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* '''''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''''' by '''[[Roald Dahl]]''' |
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* '''''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]''''' by '''[[William Shakespeare]]''' |
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* '''''[[The Fire-Dwellers]]''''' by '''[[Margaret Laurence]]''' |
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* '''''[[Vanity Fair]]''''' by '''[[William Makepeace Thackeray]]''' |
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* '''''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]''''' by '''[[Mark Twain]]''' |
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* '''''[[Shakespeare's Sonnets|Sonnets]]''''' by '''[[William Shakespeare]]''' |
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* '''''[[Physics (Aristotle)|Physica (Physics)]]''''' by '''[[Aristotle]]''' |
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Here's a list of books I've read since about March 2005 when I started keeping track. |
Here's a list of books I've read since about March 2005 when I started keeping track. |
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:[[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]] Author is either part of the [[Great Books of the Western World]] set or [[Harold Bloom|Harold Bloom's]] [http://www.literarycritic.com/bloom.htm Western Canon] list. |
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:[[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]] Author is Canadian. |
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==[[Louisa May Alcott]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Little Women]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Little Women|Good Wives]]''''' |
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==[[Hubert Aquin]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Hubert Aquin]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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==[[Aristotle]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[Aristotle]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Categories (Aristotle)|Categoriae (Categories)]]''''' |
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* '''''[[On Interpretation|De Interpretatione (On Interpretation)]]''''' |
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* '''''[[On Sophistical Refutations|De Sophisiticis Elenchis (On Sohpistical Refutations)]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Posterior Analytics|Analytica Posteriora (Posterior Analytics)]]''''' |
* '''''[[Posterior Analytics|Analytica Posteriora (Posterior Analytics)]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Prior Analytics|Analytica Priora (Prior Analytics)]]''''' |
* '''''[[Prior Analytics|Analytica Priora (Prior Analytics)]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Topics|Topica (Topics)]]''''' |
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==[[Margaret Atwood]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Wilderness Tips (book)|Wilderness Tips]]''''' |
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==[[Richard Bach]]== |
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* '''''[[Rescue Ferrets at Sea]]''''' |
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==[[Shauna Singh Baldwin]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[What the Body Remembers]]''''' |
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==[[Carmen bin Ladin]]== |
==[[Carmen bin Ladin]]== |
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==[[Frances Brooke]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Frances Brooke]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The History of Emily Montague]]''''' |
* '''''[[The History of Emily Montague]]''''' |
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==[[Dan Brown]]== |
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* '''''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''''' |
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==[[Bill Bryson]]== |
==[[Bill Bryson]]== |
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* '''''[[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]''''' |
* '''''[[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]''''' |
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==[[Ernest Buckler]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Mountain and the Valley]]''''' |
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==[[Morley Callaghan]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Such is My Beloved]]''''' |
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==[[Italo Calvino]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Why Read the Classics?]]''''' |
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==[[Truman Capote]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[In Cold Blood (book)|In Cold Blood]]''''' |
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==[[Raymond Chandler]]== |
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* '''''[[The Lady in the Lake]]''''' |
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==[[Wayson Choy]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Wayson Choy]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[All That Matters (novel)|All That Matters]]''''' |
* '''''[[All That Matters (novel)|All That Matters]]''''' |
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==[[Agatha Christie]]== |
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* '''''[[Taken at the Flood]]''''' |
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==[[Michael Crichton]]== |
==[[Michael Crichton]]== |
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* '''''[[Airframe (novel)|Airframe]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Timeline (novel)|Timeline]]''''' |
* '''''[[Timeline (novel)|Timeline]]''''' |
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==[[Michael Cunningham]]== |
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* '''''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]''''' |
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==[[Diane Mott Davidson]]== |
==[[Diane Mott Davidson]]== |
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==[[Robertson Davies]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[Robertson Davies]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Lyre of Orpheus]]''''' |
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* '''''[[The Rebel Angels]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Rebel Angels]]''''' |
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* '''''[[What's Bred in the Bone]]''''' |
* '''''[[What's Bred in the Bone]]''''' |
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==[[Daniel Defoe]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[Daniel Defoe]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''''' |
* '''''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''''' |
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==[[Charles Dickens]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Bleak House]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Great Expectations]]''''' |
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==[[Paulette Dubé]]== |
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* '''''[[Talon (novel)]]''''' |
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==[[Daphne du Maurier]]== |
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* '''''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]''''' |
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==[[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Visit]]''''' |
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==[[George Eliot]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[George Eliot]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Middlemarch]]''''' |
* '''''[[Middlemarch]]''''' |
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==[[Jon Fasman]]== |
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* '''''[[The Geographer's Library]]''''' |
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==[[Jasper Fforde]]== |
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* '''''[[The Eyre Affair]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Lost in a Good Book]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Something Rotten]]''''' |
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* '''''[[The Well of Lost Plots]]''''' |
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==[[Moses I. Finley]]== |
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* '''''[[The World of Odysseus]]''''' |
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==[[Karen Joy Fowler]]== |
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* '''''[[The Jane Austen Book Club]]''''' |
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==[[Jean Froissart]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Froissart's Chronicles|Chronicles]]''''' |
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==[[Stephen Fry]]== |
==[[Stephen Fry]]== |
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* '''''[[The Liar]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Liar]]''''' |
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==[[Elizabeth Gaskell]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Wives and Daughters]]''''' |
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==[[Bill Gaston]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Mount Appetite]]''''' |
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==[[Elizabeth George]]== |
==[[Elizabeth George]]== |
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==[[Arthur Golden]]== |
==[[Arthur Golden]]== |
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* '''''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]''''' |
* '''''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]''''' |
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==[[Sue Grafton]]== |
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* '''''A is for Alibi''''' |
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==[[Rawi Hage]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[De Niro's Game]]''''' |
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==[[Sadegh Hedayat]]== |
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* '''''[[The Blind Owl]]''''' |
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==[[Ernest Hemingway]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[Ernest Hemingway]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway|Complete Short Stories]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway|Complete Short Stories]]''''' |
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==[[Hermann Hesse]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Siddhartha]]''''' |
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==[[Alice Hoffman]]== |
==[[Alice Hoffman]]== |
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==[[Kazuo Ishiguro]]== |
==[[Kazuo Ishiguro]]== |
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* '''''[[Never Let Me Go]]''''' |
* '''''[[Never Let Me Go]]''''' |
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==[[James Joyce]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Ulysses (novel) | Ulysses]]''''' |
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==[[John Knowles]]== |
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* '''''[[A Separate Peace]]''''' |
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==[[Vincent Lam]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures]]''''' |
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==[[Stephen Leacock]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Stephen Leacock]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich]]''''' |
* '''''[[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich]]''''' |
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==[[Harper Lee]]== |
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* '''''[[To Kill A Mockingbird]]''''' |
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==[[C. S. Lewis]]== |
==[[C. S. Lewis]]== |
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* '''''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''''' |
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==[[Justin Lovill]]== |
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* '''''[[Notable Historical Trials|Notable Historical Trials, Volume III]]''''' |
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==[[Hugh MacLennan]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Barometer Rising]]''''' |
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==[[Alistair MacLeod]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Alistair MacLeod]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Island (book)|Island]]''''' |
* '''''[[Island (book)|Island]]''''' |
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* '''''[[No Great Mischief]]''''' |
* '''''[[No Great Mischief]]''''' |
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==[[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]]== |
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* '''''[[Esther Waters (novel)|Esther Waters]]''''' |
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==[[Alan Moorehead]]== |
==[[Alan Moorehead]]== |
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* '''''[[The Blue Nile (book)|The Blue Nile]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Blue Nile (book)|The Blue Nile]]''''' |
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==[[Vladimir Nabokov]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Lolita]]''''' |
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==[[Azar Nafisi]]== |
==[[Azar Nafisi]]== |
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==[[Iain Pears]]== |
==[[Iain Pears]]== |
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* '''''[[An Instance of the Fingerpost]]''''' |
* '''''[[An Instance of the Fingerpost]]''''' |
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==[[Kit Pearson]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Guests of War Trilogy|Looking at the Moon]]''''' |
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* '''''[[The Guests of War Trilogy|The Sky is Falling]]''''' |
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==[[Arturo Pérez-Reverte]]== |
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* '''''[[The Seville Communion]]''''' |
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==[[Plato]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Critias (dialogue)|Critias]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Laws (dialogue)|Laws]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Parmenides (Plato)|Parmenides]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Philebus (dialogue)|Philebus]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Sophist (dialogue)|The Sophist]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Statesman (dialogue)|The Statesman]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Theaetetus (dialogue)|Theaetetus]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]''''' |
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==[[Phillip Pullman]]== |
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* '''''[[The Golden Compass]]''''' |
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==[[Pascale Quiviger]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Perfect Circle]]''''' |
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==[[Kathy Reichs]]== |
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* '''''[[Déjà Dead]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Death du Jour]]''''' |
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==[[Sheri Reynolds]]== |
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* '''''[[The Rapture of Canaan]]''''' |
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==Michael Robinson [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==Michael Robinson [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''The Earth and the Dancing Man''''' |
* '''''The Earth and the Dancing Man''''' |
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==[[J. K. Rowling]]== |
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* '''''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''''' |
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==[[Gabrielle Roy]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Children of My Heart]]''''' |
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==[[José Saramago]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Tale of the Unknown Island]]''''' |
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==Melissa Scott== |
==Melissa Scott== |
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* '''''[[The Garden (Star Trek)|The Garden]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Garden (Star Trek)|The Garden]]''''' |
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==[[William Shakespeare]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[As You Like It]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]''''' |
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==[[Gaétan Soucy]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Immaculate Conception (novel)|The Immaculate Conception]]''''' |
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==[[Edmund Spenser]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Faerie Queene]]''''' |
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==[[Amos Tutuola]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
==[[Amos Tutuola]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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==[[Rudy Wiebe]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
==[[Rudy Wiebe]] [[Image:PB Canada-leaf.png|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[The Blue Mountains of China]]''''' |
* '''''[[The Blue Mountains of China]]''''' |
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==[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]== |
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* '''''[[Little House in the Big Woods]]''''' |
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* '''''[[Little House on the Prairie]]''''' |
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==[[P. G. Wodehouse]]== |
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* '''''[[The Inimitable Jeeves]]''''' |
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==[[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]]== |
==[[Bob Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein]]== |
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* '''''[[All the President's Men]]''''' |
* '''''[[All the President's Men]]''''' |
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==[[Virginia Woolf]] [[Image:Plato-raphael.jpg|30px]]== |
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* '''''[[Mrs Dalloway]]''''' |
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==[[Susan Wright]]== |
==[[Susan Wright]]== |
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Latest revision as of 21:41, 6 February 2007
I'm currently reading:
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Richard III by William Shakespeare
- The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Sonnets by William Shakespeare
- Physica (Physics) by Aristotle
Here's a list of books I've read since about March 2005 when I started keeping track.
Author is either part of the Great Books of the Western World set or Harold Bloom's Western Canon list.
Author is Canadian or book is considered Canadian literature.
- Categoriae (Categories)
- De Interpretatione (On Interpretation)
- De Sophisiticis Elenchis (On Sohpistical Refutations)
- Analytica Posteriora (Posterior Analytics)
- Analytica Priora (Prior Analytics)
- Topica (Topics)
- A is for Alibi
Michael Robinson
[edit]- The Earth and the Dancing Man