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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/21/05, 12:40 PM

I'm having to send this in two pieces because it's over 20K; sorry for any
inconveniece.

I was cleaning out old mail when I came upon this thread, which was never
compiled even though there were requests for it. On 12/12/02, we received
this query:

FROM: Liza Gilbert <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/12/02, 10:08 PM

Hello, my name is Liza Gilbert and I just joined the list today. I run a
website with a book traveling project called BOOKTREK:
http://www.strangedevelopments.com/booktrek.htm.

I recently had a friend who was a Peace Corps volunteer ask me if I would
put some books into circulation for the project by mailing them to
volunteers. She has chosen six countries in which the political or religious
circumstances are particularly miserable, and where volunteers have an
especially hard time, more so after dark. She would like me to send books to
Bulgaria, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Uganda, and Kazakhstan. She has
also stressed the importance of sending "thick" (meaning lengthy--not
difficult) books, since the volunteers rarely have materials to read in
English, and because many of the female volunteers have a lot of free time
since their existence in these countries is not always safe.

Besides Bonfire of the Vanities and War & Peace, I'm somewhat at a loss for
how to go about finding good long books to send. I welcome any and all
suggestions for fiction that would be just plain enjoyable and LONG.

Thanks, Liza Gilbert
[removed]@yahoo.com

Given the season of the year, there are probably a lot of places in the US
where people would like to just hole up for a while, and want some "thick
books" to read while they do it. So compiling this list struck me as a
timely thing to do.

Here are the books we came up with, plus some new additions I've thought of
(marked with a *; those marked ** may not be quite 400pp each, but they're
long series and will total well beyond that):

*Adams, Richard, Watership Down, Beklan Empire duo (Shardik, Maia)
*Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
*Aldiss, Brian, Helliconia trilogy
*Allen, Hervey, Anthony Adverse
Amado, Jorge, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
*Anderson, Poul, The Boat of a Million Years, A Harvest of Stars
*Anthony, Piers, Battle Circle (3v. in 1)
Auel, Jean, Earth's Children series, all volumes
Baldacci, David, various titles
Banks, Russell, Cloudsplitter
*Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar, Red Orm (aka The Long Ships)
*Benson, E. F., All About Lucia (4v. in 1)
*Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man, The Return of Little Big Man
Blackmore, R. D., Lorna Doone
*Blish, James, Cities in Flight (4v. in 1)
*Boyd, James, Bitter Creek
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Mists of Avalon [and sequels], *The Fall of
Atlantis (2v. in 1), *most later volumes in the Darkover series
*Bristow, Gwen, Calico Palace, Jubilee Trail
*Bromfield, Louis, Escape (4v. in 1)
*Brooks, Terry, all titles
*Brown, Dee, Creek Mary's Blood
*Brown, Mary, Here There Be Dragonnes [sic] (3v. in 1)
*Buchan, John, Exploits of Richard Hannay (3v. in 1)
*Buck, Pearl S., House of Earth (3v. in 1, incl. The Good Earth)
Byatt, A. S., Possession, *Babel Tower
Caldwell, Taylor, Dear and Glorious Physician, The Glory and the Lightning,
and many others
Carr, Caleb, Angel of Darkness
Chabon, Michael, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
*Chant, Joy, The Grey Mane of Morning
*Chapman, Vera, The Three Damosels (3v. in 1)
*Cherryh, C. J., Cyteen, The Chanur Saga (3v. in 1), The Faded Sun (ditto),
Foreignor series (6v. to date), Fortress series (4v.), Morgaine trilogy
(omnibus)
Clancy, Tom, all novels
*Claremont, Chris, & George Lucas, Shadow trilogy (sequels to the film
Willow)
Clavell, James, Oriental series (Shogun, Gai-Jin, Taipan, Noble House,
Whirlwind)
*Coldsmith, Don, Tallgrass & South Wind (duo), Runestone
*Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone
*Combs, Harry, Brules & The Scout (duo)
Cooke, John Byron, The Snowblind Moon, *South of the Border
Costain, Thomas B., all novels
*Creasey, John, The Masters of Bow Street
*Culp, John H., Born of the Sun, The Restless Land (duo)
*Cussler, Clive, most titles
*Czernada, Julie E., Trade Pact Universe trilogy
**Danielson, Peter, Children of the Lion
Davies, Robertson, Deptford trilogy, Cornish trilogy, Marchbanks trilogy,
etc.
DeBernieres, Louis, Corelli's Mandolin
*DeBlasis, Celeste, Swan trilogy
*Delany, Samuel R., Fall of the Towers (4v. in 1)
Delderfield, R. F., God is an Englishman, To Serve Them All My Days, and
other titles
DeLillo, Don, Underworld
*Delinsky, Barbara, An Accidental Woman
DeMille, Nelson, Up Country, *The Lion's Game
Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield and other works
*Dickson, Gordon R., Dragon Knight series (9v.)
*Doctorow, E. L., most historical novels
*Donaldson, Stephen R., all fantasy
Donati, Sara, Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, and sequels
*Dos Passos, John, District of Columbia, U.S.A. (omnibus vols. of trilogies)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, *The Professor Challenger
Stories (3v. in 1)
Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy, *Sister Carrie
*Drury, Allen, various titles
*Duane, Diane, Cat Wizards duo (The Book of Night With Moon, To Visit the
Queen)
Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and many
others
Dunnett, Dorothy, House of Niccolo series (8v.), Lymond Chronicles (6v.)
Durrell, Lawrence, The Alexandria Quartet (boxed set)
Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino, *The
Island of the Day Before
Eddings, David, all fantasy novels
*Edghill, Rosemary, Bell, Book, and Murder (3v. in 1)
*Egan, Doris, Gate of Ivory (3v. in 1)
*Elegant, Robert M., various titles (set mostly in China)
*Elgin, Suzette Haden, Communipath Worlds (3v. in 1)
Eliot, George, Middlemarch
*Elliott, Kate, Crown of Stars series (5v.), Novels of the Jaran (4v.)
*Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex
Faber, Michael, The Crimson Petal and the White
Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong
*Fielding, Joy, Whispers and Lies
Findley, Timothy, Piano Man's Daughter
*Fisher, Jude, Sorcery Rising
*Flint, Eric, 1632, 1633
Follett, Ken, Pillars of the Earth
*Fortschen, William R., Lost Regiment series (9v.)
Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections
Gabaldon, Diana, Outlander series
Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga
**Gear, W. Michael & Kathleen O'Neal, First North Americans (People of...)
series
Gentle, Mary, Book of Ash
*Gedge, Pauline, Child of the Morning
George, Elizabeth, A Traitor to Memory
George, Margaret, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Memoirs of Cleopatra,
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha
*Goodkind, Terry, Sword of Truth series
*Gordon, Noah, Shaman
*Green, Roland J., Voyage to Eneh
*Green, Simon R., Hawk & Fisher series: Swords of Haven (3v. in1), Guards of
Haven (ditto), Beyond the Blue Moon
*Greeno, Gayle, The Ghatti's Tale (3v.), Ghatten's Gambit (2v.) (total
+2500pp)
*Griffin, W. E. B., various titles
Grisham, John, The Chamber, The Runaway Jury
*Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Hailey, Arthur, various titles
*Hamilton, Edmond F., Chronicles of the Starkings, The Starwolf Trilogy
(both 3v. in 1)
Hamilton, Peter, various titles
*Harrigan, Stephen, The Gates of the Alamo
*Harris, Wilson, The Guyana Quartet (omnibus)
*Hawke, Simon, Mystery of Errors
*Henry, O., complete short stories (available in 2v.)
*Herbert, Frank, Dune novels
Hill, Ruth Beebe, Hanta Yo
*Hobb, Robin, all fantasies
*Hoeg, Peter, Smilla's Sense of Snow
*Howatch, Susan, Cashelmara
Irving, John, most works
Jakes, John, North & South trilogy, Kent Family Chronicles, *Homeland &
American Dreams, *Charleston, *California
Jennings, Gary, all novels
*Johnston, Mary, The Long Roll & Cease Firing
*Jones, J. V., Book of Words series
*Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Whistle (trilogy)
Jordan, Robert, Wheel of Time series
Kantor, MacKinlay, Andersonville, Spirit Lake
*Katzenbach, John, The Analyst
Kaye, M. M., The Far Pavilions, Trade Wind, Shadow of the Moon
King, Stephen, various titles (esp. Hearts in Atlantis, Black House, The
Stand, *Bag of Bones, *'Salem's Lot)
Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible
*Kipling, Rudyard, The Two Jungle Books (omnibus)
*Krey, Laura, And Tell of Time, On the Long Tide (duo)
Kurtz, Katherine, all the books about the Deryni (14v. at last count plus
two related background books)
*Lackey, Mercedes, Spirits White as Lightning (w/Rosemary Edghill), Joust,
Alta (sequel), The Outstretched Shadow (w/James Mallory), The Shadow of the
Lion (w/Eric Flint & Dave Freer), The Free Bards (3v. in 1)
Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much is True
*Lee, Tanith, The Gods Are Thirsty
*Leith, Valery, Everien series (3v.)
*Lescroart, John T., A Certain Justice
Littell, Robert, The Company
**Long, William Stuart, The Australians
*McCaffrey, Anne, Dragonriders of Pern trilogy (available as an SFBC
omnibus), Dragonsdawn, Dragonseye, The Masterharper of Pern, and most others
in this series
McCullough, Colleen, The Thorn Birds, *Masters of Rome series (5v.)
*MacDonald, Malcolm, Stevenson Family series (4v.)
McMurtry, Larry, Lonesome Dove and sequel/prequels; Anything for Billy,
Texasville, Terms of Endearment, and others
*Maillard, Keith, Gloria
*Marsh, Ngaio, Enter a Murderer
*Marshall, Edison, all historicals
*Marston, Edward, The Roaring Boy
Martin, George R. R., A Song of Ice & Fire series
Mason, F. Van Wyck, many historical novels
*Matthews, Susan R., Jurisdiction series (4v.)
Michener, James, Caravans, The Source, Hawaii, Poland, Texas, Mexico,
Chesapeake, Centennial, Space, Alaska
Mistry, Rohinton, A Fine Balance
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind
*Mitchison, Naomi, The Barbarian (aka The Corn King and the Spring Queen)
*Modesitt, L. E., Jr., Saga of Recluce fantasy series
Mundy, Talbot, Tros of Samothrace series
Murdoch, Iris, The Book, The Brotherhood
*Myrer, Anton, Once an Eagle, The Last Convertible
*Nexo, Martin Andersen, Pelle the Conqueror (4v. in 1)
*Nordhoff & Hall, The Bounty Trilogy
*Norman, Lisanne, Sholan Alliance series (7v. to date)
*Palliser, Charles, The Quincunx
Pargeter, Edith, Heaven Tree Trilogy, Brothers of Gwynedd Trilogy (available
in omnibuses)
*Pasternak, Boris, Dr. Zhivago
*Patterson, James, & Peter DeJonge, The Beach House
*Patton, Fiona, The Living Flame/Branion World series (4v.)
*Paul, Barbara, A Cadenza for Caruso
Peake, Mervyn, Gormenghast trilogy
Pears, Iain, An Instance of the Fingerpost
*Penman, Sharon Kay, all historical novels
Pilcher, Rosamunde, Coming Home, September, The Shell Seekers
*Piper, H. Beam, The Complete Fuzzy (3v. in 1)
*Plain, Belva, many titles
*Pohl, Frederik, & C. M. Kornbluth, Venus, Inc. (2v. in 1)
**Porter, Donald Clayton, White Indian/Colonization of America series
*Pournelle, Jerry, Janissaries series (3v., #2-3 w/Roland Green)
Powers, Tim, The Anubis Gates, Declare
Price, Eugenia, various historical novels
*Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past (both thick *and* difficult)
*Pynchon, Thomas, Mason & Dixon, V
*Quick, Amanda, Don't Look Back
Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
*Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling
*Rawn, Melanie, all fantasies
*Reichert, Mickey Zuckert, all fantasies
*Rice, Anne, The Witching Hour
Riley, Judith Merkle, Vision of Light, Chasing the Green Dragon, The Oracle
Glass, Master of All Desires, The Serpent Garden
Robbins, Harold, various titles
*Roberts, Kenneth, Northwest Passage, Oliver Wiswell, Rabble in Arms
*Roberson, Jennifer, Chronicles of the Cheysuli (8v. now available in 4)
Robinson, Kim Stanley, Mars trilogy, Years of Rice and Salt
**Ross, Dana Fuller, Wagons West!, The Holts: An American Dynasty, and
others
Rowling, J. K., Harry Potter books (esp. The Goblet of Fire & The Order of
the Phoenix)
Rutherfurd, Edward, Sarum, Russka, London, The Forest
*Saberhagen, Fred, Swords series (12v. in 4)
Santmyer, Helen Hooven, "...And Ladies of the Club"
**Sarabande, William, The First Americans
*Schaefer, Jack, Monte Walsh, The Collected Stories
*Schoonover, Lawrence, all historical novels
Scott, Paul, The Raj Quartet
Seth, Vikram, A Suitable Boy
Shaara, Jeff, Last Full Measure (*and probably others by both him and his
father, Michael)
*Shellabarger, Samuel, all historical novels
*Sherwood, Frances, Vindication
Shreve, Anita, Fortune's Rocks
*Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Quo Vadis?
*Silverberg, Robert, Majipoor Chronicles (8v.)
*Smiley, Jane, A Thousand Acres
*Steel, Danielle, Sunset in St. Tropez, The Cottage
Stephenson, Neal, Cryptonomicon
*Stewart, Mary, Merlin sequence (5v.)
*Stirling, S. M., The Nantucket Trilogy (Island in the Sea of Time, Against
the Tide of Years, & On the Oceans of Eternity)
*Stone, Irving, biographical novels
*Tarkington, Booth, Penrod: His Complete Story (3v. in 1)
Tartt, Donna, The Secret History, The Little Friend
Tax, Meredith, Rivington Street, Union Square
*Taylor, Robert Lewis, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, A Roaring in the
Wind, Two Roads to Guadeloupe, A Voyage to Matecumbe
Thackeray, W. M., Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, The Virginians, etc.
Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Tolstoy, Leo, *Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Trollope, Anthony, Barchester series, The Pallisers

...second part to follow immediately...

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/21/05, 12:46 PM

Turow, Scott, various titles (300-400 pp)
Turtledove, Harry, many of his alternate histories, esp. the Worldwar, Great
War, American Empire, and Darkness series
Undset, Sigrid, Kristin Lavransdatter (trilogy: The Bridal Wreath, The
Mistress of Husaby, The Cross)
*Unsworth, Barry, Morality Play
Uris, Leon, various titles
*Vance, Jack, Alastor (3v. in 1), Cadwal Chronicles (trilogy), Lyonesse
series (trilogy), Planet of Adventure (4v. in 1)
*Vardeman, Robert E., & Victor Milan, War of Powers series (6v. in 2)
*Vardeman, Robert E., & George W. Proctor, Swords of Raemllyn series (9v. in
3)
*Vinge, Joan D., The Snow Queen and sequels
*Vreeland, Susan, The Passion of Artemisia
*Walker, Alice, The Temple of My Familiar
Wallace, David Foster, Infinite Jest
Wallace, Irving, various titles
*Walton, Evangeline, Mabinogion Tetralogy (4v. in 1)
*Walton, Jo, The King's Peace, The King's Name
*Weis, Margaret, & Tracy Hickman, Death Gate Cycle (7v., all thick)
*White, James, Sector General series (8 of the 12v. are available in 3
omnibuses)
*White, Stewart Edward, The Saga of Andy Burnett (4v. in 1)
*White, T. H., The Once and Future King
Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass
Williams, Tad, Memory, Sorrow & Thorn (series), Otherland (series),
Tailchaser's Song
Windle, Janice Woods, True Women (and sequels)
Wolfe, Tom, The Bonfire of the Vanities, *A Man in Full
*Woods, Stuart, Chiefs (and other titles?)
Wouk, Herman, Winds of War, War and Remembrance
Wright, Austin Tappan, Islandia
*Wurts, Janny, Wars of Light and Shadow (7v. to date, all fat)
*Zelazny, Roger, The Great Book of Amber (10v. in 1)

Several listmembers suggested that volunteers in foreign lands would
appreciate just about *any* American fiction, regardless of its length;
current bestsellers were stressed.

Many "classic" novels, especially British ones, are long (see Dickens,
Blackmore, and Thackeray above). It was the Brits, after all, who invented
the "three-decker" novel!

The Mammoth Book of...[this, that, and the other]. Some fiction, some non-,
from Carroll & Graf. Trade paperbacks, each +500pp.

Suggested nonfiction:
*Botkin, B. A., various Treasuries of American folklore
*Brant, Irving, 6v. biography of Pres. James Madison
Catton, Bruce, assorted volumes on the Civil War
Churchill, Winston, History of the English-Speaking Peoples (4v.), The
Second World War (6v.)
Dick, Everett, The Sod-House Frontier
Durant, Will & Ariel, The Story of Civilization (11v., all thick)
Foote, Shelby, The Civil War
Foreman, Amanda, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Freeman, Douglas Southall, multivolume biographies of George Washington & R.
E. Lee
Furnas, J. C., The Americans: A Social History of the United States,
1687-1914
Kaye, M. M., memoirs
McCullough, David, Truman, John Adams, and other works
Malone, Dumas, biography of Thomas Jefferson (7v.)
Monaghan, Jay, et al., The Book of the American West
Shales, Tom, Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night
Live
Trager, James, The People's Chronology (to browse in)

Two slipcased sets of outsize paperbacks from Salamander: The Old West, The
Civil War. (3v. each)

*Society in America (an old series of lively "portraits" of American cities;
the titles I know of are):
The Spectacular San Franciscans, Julia Cooley Altrocchi
The Proper Bostonians, Cleveland Amory
The Serene Cincinnatians, Alvin F. Harlow
Washington Cavalcade, Charles Hurd
Memphis Down in Dixie, Shields McIlwaine
The Romantic New Orleanians, Robert Tallant

*Several volumes of the excellent old Rivers of America series

Many biographies and historical works are thick; browse your own stacks,
you're sure to find quite a few! (Don't forget to check out sections like
transportation, where you may discover lengthy and fascinating books on
steamboating, railroads, etc.; and other places where you file books
relating to the everyday lives of people.)

*Many romances, especially the historical kind, are hefty. (Consider that
Rosemary Rogers and Kathleen Woodiwiss, the inventors of the modern
bodice-ripper, were and are given to lengthy tomes. Other possibilities:
Roberta Gellis (esp. the six volumes of the Roselynde Chronicles); Jennifer
Roberson's Lady of Sherwood, Lady of the Forest.)

Much fantasy, as Dennis pointed out, comes "in bug-crushing size." I've
listed several above, but I'm sure there are plenty I've missed. Check your
sf/fantasy shelves, or better yet those in any bookstore.

*Likewise historical fiction.

*Omnibuses are always a good idea. Besides the ones listed above, Baen
Books has in recent years begun bringing out "unitary editions" of classic
old sf/fantasy writers such as Randall Garrett, Keith Laumer, James H.
Schmitz, and many others--as well as reprints of more recent ones like
Mercedes Lackey. The SF Book Club, Mystery Guild, and Quality Paperback
Book Club often publish omnibuses; among those in my collection are the
first three Mrs. Murphy mysteries by Rita Mae Brown (QPBC), the complete
Demon Princes of Jack Vance, the Enchanted Forest Chronicles of Patricia C.
Wrede, The Empty Crown (trilogy) by Rosemary Edghill, and the first three
Young Wizards novels by Diane Duane (SFBC), and numerous 4v. collections of
early mysteries by Dell Shannon/Lesley Egan/Elizabeth Linington (MG). Wings
Books has published the first nine Kinsey Millhone mysteries by Sue Grafton
in three thick volumes, and various other hardcover houses offer omnibus
volumes that include from two to four books by a single author, usually
popular.

*Another idea is to offer your readers several consecutive volumes of a
series. Much genre fiction may only be of average length, but by the time
you put from three to 20 or more volumes together, you'll have some
respectable bulk. The original Earthsea Trilogy of Ursula K. LeGuin, for
example, totals 525pp in the paperback edition in my collection. Three Mrs.
Pollifax novels would easily total 400pp or more. And so on.

FROM: Dennis & Rita Bulington <[removed]@mintel.net>
REC'D: 1/21/05, 2:03 PM

One that comes to mind that I found very good was Far Pavilions It was
even made into a movie.
Another that I haven't read but fits the 'thick' criteria is "And
Ladies of the Club"
And perhaps "Forever Amber"
And quite a few of Michener's books . . .great reads Very lengthy. .
.Alaska, Hawaii,
Rita Bulington

christine jeffords wrote:

> I'm having to send this in two pieces because it's over 20K; sorry for
> any inconveniece.
>
> I was cleaning out old mail when I came upon this thread, which was
> never compiled even though there were requests for it. On 12/12/02,
> we received this query:
>
> FROM: Liza Gilbert <[removed]@yahoo.com>
> REC'D: 12/12/02, 10:08 PM
>
> Hello, my name is Liza Gilbert and I just joined the list today. I run
> a website with a book traveling project called BOOKTREK:
> http://www.strangedevelopments.com/booktrek.htm.
>
> I recently had a friend who was a Peace Corps volunteer ask me if I
> would put some books into circulation for the project by mailing them
> to volunteers. She has chosen six countries in which the political or
> religious circumstances are particularly miserable, and where
> volunteers have an especially hard time, more so after dark. She would
> like me to send books to Bulgaria, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Thailand,
> Uganda, and Kazakhstan. She has also stressed the importance of
> sending "thick" (meaning lengthy--not difficult) books, since the
> volunteers rarely have materials to read in English, and because many
> of the female volunteers have a lot of free time since their existence
> in these countries is not always safe.
>
> Besides Bonfire of the Vanities and War & Peace, I'm somewhat at a
> loss for how to go about finding good long books to send. I welcome
> any and all suggestions for fiction that would be just plain enjoyable
> and LONG.
>
> Thanks, Liza Gilbert
> [removed]@yahoo.com
>
> Given the season of the year, there are probably a lot of places in
> the US where people would like to just hole up for a while, and want
> some "thick books" to read while they do it. So compiling this list
> struck me as a timely thing to do.
>
> Here are the books we came up with, plus some new additions I've
> thought of (marked with a *; those marked ** may not be quite 400pp
> each, but they're long series and will total well beyond that):
>
> *Adams, Richard, Watership Down, Beklan Empire duo (Shardik, Maia)
> *Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women
> *Aldiss, Brian, Helliconia trilogy
> *Allen, Hervey, Anthony Adverse
> Amado, Jorge, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
> *Anderson, Poul, The Boat of a Million Years, A Harvest of Stars
> *Anthony, Piers, Battle Circle (3v. in 1)
> Auel, Jean, Earth's Children series, all volumes
> Baldacci, David, various titles
> Banks, Russell, Cloudsplitter
> *Bengtsson, Frans Gunnar, Red Orm (aka The Long Ships)
> *Benson, E. F., All About Lucia (4v. in 1)
> *Berger, Thomas, Little Big Man, The Return of Little Big Man
> Blackmore, R. D., Lorna Doone
> *Blish, James, Cities in Flight (4v. in 1)
> *Boyd, James, Bitter Creek
> Bradley, Marion Zimmer, The Mists of Avalon [and sequels], *The Fall
> of Atlantis (2v. in 1), *most later volumes in the Darkover series
> *Bristow, Gwen, Calico Palace, Jubilee Trail
> *Bromfield, Louis, Escape (4v. in 1)
> *Brooks, Terry, all titles
> *Brown, Dee, Creek Mary's Blood
> *Brown, Mary, Here There Be Dragonnes [sic] (3v. in 1)
> *Buchan, John, Exploits of Richard Hannay (3v. in 1)
> *Buck, Pearl S., House of Earth (3v. in 1, incl. The Good Earth)
> Byatt, A. S., Possession, *Babel Tower
> Caldwell, Taylor, Dear and Glorious Physician, The Glory and the
> Lightning, and many others
> Carr, Caleb, Angel of Darkness
> Chabon, Michael, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
> *Chant, Joy, The Grey Mane of Morning
> *Chapman, Vera, The Three Damosels (3v. in 1)
> *Cherryh, C. J., Cyteen, The Chanur Saga (3v. in 1), The Faded Sun
> (ditto), Foreignor series (6v. to date), Fortress series (4v.),
> Morgaine trilogy (omnibus)
> Clancy, Tom, all novels
> *Claremont, Chris, & George Lucas, Shadow trilogy (sequels to the film
> Willow)
> Clavell, James, Oriental series (Shogun, Gai-Jin, Taipan, Noble House,
> Whirlwind)
> *Coldsmith, Don, Tallgrass & South Wind (duo), Runestone
> *Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone
> *Combs, Harry, Brules & The Scout (duo)
> Cooke, John Byron, The Snowblind Moon, *South of the Border
> Costain, Thomas B., all novels
> *Creasey, John, The Masters of Bow Street
> *Culp, John H., Born of the Sun, The Restless Land (duo)
> *Cussler, Clive, most titles
> *Czernada, Julie E., Trade Pact Universe trilogy
> **Danielson, Peter, Children of the Lion
> Davies, Robertson, Deptford trilogy, Cornish trilogy, Marchbanks
> trilogy, etc.
> DeBernieres, Louis, Corelli's Mandolin
> *DeBlasis, Celeste, Swan trilogy
> *Delany, Samuel R., Fall of the Towers (4v. in 1)
> Delderfield, R. F., God is an Englishman, To Serve Them All My Days,
> and other titles
> DeLillo, Don, Underworld
> *Delinsky, Barbara, An Accidental Woman
> DeMille, Nelson, Up Country, *The Lion's Game
> Dickens, Charles, David Copperfield and other works
> *Dickson, Gordon R., Dragon Knight series (9v.)
> *Doctorow, E. L., most historical novels
> *Donaldson, Stephen R., all fantasy
> Donati, Sara, Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, and sequels
> *Dos Passos, John, District of Columbia, U.S.A. (omnibus vols. of
> trilogies)
> Doyle, Arthur Conan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, *The Professor
> Challenger Stories (3v. in 1)
> Dreiser, Theodore, An American Tragedy, *Sister Carrie
> *Drury, Allen, various titles
> *Duane, Diane, Cat Wizards duo (The Book of Night With Moon, To Visit
> the Queen)
> Dumas, Alexandre, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and
> many others
> Dunnett, Dorothy, House of Niccolo series (8v.), Lymond Chronicles (6v.)
> Durrell, Lawrence, The Alexandria Quartet (boxed set)
> Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Baudolino,
> *The Island of the Day Before
> Eddings, David, all fantasy novels
> *Edghill, Rosemary, Bell, Book, and Murder (3v. in 1)
> *Egan, Doris, Gate of Ivory (3v. in 1)
> *Elegant, Robert M., various titles (set mostly in China)
> *Elgin, Suzette Haden, Communipath Worlds (3v. in 1)
> Eliot, George, Middlemarch
> *Elliott, Kate, Crown of Stars series (5v.), Novels of the Jaran (4v.)
> *Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man
> Eugenides, Jeffrey, Middlesex
> Faber, Michael, The Crimson Petal and the White
> Faulks, Sebastian, Birdsong
> *Fielding, Joy, Whispers and Lies
> Findley, Timothy, Piano Man's Daughter
> *Fisher, Jude, Sorcery Rising
> *Flint, Eric, 1632, 1633
> Follett, Ken, Pillars of the Earth
> *Fortschen, William R., Lost Regiment series (9v.)
> Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections
> Gabaldon, Diana, Outlander series
> Galsworthy, John, The Forsyte Saga
> **Gear, W. Michael & Kathleen O'Neal, First North Americans (People
> of...) series
> Gentle, Mary, Book of Ash
> *Gedge, Pauline, Child of the Morning
> George, Elizabeth, A Traitor to Memory
> George, Margaret, The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Memoirs of
> Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles
> Golden, Arthur, Memoirs of a Geisha
> *Goodkind, Terry, Sword of Truth series
> *Gordon, Noah, Shaman
> *Green, Roland J., Voyage to Eneh
> *Green, Simon R., Hawk & Fisher series: Swords of Haven (3v. in1),
> Guards of Haven (ditto), Beyond the Blue Moon
> *Greeno, Gayle, The Ghatti's Tale (3v.), Ghatten's Gambit (2v.) (total
> +2500pp)
> *Griffin, W. E. B., various titles
> Grisham, John, The Chamber, The Runaway Jury
> *Gurganus, Allan, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
> Hailey, Arthur, various titles
> *Hamilton, Edmond F., Chronicles of the Starkings, The Starwolf
> Trilogy (both 3v. in 1)
> Hamilton, Peter, various titles
> *Harrigan, Stephen, The Gates of the Alamo
> *Harris, Wilson, The Guyana Quartet (omnibus)
> *Hawke, Simon, Mystery of Errors
> *Henry, O., complete short stories (available in 2v.)
> *Herbert, Frank, Dune novels
> Hill, Ruth Beebe, Hanta Yo
> *Hobb, Robin, all fantasies
> *Hoeg, Peter, Smilla's Sense of Snow
> *Howatch, Susan, Cashelmara
> Irving, John, most works
> Jakes, John, North & South trilogy, Kent Family Chronicles, *Homeland
> & American Dreams, *Charleston, *California
> Jennings, Gary, all novels
> *Johnston, Mary, The Long Roll & Cease Firing
> *Jones, J. V., Book of Words series
> *Jones, James, From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Whistle
> (trilogy)
> Jordan, Robert, Wheel of Time series
> Kantor, MacKinlay, Andersonville, Spirit Lake
> *Katzenbach, John, The Analyst
> Kaye, M. M., The Far Pavilions, Trade Wind, Shadow of the Moon
> King, Stephen, various titles (esp. Hearts in Atlantis, Black House,
> The Stand, *Bag of Bones, *'Salem's Lot)
> Kingsolver, Barbara, The Poisonwood Bible
> *Kipling, Rudyard, The Two Jungle Books (omnibus)
> *Krey, Laura, And Tell of Time, On the Long Tide (duo)
> Kurtz, Katherine, all the books about the Deryni (14v. at last count
> plus two related background books)
> *Lackey, Mercedes, Spirits White as Lightning (w/Rosemary Edghill),
> Joust, Alta (sequel), The Outstretched Shadow (w/James Mallory), The
> Shadow of the Lion (w/Eric Flint & Dave Freer), The Free Bards (3v. in 1)
> Lamb, Wally, I Know This Much is True
> *Lee, Tanith, The Gods Are Thirsty
> *Leith, Valery, Everien series (3v.)
> *Lescroart, John T., A Certain Justice
> Littell, Robert, The Company
> **Long, William Stuart, The Australians
> *McCaffrey, Anne, Dragonriders of Pern trilogy (available as an SFBC
> omnibus), Dragonsdawn, Dragonseye, The Masterharper of Pern, and most
> others in this series
> McCullough, Colleen, The Thorn Birds, *Masters of Rome series (5v.)
> *MacDonald, Malcolm, Stevenson Family series (4v.)
> McMurtry, Larry, Lonesome Dove and sequel/prequels; Anything for
> Billy, Texasville, Terms of Endearment, and others
> *Maillard, Keith, Gloria
> *Marsh, Ngaio, Enter a Murderer
> *Marshall, Edison, all historicals
> *Marston, Edward, The Roaring Boy
> Martin, George R. R., A Song of Ice & Fire series
> Mason, F. Van Wyck, many historical novels
> *Matthews, Susan R., Jurisdiction series (4v.)
> Michener, James, Caravans, The Source, Hawaii, Poland, Texas, Mexico,
> Chesapeake, Centennial, Space, Alaska
> Mistry, Rohinton, A Fine Balance
> Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind
> *Mitchison, Naomi, The Barbarian (aka The Corn King and the Spring Queen)
> *Modesitt, L. E., Jr., Saga of Recluce fantasy series
> Mundy, Talbot, Tros of Samothrace series
> Murdoch, Iris, The Book, The Brotherhood
> *Myrer, Anton, Once an Eagle, The Last Convertible
> *Nexo, Martin Andersen, Pelle the Conqueror (4v. in 1)
> *Nordhoff & Hall, The Bounty Trilogy
> *Norman, Lisanne, Sholan Alliance series (7v. to date)
> *Palliser, Charles, The Quincunx
> Pargeter, Edith, Heaven Tree Trilogy, Brothers of Gwynedd Trilogy
> (available in omnibuses)
> *Pasternak, Boris, Dr. Zhivago
> *Patterson, James, & Peter DeJonge, The Beach House
> *Patton, Fiona, The Living Flame/Branion World series (4v.)
> *Paul, Barbara, A Cadenza for Caruso
> Peake, Mervyn, Gormenghast trilogy
> Pears, Iain, An Instance of the Fingerpost
> *Penman, Sharon Kay, all historical novels
> Pilcher, Rosamunde, Coming Home, September, The Shell Seekers
> *Piper, H. Beam, The Complete Fuzzy (3v. in 1)
> *Plain, Belva, many titles
> *Pohl, Frederik, & C. M. Kornbluth, Venus, Inc. (2v. in 1)
> **Porter, Donald Clayton, White Indian/Colonization of America series
> *Pournelle, Jerry, Janissaries series (3v., #2-3 w/Roland Green)
> Powers, Tim, The Anubis Gates, Declare
> Price, Eugenia, various historical novels
> *Proust, Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past (both thick *and* difficult)
> *Pynchon, Thomas, Mason & Dixon, V
> *Quick, Amanda, Don't Look Back
> Rand, Ayn, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
> *Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling
> *Rawn, Melanie, all fantasies
> *Reichert, Mickey Zuckert, all fantasies
> *Rice, Anne, The Witching Hour
> Riley, Judith Merkle, Vision of Light, Chasing the Green Dragon, The
> Oracle Glass, Master of All Desires, The Serpent Garden
> Robbins, Harold, various titles
> *Roberts, Kenneth, Northwest Passage, Oliver Wiswell, Rabble in Arms
> *Roberson, Jennifer, Chronicles of the Cheysuli (8v. now available in 4)
> Robinson, Kim Stanley, Mars trilogy, Years of Rice and Salt
> **Ross, Dana Fuller, Wagons West!, The Holts: An American Dynasty, and
> others
> Rowling, J. K., Harry Potter books (esp. The Goblet of Fire & The
> Order of the Phoenix)
> Rutherfurd, Edward, Sarum, Russka, London, The Forest
> *Saberhagen, Fred, Swords series (12v. in 4)
> Santmyer, Helen Hooven, "...And Ladies of the Club"
> **Sarabande, William, The First Americans
> *Schaefer, Jack, Monte Walsh, The Collected Stories
> *Schoonover, Lawrence, all historical novels
> Scott, Paul, The Raj Quartet
> Seth, Vikram, A Suitable Boy
> Shaara, Jeff, Last Full Measure (*and probably others by both him and
> his father, Michael)
> *Shellabarger, Samuel, all historical novels
> *Sherwood, Frances, Vindication
> Shreve, Anita, Fortune's Rocks
> *Sienkiewicz, Henryk, Quo Vadis?
> *Silverberg, Robert, Majipoor Chronicles (8v.)
> *Smiley, Jane, A Thousand Acres
> *Steel, Danielle, Sunset in St. Tropez, The Cottage
> Stephenson, Neal, Cryptonomicon
> *Stewart, Mary, Merlin sequence (5v.)
> *Stirling, S. M., The Nantucket Trilogy (Island in the Sea of Time,
> Against the Tide of Years, & On the Oceans of Eternity)
> *Stone, Irving, biographical novels
> *Tarkington, Booth, Penrod: His Complete Story (3v. in 1)
> Tartt, Donna, The Secret History, The Little Friend
> Tax, Meredith, Rivington Street, Union Square
> *Taylor, Robert Lewis, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, A Roaring in
> the Wind, Two Roads to Guadeloupe, A Voyage to Matecumbe
> Thackeray, W. M., Vanity Fair, The Newcomes, The Virginians, etc.
> Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings trilogy
> Tolstoy, Leo, *Anna Karenina, War and Peace
> Trollope, Anthony, Barchester series, The Pallisers
>
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Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Stephen King - The Stand

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

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>

And how about his 'He Knew He Was Right' (just on Masterpiece Theatre)?

I just received a copy via ILL that is mini-sized and over 900 pages long!

>> Trollope, Anthony, Barchester series, The Pallisers
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In the depths of her interior
Were fears she was inferior.
And something even eerier.
But no one dared to query her superior exterior.

-Stephen Sondheim: 'Ah, But Underneath' (FOLLIES)

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REC'D: 1/24/05, 10:14 AM

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

The Way the Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald

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