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Introduction: Active Reading
Looking for Mister Write (1989)
How I Got Here (in 1998)
About the Negative Review
On Reviewing
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley
1997 Award-nominated Short Fiction
5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
The Acceptance World, Anthony Powell
Across the Wounded Galaxies, ed. by Larry McCaffrey
Addicted to Humour
Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman
Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison
Against a Dark Background, Iain M. Banks
Age of Wonders, David Hartwell
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, Peter McWilliams
The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges
The Algebraist, Iain Banks
All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Howard Waldrop
Alternate Oscars, Danny Peary
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
Angel Island, Inez Hayes Gilmore
Angels & Insects, A.S. Byatt
Anime Explosion, Patrick Drazen
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
The Annotated Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Antiquities, John Crowley
Anything Considered, Peter Mayle
Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones
The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman
As She Climbed Across the Table, Jonathan Lethem
At Lady Molly's, Anthony Powell
Author's Choice Monthly
Autumn, Anthony Powell
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Bad Trips, ed. by Keith Fraser
Balkan Hours, Richard Bassett
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
The Bear Went Over the Mountain, William Kotzwinkle
Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Beginning, Kenneth Branagh
Bellwether, Connie Willis
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Beowulf
The Best American Comics 2006
Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor
Beyond Life, James Branch Cabell
Bible Stories for Adults, James Morrow
Black and Blue, Ian Rankin
The Black Company, Glen Cook
Black Orchid, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
Blackadder, Richard Curtis et al.
Blacks, Gwendolyn Brooks
Blast from the Past, Ben Elton
Bliss, Peter Carey
Bloodchild and Other Stories, Octavia E. Butler
Blue Heaven, Joe Keenan
Blue Road, Windy Baboulene
Blue World, Robert McCammon
The Bone Forest, Robert Holdstock
The Book of Bourbon, Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
The Book of God, Walter Wangerin, Jr.
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Book by Book, Michael Dirda
Book Publishing, John P. Dessauer
Books Do Furnish a Room, Anthony Powell
The Books of Magic, John Ney Reiber
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
Bring on the Girls, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton
Bronze Mirror, Jeanne Larsen
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Bradley Denton
A Buyer's Market, Anthony Powell
By Bizarre Hands, Joe R. Lansdale
The Cabell Scene, Robert H. Canary
Caedmon's Hymn
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Bill Watterson
Canal Dreams, Iain Banks
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold
Cause of Death, Keith D. Wilson
Cerebus: Reads and Minds, Dave Sim
Changing Places, David Lodge
Chase the Morning, Michael Scott Rohan
The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
China: Was (Not Was)
City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
City of the Iron Fish, Simon Ings
City of Truth, James Morrow
Clay's Ark, Octavia Butler
Clinker Islands, Lillian Otterman
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Colloquium on Crime, ed. by Robin W. Winks
The Color of Distance, Amy Thomson
Comic Book Culture, Matthew Pustz
Comics & Sequential Art, Will Eisner
Coming to Terms with the Great Plague, Brian Stableford
Committed
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), The Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Complete Frank Miller Spider-Man
Complicity, Iain Banks
Confucius Lives Next Door, T.R. Reid
Contending Forces, Pauline Hopkins
Conversations with Stalin, Milovan Djilas
The Cornish Trilogy, Robertson Davies
Count Geiger's Blues, Michael Bishop
Crossing the Mangrove, Maryse Conde
The Crow Road, Iain Banks
Crystal Express, Bruce Sterling
The Cyanide Canary, Joseph Hilldorfer and Robert Dugoni
Cyber Rights, Mike Godwin
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age, Stanislaw Lem
Danger Music, Stepan Chapman
Dusty in Memphis, Warren Zanes
Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison
The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper
Darkness Casts No Shadow, Arnost Lustig
Data Smog, David Shenk
The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
Death Be Not Proud
The Deptford Trilogy, Robertson Davies
The Devouring Fungus, Karla Jennings
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Did She Fall?, Thorne Smith
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
Doing Business on the Internet, Mary Cronin
Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
Door Number Three, Patrick O'Leary
The Doorbell Rang, Rex Stout
A Dozen Tough Jobs, Howard Waldrop
The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams
Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint
The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy
Eastward Ha!, S.J. Perelman
Ecstasy Club, Douglas Rushkoff
The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem
Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands, Rob Rachowiecki
The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Eight Days of Luke, Diana Wynne Jones
Emerald Eyes, Daniel Keys Moran
The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies
Escape Velocity, Mark De