Ranks:
*      - Awful.  I read it.  I hated it.
**     - Sucked, but it was an ok read.  Would not read again.
***    - Decent.  Good read, but not spectacular.
****   - Great book.  Highly recommend.
*****  - Wow.  Gets 'argv repeat' status.  Chances are my 
         copy of this book has been highly abused, marked up, 
         thumbed through and repeatedly read.
N/A    - Not applicable because it's a reference book.




Count as of 6/2/08: 173



  **        The Sands of Time by Sydney Sheldon
  ***       Brotherhood of the Tomb by Daniel Easterman
  ***       Holy Blood, Holy Grail by M. Baigent, R. Leigh, H. Lincoln
  *         A Regency Summer by Various Authors
  ****      The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (Prophesies of Nostradamus) by Nostradamus
  ****      The Red Swastika by Martin Gross
  **        Danse Macabre by Stephen King
  **        The Dubliners by James Joyce
  *****     Acts of Faith by Erich Segal
  *****     Christine by Stephen King
  ****      Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  ****      Carrie by Stephen King
  **        Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
  ****      The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  ****      The Restaurant at the end of the Universe by Douglas Adams
  ***       The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith (ehe!)
  *****     The Truth about Mormonism b Weldon Langfield
  ***       Prophet of Death by Pete Earley
  ***       The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  ****      Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  ***       Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
  *****     The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  ****      The Illiad by Homer
  ****      The Odyssey by Homer
  ****      A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  *****     The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
  ****      The Metamorphoses by Ovid
  ****      The Aeneid by Virgil
  ****      The Koran
  ****      Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps
  ****      Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II
  ****      Neuromancer by William Gibson
  ***       Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  ***       Idoru by William Gibson
  ***       The Coming Plague - by Laurie Garrett
  ***       The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll
  *         Silicon Snake Oil by Cliff Stoll
  **        Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura w/ John Markoff
  ***       The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling
  ***       Virtual Light by William Gibson
  ****      1984 by George Orwell
  **        Fuzzy Logic by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiberger
  ***       Count Zero by William Gibson
  ****      Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
  ****      Contact by Carl Sagan
  ***       Private Parts by Howard Stern
  ***       The Lost World by Michael Crichton
  **        Star Wars - Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
  **        The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
  ***       The Chamber by John Grisham
  **        Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy Denning
  ****      The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell by Marilyn Manson
  **        Hidden Agendas (Netforce Series) by Tom Clancy
  **        Breaking Point (Netforce Series) by Tom Clancy
  **        Point of Impact (Netforce Series) by Tom Clancy
  **        The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  ***       Geek Love by Katherin Dunn
  ****      Hostile Impact by Tom Clancy
  ***       Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward by Dave Thompson
  ****      Depeche Mode - A Biography by Steve Malins
  ****      Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
  ****      The Hobbit by Tolkien
  ****      The Fellowship of the Ring by Tolkien
  ****      The Two Towers by Tolkien
  ****      The Return of the King by Tolkien
  ****      Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  *****     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by JK Rowling
  *****     Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone (Book 1) by JK Rowling
  *****     Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by JK Rowling
  *****     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by JK Rowling
  ****      The Divine Comedy - Hell by Dante
  ****      The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas
  N/A       Quidditch Through The Ages by JK Rowling
  N/A       Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling
  *         Star Wars - Attack of the Clones by RA Salvatore 
  **        Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
  ***       The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
  ***       The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  ***       Tale Of The Body Thief by Anne Rice
  ****      Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice
  ***       The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  ****      The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  ****      The Crusades by Zoe Oldenbourg
  ***       Le Morte D'Aurthur Vol I by Sir Thomas Malory
  ****      The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus) by Anonymous
  *****     Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix (Book 5) by JK Rowling
  ****      The Complete Romances of Chretien De Troyes by Chretien De Troyes
                                         - Erec and Enide
                                         - Cliges
                                         - The Knight of the Cart
                                         - The Knight with the Lion
                                         - The Story of the Grail
  ****      The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  ****      The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  ***       Artemis Fowl (Book 1) by Eoin Colfer
  ****      The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  ***       Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  ****      Guns, Germs and Steel by Jarod Diamond
  ****      The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
  **        Angels and Daemons by Dan Brown
  **        Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  ***       The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince
  ***       A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning) by Lemony Snicket
  ***       A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Repitle Room) by Lemony Snicket
  ***       A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Wide Window) by Lemony Snicket
  ****      Artemis Fowl (Book 2 - The Arctic Incident) by Eoin Colfer
  ****      Artemis Fowl (Book 3 - The Eternity Code) by Eoin Colfer
  ****      The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
  ****      Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
  ****      The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
  ****      The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
  ****      Stiff by Mary Roach
  ***       A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
  ****      System of the World by Neal Stephenson
  *****     Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
  ***       Perdido Street Station by China Mielville
  ***       The Scar by China Mielville
  ****      Artemis Fowl: the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
  ****      Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss
  ***       Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
  ***       Gridlinked by Neal Asher
  ***       The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
  ****      Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  **        Viking: Odinn's Child by Tim Severin
  ***       Romanitas by Sophia McDougall
  ****      Byzantium by Cyril Mango
  *****     Jaguars Ripped my Flesh by Tim Cahill
  ****      Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
  *****     His Excellency by Joseph Ellis
  ***       Adams vs. Jefferson by John Ferling
  *****     The Earliest English Poems translation by Michael Alexander
  ****      A Wolverine Ripped My Leg by Tim Cahill
  ****      Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
  ****      Beowulf - Seamus Haney translation
  ***       History of the Franks Gregory of Tours - Readings in  Medieval Civiliations - Broadview Press
  ****      The Age of Bede - Collection of works
  ****      Charlemagne's Courtier - Einhard
  ****      Rule of St Benedict - St Benedict
  ****      The Early Middle Ages - Rosamond McKitterick
  ****      A History of the Crusades - by Steven Runciman
  *****     1776 by David McCullough
  ***       Yvain, The Knight of the Lion Chretien de Troyes trans. Burton Raffel
  ****      Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - by Susana Clarke
  N/A       Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict - by Maureen Miller
  ***       Vikings: Sworn Brother by Tim Severin
  ***       Vikings: King's Man by Tim Severin
  *****     Europe in the High Middle Ages by William Chester Jordan
  N/A       Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
  *****     De Monarchia by Dante
  ****      A Short History of the Middle Ages - by Barbara Rosenwein
  *         Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars by Jean Markale
  ***       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
  ****      Revelation Space - by Alastair Reynolds
  ****      A Very Short Introduction to the Crusades - by Christopher Tyerman
  *****     Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
  ****      Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - by Mark Haddon
  ****      A History of hte Medieval World - by RC Davis
  ****      Jesus as Mother - Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages - by Caroline Walker Bynum
  n/a       The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century - N/A - primary sources
  ****      A History of Medieval Christianity - by Jeffrey Burton Russell & Douglas W. Lumsden
  n/a       Early Christian Writings - N/A - primary sources
  ****      The Early Church - by Henry Chadwick
  ****      American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  *****     Rule & Conflict in an Early Medieval Society by K.J. Leyser
  ****      Otto III by Gerd Althoff
  ****      Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe by Gerd Althoff
  ****      The Salian Century by Stefan Weinfurter
  ****      Conrad II by Herwig Wolfram
  ****      Henry IV by I.S. Robinson
  *****     Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
  

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

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Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.   
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.  
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).  
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).    Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.    Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).   
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Iran, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).  
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian