April 28, 2005

• It’s a town day for me.  I’ll leave
  earlier than usual because I have to get my tires changed over. 
  If I let Streak wear his studs past the end of this month, we could get
  a ticket.

  After two days on the new meds, I’m feeling lots better.  That
  doesn’t necessarily mean my improved nutritional status has brought on
  a remission.  There’s ephedra in the morning and mid-day
  empty-stomach doses, so my increased energy and this euphoria is
  probably just drug-induced.  But it has also allowed my sinuses to
  drain and I’m breathing more freely, smelling things again.

  Someone, possibly mystic_in_training or emerging, asked me about the
  cognitive enhancers I take.  They include herbs such as ginkgo and
  vinca, essential fatty acids and phospholipids such as DHA and
  phosphatidyl serine, and “smart drugs” such as Centrophenoxine and DMAE
  (dimethylaminoethanol).  That last one used to be available only
  by prescription (tradename Deaner), and I’ve been taking it continually
  since the late 1970s when I discovered that it metabolizes into
  acetylcholine and reverses the burnout I get from prolonged psychic
  work.  It’s one of the things I take along with my prescription
  asthma meds, C and B complex, even when I’m on a pill vacation.

  Here’s some fluff and some serious stuff:

  
  You connect with pain mentally, your mind analyizes
  every thing around you, your brain never stops
  even when you are sleeping, that is why you
  usually have headaches, another problem you
  have which is insomnia, you can’t sleep easily,
  you have to think at least one hour before you
  sleep, you are responsible and creative, you
  don’t trust people easily that is why you like
  to do every thing by yourself, the best cure
  for you is to calm down and slow down things in
  your life, you don’t have to carry the whole
  world on your shoulders.

  How do you connect with Pain? (updated)
  brought to you by Quizilla

  *chortle* Yeah, I “connect” with pain
  mentally, switch it off and “listen” to the other messages in those
  neural sensations.  If my life were any slower I’d be dead, any
  calmer I’d be comatose.  I do tend to mentate non-stop and analyze
  a lot, and trust perhaps a bit more than is good for me (the wood guy
  Tim never did bring me all the wood I paid for), but I also have that
  tendency to feel that nobody else can do whatever-it-is as well as I
  can.  Maybe that’s because nobody tries as hard as I do. 
  This quiz constructor could have tried a little harder.  I’ll give
  it about 48%.

  The Prioress You scored 7% Cardinal, 71% Monk, 64% Lady,  and 29% Knight!

  You are a moral person and are also highly intellectual. You like yoursolitude but are also kind and helpful to those around you. Guided by abelief in the goodness of mankind you will likely be christened a saintafter your life is over. You scored high as both the Lady and the Monk. You can try again toget a more precise description of either the Monk or the lady, or you can be happy that you’re an individual.

  
  

  My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 0% on Cardinal You scored higher than 99% on Monk You scored higher than 99% on Lady You scored higher than 0% on Knight

  Link: The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave on Ok Cupid

  That’s funny.  I certainly wasn’t so saintly in the lifetime I lived around then.
  

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  Literature Test
  
  
  
  Archaeologist swiped this from
  Scriveling who swiped it from oniongirl, and I swiped it from
  Archaeologist.  The rules are to bold the ones you’ve read, italicize what you started but didn’t finish, and add three books to the list.
  
  
  
  001. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  
  002. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  
  003. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  
  004. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  
  005. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  
  006. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  
  007. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  
  008. 1984, George Orwell
  
  009. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  
  010. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  
  011. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  
  012. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
  
  013. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  
  014. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  
  015. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  
  016. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  
  017. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  
  018. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  
  019. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
  
  020. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
  
  021. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  
  022. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone, JK Rowling
  
  023. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
  
  024. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
  
  025. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
  
  026. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
  
  027. Middlemarch, George Eliot
  
  028. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
  
  029. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  
  030. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  
  031. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  032. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
  033. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
  
  034. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  
  035. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
  
  036. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  037. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
  
  038. Persuasion, Jane Austen
  
  039. Dune, Frank Herbert
  
  040. Emma, Jane Austen
  
  041. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
  
  042. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  
  043. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  
  044. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  
  045. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
  
  046. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  
  047. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
  
  048. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
  
  049. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
  
  050. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
  
  051. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  052. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
  
  053. The Stand, Stephen King
  
  054. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  
  055. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
  
  056. The BFG, Roald Dahl
  
  057. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
  
  058. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
  
  059. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  
  060. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
  061. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
  
  062. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
  
  063. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  
  064. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
  
  065. Mort, Terry Pratchett
  
  066. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
  
  067. The Magus, John Fowles
  
  068. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  
  069. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
  
  070. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
  
  071. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
  
  072. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
  
  073. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
  
  074. Matilda, Roald Dahl
  
  075. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
  
  076. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  
  077. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
  
  078. Ulysses, James Joyce
  
  079. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
  
  080. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  081. The Twits, Roald Dahl
  
  082. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
  
  083. Holes, Louis Sachar
  
  084. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
  
  085. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  
  086. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  087. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  
  088. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
  
  089. Magician, Raymond E Feist
  
  090. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
  
  091. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
  
  092. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
  
  093. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
  
  094. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  
  095. Katherine, Anya Seton
  
  096. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
  
  097. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
  098. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  099. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
  
  100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  
  101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
  
  102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
  
  103. The Beach, Alex Garland
  
  104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
  
  105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
  
  106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
  
  107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
  
  108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
  
  109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
  
  110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
  
  112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
  
  113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
  
  114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  
  115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
  
  116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  
  119. Shogun, James Clavell
  
  120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
  
  121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
  
  123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
  
  124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
  
  125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  
  126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
  
  127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
  
  128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
  
  130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
  
  131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
  
  132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
  
  133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
  
  134. George’s Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
  
  135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
  
  136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  
  137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
  
  138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
  
  139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
  
  142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
  
  143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
  
  144. It, Stephen King
  
  145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
  
  146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
  
  147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
  
  148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
  
  149. Master And Commander, Patrick O’Brian
  
  150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
  
  151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
  
  152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
  
  153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
  
  154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  
  155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
  
  157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
  
  158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  
  159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
  
  160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
  
  161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
  
  162. River God, Wilbur Smith
  
  163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  
  164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
  
  165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
  
  166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
  
  167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
  
  169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
  
  170. Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
  
  171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  
  172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
  
  173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  
  174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
  
  175. Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
  
  176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
  
  178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  
  179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  
  180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  
  181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
  
  182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  
  183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
  
  184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
  
  185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
  
  186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
  
  187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
  
  188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
  
  189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
  
  190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
  
  191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
  
  192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
  
  193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
  
  194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
  
  195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
  
  196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
  
  197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
  
  198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
  
  199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
  
  200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
  
  201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
  
  202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
  
  203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
  
  204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
  
  205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
  
  206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
  
  207. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan
  
  208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
  
  209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
  
  210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
  
  211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
  
  212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
  
  213. The Married Man, Edmund White
  
  214. Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin
  
  215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
  
  216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
  
  217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
  
  218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
  
  219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
  
  220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
  
  221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
  
  222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
  
  223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
  
  224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
  
  225. Tartuffe, Moliere
  
  226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
  
  227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  
  228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
  
  229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
  
  230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
  
  231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
  
  232. A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
  
  233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
  
  234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
  
  235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
  
  236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
  
  237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
  
  238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
  
  240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
  241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
  
  242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
  
  242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
  
  243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
  
  244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
  
  245. Candide, Voltaire
  
  246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
  
  247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
  
  248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
  
  249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
  
  250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
  
  251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
  
  252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
  254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
  
  255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
  
  256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
  
  257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
  
  258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
  
  259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
  
  260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
  
  261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
  
  261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
  
  263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
  
  264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
  
  265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
  267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
  
  268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
  
  269. Witch of Black Bird Pond, Joyce Friedland
  
  270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
  
  271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
  
  272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
  
  273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
  
  274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Jester
  
  275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
  
  276. The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
  
  277. The Bone Setter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
  
  278. Relic, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  
  279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
  
  280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
  
  281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
  
  282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
  
  283. Haunted, Judith St. George
  
  284. Singularity, William Sleator
  
  285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
  
  286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
  
  287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
  
  288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
  
  289. The Bookman’s Wake, John Dunning
  
  290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
  
  291. Illusions, Richard Bach
  
  292. Magic’s Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
  
  293. Magic’s Promise, Mercedes Lackey
  
  294. Magic’s Price, Mercedes Lackey
  
  295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
  
  296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
  
  297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
  
  298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
  
  299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
  
  300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
  
  301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
  
  302. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
  
  303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
  
  304. The Lion’s Game, Nelson Demille
  
  305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
  
  306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
  
  307. Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
  
  308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
  
  309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
  
  310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
  
  311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
  
  312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
  
  313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  
  314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
  
  315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
  
  316. Xenogenesis (or Lilith’s Brood), Octavia Butler (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
  
  317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
  
  318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
  
  319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
  
  320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
  
  321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
  
  322. Beowulf, Anonymous
  
  323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
  
  324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
  
  325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
  
  326. Passage, Connie Willis
  
  327. Otherland, Tad Williams
  
  328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
  
  329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
  
  330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  
  331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
  
  332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
  
  333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
  
  334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
  
  335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
  
  336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
  
  337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
  
  338. The Genesis Code, John Case
  
  339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
  
  340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
  
  341. Phantom, Susan Kay
  
  342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
  
  343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
  
  344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
  
  345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
  
  346: The Winter of Magic’s Return, Pamela Service
  
  347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
  
  348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
  
  349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
  
  350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime O’Neill
  
  351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
  
  352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
  
  353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
  
  354. Sati, Christopher Pike
  
  355. The Divine Comedy, Dante
  
  356. The Apology, Plato
  
  357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
  
  358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
  
  359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
  
  360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
  
  361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
  
  362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  
  363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
  
  364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
  
  335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
  
  336. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
  
  337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
  
  338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
  
  339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
  
  340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
  
  341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
  
  342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy3
  
  43. Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
  
  344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
  
  345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
  
  346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
  347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
  
  348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  
  349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
  
  350. Time for bed by David Baddiel
  
  351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
  
  352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
  
  353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
  354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
  
  355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
  
  356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
  
  357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
  
  358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
  
  359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
  
  360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
  
  361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
  
  362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  
  363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
  
  364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
  
  365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
  
  366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
  
  367. Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke
  
  368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
  
  369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
  
  370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
  
  371. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
  
  372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
  
  373. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
  
  374. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
  
  375. Assassin’s Apprentice, Robin Hobb
  
  376. number9dream, David Mitchell
  
  377. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
  
  378. Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
  
  379. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
  
  380. Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
  
  381. Dance On My Grave, Aidan Chambers
  
  382. Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Leguin
  
  383. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
  
  384. Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
  
  385. Checkmate, Dorothy Dunnett
  
  386. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis
  
  387. A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
  
  388. The Egyptian, Mika Waltari
  
  389. Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry
  
  390. Contact, Carl Sagan
  
  391. Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
  
  392. Feersum Endjinn, Iain M. Banks
  
  393. The Golden, Lucius Shepard
  
  394. Decameron, Boccaccio
  
  395. Birdy, William Wharton
  
  396. The Red Tent, Anita Diaman
  
  397. The Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  
  398. Il Principe, Machiavelli
  
  399. Post Office, Charles Bukowski
  
  400. Macht und Rebel, Abu Rasul
  
  401. Grass, Sheri S. Tepper
  
  402. The Long Walk, Richard Bachman
  
  403. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
  
  404. The Joy Of Work, Scott Adams
  
  405. Romeo, Elise Title
  
  406. The Ninth Gate, Arturo Perez-Reverte
  
  407. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice
  
  408. Dead Famous, Ben Elton
  
  409. Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley
  
  410. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
  
  411. Look to Windward, Iain M. Banks
  
  412. The Colossus of Maroussi, Henry Miller
  
  413. Branded, Alissa Quart
  
  414. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
  415. Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
  
  416. White teeth, Zadie Smith
  
  417. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  
  418. The little prince of Belleville, Calixthe Beyala
  
  419. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  
  420. A King Lear of the Steppes, Ivan Turgenev
  
  421. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
  422. Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Peter Kropotkin
  
  423. Hija de la Fortuna, Isabel Allende
  
  424. Retrato en Sepia, Isabel Allende
  
  425. Villette, Charlotte Bronte
  
  426. Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
  
  427. Ubik, Philip K. Dick
  
  428. Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
  
  429. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
  
  430. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  
  431. Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
  
  432. The Island of the Day Before, Umberto Eco
  
  433. The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
  
  434. The Angel Of The West Window, Gustav Meyrink
  
  435. A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  
  436. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
  
  437. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  
  438. In the Eyes of Mr. Fury, Philip Ridley
  
  439. Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
  
  440. Into the Forest, Jean Hegland
  
  441. Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
  
  442. The Giving Tree -Shel Silverstein
  
  443. Go Ask Alice -Anonymous
  
  444. Waiting For Godot, Samuel Becket
  
  445. Blankets, Craig Thompson
  
  446. The Girls’ Guide To Hunting And Fishing, Melissa Bank
  
  447. Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
  
  448. The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
  
  449. Coraline, Neil Gaiman
  
  450. The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles G. Finney
  
  451. Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
  
  452. John Lennon: The Lost Weekend, by May Pang and Henry Edwards
  
  453. A Long Fatal Love Chase, Lousia May Alcott
  
  454. Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
  
  455. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Trumate Capote
  
  456. Skinny Legs And All, Tom Robbins
  
  457. Written On The Body, Jeanette Winterson
  
  458. An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
  
  459.  The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
  
  460.  Glory Season, David Brin
  
  461.  The Steel Bonnets, George McDonald Fraser
  
  462.  The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Neffennegger
  
  463.  High Rising, Angela Thirkell
  
  464.  Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman
  
  
  
  My additions, below, three times
  three because where books are concerned, I can’t be so limited — and I
  did limit myself severely.  I could have added at least a dozen
  more must reads, and even with all my additions this list leaves out
  some of my favorite authors.
  
  
  
  465.  Pilgrimage, the book of the People, Zenna Henderson
  
  466.  Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
  
  467.  Metamorphoses, Ovid
  
  468.  The Skystone, Jack Whyte
  
  469.  Shambhala, Nicholas Roerich
  
  470.  Angels Fear, Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson
  
  471.  When the Sacred Gin Mill Closes, Lawrence Block
  
  472.  Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
  
  473.  Jolie Blon’s Bounce, James Lee Burke
  

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