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I'm a graduate student in European history, but in my spare time I love to read fiction (especially fantasy and science fiction), also poetry, drama, some non-fiction...

FAVES

Books: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman; Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov; Tam Lin by Pamela Dean; The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; The Women's Decameron by Julia Voznesenskaya; Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Pushkin; The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter; The Book of Kells by R. A. MacAvoy; The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; War for the Oaks by Emma Bull; The Psalms of Herod by Esther Friesner; Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban; Bellwether by Connie Willis; Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson; Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras; Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay; the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling; the Jame/Jamethiel series by P. C. Hodgell; the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde; the Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust; the Valor series by Tanya Huff; the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix

Short stories/novellas: The Kiss by Angela Carter; The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree, Jr.; The Devil Comes to Orekhovo by David Benioff; The Gospel According to Saint Mark by Jorge Luis Borges; Loulou, or, the Domestic Life of the Language by Margaret Atwood; The Man Who Loved Islands by D. H. Lawrence; Birth by Anais Nin; Snow Blitz by Sylvia Plath; Novi Jerusalim by Borislav Pekic; Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman; Elbow Room by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Comic books: Sandman; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Fables; Asterix

Plays: The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry; The Lion in Winter by James Goldman; Ashes to Ashes by Harold Pinter; Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Poets: Vasko Popa; Wislawa Szymborska; Sylvia Plath; Wendy Cope; John Donne