The Book Mine Set: And The Winner Is...

Glaring Omissions

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (International edition)

1. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
2. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
3. Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
4. Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
5. Ayn Rand- Atlas Shrugged
6. Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species
7. Albert Camus - The Stranger
8. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
9. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
10. Dante Alighieri - Divine Comedy
11. Unknown - Beowolf
12. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
13. Nalo Hopkinson - Brown Girl in the Ring
14. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
15. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
16. D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
17. James Joyce - Ulysses
18. Frank Herbert - Dune
19. John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
20. Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Canadian edition)

1. Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance
3. ~~Margaret Laurence- Stone Angel~~
~~4. Donna Morrissey- Kit's Law~~
~~5. Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan~~
6. Hugh McClennan- The Watch That Ends The Night
7. William Gibson- Neuromancer
~~8. W.P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe~~
9. ~~Ethel Wilson- Swamp Angel~~
10. ~~Wayson Choy- Jade Peony~~
11. Brian Moore- The Luck of Ginger Coffey
12. Marie-Claire Blais- A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
~~13. Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant~~
~~14. Sheila Watson- The Double Hook~~
~~15. Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town~~
~~16. Joseph Boyden- Through Black Spruce~~
~~17. Kenneth Oppel- Silver Wing~~
~~18. Thompson Highway- The Rez Sisters~~
~~19. Susannah Moodie- Roughing it in the Bush~~
~~20. David Adams Richards- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Northern edition)

1. ~~Tuktoyaktok 2-3 - Herbert T. Schwarz~~
~~2. Voice in the Wild - Laurie Sarkadi~~
3. The Third Suspect - David Staples
~~4. Good Time Girls - Lael Morgan~~
~~5. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares - Alootook Ipellie~~
~~6. All The Way - Jordan Tootoo~~
7. This Quest for that Final Horizon - Derrick LaSaga
8. Coppermine - Keith Ross Leckie
9. Uvajuq - David F. Pelly
10. Yukon Madness - L. Ron Hubbard
11. Ukkusiksalik - David F. Pelly
12. Tales of an Old Town Versifier - Anthony Foliot
~~13. Klengenberg of the Arctic - Christian Klengenberg~~
14. Jock McMeekan's Yellowknife Blade - Jock McMeekan
15. Graves of Ice - John Wilson
16. The Gnawer of Rocks - Louise Flaherty
~~17. You Will Wear a White Shirt - Nick G. Sibbeston~~
18. Out of His League - Ryan Strain
19. Silver Mine - Vivian Arend
~~20. The Mundane and the Holy - Libby Whittall Catling~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Plays edition):
~~1. Ann-Marie MacDonald- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)~~
2. ~~Joseph Kesselring- Arsenic and Old Lace~~
3. ~~Thornton Wilder- Our Town~~
~~4. Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest~~
~~5. Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire~~
~~6. Eugene O'Neill- The Iceman Cometh~~
~~7. Edward Albee- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?~~
~~8. David Mamet- Glengarry Glen Ross~~
~~9. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead~~
10. Neil Simon- Lost in Yonkers
~~11. Agatha Christie- The Mousetrap~~
12. ~~Moliere- Tartuffe~~
13. ~~George Ryga- The Ecstasy of Rita Joe~~
14. Daniel David Moses- Coyote City
15. ~~Sally Clark- Moo~~
16. ~~Anton Chekov- The Cherry Orchard~~
17. ~~Euripides- Medea~~
18. ~~Tony Kushner- Angels in America~~
19. ~~Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun~~
20. Bertolt Brecht- Galileo

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

And The Winner Is...

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