WickedEye's Quotient

4/15/2007 at 11:06

New Books- the Wise Man's Idea of Wealth (or maybe just mine)

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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