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[cvriosities]

final exam vibes + everyone's anxious (in different ways)

[the-dust-jacket]

Hello. I've already read the Kingston Cycle, Half a Soul and I'm about to finish the Stariel books. Do you have more recommendations? Thank you in advance.

Oh absolutely!

A Matter of Magic, by Patricia C. Wrede (for cross-country Regency romps, rogues, magicians, spies, and Ladies of Quality)

A Marvellous Light, by Freya Marske (for murder and mystery and secret Edwardian wizardry, romance, grand old houses and creepy curses)

Spellbound, by Allie Therin (for forbidden love, found family, and frightening magic in 1920s New York)

Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal (for frothy and impeccably evocative Regency magic)

Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho (for schemes both magical and mundane and the world of fairy crossing into the world of the tonne)

To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis (for laugh-out-loud time travel shenanigans and questionable Victorian aesthetic choices)

Soulless, by Gail Carriger (for vampire assassins, werewolf aristocrats, interrupted tea time, and other terrible inconveniences which may beset a young lady)

A little darker:

The Magpie Lord, by KJ Charles (for semi-secret magical society, creepy family estate, steamy romance all in an Extremely Victorian Gothic setting)

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke (clever and deeply atmospheric tour of a magical 19th century England, but definitely not romance)

Salt Magic, Skin Magic, by Lee Welch (for curses and magical bonds and frightening fairies)

Widdershins, by Jordan L Hawk (for Gilded Age mystery and romance featuring Lovecraftian horror and humor)

More fantasy:

Uprooted, by Naomi Novik (for fairytale magic and whimsy, adventure and romance and creepy trees)

Seducing the Sorcerer, by Lee Welch (for wizard fashion, romance and humor and whimsical magic)

Stardust, by Neil Gaiman (for wild romps in the fairyland next door, alternately humorous and haunting)

More historical:

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles (for saucy Regency romance and determined social scheming)

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (for dry humor, wacky hijinx, and extended family shenanigans)

Hither Page or The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian (village and manor house mysteries respectively, featuring lots of queer romance and found family with a dash of jaded post-war espionage)

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (for yearning and laughs and first love and an eccentric family living in an increasingly run down castle)

A little farther from the brief, but might be worth checking out On Vibes:

The Left Handed Booksellers of London, by Garth Nix

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, by Diana Wynne Jones

His Majesty's Dragon, by Naomi Novik (more Regency fantasy, but full on Age of Sail adventure rather than comedy of manners, romance, or secret magic)

Among Others, by Jo Walton

Arabella of Mars, by David D. Levine

A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan

It also sounds like a Georgette Heyer or Jeeves and Wooster binge would be really fun right now!

[thelonelybrilliance]

2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #3.2

Howl’s Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Spirited Away (2001)

Wicked Witch of the West; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Howl’s Moving Castle (audiobook) narrated by Kristin Atherton

“Threatened with aunts” - a reference to Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse (our episode here and here)

Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

Gavin and Stacey (2007-2010)

Rob Brydon (imdb)

Song, John Donne (poem)

Stardust, Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Sosban Fach, a Welsh song (wiki, spotify)

Chekhov’s Gun (tv tropes)

“Howl Expresses His Feeling With Green Slime” Howl’s Moving Castle, Chapter 6; Dianna Wynne Jones

Brad Mondo reacts to quarantine haircuts (youtube)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (our episode here and here)

he‘s in the soup! Reference to Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse

Uprooted, Naomi Novik (our episode here and here) 

This post about Dianna Wynne Jones thinking Howl was a disaster

Poor little meow meow (meme)

Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane; M is trying and failing to sum up the entirety of Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers in two minutes of rambling.

M is referencing this post about characters being annoying versus characters committing genocide

Mansplain Manipulate Malewife (meme)

I’ll scream and scream and scream and scream until i’m sick (youtube)

Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Tom Jones (wiki)

Cat Rating

7/10

What Else Are We Reading

Agor y Drws, Cyfres Amdani (website)

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

Discworld, Terry Pratchett

Soul Music, Terry Pratchett (audiobook)

[azarland]

because i cant actually plop in a companion into the dialogue lemme just. ok so i’ve been rewatching jeeves & wooster because brain demand haha brrr content & just  :

bertie: tell me, jeeves, were you always like this or did it come on suddenly?? jeeves: sir?? bertie: the brain, the gray matter. were you an outstandingly brilliant child?? jeeves: my mother thought me intelligent. berite: psh, well, can’t go by that; my mother thought me intelligent.

In Which Azriel Is Bertie

[st-severus]

Congrats on 500! I recommend Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and Skulduggery Pleasant (the whole series) by Derek Landy and Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan. Happy reading! 🤍🖤🤍✨🦇

Ooo, I have always wanted to read Howl's Moving Castle. I better get on it! 😉 As I get these I realize that most people here have read far more fiction than me! (Eep) For you, I recommend Carry On, Jeeves (or any of Jeeves tales) by P.G. Wodehouse. It is an utter delight with prose that feels like something in between sparkling champagne and slipping on a banana peel.

PS. There is also an excellent TV series based on it ❤️

[classicfilmfan64]

A real color photo, no photoshop. W.C. Fields was a legendary actor, comic, juggler, writer and real life raging alcoholic. I would have loved to have seen him appear on TV. He died before TV in the USA and world really got going. He died at 66. He looked older, and heavy drinking helped kill him. He was a great writer, and wrote a few of his own film scripts. He would choose crazy pen names, for the movie scripts. Names like Charles Bogle Otis Criblecoblis Mahatma Kane Jeeves MORE TRIVIA. W. C. Fields was (with Ed Wynn) one of the two original choices for the title role in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. Fields was enthusiastic about the role, but ultimately withdrew his name from consideration so he could devote his time to writing You Can't Cheat an Honest Man. Fields figured in an Orson Welles project. Welles's bosses at RKO Radio Pictures, after losing money on Citizen Kane, urged Welles to choose as his next film a subject with more commercial appeal. Welles considered an adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers which would have starred Fields, but the project was shelved, partly because of contract difficulties, and Welles went on to adapt The Magnificent Ambersons. During the early planning for his film It's a Wonderful Life, director Frank Capra considered Fields for the role of Uncle Billy, which eventually went to Thomas Mitchell. Fields's last radio appearance was on March 24, 1946, on the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show on NBC. Just before his death that year, Fields recorded a spoken-word album, including his "Temperance Lecture" and "The Day I Drank a Glass of Water", at Les Paul's studio, where Paul had installed a new multi-track recorder. The session was arranged by one of his radio writers, Bill Morrow, and was Fields's last performance. Listening to one of Paul's experimental multi-track recordings, Fields remarked, "The music you're making sounds like an octopus. Like a guy with a million hands. I've never heard anything like it." Paul was amused, and named his new machine OCT, short for octopus. Fields spent the last 22 months of his life at the Las Encinas Sanatorium in Pasadena, California. In 1946, on Christmas Day—the holiday he said he despised—he had a massive gastric hemorrhage and died, aged 66. Carlotta Monti wrote that in his final moments, she used a garden hose to spray water onto the roof over his bedroom to simulate his favorite sound, falling rain. According to a 2004 documentary, he winked and smiled at a nurse, put a finger to his lips, and died. This poignant depiction is uncorroborated and "unlikely", according to biographer James Curtis. Fields's funeral took place on January 2, 1947, in Glendale, California.

[toast-the-unknowing]

Hey can you rec some of your favorite books? Especially books that you think dealt with your favorite tropes in a really great way? Love ur blog and your fics!!

Okay I have been sitting on this ask trying to come up with some kind of definitive list of favorite books I recommend and I had to admit to myself that whatever I can think up I’m going to forget some good stuff. But something’s better than nothing, probably! Going behind the cut because it got long, FUCK, I told myself it wasn’t going to get long:

I love Diana Wynne Jones so much, really all her books are good but particular favorites are Deep Secret, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Lives of Christopher Chant (although you should read Charmed Life first to just. really appreciate what a fucking diva Christopher is.) She does the most incredible job in all of her books of just raising complication after complication until it all comes together and everything’s happening at once and then it just. Resolves in incredible ways. Beautifully crafted plots, is what I’m saying. And I’m always in awe of how she has people in her books who are just…petty, or selfish, or close-minded, or weak; there’s something very real about a world that has Mrs. Sharp in it, even if there’s also a cat that used to be a violin.

I currently have three Nero Wolfe books on my bedside table and I’m pretty sure I’ve read each of them at least twice before; I just pick one up anytime I find one in a used bookstore, to slowly build out my collection. I love the mysteries, I love what a smartass Archie Goodwin is, I love Wolfe as the single most stubborn human being to ever live, I am really weirdly oddly soothed every time I pick up one of those books and fall into the rhythm of life in the brownstone on West 35th St. My life and home are a mess, but from nine to eleven every morning Wolfe is up with his orchids.

I am trying describe why and how I love The Last Unicorn and literally the words that popped into my head are it makes me quiet. It is just a book of incredible beauty and emotion, in a world that is every-fantasy-world except it actually feels lived in. Even the funny bits, or the weird shit, or Schmendrick as the closest you get to a comic relief, even those bits once you spend one more second with them you just sink so deep into them. That’s the kind of book I reread and then I need to stare out a window for a while and just not…do anything.

I am amazed and awed at the world that is created in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad, which is partly down to (I am sure) tons of research, smart observation, social awareness, it’s also partly down to that strange is-it-isn’t-it-magical-realism that’s going on. Mostly it’s just…the tone in these books is incredible, like the filter that’s on the lens of her story telling camera does such interesting things with light that I almost don’t care what she’s taking a picture of (to really really torture a metaphor), except that I do care because her characters are so real.

I cannot in good conscience recommend this series without giving, just, all of the content warnings, if you have any kind of trigger, just, do some research. I wasn’t even expecting it but Broken Harbor fucked me up bad, I barely slept for two nights in a row.

When Dublin Murder Squad, or literally anything else in life, bums me the fuck out, I pick up Jeeves. Literally the first I ever read P.G. Wodehouse was in high school when I was having a rotten day and my dad came in and gave me his compilation of Jeeves short stories and told me to read it. I got about four pages into the first story before I was smiling and laughing which I hadn’t even thought was possible five minutes prior. Wodehouse is another author who does a great job of bringing the different threads of a story together at the end in a really satisfying way. Besides just being hilarious. I think half the words my father and I say to each other are just quoting Jeeves back and forth.

There is a very specific kind of angry I get when I see someone doing something creative that I wish I had done, dammit, it’s so GOOD, and I think the very first time I ever felt that way was reading The Princess Bride when I was ten years old. I never really got into the movie the way most of my peers seem to have, don’t get me wrong, it’s fine, but if you haven’t read the book, it’s genius. FUCK! I’m still mad I didn’t write it.

I cannot imagine that anyone on this website needs to have Good Omens recommended to them at this point, I just also can’t imagine listing my favorite books and not including it. The first hundred pages might be the hardest that I have ever laughed at anything. Including the fact that I was reading it under my desk in class and I was trying so hard not to laugh and give away that I was reading that I ended up literally crying, tears pouring down my face, and my friend took the book away from me for my own good.

I similarly can’t think of Good Omens without skipping over to think of Discworld. More and more I think Night Watch is my favorite of the series. Many of them are brilliant, most of them are funny, I think all of them if you look for it have some anger deep within them. But Night Watch…I think when I first read it I liked the identity issues at stake; it’s very scifi, with the time travel and the man at risk of changing his own personal history. But more and more I am haunted by the sense of frustration and loss and not even persevering but simply surviving through madness and chaos and cruelty, Sam Vimes doing work he was never supposed to have done, except that someone had to do it, living through something again after he’d already gone through it once, something that even the first time it happened had just been the same old shit all over again…it speaks to me a lot, these days.

[setepenre-set]

Can u recommand some good books pls?

I DEFINITELY CAN! 

(I’ve divided them up into categories, and included a short summary of each, so that you can choose more easily, and put the list under a cut, since it’s fairly long.)

Comedic Fantasy With Emotional Center

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (part of the Discworld series; everything in the Discworld series is excellent. main characters of this one are a god stuck in the form of a tortoise and his last believer.)

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Discworld. Death has to take over the duties of discworld’s version of Santa Claus in an attempt to keep the world from ending.)

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (Discworld. Death gets fired and decides to live as a human—as near to human as he can, at any rate. eventually he has to battle the New Death to save the discworld.)

Guards, Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld. Sam Vimes, leader of the disgraced and dying Ankh-Morpork City Watch, regains his self-respect and his interest in life as he works to solve a mystery of who is summoning a dragon and killing off citizens of his city.)

The Bromeliad by Terry Pratchett (small ‘nomes’ live secretly in this world, hiding from humans. the perpetually out-of-his-depth and put-upon nome Masklin finds himself in charge, tasked with leading them to safety and finding their way home.)

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (an angel and a demon tasked with seeing that apocalypse happens as scheduled decide to try to avert it instead. completely and utterly fantastic.)

Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams (murder mystery involving Norse Gods, record contracts, and the Ultimate Bubble Bath.)

The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber (novella told like a fairy tale, full of wordplay and beauty and fun. this one just absolutely shines.)

The Gates by John Connolly (young boy, his dog, and an extremely minor demon try to stop the end of the world.)

The Infernals by John Connolly (sequel to The Gates, featuring the same characters.)

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (a young lady is cursed to be old, decides to become cleaning lady for a wizard rumored to be dangerous but actually just vain, overdramatic, and irresponsible. so very fun and romantic.)

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien (a local peasant finds himself unwillingly roped into facing a marauding dragon.)

Comedy

All of the P.G. Wodehouse books, particularly the Jeeves and Wooster series (wonderfully fun and lighthearted comedy set vaguely between the edwardian era and the 1920’s. Rich, cheerful, and kindhearted Bertie Wooster has a habit of accidentally getting engaged to girls he has no desire whatsoever to marry; his clever valet Jeeves gets him out of trouble every time.)

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed by Lynne Truss (hilarious and surprisingly touching at the end. lots and lots shenanigans. really fun.)

Romantic Comedy

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (romantic comedy, fake relationship, regency era.)

When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rhinehouse (romantic comedy with a stolen jewels mystery plot. cast of characters stuck in a house together.)

Romance

These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer (historical romance with intrigue and comedy. The main character crossdresses and, to me, reads as genderqueer. The love interest is basically a villain who accidentally becomes the hero. I LOVE IT.)

Her Every Wish by Courtney Milan (regency romance novella. hero is bisexual. subplot about bicycles being scandalous. this is the one that I have Roxanne give Megamind in Code: Safeword.)

The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan (regency romance, the last in the Brothers Sinister series, all of which are good. main character reads as autistic. her love interest is younger than she is; they’ve secretly presented her groundbreaking scientific work as his, so that people will take it seriously.)

When a Scott Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare (regency romance; main character has social anxiety and made up a fiancee years ago to get out of her impending social season. but now a man with the same name has shown up claiming to be this fiancee, and intending to marry her.)

Mystery

Behold, Here’s Poison by Georgette Heyer (1920’s murder mystery with comedy and romance. The characters are wonderful.)

Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (murder mystery featuring elderly heroine Miss Marple, who seems fluffy and harmless but is really a sneaky, nosy, and terribly sharp woman. I love her.)

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (murder mystery featuring detective Hercule Poirot. intricate and enjoyable.)

Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie (murder mystery set in ancient egypt. both the mystery and the historical features are extremely well executed.)

Difficult to Categorize

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann (A group of sheep decide to solve the mystery of who killed their shepherd. Funny and moving. The point of view is amazingly well done.)

Watership Down by Richard Adams (A group of rabbits set out on a journey to establish a new home. The worldbuilding and characterization are fantastic.)

Kiln People by David Brin (science fiction mystery. amazing worldbuilding. One of the main characters is a robot who, due to a slight malfunction, has developed a personality and will of his own.)

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (A love story set during the zombie apocalypse, between a young woman named Julie and a zombie known as R, who isn’t quite as dead as zombies are supposed to be. Horrifying and romantic and uplifting.)

Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving by Martin Millar (Main character Elfish is basically the living embodiment of ‘fuck you’. She’s a guitarist on a mission to claim the name Queen Mab for her—just at present nonexistent—band from her ex-boyfriend Mo.)

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt (a young woman in the medieval era gets lost in the forest and nearly dies. When she meets Death, though, she convinces him to postpone her demise—she claims that love is stronger than death, and he tells her that if she can prove it by finding her true love within one day, he will spare her life. Full of joy and sorrow and love.)

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (A group of children go on a fantastic trip through time with a mysterious man called Moundshroud in an attempt to save the life of one of their friends. Fun and dark and beautiful.)

The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson (An epidemic wipes out all of the adults in the world. Ten year old Lisa Nelson bands together a group of survivors and shapes them into a new society, with her at its head. Satisfying.)

Fantasy

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Gorgeous worldbuilding, kidnapping, romance, magic, and adventure.)

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (The last of the Unicorns goes on a quest to find out what happened to the rest of her species. Fun and frightening and hauntingly beautiful.)

Transformation by Carol Berg (The Emperor’s New Groove for grown-ups. Formerly a magician and currently a slave, Seyonne finds new meaning in his life when he and careless, proud Prince Aleksander work together to defeat the demonic forces that threaten the kingdom. Slavery and freedom, loyalty and friendship. Intricate worldbuilding.)

War For the Oaks by Emma Bull (Urban fantasy. Eddie has just broken up with her boyfriend, and, in the process, broken up the band they both played in. She has enough problems of her own, without getting dragged into a war between the Seelie and Unseelie courts of the Fae.)

Young Adult Fantasy

So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane (Young adult fantasy adventure. Preteen protagonists Kit and Nita journey into a terrifying shadow world to fight a dark entity. One of my favorite depictions of magic of all time.)

Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson (The Great Evil Wizard Arriman has decided to take a bride! The members of the local witches’ coven are invited to a contest—whichever witch performs the most dark and wicked act of black magic will be Arriman’s bride. The young witch Belladonna is absolutely smitten with Arriman, and desperately wants to win the contest. The only problem is that Belladonna is a white witch.)

Megamind: the Novel by Lauren Alexander (A little darker and a bit more grown-up than the movie; still incredibly fun. It features additional scenes from Megamind and Roxanne’s developing romantic relationship.)

Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde (Teenage Kerry is in the wrong place at the wrong time, and ends up being taken captive by a group of people who are holding another person captive as well—a young man they insist is a vampire. Kerry thinks they’re crazy, and helps the boy escape…but it turns out they were actually right. And now she’s being held captive by a vampire on the run.)

Young Adult

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going (Depressed teenage protagonist Troy almost commits suicide, but is stopped by a homeless teenager named Curt, who is also a local punk rock legend. Curt convinces Troy to form a punk band with him, featuring Curt on guitar and Troy on drums…even though Troy can’t actually play the drums. funny and angry and deeply moving.)

The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel (Thriller. The misfit teenage protagonists are convinced that their neighbor murdered his wife, even though no one believes them. They set out to prove it.)

Older Children

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Bernard (Recently orphaned, the disagreeable young Mary arrives at her uncle’s house—a house full of secrets and mysteries.)

A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Bernard (Young, precocious, and strange Sara Crewe is sent to boarding school. When her father dies unexpectedly, leaving Sara a penniless orphan, the Headmistress forces Sara to work as a servant. Strength in adversity, the power of imagination, and an eventual happy ending.)

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Neatly Snyder (A group of children secretly play at being ancient Egyptians in a deserted lot. This one really captures the dangerous, wild, and intense feeling of childhood.)

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix (adventure with young girl as heroine. genuinely creepy and exciting and so clever. my great-grandmother loved this one, too.)

The Witches by Roald Dahl (Young boy and his grandmother happen upon a convention of terrifying, evil witches.)

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischmann (Spoiled Prince Brat and his whipping boy Jemmy run away together, much to Jemmy’s annoyance. Adventure and friendship.)

Trapped In Death Cave by Bill Wallace (An adventure story with a secret map, a hidden cave, and an evil plot.)

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TARO written and directed by Ross McGregor Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 15th Jan-16th Feb 2019 In Rep. with ‘Gentleman Jack.’ “It is superb” ★★★★★ A few years ago, my dad said to me, “you know your great grandfather designed and built Ribbentrop’s Country house. Even imported the bricks from Germany”. “You mean Von Ribbentrop? The Nazi? Friend of Adolf Hitler?” “That’s the feller”. “Why didn’t you tell me before?” “Didn’t think you’d be interested. Don’t know a lot about it. There was a photograph album. Lots of pictures of the house and Ribbentrop saluting, looking very pleased with himself. The album got destroyed by a V2 at the end of the war.” Fortunately for us many of the extraordinary war photographs taken by Gerda Taro have been preserved for us either by newspapers or museums. Ross McGregor, in this quite remarkable and riveting piece of theatre, tells the story of Gerda Taro. Gerda was born Gerta Pohorylle. A German Jew she moved to France in the ‘30s. There she met Endre Friedman, a fellow Jew, who introduced her to the art of photography. Anti Semitism in Paris pursued them both. For purely commercial reasons they both changed their names. Gerta to Gerda and Endre to the now extraordinarily famous name of Robert Capa. Both left to cover the Spanish Civil war. In 1937, at the age of 26, Gerda Taro was crushed by a republican tank. Capa went on to become one of the most renowned war photographers of all time. We now know (thanks to a huge amount of negatives discovered in Mexico City in 2007) that a lot of Capa’s most seminal shots should have been attributed to Taro. McGregor tells the story with a typically remarkable precision in this fast paced and kaleidoscope production. He is aided by his Arrows and Traps’ company who put in a remarkable ensemble performance. It seems invidious to highlight individual performances but Cornelia Baumann and Tom Hartill put in electrifying work at the heart of the piece. The movement work of Matthew Parker is quite superb. (I really don’t know whether to describe this as Parker’s ‘day job’, given that he runs the Hope in Islington; that powerhouse of a theatre producing some of the finest work in London.) At one point he asks the company to represent ‘Flint’ the bird. I must admit, as they were doing this, I thought of my days at Drama school and my dreadful attempts at Masque work. Yet here Toby Wynn- Davies’ becomes, in a most extraordinary way, ‘Flint’. (and who wouldn’t love a man who lists himself as a ‘founding member of a quasi-Latvian troupe of fire breathing clowns’) Alastair Lax soundscape serves the piece brilliantly. As does Ben Jacob’s lighting design. McGregor is quite right to regard this as one of his best pieces of theatre. It is superb. I urge you to see it. As a footnote to the country house that my grandfather built. It is now owned by a Jewish family who said recently, “to be honest it’s great knowing that Hitler’s Fascist foreign minister would be turning in his grave”. TARO written and directed by Ross McGregor Arrows and Traps Company Brockley Jack Studio 15th Jan-16th Feb. In Rep. with ‘Gentleman Jack.’ Box office: www.brockleyjack.co.uk or 0333 666 3366 (£1.50 fee for phone bookings only) Dates: Gentleman Jack Tues 15 January to Sat 16 February 2019 Performances at 7.30pm (16+) Shooting With Light Sat 19 January to Sat 16 February 2019 Performances at 7.30pm (14+) (no performances Sunday, Monday) Tickets: £16, £13 concessions Reviewer Richard Braine is actor, director and playwright. As an Actor he has worked extensively throughout the country including Chichester Festival Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep, and Stephen Joseph Theatre in Yorkshire. His Television and Film credits include: “Calendar Girls”, “Pride, Prejudice and Zombies”, “Finding Neverland”, “Bridget Jones”, “Suspicions of Mr Whicher”, “Mr Selfridge” and many years ago Gussie Fink-Nottle in “Jeeves and Wooster”. He has also filmed over 150 Commercials all over the world. He has directed the European premiere of Sternheim/Martin “The Underpants” at The Old Red Lion Theatre and written three plays: “Being There with Sellers”, “Bedding Clay Jones” and “Sexing Alan Titchmarsh”.

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11-8-17 my books

2/2/2018

100 People Who Changed the World, LIFE

1984 by George Orwell

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

30 Days of Night: 1, 2, 3, 7

500 Tricks: Storage by Page One

A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene

A Certain … Je Ne Sais Quoi by Charles Timoney

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Signet Classics

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (with The Chimes)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

After the Funeral by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

A Life in Poems: Selected Works of Khoo Seok Wan

All My Sons by Arthur Miller (x3)

All-Star Superman: 1

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

All The Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven

A Man Asleep by Georges Perec (and Things: A Story of the Sixties)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini

Animal Farm by George Orwell

An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Antigone (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

A Pack of Liars by Anne Fine

A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

A Series of Unfortunate Events 3: The Wide Window, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 4: The Miserable Mill, by Lemony Snicket (x2)

A Series of Unfortunate Events 5: The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 7: The Vile Village, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 8: The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 9: The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 10: The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 11: The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 12: The Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 13: The End, by Lemony Snicket

A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins

A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield, Paul Bretier

A Taste of Freedom by Ven. Ajahn Chah

Atlanta Review: Asia (Spring/ Summer 2002)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atonement by Ian McEwan

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Batman Hush: 1, 2

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken

Black Maria by Diana Wynne Jones

Boy by Roald Dahl

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Buddhism for Beginners, Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery

Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle

Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories by Angela Carter

Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House by Geronimo Stilton

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Ceriph: issue 2

Ceriph: issue 6

Cha-no-yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony by A. L. Sadler

Chaos by James Gleick

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Chicken Rice (24 Flavours series by BooksActually)

Chinese Ethnic Minority Motifs by Page One

Cligés by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

Collected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Collected Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x2, one translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky)

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Cymbeline by Shakespeare (The Pelican Shakespeare)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Daredevil Noir

Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Dog Friday by Hilary McKay

Death Note: Another Note: The Lost Angeles BB Murder Cases

Demian by Herman Hesse

Dhammapada, Venerable Buddharakkhita

Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Drawing and Painting the Portrait by John Devane

Dune by Frank Herbert

Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood

Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng

Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy, The Economist

Elidor by Alan Garner

Emma by Jane Austen (x2)

English Literature Made Simple by H. Coombes

Erec et Enide by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

ESV Holy Bible

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics in Buddhist Perspective by K. N. Jayatilleke

Evolve or Die (Horrible Science) by Phil Gates

Facing the Torturer by Francois Bizot

Fallen Angels: Paintings by Jack Vettriano, edited by W. Gordon Smith

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Fascist Rock by Claire Tham

Favourite Singlish Tales: Three Little Pigs Lah by Casey Chen

Federal Anthology of Poetry I

Festivals Graphics by Page One

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton

Folk Customs and Family Life (Korean Cultural Series Volume III)

Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander

For the Record: Conversations with People People who Have Shaped the Way we Listen to Music

For They Know Not What They Do by Slavoj Zizek

Four Continents by Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, et al.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

Frankenstein by Mary Sehlley

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000, Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Ghost Stories of Henry James

Gitanjali by Tagore (双语版)

Gone Case by Dave Chua

Gone Case: A Graphic Novel (Book One), art by Koh Hong Teng

Gratitude to Parents, Venerable Ajahn Sumedho

Great British Editorial by Page One

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell

Great Illustrated Classics: The Little Mermaid and Other Stories

Green First! : Earth Friendly Design (Over 100 green projects around the world)

Guerillas by VS Naipaul

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hamlet by Shakespeare (x2)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Have Phone, Will Paint by Zhu Hong

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

History of Beauty, Umberto Eco

History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe

House of M, Marvel

How the Bible Came to be by John Barton

How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

I Didn’t Know Mani was a Conceptualist by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

If I Could Tell You by Lee Jing-Jing

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Infographics: Designing and Visualising Data by Page One

Jane Austen Cover to Cover by Margaret C. Sullivan

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Japanese Tales, Royall Tyler

Japanese Tatoos by Brian Ashcraft and Hori Benny

Jeeves and Wooster: Perfect Nonsense, by The Goodale Brothers/P.G. Wodehouse

Jerusalem the Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon’s Mines by Haggard

Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana

KJV Holy Bible

Kokology 2: More of the Game of Self-discovery by Tadahiko Nagao and Isamu Saito

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

Lady Precious Stream by S. I. Hsiung

Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

Left-Right

Les Misérables: Volume One by Victor Hugo

Let’s Chat About the Bible by Whiting/Reeves

Let’s Give it up for Gimme Lao! by Sebastian Sim

Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lists of Note by Shaun Usher

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lizard by Yoshimoto Banana

Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Looking for Juliette by Janet Taylor Lisle

Love for Love by William Congreve (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

Love Gathers All: the Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry

Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway

Luxury for Cats (by teNeues)

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Malay Weddings Don’t Cost $50 by Hidayah Amin

Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan

Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung

Marx on China

Me Grandad ‘ad an Elephant! by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

Metal Gear Solid: 1, 2

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Middle Land, Middle Way by S. Dhammika

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (and The Day of the Locust)

Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville

Mr Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (x2, one with an intro by Carol Ann Duffy)

Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw

Measure for Measure by Shakespeare

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Multitudes: Litmus 2016

Music & Monarchy by David Starkey & Kate Greening

My Pictorial Book of Dialect Idioms & Slangs by Kuan Eng

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Nanyang Girls’ High School 2014 Montage

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Native Son by Richard Wright

Natural Heritage of Korea, Dokdo

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

No Ajahn Chah: Reflections by Ven. Ajahn Chah

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman

Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle by Peacock (x2)

Occupational Hazards by Mayo Martin

Oedipus the King (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

Oedipus at Colonus (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog

Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gregory Rabassa translation, Penguin)

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On Ugliness, Umberto Eco

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Animal Eye: Litmus 2014

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Papillon by Henri Charrière

Paradise Lost by Milton

Pastels for Beginners by Francisco Asensio Cerver

Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Persuasion by Jane Austen (x2: penguin classics and )

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (x2)

Phedra by Eugenia Tan

Physics by Aristotle

Playing Pretty by Euginia Tan

Poems Deep and Dangerous

Poets on Growth: An Anthology of Poetry and Craft

Possession by A. S. Byatt

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (x2)

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Jay Rubin translation)

Reaching for Stones: Collected Poems (1963-2009) by Chandran Nair

Rebel Rites by Deborah Emmanuel

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Voice by Mildred D. Taylor

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Ael Scheffler

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima

Sabbath’s Theatre by Phillip Roth

Salted Vegetables and Duck Soup (24 Flavours series by BooksActually)

Samanera sikkapadani 沙马内拉学处

Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundation of Mindfulness

Selected Dhamma Talks in 2011 by Venerable K. Rathanasara

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (published by Vintage)

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries by Emma Thompson

Shakespeare: All 37 Plays, All 160 Sonnets and Poems (The Illustrated Stratford)

Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley

Shakespeare the Complete Works: Volumes 2 and 3

Shakespeare’s Words: A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal & Ben Crystal

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell

Short Cuts by Raymond Carver

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Sigalovada Sutta: The Code of Discipline for Layman

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Singapore Children’s Favourite Stories by DI Taylor and L K Tay-Audouard

Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder

Spiaking Singlish by Gwee Li Sui

Spider-Man Noir

Stoner by John Williams

SQ21, Ng Yi-Sheng

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Strait is the Gate by Andre Gidé

Summer by Edith Wharton

Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

Tales from Around the World

Tales from King Arthur by Andrew Lang

Tartuffe by Molíère

Tenacity: Stories Built to Last

Tennyson: Selected Poetry  (The Penguin Poetry Library)

That Night by the Beach and other stories for a film score by Phan Ming Yen

The 9/11 Commission Report

The Abyssinian, Jean Christophe Rufin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton

The Art of Animal Character Design (first edition) by David Colman

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The BFG by Roald Dahl

The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

The Blondes by Emily Schultz

The Bikkhus’ Rules for Laypeople by Bikkhu Ariyesako

The Billion Shop by Stephanie Ye

The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Sierstad

The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

The Buddha and his Teachings

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Cherry Tree Buck and Other Stories by Moore

The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton

The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Chimes by Charles Dickens (with A Christmas Carol)

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature

The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

The Clocks by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Translated by Geza Vermes)

The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson

The Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Sappho

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Stories and Poems of Lewis Carroll

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Country Wife by William Wycherley (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

The Crescent Moon by Tagore (双语版)

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Dark is Rising: The Complete Sequence by Susan Cooper

The Dark Tower Book I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (and Miss Lonelyhearts)

The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle

The Dhammapada, K. Sri Dhammananda

The Dragon Book of Verse

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Earth by Émile Zola (Translated by Douglas Parmée)

The Earthsea Quartet (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu) by Ursula Le Guin

The Eclogues by Virgil (Translated by Arthur Guy Lee)

The Elements of Legal Style: Second Edition by Bryan A. Garner

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

The Encyclopedia of American Comics

The Encyclopedia of Illustration Techniques by Catharine Slade

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

The Four Buddhist Books on Mahayana Pure Land Teachings

The Fright of Real Tears by Slavoj Zizek

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson

The Gardener by Tagore (双语版)

The Gardener’s Son by Cormac McCarthy

The Girl who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Golden Ass by Apuleius

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Governing Principles of Ancient China, excerpted from qunshu zhiyao

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

The History of Rasselas by Johnson

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (in collected volume)

The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Last Breath by Ajahn Pasanno

The Liberation of Lily and Other Poems by Lim Thean Soo

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Lioness & Her Knight by Gerald Morris

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (x2 in collected volume)

The Literature of the United States of America by Marshall Walker

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little World of Liz Climo

The Lord of the Rings Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Part 2: The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Part 3: The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier

The Maid by Yasutaka Tsutsui

The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis (in collected volume)

The Man of Mode by Sir George Etherege (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (The Pelican Shakespeare)

The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare (World’s Classics)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan

The Miner by Natsume Sōseki

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks

The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Natural History of Selborne by Reverend Gilbert White

The Nature of the Gods by Cicero

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (x2?)

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future

The Poetry of Singapore

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (x2)

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

The Ragamuffin Mystery by Enid Blyton

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

The Rattle Bag, edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

The Reason Why: A Gospel Exposition, Robert Laidlaw

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret of Killimooin by Enid Blyton

The Secret of Spiggy Holes by Enid Blyton

The Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Space of City Trees (selected poems) by Arthur Yap

The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, John Le Carré

The Symptom of Beauty by Francette Pacteau

The Tempest by Shakespeare

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Time is Now: Public Art of the Sustainable City Land Art Generator Initiative UAE

The True History of the BlackAdder by J. F. Roberts

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Vatican Cellars by André Gide

The Voice Book by Michael McCallion

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Whispering Statue (a Nancy Drew Mystery) by Carolyn Keene

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

The Works of Sir Walter Scott (poetry)

The World and other Places by Jeanette Winterson

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer (Payne translation)

The World’s Great Civilizations, LIFE

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The Young Adventurers and the Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton

The Zahir, Paulo Coelho

Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (and A Man Asleep)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Thirty Days on the Camino by Alvin Mark Tan

Thursday Afternoons by Monica Dickens

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Towerhill reclaimed (a 2011 high school commemorative, HCI)

Travesties by Tom Stoppard

Tristan by Gottfried Von Strassburg

Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (Norton Critical Edition)

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unfree Verse

Understand and Criticize by John Doraisamy

Unhomed

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (x3, Rosemary Edmonds for Penguin, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Pevear & Volokhonsky)

We Rose Up Slowly by Jon Gresham

What are Masterpieces? by Gertrude Stein

Whit by Iain Banks

Why Worry? How to Live Without Fear & Worry by K. Sri Dammananda

What Does the Bible Really Teach?

W. I. T. C. H.: The Four Dragons

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

William Wordsworth

Wilde: The Complete Plays

Worlds of Amano by Yoshitaka Amano

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 3 [Self-exile]            

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 4 [Resurgence]

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 5 [Other Thoughts]

Ywain, or, The Knight with the Lion by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

  20世纪中国短篇小说精选：现代卷1、2

飙车 (La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers), J. M. G. Le Clézio

冰河，余秋雨

陈嘉庚新传，陈共存

重访边城，张爱玲

春尽江南，格非

Composition 摄影构图

弟子规（少儿版，注音，配图）

儿女英雄传

蕉风椰雨话甘榜五十，李龙

光耀一生，联合早报

古诗词一百篇

Hi, 我们的森林，赵小敏

红楼梦（节本），曹雪芹

华韵35： 火花

华韵39： 以梦为马

皇朝末路：清朝篇

家，巴金

假如给我三天光明 (The Story of My Life) by Helen Keller (双语版)

狼图腾，姜戎

廖静文与徐悲鸿：名人情节众书，廖静文

灵山，高行健

鲁迅大全集

绿山墙的安妮

名侦探柯南：44

念力的秘密分享，净空法师

女神，郭沫若

三国演义

山河入梦，格非

失恋33天，鲍鲸鲸

世界近代史

十年阅城记（Tenacity）

守车的秘密 (The Boxcar Children: Caboose Mystery), Gertrude Chandler Warner

霜冷长河，余秋雨

特拾：学生文集2010，新加坡特选中学

微微一笑很倾城，顾漫

未完的梦，李乔

向左走，向右走，几米

小和尚的白粥馆2

西游记，吴承恩

叶芸的色铅笔画画课，叶芸

一学就会最实用最经典的博弈课堂

印光法师：上海护国消灾法语

于丹《论语》心得

宇宙探索：中小学生科普读物

佐贺的超级阿嫲，岛田洋七

《庄子》心得，于丹

  Castres un Autre Regard

Cendrillon

Chronique des sept misères by Patrick Chamoiseau

Cours de francais, Linguaphone Institute

Les Penseurs Grecs Avant Socrate de Thalès de Milet A Prodicos

Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau

  다람쥐와첫눈

두근두근 내인생 장편소설

하회탈, 다시살아나다 by 무돌

질문 상자 (Det spørs)

캐비닛 김언수 장편소설

Le Petit Prince (in Korean)

설계자들 김언수 장편소설

  Hua Lo Puu by Murti Bunanta (in English and Indonesian)

Legenda Pohon Beringan (The Legend of the Banyan Tree) by Murti Bunanta, illustrated by Hardiyono (in English and Indonesian)

  Weekly Shonen Jump 1月8日9日号

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so, university is going well.

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wynne loves her sister, she promises.

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it's peak bc she's currently in 3 relationships because she just loves women