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Death's Acre is another on my "must read" list. It's by and about the guy who started up the research facility known as The Body Farm. It's ancedotal enough that I didn't get totally lost in all the information, and I picked up some fun facts, like what happens to bodies when they burn and why arson is so obvious. Oh, and if a forensic anthropologist asks to borrow your stove and a huge pot, don't let him. Or your blender. Mainly, I found out just how amazingly recent the modern field of forensic anthropology is. It languished for centuries -- between 1247 or so and 1970-something -- and only in the past 20-30 years have the great leaps been made: precise studies of bugs and microbes to get an estimate of the time of death, DNA identification, studies of different things like the types of saws and how they leave marks on bodies. Good stuff. I definitely reccomend it.

November Mourns by Picirrilli
City of the Dead by Brian Keene
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
Death's Acre by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
Nekropolis by Maureen F. McHugh
Strawberry Acres by Grace S. Richmond
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse
Prester John by John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm
A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katherine Green
Freezer Burn by Landsdale
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse
Picadilly Jim by P.G. Wodehouse
The Labrynth by Catherynne M. Valente
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natuaral History of Blood by Bill Hayes
Carmilla by LeFanu
The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Bound to Rise by Horatio Algers
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'NHead Wilson by Mark Twain
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Reef by Edith Wharton
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Mayor of Casterbridgeby Thomas Hardy
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
The Witches of Eastwick by Updike
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Moll Flanders by DeFoe
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
The Return of Tarzan by E. R. Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes by E. R. Burroughs
The Atrocity Archives by Stross
When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
Forests of the Heart by deLint
An Old Fashioned Girl by Alcott
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
Gather, Darkness! by Fritz Leiber
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Room with a View by E.M. Forester
Helliconia Summer by Aldiss
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Murder of Angels by Caitlin Kiernan
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Divided by Katie Waitman