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July 2001
Compiled by Sherri L. Lazenby of Audelia Road Branch Library, Dallas Public Library System, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Fiction

Anderson, Dillon   I and Claudie   Claudie's Kinfolk
Blount, Roy Jr.
Bodett, Tom
Edgerton, Clyde
Henry, O. Jerome, Jerome K.   Three Men in a Boat
Lasswell, Mary
Richardson, Bill   Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast   Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast Pillow
Shulman, Max   Barefoot Boy with Cheek
Smith, Thorn
Townsend, Sue   The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
White, Bailey   Quite a year for plums Sleeping at the Starlite Motel
Wilder, Effie Leland   Out to Pasture but not over the Hill   Older but Wilder   One More Time Just for the Fun of It
Wodehouse, P. G.

Fantasy

Pratchett, Terry

Mysteries

Atherton, Nancy
Cannell, Dorothy
Churchill, Jill
George, Anne
Hess, Joan

Non-fiction

Armour, Richard It all started with... (series)
Blount, Roy Jr.
Bodett, Tom
Chappell, George S.   Through the Alimentary Canal With Gun & Camera
Cuppy, Will   How to become extinct   How to Tell your Friends from the Apes   The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
David, Donald
Benchley, Robert
Edgerton, Clyde
Ford, Corey
Lederer, Richard Get thee to a Punnery
McManus, Patrick The Grasshopper Trap (and others)
Morris, Willie My Dog Skip My Cat Spit McGee
Perelman, S. J. Acres and Pain
Sellar, Walter 1066 and all that
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Wallach, Ira Hopalong Freud
White, Bailey Mama Makes up her Mind

Essays/Short Stories

Ade, George
Douglas, Jack
Lardner, Ring
Marquis Don
Parker, Dorothy
Smith, H. Allen
Thurber, James

Parodies

Beerbohm, Max A Christmas Garland
Brand X Anthology of Fiction (ed. William Zaranka)
Brand X Anthology of Poetry
Fish, Robert L. "Schlock Holmes" collections
National Lampoon High School Yearbook
Sellar, Walter Bored of the Rings

Collections of Intentionally Bad Writing

Bulwer Lytton Contest Stormy Night Series
Ghastly Beyond Belief by Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman (Science Fiction)
Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst"in Mystery Fiction by Bill Pronzini (Detective Fiction)
Son of Gun in Cheek: An Affectionate Guide to More of the "Worst"in Mystery Fiction by Bill Pronzini
Pegasus Descending ed. James Camp et. al. (poetry)
Six-Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini (western)
The Stuffed Owl ed. D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee (poetry)

Juvenile Books highly recommend for adults

Juster, Norton   The Phantom Tollbooth (Word Play)
Peck, Robert   A Long Way From Chicago A Year Down Yonder

 
 
      
   
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