Jandy’s Meanderings

I’m getting a bad habit of buying books and not reading them. Since crossing things off a list is so satisfying, perhaps if I have a list of my books in order to cross them off as a read them, it will help. Probably not. But I like lists anyway. Any excuse to make more lists. On the other hand, now anyone who sees this page will know how horribly unqualified I am to study English at the graduate level…

Fiction
Ngal’s Saga
The Mabinogion
The Nibelungenlied
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Song of Roland
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Star Wars–Jedi Academy: Jedi Search by Kevin J. Anderson
Star Wars–Jedi Academy: Champions of the Force by Kevin J. Anderson
Star Wars–Tales of the Bounty Hunters edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Winesburg, OH by Sherwood Anderson
Incarnations of Immortality Book 1: On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality Book 2: Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality Book 3: With a Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality Book 4: Wielding a Red Sword by Piers Anthony
Incarnations of Immortality Book 6: And Eternity by Piers Anthony
Chaos Mode by Piers Anthony
DoOon Mode by Piers Anthony
Virtual Mode by Piers Anthony
Juxtaposition by Piers Anthony
Split Infinity by Piers Anthony
Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer Vol. 1
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Erehwon by Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Redemption: Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (read abridged)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Victory by Joseph Conrad
The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Star Wars–The Han Solo Trilogy Book 2: The Hutt Gambit by A.C. Crispin
Star Wars–The Han Solo Trilogy Book 3: Rebel Dawn by A.C. Crispin
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (started)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (halfway through)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Good Night, Mr. Holmes by Carole Nelson Douglas
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I’ve read many of these)
His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman
There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset
The Veritas Conflict by Shaunti Feldhahn
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
The African Queen by C.S. Forester
Howards End by E.M. Forster
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Assassini by Thomas Gifford
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (I’ve read most of this)
Tristan by Gottfried von Eschenbach
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (read half)
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway (read a couple)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel–Unseen: The Burning by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (but I’ve seen the play twice!)
Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The American by Henry James
The Europeans by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Washington Square by Henry James
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
The Dubliners by James Joyce (read about half)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larson
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Little Drummer Girl by John leCarre
A Perfect Spy by John leCarre
Smiley’s People by John leCarre
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John leCarre
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
The New Negro edited by Alain Locke
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory
The Christ Commission by Og Mandino
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Love in the Time of the Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Egoist by George Meredith
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (read about a third)
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
A Very Venetian Mystery by Haughton Murphy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Eight by Katherine Neville
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Straight Man by Richard Russo
London by Edward Rutherford
Sarum by Edward Rutherford (read some)
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
Lord Peter by Dorothy Sayers
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Sparks
Star Wars–X-Wing Series: Isard’s Revenge - Michael A. Stackpole
Star Wars–X-Wing Series: Rogue Squadron - Michael A. Stackpole
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein
Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkein
Cane by Jean Toomer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Candide by Voltaire
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
As Time Goes By by Michael Walsh
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (read about half)
The Once and Future King by T.E. White
Night by Elie Weisel
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Salome by Oscar Wilde
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Star Wars–The Courtship of Princess Leia by Dave Wolverton
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Star Wars–The Hand of Thrawn Book 1: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars–The Hand of Thrawn Book 2: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn
Star Wars–The Hand of Thrawn Book 3: The Last Command by Timothy Zahn

Poetry
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne by John Donne (read a lot)
The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poetry and Prose of George Herbert by George Herbert (read all of “The Church”)
The Iliad by Homer (read about half)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
The Book of American Negro Poetry edited by James Weldon Johnson
The Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Drama
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Antigone by Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonnus by Sophocles
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Mythology and Folklore
Myths and Legends of the Celts
Celtic Myths and Legends
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell

Literary Anthologies (pretty much read some of all of these, and all of none of them)
Literature: A Pocket Anthology (3rd edition) edited by R.S. Gwynn
The Longman Anthology of World Literature Vol. A: The Ancient World
The Longman Anthology of World Literature Vol. B: The Medieval Era
The Longman Anthology of World Literature Vol. C: The Early Modern Period
The Longman Anthology of World Literature Vol. D: The 17th and 18th Centuries
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 (8th edition) general editor Stephen Greenblatt
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2 (8th edition)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 1 (5th edition)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2 (4th edition)
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (shorter 5th edition)

Literary Theory and Criticism
Flirting with Pride and Prejudice edited by Jennifer Crusie (read some)
Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
On Literature by Umberto Eco
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Tender is the Night by Marvin J. LaHood
An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
J.R.R. Tolkein: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey (read about half)
Early Modern English Drama edited by Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., Patrick Cheney, and Andrew Hadfield
The Soul of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Gene Edward Veith
Reading Between the Lines by Gene Edward Veith
The Heart of The Chronicles of Narnia by Thomas Williams

Literary Reference
The AP Stylebook by The Associated Press
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (13th edition)
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus edited by the Princeton Language Institute
The Art of Literary Scholarship by Richard D. Altick and John J .Fenstermaker
Literary Research Guide by James Harner
The Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman (read most)
The Book of Great Books by W. John Campbell (read some)

Religion/Christianity/Philosophy
The Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia & The Garden of Cyprus by Sir Thomas Browne (read half of Hydriotaphia)
Prophetic Untimeliness by Os Guinness
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Love the Lord Your God With All Your Mind by J.P. Moreland
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll (read about half)
The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
Who is Jesus? by R.C. Sproul
Defending the Faith by R.C. Sproul
The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way by Philip Jenkins (read about half)
The Da Vinci Hoax by Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
De-Coding Da Vinci by Amy Welborn
The Gospel Code by Ben Witherington III (read about half)
The Analects by Confucius
The Koran by Muhammad
The Tao Teh King by Lao-Tzu
The Roman Reader
Great Dialogues of Plato
Genius by Harold Bloom
The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written by Martin Seymour-Smith
The Pocket Aquinas
Aquinas by F.C. Copleston
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by Dave Breese
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietszche
The Consequences of Ideas by R.C. Sproul

History
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution as Seen Through British Eyes by Michael Pearson
Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert

Film, Television, and Media/Cultural Studies
A History of Narrative Film by David A. Cook (read some)
A History of Film by Virginia Wright Wexman
A Short History of the Movies by Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin (read about half)
History of Film by David Parkinson
Understanding Movies by Louis Gianetti (read most)
How to Read a Film by James Monaco (read some)
Film Theory and Criticism: An Introduction edited by Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen (read bits and pieces)
Film Noir Reader by Alain Silver and James Ursini (read bits and pieces)
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood by James Harvey
Paris, Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
The Classic Cinema by Stanley J. Solomon
Hitchcock’s Films by Robin Wood
Agee on Film by James Agee
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Pauline Kael
Book of Film by Roger Ebert
Cinema Nation: The Best Writing on Film from The Nation 1913-2000 edited by Carl Bromley
Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler by Joe Queenan
Five Stars: How to Become a Film Critic, the World’s Greatest Job by Christopher Null
Reel Spirituality by Robert K. Johnston
Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Psycho by Janet Leigh with Christopher Nickens
All About ‘All About Eve’ by Sam Staggs
Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck edited by Rudy Behlmen
Tracy and Hepburn by Garson Kanin
Mitchell Leisen: Hollywood Director by David Chierichetti
The Dark Side of Hitchcock by Donald Spoto
Jean-Luc Godard by Toby Mussman
Bogart: In Search of My Father by Steven Bogart
Star Wars: The Essential Chronology edited by Kevin J. Anderson and Daniel Wallace
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Script Book: Season Two, Vol. 1 by various authors
Slayer Slang by Michael Adams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy edited by James B. South (read some)
Fighting the Forces edited by Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery (read some)
Reading the Vampire Slayer edited by Roz Kaveney
What Would Buffy Do by Jana Reiss
Seven Seasons of Buffy edited by Glenn Yeffeth
Five Seasons of Angel edited by Glenn Yeffeth
Slayer: The Totally Cool Unofficial Guide to Buffy by Keith Topping
Bite Me! The Unofficial Guide to the World of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Nikki Stafford
The Seduction Image by K.L Billingsley
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Convergence Culture by Peter Jenkins
Harry Potter and Philosophy edited by David Baggett and Shawn E. Klein
The Matrix and Philosophy edited by William Irwin
The Gospel Reloaded by Chris Seay and Greg Garrett
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (read half)
Brainwashed by Ben Shapiro

Film and Television Guides, etc.
The Entertainment Weekly Guide to The Greatest Movies Ever Made
Seen That, Now What? by Andrea Shaw
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald
The “I Love Lucy” Book by Bart Andrews
Opening Night on Broadway by Steven Suskin

Trivia
The Movie Quiz Companion
Test Your Cultural Literacy IQ
Leslie Halliwell’s Great Movie Challenge
The Hollywood Movie Quiz Book
What’s Your Literacy IQ?
The Best Movie Quiz Book Ever
So You Think You Know Classic Movies

Travel
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott (yes, I know it’s not really travel…didn’t feel like making a category for it)
1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz (read some)
Prague: Eyewitness Guides (read some)
Munich & The Bavarian Alps: Eyewitness Guides (read some)
Switzerland: Eyewitness Guides (read some)
Paris: Eyewitness Guides (read some)
London: Past and Present
The Royal Castle of Neuschwanstein

Language and Linguistics
Words That Make a Difference and How to Use Them in a Masterly Way by Robert Greenman
Word Histories and Mysteries by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary
Made in America by Bill Bryson
Hola Amigos! (Spanish textbook; read most)
501 Spanish Verbs
Easy Spanish Reader (read some)
The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary
501 French Verbs
Easy French Reader (read some)
French Step by Step by Charles Berlitz (read some)
French-English Dictionary
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning German
Vest Pocket German
Langenscheidt Compact Dictionary German
Berlitz Czech Phrase Book
Teach Yourself Latin Dictionary

Computers
The Dreamweaver 4 Bible
HTML for Dummies
PHP 5 in Easy Steps
Flash MX: Training from the Source