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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
• foundation, isaac asimov
• foundation and empire, isaac asimov
• 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 ✓
• the invisible man, ralph ellison
• 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
• mutants: on genetic variety and the human body, armand marie leroi ✓
• 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
• feeling good, david d. burns, m.d.
• boundaries, anne katherine, m.a.
• listening to prozac, peter d. kramer
• physiology and anatomy, esther m. greisheimer
• the 10 best-ever anxiety management techniques, margaret wehrenberg
• adulting: how to become a grown-up in 468 easy(ish) steps, kelly williams brown
• the highly sensitive person's survival guide, ted zeff, ph.d.
• how i overcame social anxiety, tobias j. atkins
• how to be happy (or at least less sad), lee crutchley
• an unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness, kay redfield jamison
• psychology: an introduction, jerome kagan, ernest havemann
• stuff they don't want you to know, ben bowlin, matt frederick, noel brown
• discarded science, john grant ✓
• mr. wilsons cabinet of wonder, lawrence weschler ✓
• 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
• the anatomy of color, patrick baty
• teach yourself postmodernism, glenn ward
• tibetan book of the dead, w. y. evan-wentz
• asiatic mythology, j hackin
• transformations of myth through time, diane u. eisenberg, et al
• folktales from india, a. k. ramanujan
• the triple goddess, adam mclean
• formula 1: the official history, maurice hamilton
• egyptomania, bob brier
• sacred origins of profound things, charles panati
• the weird: a compendium of strange and dark stories, ann and jeff vandermeer
• art
  • on ugliness, umberto eco
  • the infinity of lists, umberto eco
  • the power of art, simon schama
  • the best art you've never seen, julian spalding
  • art in the hellenistic age, jerome jordan pollitt ✓
  • curious cats in art and poetry, william lach ✓
  • cats, cats, cats, andy warhol ✓
  • the 20th century art book, phaidon press
  • the american dream: pop to the present, stephen coppel, catherine daunt, susan tallman
  • caravaggio, gilles lambert
  • caravaggio: the complete works, rossella vodret
  • the british museum guide, the british museum
  • art: the whole story, stephen farthing
  • metropolitan zoo, joseph bell ✓
  • the meaning of art, herbert read
  • the great american thing, wanda corn ✓
  • gardner's art through the ages volume 1, fred s. kleiner, christian j. mamiya ✓
  • art history, volume 2, marilyn stoksad ✓
  • great museums of the world: british museum, london, carlo ludovico ragghianti, newsweek
  • great museums of the world: pinakothek munich, carlo ludovico ragghianti, newsweek
  • nineteenth century painters and painting: a dictionary, geraldine norman
  • nineteenth-century european art, petra ten-doesschate chu ✓
  • seventeenth-century art & architecture, ann sutherland harris
  • art in renaissance italy, john t. paoletti, gary m. radke
  • color library: pop art, jamie james
  • vincent van gogh: the complete paintings, rainer mertzger, ingo f. walther
  • roy lichtenstein: a retrospective, james rondeau
  • the art of ancient egpyt, gay robbins ✓
  • a history of art in africa, monica blackmun visonà
  • picturing the apocalypse, natasha o'hear, anthony o'hear
  • exhibiting contradictions, alan wallach
  • buddhist art and architecture, robert e. fisher
  • modern art in the usa, patricia hills
  • the world's greatest art: folk art, susann linn-williams
  • the world's greatest art: picasso, mike o'mahony
  • museum skepticism, david carrier
  • german romantic painting, william vaughan
  • loot, sharon waxman ✓
  • priceless, robert k. wittman ✓
  • painting and experience in fifteenth-century italy, michael baxandall ✓
  • symbols and allegories in art, matilde battistini
  • ten schools of painting in the national gallery of art (booklets 1 - 10), thomas p. baird et al
  • the great wall of china: from history to myth, arthur waldron
  • look! the fundamentals of art history, anne d'alleva
• 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
  • the monsters of loch ness, roy p.mackal
  • the enigma of loch ness, henry h. bauer
  • dangerous sea creatures, wild, wild world of animals
  • ocean, fabien cousteau
  • whales: dolphins and porpoises, james darling
  • sea, mark laita
  • planet ocean, laurent ballesta and pierre descamp
  • the blue planet: seas of life, andrew byatt, alastair fothergill, martha holmes
  • the deep, claire nouvian

graphic novels & manga

• one punch man 01: one punch, yusuke murata ✓
• the strain: volume 01, david lapham, mike huddleston
• the strain: volume 02, david lapham, mike huddleston
• the strain: the fall volume 03, david lapham, mike huddleston
• the strain: the fall volume 04, david lapham, mike huddleston
• the strain: the night eternal volume 5, david lapham, mike huddleston
• the strain: the night eternal volume 6, david lapham, mike huddleston
• watchmen, alan moore, dave gibbons, john higgins ✓
• v for vendetta, alan moore, david lloyd, tony weare ✓