in the Walls
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Gladwell, Malcolm — Blink: The Power of Thinking
Without Thinking (audiobook)
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Gladwell, Malcolm — The Tipping Point: How Little
Things Can Make a Big Difference (abridged) (audiobook)
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Greeley, Andrew M. — The Bishop and the Beggar
Girl of St. Germain (audiobook)
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Greer, Andrew Sean — The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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Gregory, David — Dinner with a Perfect Stranger
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Hill, Joe — Heart-Shaped Box
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Huston, Charlie — Caught Stealing
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Jillette, Penn — Sock
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Kennedy, Caroline (ed.) — A Patriot's Handbook:
Songs, Poems, Stories and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (selections)
(audiobook)
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King, Stephen — Cell
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King, Stephen — The Colorado Kid
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
(*)
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
(revised & updated)
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower II: The Drawing
of the Three (*)
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
(*)
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower IV: Wizard And Glass
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the
Calla
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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King, Stephen — The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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King, Stephen — Everything's Eventual (audiobook)
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King, Stephen — "The Little Sisters of Eluria" (from
Legends,
ed. Robert Silverberg)
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King, Stephen (as Richard Bachman) — The Regulators
(audiobook)
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Konigsburg, E. L. — From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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Lansdale, Joe R. — "Bubba Ho-Tep" (from Writer
of the Purple Rage)
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Larsen, Erik — The Devil in the White City
(audiobook)
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Laurie, Hugh — The Gun Seller
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LeGuin, Ursula K. — A Wizard of Earthsea (audiobook)
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L'Engle, Madeleine — A Wrinkle in Time (audiobook)
(*)
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Lewis, C. S. — The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
(audiobook) (*)
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Lewis, Michael — Moneyball (audiobook)
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Lowry, Lois — The Giver (audiobook)
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Martel, Yann — The Life of Pi
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McCall Smith, Alexander — The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency (audiobook)
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McCall Smith, Alexander — Portugese Irregular Verbs
(audiobook)
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Meltzer, Brad — The First Counsel (audiobook)
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Nunberg, Geoffrey — Talking Right: How Conservatives
Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving,
New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak
Show
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O'Brien, Robert C. — Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
NIMH
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Obama, Barack — The Audacity of Hope
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Paolini, Christopher — Eragon (Inheritance, Book
1) (audiobook)
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Picoult, Jodi — The Tenth Circle
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Prothero, Stephen R. — Religious Literacy: What
Every American Needs to Know, And Doesn't
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Pullman, Philip — The Ruby in the Smoke (audiobook)
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Quinn, Daniel — If They Give You Lined Paper...Write
Sideways
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Quinn, Daniel — Tales of Adam
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Sorcerer's
Stone (audiobook) (*)
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Rowling, J .K. — Harry Potter And the Chamber of
Secrets (audiobook) (*)
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Prisoner
of Azkaban (audiobook) (*)
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Goblet of
Fire (audiobook) (*)
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Order of
the Phoenix
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Order of
the Phoenix (audiobook) (*)
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Half-Blood
Prince
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Half-Blood
Prince (audiobook) (*)
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Rucka, Greg — A Gentleman's Game: A Queen &
Country Novel
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Russell, Mary Doria — A Thread of Grace
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Shapiro, Walter — One-Car Caravan: On the Road
With the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In
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Snicket, Lemony — A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Book the First: The Bad Beginning (audiobook)
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Snicket, Lemony — A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Book the Second: The Reptile Room (audiobook)
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Snicket, Lemony — A Series of Unfortunate Events,
Book the Third: The Wide Window (audiobook)
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Stewart, Ian — Letters to a Young Mathematician
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Stewart, Jon — Naked Pictures of Famous People
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Stewart, Jon, et al. — The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart Presents America: The Audiobook (audiobook)
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Suzuki, Koji — Dark Water
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Thomas, Rob — Rats Saw God
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Thompson, Caroline — First Born
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Tolkien, J. R. R. — The Hobbit (audiobook)
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Twain, Mark — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court (audiobook)
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Vidal, Gore — Imperial America: Reflections on
the United States of Amnesia
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Vidal, Gore — Inventing a Nation (audiobook)
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Vonnegut, Kurt — A Man Without a Country
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Vowell, Sarah — Assassination Vacation
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Vowell, Sarah — The Partly-Cloudy Patriot
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Wells, H. G. — The Invisible Man (audiobook)
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Wheaton, Wil — Dancing Barefoot
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Wheaton, Wil — Just a Geek
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Wolfe, Gene & Neil Gaiman — A Walking Tour
of the Shambles: Little Walks for Sightseers #16
THE BACKLIST: things I read sometime in
the past before I started compiling this list. Probably not a hope in the
world of this ever being complete
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Adams, Douglas — Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy
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Adams, Douglas — The Restaurant At the End of the
Universe
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Adams, Douglas — Life, the Universe, And Everything
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Adams, Douglas — So Long, And Thanks For All the
Fish
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Adams, Douglas — Mostly Harmless
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Adams, Richard — Watership Down
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Akutagawa, Ryunosuke — Rashomon, And Other Stories
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Anthony, Piers — On a Pale Horse ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 1)
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Anthony, Piers — Bearing an Hourglass ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 2)
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Anthony, Piers — With a Tangled Skein ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 3)
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Anthony, Piers — Wielding a Red Sword ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 4)
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Anthony, Piers — Being a Green Mother ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 5)
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Anthony, Piers — For Love of Evil ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 6)
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Anthony, Piers — And Eternity ("Incarnations
of Immortality" book 7)
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Asaro, Catherine — Primary Inversion
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Asimov, Isaac — Foundation
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Asimov, Isaac — Foundation And Empire
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Asimov, Isaac — Second Foundation
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Asimov, Isaac — Foundation's Edge
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Asimov, Isaac — Foundation And Earth
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Asimov, Isaac — The Gods Themselves
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Asimov, Isaac — I, Robot
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Atwood, Margaret — The Handmaid's Tale
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Bantock, Nick — Griffin & Sabine
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Beckett, Samuel — Waiting For Godot
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Blake, Michael — Dances With Wolves
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Bloch, Robert — Psycho
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Brin, David — The Postman
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Brin, David — Startide Rising
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Burton, Tim — The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
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Card, Orson Scott — Ender's Game
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Card, Orson Scott — Speaker For the Dead
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Card, Orson Scott — Xenocide
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Card, Orson Scott — Children of the Mind
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Card, Orson Scott — Pastwatch: The Redemption of
Christopher Columbus
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Carver, Raymond — Short Cuts
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Cavelos, Jeanne — Babylon 5 - The Shadow Within
(#7)
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Claremont, Chris — First Flight
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Clarke, Arthur C. — The Hammer of God
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Clarke, Arthur C. — 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Crichton, Michael — Airframe
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Crichton, Michael — The Andromeda Strain
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Crichton, Michael — Congo
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Crichton, Michael — Disclosure
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Crichton, Michael — Jurassic Park
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Crichton, Michael — Rising Sun
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Crichton, Michael — Sphere
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Crichton, Michael — The Terminal Man
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David, Peter — Babylon 5: In the Beginning
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David, Peter — Babylon 5: Thirdspace
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David, Peter — Babylon 5 - Legions of Fire, Book
I: The Long Night of Centauri Prime
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David, Peter — Knight Life
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David, Peter — Spider-Man
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David, Peter — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The
Siege (#2)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - House
of Cards (#1)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Into the
Void (#2)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - The Two-Front
War (#3)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - End Game
(#4)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Martyr
(#5)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Fire On
High (#6)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - The Quiet
Place (#7)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Dark Allies
(#8)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - Excalibur:
Requiem (#9)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: New Frontier - The Captain's
Table, book 5: Once Burned
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Q-in-Law (#18)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Double Helix, book 5: Double or Nothing (#55)
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Imzadi
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Q-Squared
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David, Peter — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Vendetta
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de Botton, Alain — The Art of Travel
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Delany, Samuel R. — The Einstein Intersection
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Dickens, Charles — A Tale of Two Cities
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Drennan, Kathryn M. — Babylon 5 - To Dream In the
City of Shadows (#9)
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Duane, Diane — Star Trek: The Next Generation -
Dark Mirror
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Dumas, Alexandre — The Count of Monte Cristo
(abridged)
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Ellis, Joseph J. — Founding Brothers (audiobook)
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Ellison, Harlan — City on the Edge of Forever
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Ellison, Harlan — I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay
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Ellison, Harlan — Mephisto In Onyx
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Gaiman, Neil — American Gods
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Gaiman, Neil — Angels & Visitations
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Gaiman, Neil — Coraline
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Gaiman, Neil — The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two
Goldfish
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Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett — Good Omens:
The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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Goldman, William — Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Goldman, William — Which Lie Did I Tell: More Adventures
in the Screen Trade
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Guest, Judith — Ordinary People
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Hawken, Paul — The Ecology of Commerce
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Herbert, Frank — Dune
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Hinton, S. E. — The Outsiders (*)
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Jackson, Shirley — The Haunting of Hill House
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Kay, Susan — Phantom
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Kerouac, Jack — On the Road (audiobook)
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Kesey, Ken — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Keyes, J. Gregory — Babylon 5 - Dark Genesis: The
Birth of the Psi Corps
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Keyes, J. Gregory — Babylon 5 - Deadly Relations:
Bester Ascendant
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Keyes, J. Gregory — Babylon 5 - Final Reckoning:
The Fate of Bester
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King, Stephen — Bag of Bones
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King, Stephen — The Dead Zone
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King, Stephen — Dreamcatcher
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King, Stephen — The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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King, Stephen — Hearts In Atlantis
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King, Stephen — Insomnia
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King, Stephen — On Writing
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King, Stephen — Rose Madder
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King, Stephen — The Stand (complete and uncut
version)
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Koenig, Walter — Warped Factors
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Kress, Nancy — Beggars In Spain
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Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee — The Night
Thoreau Spent In Jail
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LeGuin, Ursula K. — The Dispossessed
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Leroux, Gaston — The Phantom of the Opera
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Lewis, C. S. — The Lion, the Witch And the Wardrobe
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Lewis, C. S. — Prince Caspian
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Lewis, C. S. — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Lewis, C. S. — The Silver Chair
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Lewis, C. S. — A Horse And His Boy
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Lewis, C. S. — The Magician's Nephew (it's
the sixth book in the series, darnit!)
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Lewis, C. S. — The Final Battle
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McConnell, Ashley — Quantum Leap - The Novel
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McConnell, Ashley — Quantum Leap - Prelude
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McConnell, Ashley — Quantum Leap - Too Close For
Comfort
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McConnell, Ashley — Quantum Leap - The Wall
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McDevitt, Jack — Eternity Road
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Miller, Arthur — The Crucible
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Miller, Arthur — Death of a Salesman
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Miller Jr., Walter M. — A Canticle For Liebowitz
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Milne, A. A. — Winnie-the-Pooh
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Milne, A. A. — The House At Pooh Corner
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Morrow, James — Towing Jehovah
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Nickel, Steven — Torso: The Story of Elliot Ness
And the Search for a Psychopathic Killer
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Orwell, George — Animal Farm
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Orwell, George — 1984
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Pascall, Jeremy — God: The Ultimate Autobiography
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Pinker, Stephen — The Language Instinct
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Pirsig, Robert M. — Zen And the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
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Quinn, Daniel — After Dachau
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Quinn, Daniel — Beyond Civilization (*)
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Quinn, Daniel — The Holy
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Quinn, Daniel — Ishmael (*)
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Quinn, Daniel — My Ishmael (*)
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Quinn, Daniel — Providence: The Story of a Fifty
Year Vision Quest
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Quinn, Daniel — The Story of B (*)
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Sorcerer's
Stone
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Chamber of
Secrets
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Prisoner
of Azkaban
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Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter And the Goblet of
Fire
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Rucka, Greg — Batman: No Man's Land
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Russell, Mary Doria — The Sparrow (*)
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Russell, Mary Doria — The Sparrow (audiobook)
(*)
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Russell, Mary Doria — Children of God
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Sagan, Carl — Contact
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Schreiber, Flora Rheta — Sybil
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Shakespeare, William — Romeo And Juliet
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Shakespeare, William — The Tempest (*)
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Shelley, Mary — Frankenstein
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Simmons, Dan — Hyperion
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Simon, David — Homicide: A Year On the Killing
Streets
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Sinclair, Upton — The Jungle
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Sleator, William — Interstellar Pig
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Stern, Roger — The Death And Life of Superman
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Storm, L. Elizabeth — Quantum Leap - Pulitzer
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Straczynski, J. Michael — Demon Night
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Straczynski, J. Michael — OtherSyde
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Stroebel, Lee — The Case for Christ
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Tolkien, J. R. R. — The Hobbit
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Tolkien, J. R. R. — The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring
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Tolkien, J. R. R. — The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers (audiobook)
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Tolkien, J. R. R. — The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King
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Turtledove, Harry — The Guns of the South
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Turtledove, Harry — How Few Remain
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Turtledove, Harry — Worldwar: In the Balance
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Turtledove, Harry — Worldwar: Tilting the Balance
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Turtledove, Harry — Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
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Turtledove, Harry — Worldwar: Striking the Balance
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Twain, Mark — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Twain, Mark — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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van Vogt, A. E. — The World of [null-A]
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Voltaire — Candide
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Vonnegut, Kurt — Cat's Cradle
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Vonnegut, Kurt — Galapagos
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Vonnegut, Kurt — Mother Night
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Vonnegut, Kurt — Slaughterhouse-Five
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Vonnegut, Kurt — Timequake
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Vornholt, John — Babylon 5 - Blood Oath (#3)
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Vowell, Sarah — Take the Cannoli
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Watts, Alan — The Book
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Wells, H. G. — The Island of Dr. Moreau
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Williams, Tennessee — A Streetcar Named Desire
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Willis, Connie — To Say Nothing of the Dog
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Wittig, Monique — Les Guérillères
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Zahn, Timothy — Star Wars: Heir To the Empire
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Zahn, Timothy — Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
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Zahn, Timothy — Star Wars: The Last Command
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Zamyatin, Yevgeny — We
(*) denotes a book read more than
once