Read over this past school year: great new stuff I'd recommend (well, mostly**; the post "All Books Are Either Dreams Or Swords" has the all-time list):
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His Dark Materials (Trilogy: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)- Phillip Pullman
Collected Poems- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Longest Single Note- Peter Crowther
Children of the Storm- Elizabeth Peters
*A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury- Lief, Caldwell & Bycel
A Princess of Roumania- Paul Park
Our Endangered Values- Jimmy Carter
Fury- Salman Rushdie
*A Great Improvisation- Stacy Schiff
The Algebraist- Ian Banks
The Road to Hell- Matt Groening
The Truth (With Jokes)- Al Franken
The Golden Key- George MacDonald
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien- ed. Humphrey Carpenter
*Mason & Dixon- Thomas Pynchon
Les Fleurs Du Mal- Charles Baudelaire
The Royal Game and Other Stories- Stefan Zweig
Drawn With the Sword- John MacPherson
*The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do- Samantha Ettus
Something Under the Bed Is Drooling- Bill Watterson
*My Own Country- Abraham Verghese
Sunshine- Robin McKinley
At the Mountains of Madness- H.P. Lovecraft
*The Power of Babel- John McWhorter
*In progress (and, with the advent of finals, on pause).
**A couple of caveats here: Crowther and Lovecraft will probably give you nightmares (I mean this seriously; they are very, very disturbing); and Verghese, Lief, Park, & Banks probably will not appeal to anyone not interested in, respectively, medicine, trial law, historical sf, & hard sf.
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4/15/2007 at 11:06
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