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fiction

• the golden compass, philip pullman ✓
• the subtle knife, philip pullman ✓
• the amber spyglass, philip pullman ✓
• the passage, justin cronin ✓
• the twelve, justin cronin
• the city of mirrors, justin cronin
• the whisperer in darkness, h.p. lovecraft
• the horror in the museum, h.p. lovecraft
• the haunter of the dark, h.p. lovecraft
• the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, j.r.r. tolkien✓
• the lord of the rings: the two towers, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the lord of the rings: the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the hobbit, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the children of húrin, j.r.r. tolkien
• unfinished tales, j.r.r. tolkien
• the book of lost tales 1, j.r.r. tolkien
• the book of lost tales 2, j.r.r. tolkien
• the chronicles of crestomanci: charmed life, diana wynne jones ✓
• the chronicles of crestomanci: the magicians of caprona, diana wynne jones ✓
• the dark tower: the gunslinger, stephen king ✓
• duma key, stephen king ✓
• the mist, stephen king ✓
• jurassic park, michael crichton ✓
• next, michael crichton ✓
• micro, michael crichton and richard preston ✓
• the lost world, michael crichton ✓
• prey, michael crichton ✓
• dragon teeth, michael crichton
• the terminal man, michael crichton ✓
• pirate latitudes, michael crichton
• the andromeda strain, michael crichton ✓
• state of fear, michael crichton
• the dharma bums, jack kerouac
• on the road, jack kerouac ✓
• parade's end, ford madox ford
• the plague, albert camus
• the stranger, albert camus ✓
• left behind, tim lahaye and jerry b. jenkins
• the three musketeers, alexandre dumas
• good omens, neil gaiman and terry pratchett ✓
• neverwhere, neil gaiman ✓
• the sons, franz kafka
• the war of the worlds, h.g. wells ✓
• the bourne identity, robert ludlum
• the robots of dawn, isaac asimov
• the foundation trilogy: foundation, isaac asimov
• the foundation trilogy: foundation and empire, isaac asimov
• the foundation trilogy: second foundation, isaac asimov
• death on the nile, agatha christie
• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
• dracula, bram stoker ✓
• the bell jar, sylvia plath ✓
• white noise, don delillo
• the kitchen god's wife, amy tan ✓
• the joy luck club, amy tan ✓
• i know why the caged bird sings, maya angelou
• pinocchio, carlo collodi
• the perks of being a wallflower, stephen chbosky ✓
• the thorn birds, colleen mccullough ✓
• hamlet, william shakespeare ✓
• lord of the flies, william golding
• moby-dick, herman melville
• catch-22, joseph heller ✓
• the book of lost things, john connolly ✓
• life of pi, yann martel ✓
• the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald ✓
• the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck ✓
• east of eden, john steinbeck ✓
• feat and loathing in las vegas, hunter s. thompson ✓
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest, ken kesey
• mutiny on the bounty, john boyne
• never let me go, kazuo ishiguro ✓
• to kill a mockingbird, harper lee ✓
• the hunt for red october, tom clancy ✓
• roots, alex haley
• a game of thrones, george r.r. martin
• dune, frank herbert
• jaws, peter benchley ✓
• valley of the dolls, jacqueline susann
• rebecca, daphne du maurier
• cold mountain, charles frazier ✓
• starship troopers, robert a. heinlen ✓
• the little prince, antoine de saint-exupéry ✓
• harry potter and the sorcerer's stone, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the chamber of secrets, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the goblet of fire, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the order of the phoenix, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the half-blood prince, j.k. rowling ✓
• harry potter and the deathly hallows, j.k. rowling ✓

nonfiction

• black hawk down, mark bowden ✓
• chronicles volume one, bob dylan
• the philosophy of modern song, bob dylan
• party monster, james st. james ✓
• human errors, nathan h. lents
• the making of the atomic bomb, richard rhodes
• midnight in chernobyl, adam higginbotham
• the great influenza, john m. barry
• the interpretation of dreams, sigmund freud
• the dragons of eden, carl sagan
• the triple goddess, adam mclean
• feeling good, david d. burns, m.d.
• stuff they don't want you to know, ben bowlin, matt frederick, noel brown
• the secret history of the world, mark booth
• discarded science, john grant ✓
• no reservations, anthony bourdain
• grimm pictures, walter rankin ✓
• wednesday is indigo blue, david eagleman, richard cytowic
• the pun also rises, john pollack
• the secret lives of color, kassia st. clair
• art
  • on ugliness, umberto eco
  • the power of art, simon schama
  • the best art you've never seen, julian spalding
• ocean
  • monsters of the sea, richard ellis
  • aquagenesis, richard ellis ✓
  • the search for the giant squid, richard ellis ✓
  • in the domain of the lake monsters, john kirk
  • deep ocean, tony rice ✓
  • the oceans, ellen j. prager, sylvia a. earle
  • guide to marine mammals of the world, brent s. stewart, james a. powell, phillip j. clapham ✓
  • twelve days of terror, richard g. fernicola ✓
  • shadows in the sea, thomas b. allen
  • shark trouble, peter benchley
  • folklore and the sea, horace palmer beck
  • the sound of the sea, cynthia barnett

graphic novels & manga

• one punch man 01: one punch, yusuke murata ✓