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The Brothers Karamazov
Hearts in Atlantis
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pride and Prejudice
Ford County
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
Playing for Pizza
Walden & Civil Disobedience
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
An Object of Beauty
The World Without Us
Tropic of Cancer
Future Shock
Girl with Curious Hair
The Wicker Man by Robin  HardyThe May Day Mystery by Mabel Esther AllanGreenwitch by Susan CooperMaypoles, Crayfish and Lucia by Jan-Öjvind SwahnDeath in the Morning by Sheila Radley
May Day Festivities
74 books — 8 voters
A Frog in the Fjord by Lorelou DesjardinsThe 100 Unwritten Norwegian Social Laws by Egil Aslak Aursand HagerupNorway in Pictures by Eric BraunIsland Summers by Tilly Culme-SeymourKeeping Christmas by Kathleen Stokker
Life in Modern Norway (Non-Fiction)
82 books — 4 voters

The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald FraserThe Secret Commonwealth by Robert  KirkThe Visions of Isobel Gowdie by Emma WilbyFolklore of the Scottish Highlands by Anne RossTales of the Seal People by Duncan Williamson
Scottish Folk Beliefs
94 books — 4 voters
The Final Empire by Brandon SandersonThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Magical Lands
331 books — 194 voters


Charles Stross
Please note your extensive customs briefing and remember to relinquish any illegal tools or concepts you may be carrying before debarkation.
Charles Stross, Toast, and Other Stories

Catherynne M. Valente
Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line and be peered at and inspected? We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say, lines on maps are silly. Where you live, the awful machinery is smaller, harder to see. Less honest, that ...more
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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