Booklist

Fantasy/Sci-Fi
- To Reign in Hell and Jhereg~ by Steen Brust
- The Ghatti's Tale~ by Gayle Greeno
- Ghosts~, ed. Paula Guran
- The Historian~ by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Apocalypse Door by James D. MacDonald
- Spindle's End~ by Robin McKinley
- The Dragon Conspiracy~ by R. R. Moredun
- Starlight 1 and 2~ by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Beneath the Vaulted Hills by Sean Russell
- Circus~, ed. Ekaterina Sedia
- Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King~, ed. Robert Silverberg
- Crown Duel~ by Sherwood Smith
- The Knight~ by Gene Wolfe
#- Triskadekan for Kelsey Lynne's story
#- The Sandman series, Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman
#- "Proof" by MR Graham (ebook)
- Foundation* by Isaac Asimov
- Abarat* by Clive Barker
- The Curse Workers Trilogy (White Cat*) by Holly Black
- Ender's Game* by Orson Scott Card
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane* by Neil Gaiman
- Feed* by Mira Grant
- Team Human* by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan
- The Left Hand of Darkness* by Ursula Le Guin (or some other book that makes a good introduction to her; might read more if I like it)
- Silence* by Michelle Sagara // The Broken Crown* by Michelle West
- The Thief* by Megan Whalen Turner
- Leviathan* by Scott Westerfield
- Soldier of Sidon* by Gene Wolfe
- Chrestomanci series (The Lives of Christopher Chant*) by Diana Wynne Jones
- How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe* by Charles Yu
- Morrigan's Brood by Heather Poinsett Dunbar and Christopher Dunbar
- Titan Magic by Jodi Lamm
- Star Time by Henry Melton
- Eggs, Butter, Sugar and Disaster by Alicia Wright

- City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (March 2014)
#- Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan (September 2014)
#- Exile by Tamora Pierce (???)
- more Discworld stuff by Terry Pratchett


General/Literary/Misc. Fiction
- Paper Towns(~) by John Green
- The Life of Pi(~) by Yann Martel
- My Name Is Asher Lev~ by Chaim Potok
- The Caine Mutiny~ by Herman Wouk
- Infinite Jest* by David Foster Wallace
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Cider House Rules* by John Irving
- When She Woke* by Hillary Jordan
- The Vagrants* by Yiyun Li
- Escapes* by Joy Williams
- John Dies at the End* by David Wong
- Chemistry by Jodi Lamm

Romance
- Cotillion* by Georgette Heyer

Historical
- A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates~ by Captain Charles Johnson
- Penman~ by Sharron Kay
- The Book Thief* by Marcus Zusak

Mythology
- Celtic Legends~ by Peter Berresford Ellis
- Great Myths of the World~ by Padraic Colum
- The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales by Ted Hughes

Biography/Memoir
- In the Land of Invisible Women* by Quanta Ahmed
- Lipstick Jihad* by Azadeh Moaveni
- Reading Lolita in Tehran* by Azar Nafisi
- Things I've Been Silent About* by Azar Nafisi
- biography of Walt Whitman

Poetry
Fuse by Marc McKee

Classics/Must-Reads
- The Arabian Nights, tr. Richard Burton
- The Last of the Mohicans~ by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
- Hamlet~, King Lear~, Macbeth~, and The Tempest~ by Shakespeare
- The Lord of the Rings~ by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Aesop's Fables*
- Fahrenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre* by Charlotte Brontë
- Sherlock Holmes stories (suggestions?) by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Odyssey* by Homer
- To Kill A Mockingbird* by Harper Lee
- The Giver* by Lois Lowry
- Lolita* by Vladimir Nabokov
- 1984* by George Orwell
- The Little Prince* by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Catcher in the Rye* by J.D. Salinger
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame* by Victor Hugo
- Treasure Island* by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nonfiction/Misc.
- Harvard classics translation including Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius~
- Medieval Women Writers~, ed. Katharina M. Wilson

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Read in 2013-2014

- The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
- Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Penmarric by Susan Howatch
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
- The Falconer by Elizabeth May
- The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Firebirds Soaring, ed. Sharon November
- Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
- Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Phillip Pullman
- Mortal Gods by Bonnie Quinn (in progress)
- Cast in Ruin and Cast in Peril by Michelle Sagara
- Lust for Life (Van Gogh biography) by Irving Stone
- - Skinned by Robin Wasserman
- Latro in the Mist by Gene Wolfe
- The Last Guardian of Everness by John C Wright

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I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Key/note to self:
~ books I have in my possession
# books I want to own
* books in B&ECPL system



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And now a TV/Movies List because I basically never watch TV:

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Star Wars (no I have never watched it)
- Classic Dr Who (have watched into season 4)
- Game of Thrones
- Vampire Diaries
- Star Trek
- Dr. Who Series 7
- Firefly

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