the reading room

Chroniclers of daily life I regularly read

Mitchell Dwyer's Chalkdust
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Naked Blog
ScaryDuck
sometimeshappy
or this old Panther himself.

Often-Used Sites

Books On-line, New Listings
The Internet Public Library
Project Gutenberg of Australia
Blackmask Online: an interesting selection of online books
The British Library
Columbia Encyclopedia
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The Internet Classics Archive
The Harvard Classics
Sacred Texts
The Tertullian Project
The English Server at the University of Washington
The Biography Project
Belinus Press: Folklore, Myth and Fairy Tales
Literature Award Winners (Nobel, Goncourt, etc.)
Yahoo: Literary Fiction: Authors

My Favorite Living Writers

Maeve Binchy
Lilian Jackson Braun
Orson Scott Card
Jeffery Deaver
Bob Dylan
Father Andrew Greeley
Father Greeley's column for the Daily Southtown
Martha Grimes
Susan Howatch
Greg Iles
John Irving
Jonathan Kellerman
Anne Rice
J.K. Rowling
Anne Rivers Siddons
Amy Tan
John Morgan Wilson

Treasures, Too

Djuna Barnes: The Book of Repulsive Women
The Cloud of Unknowing
Dark Night of the Soul
Hermann Hesse: Empire of the Senses
Aldous Huxley: Chrome Yellow
Selected Works of William James
Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time
Franz Kafka
Selections from the writing of Kierkegaard
Mencken's The American Language
Neurotic Poets
Nietzsche's The Antichrist
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
Hymns to the Night by Novalis
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
The Land of Oz
The Oz Books and more by Baum
Beatrix Potter
Marcel Proust
Ayn Rand
Southern Cross Review
Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
Danielle Steel
The Thousand Nights and a Night
Works of Voltaire: Volume One
P.G. Wodehouse



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