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melymbrosia asked.
I think that for the weird purposes of my brain, books don't exist until they, you know, exist. So no forthcoming books listed, just stuff that's already been printed.
NON-FICTION
J. Adair, The Pilgrim's Way: Shrines and Saints in Britain and Ireland
P. Aries, The Hour of Our Death
K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn, Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society
P. Barber, Vampires, Burial and Death
Elizabeth Benedict, The Joy of Writing Sex
H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers 1475-1557
Carol Bly, The Passion of Accurate Story
Robert Bogden, Freak Show
Stephen Booth, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
Bowditch, New American Practical Navigator
John Carter, ABC for Book Collectors
J. M. Clark The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
R. M. Clay, The Hermits and Anchorites of England and The Medieval Hospitals of England
J. C. Cruz, The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati
A. R. David and E. Tapp (editors), The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigations of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak
D. H. Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
R. C. Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England
William & Elizabeth Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
J. H. G. Gratton and C. Singer, Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine
Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet and Purgatory
D. J. Hall, English Medieval Pilgrimage
Dorothy Hartley, Lost Country Lives, The History of Private Lives
T. J. Heffernan, Sacred Biography: Saints and their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Herman, Trauma & Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
C. Hole, Saints in Folklore
J. Hughes, Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire
David Langford, The Silence of the Langford
M. Mitchiner, Medieval Pilgrim and Secular Badges
Neese and Williams, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Making Book
Dorothy Parker (I want a collection of her reviews and criticism, although so far I haven't been able to find one.)
Pamela Petro, Travels in an Old Tongue
Carol Queen, Exhibitionism for the Shy
S. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
M. Ragon, The Space of Death: A Study of Funerary Architecture, Decoration, and Urbanism
Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars
Michael Seidman, From Printout to Published: A Guide to the Publishing Process
Sex in America: The First Time
The Smithsonian Institute. Objects of Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Displays
Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl
J. Sumption, Pilgrimage
J. H. M. Taylor (ed.), Dias Ille: Death in the Middle Ages
Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
A. Vauchez, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages
K. Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Post-socialist Change
B. Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind
Lyall Watson, Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery
FICTION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC.
Sharon Baker, Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon, Journey to Membliar, and Burning Tears of Sassurum
John Barnes, One for the Morning Glory
Nina Bawden, The Witch's Daughter
Bruce Bethke, Headcrash
Ernest Bramah's Kai-Lung books
Judy Budnitz, Flying Leap
Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford and Earthly Powers
John Dickson Carr, It Walks by Night, Castle Skull, The Lost Gallows, the Mad Hatter Mystery, The Eight of Swords, The Problem of the Green Capsule (A.P.A. The Black Spectacles), The Case of the Constant Suicide, Till Death Do Us Part, The Sleeping Sphinx, The Dead Man's Knock, In Spite of Thunder, Panic in Box C, Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories
Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Sibyl in Her Grave, Thus was Adonis Murdered
C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen
Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop, Buried for Pleasure, Frequent Hearses, The Glimpses of the Moon
Les Daniels, The Black Castle
Avram Davidson, Adventures in Unhistory
Pamela Dean's Secret Country books
Peter Dickinson, Annerton Pit
Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth
Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast
Helen Dunmore, Burning Bright
Jean Ross Ewing, Illusion
Nicholas Fisk, A Rag, A Bone, and A Hank of Hair
John M. Ford, an embarrassingly large number of books (I have The Dragon Waiting and The Last Hot Time; I've read Growing Up Weightless but my copy seems to have mysteriously dematerialized)
Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning
Paul Fussell, The Boy Scout Handbook, Thank God for the Atom Bomb
Alan Garner, Red Shift
Molly Gloss, Outside the Gates
Christopher Golden, Strangewood
Goscinny & Uderzo's Asterix books (all of which I have read, but none of which I own *weeps*)
Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child
Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave
Herge's Tintin books (see Goscinny & Uderzo above)
Georgette Heyer, The Black Moth, Black Sheep ('cause I have these little completist twitches sometimes)
M. R. James, A Pleasing Terror (complete M. R. James, put out by Ash-Tree Press. WANT.)
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman
Diana Wynne Jones, Wilkins' Tooth (publ. in USA as Witch's Business), The Skiver's Guide, Changeover, Puss in boots, Wild Robert, Yes, Dear
Gwyneth Jones, White Queen
Gerald Kersh, Men Without Bones
Laura Kinsale, My Sweet Folly
Russell Kirk, The Princess of All Lands
Nigel Kneale, Tomato Caine
Ronald A. Knox, The Footsteps at the Lock
William Kotzwinkle, Dr. Rat
Jane Langton, The Diamond in the Window
Emma Lathen, Come to Dust, Murder against the Grain, When in Greece, (as R. B. Dominic) Murder Sunny Side Up, Murder in High Places, There Is No Justice (A.P.A. Murder Out of Court), Unexpected Developments (A.P.A. A Flaw in the System), Epitaph for a Lobbyist, Murder out of Commission, The Attending Physician
Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio, The Cold Heart of Capricorn, Aquarius Descending, Pisces Rising
Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales of Earthsea, The Other Wind
Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness
David Lodge, Trading Places
John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee mysteries
Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die, The Ivory Grin, Find a Victim, The Barbarous Coast, The Doomsters, The Instant Enemy, The Blue Hammer, The Name is Archer
Margaret Mahy, the books I don't have (i.e., everything except The Changeover, The Catalogue of the Universe, Memory)
William Mayne, Cuddy, Low Tide
Dave McKean, Cages
Naomi Mitchison, To the Chapel Perilous
Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Promethea
Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins
Roger Norman, Albion's Dream
Anthony Price book whichpapersky recommended to me in Minneapolis and the title of which I foolishly forgot to note down
Ellery Queen, The Spanish Cape Mystery, Halfway House, The Dragon's Teeth, The Finishing Stroke, The Fourth Side of the Triangle, A Study in Terror, The House of Brass
Paul Russell, Sea of Tranquility
Geoff Ryman, Lust
Sarah Schulman, People in Trouble
Bob Shaw, Night Walk
Sean Stewart, The Night Watch
Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, The Rubber Band, The Red Box, Too Many Cooks, Over My Dead Body, Where There's a Will, Black Orchids, Not Quite Dead Enough, And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, Trouble in Triplicate, In the Best Families, Three Doors to Death, Curtains for Three, Murder by the Book, Triple Jeopardy, Prisoner's Base, Three Men Out, Might As Well Be Dead, Three for the Chair, And Four to Go, Plot It Yourself, Three at Wolfe's Door, The Final Deduction, Homicide Trinity, The Mother Hunt, A Right to Die, Trio for Blunt Instruments, The Doorbell Rang, The Father Hunt, Death of a Dude
Theodore Sturgeon, Caviar, The Dreaming Jewels, Some of Your Blood
Somtow Sucharitkul, Starship, Haiku
Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Bones of the Earth
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Lucy Taylor, The Safety of Unknown Cities
Paul Theroux, The Black House
Cecelia Tishy, Jealous Heart, Cryin' Game, Fall to Pieces
Thomas Tryon, The Other
Jill Tweedie, Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist
Jack Vance (and, um, recommendations for where to start would be gratefully received)
Virgil, the Loeb with Aeneid 6-12 (I adore the Loebs, but I also despise and revile them for their habit of chopping up longer words between two books, because, you know, those little teeny red books, they ain't cheap)
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin, Mr. Fortune's Maggot
Colin Watson's Flaxborough books
Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery and Cecelia
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October
POETRY
(This is just going to be a list of authors, because for many of them I haven't hunted out specific titles; some of these are poets I already own books by, and some of them aren't.)
William Carpenter
Fred Chappell
Babette Deutsch
William Dickey
Patricia Dobler
Susan Donnelly
Rita Dove
Alan Dugan
Stephen Dunn
Jane Flanders
Robert Frost
Alice Fulton
George Garrett
Sandra Gilbert
Elton Glaser
Patricia Hampl
Michael S. Harper
William Hathaway
Linda Hogan
Jonathan Holden
David Ignatow
X. J. Kennedy
David Kirby
Ronald Koertge
Jeanne Larsen
Sydney Lea
Adam LeFevre
Larry Levis
Philip Larkin
Philip Lopate
Susan Ludvigson
Charles Martin
Dan Masterton
Walter McDonald
Sandra McPherson
Peter Meinke
Lisel Mueller
Sharon Olds
Alicia Ostriker
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Plumly
Wyatt Prunty
Pattiann Rogers
Gibbons Ruark
Vern Rutsala
Harvey Shapiro
Richard Shelton
Peggy Shumaker
Cathy Song
Elizabeth Spires
Maura Stanton
David St. John
James Tate
Leslie Ullman
Constance Urdang
Michael Van Walleghen
David Wagoner
David Wojahn
Robert Wrigley
Paul Zimmer
melymbrosia asked.I think that for the weird purposes of my brain, books don't exist until they, you know, exist. So no forthcoming books listed, just stuff that's already been printed.
NON-FICTION
J. Adair, The Pilgrim's Way: Shrines and Saints in Britain and Ireland
P. Aries, The Hour of Our Death
K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn, Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society
P. Barber, Vampires, Burial and Death
Elizabeth Benedict, The Joy of Writing Sex
H. S. Bennett, English Books and Readers 1475-1557
Carol Bly, The Passion of Accurate Story
Robert Bogden, Freak Show
Stephen Booth, King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition, and Tragedy
Bowditch, New American Practical Navigator
John Carter, ABC for Book Collectors
J. M. Clark The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
R. M. Clay, The Hermits and Anchorites of England and The Medieval Hospitals of England
J. C. Cruz, The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of the Bodies of Various Catholic Saints and Beati
A. R. David and E. Tapp (editors), The Mummy's Tale: The Scientific and Medical Investigations of Natsef-Amun, Priest in the Temple at Karnak
D. H. Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
R. C. Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England
William & Elizabeth Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined
J. H. G. Gratton and C. Singer, Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine
Stephen Greenblatt, Hamlet and Purgatory
D. J. Hall, English Medieval Pilgrimage
Dorothy Hartley, Lost Country Lives, The History of Private Lives
T. J. Heffernan, Sacred Biography: Saints and their Biographers in the Middle Ages
Herman, Trauma & Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
C. Hole, Saints in Folklore
J. Hughes, Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire
David Langford, The Silence of the Langford
M. Mitchiner, Medieval Pilgrim and Secular Badges
Neese and Williams, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Making Book
Dorothy Parker (I want a collection of her reviews and criticism, although so far I haven't been able to find one.)
Pamela Petro, Travels in an Old Tongue
Carol Queen, Exhibitionism for the Shy
S. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
M. Ragon, The Space of Death: A Study of Funerary Architecture, Decoration, and Urbanism
Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars
Michael Seidman, From Printout to Published: A Guide to the Publishing Process
Sex in America: The First Time
The Smithsonian Institute. Objects of Ethnography: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Displays
Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl
J. Sumption, Pilgrimage
J. H. M. Taylor (ed.), Dias Ille: Death in the Middle Ages
Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
A. Vauchez, Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages
K. Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Post-socialist Change
B. Ward, Miracles and the Medieval Mind
Lyall Watson, Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery
FICTION, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC.
Sharon Baker, Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon, Journey to Membliar, and Burning Tears of Sassurum
John Barnes, One for the Morning Glory
Nina Bawden, The Witch's Daughter
Bruce Bethke, Headcrash
Ernest Bramah's Kai-Lung books
Judy Budnitz, Flying Leap
Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford and Earthly Powers
John Dickson Carr, It Walks by Night, Castle Skull, The Lost Gallows, the Mad Hatter Mystery, The Eight of Swords, The Problem of the Green Capsule (A.P.A. The Black Spectacles), The Case of the Constant Suicide, Till Death Do Us Part, The Sleeping Sphinx, The Dead Man's Knock, In Spite of Thunder, Panic in Box C, Dr. Fell, Detective, and Other Stories
Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Sibyl in Her Grave, Thus was Adonis Murdered
C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen
Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop, Buried for Pleasure, Frequent Hearses, The Glimpses of the Moon
Les Daniels, The Black Castle
Avram Davidson, Adventures in Unhistory
Pamela Dean's Secret Country books
Peter Dickinson, Annerton Pit
Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth
Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast
Helen Dunmore, Burning Bright
Jean Ross Ewing, Illusion
Nicholas Fisk, A Rag, A Bone, and A Hank of Hair
John M. Ford, an embarrassingly large number of books (I have The Dragon Waiting and The Last Hot Time; I've read Growing Up Weightless but my copy seems to have mysteriously dematerialized)
Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning
Paul Fussell, The Boy Scout Handbook, Thank God for the Atom Bomb
Alan Garner, Red Shift
Molly Gloss, Outside the Gates
Christopher Golden, Strangewood
Goscinny & Uderzo's Asterix books (all of which I have read, but none of which I own *weeps*)
Hiromi Goto, The Kappa Child
Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave
Herge's Tintin books (see Goscinny & Uderzo above)
Georgette Heyer, The Black Moth, Black Sheep ('cause I have these little completist twitches sometimes)
M. R. James, A Pleasing Terror (complete M. R. James, put out by Ash-Tree Press. WANT.)
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman
Diana Wynne Jones, Wilkins' Tooth (publ. in USA as Witch's Business), The Skiver's Guide, Changeover, Puss in boots, Wild Robert, Yes, Dear
Gwyneth Jones, White Queen
Gerald Kersh, Men Without Bones
Laura Kinsale, My Sweet Folly
Russell Kirk, The Princess of All Lands
Nigel Kneale, Tomato Caine
Ronald A. Knox, The Footsteps at the Lock
William Kotzwinkle, Dr. Rat
Jane Langton, The Diamond in the Window
Emma Lathen, Come to Dust, Murder against the Grain, When in Greece, (as R. B. Dominic) Murder Sunny Side Up, Murder in High Places, There Is No Justice (A.P.A. Murder Out of Court), Unexpected Developments (A.P.A. A Flaw in the System), Epitaph for a Lobbyist, Murder out of Commission, The Attending Physician
Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio, The Cold Heart of Capricorn, Aquarius Descending, Pisces Rising
Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales of Earthsea, The Other Wind
Fritz Leiber, Our Lady of Darkness
David Lodge, Trading Places
John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee mysteries
Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die, The Ivory Grin, Find a Victim, The Barbarous Coast, The Doomsters, The Instant Enemy, The Blue Hammer, The Name is Archer
Margaret Mahy, the books I don't have (i.e., everything except The Changeover, The Catalogue of the Universe, Memory)
William Mayne, Cuddy, Low Tide
Dave McKean, Cages
Naomi Mitchison, To the Chapel Perilous
Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, Promethea
Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins
Roger Norman, Albion's Dream
Anthony Price book which
papersky recommended to me in Minneapolis and the title of which I foolishly forgot to note downEllery Queen, The Spanish Cape Mystery, Halfway House, The Dragon's Teeth, The Finishing Stroke, The Fourth Side of the Triangle, A Study in Terror, The House of Brass
Paul Russell, Sea of Tranquility
Geoff Ryman, Lust
Sarah Schulman, People in Trouble
Bob Shaw, Night Walk
Sean Stewart, The Night Watch
Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, The Rubber Band, The Red Box, Too Many Cooks, Over My Dead Body, Where There's a Will, Black Orchids, Not Quite Dead Enough, And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, Trouble in Triplicate, In the Best Families, Three Doors to Death, Curtains for Three, Murder by the Book, Triple Jeopardy, Prisoner's Base, Three Men Out, Might As Well Be Dead, Three for the Chair, And Four to Go, Plot It Yourself, Three at Wolfe's Door, The Final Deduction, Homicide Trinity, The Mother Hunt, A Right to Die, Trio for Blunt Instruments, The Doorbell Rang, The Father Hunt, Death of a Dude
Theodore Sturgeon, Caviar, The Dreaming Jewels, Some of Your Blood
Somtow Sucharitkul, Starship, Haiku
Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Bones of the Earth
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Lucy Taylor, The Safety of Unknown Cities
Paul Theroux, The Black House
Cecelia Tishy, Jealous Heart, Cryin' Game, Fall to Pieces
Thomas Tryon, The Other
Jill Tweedie, Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist
Jack Vance (and, um, recommendations for where to start would be gratefully received)
Virgil, the Loeb with Aeneid 6-12 (I adore the Loebs, but I also despise and revile them for their habit of chopping up longer words between two books, because, you know, those little teeny red books, they ain't cheap)
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin, Mr. Fortune's Maggot
Colin Watson's Flaxborough books
Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, Sorcery and Cecelia
John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October
POETRY
(This is just going to be a list of authors, because for many of them I haven't hunted out specific titles; some of these are poets I already own books by, and some of them aren't.)
William Carpenter
Fred Chappell
Babette Deutsch
William Dickey
Patricia Dobler
Susan Donnelly
Rita Dove
Alan Dugan
Stephen Dunn
Jane Flanders
Robert Frost
Alice Fulton
George Garrett
Sandra Gilbert
Elton Glaser
Patricia Hampl
Michael S. Harper
William Hathaway
Linda Hogan
Jonathan Holden
David Ignatow
X. J. Kennedy
David Kirby
Ronald Koertge
Jeanne Larsen
Sydney Lea
Adam LeFevre
Larry Levis
Philip Larkin
Philip Lopate
Susan Ludvigson
Charles Martin
Dan Masterton
Walter McDonald
Sandra McPherson
Peter Meinke
Lisel Mueller
Sharon Olds
Alicia Ostriker
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Plumly
Wyatt Prunty
Pattiann Rogers
Gibbons Ruark
Vern Rutsala
Harvey Shapiro
Richard Shelton
Peggy Shumaker
Cathy Song
Elizabeth Spires
Maura Stanton
David St. John
James Tate
Leslie Ullman
Constance Urdang
Michael Van Walleghen
David Wagoner
David Wojahn
Robert Wrigley
Paul Zimmer
