Great Old TV Episodes...from Fawlty Towers

WALDORF SALAD, from 1979, is from the British sitcom Fawlty Towers, a short series that split its twelve total episodes between two seasons in 1975 and '79.   It's about an small town/countryside English inn owned and run by the married couple Basil and Sybil Fawlty, played by Monty Python star John Cleese and Prunella Scales.  Basil is a self-important, arrogant man who acts as if those around him...including the hotel's guests...are beneath his station in life.  Like other great comedic characters (the Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden comes to mind) he is always looking to game the system, usually with disastrous results.  Sybil for her part does little actual work in maintaining the place and is usually seen reading or chatting with others...when she isn't bluntly standing in the way of her husband's chronic foolishness. The rest of the core cast consists of Polly, a competent young waitress and Juan, an all-around worker there from Spain who barely understands English.  The episode I'm discussing today is my favorite of the series.  It's nine at night as the inn's dining section is closing down seating people and Basil, Polly and Juan are frantically running around serving customers while Sybil just stands there talking to a guest.  The orders are late and botched, while Basil makes a show of his general contempt toward both guests and colleagues.  Into the hotel walks a new couple, a tough-talking American and his English wife, and they expect to be fed even though the diner has just closed.  The man slips Basil some money to pay his chef to stay overtime to cook for them, but Basil secretly pockets it and sends his employee home instead.  The rest of the episode is about Basil's subterfuge of pretending the chef's still out in the kitchen while he finds himself clueless about preparing the couple's orders...including their drinks (Screwdrivers) and, of course, a Waldorf salad.  The American, played by Bruce Boa, gets more and more antagonistic with Basil, and their interaction should go down in history as one of the funniest ever in television.  And the episode's ending, with Basil proudly invoking British patriotism against his American adversary, is unforgettable...

Just Finished Reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

One of the things I like about the trivia game show Jeopardy! is that it sometimes gives me reading suggestions...children's book author Roald Dahl was a recent category that sent me in his direction.  But I had no similar expectation with the show preceding it, Wheel of Fortune, until the other night when the solution turned out to be "Flat Stanley"...making me scratch my head in puzzlement, although everyone in the studio seemed to know of this book, also for children.  So I looked it up and yes, Flat Stanley is not only a famous book first published by Jeff Brown in 1964, but years later he turned it into a series of books based on the Lambchop family, headlined of course by Stanley himself.  It starts out one morning when Stanley's brother Arthur goes into his room and discovers a big bulletin board has fallen off the wall and flattened him.  Stanley feels fine, but he's now thin enough to slide under a door, through a drainage grate, into an envelope...or even serve as a pretty awesome kite.  The story's premise is of course ridiculous, but like the more serious story Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the absurdity of Stanley's condition is dwarfed by that of how the people around him react to it.  I checked it out of my library using the Libby service to download it onto my Kindle...it took just a few minutes to read.  The reading level reminded me of books I'd read around the first or second grade...makes me wonder whether I might have come across it way back when it first came out and just forgot I had read it.  In any event I got a big kick out of it, although I'm not sure I'll read any of its sequels...and that maybe the author ripped off that scene at the end of the Disney movie Pinocchio when Jiminy Cricket mails himself to a prime vacation spot...

Quote of the Week...from Mark Mellman

A future president need only consider whether he has 35 partisan defenders in the Senate to embark on whatever course he or she deems fit, regardless of its democratic propriety.     ---Mark Mellman

The above quote by Mark Mellman, head of the Mellman Group...a business and political consulting organization, appeared in The Hill recently and made it to my computer's MSN newsfeed.  It directly refers to last month's Senate impeachment vote about former president Donald Trump and the fact that 43 of the 50 seated Republicans from his own party voted for acquittal, despite the enormous amount of evidence pointing to conviction and that the senators themselves were directly threatened by the January 6th invasion of the Capitol building...where they were convened to count and confirmed the electoral college votes for the 2020 presidential election...by fascist thugs spurred on by Trump's encouragement.  I think he should have been convicted, but sadly a large swath of the American population seems to be under his spell, having made him into an idol and believing and acting on every lying word coming from his mouth.  And since they have the numbers within the Republican party to "primary" any sitting politician of theirs out of office with a candidate more to their cult leader's liking, senators and representatives...within some remarkable exceptions...are too scared to openly defy Herr Trump in anything.  The situation is so extreme that Republican caucuses of different state legislatures are routinely holding censure votes against national legislators voting against their fascist supreme leader.  So I get what Mellman is saying here.  But as I like to say about politics, what goes around comes around.  And the "flaw" in our system that allows only 34 senators to protect a president who has seriously abused his or her office against our Constitution also protects a sitting, possibly controversial president who has done nothing wrong but has a vengeful opposition party with a majority in Congress.  The Republicans while Obama was president were adept at turning anything hinting of controversy into a scandal requiring extensive hearings and the fascist-leaning talk radio and TV hosts have been there to whip up the loyal extremist sector of the population into pressuring them to take the most punitive actions possible.  So if you're a Democrat and wish impeachment convictions were attainable with only a majority Senate vote instead of the two-thirds as the U.S. Constitution mandates, think again and thank your lucky stars that it is this difficult... 

Just Finished Reading The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven

When I read Ringworld, the first book in science fiction writer Larry Niven's self-titled series a few days ago, I thought that he had a very innovative idea with a fully habitable, massive constructed ring with familiar surface features like oceans, forests, deserts, mountains, and plains going around a Sol-like star at about the location of Earth's orbit: the possibilities were indeed intriguing.  Add to that his presentation of the interesting main characters Louis Wu, Speaker-to-Animals, Teela...and the most interesting, the bizarre-looking puppeteer creature Nessus, and you had the makings of an unforgettable reading adventure.  But as I wrote in my review of it, Niven allowed himself to get bogged down in the technicalities of his created scenario, making reading through much of the text awfully tedious.  In his 1978 follow-up book, The Ringworld Engineers...which I just finished reading...the author gets even worse in this regard as he tries to rectify "errors" concerning Ringworld's orbital stability from the first book that were brought out by some university geek students with apparently nothing better to do than to nitpick about the "science" in already clearly outlandish fiction.  Besides the overbearing technical mumbo jumbo throughout this second book, the characters were dispersed and less effective: no Teela until the very end, Louis Wu and Chmeee (the cat-like kzin formerly known as Speaker-to-Animals) are split apart for much of the novel, as well as Nessus' replacement puppeteer Hindmost, who had kidnapped Wu and Chmeee to discover for his race what he believed to be the secret of transmutation hidden somewhere on Ringworld.  Wu has a different agenda, which is to prevent the unstable Ringworld from going into its sun...to accomplish this he is on a quest to find the ring's repair center, where its original builders, the Pak Protectors, may have provided the answer of how to replenish its stabilizing rockets (which a later race had cannibalized for their own spaceship parts).  One aspect of the story I did find intriguing was that the Ringworld's designers had imprinted true scale-sized "maps' of various worlds on it, including those of Earth, Mars, and the kzin's home planet.  Overall, though, I was greatly disappointed in this sequel and don't yet know whether I'll ever be ready to go to the next volume in this series...

Weekly Short Stories: 1968 Science Fiction, Part 3

During this problematic year of 1968, during which the following five stories I'm reviewing below from the anthology World's Best Science Fiction 1969 were first published, I developed the hobby of DXing, in which I pulled in distant stations on my cheap Juliette-model table radio.  Listening for hours to frequencies full of static and competing stations were a regular part of my 11-12 year old nights...probably didn't help me the next day at school as I often underslept (and missed homework assignments): oh well, the foolishness of youth.  Now, from my convenient vantage point in 2021 I see the quality of fiction going on in this period and I wish in hindsight that reading would instead have taken a stronger hold on me back then...

THIS GRAND CARCASS by R.A. Lafferty

I've seen this kind of premise for a story before: at the beginning a weary individual unloads what looks like a tremendous bargain to somebody they he may possibly bear a grudge against.  Then as the narrative progresses it becomes clear that the item in question is more of a curse than a blessing.  In This Grand Carcass it's a special machine that thoroughly manages its owner's finances and other machines, and it performs this task so admirably that it looks like he is soon the richest and most powerful man in the solar system.  Only one problem: the owner is getting sick and very weak: what's causing that? The ending points to another type of story...

A VISIT TO CLEVELAND GENERAL by Sydney Van Scyoc

Possibly the most cynical story I've ever read about chaos, corruption and cover-up in the hospital system, a reporter in the future...continually reminded to take his "memory" pills after recovering from a traumatic, near-fatal accident, fills in for the title hospital's regular beat reporter, himself recovering from a health setback.  If you've ever seen the movie Coma, then you pretty much have a sense as to where this story is going.  It's an exposé on how an institution, with the means to effectively cover up its mistakes and excesses, can turn on the very society and people it is meant to serve.  Scary...

THE SELCHEY KIDS by Laurence Yep

Sometime apocalypse scenarios aren't planetwide...sometimes they only hit a locality, as in this tale of the future when western California one day suddenly slides into the Pacific Ocean, taking the family of the protagonist, a young man associated with a marine research organization.  After a period of grief he returns to the area and goes back to work for the marine scientist from his past...along with a pretty telepathic girl and two dolphins: to their boss Professor Selchey they are all the "Selchey Kids".  One day he gets a special assignment: go with his crew to the now-submerged Institute where in a watertight vault lies his late father's papers on important research: what he discovers opens his eyes much more than he would have liked about his own origins...

THE DANCE OF THE CHANGER AND THE THREE by Terry Carr

This story discusses the possibility of intelligent life whose forms are so physically and chemically different from our own that their very values concerning life and communications with others becomes suspect.  Sentient, essentially immortal colorful energy wave forms thrive on a far distant planet much too hostile for human habitation.  But a certain resource is discovered for mining there, and Earth sends a party to establish a mine and relations with this resident life.  The story's title refers to that alien society's tradition going back eons where a "dance" between a "suicidal" entity and its three "friends" takes on a significance incomprehensible to human minds.  And then the values of this society become tragically known to the mining colony... 

SWORD GAME by H.H. Hollis

If you like mathematics, particularly the subject of topology, this brief tale is for you.  A burned out math professor is about to resign in frustration, and then notices a bohemian young female student with whom he starts up a relationship.  They start their own traveling magic sword show, based on a tesseract, a cube with a cube on each face, that plays around with time.  It's a circular story that paradoxically ends at the end of the universe due to the intervention of another topological device, a mobius strip.  Pretty intriguing, but I'm glad the callous professor gets his comeuppance even if he does outlive everybody...and I mean everybody...

Next week I conclude my look back at the year 1968 in short science fiction...

Game of the Week: Hanabi

Although its name is Japanese, meaning "fireworks", Hanabi is the creation of a Frenchman in 2010. It is either a card or tile game, depending on which version you possess, that is themed upon the cooperation among its players, which can number from 2 to 5.  Melissa introduced it to me as during her lunch breaks at work some of her colleagues have played it with her.  The cards (or tiles), each of which depicts a specified number of fireworks from 1 to 5 in one of five different colors, are shuffled and then dealt out with each player holding five of them...but facing outward so that no player can view their own hand.  Then, when it is a player's turn they can either inform one of the others about the nature of their hand or play one of their own cards to build each color of fireworks, starting from those with numbers 1 progressively onward to 5.  The object is, through cooperation and intelligent questioning among the participants, to successfully complete all five colors of fireworks 1-5.  It's a fun game in our household...you should try it for yourself if you're into board or card games.  The above photo is of a tile version of Hanabi in progress with two players, namely Melissa and me...

List of Books I've Read & Discussed on This Blog

Brace yourself, the list is long!  To read the corresponding article, go into the blog's archives to get to the indicated date, or copy and paste the title into the web version's search engine window on the upper left corner.  The listings are by author, title, and date of my review article...I  plan to update the list for future readings.  An asterisk next to the date indicates a rereading (or more depending on how many asterisks).  Missing are all those books I read before I began reviewing them on this blog...maybe at a future date I'll make a list of them as well...

Abercrombie, Joe             THE BLADE ITSELF            9-1-18

Abercrombie, Joe             BEFORE THEY ARE HANGED         9-22-18

Abercrombie, Joe             THE LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS 12-20-18

Abraham, Daniel               THE DRAGON’S PATH     10-30-14

Abraham, Daniel               THE KING’S BLOOD          2-7-15

Abraham, Daniel               THE TYRANT’S LAW         3-7-15

Abraham, Daniel               THE WIDOW’S HOUSE    3-27-15

Abraham, Daniel               THE SPIDER’S WAR          4-23-16

Abrahams, Peter              BULLET POINT    6-4-19

Acuff, Jon                        FINISH                   6-11-21

Acuff, Jon                        START                    6-24-21

Acuff, Jon                        DO OVER              7-3-21

Adams, Richard                 WATERSHIP DOWN         2-19-18

Alcott, Louisa May           LITTLE WOMEN                 6-4-17

Alexie, Sherman               THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN   1-12-19

Asimov, Isaac                     THE STARS, LIKE DUST    1-28-14

Asimov, Isaac                     PEBBLE IN THE SKY          2-3-14

Asimov, Isaac                     FOUNDATION                   8-19-15*

Asimov, Isaac                     FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE   8-29-15*

Asimov, Isaac                     SECOND FOUNDATION  9-11-15*

Asimov, Isaac                     PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION         9-19-15

Asimov, Isaac                     FOUNDATION’S EDGE    10-5—15*

Asimov, Isaac                     FOUNDATION AND EARTH           10-18-15*

Asimov, Isaac                     NEMESIS               1-7-18

Asimov, Isaac                     THE END OF ETERNITY    7-2-19

Asimov, Isaac                     FORWARD THE FOUNDATION     7-18-19

Asimov, Isaac                     THE GODS THEMSELVES                5-23-20

Austen, Jane                      PRIDE AND PREJUDICE   12-6-14

Austen, Jane                      EMMA                                  6-25-16

Baldacci, David                  DIVINE JUSTICE                 12-27-13

Baldacci, David                  THE COLLECTORS             1-11-14

Baldacci, David                  ONE SUMMER   6-4-18

Baldacci, David                  DELIVER US FROM EVIL 8-4-18

Baldwin, James                  IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK     5-20-21

Bardugo, Leigh                  NINTH HOUSE    12-14-19

Barry, Kevin                        BEATLEBONE      1-11-19

Baum, L. Frank                   THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ              10-8-18

Baum, L. Frank                   THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ    1-18-19

Baum, L. Frank                   OZMA OF OZ      2-11-19

Baum, L. Frank                   DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ           2-11-19

Baum, L. Frank                   THE ROAD TO OZ              3-12-19

Baum, L. Frank                   THE EMERALD CITY OF OZ             3-12-19

Beaton, M.C.                      DEATH OF A BORE            1-19-14

Bellow, Saul                        HERZOG                               10-16-15

Bellow, Saul                        THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH       8-12-17

Bellow, Saul                        HUMBOLDT’S GIFT          8-28-17

Berendt, John                    MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL 2-26-19

Berg, Elizabeth                  TAPESTRY OF FORTUNES               5-22-17

Blish, James                        VOR       8-7-17

Boehner, John                    ON THE HOUSE            6-14-21

Bowman, Akemi Dawn        SUMMER BIRD BLUE        4-24-21

Bradbury, Ray                    FAREWELL SUMMER       11-16-14

Bronte, Charlotte             JANE EYRE                           9-24-16

Bronte, Emily                     WUTHERING HEIGHTS    11-19-14

Brooks, Terry                     THE SWORD OF SHANNARA 12-18-18

Brooks, Terry                     THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA 1-3-19

Brooks, Terry                     THE WISHSONG OF SHANNARA 1-19-19

Brown, Eleanor                 THE LIGHT OF PARIS        3-10-18

Brown, Jeff                        FLAT STANLEY                2-27-21

Buck, Pearl S.                     THE GOOD EARTH            4-4-15

Butcher, Jim                       FURIES OF CALDERON                    1-7-20

Butcher, Jim                       ACADEM’S FURY               1-21-20

Butcher, Jim                       CURSOR’S FURY                2-6-20

Butcher, Jim                       CAPTAIN’S FURY               3-1-20

Butcher, Jim                       THE PRINCEP’S FURY                       3-28-20

Butcher, Jim                       FIRST LORD’S FURY                          4-16-20

Card, Orson Scott             ENDER’S GAME                 8-20-16

Carr, Caleb                        THE ALIENIST                    6-21-21

Cather, Willa                      MY ANTONIA                     8-27-18

Cervantes, Miguel de     DON QUIXOTE                   2-29-16

Chesterton, G.K.               THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY: A NIGHTMARE                7-23-18

Chilton, Ski                          THE REWIRED BRAIN                       9-15-20

Christie, Agatha                DEATH IN THE CLOUDS            6-23-18

Christie, Agatha                SAD CYPRESS      4-25-19

Christie, Agatha                MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS           7-30-19

Christie, Agatha                THE SECRET ADVERSARY               8-6-19

Christie, Agatha                MURDER ON THE LINKS                 8-20-19

Christie, Agatha                THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN            9-28-19

Christie, Agatha                THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS        3-15-21

Christie, Agatha                AND THEN THERE WERE NONE        6-7--21

Clare, Cassandra               CITY OF BONES 4-13-19

Clare, Cassandra               CITY OF ASHES   4-22-19

Clare, Cassandra               CITY OF GLASS   5-6-19

Clark, Mary Higgins          NIGHTTIME IS MY TIME 3-26-08

Clark, Mary Higgins          A CRY IN THE NIGHT        1-6-19

Clark, Mary Higgins          THE MELODY LINGERS ON            2-13-21

Clark, Mary Higgins            JUST TAKE MY HEART        7-5-21

Clarke, Arthur C. & Pohl, Frederick            THE LAST THEOREM        12-26-15

Clarke, Suzanna                 JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL               5-11-15

Coelho, Paulo                    THE ALCHEMIST                5-7-21

Colfer, Eoin                         ARTEMIS FOWL (1^st 3 books)       2-12-18*

Collins, Suzanne               THE HUNGER GAMES     5-27-14

Collins, Suzanne               CATCHING FIRE                 6-24-14

Collins, Suzanne               MOCKINGJAY                    7-3-14

Collins, Suzanne                THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES             11-8-20

Collins, Suzanne                GREGOR THE OVERLANDER          11-21-20

Collins, Suzanne                GREGOR AND THE PROPHECY OF BANE   12-15-20

Collins, Suzanne                GREGOR AND THE CURSE OF THE WARMBLOODS               2-12-21

Collins, Suzanne                GREGOR AND THE MARKS OF SECRET       3-13-21                             

Collins, Suzanne                GREGOR AND THE CODE OF CLAW        3-22-21

Collins, Wilkie                    THE WOMAN IN WHITE 12-18-16

Condie, Ally                        ATLANTIA            4-10-17

Connelly, Michael            THE LINCOLN LAWYER    1-24-14

Conrad, Joseph                 HEART OF DARKNESS     3-5-15

Cook, Robin                        PANDEMIC                                          4-21-20

Cornwell, Patricia             AT RISK                                 5-9-14

Coulter, Catherine           THE COVE                            9-12-14

Coulter, Catherine           THE MAZE                           9-12-14

Craig, Erin A.                      HOUSE OF SALT AND SORROWS 11-1-20

Crichton, Michael             STATE OF FEAR                  3-22-09

Dahl, Roald                         CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY               9-5-20

Dahl, Roald                         JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH   9-12-20

Dahl, Roald                         THE BFG                                               9-20-20

Dahl, Roald                         DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD               10-12-20

Dahl, Roald                         MATILDA                                             11-10-20

Dahl, Roald                        THE WITCHES                7-19-21

Dashner, James                 THE MAZE RUNNER 12-3-17

Dashner, James                 THE SCORCH TRIALS        1-20-18

Dashner, James                 THE DEATH CURE             1-20-18

Davis, Lindsey                    THE SILVER PIGS                               8-10-20

DeStefano, Lauren          WITHER                6-27-17

Dick, Philip K.                     UBIK                                                      10-24-20

Dick, Philip K.                     MARTIAN TIME-SLIP                       11-19-20

Dick, Philip K.                     SOLAR LOTTERY                                12-13-20

Dick, Philip K.                     VOICES FROM THE STREET            11-15-09

Dick, Philip K.                     THE COSMIC PUPPETS                    12-17-09

Dick, Philip K.                     THE WORLD JONES MADE            12-1-09

Dick, Philip K.                     PUTTERING ABOUT IN A SMALL LAND      1-2-10

Dick, Philip K.                     TIME OUT OF JOINT                         12-10-09

Dick, Philip K.                     IN MILTON LUMPKY TERRITORY 11-25-09

Dick, Philip K.                     HUMPTY DUMPTY IN OAKLAND 10-25-09

Dick, Philip K.                     THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE   1-16-10

Dick, Philip K.                     THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH       2-10-10

Dick, Philip K.                     FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID                 10-30-09

Dickens, Charles               GREAT EXPECTATIONS   1-9-14

Dickens, Charles               BARNABY RUDGE             2-1-17

Dickens, Charles               OLIVER TWIST    6-16-18

Doerr, Anthony                 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE                 9-21-19

Donoghue, Emma            ROOM                   2-4-20

Dostoevsky, Fyodor        CRIME AND PUNISHMENT           6-5-14

Dostoevsky, Fyodor        THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV      9-6-14

Dostoevsky, Fyodor        THE IDIOT                            5-9-15

Dumas, Alexandre           THE BLACK TULIP              7-2-18

Dumas, Alexandre             THE THREE MUSKETEERS 10-15-18

Eco, Umberto                    THE PRAGUE CEMETARY               12-17-17

Eliot, George                      MIDDLEMARCH                 8-25-18

Erskine Kathryn                 THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF MIKE 4-28-18

Evanovich, Jan                   ONE FOR THE MONEY    4-5-17

Evanovich, Janet               TWO FOR THE DOUGH   7-8-17

Evanovich, Janet               THREE TO GET DEADLY   7-8-17

Evanovich, Janet               FOUR TO SCORE                7-15-17

Faulkner, William              AS I LAY DYING                  10-9-14

Faulkner, William             INTRUDER IN THE DUST 2-24-18

Faulkner, William             LIGHT IN AUGUST                            8-4-20

Faulkner, William            THE SOUND AND THE FURY        3-8-21

Federle, Tim                       THE GREAT AMERICAN WHATEVEVER     4-2-18

Fitzgerald, F. Scott           THE GREAT GATSBY         5-26-15*

Fitzgerald, F. Scott           THIS SIDE OF PARADISE   3-30-19

Fleming, Ian                        CASINO ROYALE                7-4-19

Follett, Ken                         CODE TO ZERO                  10-1-14

Follett, Ken                         FALL OF GIANTS                                12-8-20

Forsyth, Frederick            THE COBRA         8-19-17

Francis, Felix                      GAMBLE              5-14-17

French, Tana                      IN THE WOODS 12-1-19

Gabaldon, Diana               OUTLANDER                       4-7-19

Gaiman, Neil                      NEVERWHERE                    6-27-15

Gaiman, Neil                      THE OCEAN AT THE END 5-20-16

Gaiman, Neil                      AMERICAN GODS             6-6-16

Gaiman, Neil                      STARDUST                           6-14-16

Gaiman, Neil                      CORALINE                           6-16-16

Gaiman, Neil                      ODD AND THE FROST GIANTS     1-30-21

Gaiman, Neil                      NORSE MYTHOLOGY                       2-11-21

Gaiman, Neil & Pratchett, Terry    GOOD OMENS   8-4-15

Gaiman, Neil & Reaves, Michael & Mallory        THE INTERWORLD TRILOGY          5-22-16

Gaiman, Neil                     THE GRAVEYARD BOOK 12-10-18

Garber, Stephanie              CARAVAL             3-18-18

Gardner, Erle Stanley        THE CASE OF THE FABULOUS FAKE    6-19-21

Gladwell, Malcolm            THE TIPPING POINT            7-8-21

Gladwell, Malcolm            BLINK                    7-24-21

Golding, William                LORD OF THE FLIES          5-1-17

Goodkind, Terry                WIZARD’S FIRST RULE     8-26-13

Goodkind, Terry                STONE OF TEARS              11-13-13

Goodkind, Terry               BLOOD OF THE FOLD      11-16-13

Goodkind, Terry               SOUL OF THE FIRE            1-16-14

Goodkind, Terry               FAITH OF THE FALLEN     2-7-14

Goodkind, Terry               THE PILLARS OF CREATION           3-16-14

Goodkind, Terry               NAKED EMPIRE                 4-1-14

Goodkind, Terry               CHAINFIRE                          4-13-14

Goodkind, Terry               PHANTOM                          5-3-14

Goodkind, Terry               CONFESSOR                       5-11-14

Gore, Al                             AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER 10-8-19

Grafton, Sue                      “M” IS FOR MALICE         11-17-13

Grafton, Sue                      “I” IS FOR INNOCENT      1-9-15

Grafton, Sue                      “A” IS FOR ALIBI                3-2-15*

Grafton, Sue                       "B" IS FOR BURGLAR       3-4-21*

Grafton, Sue                      “C” IS FOR CORPSE          5-1-15*

Grafton, Sue                      “D” IS FOR DEADBEAT    5-14-15

Grafton, Sue                      “E” IS FOR EVIDENCE      5-14-15

Grafton, Sue                      “F” IS FOR FUGITIVE       5-14-15

Grafton, Sue                      “G” IS FOR GUMSHOE    5-28-15*

Grafton, Sue                     “H” IS FOR HOMICIDE     5-28-15

Grafton, Sue                      “J” IS FOR JUDGEMENT 6-12-15*

Grafton, Sue                      “K” IS FOR KILLER             6-12-15*

Grafton, Sue                      “L” IS FOR LAWLESS         7-11-15*

Grafton, Sue                      “M” IS FOR MALICE         7-11-15*

Grafton, Sue                      “N” IS FOR NOOSE           7-11-15

Grafton, Sue                      “O” IS FOR OUTLAW       7-27-15

Grafton, Sue                      “P” IS FOR PERIL               8-26-15

Grafton, Sue                      “Q” IS FOR QUARRY        8-26-15

Grafton, Sue                      “R” IS FOR RICOCHET      9-4-15

Grafton, Sue                      “S” IS FOR SILENCE          9-4-15

Grafton, Sue                      “T” IS FOR TRESPASS       10-21-15

Grafton, Sue                      “U” IS FOR UNDERTOW                 11-4-15

Grafton, Sue                      “V” IS FOR VENGEANCE                 11-17-15

Grafton, Sue                      “W” IS FOR WASTED                       12-19-15

Grafton, Sue                      “X”                                         1-8-16

Grafton, Sue                       “Y” IS FOR YESTERDAY    1-8-18

Grass, Günter                    THE TIN DRUM                    4-29-21

Green, John                        LOOKING FOR ALASKA                   10-25-16

Green, John                        TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN    8-24-19

Grippando, James            GONE AGAIN     4-22-17

Grisham, John                   THE APPEAL                       3-28-14

Grisham, John                   THE BRETHREN                  9-6-15

Grisham, John                   A PAINTED HOUSE           10-24-15

Grisham, John                   GRAY MOUNTAIN            10-29-16

Grisham, John                   ROGUE LAWYER                3-13-17

Grisham, John                   CALICO JOE         8-26-17

Grisham, John                    THE LITIGATORS               9-15-18

Grisham, John                    CAMINO ISLAND               3-19-19

Grisham, John                    THE RACKETEER     12-10-18

Grisham, John                     THE ROOSTER BAR     11-19-18

Grisham, John                     THE RUNAWAY JURY     11-4-18

Grisham, John                     THE WHISTLER     11-10-18

Grossman, Lev                  THE MAGICIAN’S LAND     11-13-14

Grossman, Lev                  MAGICIANS trilogy           5-12-16**

Grossman, Lev                   THE MAGICIAN KING      8-29-11

Gundry, Dr. Steven          THE IMMORTALITY PARADOX    6-16-20

Gutfeld, Greg                    NOT COOL!                         5-7-14

Hallberg, Garth Risk         CITY ON FIRE                      5-1-16

Hamilton, Lyn                    THE CELTIC RIDDLE          7-15-15

Hannah, Kristin                  THE NIGHTINGALE                           11-1-15

Harris, Robert                    THE FEAR INDEX               3-4-18

Harris, Robert                    THE SECOND SLEEP                          8-8-20

Hart, John                           THE LAST CHILD                3-26-16

Hart, John                            THE HUSH            8-2-19

Hart, John                            DOWN RIVER     9-3-19

Hawkins, Paula                  THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN                11-21-15

Hawkins, Paula                  INTO THE WATER             9-14-19

Heinlein, Robert               STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND 8-26-14

Heinlein, Robert               THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS             10-12-14

Heinlein, Robert               THE PUPPET MASTERS   5-24-15

Heinlein, Robert               THE DOOR INTO SUMMER            10-6-18

Heinlein, Robert               PODKAYNE OF MARS      1-24-19

Heinlein, Robert               METHUSELAH’S CHILDREN            3-8-20

Heinlein, Robert               GLORY ROAD                                      12-22-20

Heller, Joseph                   CATCH-22                            11-5-14

Hemingway, Ernest         A FAREWELL TO ARMS   11-11-13

Hemingway, Ernest         THE SUN ALSO RISES       10-1-18

Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin             HUNTERS OF DUNE          5-28-18

Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin             SANDWORMS OF DUNE                 6-2-18

Herbert, Frank                   DUNE MESSIAH                 3-18-18

Herbert, Frank                   CHILDREN OF DUNE        4-9-18

Herbert, Frank                   GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE              4-23-18

Herbert, Frank                   HERETICS OF DUNE          5-12-18

Herbert, Frank                   CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE 5-20-18

Hesse, Hermann               STEPPENWOLF                  3-21-15

Hiaasen, Carl                      BAD MONKEY    3-16-18

Hicks, Deron                       THE VAN GOGH DECEPTION        3-21-20

Highsmith, Patricia          STRANGERS ON A TRAIN                4-25-20

Hill, Joe                                 FULL THROTTLE (collection)         11-16-19

Hill, Susan                           THE MAN IN THE PICTURE            3-29-15

Homer                                  THE ODYSSEY     3-7-19

Hosseini, Khaled               THE KITE RUNNER            11-19-16

Hugo, Victor                       LES MISERABLES               5-26-18

Huxley, Aldous                  BRAVE NEW WORLD       5-30-15

Irving, John                         LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER   4-18-15

Jackson, Shirley                 THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE 10-11-20

Johnson, Spencer            WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?           11-14-14

Jordan, Robert                  THE EYE OF THE WORLD                4-9-14

Jordan, Robert                  THE GREAT HUNT             4-25-14

Jordan, Robert                  THE DRAGON REBORN   5-15-14

Jordan, Robert                  THE SHADOW RISING     6-16-14

Jordan, Robert                  THE FIRES OF HEAVEN    7-22-14

Jordan, Robert                  LORD OF CHAOS               9-23-14

Jordan, Robert                  A CROWN OF SWORDS  1-2-15

Jordan, Robert                  THE PATH OF DAGGERS 2-19-15

Jordan, Robert                  WINTER’S HEART              3-14-15

Jordan, Robert                  CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT         4-16-15

Jordan, Robert                  KNIFE OF DREAMS           6-14-15

Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon    THE GATHERING STORM               7-3-15

Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon    TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT 7-24-15

Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon    A MEMORY OF LIGHT     8-16-15

Joyce, James                      ULYSSES               6-20-19

Kafka, Franz                        METAMORPHOSIS           1-30-15

Karnazes, Dean                 ULTRA MARATHON MAN: CONFESSIONS OF AN ALL NIGHT RUNNER 2-23-10

Kearsely, Susanna            THE WINTER SEA              6-11-17

Kellerman, Jonathan       MYSTERY                             7-31-15

Kerouac, Jack                     ON THE ROAD    6-23-19

King, Gilbert                       DEVIL IN THE GROVE                       8-29-20

King, Laurie R.                    THE PIRATE KING              2-10-18

King, Stephen                    JOYLAND                             11-7-13

King, Stephen                    DOCTOR SLEEP                  10-17-13

King, Stephen                    MR. MERCEDES                 7-15-14

King, Stephen                    REVIVAL                               1-4-15

King, Stephen                    FINDERS KEEPERS             8-21-15

King, Stephen                    THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS (collection)             1-14-16

King, Stephen                    THE SUN DOG                    3-14-16

King, Stephen                    END OF WATCH                8-23-16

King, Stephen                    NEEDFUL THINGS             10-16-16*

King, Stephen                    SALEM’S LOT      9-3-17*

King, Stephen                    INSOMNIA          9-10-17*

King, Stephen                    SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN          9-18-17

King, Stephen                    FIRESTARTER      10-1-17

King, Stephen                    THE DEAD ZONE                10-14-17*

King, Stephen                    ON WRITING      10-22-17*

King, Stephen                    UNDER THE DOME           10-30-17

King, Stephen                    BAG OF BONES                  11-11-17*

King, Stephen                    THE TOMMYKNOCKERS 11-20-17*

King, Stephen                    THE OUTSIDER   6-25-18

King, Stephen                    ELEVATION         1-15-19

King, Stephen                    THE INSTITUTE 1-2-20

King, Stephen                    IF IT BLEEDS (4 novellas)                5-14-20

King, Stephen                    11/22/63            9-24-17*     9-24-19**      9-6-20***    4-16-21****

King, Stephen                    LISEY’S STORY                    9-27-08        4-11-19*

King, Stephen                    CHRISTINE                           3-2-09

King, Stephen                    JUST AFTER SUNSET (collection)                 1-17-09

King, Stephen                    FULL DARK, NO STARS (4 novellas)            2-17-11

King, Stephen                    THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE          8-14-12

King, Stephen                    LATER                               4-3-21

King, Stephen & King, Owen        SLEEPING BEAUTIES        12-4-17

King, Stephen & Straub, Peter     THE TALISMAN                  12-23-17*

Kline, Daniel                       THE HISTORY OF NOW   3-21-16

Knowles, John                   A SEPARATE PEACE          5-23-19

Konar, Affinity                   MISCHLING         10-7-17

Koontz, Dean                     SHATTERED                         3-26-08

Koontz, Dean                     INTENSITY                           10-21-10

Koontz, Dean                     MIDNIGHT                          9-21-10

Koontz, Dean                     WATCHERS                         12-11-13

Koontz, Dean                     BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON      12-25-13

Koontz, Dean                     THE HOUSE OF THUNDER             3-21-14

Koontz, Dean                     THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR       4-7-18

Koontz, Dean                     THE GOOD GUY                 2-15-21

Kuttner, Henry                  CLASH BY NIGHT               6-28-16

L’Amour, Louis                  LONELY ON THE MOUNTAIN       12-30-13

L’Engle, Madeleine          A WRINKLE IN TIME         6-3-15

L’Engle, Madeleine          A WIND IN THE DOOR    6-19-15

L’Engle, Madeleine          A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET          9-1-15

Larrson, Stieg                     THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO    1-26-14

Larrson, Stieg                     THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE            2-15-14

Larrson, Stieg                     THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST         2-26-14

Le Guin, Ursula K.             A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA               9-13-16

Le Guin, Ursula K.             THE TOMBS OF ATUAN  9-16-16

Le Guin, Ursula K.             THE FARTHEST SHORE    9-26-16

Le Guin, Ursula K.             SQ                          7-4-18

Lee, Harper                         TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD              10-28-15

Lee, Harper                         GO SET A WATCHMAN   1-21-16

Legrand, Claire FURYBORN 12-3-18

Lehane, Dennis                 LIVE BY NIGHT   9-16-17

Lennon, John                     IN HIS OWN WRITE          7-14-19

Lewis, C.S.                           THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW           2-17-14*

Lewis, C.S.                           THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE       2-24-14*

Lewis, C.S.                           THE HORSE AND HIS BOY              3-25-14*

Lewis, C.S.                           PRINCE CASPIAN              4-3-19*

Lewis, C.S.                           THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER     4-15-14*

Lewis, C.S.                           THE SILVER CHAIR            4-23-14*

Lewis, C.S.                           THE LAST BATTLE              5-5-14*

Liss, David                           THE ETHICAL ASSASSIN 2-11-17

Lotz, Sarah                          MISSING PERSON                             5-2-20

Lowry, Lois                          THE GIVER                                           6-2-20

Lowry, Lois                          GATHERING BLUE                             6-6-20

Lowry, Lois                          MESSENGER                                       6-9-20

Lowry, Lois                          SON                                                       6-13-20

Lu, Marie                             WARCROSS         5-6-18

Ludlum, Robert                 THE BOURNE IDENTITY  10-17-13    4-10-21*

Ludlum, Robert                THE BOURNE SUPREMACY        5-17-21

Mack, Katie                         THE END OF EVERYTHING (ASTROPHYSICALLY SPEAKING)               9-3-20

Mandel, Emily St. John   THE GLASS HOTEL                            5-19-20

Mangan, Catherine            TANGERINE                        5-8-21

Martel, Yann                      LIFE OF PI                            3-9-14

Martel, Yann                      THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL    11-7-19

Martin, George R.R.        A GAME OF THRONES     7-27-13

Martin, George R.R.        A CLASH OF KINGS           9-25-13

Martin, George R.R.        A STORM OF SWORDS    12-8-13

Martin, George R.R.        A DANCE WITH DRAGONS            2-10-14

Martin, George R.R.        FIRE AND BLOOD                              1-14-21

Martin, George R.R.        A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE (1^st 5 books)     1-23-21*

Maugham, W. Somerset               THE MAGICIAN 4-4-16

Maugham, W. Somerset               THE RAZOR’S EDGE          1-1-17

Melville, Herman              MOBY DICK                         1-17-16

Meyer, Stephenie            TWILIGHT                            12-25-08, 3-11-21*

Meyer, Stephenie            NEW MOON                        3-11-21*

Meyer, Stephenie            ECLIPSE                               3-11-21*

Meyer, Stephenie            BREAKING DAWN             8-23-11, 3-11-21*

Michener, James A.         SPACE                   10-12-19

Michener, James A.         CENTENNIAL      10-31-19

Michener, James A.         POLAND               11-19-19

Michener, James A.         ALASKA                12-10-19

Michener, James A.         THE SOURCE         1-25-21

Michener, James A.         MEXICO                2-6-21

Mitchard, Jacquelyn        TWO IF BY SEA   12-19-19

Mitchell, David                  CLOUD ATLAS                    3-30-13

Mitchell, David                  THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET   1-29-18

Mitchell, David                  SLADE HOUSE    11-3-19

Moretti, Kate                     THE VANISHING YEAR     10-16-17

Morgenstern, Erin           THE NIGHT CIRCUS          2-22-17

Mukherjee, Siddartha    THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY            8-13-16

Ng, Celeste                         LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE           8-27-19

Niven, Larry                        RINGWORLD                                      2-2-21

Niven, Larry                        THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS        2-25-21

Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry & Flynn, Michael FALLEN ANGELS                6-18-17

Norman, Andy                    MENTAL IMMUNITY            8-2-21

Oates, Joyce Carol            HAZARDS OF TIME TRAVEL           9-8-19

Olsson, Linda                      ASTRID AND VERONIKA 10-28-17

Orwell, George                 1984                                       12-4-14

Orwell, George                 ANIMAL FARM                  7-8-15

Paolini, Christopher        ERAGON                              5-21-14*

Paolini, Christopher        ELDEST                                  5-26-14*

Paolini, Christopher        BRISINGR                            6-20-14

Paolini, Christopher        INHERITANCE                    7-1-14

Patterson, James             THE THOMAS BARRYMAN NUMBER         1-24-16

Patterson, James             ALONG CAME A SPIDER 1-19-16

Patterson, James             SEASON OF THE MACHETE           2-5-1

Patterson, James             MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT           3-8-16

Patterson, James             1^ST TO DIE                            3-19-16

Patterson, James             2^ND CHANCE                       5-14-16

Patterson, James             3^rd DEGREE                          6-9-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine           4TH  OF JULY         3-4-21*

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          THE 5^TH HORSEMAN        8-1-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          THE 6^TH TARGET 9-8-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          7^TH HEAVEN        10-11-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          THE 8^TH CONFESSION     11-9-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          THE 9^TH JUDGMENT        12-9-16

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          10^TH ANNIVERSARY         1-14-17

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          11^TH HOUR          2-7-17

Patterson, James & Paetro, Maxine          THE 12^TH OF NEVER         4-16-17

Pavone, Chris                     THE TRAVELERS                 7-7-18

Peet, Mal                             TAMAR                 12-4-17

Percy, Benjamin               RED MOON         3-28-17

Peretti, Frank                     THE OATH           3-4-17

Peters, Elizabeth               A RIVER IN THE SKY 12-13-18

Philbrick, Nathaniel         THE LAST STAND              6-24-17

Powell, John                    HOW MUSIC WORKS        7-22-21

Pullman, Philip                  HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy        10-18-15*

Pullman, Philip                  HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy        6-26-09

Pynchon, Thomas            GRAVITY’S RAINBOW     7-29-17

Quinn, Spencer                 THE RIGHT SIDE                 7-21-18

Rand, Ayn                            ATLAS SHRUGGED            2-3-18

Remarque, Erich Maria        ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT    5-22-21

Rendell, Ruth                     PORTOBELLO                     9-2-16

Rendell, Ruth                     THE CROCODILE BIRD     9-10-16

Rendell, Ruth                     FROM DOON WITH DEATH           9-22-16

Rendell, Ruth                     GALLOWGLASS                 10-1-16

Rendell, Ruth                     SINS OF THE FATHER       10-8-16

Rendell, Ruth                     13 STEPS DOWN               10-19-16

Rendell, Ruth                     WOLF TO THE SLAUGHTER           10-22-16

Rendell, Ruth                     THE BEST MAN TO DIE    11-12-16

Rendell, Ruth                     MASTER OF THE MOOR                 3-10-20

Rendell, Ruth                     A GUILTY THING SURPRISED        3-14-20

Rendell, Ruth                    THE GIRL NEXT DOOR        3-29-21

Richards, Keith                  LIFE                                        11-24-13

Riordan, Rick                      PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF      2-26-10

Robb, JD (Nora Roberts) THANKLESS IN DEATH     12-9-14

Robinson, Marilynne       GILEAD 6-8-19

Rooney, Kathleen            LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK 8-3-17

Roth, Philip                         EXIT GHOST                        9-9-15

Roth, Philip                         INDIGNATION                    8-12-18

Roth, Veronica                  DIVERGENT                        2-19-14

Roth, Veronica                  INSURGENT                        3-2-14

Roth, Veronica                  ALLEGIANT                         3-12-14

Rowling, J.K.                       THE CASUAL VACANCY   12-2-17

Rowling, J.K.                       THE CUCKOO’S CALLING               12-16-17

Rowling, J.K., Thorne, Jack & Tiffany, John             HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD  8-28-16

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de        THE LITTLE PRINCE            6-3-21

Sanderson, Brandon       MISTBORN: THE FINAL EMPIRE   7-18-14

Sanderson, Brandon       THE WELL OF ASCENSION             8-21-14

Sanderson, Brandon       THE HERO OF AGES         10-4-14

Sanderson, Brandon       THE ALLOY OF LAW         11-11-14

Sanderson, Brandon       THE WAY OF KINGS         10-9-15

Sanderson, Brandon       WORDS OF RADIANCE                   12-12-15

Sanderson, Brandon       SHADOWS OF SELF          7-26-18

Sanderson, Brandon       THE BANDS OF MOURNING         8-18-18

Sanderson, Brandon       THE RITHMATIST              9-3-18

Sanderson, Brandon       OATHBRINGER                  11-10-18

Sandford, John                  GATHERING PREY             1-10-17

Sandra Brown                    MEAN STREAK                   8-6-18

Scott, Sir Walter                IVANHOE                             10-11-15

Semple, Maria                   TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT          2-27-17

Shaffer, Andrew               HOPE NEVER DIES            9-17-19

Shakespeare, William     HAMLET                                               7-11-20

Silva, Daniel                        PORTRAIT OF A SPY         3-7-17

Simak, Clifford                   CITY       3-24-18

Simak, Clifford                   WAY STATION    2-18-20

Simak, Clifford                   OUT OF THEIR MINDS     2-23-20

Simak, Clifford                   EMPIRE                                                 12-29-20

Simmons, Dan                   DROOD                                 12-3-16

Simmons, Dan                   HYPERION                           12-21-16

Simmons, Dan                   THE FALL OF HYPERION 2-18-17

Simmons, Dan                   ENDYMION         4-2-17

Simmons, Dan                   THE RISE OF ENDYMION                 5-7-17

Simmons, Dan                  THE TERROR            6-26-21

Steinbeck, John                OF MICE AND MEN          8-23-15

Steinbeck, John                 THE GRAPES OF WRATH                7-2-20

Steinbeck, John                 CANNERY ROW                                 7-4-20

Steinbeck, John                 THE PEARL                                           7-7-20*

Steinbeck, John                 EAST OF EDEN                                   8-30-20

Stevens, Courtney C.      FOUR THREE TWO ONE    6-29-19

Stewart, Ian                        LETTERS TO A YOUNG MATHEMATICIAN                7-21-15

Sturgeon, Theodore        THE DREAMING JEWELS                10-15-19

Swift, Jonathan                 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS      4-25-15

Tartt, Donna                       THE GOLDFINCH               5-1-14

Tartt, Donna                       THE LITTLE FRIEND           1-18-20

Thackeray, William Makepeace VANITY FAIR       7-30-16

Thomas, Matthew           WE ARE NOT OURSELVES              9-24-18

Tolstoy, Leo                        WAR AND PEACE              8-14-14

Tolstoy, Leo                        ANNA KARENINA             10-26-14

Tremblay, Paul G.             A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS              6-10-19

Twain, Mark                       A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT         2-2-19

Twain, Mark                       THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER         2-7-19

Twain, Mark                       THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN             2-23-19

Tyson, Neil deGrasse      ASTROPHYSICS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY                10-3-17

Tyson, Neil deGrasse & Trefil, James        COSMIC QUERIES        7-29-21

Updike, John                      RABBIT, RUN                      9-22-15

Van Allsburg, Chris            JUMANJI                        4-13-21

Verne, Jules                       THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND             6-24-15

Vinge, Vernor                    A FIRE UPON THE DEEP  9-16-15

Voltaire                                CANDIDE                             6-21-15

Vonnegut, Kurt                 SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE 7-22-17

Vonnegut, Kurt                 BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS        6-10-18

Vonnegut, Kurt                 CAT’S CRADLE                                    9-27-20

Vonnegut, Kurt                 WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE (collection) 10-4-20

Walker, Karen Thompson             THE AGE OF MIRACLES  8-5-17

Weeks, Brent                     THE BLACK PRISM            9-9-18

Weeks, Brent                     THE BLINDING KNIFE      9-29-18

Wells, H.G.                          THE INVISIBLE MAN        6-7-15

Wharton, Edith                  ETHAN FROMME              4-29-15

Wilde, Oscar                       THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY  10-5-16

Wilhelm, Kate                   WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG   7-15-21

Williams, Beatriz & Willig, Lauren & White, Karen              THE GLASS OCEAN           11-23-19

Williams, Tad                     SHADOWPLAY                   12-18-14

Williams, Tad                    SHADOWRISE                    1-28-15

Williams, Tad                     SHADOWHEART 2-28-15

Williams, Tad                     OTHERLAND: CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW                12-4-17*

Williams, Tad                     OTHERLAND: RIVER OF BLUE FIRE              1-13-18

Williams, Tad                     OTHERLAND: MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS           2-17-18*

Williams, Tad                     OTHERLAND: SEA OF SILVER LIGHT           2-17-18*

Wolfe, Tom                         THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES  2-16

Woodward, Bob                FEAR      5-16-19

Wyndham, John                THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS             7-2-17

Young, William P.             THE SHACK                          12-12-08

Zusak, Markus                   THE BOOK THIEF               7-19-20