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Here are some of the books that are in my personal library, or that I really want in my personal library. Feel free to peruse to your hearts' content. Of course I highly recommend all these books. If I were really cool, I'd have a way for you check off books you've read. But only if I were really cool. *winks*

If you want to find any of these books for yourself, or any others, check out these sites:

 
 
 

Fiction:
(Please note: Book titles are underlined. Series titles are not underlined, but should be read in order!) 
 
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Clive Barker - Weaveworld - The Thief of Always
Orson Scott Card - the Ender series: Ender's Game
     Speaker for the DeadXenocide; Children of the
     Mind; Ender's Shadow; Shadow of the Hegemon;
     Shadow Puppets
Orson Scott Card - the Tales of Alvin Maker: Seventh
     Son; Red Prophet; Prentice Alvin; Alvin
     Journeyman; Heartfire; The Crystal City
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising series: Over Sea,
     Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch;
     The Grey King; Silver on the Tree
Michael Crichton - A Case of Need
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum  - The Name of the
     Rose
E.M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
William Goldman - The Princess Bride
Thomas Harris - Hannibal
Charles Johnson - Ox-Herding Tale
C.S. Lewis - Til We Have Faces
A.A. Milne - House at Pooh Corner - Winnie-the-Pooh
Ann Patchett - bel canto
Anne Rice - Memnoch the Devil
Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues -
     Jitterbug Perfume - Still Life with Woodpecker
J.K. Rowling - the Harry Potter series: HP & the
     Sorcerer's Stone; HP & the Chamber of Secrets;
     HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban; HP & the Goblet
     of Fire; HP & the Order of the Phoenix
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events: The
     Bad Beginning; The Reptile Room; The Wide
     Window; The Miserable Mill; The Austere
     Academy; The Ersatz Elevator; The Vile Village;
     The Hostile Hospital;
     The Carnivorous Carnival; The Slippery Slope
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Diane Wagman - Skin Deep
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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Multi-Cultural Literature - anthologies:
 
Carretta, ed. - Unchained Voices
Kanellos, ed. - Hispanic-American Literature
Vizenor, ed. - Native-American Literature
Wong, ed. - Asian-American Literature
Young, ed. - African-American Literature

Plays:
 
Barbara Damashek & Molly Newman - Quilters
Louise & Robert Egan - Little Shop of Horrors
Eve Ensler - The Vagina  Monologues
Ed Graczyk - Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
David Hong Hwang - M. Butterfly
Stephen Sondheim - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
 
Anything by Shakespeare. (What do you want? I was an English major in college!)

Poetry:
 
A.A. Milne - Now We Are Six - When We Were Very Young
Kevin Max Smith - At the Foot of Heaven
Zaranka, ed. - The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry

Religious texts and books:
 
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Tao Te Ching
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
 
Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh  - The Te of Piglet
Madeline L'Engle - Penguins and Golden Calves
 

Writing:
 
Ursula LeGuin - Steering the Craft
Brenda Ueland - If You Want to Write

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