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4. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
7. Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon

11. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13. Night - Elie Wiesel
14. The Pig that Wanted to be Eaten - Julian Baggini
15. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
16. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. Readings on The Scarlet Letter - Bruno Leone (ed.)
18. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
19. The History of Sexuality, Volume I - Michel Foucault
20. Movies and the Meaning of Life - Kimberly Blessing & Paul Tudico (Ed.)
21. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
22. The Sounds of Poetry - Robert Pinsky
It's been a while...here's what I've been up to. I'm pretty far behind for the year, but I hope to make up some time this summer. We'll see. 100 is still pretty unlikely at this point.

26. The Myth of Continents - Martin W. Lewis & Karen E. Wigen
27. The Civilization of Europe During the Renaissance - John Hale
28. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf

30. Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
31. Poems for the Millenium - Jerome Rothenberg & Jeffrey Robinson (eds.)

45. Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
46. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter

49. The Mahabharata - Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (trans.)
1. Obasan - Joy Kogowa
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
3. A Mercy - Toni Morrison
4. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
5. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
7. Slow Learner - Thomas Pynchon
8. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
9. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
10. Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
11. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
12. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13. Night - Elie Wiesel
14. The Pig that Wanted to be Eaten - Julian Baggini
15. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
16. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. Readings on The Scarlet Letter - Bruno Leone (ed.)
18. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
19. The History of Sexuality, Volume I - Michel Foucault
20. Movies and the Meaning of Life - Kimberly Blessing & Paul Tudico (Ed.)
21. The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme
22. The Sounds of Poetry - Robert Pinsky
23. Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
24. The Jew of Malta - Christopher Marlowe
25. Point Omega - Don DeLillo
26. The Myth of Continents - Martin W. Lewis & Karen E. Wigen
27. The Civilization of Europe During the Renaissance - John Hale
28. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
29. Othello - William Shakespeare
30. Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
31. Poems for the Millenium - Jerome Rothenberg & Jeffrey Robinson (eds.)
32 - Jerusalem Delivered - Tarquato Tasso
33. Norse Myths - Ingri & Edgar D'Aulaire
34. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguru
35. Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
36. Intertextuality - Graham Allen
37. Orientalism - Edward Said
38. A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
39. Gilgamesh - Herbert Mason (trans.)
40. The Condition of Postmodernity - David Harvey
41. Oresteia - Aeschylus (Trans. Ian Johnson)
42. The Castle - Franz Kafka
43. Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes
44. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
45. Top Girls - Caryl Churchill
46. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
47. Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe - Emily C. Bartels
48. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
49. The Mahabharata - Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (trans.)
50. The Analects of Confucius - Simon Leys (trans.)
51. Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell (trans.)
52. The Winslow Boy - Terence Rattigan
53. Emma - Jane Austen
54. Shane - Jack Schaefer
55. The Nature of Blood - Caryl Phillips
56. Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction - David J. Leigh
57. Beowulf - Burton Raffel (Trans.)
58. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
59. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
60. Terminal Visions - W. Warren Wagar
61. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
62. Writing the Apocalypse - Lois Parkinson Zamora
63. Apocalyptic Overtures - Richard Dellamora
64. Feminine Fictions - Patricia Waugh
65. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
66. The Odyssey - Homer
67. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
68. Ur - Stephen King