The Buy List

Toys
  • X-Box
  • Playstation 2
  • Game Cube
  • A flashlight with a bright lightsaber-style beam like on the X-Files.
  • A lockpick set.
Books
Children's
  • Boston, Lucy M. - Children of Green Knowe
  • Boston, Lucy M. - Chimneys of Green Knowe
  • Boston, Lucy M. - River at Green Knowe
  • Boston, Lucy M. - Stranger at Green Knowe
  • Juster, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth
  • Salten, Felix - Bambi
  • White, EB - Charlotte's Web
History
  • Ambrose, Stephen - Band of Brothers
  • Ambrose, Stephen - Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945
  • Beevor, Antony - Stalingrad
  • Bergerud, Eric - Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
  • Bernstein, Carl - Final Days
  • Bernstein, Carl and Woodward, Bob - All the President's Men
  • Bester, Alfred - The Men Who Murdered Mohammed
  • Cohen, Patricia Cline - Murder of Helen Jewett, The
  • Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs, Steel
  • Engle, Eloise and Paananen, Lauri - The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland 1939-1940
  • Fleming, Justin - Barbarism to Verdict
  • Geoffrey Bennett - Coronel and the Falklands
  • Grossman, Dave - On Killing
  • Langmaid, Kenneth J. R. - Clear for Action
  • Leckie, Robert - Delivered from Evil the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
  • McEvedy, Colin - Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
  • McEvedy, Colin - The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History
  • Reynolds, David - Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain 1942-1945
  • Terkel, Studs - The Good War
  • Wylie, Philip - Generation of Vipers (history)
Literature
  • Alcott, Louisa May - Little Men
  • Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
  • Atwood, Margaret - Blind Assassin
  • Atwood, Margaret - Cat's Eye
  • Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
  • Bull, Emma and Brust, Steven - Freedom and Necessity
  • Burgess, Anthony - Clockwork Orange
  • Cleland, John - Fanny Hill, Or, Memoires of a Woman of Pleasure
  • Cooper, James Fennimore - Last of the Mohicans
  • Dickens, Charles - Mystery of Edward Drood
  • Dumas, Alexandre - La Viscomte de Bragollone
  • Dumas, Alexandre - Louise de la Valliere
  • Eddison, Eric Rucker - Worm Ouroboros
  • Faulkner, William - Sound and the Fury
  • Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Gabaldon, Diana - Outlander
  • Greene, Graham - The Third Man
  • Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's Mines
  • Harris, Thomas - Hannibal
  • Harris, Thomas - Red Dragon
  • Harris, Thomas - Silence of the Lambs
  • Hemingway, Ernest - Sun Also Rises
  • Highsmtih, Patricia - Talented Mr. Ripley, The
  • Hope, Anthony - Prisoner of Zenda
  • Hurston, Zora Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God*
  • Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
  • James, Henry - The American
  • Joyce, James - Ulysses
  • Kay, Guy Gavrial - Sailing to Sarantium
  • Kay, Guy Gavriel - A Song for Arbonne
  • Kaysen, Susanna - Girl, Interrupted
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong - Woman Warrior*
  • Kline, Otis Aldebert - Any
  • Moody, Rick - Ice Storm, The (lit)
  • Poe, Edgar Allen - Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • Poe, Edgar Allen - Mystery of Marie Roget
  • Poe, Edgar Allen - Purloined Letter
  • Roy, Arundhati - God of Small Things, The
  • Sayers, Dorothy L. - Unnatural Death (mystery)
  • Sedley, Kate - Death and the Chapman
  • Shakespeare - As You Like It
  • Shakespeare - The Tempest
  • Tarbox, Katherine - Katie.com
  • Turtledove, Harry - How Few Remain
  • Turtledove, Harry - The Great War: American Front
  • Vonnegut, Kurt - Bagombo Snuff Box
  • Vonnegut, Mark - Eden Express, The (interesting commentary on schizo)
  • Waters, Sarah - Tipping the Velvet
  • Yoshimoto, Banana - Lizard*
Philosophy
  • Aristophanes - The Birds
  • Foucalt, Michel - Ethics : Subjectivity and Truth : Essential Works of Foucault
  • Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathon
RPGs
  • Chaosium - Stormbringer
  • Creatures of the Night: Kult
  • Everway - The Complete Spherewalker
  • Hogshead - SLA Industries
  • Holistic Design - Fading Suns 2nd Edition
  • Noir
  • Over the Edge
  • Pharos Press - Lace and Steel
  • Pinnacle Entertainment Group - Deadlands
  • Pinnacle Entertainment Group - Quick and the Dead (for Deadlands)
  • SJG - GURPS: Bestiary
  • SJG - GURPS: Compendium 2
  • SJG - GURPS: Fantasy Bestiary
  • SJG - GURPS: Grimoire
  • SJG - GURPS: Humanx
  • SJG - GURPS: Places of Mystery
  • SJG - GURPS: Prisoner
  • SJG - GURPS: Special Ops
  • Traveller
  • Usagi Yojimbo
  • Wheel of Time
  • White Wolf - Mage: Initiates of the Art
  • White Wolf - Mage: Masters of the Art
  • White Wolf - Mage: Traditions Gathered: Blood and Dreams
  • White Wolf - Mage: Traditions Gathered: Songs of Science
  • White Wolf - Mummy: The Resurrection
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Book of the Weaver
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Kinfolk: Unsung Heroes
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Litany of the Tribes I
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Litany of the Tribes II
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Litany of the Tribes III
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Litany of the Tribes IV
  • White Wolf - Werewolf: Rage Across the World, vol 1
Sci-Fi
  • Barker, MAR - Flamesong
  • Barker, MAR - Man of Gold
  • Brunner, John - The Compleat Traveller in Black
  • Brust, Steven - 500 Years Later
  • Brust, Steven - Orca
  • Brust, Steven - Pheonix
  • Brust, Steven - Taltos
  • Brust, Steven - Teckla
  • Brust, Steven - The Phoenix Guard
  • Brust, Steven - Yendi
  • Butler, Octavia - Imago
  • Butler, Octiavia - Wild Seed
  • Campbell, John W., Jr - Who Goes There?
  • Cherryh, CJ - Pride of Chanur
  • Cook, Glen - Black Company
  • Crichton, Michael - Timeline
  • DeChancie, John - Castle Perilous
  • Delaney, Samuel R. and Gaiman, Neil - Einstein Intersection
  • Delany, Samuel R. and Gibson, William - Dhalgren
  • Dick, Philip K. - Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The
  • Dick, Philip K. - Ubik
  • Drake, David - An Oblique Approach
  • Farmer, Philip Jose - The Maker of Universes (World of Tiers, No 1)
  • Farmer, Philip Jose - The Gates of Creation (World of Tiers, No 2)
  • Farmer, Philip Jose - Behind the Walls of Terre (World of Tiers, No 3)
  • Farmer, Philip Jose - More than Fire (World of Tiers)
  • Farmer, Philip Jose - The Lavalite World (World of Tiers, No 5)
  • Gibson, William - All Tomorrow's Parties
  • Heinlein, Robert - Farnham's Freehold
  • Heinlein, Robert - Number of the beast
  • Heinlein, Robert - Time Enough for Love
  • Howard, Robert E. - Beyond the Black River
  • Howard, Robert E. - Kull
  • Howard, Robert E. - Solomon Kane
  • Peake, Mervyn - Gormenghast
  • Pratchet, Terry - Guards Guards
  • Rankin, Robert - The Brentford Chainstore Massacre
  • Sapir, Richard and Murphy, Warren - Created, the Destroyer
  • Smith, Clark Ashton - A Rendezvous in Averoigne : The Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith
  • Smith, Clark Ashton - The Abominations of Yondo
  • Smith, Clark Ashton - The Book of Hyberborea
  • Spinrad, Norman - Bug Jack Barron
  • Stewart, George R. - Earth Abides
  • Tepper, Shari S. - Beauty
  • Tepper, Shari S. - Song of Mavin Manyshaped
  • Tepper, Shari S. - True Game
  • Tevis, Walter - Man Who Fell To Earth
  • Thorndike, Russell - Doctor Syn
  • Wylie, Philip - Gladiator
  • Zelazny, Roger & Bester, Alfred - Psychoshop
Other
  • Albom, Mitch - Tuesdays with Morrie
  • Ellefson, Connie Lockhart - Melting Pot Book of Baby Names
  • Gossage, Howard Luck - Book of Gossage : A Compilation
  • Harmon, Kitty - Up to No Good (humor)
  • Hodges, Andrew - Turing: The Enigma (biography)
  • Hodgins, Randy and McLellan, Steve - Wet and Wired: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia
  • Hunt, Stoker - Ouija, The Most Dangerous Game (Religion/spirituality, occult)
  • Ivins, Molly - Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (political commentary/satire)
  • Kosko, Bart - Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic (computer science)
  • Manus, Ron / Harnsberger, L. C. / Manus, Ron / Westin, Kate / Harnsberger, L. C. - From Liverpool to Abbey Road: A Beginning Guitar Method Featuring 33 Songs of Lennon & McCartney
  • McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (science/entertainment/philosophy)
  • McNeill, Daniel - Fuzzy Logic : The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our World (computer science)
  • Mendelson, Cheryl - Home Comforts -The Art and Science of Keeping House
  • Robinson, Frank M. - Science Fiction of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History (sci-fi/entertainment)
  • Schmidt, Raul - Daddy
  • Thomas, Mike (Editor), Claxton, William (Photographer), Bywater, Kathleen - Laugh : Portraits of the Greatest Comedians and the Stories They Tell Each Other
  • Tierney, Bil - Dynamics of Aspect Analysis
  • Weaver, Courtney - Unzipped: What Happens When Friends Talk About Sex
  • Williams, Esther - The Million Dollar Mermaid (biography/memoir)
Movies (preferably DVD)
General
  • American Beauty
  • American Pie
  • Lion in Winter
  • Plunkett and MacLaine
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Trainspotting
Anime Movies
  • Appleseed
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Kite
  • Ninja Scroll
  • Please Save My Earth
  • RG Veda
  • Tenchi OVA Set
  • Vampire Princess Miyu
Anime Series
  • Blue Seed 1-4
  • El Hazard Alternate World 1-4
  • Escaflowne 5-8
  • Evangelion 1-8
  • Lain 1-4
  • Oh My Goddess 1-2
  • Magic Knight Rayearth 1-5
  • Robotech Boxed Sets #1 & 2
  • Rurouni Kenshin (TV) 1-14
  • Saber Marionette J 1-3
  • Trigun 1-8
Music
  • Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
  • Elgar, Edward - Cello Concerto in e Minor (Classical)
  • Pink Floyd - The Wall
  • Soundtrack - Charlie's Angels
  • Soundtrack - Cocktails in the Cantina
  • Soundtrack - Lain
  • Soundtrack - Sixteen Candles
  • Soundtrack - The Matrix
Video Games
Playstation 1
  • Resident Evil
  • Armored Core
  • Final Fantasy 8
PC
  • Gabriel Knight Deluxe Edition (has 1, 2 and 3)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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