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BOOKS MOVIES PLAYS/MUSICALS CONCERTS RESTAURANTS RATING SCALE		BOOKS Archives: Listed alphabetically by title A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A ---- Back to the Top Adverbs by Daniel Handler Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra and The Bacchae by Euripides The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Critique (April 25, 2004) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Alice, I think by Susan Juby Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials - Book III) by Philip Pullman The Analects by Confucius And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians) by Agatha Christie Animal Farm by George Orwell Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles The Art of War by Sun Tzu At A Loss For Words by Diane Schoemperlen B ---- Back to the Top The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding Brisingr by Christopher Paolini C ---- Back to the Top Candide by Voltaire Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Guest Critique by Shimrah Critique (March 1, 2004) C'est le reglement by Larry Dane Brimner Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Chrysalids by John Wyndham a complicated kindness by Miriam Toews Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Curious Incident of a Dog at Nighttime by Mark Haddon D ---- Back to the Top Danny Champion of the World by Roald Dahl The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown E ---- Back to the Top Eldest by Christopher Paolini The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card Eragon by Christopher Paolini F ---- Back to the Top Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco G ---- Back to the Top The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials - Book I) by Philip Pullman The Gormegnhast Novels: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake The Gormegnhast Novels: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake The Gormegnhast Novels: Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake Grand nettoyage by Larry Dane Brimner H ---- Back to the Top The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Harry Potter 1 -5 by J.K. Rowling (Re-read) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy The Histories by Herodotus The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Holes by Louis Sachar Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah MacDonald House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski I ---- Back to the Top The Iliad by Homer (Translated by: Robert Fagles) The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson Ingo by Helen Dunmore The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells J ---- Back to the Top James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Journal d'un chat assassin by Anne Fine K ---- Back to the Top The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini L ---- Back to the Top Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay Guest Critique by Shimrah Critique (January 31, 2005) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds by Aristophanes M ---- Back to the Top Match a la gomme by Larry Dane Brimner The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick The Man Who Forgot How To Read by Howard Engel Matilda by Roald Dahl The Mermaid of Paris by Cary Fagan Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Poetry of Lucy Maud Montgomery The Mother Tongue - English and how it got that way by Bill Bryson The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk N ---- Back to the Top Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs (never finished it) Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson Newcomers, Temporaries by Bojan Pavlovic Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre (play) O ---- Back to the Top The Odyssey by Homer (Translated by Robert Fagles) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding Once Upon a Time in the North by Phillip Pullman The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson On the Road by Jack Kerouac On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Guest Critique by Shimrah Critique (September 11, 2003) Once by Rebecca Rosenblum The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Translated by Robert Fagles) The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton P ---- Back to the Top Payback by Margaret Atwood Un parfum de mystère by Denis Côté The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester R ---- Back to the Top The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Red Pony (& Junius Maltby) by John Steinbeck Guest Critique by Shimrah Critique (April 5, 2004) Le redoutable Marcus la Puce by Gilles Gauthier The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (I haven't read this yet...) Guest Critique by Shimrah Critique (March 10, 2004) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (play) The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman S ---- Back to the Top The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Critique (August 29, 2003) A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (Never finished it) The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems translated by Coleman Barks a spot of bother by Mark Haddon The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials - Book II) by Philip Pullman Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry T ---- Back to the Top The Tales of Beedle The Bard by J. K. Rowling Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll The Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore Time's Arrow by Martin Amis The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom The Twits by Roald Dahl U ---- Back to the Top The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera V ---- Back to the Top V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd W ---- Back to the Top Watership Down by Richard Adams We by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson Critique (December 26, 2003) Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy Wicked by Gregory Maguire The Witches by Roald Dahl The World Without Us by Alan Weisman The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Y ---- Back to the Top You: The Owner's Manual by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay

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