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- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
- Aeon 14
- Anti-Nepotism (The Scipio Alliance)
- Planetary Relocation (Starfire)
- Android Karenina
- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- The Angel of History
- Annals
- "Antagonish"
- The Anti-Christ
- Ars Poetica
- The Ball and the Cross
- The Belgariad
- Empathic Environment
- Master Poisoner (The Malloreon)
- Request for Privacy (Belgarath the Sorcerer)
- Serrated Blade of Pain (King of the Murgos)
- Someday This Will Come in Handy (The Malloreon)
- The Storyteller (The Malloreon: Seeress of Kell)
- Sweeping the Table (Polgara the Sorceress)
- True Blue Femininity
- BIONICLE Chronicles #4: Tales of the Masks
- Bird by Bird
- The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
- The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
- The Boundaries of Art and Social Space in Rome
The Camp Half-Blood Series
- Catullus 85
G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Last Battle
- H. P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book
- Company, Max Barry
- A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
Conan the Barbarian
- The Phoenix on the Sword
- The Scarlet Citadel
- Black Colossus
- Xuthal of the Dusk
- The Vale of Lost Women
- ''The Devil in Iron"
- The Hour of the Dragon
Constance Verity
The Cosmere
- Crush (Richard Siken)
Cthulhu Mythos
- General
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Dreams in the Witch House
- The Return Of The Sorcerer
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth
D to G
- Daily Life in Eighteenth Century England
- Danse Macabre (Stephen King)
- The Dark Angel
The Dark Tower
Dave Barry
- Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
- Dave Barry Slept Here
- Dave Barry Turns 40
- Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
- I'll Mature When I'm Dead
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Rodrick Rules
- Cabin Fever
- Dog Days
- The Diary of Iris Vaughan
- Different Seasons
- Novella note
- Do What You Will
- Down From Ten
- The Dresden Files
- Storm Front (Dresden Files)
- Blood Rites
- Dead Beat
- Proven Guilty
- White Night
- Small Favor
- Turn Coat
- Changes
- Ghost Story
- Cold Days
- Skin Game
- Side Jobs
- A Dry, Quiet War
- Einstein's Monsters
- The Elements of Style
The Elenium
- Domes of Fire
- The Hidden City
- Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats
- Emperor Mollusk Versus The Sinister Brain
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Expanse
- Eyes of the Calculor
- The Eye of the Storm
- First Man In: Leading from the Front
- "Foxfire"
- Fragile Things
- Free Will (and Other Compulsions)
- Ghostweight
- Good Omens
- Anti Anti Christ
- Don't Try This at Home
- Elvis Lives
- Flock of Wolves
- Friendly Enemy
- Good Is Not Dumb
- Heaven Versus Hell
- Hot Consort
- Mystical City Planning
- Old British Money
- Omniscient Morality License
- Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
- Standard '50s Father
- Stark Naked Sorcery
- Tempting Apple
- Weather Dissonance
- Gotrek & Felix
- Spiteful Spit (Dragonslayer)
- "The Grave of the Hundred Head"
H to P
- A History of the American People
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
- Animorphism
- Community-Threatening Construction
- Cool and Unusual Punishment
- Cool, but Stupid
- The Discovery of Fire
- Eek, a Mouse!!
- Encyclopedia Exposita
- Huge Rider, Tiny Mount
- Humiliating Wager
- Narrating the Obvious
- Reality Is Out to Lunch
- Restricted Rescue Operation
- Robot
- Sapient Cetaceans
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
- Space Stories
- Stock Star Systems
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Hocus Pocus
- The Hollywood History of the World
- Ignition
- "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon"
- Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology
- The Invention of Tradition
James Bond
Jeeves and Wooster
- "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy"
- Thank You, Jeeves
- Right Ho, Jeeves
- John Barleycorn
- Just Mercy
The Kingkiller Chronicle
- The Lays of Ancient Rome
- Letters on the English
- Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids
- The Long Rain
- The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
- Lover Eternal
- The Man in the Ceiling
- Mask Market
- Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese
- The Military Experience in the Age of Reason
- The Minpins
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Invisible Streaker (Hollow City)
- Island of Mystery
- Nothing but Skin and Bones (Hollow City)
- Our Homunculi Are Different
- "Moon Moon Moon"
- The Mourning Bride
- Murders That Baffled the Experts
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Airstrip One
- All Nations Are Superpowers
- Attraction to Outliers
- Big Brother Is Watching
- Brainwashed
- Cruelty by Feet
- Doublethink
- Dystopia Justifies the Means
- Internal Retcon
- Malevolent Mugshot
- The Metric System Is Here to Stay
- Motive Misidentification
- My Girl Is a Slut
- No Sex Allowed
- Orwellian Retcon
- Room 101
- Same Surname Means Related
- Secret Police
- Sinister Scraping Sound
- Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
- Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom
- Swarm of Rats
- This Index is a Real Pain
- Thoughtcrime
- Un-person
- No New Baby
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- One Man's Meat
- Thursday Next
- Boring Return Journey (One of Our Thursdays is Missing)
- Orthodoxy
- Oxford Girl
- "Ozymandias"
- Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
- Paradise Lost
- Paradise Regain'd
- The Perpetual Curate
- "The Picture in the House"
- The Psychology of Science
Q to Z
- RCN
- Fantasy Conflict Counterpart (from David Drake's foreword to When the Tide Rises)
- Truce Trickery (The Far Side of the Stars)
- The Rebel
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades
- Evolutionary Pressure Cooker (volume 10)
- Fire Stolen from the Gods (volume 5)
- OvershadowedByAwesome.Literature (volume 1)
- Restrained Revenge (volume 1)
Remembrance of Earth's Past
- The Return of Don Quixote
- "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
- "The Road Not Taken" (Turtledove)
- "Rosso Malpelo"
- Samson Agonistes
- Santa's Secret
- Shampoo Planet
Sherlock Holmes
- A Study in Scarlet
- The Sign of the Four
- A Scandal In Bohemia
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- The Adventure of Silver Blaze
- The Yellow Face
- The Final Problem
- The Adventure of the Empty House
- His Last Bow
- The Three Garridebs
- The Adventure of the Creeping Man
- The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
- Signal To Noise
- "Simplicity"
- The Silver Stallion
Shel Silverstein
- "The Simple Art of Murder"
- Spenser
- Cultured Badass (The Widening Gyre)
- "Spring and Fall"
- The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
- Steal This Book
- The Steel Bonnets
- Elopement
- Tales Of Old Japan
- Tao Te Ching
- Testimony Before an Emergency Session of the Naval Cephalopod Command
- Them, Adventures with Extremists
- Theory Of The Leisure Class
- "The Three-Decker"
- "Tom o' Bedlam"
The Trojan Cycle
- The Tropes of Fantasy Fiction
- Uller Uprising
- The Very Silly Mayor
- Walden
- The War at Troy
War of the Spider Queen
- Condemnation
- Wealth of Words
- We the Living
- Winner Take All
- You Are Happy
- The Young Immigrants