Condensed due to laziness. :) Last update 7/31/05.

Rankings (before 7/2005) by genre at bottom.

Fr=French, tr=translation, NF=nonfiction R=reread (most likely from early book list)

2005
Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood
Bloom, Harold, How to Read and Why (NF)
Borges, Jorge Luis, Collected Fictions (tr)
Calvino, Italo, If on a winter's night a traveler (tr)
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene (NF)
DeFoe, Daniel, Moll Flanders
Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying
Fielding, Henry, Joseph Andrews
Johnson, Samuel, Rasselas
Joyce, James, Dubliners
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man R
Joyce, James, Ulysses
LeGuin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness
Lewis, Matthew, The Monk
McEwan, Ian, Atonement
Rymer, Russ, Genie: an abused child's flight from silence (NF)
Shakespeare, William, Macbeth
Wallace, Favid Foster, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Williams, Joseph M., Style: toward Clarity and Grace (NF)
Woolf, Virginia, Monday or Tuesday and other stories
Woolf, Virginia, Jacob's Room
Shorter works: Pope (Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Epistles to Several Persons, Dunciad Bk I and IV), Swift (Bickerstaff Papers, Argument against Abolishing Christianity, Battle of the Books, Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, Modest Proposal, Verses on the death...), Johnson (Preface to Shakespeare), Goldsmith, Gray, Shaftesbury, Rochester, Addison, Steele, Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron.

2004
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart R
Babbitt, Natalie, Tuck Everlasting R
Bradbury, Ray, Something Wicked this way Comes R
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Byatt, A.S., The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories
Camus, Albert, L'Etranger (Fr)
Cather, Willa, My Antonia
Chuang Tzu, Basic Writings (tr)
Cooper, Susan, The Dark is Rising R
Cunningham, Michael, The Hours
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Notes from Underground (tr)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
Forster, E.M., Howards End
Forster, E.M., "The Life to Come" and "Arthur Snatchfold"
Forster, E.M., A Passage to India
Franken, Al, Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them
Gaiman, Neil, Neverwhere R
Gaiman, Neil, Sandman vol 7 R
Hemingway, Ernest, Men without Women
Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Larsen, Nella, Quicksand
Larsen, Nella, Passing
Lawrence, D.H., The Rainbow
Le Guin, Ursula, A Wizard of Earthsea
Lee, Harper, To Kill A Mockingbird
Lewis, C.S.The Last Battle R
Lowry, Lois, The Giver R
Milgram, Stanley, Obedience to Authority (NF)
Moliere, Le Misanthrope (Fr)
Nix, Garth, Sabriel R
Nix, Garth, Lirael R
Nix, Garth, Abhorsen
O'Brien, Robert C., Z for Zachariah R
Paterson, Katherine, Bridge to Terebithia
Plath, Sylvia, The Bell Jar
Roberson, Jennifer, Lady of the Forest R
Rogers, Grant, Byron Drive
Salinger, JD, The Catcher in the Rye
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse (twice)

2003
Anonymous, tr. Raffel, Beowulf
Selected essays on Gormenghast
Abu-Lughod, Lila, Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (NF)
Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
Alexander, Lloyd, The Book of Three R
Alexander, Llyoyd, The Black Cauldron R
Anouilh, Jean, Antigone (Fr)
Bauer, Marion Dane (ed), Am I Blue? Coming out of the Silence
Bloom, Harold, Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (NF)
Brown, Dan, The DaVinci Code
Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
Cooper, Susan, Over Sea, Under Stone R
Cooper, Susan, The Dark is Rising R
Datlow, Ellen, and Terri Windling (ed), Snow White, Blood Red
Datlow, Ellen, and Terri Windling (ed), Black Thorn, White Rose
Gaarder, Jostein, Sophie's World (tr)
Gaiman, Neil, Sandman Comics Vols 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 , 8, 9, 10
Gaiman, Neil, Death: The High Cost of Living, Death: The Time of Your Life, and The Sandman: Endless Nights
Gaiman, Neil, American Gods
Gardner, John, Grendel
Haynes, Todd, Velvet Goldmine (screenplay)
Hesse, Hermann, Demian (tr)
Hopkins, Jerry, Bowie (NF)
Juster, Norton, The Phantom Tollbooth R
Maguire, Gregory, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (tr) (NF)
May, Julian, The Many-Colored Land
Milton, John, Paradise Lost
Morgenstern, Susie, Premier Amour, Dernier Amour (Fr)
Morgenstern, Susie, La Sixieme (Fr)
Peake, Mervyn, Titus Groan
Peake, Mervyn, Gormenghast
Plato, Republic (tr) (NF)
Shakespeare, William, Hamlet
Shakespeare, William, Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare, William, Measure for Measure
Sleator, William, Into the Dream R
Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle
Stoddard, James, The High House
Tolkien, J.R.R., The Two Towers R
Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme (Fr)
Wilde, Oscar, Salome (tr)

2002
Bach, Richard, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Bellairs, John, The House with a Clock in its Walls R
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
Chopin, Kate, The Awakening R
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, Crime and Punishment (tr)
Ende, Michael, The Neverending Story (tr)
Gaiman, Neil, Stardust
Garden, Nancy, Annie on my Mind
Garden, Nancy, Good Moon Rising R
Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet
Herbert, Frank, Dune
Hesse, Hermann, Narcissus and Goldmund (tr)
Hesse, Hermann, Steppenwolf (tr)
Irving, John, A Prayer for Owen Meany
King, Stephen, The Shining
Lane, Dakota, Johnny Voodoo R
Leroux, Gaston, Le Fantome de l'Opera (Fr)
MacDonald, George, The Princess and the Goblin R
McWhorter, John, The Power of Babel (NF)
Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass R
Pullman, Philip, The Subtle Knife R
Pullman, Philip, The Amber Spyglass
Potok, Chaim, The Chosen
Rand, Anus, Anthem
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract (tr) (NF)
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine, The Little Prince
Salvatore, R.A., Attack of the Clones
Shelley, Mary W., Frankenstein
Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism (tr)
Wiesel, Elie, Night
Zamyatin, Yevgeny, We (tr)

Rankings (Last update 6/28/05)

Classics

  1. To the Lighthouse
  2. Hamlet (play)
  3. Mrs. Dalloway
  4. Ulysses
  5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  6. Frankenstein
  7. The Rainbow
  8. Jane Eyre
  9. Heart of Darkness
  10. Notes from Underground
  11. Howards End
  12. Things Fall Apart
  13. Jacob's Room
  14. Dubliners
  15. The Great Gatsby
  16. My Antonia
  17. To Kill A Mockingbird
  18. The Bell Jar
  19. Monday or Tuesday and other stories
  20. A Tale of Two Cities
  21. A Passage to India
  22. "The Life to Come" and "Arthur Snatchfold" (short stories)
  23. Titus Andronicus (play)
  24. Beowulf (verse)
  25. Candide
  26. Paradise Lost (verse)
  27. Wuthering Heights
  28. Quicksand
  29. Passing
  30. Men Without Women
  31. Chuang Tzu (nonfiction)
  32. Measure for Measure (play)
  33. The Republic (nonfiction)
  34. Rasselas
  35. Moll Flanders
  36. The Communist Manifesto (nonfiction)
  37. The Social Contract (nonfiction)
  38. Joseph Andrews

Almost Classics (20th century and/or more obscure)

  1. The Hours
  2. Grendel
  3. Narcissus and Goldmund
  4. Steppenwolf
  5. Titus Groan and Gormenghast
  6. If on a winter's night a traveler
  7. Demian
  8. I Capture the Castle
  9. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
  10. Something Wicked This Way Comes
  11. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
  12. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  13. The Monk
  14. Byron Drive
  15. The Catcher in the Rye
  16. The Da Vinci Code
  17. Salomé (play)
  18. A Prayer for Owen Meany
  19. Sophie's World

Science Fiction / Fantasy

  1. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass
  2. American Gods
  3. The Neverending Story
  4. Sandman Comics (excuse me, graphic novels) (Vols. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, Death: The High Cost of Living, Death: The Time of Your Life, The Sandman: Endless Nights)
  5. Snow White, Blood Red (anthology)
  6. The Two Towers
  7. Ender's Game
  8. Titus Groan and Gormenghast
  9. Neverwhere
  10. The Left Hand of Darkness
  11. A Wizard of Earthsea
  12. Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen
  13. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
  14. The High House
  15. Something Wicked This Way Comes
  16. Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark is Rising
  17. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
  18. The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron
  19. The Shining
  20. Black Thorn, White Rose (anthology)
  21. The Many-Colored Land
  22. Dune
  23. The Phantom Tollbooth
  24. We
  25. The Last Battle
  26. Lady of the Forest
  27. Anthem
  28. Star Wars 2
  29. Stardust

YA/Children's/Teen Shit

  1. The Giver
  2. Tuck Everlasting
  3. Bridge to Terebithia
  4. The Catcher in the Rye
  5. Into the Dream
  6. Johnny Voodoo
  7. Z for Zachariah
  8. Annie on my Mind
  9. Am I Blue? Coming Out of the Silence (anthology)
  10. The House with a Clock in its Walls
  11. The Princess and the Goblin
  12. The Chosen
  13. Good Moon Rising

What the Hell was That? (Nonfiction, new agey, children's, poetry, des choses comme �a)

  1. Velvet Goldmine (screenplay)
  2. selected essays on Gormenghast (lit crit)
  3. Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (politics)
  4. Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (lit crit)
  5. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  6. The Prophet
  7. The Little Prince
  8. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (anthropology)
  9. The Power of Babel (linguistics)
  10. Obedience to Authority (psychology)
  11. Bowie (biography)

Des Choses en Français

  1. Antigone (play)
  2. L'Etranger
  3. Le Misanthrope
  4. La Sixieme
  5. Premier Amour, Dernier Amour
  6. Candide, où l'Optimisme (for students)
  7. Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (for students)

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